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Just got my vibrant today and it auto locks almost immediately. Does anyone have a fix for this? Thanks in advance.
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It's under settings->sound and display... 1 minute works great and under the appliactions->Development you can also set it so that it doesn't turn off while plugged into USB (charging). That was a god send when I rooted and put the deodexed ROM on.
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B
Thanks for the quick reply. Do u know if there is a easy way to keep it from [email protected] all? I would prefer to just lock myself...
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Get NoLock from the market.
Yes, nolock. An essential item. I pity all the regular people that don't go on forums with these phones, Samsung and Android are really going to alienate a lot of them. I suppose regular people go for the iphone though so maybe I don't have a point after all.
There is an awesome app called LockDelay that allows you to screen-off your phone after whatever time you specify, and then it will automatically lock it after yet another time you specify.
I HIGHLY recommend it, it really allows you to secure your phone and save your battery by turning that screen off.
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I pity all the regular people that don't go on forums with these phones.
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Just sold a Vibrant in my T-Mobile store today. My rep was showing the customer hers and the customer asked her opinion, he also noticed I had one (I'm the store manager) so I walked over and struck up some conversation to close the deal. As I scrolled through the screen he noticed the XDA app icon and inquired about it. I gave him a few pointers and explained he should joined because there's a wealth of knowledge to be found on these forums. I've found having that little app installed on my phone, as well as our Android live demos is a nice way to introduce customers and new Android owners to XDA.
stock phone is very good. but after customizing, it becomes a whole different android experience.
Thanks for all the tips... I installed no lock, and set the screen to a min an its doing the trick.
Side note, its amazing that I could make the jump from blackberry an transition to the vibrant, can u think of 2 more different phones.
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ThinPhone vs iPhone 4...?
-bZj
ledbetter.james said:
Thanks for all the tips... I installed no lock, and set the screen to a min an its doing the trick.
Side note, its amazing that I could make the jump from blackberry an transition to the vibrant, can u think of 2 more different phones.
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They are two very different phones, but as someone works in the industry, my opinion is that RIM hasn't helped themselves by keeping the Berry in the "stone age." Don't get me wrong. I understand they still have a strong following and a huge success in the business market, but Android is catching up and can be used just as well if you have the right phone. Glad you made the jump and the transition is going well.
First I would like to say I have been looking through XDA for about three/four months now, but haven't posted anything. I had the HTC Leo (HD2) from T-Mobile, but did not have coverage in my area (plus, WM was a turn-off...lol). So I switched to AT&T and got the BlackBerry Torch. After about 20 days with it I got bored of the lack of "good" applications in App World. So I decided to get a Motorola BackFlip...but when I saw the Samsung Captivate, I was in love. I have been programming for well over six years, but about two years ago got into Java (for the BlackBerry development, I had a BB Storm at the time). Android application development is pretty similar to the BlackBerry's (as I expected), so I'm pretty confident in my programming skills with Android.
Enough of my introduction, my point is I would like to contribute to the XDA Community...to give back something from everything I've gotten. I have two ideas:
1) Get application ideas from the XDA Community, anyone that contributes will get the application for free.
2) Help out some project such as KiteUI, or start one myself.
All feedback is appreciated! Thank you for reading!
Welcome to forums
Nice introduction
Howdy, Nick. I'm trying to start a project myself, but I've had no takers so far. I'm hoping to find a developer here on XDA and get feedback and ideas through a beta release to the forums. Interested?
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Howdy, Nick. I'm trying to start a project myself, but I've had no takers so far. I'm hoping to find a developer here on XDA and get feedback and ideas through a beta release to the forums. Interested?
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Depends what it is, PM me and we'll talk.
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First I would like to say I have been looking through XDA for about three/four months now, but haven't posted anything. I had the HTC Leo (HD2) from T-Mobile, but did not have coverage in my area (plus, WM was a turn-off...lol). So I switched to AT&T and got the BlackBerry Torch. After about 20 days with it I got bored of the lack of "good" applications in App World. So I decided to get a Motorola BackFlip...but when I saw the Samsung Captivate, I was in love. I have been programming for well over six years, but about two years ago got into Java (for the BlackBerry development, I had a BB Storm at the time). Android application development is pretty similar to the BlackBerry's (as I expected), so I'm pretty confident in my programming skills with Android.
Enough of my introduction, my point is I would like to contribute to the XDA Community...to give back something from everything I've gotten. I have two ideas:
1) Get application ideas from the XDA Community, anyone that contributes will get the application for free.
2) Help out some project such as KiteUI, or start one myself.
All feedback is appreciated! Thank you for reading!
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Outlook App fior Android (working on 1.5 on) and a sync app that doesn't rely on the cloud!
I would really appreciate the following:
1. Ability to change fonts within the phone without having to go into clockwork and flashing zips. Some fonts are too massive for a small screen end too much scrolling is required.
2. A good google reader app and widget.
3. Better email and lock screen apps and widgets. Unified email inbox would be extremely valuable.
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I would really appreciate the following:
1. Ability to change fonts within the phone without having to go into clockwork and flashing zips. Some fonts are too massive for a small screen end too much scrolling is required.
2. A good google reader app and widget.
3. Better email and lock screen apps and widgets. Unified email inbox would be extremely valuable.
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Thanks for the feedback! They all seem like great ideas. I'll start working on one and PM you when it's finished.
Nice intro. Wish I had mad skills (or rather any skills, LOL).
Anywho, I would love to see an unread email widget(s) that can show unread count from any and all email clients available on android currently, specifically default email client & yahoo, and of course gmail. I would that you could customize the icons and optional text colors.
Something like the current SMS unread count available in the market, only better just an idea.
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goldenstorm said:
Nice intro. Wish I had mad skills (or rather any skills, LOL).
Anywho, I would love to see an unread email widget(s) that can show unread count from any and all email clients available on android currently, specifically default email client & yahoo, and of course gmail. I would that you could customize the icons and optional text colors.
Something like the current SMS unread count available in the market, only better just an idea.
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Thanks!
I have gotten a few ideas, and I like yours too. I'll be thinking of which app to make (I might try to make them all, but one at a time), and I'll post on here which I choose. Thanks again!
Very cool. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with. PM me if you some testing done.
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Welcome Welcome!!!
I have been looking for two apps...
1. A descent Facebook application with push notifications for messages tha unlike the original app, actually works.
2. I cant find any DeviantArt applications to see my own profile, in fact, i cant find ANY DeviantArt application. That would be neat
I am adding support for customize carrier name for CM, and almost done.
Carrier name is shown in the notification area, top-right of lock screen, and setings/about phone/status...Network
The well know names are "T-Mobile", "Version", "CMCC" and so on. some carrier name even not readable and friendly, do you know what's "CMCC" means? certainly not. But it's means "China Mobile". that's why I want to customize carrier name, I also found some guy's want to custom it for personality, such as "Bob's Evo" and so on. search 'carrier name' in this forum you'll find many people want it.
Now on my N1 with CM built by myself last night, carrier name has been update to readable and internationalization (i18n).
(newbie cann't add external link...)
Would you like this feature come into CM 6.1?
update: screen shots attached.
1. Before it's "CMCC",
2. Now it's "China Mobile",
3. i18n for Chinese:
Cool, that would make a nice little new feature to add.
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(...) Would you like this feature come into CM 6.1? (...)
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Sure we want this feature in CM 6.1
A feature to costumize it..of course!!!
Not gonna lie. I would make it say something inappropriate. Do want like you would not believe.
Hey men, what do you wanna say ?
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add it to CM's issue tracker as an enhancement.. the link is in Cyanogen's signature
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Would you like this feature come into CM 6.1?
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NO!
We want this feature available for any and all ROMs for Nexus One.
Why just offer for CM?
I want the ability to put any name/text/character as the carrier name please.
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It's really great waiting for something like this for a lng time
Can you post links withouth http or www? i really want to try it
Carrier: Sprint
*Snicker*
Cheers,
Kermee
I think it's a good idea but don't care about it because I have mine set to not show anything there anyway. But I would like to be able to put a shortcut to an app or two in that area.
I know you can put apps in the notification area, but I don't like them there and I have that block of blank space that isn't being used and would be a great place for launching an app without exiting the current app I'm in.
Unless, of course, this can already be done and I just haven't found it yet.
Cool idea
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That's another feature
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Hi fubayu, you can get it by long press HOME button, then a last recent apps will prsent for you.
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That's cool!
(But it'd be way cooler to change it on the lockscreen )
Is there any one else can't get readable/canonical operator name in your rooted phone with customized ROM?
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I'm on the fence with this device, I have a couple of questions about this one so if I could please get some help.
-Is there any ROMS out there that lets you either hide the nav bar, or change the size of it to get back some more screen size?
-With the 4.2.2 OTA update, supposedtly the LTE for T-Mobile is disbled but there is a work around for this to come back?
I appreciate the help. I'm coming from a Galaxy S2 by the way, so has anyone made this transition?
Yes to both questions...
Paranoid Rom! Or PACman both have options to hide the nav bar and use pre controls!
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I never did take the 4.2.2 OTA so can't help you there. But check out Paranoid Android who are the pioneers of Pie, which expands the desktop to hide the navbar completely. There are other popular ROMs (CM from what I hear) that have adopted this. As far as shrinking or resizing the navbar, any AOKP-derivative ROM or AOKP itself have that feature.
Just take a look around the dev forums, I'm sure you know most ROMs have their features listed on the 1st page. Welcome & have fun!
EDIT: "Pioneers Of Pie", haha
Thanks for the feedback.
I'm pretty sure the newer Nexus 4's come with 4.2.2 out of the box, so the work around for LTE will have to be done. I'll check out the ROMs to see the nav bar functions.
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Thanks for the feedback.
I'm pretty sure the newer Nexus 4's come with 4.2.2 out of the box, so the work around for LTE will have to be done. I'll check out the ROMs to see the nav bar functions.
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I received mine aprox. 2 weeks ago, and it wasnt on 4.2.2 out of the box!
However it isnt this updated version (with the nipples) people speak about!
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I received mine aprox. 2 weeks ago, and it wasnt on 4.2.2 out of the box!
However it isnt this updated version (with the nipples) people speak about!
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I want the one with the little bumps! I hardly ever put my GS2 on a hard surface directly, at work I always put my phone on a sticky note. So yea, if there is an "auto hide" function for the Nav bar, similar to hiding the Start menu in windows, I'm in.
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I want the one with the little bumps! I hardly ever put my GS2 on a hard surface directly, at work I always put my phone on a sticky note. So yea, if there is an "auto hide" function for the Nav bar, similar to hiding the Start menu in windows, I'm in.
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A lot of roms, if not all have the navbar auto hide, and if you don't want the navbar there at all they have pie controls so you're covered there
If you can completely get rid of the nav bar (not auto hide), how do you go back or home? Sorry if this is a stupid question.
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So yea, if there is an "auto hide" function for the Nav bar, similar to hiding the Start menu in windows, I'm in.
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Well then forget navbar resizing and go straight for any ROM boasting Pie Controls. You get rid of the navbar and get a much slicker alternative--while I've personally been there done that & reverted to standard navbar, a lot of folks have tried Pie and never gone back
EDIT: Here's a nice huge example pic. Very aesthetically pleasing buttons that fade in with a simple thumb gesture & fade out.
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Well then forget navbar resizing and go straight for any ROM boasting Pie Controls. You get rid of the navbar and get a much slicker alternative--while I've personally been there done that & reverted to standard navbar, a lot of folks have tried Pie and never gone back
EDIT: Here's a nice huge example pic
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Heck yea, that's what I'm talking about. I'm assuming thats a side swipe type deal?
stevew84 said:
I'm on the fence with this device, I have a couple of questions about this one so if I could please get some help.
-Is there any ROMS out there that lets you either hide the nav bar, or change the size of it to get back some more screen size?
-With the 4.2.2 OTA update, supposedtly the LTE for T-Mobile is disbled but there is a work around for this to come back?
I appreciate the help. I'm coming from a Galaxy S2 by the way, so has anyone made this transition?
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Not trying to be a d**k, but both of these questions could've been answered with a simple search. Kind of a waste of a thread.
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Not trying to be a d**k, but both of these questions could've been answered with a simple search. Kind of a waste of a thread.
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Eh, have the mods close it.
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Heck yea, that's what I'm talking about. I'm assuming thats a side swipe type deal?
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Absolutely--what's even better is you can change their color & highlights to whatever you want. They're black by default & look good w whatever background you got
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Not trying to be a d**k, but both of these questions could've been answered with a simple search. Kind of a waste of a thread.
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The search before you post ship has sailed a long time ago if you ask me, haha. How many threads titled My N4 just arrived let's all talk about it or What's the best ROM + Kernel combo get posted in a day on average? 4?
Might as well play nice. Mods' discretion etc
I've searched but can't find any threads on this...
Can I swop the soft keys on my Nexus 4? It's not rooted at present, but rooting it is not a problem.
Thanks.
*swap
Im guessing by swap you mean that you want to be able to change the order of the keys on the navigation bar?
If so, you will need a custom rom. Most roms will allow you to edit the navigation bar to remove/add/rearrange the softkeys, such as cyanogenmod, carbon, aokp, etc.
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*swap
Im guessing by swap you mean that you want to be able to change the order of the keys on the navigation bar?
If so, you will need a custom rom. Most roms will allow you to edit the navigation bar to remove/add/rearrange the softkeys, such as cyanogenmod, carbon, aokp, etc.
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*Swop.
I mean I'd like to swop over the two keys that reside either side of the home button. That is, the recent apps key on the left and the back button on the right. I'm left handed (and British, hence *swop) and it's more convenient with the soft keys this way round.
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*Swop.
I mean I'd like to swop over the two keys that reside either side of the home button. That is, the recent apps key on the left and the back button on the right. I'm left handed (and British, hence *swop) and it's more convenient with the soft keys this way round.
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Oops my bad, I had no idea that how you guys spelled that...seems so wrong. Sorry for being so ignorant.
Anyways, you still need to use a custom rom to be able to achieve what you're looking for.
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Oops my bad, I had no idea that how you guys spelled that...seems so wrong
Anyways, you still need to use a custom rom to be able to achieve what you're looking for.
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And until I started messing around with Linux I had no idea you lot spelt it wrong either
I spent hours trying to setup a swop file, and kept failing, then I realised it's a swap file!
In fairness, both are used in the British version of English, and in some regions swap is more common, but I'm a child of the 70's, and we had The Multicoloured Swop Shop TV show on a Saturday morning, so it's how i've always spelt it.
I'm running Cyanogenmod 10.1 stable on my Samsung Note 2, I can't see anyway to swop the keys, would this facility feature only on CM on the Nexus? or does it not offer it at all?
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And until I started messing around with Linux I had no idea you lot spelt it wrong either
I spent hours trying to setup a swop file, and kept failing, then I realised it's a swap file!
In fairness, both are used in the British version of English, and in some regions swap is more common, but I'm a child of the 70's, and we had The Multicoloured Swop Shop TV show on a Saturday morning, so it's how i've always spelt it.
I'm running Cyanogenmod 10.1 stable on my Samsung Note 2, I can't see anyway to swop the keys, would this facility feature only on CM on the Nexus? or does it not offer it at all?
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Haha interesting. As a Canadian, we usually adopt the British spelling of most words rather than the American, but apparently not in this case. Ive honestly never heard of "swop" being used.
The reason you dont have the navigation bar options on your note 2 is because the phone lacks a software navigation bar. Technically the options are there, but cm hides them on devices with hardware buttons. You would actually be able to unmask these options on your note 2 by adding a line in your build.prop: "qemu.hw.mainkeys=0". Doing that will give you all of the navbar features, as well as pie controls.
On nexus devices (or other devices with a navigation bar) these options are shown by default.
Every version of CM 10.x that I have used, on the nexus 4, has the ability to customize the navigation bar. I don't know about other devices. I also always switch the back button and recent apps button.
Go to: Settings>System>Buttons and Layout (under the Navigation Bar sub-heading)
The instructions for changing them are built-in.
That's brill, thanks both of you.
I was pondering putting CM on the Nexus, that's the decision made.
Now off to find a "how to".
Regards.
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That's brill, thanks both of you.
I was pondering putting CM on the Nexus, that's the decision made.
Now off to find a "how to".
Regards.
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1. Unlock the bootloader and install a custom recovery (twrp)
2. Download cm and copy to your phone
3. Boot into twrp. Wipe > Swipe to factory reset. Install > browse to cm zip, select it, and swipe to flash
TVM.
I'm English and I've never used the word swop. Maybe it's a regional thing? Slightly off topic, I know.
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If you guys are gonna go ot then I'm sure there's other things than the English dictionary and the word swap/swop. Its like arguing with americans about aluminium, not aloomium as they pronounce it, its just pointless
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If you guys are gonna go ot then I'm sure there's other things than the English dictionary and the word swap/swop. Its like arguing with americans about aluminium, not aloomium as they pronounce it, its just pointless
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Nobody's arguing it's just a simple debate.
I've seen and used it both ways i tend to use swap more often now. I'm from northeastern England. Come to think of it Google keyboard knows it as both swap and swop
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Love how some try to turn all internet chat into arguments whilst taking the whole "I'm above this" approach!
I'm originally a southerner, Londoner to be precise, but have lived in Ireland for many years now. From a speech perspective swap would be more common here.
Perhaps swop is a southern thing? After all, we do speak proper, not like you northerners
Sorted, just! Took hours to get the drivers working on Windows, once that was finally sorted the rest was a breeze
Soft keys now suitable for a leftie
it was swap shop
swap shop.....:laugh: never has been swop
Good god, just Googled it, your right. This is shocking news. Did I grow up in a parallel universe where it was swop, or am I, gulp, wrong?
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Good god, just Googled it, your right. This is shocking news. Did I grow up in a parallel universe where it was swop, or am I, gulp, wrong?
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Haha, well according to this both swap and swop are correct.
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Good god, just Googled it, your right. This is shocking news. Did I grow up in a parallel universe where it was swop, or am I, gulp, wrong?
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Ha must be strange to question your childhood.
Wrong about it being "swop shop" yeah but who cares at the end of the day it's just different regions and accents.
You'd have to be the type of douchebag who loves to be right all the time. Running around saying "it's not proper English unless it's standard English." Nobody speaks standard English you write standard English that's why you have formal and informal writing.
Yes douchebag is slang.
Now how did we get on to this? Almost all nexus 4 ROMs will let you customize the navigation bar.
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My Nexus is now sporting CM10.1 stable. It's a shame that I had to use a custom rom just to achieve something so basic, you'd really think the facility to swop, sorry swap the keys would be there in vanilla Android, but I guess not.
There again, vanilla also forgot to add in a battery percentage icon so it's missing some pretty obvious features, I mean, even IOS had had a battery percentage since around version 3!
Oh well, happy with CM so all good with the world once more.
Thanks for the help.