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**Make Photo's invible, so know one esle can see them**

is there any software that will make my Pictures in my phone (that I don't want anyone esle to see), invisble and or hide them....

You could hide them. Use a file explorer with a little more functions than the embedded one and well.. hide them. Use resco or total commander (free) choose the file and change the file attributes to hidden. It is not hard to find hidden files, but it might be good enough.
Strange request btw.

chribruu said:
Strange request btw.
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LOL, My son just went through my phone and saw something, that I think he will be sick when he sees his mom............I thought I had them hidden in different folder...He was trying to find my ringtones..........and he found something esle....

Bwaaahahaha

gsessons said:
LOL, My son just went through my phone and saw something, that I think he will be sick when he sees his mom............I thought I had them hidden in different folder...He was trying to find my ringtones..........and I found something esle....
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Ouch! I understand now. Edited my post to add a little more.

chribruu said:
You could hide them. Use a file explorer with a little more functions than the embedded one and well.. hide them. Use resco or total commander (free) choose the file and change the file attributes to hidden. It is not hard to find hidden files, but it might be good enough.
Strange request btw.
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Thank You and Thank You, now I can be safe or should I say him........

that will be an interesting dinner

OK I can joke about it now,,,,,,,,,,
"Honey pass my the buns, and oil so i can eat the salad"

ok now you just took it too far

gsessons said:
LOL, My son just went through my phone and saw something, that I think he will be sick when he sees his mom............I thought I had them hidden in different folder...He was trying to find my ringtones..........and he found something esle....
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I couldnt stop laughing when i saw your comment. Lol My GF photos are well kept from curious eyes

If you want to 100% hide photos, videos, documents you should try Best Crypto
www.smartphoneware.com/crypto-for-windows-mobile-product.php

Maybe someone should make a program to hide files and photos or somehow password protect them, most software encrypts which creates the time consuming hassle of decrypting when you need to access them, somehow be able to access with a single password that opends the folder for viewing.
Im very surprised it isnt intergrated into an image viewer (Splash Photo does it somewhat)

Hiding folders created by apps?

Hi guys,
I know this is an issue for many alike myself, I HATE how some android apps and the system automatically create folder on the SDcard (tmp, LOST.DIR, albumthumbs, adobe etc) and even worse have stupid names for some of them. Im quite the perfectionist so i really would like to have them gone (hidden) or at least renamed. As hiding them is the easier option I want to know if this is even possible?
I've tried mounting my SDcard and changing those files to hidden, but in Android they still display. I've tried the '.' method of hiding but this causes errors for some apps as the folders aren't being located correctly.
I've searched around with no solution as of yet so if anybody has a way please let us know.
no stupid comments about hiding your porn and **** please.

I hate to not be any help, but I would also like a way to do this.
I hate looking into my SD card and seeing a bunch of random sh!t.
so bump i guess

Even though it don't bother me i don't understand why developers don't do like linux apps and use /sdcard/.twidroid type of folder?

This drives me insane as well. Unfortunately there isn't much you can do about it. This is on the developers of the apps to fix.

Does Google actually recommend a specific folder to put these files, something like .config or .cache like in Linux?

It would have been so easier if all these folder went inside a single folder like program files .. I m too frustated bocs these app folders

They recommend /Android/data/<package_name>/files/
see: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/data-storage.html#filesExternal
One option is to override what the below two routines return. (AOSP code)
getExternalStorageDirectory() and
getExternalFilesDir()
i.e. set it to /sdcard/data/
ps: I remember asking this a year ago, still bugs me that nobody has done it yet.

suhas_sm said:
It would have been so easier if all these folder went inside a single folder like program files .. I m too frustated bocs these app folders
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+1 This would be a good idea.

Editing Shortcut names

Is there a way to edit the names of the Shortcuts on Home screen with the default Home Launcher? For example, I'd like to change "Dolphin HD Browser" to just "Dolphin". I don't like seeing the names being cut off.

I'm sure the information is around somewhere and I am also guessing the device would need to be rooted to do the job as well. Wish is was as simple as it was on WinMo 6.5 but it probably isn't.

Nope doesn't need root, simply install Folder Organizer, the app ownz by allowing you to put your apps in folders like iOS and also gives you easy way to rename the icons, uninstall the apps, etc

darkonex said:
Nope doesn't need root, simply install Folder Organizer, the app ownz by allowing you to put your apps in folders like iOS and also gives you easy way to rename the icons, uninstall the apps, etc
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Thanks, got it working.
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Love folder organizer. Bought the paid version, works very well!

darkonex said:
Nope doesn't need root, simply install Folder Organizer, the app ownz by allowing you to put your apps in folders like iOS and also gives you easy way to rename the icons, uninstall the apps, etc
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Nice, Thanks for the tip. Installin now...

I use desktop visualizer to rename shortcuts. Plus it's able to set custom icons too. Somewhat similar to folder organizer but it can't organize apps.

Custom Watch Faces for Motoactv watch

To make a custom watch face you need to create your own images, an xml file to document the face layout, and a thumbnail image.
The main folder is in /system/clockfaces and stores your pngs and homeclock.xml file. You can either reuse pngs from other watch faces, edit existing ones, or create new ones from scratch.
The thumbnails are stored in /system/clockthumbnails/"color"thumbnails/"clockface_name".png. For instance /system/clockthumbnails/bluethumbnails/Disks.png
The homeclock.xml file has a predefined layout and all you need to do is fill it out. This is very much a trial and error process until you learn the x/y coordinate grid of the screen. I have attached a template xml file for you to use below. Remember to change the file format from txt to xml; I cant upload xml files. You can open the file in any text editor. The file has two main sections, a clock section and a live data section that displays your metrics. Leave settings blank if you do not want them enabled. I am still exploring all the possible settings so if you find any problems or discover any new commands please share.
When I get home I will zip up the watch faces I made and upload them. If you have any requests for custom faces just upload the pngs and I will make them for you.

This looks great so far I will keep checking back.
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camaro1173 said:
This looks great so far I will keep checking back.
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Subscribed to thead, very excited to see what you've got cooking here

Any chance you can post what you have done so far? Even just one new face would be amazing. I REALLY want to see some custom faces on this thing.

I have not forgotten about this, just distracted trying to get search to work and if possible, although highly unlikely, port google offline voice search from JB. It would be nice if I could just speak and not have to worry about using a tiny keyboard.

Dumb question but I can't view that folder when I plug my Motoactv in. (PC) what am I doing wrong? I'll def create some cool watch faces and post them here once I get this going.

Ke1evraTi said:
I have not forgotten about this, just distracted trying to get search to work and if possible, although highly unlikely, port google offline voice search from JB. It would be nice if I could just speak and not have to worry about using a tiny keyboard.
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wow that would be unreal! hope you are able to port voice to text over from JB. Thanks so much for your hard work!

lordscipio said:
wow that would be unreal! hope you are able to port voice to text over from JB. Thanks so much for your hard work!
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Dont get your hopes up. People are having a hard enough time trying to port this to 4.0. Early feedback seems to suggest that it is really baked in to the core of the OS but we will see. If a working ICS port pops up I will give it a shot.

BlueArchAngel said:
Dumb question but I can't view that folder when I plug my Motoactv in. (PC) what am I doing wrong? I'll def create some cool watch faces and post them here once I get this going.
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The files are on the watch itself, not on the sd card. You can either use a root browser and copy the files from /system to the sd card, use adb to pull the files, or just download a zipped rom and extracting. If you go to the motoactv wiki page and download ClearD's rom you can just unzip files and grab the watch faces from /system.

I followed the XML and successfully changed the clock face, but the font style still cannot be changed. In the XML it states <font> is the tag to describe the font style but I believed it's not. Any idea? Any help would be appreciated . Thx!

NEED CUSTOM WATCH FACES.... NEED
lol sorry bro, so excited. I'll take anything you have.

chanwinghoi said:
I followed the XML and successfully changed the clock face, but the font style still cannot be changed. In the XML it states <font> is the tag to describe the font style but I believed it's not. Any idea? Any help would be appreciated . Thx!
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I need some more info. What are you trying to change (Hours, Minutes, Cal, Steps, etc)? What font are you using? Is it in your font library?

Is there anyway to take the files you are creating and put them on the "ClockFaces" folder that is on the same drive it saves the mp3s and everything?
My point is because I see there's this clockfaces folder and right now I don't want to root my watch. If it's possible to load from there, I'd ask you guys a template so I can make some more faces and distribute over here...
Thanks

xnes said:
Is there anyway to take the files you are creating and put them on the "ClockFaces" folder that is on the same drive it saves the mp3s and everything?
My point is because I see there's this clockfaces folder and right now I don't want to root my watch. If it's possible to load from there, I'd ask you guys a template so I can make some more faces and distribute over here...
Thanks
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I saw the folder too but never tried anything. I actually got rid of my macbook pro two weeks ago and my samsung series 9 does not arrive until tomorrow so its been hard for me to get anything done. Hopefully I will try to get something up tomorrow but no promises.

I'm messing with the clockfaces folder now and trying to put my own and add extra folders and I'm not getting anywhere
I'll mess with it a little more later today. But seems like they don't want to show up unfortunately :/
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WinDroidGuy said:
I'm messing with the clockfaces folder now and trying to put my own and add extra folders and I'm not getting anywhere
I'll mess with it a little more later today. But seems like they don't want to show up unfortunately :/
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You need to have a clock face and a thumbnail for anything to show up.

Ke1evraTi said:
You need to have a clock face and a thumbnail for anything to show up.
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I'm not rooted yet, so I was just trying to mess with it without root.
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WinDroidGuy said:
I'm not rooted yet, so I was just trying to mess with it without root.
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I understand. I'm at work so I cant pull up the contents of the sd card. Those the clockfaces folder on the sd card have a subfolder for thumbnails?

Ke1evraTi said:
I understand. I'm at work so I cant pull up the contents of the sd card. Those the clockfaces folder on the sd card have a subfolder for thumbnails?
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The clockfaces folder on the sdcard is just that, a folder and nothing is inside it

I just quickly made this so dont expect it to be pretty. Unzip CMClock and put it in the clockfaces folder. The CMClock.png goes in /clockthumbnails/bluethumbnails. Try creating these subfolders on the sd card and let me know if it works.
You should set your watch to use the blue/ice theme. You may also have to enable 24hr time; I have not tested it with 12hr time.

Question about Gallery showing unintended files

So when I open the gallery app it appears as if it's scanning all folders on my entire SD card and showing an images that lies in any folder or subfolder....? How do I stop this...? I only want it to show 'pictures' pictures that I take... Is there any way to select what folders gallery displays?

Isn't there like some kind of naming system you can use...
Oh here we go.
http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-20072405-285/how-to-hide-photos-on-android/
I know that would be a bit tedious... but that's the best I can think of for now.

SefEXE said:
Isn't there like some kind of naming system you can use...
Oh here we go.
http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-20072405-285/how-to-hide-photos-on-android/
I know that would be a bit tedious... but that's the best I can think of for now.
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Thanks for the tip. I know on a file level this can be done (this is *nix based so appending a . for hiding folders is common) however I was really looking for a more elegant solution... maybe something even built into settings or the gallery that I hadn't seen before that allows you to set which folders are your picture folders. The method of putting a . in front of the folder name means that many applications that NEED that data would also not be able to read it either. For example .mymusic where I would store music and by association album art which I would not want to show up in gallery. If music players didn't have the ability to scan hidden folders (many don't and why would they need that?) then I would not be able to use that music player. This seems a bit ridiculous to me seeing as Android is touted so much as the most advanced mobile OS in the world... something as basic as setting media type/folders/locations shouldn't be something that users should have to hack around to fix... It's a bit annoying to say the least. I have like 40 folders showing up in gallery consisting of album art, icons I've downloaded, other files I've downloaded for work that happen to contain images in them etc... That should not be showing up in my 'photo' gallery.
If there are any other suggestions I would really appreciate some more input on the best way to fix this.

IIRC you can put a .nomedia file in a folder to prevent the gallery from scanning files in that folder, but that might still run into the problem of interfering with other applications. Also, some applications seem to ignore the .nomedia request...

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If there are any other suggestions I would really appreciate some more input on the best way to fix this.
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Second best thing I can think of is what developers have been doing since Android came out, probably.
Find(or make) a replacement app that does what the basic gallery can do, but with more bells and whistles. :silly:
I know there's a few out there. There's got to be one that does what you're saying. I have a few extra folders that display images... A few album covers, extracted winrars... But it's not as bad as it is for you.
Sorry I'm not too helpful, but I try to chime in where I can.

I just use Solid Explorer to put a .nomedia file in the folder. Gets all the images I've downloaded from Tapatalk out of my gallery.
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Thanks everyone for the suggestions, I've resorted to just using the .nomedia file in all the folders. I realized recently though that this presents some unique challenges for music/audio/ringtones etc... however. oh well, can't get everything you want I guess. You would think that an OS as advanced as Android would have a better way of handling such a common occurrence....

itpromike said:
Thanks everyone for the suggestions, I've resorted to just using the .nomedia file in all the folders. I realized recently though that this presents some unique challenges for music/audio/ringtones etc... however. oh well, can't get everything you want I guess. You would think that an OS as advanced as Android would have a better way of handling such a common occurrence....
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Have you tried quickpic? There might be an option in there, not sure as I've never used it. It also doesn't integrate with the stock camera app well.
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Have you thought about hiding in the pictures in a vault app? If it's only specific pictures you don't want shown, then you can just encrypt them and decrypt them when you want them again. It will hide those pictures from any apps that try to access them while they're encrypted