title: Can't find Angry Birds

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# Question
Title: Can't find Angry Birds
Same websites are reporting that angry birds is available in the android market. However I can't find it on my phone (Samsung Galaxy S in New Zealand). I have tried the bar code, the download links and searching the android market from my phone the app just isn't there.

Whats going on? Is my phone not supported? Is my country not supported? Is my OS version (2.1) not supported?

# Answer
> 3 votes
GetJar is where they first posted it and it got hammered. They got it on the Android Market pretty quickly, but Rovio's complaint (and why they went with an alternate market in the first place) is that a lot of people complained they couldn't find the beta in the Android Market.

A few people who were able to get it set up mirrors, including a Torrent. A quick web search should find an alternative download location for you, if you haven't already got it.

# Answer
> 2 votes
This is what I have: http://www.appbrain.com/app/angry-birds/com.rovio.angrybirds

# Answer
> 2 votes
Your OS is supported. Your phone should be as well. Don't know about your country. I hate to speculate without know exactly what is going on, but honestly I've never seen anyone have all the trouble that Rovio is having getting their app visible to anyone in the market. Since the beta its been randomly blocked from rather unusual groups (Like Samsung Vibrant owners in the US) -- and all Rovio does is blame geographic restrictions in the market.

Anyway, all that explanation aside -- here's an alternative download for an ad-supported version: http://www.getjar.com/adp/angry-birds

Mobile version: http://m.getjar.com/adp/angry-birds

# Answer
> 2 votes
On a UK Galaxy S, I know that I couldn't find the beta version in the Market for ages, then Samsung released "2.1 update 1" and straight after I upgraded I could see angry birds in the Market, now the full versions there I can see that too.

Have your network released 2.1-update1 (aka build JM *x* ) for you yet, try checking with the Samsung Kies software.

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Tags: google-play-store
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title: Why my photos end up half dark?

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# Question
Title: Why my photos end up half dark?
Sometimes my motorola milestone camera goes crazy and starts out to take photos half dark.

I noticed that it only happens when flash is on. Also, I've seem this happening when the battery is low (~20%), or the system is slow.

As an example, this is a photo I took minutes ago: http://twitpic.com/2q65bs

# Answer
Definitely it is related to low battery, I tried a couple of more tests and if the battery is \< 20% this always happens.
> 1 votes

# Answer
Take it back to wherever you bought it and demand a refund. Regardless if this is a hardware or software problem, you shouldn't have a problem with the sales staff -- show them the picture you linked to.
> 2 votes

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Tags: motorola-droid, camera, motorola-milestone
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title: Modify search in Google Maps

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# Question
Title: Modify search in Google Maps
Is it possible to edit a search that I have made previously when using Google Maps on Android?

The situation I have sometimes is that I make a search in Google Maps but it doesn't quite give me the results I want - perhaps because I didn't use the correct term or because there was a typo in my search. Or perhaps the search works but I want to refine it. As an example, I might first try to search for a street name just to get an idea of where the street is. Then later I might want to repeat that same search but also including the house number on that street because I want to get directions to a specific building on that street.

When I open Google Maps and press the search button I can see my previous searches in the history but I don't see any way to edit, select or copy/paste them. If I touch the search in the history it just repeats the exact same search as before without giving me any opportunity to edit or refine it.

My workaround is to manually type the entire search phrase again with the modification I need, but is there a better way?

# Answer
> 3 votes
If your device has a directional pad (or a trackball), then when you press down, the previous search key would show up in the search box and is editable.

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Tags: google-maps, search
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# Question
Title: Can you Modify or Increase the Size of the Recent Apps List?
I tend to rely on Recent Apps list to bounce between apps I use most often, as a sort of day-long history, for example. Is there a trick to increasing how many apps are listed in the default Recent Apps list (long-press home \> Recent Apps)? I believe it's limited to 8, is there a trick/app which would increase it? **Picture the PC Alt-Tab menu when you have 10+ programs open.** Perhaps it makes more sense on a phone (from a resources perspective) to limit the number of apps on the Recent Apps list.

I'm not looking for a task-killing app, but a task-switching app. Would this be solved if I looked into a tasker app?

~~**EDIT1:** Using Advanced Task Killer as a switching app is a workaround. Still looking for an answer that literally increases the number of apps shown after long-pressing home.~~

**EDIT2:** Another very similar question had this answer, which is more convenient than Advanced Task Killer, IMO. Still, I would prefer a solution that would incorporate long-pressing Home, like the original Recent Apps list.

# Answer
> 1 votes
Advanced Task Killer can be configured so that it always stays on the Notification Bar. And it can also be configured such that the "Default Click Action" will "Switch To" the application. I found it works good enough as a task switcher.

# Answer
> 2 votes
If you have rooted your device and use a 'Villain' rom, you can find an option to change this setting in Villain Settings \> Input settings \> Long-press home settings.

Realise you might not have this rom but it's worth a mention!

# Answer
> 1 votes
The closest things I've seen so far are More Recent and Visual Task Switcher

It doesn't appear that either of these uses long-press-home, but an alternate key-sequence.

I've seem more mentions for More Recent.

The Good and Evo review of Visual Task Switcher sounded like it's lacking somewhat.

(I have not personally used either)

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Tags: htc-droid-incredible, task-management, multitasking, recents-screen
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# Question
Title: How to Edit Track in Google "My Tracks"?
I frequently for get to turn off Google My Tracks recording. When forget this after biking or hiking, it leaves a big trail on my track from where I got into my car and drove home. Is there an easy way to trim this portion of the track? Or to enter an edit mode in My Tracks or Google Maps to remove the extra section?

Thanks!

(PS can some one add a tag for google-my-tracks.

# Answer
* Upload the map to Google from your device
* On maps.google.com, click "My maps" (top left, below the Google Maps logo)
* Select the map you want to edit
* Click the 'edit' button (top right in the left sidebar)
* The line is now editable. Right-click points on the line you want to delete and select 'Delete this point'.
> 8 votes

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Tags: google-maps
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# Question
Title: How can I set up an Microsoft Exchange email on my Nexus One?
I often check my mail at my office using the VPN connection which bridged my PC with the Microsoft Exchange Server and so that I can check mail using Outlook.

I want to do the same thing when I'm out of my office and on my Nexus One mobile phone. I have succeeded in setting up the VPN connection (see details here). But I cannot succeed in setting up my email on the phone.

Steps I have made:

1. Open my phoen (Nexus One)
2. Connect to VPN
3. Open `Email` application
4. Enter the email & password
5. Select Miscrosoft Exchange ActiveSync
6. Enter domain\username, password, and server
7. Any other options are left as-is ('User SSL' checked, 'Accept all cert' unchecked)
8. Failed :)

The information I entered are exactly all the same as what I use in Outlook, i.e. the email/password, then the domain\user, pass and server for Ms Exchange. But the connection to the server failed on my N1 - it says *"Setup not finish. Unable to open connection to server due to security error"*.

Have you ever succeeded? If so, please share. Your help are very much helpful & appreciated to me!

# Answer
After a while trying, I try to check the 'Accept all certification in step 7, and it works.
> 2 votes

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Tags: nexus-one, email, settings, exchange, vpn
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# Question
Title: How to pause a movie using Video Player (Galaxy S)?
Galaxy-S (Vibrant), Android 2.1

I was watching Avatar the other day and paused it. When I played it again later, it restarted at the beginning. Is it possible to resume play from where I left off, or bookmark a position or something? Or is there a different/better player that does this? Thanks!

# Answer
> 2 votes
My T-Mobile Vibrant (Samsung Galaxy S) just received a OTA update from T959UVJFD to T959UVJI6. It appears that this may have fixed the problem you are describing. It no longer is a problem for me after this update was installed. It is also mentioned at the xda-developers site along with other changes that were included in the update.

# Answer
> 1 votes
I am using the default movies and player that came with my Galaxy S (AT\*T Captivate) without this error. It may be possible that there was a timeout (how long did you pause for?). You may also want to try the doubletwist video player to see if it resolves your problem.

# Answer
> 0 votes
I have the same issue with my Samsung Vibrant. I just started dropping bookmarks before "pausing" and resuming from them.

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Tags: samsung-galaxy-s, video
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title: Voice-to-text on keyboard in HTC Sense

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# Question
Title: Voice-to-text on keyboard in HTC Sense
I've just got my phone upgraded to Android 2.1. It's a HTC Hero running HTC Sense. One of the features I was really looking forward to in Android 2.1 was the microphone button on the keyboard which you can use to dictate into any text field.

However, this button doesn't seem to be there on the HTC Sense keyboard. Is there any way to enable this?

# Answer
> 2 votes
Go to Settings, Language and Keyboard and see if there is another keyboard you can enable and use. If there is one, check the box to enable it. Then go out and open something that requires text input like an text message. Long click on the text field and choose Input Method. Then change to the keyboard you just enabled. See if it has the microphone.

If you only have one keyboard to enable you could try a third party one like Swiftkey Beta. I use it and it has a microphone option for speech input. Plus the keyboard rocks with all kinds of great features.

# Answer
> 1 votes
The new OTA update of Android version **2.10.405.2** included a voice-to-text option on the keyboard. The *microphone* key is located on the left of the *comma* key.

NB: I believe this update has only so far been released to unlocked HTC phone users only... if your phone is locked to a network you must wait for your network to push the update.

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Tags: 2.1-eclair, htc-sense, voice-command
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# Question
Title: How can I play mkv files on Droid os 2.2 on a Droid x?
I'd prefer not to have to convert Them. Thanks.

# Answer
> 2 votes
Rockplayer looks promising

# Answer
> 1 votes
A good, simple and free alternative to RockPlayer I use is VPlayer.

http://www.cyrket.com/p/android/me.abitno.vplayer/

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Tags: 2.2-froyo, video, motorola-droid-x
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title: What is a "Froyo"?

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# Question
Title: What is a "Froyo"?
The older Android versions are called "cupcake" and "eclair". Where does 2.2 get it's name from?

# Answer
It's short for *Fro* zen *Yo* ghurt. I have no idea who came up with the idea to name it after frozen yoghurt though.
> 10 votes

# Answer
They'd all be desserts or sugary goods.

After Gingerbread (2.3) and Honeycomb (3.x) it's rumoured to be Ice Cream - see the pattern?
> 2 votes

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Tags: android-versions
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# Question
Title: Can you setup android gmail to play a sound when an email from a certain email address comes in?
I have my work emails forwarded to my phone and I'd like to be able to give them precedence over emails to my gmail. Is this possible? Or can I setup my work email using POP and then use a different tone for those?

# Answer
Not with the Gmail app that comes with the phone, no. But, if you really wanted this, you could do it like so:

1. Create a new Gmail account, like emailsfrommyfriendjohnsmith@gmail.com.
2. Setup the new Gmail account in your Android phone, and enable notifications.
3. In the Gmail web interface, set up a filter in your current Gmail account that has all email from your friend forwarded to the new email address. (You will still see these emails in your regular inbox.)

Voila!
> 3 votes

# Answer
Somewhat depends on what your work email server looks like, but I have a Gmail account, two Hotmail accounts, and an MS Exchange account on my Droid and there is an option within each Accounts settings to turn on/off "Email notifications" and to choose which ringtone is used for that notification. So, by that token, you could have your Gmail emails sound off with the default notification and have your work email play any crazy sound you like. Does that help or am I misunderstanding your question?
> 3 votes

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Tags: email, gmail
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title: Uninstall Sprint apps without rooting?

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# Question
Title: Uninstall Sprint apps without rooting?
> **Possible Duplicate:**
> How can I uninstall applications that are locked by phone vendor?

Is it possible to uninstall stock Sprint apps (such as Sprint TV and Nascar) without rooting the phone? If so, are there any undesirable side effects?

# Answer
> 2 votes
Depends on your definition of 'rooting'. Depending on your phone, you may be able to simply install a custom Recovery on the device, boot to that, and either manually remove the apps through the adb shell or using some sort of installable script fed through the recovery in the form of a .zip file. (That's how it works on the Samsung Moment. Again, not sure what device you have and what options would be available in the custom recovery of that device)

The custom recovery will give you 'root' access to remove what you need to remove, but it will be separate from the regular Android, which will in no way have root. So if you're worried about the security risks involved in potentially allowing other apps to gain root access, that's not something that could happen with just a custom recovery. However, if you're looking at it from more of a warranty standpoint, and simply don't want to make unauthorized modifications to the phone, well, not much that can be done unfortunately.

# Answer
> 2 votes
No. Sorry. Anything "System" cannot get uninstalled without being root. Some apps like ADW.Launcher allow you to "hide" them by making app groups in the app picker list. These apps will still start during boot, but like all android apps, as long as they are not running, they won't consume anything other than ram, and if android needs more ram they will be the first things just removed from ram the second the phone needs it.

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Tags: uninstallation, sprint
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title: Is there an alarm clock event log?

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# Question
Title: Is there an alarm clock event log?
Occasionally I wake up and find out that I've missed an alarm. I'm considering using a different program that is more likely to wake me, for example Math Alarm Clock. However before torturing myself with mathematical problems every morning I would first like to find out why I missed the alarm to see if there is an easier solution to the problem.

* Did I try to hit the snooze button but accidentally turned it off?
* Did I not hear it even though it rang 5 times?
* Did I set it for the wrong time and it didn't ring at all?
* etc...

In order to help investigate what the problem was I'd like to see a list of alarm related events. Is there any log where I can see all (or recent) alarm clock events, including changing alarms, alarms ringing and being turned off?

I use the currently use the default alarm clock on the HTC Desire, but if the logging feature is only available in another alarm clock application I would consider switching.

# Answer
> 5 votes
The only place that I can think of off the top of my head would be the logcat logs. There's an app on the market called aLogcat that will show you the full system logs, or you can use a terminal emulator and just run the command 'logcat' to get the scrolling log output. There's also DDMS, available through the Android SDK, that will show you the system logs from your phone on the computer as well.

Honestly, I'm not sure if the Alarm is something that is reported to the logcat logs or not, but it'd definitely be worth checking.

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Tags: alarm
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# Question
Title: What's causing the Sirius XM app to stutter even with a good 3G signal or WiFi connection?
More often than not, the Sirius XM app has trouble streaming content when the screen turns off - it will replay the same buffered audio in a loop (usually 20 or 30 seconds worth) until I turn the screen on and unlock the screen.

This happens even when using WiFi - when going 8 feet to my PC (where the wireless router is) and logging into the XM Radio Online site, there are no problems streaming content.

Is there a way to give network priority to an app when the screen is off? Is this a common problem with other apps?

I have an HTC Droid Incredible (with the 2.2 update).

# Answer
> 2 votes
More of a shot-in-the-dark based on my own personal experience rather than a resolution, but do you have anything like SetCPU installed that might be throttling back your clock speed when the phone goes to sleep?

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Tags: audio, streaming
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# Question
Title: Is it possible to remove shortcut labels in Launcher Pro?
Is there a fast or automatic way to remove the labels from all home shortcuts, while using Launcher Pro?

# Answer
Yes. On the home screen, hit the Option button, then go to Preferences \> Appearance Settings \> Hide icon labels and check the box.
> 3 votes

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Tags: 2.2-froyo, home-screen-shortcuts, launcherpro
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title: G1 Unable to get past android boot logo

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# Question
Title: G1 Unable to get past android boot logo
I have a T-Mobile G1 (HTC Dream), this morning it vibrated once and then restarted, it then went to the android boot logo went through that and stopped at a black screen.

I've tried pulling the battery and restarting but it has the same problem.

The phone is rooted but it has NO custom boot screen, boot loader, rom. It has stock everything apart from the ability to use root.

Running Android 1.6

Anyone any suggestions, I intend to take it back to T-Mobile tomorrow night when they have late opening hours, but I'd like to get it working before then.

# Answer
Have you tried doing a factory reset (**you'll lose all data)**?

Steps to do a factory reset are found here.

> ```
> 1. Power off the G1
> 2. Hold Home Key + End key for 20
> seconds or until you see a "triangle with an exclamation point
> and a picture of the G1"
> 3. Open the QWERTY keyboard and hit Alt+W
> 4. Restored!
>
> ```
> 3 votes

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Tags: htc-dream, boot
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# Question
Title: How can I block incoming SMS from certain senders?
What is a good app for blocking incoming SMS? I want it to be easy and able to add numbers from contacts and not require to many privileges (probably only some storage and intercepting SMS).

# Answer
'Call & SMS Filter'. I've not used it but description matches what you are after & very good comments. I believe Handcent SMS also has block options.

Required privileges on both are greater than your preference though.
> 2 votes

# Answer
I found SMS Filter, that only intercepts messages and requires no privileges. It doesn't allow to add number from contacts though.
> 2 votes

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Tags: sms-blocking
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# Question
Title: Battery Statistics Viewer crashes every time
I have a DroidX with Android 2.2

I went into the Battery Usage settings

Settings \> Battery Manager

See a fual cell looking battery image that says `Touch for usage statistics`, so I was like awesome let me nerd out and look at my battery usage statistics.

Then when I touch the image I get an error `The application Settings (process com.android.settings) has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again.` and the only thing I can do is Force Close.

Anyone have any insight into this issue?

I tried using aLogCat to find the error log after I got it, but it won't pause so I can read anything :-/ Where can I report this bug to Google, if there isn't a fix out there already?

# Answer
There appears to be a software update coming out to fix this in the "near future". The actual release date for this update was not specified... Here is the FAQ on the Motorola website...
> 2 votes

# Answer
It looks like it is a common bug with Droid X users and there doesn't currently seem to be a fix. See this relevant thread here.
> 2 votes

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Tags: 2.2-froyo, force-close, battery-life
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# Question
Title: Can I make home screen contact icons update their picture?
I was just wondering if anyone knows how to make contact icons on the home screen update their picture when the contact's picture is changed, without needing to delete the shortcut and recreate it. Can this be done? Make the contact-shortcut's picture "live" as it were?

e.g. some of my contacts are linked to Facebook and their pictures on their contact records sync as expected, but the shortcut on the home screen will still show whatever their picture was when the shortcut was created.

I thought maybe rebooting the phone would cause it to refresh the icons, but it didn't.

Running on a non-rooted Galaxy S Captivate.

# Answer
Looks like it is logged as an Android bug. If I'm reading right, there is no current plan for the Android team to address this.
> 4 votes

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Tags: samsung-galaxy-s, contacts, home-screen, home-screen-shortcuts, contact-shortcut
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title: Why does google maps need WiFi?

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# Question
Title: Why does google maps need WiFi?
Sometimes google maps gives a notification that goes something like:

`"for increased accuracy please turn on the Wifi"`

I can understand if it said `"For faster loading of map layers...."`, but how can a better internet connection result in increased `accuracy` by the GPS?

# Answer
> 17 votes
You might be interested in Assisted GPS

> Assistance falls into two categories:
>
> * Information used to more quickly acquire satellites
>     + It can supply orbital data or almanac for the GPS satellites to the GPS receiver, enabling the GPS receiver to lock to the satellites more rapidly in some cases.
>     + The network can provide precise time.
>     + The device captures a snapshot of the GPS signal, with approximate time, for the server to later process into a position.
>     + Accurate, surveyed coordinates for the cell site towers allow better knowledge of local ionospheric conditions and other conditions affecting the GPS signal than the GPS receiver alone, enabling more precise calculation of position. (See also Wide Area Augmentation System and CellHunter.)
> * Calculation of position by the server using information from the GPS receiver
>     + The assistance server has a good satellite signal, and plentiful computation power, so it can compare fragmentary signals relayed to it by GPS receivers, with the satellite signal it receives directly, and then inform the GPS receiver or emergency services of the GPS receiver's position.
>
> Many mobile phones combine A-GPS and other location services including Wi-Fi Positioning System and cell-site triangulation and sometimes a hybrid positioning system.\[4\]

# Answer
> 18 votes
If I'm not mistaken it is to access Google's (presumably large) wireless MAC address location database which like Skyhook (a competing service, also previously used on iOS devices) allows a handset to scan for wireless networks nearby and send their MAC addresses (possibly SSIDs as well, I haven't looked into it too depply) off to Google to compare to their database and fire back an approximate location based on their data collection (which you consent to help provide by enabling this feature).

To the answerer mentioning A-GPS, I think the OP was already using A-GPS and using Google Maps over a 3G connection but had Wi-Fi disabled.

I believe this technique is achieved similarly with the use of cell towers, measuring the signal strength between the connected and neighbouring towers and comparing it to a stored database (such as Ofcom's attempt available in the UK), Location Area Code (LAC) and Cell ID (CID). For anyone curious you can find these on most Android phones using the `*#*#4636#*#*` code in your dialer although for whatever reason it's encoded in hex so just convert it back to decimal if you like.

TL;DR - Triangulate your location quicker using Wi-Fi signals while your GPS gets a satellite lock, A-GPS serves the same purpose but achieves this using a different method (Secure User Plane Location I think, if anyone wants to read up on it).

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Tags: gps, google-maps, geolocation
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title: Can Android run on an iPad?

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# Question
Title: Can Android run on an iPad?
> **Possible Duplicate:**
> Can I install Android on my non-Android device?

Can Android run on an iPad ?

1. Please answer only if you are 100% sure (or even better if you tried)
2. If yes, should I use a jailbreaker ? Could you suggest me one ?
3. If yes, what are the limitations.. are the applications running on it without issues ?
4. If not, why... is there a good tablet to test Android applications ?

thanks

# Answer
> 2 votes
It would seem as thought it has only so far been developed to be booted on iPhone 2G and 3G devices. It's mostly up to the interest of keen developers whether it would be worthwhile attempting such a feat, I would assume whatever exploit used to run Android on otherwise locked down Apple hardware would be different in later hardware (yes, this means an iPad).

"Please answer only if you are 100% sure" - Then yes, an iPad **COULD** theoretically run Android because of the open source nature of Android allowing it to be ported to various devices. Anything is possible when you put your mind to it, it's looking at the realistic feasibility and time vs reward involved though.

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Tags: ios
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# Question
Title: Does Android 1.5 Cupcake support WMA decoder?
I pushed some WMA files to emulator yesterday, and I found all of these music files can be played well by the music player, So I was confused.

I found that Android 1.5 didn't support the WMA codec, which is announced in the SDK documentation. I also didn't find a WMA decoder in PV OMX.

How does this happen?

# Answer
There isn't just one thing called WMA, WMA describes a whole set of different audio formats and technologies that all normally have a .WMA ending. Some of these are DRM encrypted, some have higher or lower level quality than others, some are optimized for voices. It's entirely possible that although your audio file has a .WMA extension and container, inside that it's actually a type of codec that Android can already natively handle.

See these links for a bit more explanation: Gentle Introduction to Video Encoding: Lossy Audio Codecs and Wikipedia - WMA
> 3 votes

# Answer
I believe an actual Windows Media Audio decoder would require to be licensed from Microsoft to be included as such in Android. Like how Microsoft Exchange intergration is liceanced from Microsoft by handset manufactures to include in their Android phones (HTC I think does so off the top of my head) and why Exchange by Touchdown I assume costs $19.99.

Like GAThrawn said, the .wma files you claim are probably MP3 or another format Android natively supports with a mislabeled file extension - try encoding some yourself and give it another try. :)
> 0 votes

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Tags: wma, 1.5-cupcake
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# Question
Title: How do I restart the 2.2 update for HTC Desire?
I just got the notification for the 2.2 update for my HTC Desire (on O2 in the UK). I downloaded and let the update install. After a couple of reboots it told me it couldn't install as I needed to clean up some memory, which I've now done.

How do I restart the update install? I've tried restarting the phone and going to the phone settings and checking for updates, but it doesn't find any updates and it's still reporting 2.1 installed.

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Update: Turns out the update file was on my SD card, but renaming it to update.zip and following Al. E's steps didn't work - I get a file not signed errors ("failed to verify whole-file signature" and "signature verification failed".

I've also since done a hard reset too, and now have open call with HTC second line support. Will update you when they get back to me.

Apparently setting the date to the future would cause the OTA to be detected again, but my date won't stay set to the future (yes, I have turned off network date updates!). I'm now researching how to use a file manager to update from the 2.2 zip file.

Watch this space...

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Update 2: Okay, I finally cracked it! First, I downloaded the UK O2 update from HTC's site, then followed Al E's method below to install the update. Job done!!

The URL for the download was http://liveimage.htc.com/. I knew the name of the update file as it was in my sd\download folder.

# Answer
> 4 votes
~~`Settings | About phone | System updates`~~

~~It should let you know that there's an update available.~~

If you still have the update.zip file on your SD card, these instructions should do it: http://geekword.net/manually-install-froyo-htc-desire

> Step 1: Download the Android 2.2 firmware for the Desire from here.
>
> Step 2: Rename the file update.zip and copy it to your microSD card via USB. \[Note: make sure the file is named update.zip and not update.zip.zip.\]
>
> Step 3: Power down your Desire.
>
> Step 4: Hold down the “Volume Down” button as you power the phone back on.
>
> Step 5: A screen should appear showing your phone’s system searching for various files. Scroll down to “recovery” and press the “Power” button.
>
> Step 6: When you see the triangle with an exclamation point symbol, press the “Power” and “Volume Up” buttons at the same time.
>
> Step 7: From the menu that appears, select “Apply sdcard:update.zip.”
>
> Step 8: When the screen displays “Install from sdcard complete” select “reboot system now” and wait for the phone to power back up.

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Tags: 2.2-froyo, updates
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# Question
Title: Can a developer with an app in the market also distribute to un-registered (rooted) devices?
I'm looking to root a tablet device, to limit access to certain settings, and to remove the ability to get to the Market (long story).

However, I do want to get some apps that are available on the Android Market onto the device. Is there any restrictions to app developers selling their apps in the market to also distribute their applications outside of the market.

Links to good references get bonus points.

Thanks!

# Answer
> 3 votes
I don't think there's anywhere to cite where Google has said that putting your app on the market is not exclusive, but I'm sure it's allowed, since there are a lot of different alternatives to the Market and you can even download versions of apps available on the market through other means. In certain cases, like Tasker, getting it directly (not through the market) is even encouraged by the author.

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Tags: applications, google-play-store
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# Question
Title: Can I drive a USB webcam with my android touchpad?
I have I have an Android touchpad and a usb webcam... Can I use the pad to control the webcam?

# Answer
> 1 votes
I don't think directly. There are, however, several apps in the market that seem to let you view a webcam connected elsewhere by URL or IP.

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Tags: usb, touchscreen, usb-peripherals
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# Question
Title: Is it possible to clear the "Notifications" on Facebook for Android?
I have **enabled notifications** in the 'Inbox' section of my **Facebook for Android** program.

**Does anyone know of a way to clear the 'Notifications' list ?**

*Reason I ask :* Every time I start up Facebook , I get the message that I have 4 new notifications. Over and over again , the same notifications.

Under Windows, these are the same four as I can see when clcking the world icon on top of the screen. However, on Windows, the world icon only lights up when a new notification has arrived, as soon as you click (or view) the notification, no visual indication is present any more.

So, I would like these notifications only to alert me, when new arrive, not every time.

**UPDATE:**

As it was, I was talking about the Samsung version of FB/ Android (Facebook S! version 1). I downloaded and installed the one from the Market, and this is much better.

# Answer
> 3 votes
No, there doesn't appear to be a way to clear the notifications short of visiting the item so it is no longer new.

The Android Facebook app has a lot of deficits. It's still head-and-shoulders better than the previous version, though.

# Answer
> 3 votes
"Facebook S! version 1" is Facebook for Samsung, available from the Samsung apps store on Samsung Android phones. This is their custom version of Facebook, not the standard Facebook for Android that's available from the Market, it is probably based on an older version of the Facebook app, and is definitely not the same as the current official Facebook app.

If you go to the Android Market, search for Facebook and download the app called "Facebook for Android" written by "Facebook" then you know that you have the latest official Facebook app. The notifications on that version go for me after I've visited them.

Also if for some reason you do prefer Samsung's app over Facebook's then you're running an older version of that, the current version (according to the Samsung Apps app on my Galaxy S) is 1.01 installing this updated version may fix some problems.

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Tags: 2.1-eclair, notifications, facebook
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# Question
Title: How to get permission for overwrite files in /system/fonts directory in Android phone
I'm tryng to overwrite the fonts files (\*.ttf) in my android device (Dell Aero). my new fonts are resident in the sdcard and I'm using the following command in a command shell (on the phone):

cd /sdcard/MyFonts/ cp \*.ttf /system/fonts/

I get a "permission denied" echo from the cp command.

How should I do it correctly?

Thank you

# Answer
> 4 votes
You'll have to *root* your phone first, and probably set it *S-OFF* to be able to write to the `/system` directory while booted.

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See this question for information on what rooting is. *S-OFF* is the next step that gives you full control all of the time. Neither are something you should do without understanding the risks.

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Tags: file-permissions
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# Question
Title: My Windows laptop wants to repair my phone, but my phone is happy
When I initiate a USB mount of my phone, Windows 7 tells me the disk is going bad and wants to know if I want to rapair it (Motorola Droid 1; FRG22D if that matters). I am assuming this is a problem between the two disk systems talking to each other (like when you try to mount any EXT4 partition with Windows).

A) Is it really in need of repair? If so, should Windows be doing it? (Windows has no actual, practical problems with R/W of the drive and the phone is not reporting any issues or taking too long when remounting the SD card)

B) If Windows is just spitting up irrelevant error messages, how should I mount to disable the error message? Is this is just an annoyance anyone else has encountered?

# Answer
I had that on my old HTC Magic a couple of times, it is supposedly down to not properly doing the Eject Disk bit in Windows and Unmount drive bit on the phone before unplugging it.

After it had annoyed me enough times by asking me to repair the disk every time, I unplugged the micro-SD card from my phone, put it in a USB SD card reader, plugged that straight into the PC and let Windows run the repair. This time the repair completed successfully, and after plugging the SD back into the phone I didn't have any more problems with it (for a few months at least).
> 6 votes

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Tags: external-sd, windows
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title: Gmail app always says "no connection"

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# Question
Title: Gmail app always says "no connection"
even though I have a connection and can browse or do other things with connections. This happens when connected to both 3G and WiFi. Did anyone have the same problem, or know how to solve this?

the phone is galaxy s with os 2.1

# Answer
Have you tried any of the steps to kick-start a truculent app?

Have you re-entered your account and password information?

Have you tried changing any of the sync options for your Google account?
> 1 votes

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Tags: gmail, connection-issues
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# Question
Title: Is there any way to listen to Zune Pass music on my phone?
I have a Zune and download DRM-ed music via the Zune Marketplace that I can listen to as long as I have a Zune Pass monthly subscription. Is there any way to listen to this music on my Droid?

# Answer
> 3 votes
There does not appear to be a way, no. (Some information in this forum thread: http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-audio-video/40610-zune-not-droid-friendly.html)

Apparently, DRM'd wma files require a Zune device. Since Droid ≠ Zune, it's not going to work. Unless and until Microsoft decides they want to build a Zune App (à la the way Amazon has a Kindle app) you're out of luck.

Only option appears to be to burn those tracks to a CD, then re-rip them as DRMless MP3s.

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# Question
Title: Who makes the Orange San Francisco phone?
Does anyone what company who makes this phone? I assume it's made by a 'known' company but can't find any sign beyond the Orange branding.

# Answer
Its original name was the *ZTE Blade* so, then, the manufacturer is the ZTE corp in China.
> 6 votes

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# Question
Title: Is there a 'User manual' for Android 2.1?
The user guides that came with my Android 2.1 phone are pretty basic and mostly geared to the mobile company's interface and apps. I've come across this PDF guide to Android 2.2. Is there something similar for 2.1?

Update:
Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) user manual now available here (PDF).

# Answer
> 4 votes
This Nexus One user manual seems to be basically the same document as you linked, but specific to that phone and Android 2.1. Since the Nexus One was a "pure" Android experience, the vast majority of the document should cover what you're looking for.

(That link seems dead, but this link from the Internet Archive Wayback Machine seems to be working. There's also this link from T-Mobile.)

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# Question
Title: HTC People Widget - Improve Touch Accuracy?
I have HTC's people widget on one of my home screens. I like its functionality but sometimes when I touch a contact, another one gets selected. A completely different contact gets the green selection box and it starts to call them. With my luck this usually results in calling my parents at some ungodly hour.

I've used touch visualizers to see if that area of my touch screen is having problems but all looks fine. The people widget is the only thing that seems to be affected.

I've also tried removing and re-adding the widget. Is there a fix for this? Or a comparable replacement?

# Answer
You could try Call Confirm, which gives a popup to confirm if you want to call said person.

I haven't tried it myself, but I've heard it is recommended for accidental touch screen issues.

QR Code for Call Confirm:
> 1 votes

# Answer
I believe I observed a similar issue... I simply waited a few seconds and then pushed the screen side-to-side without leaving the screen. I saw the widget sort of refresh with the contacts back in order.
> 1 votes

# Answer
There probably isn't much you can do to fix HTC's widget. On the other hand you can purchase LauncherPro Plus which has its own *People Widget* which works perfectly fine for me.

LauncherPro QR Code:

Otherwise you can look around on the Market and I'm sure you'll find another *People Widget* somewhere.
> 0 votes

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Tags: app-widgets, htc-sense, htc-evo
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# Question
Title: Can anyone identify the widgets or software used in this?
I see this image and i would like to configure my Android phone to look like this too :) But I have trouble finding the software or widgets used.

Can someone help me to find/identify them?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/39965241@N03/3707753843/

# Answer
mru is right about the Android and Me News Widget. Based on the dock at the bottom I'd also say mru's right about that being the Sense UI as well, which means the clock and weather widget is stock, but you can replicate it with these:

The battery widget is called... Battery Widget. Also, you may be able to get those sense icons by using the Sense UI Icons app for PandaHome.

The wallpaper is his own formated for a G1/Hero (640x480). More on sizing wallpapers for specific Android phones.
> 4 votes

# Answer
The widget in the middle is the "android and me rss widget".

What you see is basically the **sense UI**. You may try the accuweather widget for the weather. But it will possibly not look that shiny.
> 1 votes

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title: My Milestone doesn't always charge

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# Question
Title: My Milestone doesn't always charge
I have a Milestone and sometimes when I plug my (supplied Motorola) charger in the 'charging light' on the side does not illuminate and the phone does not charge. I think that this may also happen even after a successful initial connection (i.e. after plugging it in and getting the light) since occasionally I have unplugged the phone in the morning, after an overnight charge, and it is only 30% full (rather than the expected 100%). This problem is intermittent and sometimes rights itself but other times I need to reboot the phone.
I have replaced the cable, and still have the same issue, so it is unlikely to be due to a faulty cable.
This happens both when charging it from a wall socket or a USB port.
Does anybody else have this problem? Or maybe have an idea of what it could be?

*edit:* Faulty hardware may be the cause... I have seen similar posts about people having intermittent problems connecting their Milestones to USB ports, so I'm curious that this may be either a generic bug or a generic hardware fault, rather than just my phone.

# Answer
May be possible that when plugging in your charger/usb cables it's not making a connection, I had a problem on an old phone (Nokia N95) with this and had to send it off for a new one.

Also possible that it may be the charger, have you got another you could try?
> 1 votes

# Answer
I have a charger with a bad cable. It sometimes charges and sometimes it won't. Wiggling the cable point seems to help (don't do that though for risk of damaging your phone.

Check if its your cable or your phone by charging your phone with a data cable. If that charges your device your original charges is faulty. If this doesnt work either your phone connector is bad and you can either wiggle till it works or get a new phone.
> 1 votes

# Answer
Sometimes cables don't conform to standards and mess up the auto-negotiation of power level for the devices attached to them. (Devices can tell the computer / charger how much electricity they require). Phone can handle the max level of electricity, so soldering the 2nd and 3rd pins together on the cable will demand more power from the computer.
> 1 votes

# Answer
Do you use any app killer? I used to use this kind of software, and sometimes I accidentally killed some system service and then it only charged again after a reboot.

I stopped using app killers after that.
> 0 votes

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# Question
Title: Can I change the time interval between flashes of the notification led on the HTC incredible?
I want to be able to change the time interval between flashes of the LED when I have a new notification. Is this possible on the HTC Incredible running 2.1 (eclair) or even on 2.2 (froyo)?

I don't really want to flash my device or install a custom build of android, etc.

# Answer
> 3 votes
My answer here for a similar question points to the Missed Reminder app which appears to have an adjustable LED interval setting. Hope it helps.

# Answer
> 1 votes
I'm pretty sure I've only seen this feature on rooted Android phones running custom ROMs.

I've seen it on some custom ROMs in the 'Messaging' app, but never as a general system-wide setting. I'm going to say that no, this isn't possible right now, at least on stock Android.

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Tags: htc-droid-incredible, notification-led, notifications
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# Question
Title: Is there a way to create location shortcuts for navigation
I often have to navigate to the same places with the google maps navigation. I use speech to enter the address. Is there a way to create shortcuts, which i can chose on the touchscreen to navigate to an often used places? F.e. i dond't want to enter my home address everytime, instead i want to save it as "home" and have the ability to chose that.

# Answer
> 6 votes
You can create a screen shortcut for "home" or any location you use often. Long-press on the home screen, select the Shortcuts option, and scroll down to get a Directions option. You'll be prompted for an address, which can be either specific or general. Choose car, public transit, or walking directions, ensure "Turn-by-turn navigation" is checked, and give it a short name, like "home". Now you have a shortcut which will quickly get the directions you want from wherever you are.

You can also "star" locations on the map that you use often.

You can also use contacts to quickly get addresses for navigation. Were you to have a "home" entry in your contact list, you could simply use the voice command "Navigate to home".

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# Question
Title: Can I make eBuddy be the default instant messanger?
Was wondering if anyone knows of a way to make eBuddy be the default instant messenger. I'm running on a Galaxy S Captivate. When you click on a contact's icon, it pops up a little toolbar with actions, such as: `Call, View, Text, Email, IM, Navigate`. Clicking on IM launches the built in IM client from AT&T. I'd like it to message the contact using eBuddy instead.

# Answer
Normally you should just be able to do:

Menu-\>Settings-\>Applications-\>Manage Applications
Select the AT&T Messenger App.
Then scroll down in the app Settings and there is a button labelled 'Clear defaults'.
Clicking this will clear any launch by default settings.

Next time you click the text icon on a contact it will ask you what App you want to use.
However maybe AT&T have hacked the phone to prevent this.
> 3 votes

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# Question
Title: What is the "sync" icon next to some Wi-Fi networks?
When you go to `Menu > Settings > Wireless and network > Wi-Fi Settings` there is the list at the bottom which lists all the detected networks in range or remembered.

The networks in range have the Wi-Fi "signal-strength" icon, and sometimes a lock if it's a secured network. Every now and then though, one or two of the networks will have an icon to the left of the strength, which looks like the "sync" icon from the Accounts screen (the circle with two chasing arrows in it). What does that icon indicate in the context of the Wi-Fi networks?

Running a Galaxy S Captivate with Eclair.

# Answer
The access point supports Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS), which allows easier connections to the AP. You can long press the AP to use this feature. See Wikipedia for more info.
> 4 votes

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Tags: wi-fi, settings, notification-icons
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# Question
Title: Is there a way to automatically change SMTP server?
I have a friend with a ntlworld.com email address. For desktop setup the SMTP server is smtp.ntlworld.com, but this only accepts email from IP addresses served by Virgin Media (who bought NTL) as ISP. When on 3G, they can use the SMTP server of their network provider.

So is there a way to have one SMTP server for WiFi and another SMTP server when not on WiFi?

# Answer
> 1 votes
Basically I had the same problem, and if you had an iphone **spits on ground** I would say yes (you can set more than one smtp server up and if it fails on one it'll try on the other) . . you can just get round it by turning off the phones wifi when you want to send an email (at home)

Emails can be sent over the phone network using their smtp server (smtp.orange.net for example) but as soon as you hit your home network (via wifi) the orange out-going server will not work (because it doesn't know who you are because you are going through your own ISP), where as if you change your smtp server back to ntlworld it would work (because you are using your home connection)(hope that made sence?)

O2 solved this issue, because they had a user name and password for their smtp server, so even if you sent an email over wifi (at home) it could authenticate who you were and subsequently send it.

I tried explaining this to orange . . . it fell on deaf ears

# Answer
> 1 votes
They support authentication to use the mail server to send email - particularly since these days the service is run by Google. This page covers the settings in detail, but the key points are:

1. Configure it to use authentication
2. Configure it to use SSL
3. Configure it to use port 465 for SMTP if selecting SSL didn't change it already

# Answer
> 1 votes
There are a number of apps that allow you to program-without-programming to set up conditions on your phone that trigger changes in settings and such. **Tasker** is one a friend at work uses, and I know there was at least one other (though I can't remember the name right now). I've never used them personally, so I don't know exactly what trigger conditions they have (such as switching from a specific wifi network to another data connection). You may want to check those out though and see if they meet your needs. Oh, another is **Locale**, which looks (according to appbrain) to have a lot of plugins developed for it to add additional triggers and actions... you may even be able to get a plugin written for it to do what you want if there isn't one.

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# Question
Title: How do Gmail (desktop) and Talk (Android) chats interact?
The interaction between Google Talk via Gmail and Google Talk via the Android client seems confusing. Here's my understanding of how things work:

* If a chat is started in Gmail, it will sync in (near) real-time to Talk.
* If a chat is started in Talk, it will show up in the chat history in Gmail, but will not spawn a new chat in Gmail (so the chat is confined to Talk).
* If a chat is started in Gmail, and continued in Talk, messages will stop being sent to the chat in Gmail, and new messages will be sent to Talk (as well as the chat history in Gmail). In my (short) experience, this transition can be a bit flaky.

Is this basically how it works? What I'd love to see is a perfect 1:1 sync between Gmail and Talk. That is, if I start a chat in Talk, it will create a new chat tab in Gmail, and everything will get pushed to both, and vice-versa.

Anyone know if that's in the pipeline, or even possible now? How does everyone else handle moving as seamlessly as possible between Gmail and Talk?

Thanks!

# Answer
To provide some background on this question, google talk uses xmpp (aka Jabber) which is an open Instant Messaging standard. As a part of this standard, every instant messaging client (chat in gmail and the android talk app) is assigned a Resource. The server then uses the resource to know which client is communicating.

This is how the interaction works: Say your gmail account is **bob@gmail.com**. Then gmail chat might be **bob@gmail.com/gchat** and the talk app **bob@gmail.com/talk**

When your friend Sue (**sue@gmail.com**) wants to send you a message, she simply sends it to **bob@gmail.com**. At this point, the server either sends the message to whichever client you used last, or sends the message to all currently connected clients (google does the latter).

When you reply to Sue using the talk app, she receives the message from **bob@gmail.com/talk**. Now, instead of sending further messages to **bob@gmail.com**, Sue's client now sends messages directly to **bob@gmail.com/talk** and will continue doing so until a message is received from some other client.

This means that what Saiboogu said should work. That is, to switch between clients, send a message to the person you are chatting with from the desired client.

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**tl;dr**: This happens by design, Saiboogu's workaround works.
> 9 votes

# Answer
I don't know if what you propose is under consideration -- it would be nice.

Your summary of how it all works sounds accurate. I handle the transition by sending a new message from whatever new location I'm continuing the conversation in, to manually force it to redirect. As you say, you won't get the history but it's the simplest method.
> 4 votes

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# Question
Title: How can I choose between Shazam and SoundHound?
I want a Music ID app, I have tried both Shazam and SoundHound which were good. They both have a limit of 5 songs, and cost $5 to upgrade to unlimited. Before purchasing one of them, I want to make sure I'm making the right choice. What are the advantages/disadvantages of each one?

Are there any other competing apps I should consider?

**Update:** I used SoundHound's old name, Midomi, accidentally.

# Answer
> 3 votes
I would pick a handful of songs that are of the type of music you like and see how each one does at identifying them. Also consider how long it takes each one to get you your results. Also if you buy music through a particular service, consider the app's ability to interface easily with that service. The other big thing to consider would be startup time of the app, since you want to be able to tag a song before it ends!

# Answer
> 1 votes
Both are pretty much the same. I've found that each one sometimes can't identify songs that the other one can.

Both have pretty much the exact same features. SoundHound is a little quicker at recognising the song... it doesn't need that full 10 seconds of the song and will sometimes stop after only 5 seconds of recording.

I'm not 100% sure if Shazam has this but SoundHound also allows you to view the artist and album of the song... i.e. so if you've identified the song, SoundHouse will show you which album that song is from and you can then browse that album right within SoundHound which is pretty good.

I used both but in the end chose to use SoundHound because of the mentioned features above.

# Answer
> 0 votes
I use SoundHound. It also costs $5 for the full version. I can't really articulate why, though; I just liked the interface better.

# Answer
> 0 votes
I've used both and usually Shazam gets me a better result on slower networks. Soundhound has some great extra features. But for long-term, I think I would just use an app like Shazam or Soundhound to find a song I hear, not to share or anything like that.

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title: Update Droid to 2.2 over wifi possible?

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# Question
Title: Update Droid to 2.2 over wifi possible?
I have a Motorola Droid running 2.1 that does not have Verizon service. Therefore it does not seem to be getting the over-the-air (OTA) update. Is there anyway to update this via wifi?

# Answer
> 1 votes
You can manually update your phone by downloading the update.zip file for 2.2, putting it in the root of your SD card and applying the update in the recovery during boot up.

See detailed instructions here.

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# Question
Title: How can I configure my phone to automatically connect to remembered wifi networks? (after having left the device to sleep)
That question occured to me when I saw the `WIFI_MODE_FULL` API documentation:

> Wi-Fi will be kept active, and will behave normally, i.e., it will attempt to automatically establish a connection to a remembered access point that is within range, and will do periodic scans if there are remembered access points but none are in range.

However, in my recent experience, my Nexus One never connects automatically to my remembered networks (It just displays the notification that some open networks are available). However the programming API suggests that it should be able to connect automatically - how can I configure my phone to do that?

I have a Nexus One with Android 2.2.

Edit: Thank you for your comments. After checking, I have found that my N1 does connect automatically to the remembered networks - but after I have left it to sleep, it is never connected (even though I set the Wifi sleep policy to "Never") - and when I open the Wireless configuration panel, I find that my remembered networks are "disabled". How can I prevent that?

# Answer
> 2 votes
I have this same problem, intermittently, with my N1/froyo/CM6. I don't know why it happens, but it's been happening since the froyo update afair.

I've noticed it happens less often if I stay in one place. This led me to the theory that, since I live at a university, the fact that networks will pop in and out of range even as I enter my dorm and walk up to my room will make my N1 think that the network's unstable and thus disable it.

Toggling definitely fixes the issue.

# Answer
> 1 votes
I have had a similar problem, though intermittent, on my ADP2 (=MyTouch 3G) running Froyo (via CM6). I believe that networks become disabled when a connection attempt fails. I suspect something like the first connection attempt occurring when you are only barely in range, and once that fails, the network is "disabled" until you explicitly choose it and successfully connect.

# Answer
> 0 votes
You could kill two birds with one stone... y5 is a little app that automatically toggles the wifi connection when you enter/leave cells with known wifi access points. I would bet that toggling wifi might help it connect when it detects a network it knows.

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# Question
Title: Can anyone reccomend a 2g / 3g switching widget?
I've just got my new HTC Desire HD and I want to switch 3G on and off as required. I used to do this on my old HTC magic and got quite good battery life compared to some friends with the same phone.

Is there a reccomended, not spammy, preferably free, 2G 3G switchng widget? If it's only a shortcut to the relevant menu option, so be it.

Edit: Little extra info - In the Marketplace there seem to be dozens of these little things, can anyone reccomend which work fine, and which will steal all my email contacts and sell them to spammers in Eastern Europe? :)

# Answer
Power Control Plus will do this, and more. Specifically for you, it will open up the settings page to toggle 2G/3G. However, it is not free. It will cost you $2.
> 3 votes

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# Question
Title: Can I turn my Android device into a webcam?
If so, how? Could it be implemented via a USB, Bluetooth or Wi-Fi connection?

# Answer
> 10 votes
IP Webcam (Turns your phone into a network camera with multiple viewing options.)

(alternate direct link)

EDIT: fixed link

# Answer
> 4 votes
Droidcam is supposed to do it over wifi. Qik is a good option if you don't need a computer in the loop.

# Answer
> 3 votes
Justin.tv just came out with an Android app to do video streaming.

It uses any data connection you have, but the faster/more reliable the connection the better quality you will get.

# Answer
> 1 votes
I've had very good performance from Qik. It can also buffer your video, so if your 3G/4G connection is bad, it will upload later when you have a better signal. WiFi is of course also supported, very simple, very quick ;-)

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title: How do I enter proxy server details?

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# Question
Title: How do I enter proxy server details?
My work WiFi routes traffic through a proxy server. Is there a way to enter proxy server settings so that my Android can successfully make web requests? My previous phone was a WinMo 6.0 and this was easy to do (part of the setup wizard).

I have a Milestone on Android 2.1

# Answer
There is an outstanding bug on this, from November 2008, with no sign of a fix. It's a real PITA, and a really obvious issue.
> 1 votes

# Answer
You can get to the hidden http proxy settings via the 'Proxy Settings' app.

This should work for http sites and services but Android doesn't currently allow https via proxy!?! (so no Gmail or app downloads).
> 2 votes

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# Question
Title: Does the T-Mobile G2 have 2 GB or 4 GB of storage/memory?
I just received my new G2 from T-Mobile, and I checked the settings, and it has 2 GB internal storage. However the Google Phone site says it should have 4 GB internal storage. What is the deal?

# Answer
> 3 votes
The G2 does indeed have 4GB of internal storage, but not all of it is visible to the operating system. The internal memory (/dev/block/mmcblk0) shows up as 2256 MB which place it solidly in the this-is-4GB-of-memory camp.

There are several reasons for confusion on this point. Of the 2256MB of internal memory visible to the OS, 1.3GB is allocated to /data (Storage for apps). This 1.3GB is what you see when you look at "Internal Phone Storage" in **Settings-\>SD Card & Phone Storage**. Partitioning in this was has been standard on all android phones.

The new part with the G2 is where the rest of the 4GB of internal memory are. There has been wild speculation on this point, but a backup copy of the entire OS portion of the phone or space for future updates make the most sense.

# Answer
> 2 votes
The G2 is indeed supposed to have 4Gb but the Desire Z (which is G2's twin with Sense, for Europe) only gets 2Gb. It seems like a mix-up occured somehow between the 2 phones, because a lot of G2s only have 2Gb.

I guess T-Mobile knows the issue and maybe you could get another phone.

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title: Remote Wipe Feature in Android 2.2

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# Question
Title: Remote Wipe Feature in Android 2.2
Android 2.2 has come up with a new feature called "Remote Wipe" which wipes out the data in the Android phone remotely in case the device is lost. For this we were using Microsoft Exchange Server to wipe data in phone remotely. But for this to possible tha phone should in the network coverage area? If the phone is not there in Network Coverage area , how can the data can be wiped from remote Microsoft Exchange Server?

# Answer
> 3 votes
Your server has to be able to communicate with the phone somehow to send the wipe message, either by a phone network connection, or if it's connected to one of its saved Wifi connections. Not 100% sure about the Android implementation, but normally the message will queue up and be received when the phone comes into coverage. The phone also has to be switched on at some point, or it'll never be received.

This is a limitation of all phones that have remote wipe capability (eg Windows Phone, Blackberry, etc). It can't send the signal by magic!

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# Question
Title: What is material is the HTC Nexus One Screen made out of?
Some say it is plastic, others insist it's glass. Wikipedia provides shady information.

# Answer
The screen is glass. Since the release people were having issues with the screen due to the glass sometimes cracking when in tight pockets... this would usually not occur with plastic since plastic is a little bit more flexible.

1. HTC says broken glass means Nexus One not for pocket
2. Design: Solid, but Not Groundbreaking
> 5 votes

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# Question
Title: What are good Android headphones with Play/Pause and volume controls?
I've had an iPod Touch for a while and am used to controlling the music player without having to take the device from my pocket. I've had a look around for headphones that will work with the Samsung Galaxy S's TRRS connector and for players that would work with those headphones but haven't seen any combination that looks like it would work. Is this achievable? I'm also happy to consider alternatives like Bluetooth if that would work.

# Answer
> 1 votes
I've found a few Bluetooth headsets that would do this. for example the MOTOROKR S9:

> Works with any brand of Bluetooth®-enabled compatible phone or music device that supports Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP) and Audio Video Remote Control Profile (AVRCP).

However this is a bit offputting:

> For optimal outdoor performance, position music device in close proximity to and in line of sight with the S9's internal antenna, which is located in the base behind the user's head. Placement of the music device in a front pocket is not recommended.

So they'd be fine as long as I strap my phone to my back or hold the phone like the model in the photo on the linked page is. Hmm.

A few other Bluetooth headsets I've looked at include:

I would still prefer a wired solution if possible so will keep looking. I have found that the Samsung Galaxy's TRRS connector is Left-Right-Mic-Ground, so it definitely won't work with iPhone headphones (which are Left-Right-Ground-Mic). However this does mean it *may* work with headphones from other vendors that have the same connection order, like Nokia, perhaps.

# Answer
> 1 votes
I think Bluetooth is going to be your most flexible option. I have a pair of Rocketfish Bluetooth headphones. They are fairly low cost, sound great, and include player controls on the left ear unit. They support both the A2DP profile (for stereo playback) as well as the hands-free headset profile for voice calls. The mic is acceptable, but not great.

# Answer
> 0 votes
I prefer to stick with wired headset, since they are betetr supported by the software. I just bought the Motorola EH25. It has a mic and button, kind of like the iPod Touch. Generally they are around $20-$30, but I found them here for $7.

# Answer
> 0 votes
I have a Moto Droid and these two Audio enabled headsets:

Sony DRBT50 Stereo Bluetooth Headset Good audio quality, especially bluetooth. Use with Pandora. Comfortable for serious listening. Works as both a Phone headset (Meh) and Stereo Audio (Yay!)

Plantronics Voyager 855 Bluetooth Headset (Black) Good Conversation quality and microphone. Use this for Phone conversations and "talkie" podcasts. Supports both Phone (Yay!) and Stereo Audio (Meh)

Both of these headsets support audio controls in DoggCatcher and Music. Not sure about Pandora since I rarely use media controls now that my preferences are tuned.

Bluetooth is way more fragile than wired. You have pairing issues and interference issues, and battery draining/charging issues. Oh and it is way more expensive. Might be worth it, but don't start unless you think farting around with gadgets is a fun way to blow a weekend (and a couple hundred dollars).

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# Question
Title: How to read Exchange e-mails on Android?
Is there any Outlook for Android? If not, should I use an IMAP or POP3 client for Android instead? Which one do you recommend?

# Answer
You don't mention which phone or Android version you're using. On my Motorola Droid (Android 2.2) the **built-in E-mail application** allows me to connect to my employers Exchange server. When I created the account, I had three options for connecting: *POP3*, *IMAP*, and *Exchange*.

There are other e-mail clients out there that may also connect to Exchange.
> 6 votes

# Answer
You could try K9 Mail. I use it for non-Exchange accounts and it works great, so I know it's a great email app in general. I believe it has the ability to connect to Exchange servers, too, so...there you go!
> 3 votes

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# Question
Title: Are there any thin/precise styluses that are compatible with the Droid X?
I'd like to write formulas and notes on my Droid X. All the styluses that I found have a thick end and don't simulate a pen, it's more like a finger. Does anyone know of any styluses with thinner or more accurate tips? Do pens from tablets like Lenovo work?

# Answer
> 3 votes
Thin styluses are usually for resistive screens, they don't work with Droid X's capacitive screen.

The difference between capacitive and resistive touchscreens

# Answer
> 2 votes
I have a Pogo Stylus which was originally meant for the iphone although I see they have an Android version now. It works ok, but I feel like I have to push down harder than I want to to get it to work. **It is accurate**, more so than my finger, however if I don't maintain enough pressure when drawing a line for example, there will be gaps in the line. I have a screen protector on and I've never tried it on the naked screen so this might be a factor. When all is said and done I don't use it very much so I can't provide a detailed review.

If you don't want to spend the money there are a number DIY capacitive tutorials that look pretty good. Some mimic the pogo design and others don't. Here are a few:

# Answer
> 1 votes
I remember seeing someone do tests on the accuracy of capacitive screens and in reality, they're terribly inaccurate. Unlike resistive screens, a stylus won't make much difference for you. I believe it was said that a fine stylus would provide just as much accuracy as using a hot dog.

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title: How do I run an AIR app on the device?

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# Question
Title: How do I run an AIR app on the device?
I've installed Adobe Air, and I have a few AIR apps that I have built over time and am curious to see how they will look running on the device, but am not clear on how to install them.

I uploaded the app to the phone but clicking on the .air file doesn't provoke an installation process, instead, it just opens the browser and attempts to display it (and fails, obviously).

What to to do?

# Answer
Were the apps developed using Above Air for Android? There seems to be a distinction between the two SDKs. Look at this tutorial for all the info on getting started. Even if some of the info is redundant, it does have a section on deployment to the phone.
> 4 votes

# Answer
*Here's an answer for regular end users who happen upon this question because they are confused about the whole "Air" thing, wondering "how to install and adobe air based app?"*

If you phone doesn't already have it installed, get the Adobe Air app. Now you can download and install any of the apps that are based on Adobe Air. There's really not a lot to it for end users. Even if you don't install the Adobe Air app and you try to install an Air based app, it will automatically direct you to install Adobe Air.
> 3 votes

# Answer
Here's a video that shows how to turn an air app into into an apk file. I'm not a dev so I have no idea what he's talking about but it sounds like what you want to do so it may help.
> 2 votes

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# Question
Title: How do i make a new album in the HTC Photos application?
I have an HTC Hero (with the Android 2.1 update). For the longest time, I've wanted to create new albums in the Photos application and can't for the life of me figure out how to do it. It has a bunch of default albums like "My Favroties" "All photos" and such. I just want to create my own albums so I can organize some pictures, like an album of all the pictures of my ridiculously cute niece. Anyone know how to do that? Or can suggest a better photo management application for Android 2.1?

# Answer
> 2 votes
It's actually quite simple just hard to figure out.

1. Install a file manager app (Astro, inKa File Manager)
2. Using a file manager app navigate to **sdcard \> media** folder
3. Create a new folder

Place all your photos into that newly created folder. It may take some time but eventually the new photo album will appear inside HTC's Gallery app.

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# Question
Title: Is there anyway to connect to a WPA Enterprise Wi-Fi network with version 1.5 on a Motorola Backflip?
The only available security options when adding an new Wi-Fi network are:

* None
* WEP
* WPA Personal
* WPA2 Personal

I was hoping to connect to WPA Enterprise either by getting it added to the list, or finding a workaround/hack to do so.

# Answer
> 2 votes
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=1386

Short story; Android uses wpa\_supplicant for its WPA support, so it can connect to WPA Enterprise, however the configuration app lacks the UI to configure wpa\_supplicant for WPA Enterprise.

As a workaround, you can configure wpa\_supplicant configuration files manually, try this: http://waipeng.blogspot.com/2009/08/howto-wpa-enterprise-on-android-htc.html

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# Question
Title: Every time I plug in my phone via USB it automatically mounts the SD card
I have a Motorla Droid running CM6 (essentially Android 2.2). I'm connecting to Windows 7 machines via USB. Every time I plug in my phone via USB it automatically mounts the SD card as external storage.

How can I stop this behavior? I haven't really noticed when it started, sometime after I installed CM6?

# Answer
> 7 votes
Apparently the Winamp app has an `Enable auto-mount` setting that is by default set to true. Problem resolved.

# Answer
> 0 votes
While connected via USB, you will notice a USB icon on notification bar.

Drag the notification bar down, you will see a "USB connection" item. Click it.

Select "none" or "nothing" (I'm not sure about the option name in english, because my Motorola Milestone is in portuguese).

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# Question
Title: Force volume buttons to always change Media Volume
I want my phone to be on "Vibrate" mode about 99% of the time. I've found that every time I hit the volume buttons on the side of my Evo, it's either accidental (and I don't want the phone to either go silent mode or ringer mode), or I was trying to control the media volume.

Is there a way to force the phone into interpreting every volume button press as a media volume change, and not a ringer volume change?

# Answer
There is no setting for this as I'm sure you know. The only way l see this working is if you potentially write an app to capture all volume button changes and then act on the changes from within the app.

You could potentially use **registerMediaButtonEventReceiver** to register your app as a BroadcastReceiver for all media button calls. I say potentially because I'm not 100% sure if this BroadcastReceiver will handle these Intents since I'm purely looking at documentation and haven't actually tried this myself.
> 4 votes

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# Question
Title: How can I force the Sense UI home screen on my Evo to landscape?
I have an Evo running with very default settings. How can I force the home screen (Which I believe to be running Sense UI if I'm not confused) to be in landscape format. I use my kickstand all the time, and it's a pain to tilt my head to look at the home screen.

# Answer
The factory implementation doesn't support landscape. (When you configure the background, you get a hint about this from the dimensions of the image).

Lanscape mode would require a custom ROM.
> 5 votes

# Answer
I know you mentioned Sense UI but you could use **LauncherPro** which has the ability to auto-rotate the homescreen. Personally I believe LauncherPro is a far better implemented launcher than Sense.

If you purchase **LauncherPro Plus** you'll get 90% of the Sense UI widgets anyway but also you'll get an increase in speed and stability.

LauncherPro:
> 3 votes

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# Question
Title: Will the HTC Desire HD have superior hardware than the Samsung Galaxy S?
I'm thinking about ditching my iPhone and going Android, so far the best contenders are the HTC Desire HD and the Samsung, which one has superior hardware specifications?

# Answer
It really depends what you mean by superior. The Desire HD will be basically the same as the existing Desire but with a 4.3" screen and will have the same amount of internal storage as the Galaxy S.

The Desire HD will have 768 MB of RAM instead of 512 MB on the Galaxy S.

But the Desire HD will have the same Snapdragon processor as the old Desire, whereas the Galaxy S has the superior Hummingbird.

However, the Desire HD will have a 8 MP camera whereas the Galaxy S only has 5 MP, and the Desire HD has dual LED camera flash whereas some of the Galaxy S phones don't have a flash at all.

That sums up the major differences, and personally I'd lean toward the Desire HD, but you should compare for yourself and see what better fits your needs:
> 7 votes

# Answer
I chose the Desire HD over the Galaxy for a couple of fairly qualitative unscientific reasons.

1. I've had good experience with other HTC android phones (I adored my HTC magic).
2. To my eyes at least, the Samsung Galaxy has been styled to look just like an iPhone 3g. If I wanted something that looked like an iPhone, I'd get an iPhone.

On a more scientific level. As has been mentioned, while the Desire HD is still clocked at 1Ghz, it's snapdragon is the latest revision, made with the smaller process than the old Desire, and with the improved graphics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapdragon\_%28processor%29

The screen on the desire is also bigger (and to my eyes awesome), but most reviews I've read say the colour and sharpness of the Galaxy is better. The Desire HD is also a big package overall, it may be a little too large for some pockets, I don't know how much more comact (if any) the galaxy is.
> 3 votes

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# Question
Title: Android 2.2 (froyo) update available or not for myTouch Slide?
> **Possible Duplicate:**
> When will my phone get Android 2.2 (FroYo)?

I haven't been able to keep up with the update calendars. But I did some google searches to find if the froyo update is available for T-Mobile's myTouch Slide. I heard the update was going to be live for most HTC devices around august but it's been awhile and I haven't gotten the update. Anyone know what I should do about this? Is it available? If so, can I install it manually?

# Answer
> 1 votes
According to rumor, Mid October. However, I'm not the guy at that link. I won't swear to it but it's something to hope for

# Answer
> 0 votes
There's support for the myTouch Slide since CyanogenMod 6 which is Froyo-based, CyanogenMod Wiki.

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# Question
Title: Android phone can't access anything through VPN on my Windows PC
I have a Galaxy S (Android 2.1 Update 1), and a Windows 7 Pro machine configured to allow incoming connections (i.e the built-in PPTP VPN functionality).

I can establish a VPN connection to the laptop from the phone however I can't ping it or access a simple HTTP service running on 8081. Windows Firewall doesn't seem to be the issue as it doesn't work with it turned off either. It makes no difference if I use my house Wifi or disable that on the phone and connect via the phone's broadband connection.

I notice via IPCONFIG on the laptop that the subnet for the phone's RAS connection is 255.255.255.255 whereas the network is 255.255.255.0 - could this be a problem?

# Answer
> 1 votes
It was a configuration issue on the program listening on port 80 on the laptop end.

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# Question
Title: Do you still see ads even if your phone is offline?
An uncle of mine refuses to use the free version of Astro File Manager, because he dislikes ads.

I told him to just leave his 3G off (he only uses it on demand anyway) and he shouldn't see them anyway, as my expectation was that they couldn't be downloaded.

But is this really true? I tried it with Angry Birds and after turning off 3G, I no longer saw any ads, but is this possible?

# Answer
Most ads require internet access. If you remove the internet access, then it shouldn't load the ads (unless they are somehow cached?).

If he really, really, really wants to get rid of ads all together, you can install the AdFree app on rooted phones. It will remove ads from the browser, from apps, etc. Anything that is in its blacklist will refuse to load.

However, developers do try to make a living and often provide their apps for free at the cost of a little advertising. You may also want to try and explain this to him and if he really likes the app he can support the developer further by purchasing the full (ad free) version. No money, no developers.
> 7 votes

# Answer
I expect that this is going to depend on the ad network. What you've seen apparently works on AdMob, but as to whether other ad networks will require a connection or will display cached ads, I couldn't say.

By the way, Astro File Manager Pro (no ads) is only $3.99.
> 2 votes

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# Question
Title: How can I see in the App store whether I am working secure
I wanted to buy some small application from the app store, it asked for my credit card information, but I was unsure whether we were working in secure mode.

How can you see, during payment, whether your are working in secure mode or not ? (like the green colour in Internet Explorer).

# Answer
> 2 votes
Assuming you were purchasing through Android Market (App Store is iPhone), credit card payments are handled by Google Checkout. (More info: http://market.android.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=105916 )

Google Checkout API is secure even though you won't see an HTTPS indicator like you would for SSL-enabled sites in a web browser (e.g. the green location bar in Internet Explorer).

# Answer
> 0 votes
No one is answering my question here ... so I presume it simply is not possible to view whether you are using a secure connection of not.

In this age, this is a great oversight, in my opinion.

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title: How can I replace HTC Sense?

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# Question
Title: How can I replace HTC Sense?
I saw not using HTC Sense as a power-saving tip on another question, but I just wanted to know what the easiest way to replace HTC Sense is and what it requires me to do?

Do I lose all my widgets too or will it mostly change the way my Home screen looks?

Edit: I don't need HTC Sense to disappear completely from my phone or need to root it. I'm just curious how I would go about replacing HTC Sense with another application launcher.

# Answer
> 6 votes
To replace HTC Sense completely you will have to root your phone and replace the ROM completely. Please see this post for more information: How do I root my Android device?

If on the other hand you're looking at replacing your homescreen/launcher then there are plenty of options.

I personally have LauncherPro and have upgraded to the Plus version. The Plus version has 90% of the widgets Sense UI has but is in my opinion far quicker, more stable and has way more features.

*NB: I don't believe any of these Launchers allow you to utilise the widgets from Sense UI.*

EDIT: Just to answer your comment. LauncherPro is an app you can download and install from the Android Market. Once installed clicking the Home button will prompt you to select which launcher you'd like to use (either LauncherPro or Sense UI). All you would do from there is check the "Default" checkbox and select LauncherPro.

# Answer
> 1 votes
Essentially those are what we call "home" replacements. You have the stock android home, or HTC's custom Sense home (or \[insert manufacturer's custom home here\]) that come with your device. But you can go on the market and download another one like LauncherPro or Helixlauncher or ADW launcher.

Usually people use these for additional features the stock home doesn't have, such as more screens, more icons on the screens or app drawer, or advanced memory management, special widgets, etc. (LauncherPro).

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title: Phantom Multimedia Message

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# Question
Title: Phantom Multimedia Message
At regular, though infrequent, intervals I receive a multi media message in my inbox from 'δ@' which has no content. The message is completely blank. I do not have such a contact and I receive mmms so little that I'm sure it cannot actually be a real message from someone I know.

I have a HTC Desire with Android 2.2 on Orange (UK).

What is this and what can I do about it?

# Answer
You should be able to long-press on the text, and select View Message Details, this should give you the actual phone number it was sent from.

With this in hand you can go through your phone book and double-check that it's not anyone you know.

If it's not then you should be able to contact your service provider and ask them to block messages from that number. Also, many automated text services that use short message codes to send are set to remove you from their list if you reply with just the word `STOP` in a text message.
> 1 votes

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# Question
Title: What is involved in installing Android onto a device?
I just picked up a Viewsonic G-Tablet. It's got killer hardware specs and is running Android 2.2 but it's barely usable because of this terrible TapUI that's crippling the device. I have been following a thread at the XDA forums where users are attempting to root it and get a custom ROM installed, but I'm wondering how hard it is to just wipe it clean and get the stock Android 2.2 running on it. The people who have rooted and blocked most of the TapUI report losing access to their settings, which I guess is heavily integrated into the TapUI.

Is the problem that Android 2.2 doesn't support specific hardware and someone needs to create a ROM with all the necessary drivers?

# Answer
> 6 votes
Basically you have to compile Android for that device with its drivers. Example of compilation process. An older example from the official dev site for building 1.6 for the G1.

Devices like the N1 and G1 (Dev phones) let you easily put these images on your phone after compilation, because that is what they were made for (unlockable and hackable). I believe their drivers are in the official Android source (I could be wrong, but they are easily available).

All other devices don't come unlocked, so first you have to unlock (root) your phone to be able to write anything else to it.

I've never compiled Android or a ROM, so I can't give you much more details than this. Essentially there are proprietary binaries (the drivers) that are also needed for each specific Android phone in order to get it to run on that device. So you either have to get those drivers from the vendor or write them yourself.

# Answer
> 5 votes
It is up to the manufacturer of the device to provide the appropriate and functional drivers for any hardware on their device. Unfortunately, many of them also like to add their own UI (often poorly designed and implemented). This is the case with the TapUI from all I've heard. This is not a problem with Android. It's a problem with Viewsonic.

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# Question
Title: Wipe and re-install Android 2.2 on Droid2?
I used to have a Motorola Droid, and I loved it because it was barebones Android, none of that flashy aftermarket crap they put on it to make it appeal more to consumers. No, I like my android plain, how it comes straight from Google.

So I was slightly disappointed to find out that with the Motorola Droid2, Motorola installed their own flavor of Android with a bunch of extra shit that I don't want.

So my question to you is, is it possible for me to wipe out and re-install a base Android 2.2 on my device? Will there be any problems? If this is possible, a link to a tutorial or better yet, step-by-step instructions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

# Answer
> 1 votes
I ended up figuring it out, but it took a lot of research and time. Here's what I did, probably not exactly like this since it took me a few tries to get right:

Root your phone.

Download the Koush Bootstrapper/loader and install it onto your phone, via their site or the Android Market.

Go to Team DeFuse's website to download the Fission 2.2 ZIP file. Put this on your SD card somewhere.

Boot into Koush, apply the bootloader patch, and then reboot into the bootloader.

Clear cache/data, mount /data and /system, clear cache/data again, install update, select ZIP file on SD card, once that's done, clear cache/data again, and then reboot.

You should then boot into a fresh install of "vanilla" Froyo Android. No apps. No settings. And best of all, **no Motoblur!**

... I think I got all that right. If I missed something, let me know.

# Answer
> 0 votes
Looks like it is possible. Haven't done it myself, but this looks promising.

It indicates that you need to be rooted and already have Koush’s Droid X Bootstrap Recovery installed, but from there it looks like a matter of simply applying the ROM .zip file from Recovery.

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# Question
Title: Anyone knows of way to compare your mobile with a 'standard' installation set?
I have a **Samsung Galaxy S** mobile phone, running **Android 2.1**, and am very pleased with it (can't compare though, since it's my first device with Android).

When I had some problem with the installed Facebook application, and got some answers here fro the site, it seemed that I was using a 'Facebook S!' application and not the 'standard' Facebook for Android.

I was just wondering just now: **is there a way to compare an Android on your device with a standard installation ?** I , for one , would like know that applications have been written by my mobile manufacturor and my mobile operator, and which are standard.

# Answer
> 2 votes
It's not an absolute answer, but if you go into Settings, Applications, Manage Applications. Then press Menu, select Filter, and make sure that Third-party is selected. Anything in that list didn't get onto your phone as part of the standard Android install. They've either been added by your phone manufacturer, your phone network, or yourself.

Unfortunately some standard Android apps show up in that list, if you've updated them from the market (like Google Maps) and a lot of manufacturer added apps don't show up.

I've got a Galaxy S too, but had a HTC Magic running stock Android before. Apps that I've spotted as obviously being modified/added by Samsung are the Music Player app, Camera app, Contacts App, Clock app, Daily Briefing, FM Radio, Video PlayerMemo, Mini Diary, My Files, Samsung Apps (and everything listed in there), Social hub, Voice Recorder, Task Manager. Also a lot of the "Look and feel" of the phone, including the way the 7 home screens, and the Applications screens work has been added as part of Samsung's Touch Wiz interface.

TL;DR Galaxy S has a lot of custom apps, easiest way to compare is probably actually to find someone with a stock phone (like a Nexus One) and directly compare.

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# Question
Title: Does HTC Sync work well with Thunderbird?
As I no longer have access to Outlook, I have to look for alternatives for managing mail, agenda's and contacts.

My first guess would be Thunderbird, but I wonder how well this syncs with HTC Sync as I never had any trouble setting it up with Outlook, I would prefer that it stayed that way.

So does anyone have any experience with syncing their Android phone through Thunderbird?

# Answer
I'd recommend, rather, using Thunderbird as an IMAP client with the Google Contacts and Lightning add-ons ( http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/7307 and http://mozilla.org/projects/calendar). You should be able to manage your contacts and calendar in Thunderbird and sync with Google. So then your Thunderbird and phone will each synchronize to and from Google.
> 6 votes

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title: Prevent Browser From Obscuring Page

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# Question
Title: Prevent Browser From Obscuring Page
The default browser (at least on HTC Sense) has this annoying habit of sliding the address bar down over the top portions of websites while the page is loading. After the page loads, the address bar is still there but it doesn't cover anything anymore. This is particularly annoying on sites like stackoverflow where it perfectly covers the top navigation area. Any way to make it stop?

More Information:

I wasn't aware of this before but this behavior is due to the fact that the phone's status bar decides to make itself visible while a page is loading. The amount of page covered is equal to the height of the status bar. This has to be a bug. Either the status bar isn't supposed to become visible or the height calculations don't take it into account -- the page needs to be shifted down by address\_bar\_height + status\_bar\_height.

# Answer
Not a solution for this problems specifically, but have you tried using StackMobile? It's a mobile-friendly ubersite for all Stack Exchange sites.
> 2 votes

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# Question
Title: Droid Incredible - Gmail Push - Can I add my hosted Email address to Gmail on my Droid?
I have an Adroid phone and want to set it up to sync with my business email account. My account is hosted on my own domain, but we use email "provided by gmail" (gmail interface, connected to my domain).

Question: can I just add this as a normal gmail account on my Droid? I tried this and my username and password don't work (which makes sense, b/c I don't have a real gmail/google account). Or, do I need to add it as a generic POP or IMAP account? If so, will push still work?

# Answer
When you add your email account through the Gmail app (Menu → Accounts → Add account), you'll usually need to use your full email address for the "username", rather than just your internal username.

In addition, if your company uses single sign-on for Google Apps (that is, if the login page for your business Gmail is **not** on google.com and doesn't look like the Gmail login page), you may need to set up a separate password for accessing Gmail from a non-web interface. For this you'll need to talk to your IT department.
> 2 votes

# Answer
Google apps has special setup (expand the "hidden" section for Android) -- not hard at all, though. I've set it up in more than one app as I try them out:

> To configure the 'Email' app on an Android device for access to Google Apps email, just follow the steps below:
>
> 1. Enable IMAP in your Mail settings.
> 2. On your phone, press \< Home \>, then open the Email application.
> 3. On the 'Your accounts' page, select Next to get started with setup.
> 4. Enter your full Google Apps email address and password, then select Next.
> 5. Select IMAP account and then select Next.
>
> On the 'Incoming server settings' page, some fields may be pre-populated. Make sure to change the following:
> 6. For 'Username,' enter your full Google Apps email address
> 7. For 'IMAP server,' enter 'imap.gmail.com'
> 8. For 'Port,' enter '993'
> 9. For 'Security type,' select 'SSL (always)''
>
> 1. Select Next.
>
>     On the 'Outgoing server settings' page, some fields may be pre-populated. Make sure to change the following:
>     2. For 'SMTP server' enter 'smtp.gmail.com'
>     3. For 'Port,' enter '465'
>     4. For 'Security type,' select 'SSL (always)''
>     5. Select Next and continue through the setup options.
> 2 votes

# Answer
Try opening the Gmail app, then hit menu and click "Accounts". Try to add your account this way. If that doesn't work then you will need to use the Mail app and add the account as pop or imap.
> 0 votes

# Answer
You should be able to add your business email (and calendar) as an additional Google account (I have with mine) - obviously making sure you enter your full email address including your company domain. If this is not working then speak to your domain admin in case they have locked down mobile access somehow :o/
> 0 votes

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Tags: email, gmail, htc-droid-incredible
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# Question
Title: Is it possible to export my Google Listen Status?
I am playing with the idea of switching from a rooted stock Froyo ROM on my Droid to a Cyanogen ROM, and one of the things that is holding me back is the Google Listen status.

I want to be able to preserve the contents of my queue, and, if possible, the last stopped point on any episodes in the queue. It would also be great if I didn't have to re-download all of the episodes in my queue (I prefer to download them in advance, when I am on wifi, rather than stream them). If I have to re-download, that isn't a big deal, but it would be nice if I could skip this.

Is this possible? This seems to be the only thing that does not live in the cloud (at least that affects me).

# Answer
> 3 votes
I would suggest using a utility such as TitaniumBackup to completely back-up all your applications **and** your data. It will be stored on your SD card so that you can restore them all after you've installed your new ROM, and you wouldn't even notice that it was gone.

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Tags: settings, cyanogenmod
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# Question
Title: Can a Dream's camera really zoom from the camera app?
I upgraded my HTC Dream to CM6.1, and the camera app now has a zoom option. Is this a real zoom, or just a digital blow-up of the image? I'm guessing the latter.

# Answer
> 5 votes
There is no mention of physical zoom on the HTC Dream specification page. (To my knowledge no Android camera has that.)

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Tags: camera, htc-dream, zooming
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# Question
Title: App Installation Fails Every Time
My wife uses a Droid (first gen) running v2.2, and in the past month or so she can no longer download or update apps from the Market. We've tried rebooting the phone without any luck. The phone has internal storage available, so I don't believe that's an issue. Please help!

# Answer
> 2 votes
If she is rooted, try the following here.

Otherwise, does long pressing on the download --\> cancel, then re-starting the install work?

# Answer
> 0 votes
If all else fails do a factory reset: http://www.ehow.com/i/#article\_5634169

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Tags: google-play-store, 2.2-froyo, installation
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# Question
Title: What is the correct format/resolutoin for videos on an HTC Wildfire?
i currently own a HTC Wildfire. I am well aware of its "lower" CPU speed than its HTC brothers, nevertheless, it is a great phone and I'm very happy with it.

I tried putting a mp4/m4p video (around 330mb) and the built-in video player crashed.

Can anyone guide me on the correct format/resolution I can use on this phone? Additionally, if I do have to convert an existing video, what software do I use?

I appreciate all inputs, thanks!

# Answer
sorry, haven't updated this in a while. Since i was only using the free 2GB MicroSD bundled with the phone, this was causing the problem. so I purchased a 16GB, this fixed the issue. thanks!
> 0 votes

# Answer
Have you tried using VPlayer? It should handle any mp4, avi, divx, etc. video that you throw at it, without the need of converting it.
> 0 votes

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Tags: 2.2-froyo, video, htc-wildfire
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