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Screenshot app for unrooted Desire (?)

Hi guys!
Is there an app to take screenshot images and save them in the storage card directly as camera does. I don't want to root my device just for this purpose, at least not before the official froyo upgrade. Thx
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Try shootme, from the market.
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Shoot Me requires root. You can use the Android SDK.
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Android SDK is the only way if you dont have root AFAIK

well.. where to find android sdk? it is not available on the market. Thanks for replies..
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It's not a phone app, it's a desktop development environment for Android:
http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
Available for Windows/Mac/Linux

this link tells you how to take screenshots using the SDK
http://blog.digitaltinder.net/2009/06/how-to-take-android-screenshots/

No app does this yet... Site Shot gets the closest with a functional, albeit limited, workaround. Some other apps like Gensoid allow them to take screenshots too.
So the method suggested above is what works.
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Thanks mates..
Site shot seemed only for web browser pages, didnt try anything else with it though. Android sdk seems the only way to do that, so far. Actually i'd thought an app similar to wm app "shake n save" could be found for android too.
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There is a game called farm towers. In that game it allows you to take screen shots. On my cdma htc desire I was able to take screen shots while playing the game. It force closed but it saved the screen shot

andriod commander is fab .. for screen shots

I looked on the market and didn't see anything called that at all. Do you have the link?

MyPhoneExplorer
Try this one.

I did and that doesn't work either

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I did and that doesn't work either
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Working fine m8.
Install MyPhoneExplorer (download from there site ) on your PC.
Download from the market MyPhoneExplorer and install on your Desire.
Activate USB-debugging on your phone .
That's it.

or root it in 5 minutes with unrevoked
with kind regards..Alex

Question about the market from a total noob

Hello all. Had an iPhone then a windows phone 7 device until about a week ago. Bought an Orange san Francisco, cracking little phone. I had rooted it and was running a custom firmware. I like Android so much I bought a desire he yesterday, it rocks. The question I ask, is on the san Francisco, if I search for say "youtube downloaded" in market place I get a lot more results that if I do the same search on my desire hd. I'm using the newest market place app on both and both are on the same WiFi network. Any ideas? Sorry if this has been asked previously, but I can't figure out how to search in the xda app, please don't flame me for my ignorance.
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Could only guess due to different versions of android. if you are sure that you are using the same Search string in Market then am puzzled too.

I have 2.2 on my desire, but used both a leaked custom 2.2 curtosey of modaco, and a standard 2.1 on the Dan Francisco. Is there an alternative web place I can get the free android apps from. Note, in not requesting free apps, just an alternative place I can search for the free apps.
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The fast boot option hides some apps in market. Try unchecking that.
It is in Settings -> Applications
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JamDonot said:
I have 2.2 on my desire, but used both a leaked custom 2.2 curtosey of modaco, and a standard 2.1 on the Dan Francisco. Is there an alternative web place I can get the free android apps from. Note, in not requesting free apps, just an alternative place I can search for the free apps.
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You can try Appbrain, and in DHD try HTC Likes - it inturn searches market but they are very usefull in app discovery.
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The fast boot option hides some apps in market. Try unchecking that.
It is in Settings -> Applications
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The fast boot settings says, u need to disable this for some market apps to work. NOt sure whether will it hide anything from showing to the user...

If you have rooted your Desire HD take a look for Market Enabler on the market.

Netflix .apk here!

I have the (unofficial) Netflix app for Android here, I heard that the servers have been opened now so it should theoretically work; I am going to test it and report back.
(Attached below)
*Edit: I have tested this app and it runs however when trying to stream a movie it will display a message along the lines of "your device is not supported"

No go
I'm getting a force close upon login using this apk. Anyone else having better luck?

Uninstall and reinstall worked for me
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Streaming doesn't work.
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I found another .apk in a different thread com.netflix.mediaclient-1.apk 5.44mb and I have the same issues. Gives the your device not supported. Does let you log in and seems to be stable, but can't view any movies. Everytime you try it just comes back saying device not supported.

only streams on 5 phones not ours
http://www.webpronews.com/netflix-app-launched-on-android-2011-05
but there is hope for the future...

roharia said:
Uninstall and reinstall worked for me
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Did that too and still get the force closed upon signing in... are you on stock(besides rooted)...

I got the "device not supported" message, but was able to get a login screen after waiting a few seconds. I logged in, but can't stream.

maybe we can edit one of the lib files inside the apk? much like was done on the Adobe Flash Player lib file to enable hulu playback on our phones. I don't know how to do this, but an idea nonetheless.

Interesting tid bit...
Devices Android 3.0 with DrmPlay are supported!
Devices Android 3.0 without DrmPlay are NOT supported!
Devices Android 3.1 with DrmPlay are supported!
Devices Android 3.1 without DrmPlay are NOT supported! 1
Devices newer than Android 3.1 are NOT supported!
Devices pre Android 2.2 are not supported!
Devices with Android 2.2/2.3 and without drm.play are supported in standalone mode. Devices with Android 2.2/2.3, with drm.play are supported!
Devices with Android 2.2/2.3, without drm.play and without OMX are NOT supported in standalone mode.
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im new to the android thing but would changing the fingerprint in build.prop file be enough to trick the app into thinking the phone is supported?
havent tried it myself yet..

They got it to work on nook color by just editing the build.prop
ro.product.model=HTC Vision
ro.product.manufacturer=HTC
And then rebooting.
Has anyone else tried this?

rex-tc said:
They got it to work on nook color by just editing the build.prop
ro.product.model=HTC Vision
ro.product.manufacturer=HTC
And then rebooting.
Has anyone else tried this?
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Just tried this , not working I only changed the two fields you suggested but not working, there are lot of other fields that can be changed, I made a back up of my original so I will play around with it

Does anyone have a netflix account that I can use to try to see if I can access it from my phone? I will not change any account information.
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aver2one said:
Just tried this , not working I only changed the two fields you suggested but not working, there are lot of other fields that can be changed, I made a back up of my original so I will play around with it
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same here...it just craps out
I also tried "T-Mobile G2" and that failed as well
any other strings we can try for other devices are supported at the moment?
1. HTC Incredible with Android 2.2
2. HTC Nexus One with Android 2.2, 2.3
3. HTC Evo 4G with Android 2.2
4. HTC G2 with Android 2.2
5. Samsung Nexus S with Android 2.3
(I don't think any of the above have similar enough hw to the tegra board we have)
I did notice there is 5 .so files device{1-5}.so when you unzip the .apk file. I tried mucking with .js files to force the app into accepting a device string instead of polling the device but I'm failing at creating a workable apk file.
I used apktool and auto-sign but when I install my modified apk (even if it's just repacked) it fails to run...i'll leave that for another day; i've got much to learn in the android world....

mikajmd said:
Does anyone have a netflix account that I can use to try to see if I can access it from my phone? I will not change any account information.
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I dont think anybody will be willing to do that but yes tmo g2 does work!

Looks like so people with captivates got it to work.....
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jarsh92 said:
Looks like so people with captivates got it to work.....
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info, links? don't make us dig for it

Need a drm.play file and a location to put it in...mm
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I'm getting a force close upon login using this apk. Anyone else having better luck?
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the official app is out on the marketplace now. check it out, only works on 5 phones though and mines one of them. IT HAS NO BUGS AT ALL,no lag what so ever. biggest boom in the market in quite a while

Data throttle patch?

Hey I was browsing the g2 forum and came across this thread. Just curious to if this could work for our phone?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052064
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That would be bad ass! I went three days this month before being throttled:/
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So you mean we could have TRULY TRULY unlimited data? That's worth looking into. Anyone tried this?

I'm using a new radio and 8.18 gigs used and still running 6.49 down and 2.30 up
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What radio are you running to get that?
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The new ginger bread
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colin253 said:
Hey I was browsing the g2 forum and came across this thread. Just curious to if this could work for our phone?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1052064
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I used this same method and posted a revised services.jar in my RoyalGinger thread a few days ago. I believe I only heard back from one maybe two guys but it did not appear to work.
And if you read that thread you linked, most of the people who actually tried it did not ultimately have success in the end with this either.
However, I will post mine in the off chance that it might work for someone.
It seems from reading the other G2 thread that this needed to be applied BEFORE you actually got throttled for the month. (but again, it appears this may not work at all anymore...)
**THIS WILL LIKELY ONLY WORK WITH ROYALGINGER AND LATER CM7 BUILDS** because it's based on this framework.
INSTRUCTIONS:
- download the zip from this post, extract the modded services.jar & put it on your computer (in the example commands below, it assumes its in your root C:\ folder but if it's elsewhere just add on the appropriate path after the C:\ )
- reboot into recovery & connect your phone to PC via USB
- open a command prompt, terminal, etc. on your PC/mac/toilet and type:
adb shell
mount /system
exit
adb push C:\services.jar /system/framework/
adb reboot
- all done
i've never tried this before and i'm not throttled so i can't test it ... this will probably make your settings > wireless & network > mobile networks menu force close .. but with the power widgets to switch network type the only thing you wouldn't be able to change are APNs .. either way, i included a virgin/unmodded services.jar that you can repush anytime you need to get back into that menu (make sure to rename it services.jar before pushing the unmodded one back to /system/framework/)
good luck!

26.09.04.26 radio?
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I know that being throttled for a supposed "unlimited" service sux, but trying to hack your way around the limit is not something I would do or agree to either. This is more of an ethical issue.
On the technical side, I would be surprised that T-Mobile network is so easily fooled by anything on the phone side. They should be able to throttle based on your unique SIM ID rather than whatever settings or APN server from your phone.
Every time you turn on your phone, they know about your SIM and IMEI number from their server, from those 2 information, they know about your phone number, your personal information, your approximate location relative to their towers and which phone you are using.

It doesn't work.

@ckisgen, Yeah I noticed that most people were unable to use this but on the rare chance this does for work someone they'll be awfully happy lol. I got tethered once when I didn't have wifi at my house, needless to say it sucked. Thanks for posting your zip, instructions, and for all the work you do in the community.
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I can just do it root explorer
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Im happy to say that this worked on my phone I was over the 5 gig limit it somehow got me faster
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Heres for thr noobs lol
Grab root explorer
Download the patch
Grab the edited services.jar not the unedited patch.
Get astro from the market or whatever file explored u like.
Go to your downloads folder in astro- highligh the services folder until a menu comes up hit edit then select move hit home on astro
U should see paste at the top in astro hit it itll put it in the root of sdcard
Grab root explored and the edited services.jar hold it hit edit in root explorer scroll down to to move then hit back once go to system folder in the main menu find framework in the system folder youll see the old services.jar dont touch it hit paste at the bottom in root explored itll asked to to overite it hit yes and it will then exit root explored reboot your phone and your free from the throttling enjoy yay!!
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I don't see how this would work. Your data usage is not tracked phone side its tracked server side by T-mobile. Just because you don't get throttled after 5GB doesn't mean that it will work all the time.

Frozen at BootScreen after this instruct... Running Virtuous Fusion MT4G v1.0.5 :: Gingerbread Sense 3.0/3D

Its working for me
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Frozen at BootScreen after this instruct... Running Virtuous Fusion MT4G v1.0.5 :: Gingerbread Sense 3.0/3D
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yep.
here's a little piece of the post where the file was uploaded :
"**THIS WILL LIKELY ONLY WORK WITH ROYALGINGER AND LATER CM7 BUILDS** because it's based on this framework."
... you really shouldn't flash things to your phone without reading the instructions. especially the parts that are in all caps, bold face, underlined, increased font size, and surrounded by multiple **'s.

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yep.
here's a little piece of the post where the file was uploaded :
"**THIS WILL LIKELY ONLY WORK WITH ROYALGINGER AND LATER CM7 BUILDS** because it's based on this framework."
... you really shouldn't flash things to your phone without reading the instructions. especially the parts that are in all caps, bold face, underlined, increased font size, and surrounded by multiple **'s.
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lol android dos and donts

TOO FUNNY!!! Surely you all jest... No bid deal... I've flashed things before that weren't supposed to work... Particularly when it says "LIKELY" which implies that such would be "possible" based upon certain conditions no?!?!
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New Android market

Hello,
For new Android market that is rolling out now, will we will get the new Android market even if our phones have been rooted and have custom ROM on it?
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I couldn't imagine them doing anything specific just to (I'm sure only momentarily) annoy people with rooted phones.
If your market works now I'd say there's a fairly good chance the new one will as well. Although I cannot confirm it.

Yes, the new one works. I use it since.yesterday on my dhd.
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EDIT: can't find the thread where i got the apk from, but i loaded it up for you with my super awesome 25kbit/s internet
Here is the link:
http://db.tt/5F8gkTl

Flussen said:
Yes, the new one works. I use it since.yesterday on my dhd.
Hey,
Okay so new market works, so you didn't do anything you just waited for new market to come to your phone via AIR.
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No, i found the apk in another thread yesterday
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Flussen said:
No, i found the apk in another thread yesterday
I think I wait till Android offical release it. But I would want to look at this thread where APK, can you provide thread link also is there anything wrong it?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1165979

Anyone else getting problem with it not showing your installed apps? Only showing 11 apps when I just counted I actually have 55 apps installed. Don't want to have to uninstall and reinstall all them just so they show up.
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I'm waiting for the offical one just to come along.
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A restart and a bit patience sorted the problem.
Overall I like it. Would rather there was a my apps button on the front page but in not going to go on a murderous rampage because its missing.
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From what I can see it is a very data hungry application as it can take a while to fire up when network connection is on the slow side.

i still havent got the update on my dhd.
so there are different release dates between different regions right?

Ye, Google did say the update (which will go on your phone auto, so no need to go to settings and update) will be with us all between now and up coming weeks.
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i hope the version that goes arround is not the final one cause beside being very laggy it is buggy. it broke a market link of an installed ap while trying to update it.
also even though it showed me one app being able to update it didn't allowed me to. clicking on it brought me to the apps details page and there i could only open or uninstall it.
i could onlly update apps if i had more than one by clicking update all.
p.s. oh and not to forgot: the amount of traffic it causes is extrem! a multiplactive of the old one, as if they would not cache the images of the apps showcase on the front page.

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i hope the version that goes arround is not the final one cause beside being very laggy it is buggy. it broke a market link of an installed ap while trying to update it.
also even though it showed me one app being able to update it didn't allowed me to. clicking on it brought me to the apps details page and there i could only open or uninstall it.
i could onlly update apps if i had more than one by clicking update all.
p.s. oh and not to forgot: the amount of traffic it causes is extrem! a multiplactive of the old one, as if they would not cache the images of the apps showcase on the front page.
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Agreed, same problem here, uninstalled the update. Don't like the new layout, hard to find things.

I have uninstalled the update and gone back to the last version. New one is almost unusable on anything other than a perfect cell connection.

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I have uninstalled the update and gone back to the last version. New one is almost unusable on anything other than a perfect cell connection.
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Same here but i guess i'll keep it as it looks great,just a matter of few days to get habitual of it

when i click on download in new market it is starting to download for ages
when i reset phone it download the file immediately

Am I the only one, who thinks the new Metro-look (WP7 like ) is ugly?

I dont see any slowness. The only thing that bothers me is the updates. With the old one you could see the updates right away. With this one not so direct.