[Q] Stock icon shadow/outline? - myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I've searched, but couldn't find an answer. Is there a way to remove the shadows that surround the icons on the home screen without rooting? I'm not ready to root yet, still happy with stock...this is the only thing that's driving me crazy. Any way to do it? My guess is no, but just throwing it out there. Thx!

sunsean said:
I've searched, but couldn't find an answer. Is there a way to remove the shadows that surround the icons on the home screen without rooting? I'm not ready to root yet, still happy with stock...this is the only thing that's driving me crazy. Any way to do it? My guess is no, but just throwing it out there. Thx!
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Should be in Q/A section. There's the Androidian theme by Fyb3roptic on the market that will remove the boxes around the icons. Or you can download desktop visualizer and pick your own icons from any pictures on your SD card. As of now that's the only way without root.
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el-jodio said:
Should be in Q/A section. There's the Androidian theme by Fyb3roptic on the market that will remove the boxes around the icons. Or you can download desktop visualizer and pick your own icons from any pictures on your SD card. As of now that's the only way without root.
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Thanks for the reply. Sorry for posting wrong section, I just went to general by default. I'm sure I'll root before too long, but I'm enjoying the stock experience until I do. MT4G does everything I had to root the MT3G for out of the box lol. Yeah I've used desktop visulalizer - cool, but not really the shadowless stock icon look I had in mind. I'll check out Androidian, thx again.

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Delete a Program Shortcut

Just a heads up if no one knew... Instead of going through the system setting to delete a program, just highlight the icon of THAT game/APP/program and drag to the garbage at the bottom and hold there. You will get a "drop to uninstall" option and vua-la... hope that helps...
The thing is that that only works with apps that we downloaded ourselves. Most of wanna get rid of the apps that came preinstalled. (Which can only be done with root)
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Forgot to mention that... Thanks. Only works with apps we download,
not pre installed...
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Wow, what great timing. I don't mean to hijack your thread haha.
If you don't want to uninstall apps but you don't want to see them in the drawer, then the the newest version of LauncherPro can help (if you already use it)! I literally just updated like 10 minutes ago and it has a feature to hide shortcuts from the app drawer! Best feature evaaaaaar.
Trongable said:
Wow, what great timing. I don't mean to hijack your thread haha.
If you don't want to uninstall apps but you don't want to see them in the drawer, then the the newest version of LauncherPro can help (if you already use it)! I literally just updated like 10 minutes ago and it has a feature to hide shortcuts from the app drawer! Best feature evaaaaaar.
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Oh thank god!!! i've been waiting for this. I used to ues Advanced Advanced launcher on my G1 until it became obsolete. and since nothing has had that feature..... Im stoked!!!
Woah... +1 for this... nice move by developer, thnx...

HTCLockscreen.odex

Hi guys, Can someone post the original HTCLockscreen.odex and HTCLockscreen.apk. I was playing with the phone root and HTCLockscreen.odex is no longer there. I rename it to HTCLockscreen.odex.bak, but after the restart is no longer there.
I found that after I took the apk and odex out, I was unable to reinstall them- I'm assuming your phone now has the stock lock but it's transparent. The best solution I could come up with was the Widget Locker app- I'm actually very happy with it- it's alot nicer than the stock unlock and the HTC unlock. The only thing I've noticed but haven't looked into much yet is that the genius button long press will unlock the phone, which is a bummer for when it's in my pocket (even though I have all the button unlocks disabled) Hope that helps! I think your only other solution would be to restore a previous backup that had the lockscreen intact.
I would but idk how to attach a file straight from the phone
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mountainboy said:
I found that after I took the apk and odex out, I was unable to reinstall them- I'm assuming your phone now has the stock lock but it's transparent. The best solution I could come up with was the Widget Locker app- I'm actually very happy with it- it's alot nicer than the stock unlock and the HTC unlock. The only thing I've noticed but haven't looked into much yet is that the genius button long press will unlock the phone, which is a bummer for when it's in my pocket (even though I have all the button unlocks disabled) Hope that helps! I think your only other solution would be to restore a previous backup that had the lockscreen intact.
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Widget Locker is very nice but I wish they would let u have the MT4G lock screen : p
AndroidFeens said:
Widget Locker is very nice but I wish they would let u have the MT4G lock screen : p
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Why would you ever want that horrid lock screen? Blocks half of the wallpaper.
Use rooted explorer for this. New app, kinda laggy but you can email, copy/paste the APKs and odex. NOT root explorer, its rooted explorer.
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I second this.. If someone could post apks that'd be awesome
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Please post questions in Q&A section.
Here you go both files in a zip archive...
Unzip it...
http://rapidshare.com/files/432915801/HtcLockScreen.zip
Thanks buddy
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Saving the BackDrop Picture

Ok Im using the ROM listed below in my signature, and I'm getting ready to theme it with Androdena::Tek::Galaxy!
It has the blue background and custom Icons.
Anyway my question is how do save it? [BackDrop] And then restore this [BackDrop] picture after I theme it, cuz its gonna replace it with a shot of earth!
And I just cant part with this Beautiful Brunette!
isn't that your wallpaper?
Just get shootme and use it to take a picture of your desktop or just look into the wallpaper folder for that rom and put it in another folder
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carlcj5 said:
Just get shootme and use it to take a picture of your desktop or just look into the wallpaper folder for that rom and put it in another folder
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I already checked my wallpaper folder all of them , and she's no where to be found!
She's somewhere in the ROM program, but no where I can get to or find!
Also if I take a snapshot of her with the Widgets, that,ll be no good unless I remove all of them, theres got to be a way of accessing this wallpaper photo of it clean, so I can add it to my wall Paper Folder.
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I already checked my wallpaper folder all of them , and she's no where to be found!
She's somewhere in the ROM program, but no where I can get to or find!
Also if I take a snapshot of her with the Widgets, that,ll be no good unless I remove all of them, theres got to be a way of accessing this wallpaper photo of it clean, so I can add it to my wall Paper Folder.
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What rom are you running? All I can think of is going to that thread and asking the dev.
Thanks Thanks Thanks
nomadrider123 said:
What rom are you running?
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AHHH Ive listed everything about my phone in my signature, but you have to look downwards a little to see it!
dseldown said:
AHHH Ive listed everything about my phone in my signature, but you have to look downwards a little to see it!
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if that is the default wallpaper for the rom you will be able to find it in the framework-res.apk use your favorite method to pull the framework-res.apk from /system/framework either to your phone or your computer. then unzip either using root explorer or 7zip (just right click and extract with 7zip on pc) then look in /res/drawable-hdpi the wallpaper will be named default_wallpaper.jpg or something to that effect.
Cheers
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if that is the default wallpaper for the rom you will be able to find it in the framework-res.apk use your favorite method to pull the framework-res.apk from /system/framework either to your phone or your computer. then unzip either using root explorer or 7zip (just right click and extract with 7zip on pc) then look in /res/drawable-hdpi the wallpaper will be named default_wallpaper.jpg or something to that effect.
Cheers
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Nice, thanks shreddintyres, that sounds like a viable option, my only ? now is what to use to pull the framework-res.apk from the /system/framework, the rest Ive got a grip on, but Ill start reading until I figure out exactly what you just instructed, haven't EVER dissected a ROM yet, so I need to learn, so I can retrieve that Wallpaper, of course it sure would've been alot easier if it had been in the wallpaper folder, but I'll be a good learning lesson. If i really want to customize this ROM the way I want!
dseldown said:
Nice, thanks shreddintyres, that sounds like a viable option, my only ? now is what to use to pull the framework-res.apk from the /system/framework, the rest Ive got a grip on, but Ill start reading until I figure out exactly what you just instructed, haven't EVER dissected a ROM yet, so I need to learn, so I can retrieve that Wallpaper, of course it sure would've been alot easier if it had been in the wallpaper folder, but I'll be a good learning lesson. If i really want to customize this ROM the way I want!
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I use Root Explorer. Works perfectly. I actually just used this same exact method to pull the default wallpaper from Trigger ROM.
Yeah its in the framework-Res.apk as default_wallpaper.jpg. I meant to include it and several other dark ones but must have forgotten to add them.
EDIT; I've added a zip file to the OP of Simply Honey Pro that contains the extra wallpapers I forgot to include, including the one references here.
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dseldown said:
Nice, thanks shreddintyres, that sounds like a viable option, my only ? now is what to use to pull the framework-res.apk from the /system/framework, the rest Ive got a grip on, but Ill start reading until I figure out exactly what you just instructed, haven't EVER dissected a ROM yet, so I need to learn, so I can retrieve that Wallpaper, of course it sure would've been alot easier if it had been in the wallpaper folder, but I'll be a good learning lesson. If i really want to customize this ROM the way I want!
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just call me Shred
there are 2 methods that i like to use.
Using the phone as eminembdg said use root explorer (one of the most useful applications you will ever purchase for your phone) go into the system/framework directory then at the top of your screen there will be a button that says Mount r/w press that now you will be able to read and right to that directory (do not delete anything you will soft brick). now scroll down to find framework-res.apk long press and select copy then navigate to some directory on the directory /sdcard and paste.
Using the computer you will use adb. this requires that you have the android-sdk installed.
reboot phone into recovery (cwm recovery works the best)
open command prompt on computer, connect phone to pc with usb
navigate to directory where you have the android sdk then navigate to /android-sdk/platform-tools
execute the following commands
adb devices (this starts the adb daemon and allows will indicate that your phone and computer are communicating)
now execute the following command
adb pull /system/framework/framework-res.apk c:\<your chosen directory>
you now have the framework-res.apk on your computer
Cheers
It would be great for you , since you are interested, to try out those methods mentioned.
But... if all else fails, I could download the ROM and pull it for you, lemme know if you'd want me to do that for ya.
See my post above for easiest method.
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dseldown said:
AHHH Ive listed everything about my phone in my signature, but you have to look downwards a little to see it!
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i
With all due respect. I don't pay attention to whats posted down there when helping someone. A lot of ppl change their roms but don't change their sig.. Told ya the op would have most all the answers after all they made the rom
Thanks to ALL
To all the responders, appreciate all of ya, And Id like to pony up an apology to nomadrider123, I didnt mean to be rude, but after looking at it, [the responce] It certainly appears that way!
Anyway I got it done using a fresh download of the ROM , found the JPEG picture separated it, and uploaded it to the phone and then to my gallery, where it is now a file to be used as a wallpaper choice!
From there you choose it, and then Re-size it to fit right/save and there she is again!
Anyway Ive themed it already to a blue background, and then re-installed the Beautiful DAME as my wallpaper, and I now have a custom phone I really like and is easy on my eyes!
My only gripe now is I cant change the icons in TW, any suggestions on that?
IS TW a different animal, and needs a different software interface to MOD it?
And yes!! I'm a TW Fan. I love it! Navigates so fluidly!
I have installed on my phone ADW EX and Launcher Pro, And when I'm in TW GT Launcher I cant change the Icons, which doesn't make sense to me! So Ill figure it out or everybody here is quick with help! And Ill go with the soundest advice I get from Ya,ll! Again many thanks to all who gave!
Its a great feeling to customize my Business Tool, with minds all from all over the Globe!! Awesome community here!!
You have a couple of choices if your talking about changing your app icons. The first and simplest is to use ADW and chose a the with the icons you want. But since you like the TW launcher you'll have to change the icon of each app. You can open the AOL's just like you did to find the wallpaper. Same folder and its usually icon.PNG. if you use 7zip you can move the files around pretty easy. Just make sure and rename the new one the same as the old and stay away from the XML files unless your sure what your doing with it.
PM me if you or need more info.
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Found her - http://www.imagebam.com/image/36acd511731997
You're welcome.lol
Tineye.com is your friend
ferhanmm said:
Found her - http://www.imagebam.com/image/36acd511731997
You're welcome.lol
Tineye.com is your friend
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Good job that only took you 16 hours. If you'd have looked about 4 or 5 posts up you'd have seen that I posted a zip file with it and others in the OP of the Simply Honey Pro thread about that long ago. I hope you didn't waste the whole day finding that.
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LOL Noooooo it didnt take me that long explodingboy70, I did however have to go to sleep and Put a new turbo on my Large car, and swap some bad tires out, before I got back to my phone project though!
Anyways ferhanmm your the man, I want to re-use the Pic you sent me, CUZ she has color on her with the red lip stick shoes and what have you !! Happy dance Awoooooo!!! Thanks Fella's for the great response and effort from everybody, I love this community!

Need help recovering a file...

so i had a completely stock atrix as of a few days ago, and i decided to dive in head first and start tinkering. im rooted, sideloaded, and gingerblured. and i love it. its fantastic. my problem is that i took a picture of my girlfriend as my wallpaper before flashing gingerblur, and forgot to back anything up. well the flash wiped everything, my wallpaper didnt change, by luck... but i cant seem to find the file anywhere on the atrix. aaaaaand i dont have another copy. anyone have an idea on how i might be able to find it?
really? nobody has any clue?
There are numerous programs that will attempt to recover data from SD cards though I am not sure they will work if the pic was on the internal storage partition on your phone.
Its your girlfriend right?
Take another pic?
I dont remember if i stored it on internal or sd. But being as its still the wallpaper, it has to be cached somewhere, right? And while i could take another picture, perhaps i like the one i have. Id like to excersize my options before giving up. But thank you for that well thought out, very contributory answer shriva. Much obliged...
shriva said:
Its your girlfriend right?
Take another pic?
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your missing his dilemma here. the wifey is gonna yell at him for not making sure the pic is safe! She will treat it as a bad thing!
PParcells said:
so i had a completely stock atrix as of a few days ago, and i decided to dive in head first and start tinkering. im rooted, sideloaded, and gingerblured. and i love it. its fantastic. my problem is that i took a picture of my girlfriend as my wallpaper before flashing gingerblur, and forgot to back anything up. well the flash wiped everything, my wallpaper didnt change, by luck... but i cant seem to find the file anywhere on the atrix. aaaaaand i dont have another copy. anyone have an idea on how i might be able to find it?
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Try this...
Hook it up to your PC and select "USB Mass Storage". Go to the drive representing your phone in "My Computer" on your PC. Use the windows search function to search *.jpg
See what pops up.
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tried the above, but no avail. i was fiddling with root explorer and just kind of exploring things, is it possible its saved in a cache somewhere? i guess the fact that i dont know the file name doesnt make things any easier...
PParcells said:
tried the above, but no avail. i was fiddling with root explorer and just kind of exploring things, is it possible its saved in a cache somewhere? i guess the fact that i dont know the file name doesnt make things any easier...
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I'm out of ideas then. If you only want it for wallpaper then you could clear off a home screen and use a screenshot app to save a copy, but if it's scrolling when you switch home screens then you're going to miss some of it. Also, depending on your launcher you're going to probably have some visible icons in the dock.
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PParcells said:
tried the above, but no avail. i was fiddling with root explorer and just kind of exploring things, is it possible its saved in a cache somewhere? i guess the fact that i dont know the file name doesnt make things any easier...
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Try this path using root explorer.
data/data/com.android.settings/files/wallpaper
There should be a file in there called wallpaper.
I would use copy though, not move.
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shriva said:
Its your girlfriend right?
Take another pic?
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+1 LOL
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Thankyou goscrewsir. Thats where it was. Awesome.

[6.22.11] The BAMF Sense 3.0 GB Rom "How-To" Recap Q&A Buglist/Fix Thread

[6.22.11] The BAMF Sense 3.0 GB Rom "How-To" Recap Q&A Buglist/Fix Thread
First and Foremost, this is ALL Thanks The CREATORS, Butch & Erin for this great Rom. You can find the rom in their closed thread. Please direct all of your questions and follow through to THIS thread in efforts to cut down the questions. I will randomly be updating the OP to help out and give as much help as I can.
RECAP!
CLICK LINK FOR THE ORIGINAL POST TO FIND THE ROM!
[6.21.11][ROM] BAMF Sense 3.0 GB RC1 - NEW FAST LINKS
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1134709
What's the difference Between Preview 5 and This?: The Toolkit. Now stop asking.
Should I do a full Wipe?
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Yes, it's a full ROM and you would want to full wipe to install
How to Boot Into Bootloader
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Turn your phone off. Hold the volume down button. Power the phone on while still holding down. Presto. Hboot. Now choose bootloader and flash your radio. Or just select "Bootloader" from Restart menu.
Timestamp Fix: There's an App in the market called SMS Time Fix that should take care of the time stamp problems. Try sending an MMS message a second time, the first time I tried I had a FC then I tried again and it now it works every time.
Latest Dream Kernal: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1099996
Link To Previous Kernals: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1086518
Recommended Radio: http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...ight=mr2+radio
Market Apps Not Showing Installed in Android Market After Titanium Backup
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Clear Cache in Settings > Application > Market.
Skins: Coming Soon
CAMERA WOES:
HDR & Panorama Camera: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=14959094&postcount=318
The Camera from P4 seems to work, even in Panoramic. Try it. They are attempting to fix the front camera now. Be patient. If u take off wide screen the ffc [Front Facing Camera], works. Confirmed.
Camera Alternatives:
#1: http://www.multiupload.com/P46J6JMWES
#2: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=14960502&postcount=1746
How to INSTALL Camera:
1) Download apk to sd card
2) Use Root Explorer and copy it to system\app
3) Rename existing HTCCamera.apk to HTCCamera.bak
4) Rename the new camera to HTCCamera.apk
5) Long press on new HTCCamera.apk and click permissions
6) Set permissions to Owner RW/Group R/Others R
7) Reboot!
8) Head to settings/applications and clear data from camera (this will fix FFC FC)
Link for People asking about the Transparent Bar:
http://newlyme.net/bamf/BAMF Sense...bar-Signal.zip
Flashing 'Recent Apps.zip" will replace your "CLEAR ALL" button at the bottom of your notifications bar, and put it back in the left corner. Beware.
Battery Mods & Such: Coming Soon.
Shortcuts Not working?:
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Patch coming soon.
Can We Have 5-6 Signal Bars?
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Most of us have FOUR bar signals, not 6.
Stock Boot Launcher: [Waiting for uploaded link]
The following patches from the GB Remix are working w/o Error:
- volume no wake
- Skinned black dialer
The Flashlight app should work fine.
Part Two Bugs & Fixes!
Anyone's weather widget reading off odd temp rreadings? Its like 80 degrees in NJ right now and my weather widget is reading in the 30s aall week even after refreshing.
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Change it to fahrenheit it's set to celcius
BROKEN MMS? Courtesy Of bp328i: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=14977238&postcount=25
Reserved Here #2​
Edit. I understand this was planned.
Hey guys I have a question I have the ffc working after unchecking widescreen. My question is when i click the installed mirror app the camera doesn't show anything
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tcfrombn said:
Don't know if reposting their rom is a good idea. A support thread, sure, in General.
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Not a repost of their Rom by any means. No link of their rom outside of their original post.
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Not a repost of their Rom by any means. No link of their rom outside of their original post.
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Fair enough sir.
BlackHoleSlam said:
Hey guys I have a question I have the ffc working after unchecking widescreen. My question is when i click the installed mirror app the camera doesn't show anything
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Clear cache in Settings, Application, then reboot. You should be fine.
The one built in is not in application part I looked under all mirror and I keep getting fc on widgetsoid
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The one built in is not in application part I looked under all mirror and I keep getting fc on widgetsoid
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Did you follow all of the instructions correctly?
Look In OP in this thread. Pick a camera link. Now once you've done so:
1) Download apk to sd card
2) Use Root Explorer and copy it to system\app
3) Rename existing HTCCamera.apk to HTCCamera.bak
4) Rename the new camera to HTCCamera.apk
5) Long press on new HTCCamera.apk and click permissions
6) Set permissions to Owner RW/Group R/Others R
7) Reboot!
8) Head to settings/applications and clear data from camera (this will fix FFC FC)
As far as widgetsoid, I cannot help you. But there are Quick settings in the notifications bar. Save your phone some space, and delete Widgetsoid.
I got widgetsoid working and the camera I am using is the one that comes with the ROM I dowloaded another but turning off wide screen made it work but mirror is unable to notice it so my best course of action is switch camera's
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Does anyone know what the htc keyboard is called in system app? i went to send a email and noticed i no longer have a keyboard i would like to rip one out of the zip but i dont know what its called
Man so many issues and I don't have one. Anyone need help let me know too. If its within my I abilities and not already cover I will be glad to assist.
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jdphilly said:
Does anyone know what the htc keyboard is called in system app? i went to send a email and noticed i no longer have a keyboard i would like to rip one out of the zip but i dont know what its called
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Htc_ime
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I am having issues with getting the native swipe function working on the HTC IME KB. I went into Keyboard settings and enable trace function and selected black trace color.
Is anyone having the issue?
dapbmonkey4u said:
I am having issues with getting the native swipe function working on the HTC IME KB. I went into Keyboard settings and enable trace function and selected black trace color.
Is anyone having the issue?
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Did you try wiping data and re enabling it?
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Are the camera posted the sense 3.0 cameras ?
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dapbmonkey4u said:
I am having issues with getting the native swipe function working on the HTC IME KB. I went into Keyboard settings and enable trace function and selected black trace color.
Is anyone having the issue?
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I had the issue you have to go into settings and actually enable it. Crazy right?
I'm having an issue with Messages forcing close
as well as the phone being overall slow as hell. I'm going to uninstall some thigns to see if maybe that could be the case.. Put literally.. Preview 5, without the toolkit seemed to treat me a lil bit better.
I have not, but I will try now.
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Original Post dude. Pay attention.

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