Database Users

Show us your homescreens!!!

Well plenty people on this forum now have the DHDs, so go ahead and post your homescreens.
A good OP always goes first, but i haven't received my hunk of technology yet.
Instructions for noobs:
Step 1: Enable USB Debugging
On your Desire HD, go to Settings, then Applications, and then Development. Check the checkbox for "USB debugging."
Step 2: Download the Android SDK
There's plenty of tutorials out there so i won't go into detail explaining here, but this should get you started
Download: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
Install: http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing.html
Note: you'll need to have Java installed on your machine.
Step 3: Run DDMS
You'll need to find the SDK folder which you downloaded. From here go into tools and launch DDMS. Select your handset from the menu on the left. Then, click CTRL-S on your keyboard. This will bring up the "Device Screen Capture" interface. From here, a static image is captured from what is appearing on your handset. You can save the image and then refresh to your heart's content to grab updated or different screenshots from your phone.
And that's it folks! What you waiting for? Gogogogo!!!

Why not use "ShootMe" ???

or that lol.
that app is new to me.

M_T_M said:
Why not use "ShootMe" ???
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Ha Ha I was thinking that !!!!

Because normally you need to get the picture to PC anyway (at least i do, that means DDMS is the more comfortable solution anyway).

faugusztin said:
Because normally you need to get the picture to PC anyway (at least i do, that means DDMS is the more comfortable solution anyway).
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Maybe for a handful of members
The every day Newbie will have many issues and questions about this procedure than anyone or any thread (and I do smell a new thread coming out of this one already ) can answer
Cheers,
M_T_M
Your friendly Mod

It depends what is easier, downloading the SDK and take a picture via DDMS, or rooting the phone and taking the picture via PicMe/ShootMe/whatever app .

at the end of the day it doesnt matter which method you use, as long as we get some pics in this thread

The easiest method of taking snaps of your homescreens (and the phone in general) I've found so far is by installing Webkey (requires root. Works with the VISIONary soft root app (found in Market)). What the app basically does is that it allows you to control your phone through a browser (lets you send SMS and I've actually successfully played a game on it). If you activate .png view the quality is very decent and you can just right click the image and save the image directly to your desktop. Quick, easy and painless.
Not to waste this post. Here're the homescreens of my old phone (made with Webkey):
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Den siste skjermen er blank frem til jeg finner på noe å ha der
Lockscreen:

LtdEdFred said:
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What app you use for the remember widget??

Thats the widget from Ultra Notes

Here is my homescreen.

Pretty basic here.

dobbeltseng said:
Here is my homescreen.
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Cool background,but i would have opted for the square menu

Here is mine, with the rEVOlution skin:

muzens said:
Here is mine, with the rEVOlution skin:
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Noctua NH-D14 Good choice of cooler ,

here are mine using the LWP to access my gallery WP collection, so that it changes after each standby
with different WPs

Thyrus said:
here are mine using the LWP to access my gallery WP collection, so that it changes after each standby
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Wow
1) do you have the tel. number of the girl in the hot-tub
2) please share the wallpapers of the last 3 screenshots. They are great!

noobdeagle said:
Noctua NH-D14 Good choice of cooler ,
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Lol, yes it does really well

appelflap said:
Wow
1) do you have the tel. number of the girl in the hot-tub
2) please share the wallpapers of the last 3 screenshots. They are great!
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if you are pretty switched on, you can extract them from my wp collection
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=773239

Samsung Galaxy S trick:Change brightness with a simple swype!!!

Yes it works!
You can change the brightness from the home screen without change any option or install any application.
Press on the notification bar (not open it) and after shows up with the date, just swype left or right to adjust the brightness!!!
Here is my video on youtube to see how it works:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFABj8LvD3g

Welcome to 2010 lol. (sorry!).
I think the correct way to do it is just to hold an area on the notification bar (not swype). left is less bright, right is more bright. (at least on latest fws it works like this).

This has been known since éclair. You must have auto brightness off for it to work though.
Thanks for sharing anyway, original thread has probably been lost in the folds. I'm sure there are plenty of new sgs users on here all the time. It is still one of the best smartphones on the market today, and now it's dirt cheap.
Sent from my GT - I9000M running Darky's 9.4 w/ DamianGTO's Ultimate Kernel using XDA Premium App.

jimking said:
Yes it works!
You can change the brightness from the home screen without change any option or install any application.
Press on the notification bar (not open it) and after shows up with the date, just swype left or right to adjust the brightness!!!
Here is my video on youtube to see how it works:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFABj8LvD3g
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jimking said:
Yes it works!
You can change the brightness from the home screen without change any option or install any application.
Press on the notification bar (not open it) and after shows up with the date, just swype left or right to adjust the brightness!!!
Here is my video on youtube to see how it works:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFABj8LvD3g
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This is a neat trick buddy. Not a life saver , but sure is a time saver. Thanks again.

Lol still new things after half a year having the phone

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Look man. Maybe is an old trick but for some new users might also be something useful!!
So there is no need all this irony....

Although i agree that it might be handy for new users... There is always room for irony or as in this case sarcasm i believe. I rated this find a single facepalm.

I had the phone for one week and didn't knew about this...thanks for sharing!

Had this phone from january and did not knew about this...i am embaressed.

jimking said:
Look man. Maybe is an old trick but for some new users might also be something useful!!
So there is no need all this irony....
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Its not a hidden trick or anything. Its even documented in the user manual.

When the notification bar is in the landscape mode you can swipe it more brighter
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It only works with 2.1 I believe. One of those tricks lost with the updates.

devonblue4u said:
It only works with 2.1 I believe. One of those tricks lost with the updates.
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It works on 2.3.3 JVK

pouetmimi said:
It works on 2.3.3 JVK
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Confirmed, it works

Indeed. More brighter
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Thanks for this useful tip
Works on JVQ

Ipad-like mutlitask gestures on lg optimus one

Today I stumbled upon a cool app called GMD Gesture Control, it basically allows you to define global gestures that can be used anywhere and that can do any kind of action, kinda like the "pinch" gesture found in the ipad that closes the current app. The gestures can be defined with custom directions, actions or number of fingers. So you can for example swipe with two fingers down from the top edge of the screen for the device to go to sleep if you have an unreliable sleep button.
Here's the steps needed to be taken to use this app on lg optimus one:
1- Get the app, you can use the lite version for now which disables itself when the mobile is locked and needs to be re enabled, but it gives you a good idea of how the app works:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...dvb2Rtb29kZHJvaWQuZ2VzdHVyZWNvbnRyb2xkZW1vIl0.
2- Launch the app for the first time, it will show an error that the device is not recognized, here you have to override the default settings to support our mobile, you can do this by tapping the "advanced" tab at the far right, then you will find 2 options at the end of the list, enable both by tapping the "on" button. Then from the "Override multitouch device detection" list choose "touch_mcs6000", then choose from the "override touch events parser detection" list the option "HC_DEFAULT".
3- Restart the service from the main "General" tab, please note that I couldn't get our mobile to support more than 2 fingers gestures, keep that in mind when defining custom gestures or choose "single touch gestures" option in the default gestures tab.
Hope that you all find this useful, this app is extremely fun to use to switch between apps quickly, I use a swipe from the left-right bottom corner to switch between previous/next app. You can really create any kind of creative gesture as you like.

This app is incompatible with your MobiFone LGE LG-P500.

it needs version 3.1 and up
upgrade to ics and install

anderson.doan said:
This app is incompatible with your MobiFone LGE LG-P500.
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Oops, yes I completely forgot to mention that it requires ics, sorry.

haha no soory
Mamoun14 said:
Oops, yes I completely forgot to mention that it requires ics, sorry.
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cz of your post only i come to know abt that software so thanks :fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed:

Ferdinoptimus said:
cz of your post only i come to know abt that software so thanks :fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed:
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You are welcome, it's the least I can do for the awesome xda community. :good:

AWESOME
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Actually. It works on Gingerbread ...
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I do get this measage though.
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Really awesome app!:good:

[SecretCode] enable *#*#4636#*#* for testing, and motorola skip, privacy tools

Current Support List
*#*#INFO#*#*, Original Testing Activity
*#*#APN#*#*, Progmenu APN Edit Activity. At least In China Telecom, its useful to delete vodafone-nl's apns to use 3G.
*#*#SKIP#*#*, Motorola SKIP. For Similiar Apps, you can visit http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2602173, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2469994
*#*#APPOPS#*#*, AppOps, Android's Privacy Tools, Android 4.3-4.4.1, For Similiar Apps, you can visit https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pixelmonster.AppOps
How to Use
Run once, then the app with hide itself.
Please dont use force stop to stop it, as it wont receive any broadcast.
If you dont like it, just uninstall it.
2013.XX.XX
The *#*#4636#*#* doesn't work on droid mini..(I have no droid maxx/ultra to test)
I know, some one may use https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tw.myc.android.PhoneInfoV2Ad, or just use adb.
This little app listen for *#*#4636#*#*, and open the testing page.
However, the app must be opened once, and please dont force stop it, otherwise it cannot receive the broaccast.
// After the app was open, it wil hide itself.
for the source: https://github.com/liudongmiao/SecretCode

Use this. It works better. I have it in my thread for helping people on T-Mobile / ATT.
http://www.mediafire.com/?284l17ry2ok1yuk
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"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
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arcanexvi said:
Use this. It works better. I have it in my thread for helping people on T-Mobile / ATT.
http://www.mediafire.com/?284l17ry2ok1yuk
Sent from my XT1080 using Tapatalk
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It doesn't enable *#*#4636#*#*...

It gets you into the same menu without having to use the dialer code. And isn't another process running in the background... Lol
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arcanexvi said:
It gets you into the same menu without having to use the dialer code. And isn't another process running in the background... Lol
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When you start any process, it's in the cache.
The purpose is different, I just show the secret_code, it can be anything.
For the TestSettings page, its too simple, and its not necessary to install any extra app.

I use lteoffon to get into the phone menu of the testing menu
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk

liudongmiao said:
Current Support List
*#*#INFO#*#*, Original Testing Activity
*#*#APN#*#*, Progmenu APN Edit Activity. At least In China Telecom, its useful to delete vodafone-nl's apns to use 3G.
*#*#SKIP#*#*, Motorola SKIP. For Similiar Apps, you can visit http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2602173, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2469994
*#*#APPOPS#*#*, AppOps, Android's Privacy Tools, Android 4.3-4.4.1, For Similiar Apps, you can visit https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pixelmonster.AppOps
How to Use
Run once, then the app with hide itself.
Please dont use force stop to stop it, as it wont receive any broadcast.
If you dont like it, just uninstall it.
2013.XX.XX
The *#*#4636#*#* doesn't work on droid mini..(I have no droid maxx/ultra to test)
I know, some one may use https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tw.myc.android.PhoneInfoV2Ad, or just use adb.
This little app listen for *#*#4636#*#*, and open the testing page.
However, the app must be opened once, and please dont force stop it, otherwise it cannot receive the broaccast.
// After the app was open, it wil hide itself.
for the source: https://github.com/liudongmiao/SecretCode
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2014.02.06 update
support motorola skip, android appops, and progmenu's apn editor.

Notification Sound?

This may be a stupid question, but on the M8 I could add sounds into the notification folder to use for texts and such. Now, the 10 is not allowing it "read only" it says.
Also, no addition button similar to the ringtones.
Is there something I'm overlooking? Or for a simple sound file move am I going to have to root?
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Create a folder anywhere (internal or external) named Notifications, and reboot.
To be clear, you don't have to reboot, but that's the fastest way for the phone to repopulate the notification list with the new sounds.
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Wow that was simple. Thank you very much! I've always just put the file in system/media/audio/notificatons and it's worked before. Not this time.
Appreciate it!
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I had no problems without root setting up custom notifications on the 10. just copied them over to the folder like you said. don't know why says read only, did you set it by accident in a explorer app?

Peace....
it still doesnt work for me....am I missing something?

afuller42 said:
I had no problems without root setting up custom notifications on the 10. just copied them over to the folder like you said. don't know why says read only, did you set it by accident in a explorer app?
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No it surprised me too. I'm not sure what was going on. I did the recommendation above but dropped the file in the default Notifications folder instead of making a new one. Worked just fine then.
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ZEDEK said:
Peace....
it still doesnt work for me....am I missing something?
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Make sure that they are spelled correctly.
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"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
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AarSyl said:
Create a folder anywhere (internal or external) named Notifications, and reboot.
To be clear, you don't have to reboot, but that's the fastest way for the phone to repopulate the notification list with the new sounds.
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Thanks for the answer to my issue also. I found a few notification sounds and ringtones from days gone by and wanted to use them. All the best.