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Lyphen said:
So, I've been trying to fiddle around with GBCoid, and I can't seem to get it set up the way I'd like. Is there any way to get it like this? Or another Emulator that could do something similar?
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I can do that with Gameboid Lite, to use the hardware pad instead. Double check around the options, it should be there if it comes from the same dev. The option is called "Screen upside-down" and you have to combine it with "Orientation -> Landscape"
 
kaching said:
I don't think you're missing anything. I've tried everything I can think of there too. They just seem to be unassigned, just keeping the overall grid layout because they had some overflow from the first page of icons.
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It's probably buried in this thread by now, but I released Custom Car Home awhile back for this very reason. It's on the Market. The normal Car Home sucks pretty bad, and 2.2 having those extra spaces was a pretty weird idea.
 
beje said:
I can do that with Gameboid Lite, to use the hardware pad instead. Double check around the options, it should be there if it comes from the same dev. The option is called "Screen upside-down" and you have to combine it with "Orientation -> Landscape"
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Thanks! I looked around a bit more and found out how to hide the D-Pad. Still can't align the screen to the top though.
 
BigFwoosh said:
It's probably buried in this thread by now, but I released Custom Car Home awhile back for this very reason. It's on the Market. The normal Car Home sucks pretty bad, and 2.2 having those extra spaces was a pretty weird idea.
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Cool, ill check it out.
 
Anyone have a good app for podcasts? I would like to be able to enter the feed in an app and it will check for new shows periodically and when there is one I can download it right to the phone.
 
Deadly Cyclone said:
Anyone have a good app for podcasts? I would like to be able to enter the feed in an app and it will check for new shows periodically and when there is one I can download it right to the phone.
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Been using Listen, its pretty good and allows you to manage feeds through google reader
 
BigFwoosh said:
It's probably buried in this thread by now, but I released Custom Car Home awhile back for this very reason. It's on the Market. The normal Car Home sucks pretty bad, and 2.2 having those extra spaces was a pretty weird idea.
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Maybe on the 12th those extra buttons will be filled in? :lol
 
gcubed said:
still no clue as to what they are talking about? Anyone taking bets?
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Most likely Mobile App(s) that are web based, so everyone with a smartphone can use them.
But Android might get some special love in a form of an update to a mobile app (maps perhaps?). Who knows.
 
SimleuqiR said:
Most likely Mobile App(s) that are web based, so everyone with a smartphone can use them.
But Android might get some special love in a form of an update to a mobile app (maps perhaps?). Who knows.
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its going to be like e3, nothing but disappointment. I want their music service, or book service, or something else good.

It'll probably be chromeos
 
Hrm, over time I notice the amount of free memory on my phone will drop from 115 or so to something like 50 - and while that really hasn't given my any noticeable drops in performance yet, it's worrisome. I have to do a hard reset to bring it back up.

Another thing is that even though I have handset sms, the default messaging app will run alongside it, and whenever I turn on the gps on the phone, the default gps app turns itself on. I can't figure out any way to just 'disable' these apps from auto starting, is there anything I can do to fix that?

Galaxy S btw.

Oh one last thing, I am having the annoying problem of only being able to hook up my phone to my computer (or any device) when in the default launcher (not launcher pro) and after installing samsung firmware on the phone, alongside going into kies mode (mass storage mode does nothing :( ).
 
Kinitari said:
Hrm, over time I notice the amount of free memory on my phone will drop from 115 or so to something like 50 - and while that really hasn't given my any noticeable drops in performance yet, it's worrisome. I have to do a hard reset to bring it back up.

Another thing is that even though I have handset sms, the default messaging app will run alongside it, and whenever I turn on the gps on the phone, the default gps app turns itself on. I can't figure out any way to just 'disable' these apps from auto starting, is there anything I can do to fix that?

Galaxy S btw.

Oh one last thing, I am having the annoying problem of only being able to hook up my phone to my computer (or any device) when in the default launcher (not launcher pro) and after installing samsung firmware on the phone, alongside going into kies mode (mass storage mode does nothing :( ).
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Android and Windows are two totally different beasts so you shouldn't view memory allocation in the same way.
 
Jamesfrom818 said:
Android and Windows are two totally different beasts so you shouldn't view memory allocation in the same way.
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Fair enough, I am sort of jumping to conclusions here, as I haven't had any noticeable problems as of yet. Except the connecting to my computer thing :(.
 
So I noticed with my Galaxy S when I plug it into the AUX jack in my car a voice will speak out the song title and artist when I start playing music. Seems to only do this for the first song.. I cant find a setting for this feature, or even knew it existed LOL! Anyone else have this?

On a side note, goddamn I love this phone, its a fucking joy to use. There is the odd stutter here and there but it does not bother me. People at work are just in awe when I show them the screen. I have already potentially swayed two people who were getting Iphone 4s to get a Galaxy S. :lol
 
zedge said:
So I noticed with my Galaxy S when I plug it into the AUX jack in my car a voice will speak out the song title and artist when I start playing music. Seems to only do this for the first song.. I cant find a setting for this feature, or even knew it existed LOL! Anyone else have this?
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It does it to me sometimes randomly to, it's crazy!

On a side note, goddamn I love this phone, its a fucking joy to use. There is the odd stutter here and there but it does not bother me. People at work are just in awe when I show them the screen. I have already potentially swayed two people who were getting Iphone 4s to get a Galaxy S. :lol
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Bitch I've already gotten 2, and there is potential for a few more, this is definitely a great eye-candy phone.
 
Kinitari said:
It does it to me sometimes randomly to, it's crazy!



Bitch I've already gotten 2, and there is potential for a few more, this is definitely a great eye-candy phone.
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:lol

I'm working on it!
 
Cheating is inevitable in Wordfeud, as it's too easy to access some online scrabble cheat website. How else would someone know that "DEFLEA" is a real word. :/

I guess the only way around it is to friend people who clearly do not cheat.
 
Kinda pissed that the Incredible hasent been updated to 2.2, probably because of the Droid 2. Just another clear reason that I will only buy pure stock Android devices from now on.
 
Jamesfrom818 said:
Depsite the bullshit cheating, I'm only down by 20 points. Not too bad if you ask me.

EDIT: Another two letter word!? Jo!? Are you serious?
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Jo is the feminine spelling of Joe. I at least knew that. :)
 
gcubed said:
its going to be like e3, nothing but disappointment. I want their music service, or book service, or something else good.

It'll probably be chromeos
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You might get what you want, or some of it:

http://www.androidguys.com/2010/08/11/google-announce-market-enhancements-tomorrow/

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First, one of our readers tipped us off to the fact that a couple changes are showing up in the Market tonight. In the screenshot on this post, notice the History and Search icons in the suggestions. Those icons were not there earlier today, and as far as we can remember, the suggestions only previously included terms from your Market search history, not general search suggestions.

Delving into the truly speculative, we hope that the Market enhancements announced tomorrow will include a web-based interface and/or media purchases via the Market, both features previewed at Google I/O.
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The might be Market centric, maybe including the Sony gaming platform?
 
SimleuqiR said:
You might get what you want, or some of it:



The might be Market centric, maybe including the Sony gaming platform?
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I noticed the icons earlier today when I was searching. It'd be a nice surprise
 
jayb said:
Jo is the feminine spelling of Joe. I at least knew that. :)
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Which would be good and all, but you're not supposed to be able to use proper nouns. That's one thing I like about wordwise, if you try an invalid word twice, you lose your turn.

And its not really cheap to use two letter words, you're limited to them towards the end of a game sometimes.
 
Chairhome said:
Which would be good and all, but you're not supposed to be able to use proper nouns. That's one thing I like about wordwise, if you try an invalid word twice, you lose your turn.

And its not really cheap to use two letter words, you're limited to them towards the end of a game sometimes.
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He's been using short words the entire game and it ruins the board.
 
Posting this here also in case it's not a Droid X sepcific problem...

I'm trying to find a new texting app but I'm having problems with Handcent and ChompSMS. Handcent won't let me use custom background images for the conversation list and conversations. ChompSMS apparently won't sync up and display facebook profile pictures beside in the conversation list.

Anybody have similar problems/solutions/better apps?
 
So I finally decided to go for LauncherPro Plus for the widget support and general acknowledgement of Fred's amazing work. The calendar isn't as pretty as the stock one, but the widget is infinitely more useful. I'm really happy with it.

The people widget, though, is an issue. It definitely is linking to FB and other information when I click on a contact, but it is not loading pictures of anyone. Does anybody have a clue why that could be? And I haven't fiddled around with the bookmarks and I probably won't too much because I have a browser icon setup on the dock for Dolphin HD.

Speaking of that, I kind of want to give XScope a shot again considering I previously paid for it, but it has been a bit of a mess post-2.2/Flash and Dolphin does give tons of options for customizations... maybe I'll just never really look back.
 
GoldenEye 007 said:
The people widget, though, is an issue. It definitely is linking to FB and other information when I click on a contact, but it is not loading pictures of anyone. Does anybody have a clue why that could be?
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I don't know but I have so many issues with contacts. It could be some of the ROMs I've used, I'm not sure, but it seems like a lot of times, my changes to contacts are not saved. I tried to put in birthdays for a bunch of people and add them to different groups and most of my changes were not saved when done from the phone.

Also, the People widget doesn't show all the people that are in the group I have selected. The People app shows 14 people in my Favorites group but the widget only shows 8. So I just created a new group called Faves and added those same 14 people and they all show up fine in the widget.
 
CrayzeeCarl said:
I don't know but I have so many issues with contacts. It could be some of the ROMs I've used, I'm not sure, but it seems like a lot of times, my changes to contacts are not saved. I tried to put in birthdays for a bunch of people and add them to different groups and most of my changes were not saved when done from the phone.

Also, the People widget doesn't show all the people that are in the group I have selected. The People app shows 14 people in my Favorites group but the widget only shows 8. So I just created a new group called Faves and added those same 14 people and they all show up fine in the widget.
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Contacts have been fine for me.. up until a couple weeks or so ago actually. Whenever I've added someone lately and ensured their name is spelled correctly, pictures or other information have not been syncing with FB. Existing contacts and FB friends update as usual, but lately new additions haven't. But that's another issue from what I just described earlier.

The People Widget from LauncherPro Plus just straight up isn't displaying any pictures, although it displays all contacts it is supposed to.
 
GoldenEye 007 said:
Contacts have been fine for me.. up until a couple weeks or so ago actually. Whenever I've added someone lately and ensured their name is spelled correctly, pictures or other information have not been syncing with FB. Existing contacts and FB friends update as usual, but lately new additions haven't. But that's another issue from what I just described earlier.

The People Widget from LauncherPro Plus just straight up isn't displaying any pictures, although it displays all contacts it is supposed to.
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Come to think of it, some of my contacts are showing their picture and some aren't.
 
CrayzeeCarl said:
Come to think of it, some of my contacts are showing their picture and some aren't.
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Yeah, and I'm seeing that no FB information is syncing to them at all. Pictures, additional information, email addresses.... nothing. Weird.

Edit: Google Calendars sync fine along with getting emails (even though I don't use the default email app), plus Google Voice works fine.
 
http://unrevoked.com/rootwiki/doku.php/public/forever

unrevoked forever is a tool to set your Android phone's security level to S-OFF. The security level is a flag stored on the radio; when the flag is S-OFF, the bootloader (HBOOT) will no longer check the signatures of firmware images before flashing them. This allows custom firmware images to be uploaded, including unsigned boot, recovery, splash1, and hboot images (as well as official images that have been modified). When the system is S-OFF, the NAND flash memory protection is also reduced; this allows all partitions (including /system) to be written to while the operating system is booted.

The most substantial benefit of unrevoked forever is that the change is stored in the radio's NV memory; no ENG bootloader is necessary to continue to flash firmware images. Even if an “unrootable” OTA update is accepted, a device on which unrevoked forever has been run will still be able to reflash a custom recovery image.
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Only available on the Droid Incredible and EVO 4G right now.
 
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