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Anyone else notice that you can no longer select Android Wallpaper after applying the update? Any way to get it back?
kellte2 said:
Anyone else notice that you can no longer select Android Wallpaper after applying the update? Any way to get it back?
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it has been merged with HTC Wallpapers
mrono said:
it has been merged with HTC Wallpapers
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Umm... no, it hasn't.
mrono said:
it has been merged with HTC Wallpapers
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Someone tried to tell me this before but no, it's not. It's completely removed as an option. The wallpapers are still on the phone somewhere though because after installing, it loaded up the green grass wallpaper I was using from the Android Wallpapers so I know they didn't delete them.
Does anyone know how to access them so I can just use them myself?
Jye75 said:
Umm... no, it hasn't.
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sorry guess this post was wrong.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=6982111&postcount=88
I didn't put on the update so I can't check.
mrono said:
sorry guess this post was wrong.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=6982111&postcount=88
I didn't put on the update so I can't check.
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Not the first time Engadget's been wrong.
Engadget isn't completely wrong because mine and some others are also merged into the HTC wallpaper directory. However there are others I also know..and theirs are gone too. I did a hard reset on mine last night so I would have a clean upgrade tho.
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Mine did the same, no Android wallpapers. More annoyingly however, is that I can't get rid of Sense anymore. Sense was disabled and I was running Launcher when I updated this morning. It booted back up with Sense and now I can't figure out how to disable Sense again if it is at all possible.
j3oomerang said:
Mine did the same, no Android wallpapers. More annoyingly however, is that I can't get rid of Sense anymore. Sense was disabled and I was running Launcher when I updated this morning. It booted back up with Sense and now I can't figure out how to disable Sense again if it is at all possible.
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Download another launcher like AWD, open home, etc....Then use Home switcher( its in the market) to switch to them.
david279 said:
Download another launcher like AWD, open home, etc....Then use Home switcher( its in the market) to switch to them.
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That works - I'm using LauncherPro and didn't even need to get Home Switcher - but we shouldn't have to download other launchers when the stock Launcher was available. I just don't understand why they felt the need to delete these harmless traces of stock Android, especially the wallpapers. What i the world was their logic in that?
Anyone know where these wallpapers were located at in the file system? I will try to extract mine and upload them up for others.
Thanks, running ADW.
Weird...Yesterday, I updated to DC 2.2.2.1 w/OTA then updated radio & WiMax. Once i got everything running, the first thing i did was check wallpapers and the Android Wallpapers were gone. I checked today and they're back
Kept the one I was using prior to the update, can't remember if there were any other good ones. Saw the post on page 1, gonna hunt em down.
jobryan26 said:
Anyone know where these wallpapers were located at in the file system? I will try to extract mine and upload them up for others.
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I've also been trying to find the filesystem location of the original 'stock android wallpapers' files available on 1.32.651.6 has anyone found or know where they are?
I found the htc wall papers @ /system/customize/resource/htc_wallpaper_xx.jpg but not the 'android wallpapers'.
edit: note, not yet rooted so maybe can't see them.
You guys are doing to much work go to this link and boom there they are replaced in mere seconds
http://www.droidforums.net/gallery/member-galleries/p4589-htc-wallpapers.html
Hey guys
How does a market update work?
I mean, how do you get it... OTA? Open Market? Clear Market Data/Cache?
my friend is right next to me and he has the same exact phone (N1 2.2.1 on Fido) but the only difference is I rooted mine (rageagainstthecage) ... both have stock ROM
Well his market somehow updated itself this morning.... anything special I gotta do?
It just does it itself when it feels like it, seems to happen when downloading something from the Market. or you can just search for and download the new .apk, v2.2.7 is the latest.
Rusty! said:
It just does it itself when it feels like it, seems to happen when downloading something from the Market. or you can just search for and download the new .apk, v2.2.7 is the latest.
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Rusty, do you have to do a special procedure to install it or clearing cache/dalvik cache and replacing the apk in /system/app does the job?
Cause I installed 2.2.7 yesterday on latest CM nightly by doing what I said. It worked perfectly the first time, I could go in My Apps and browse everything smoothly. But, as soon as I installed an app, just when it finished installing, it crashed and I could never boot the market again. Although, the app itself installed fine =\
Just install it like any other app. It will work in /system/app or /data/app (where it would normally be if stock).
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Just install it like any other app. It will work in /system/app or /data/app (where it would normally be if stock).
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Really odd that mine crashes, it would NOT install normally, it gave me "Installation failed" error.
Perhaps you could point me to the exact file you used?
Thanks for the help!
Er... I used 2.2.6 and it's now auto updated to 2.2.7, I think I used this one: http://www.mediafire.com/?ilv5hshq0lgunnr
Rusty! said:
Er... I used 2.2.6 and it's now auto updated to 2.2.7, I think I used this one: http://www.mediafire.com/?ilv5hshq0lgunnr
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Thanks a lot mate, I'll check that one out and report back!
thanks guys, I picked up 2.2.6 and it installed just fine - I guess 2.2.7 will be updated somehow...
Also, aren't there supposed to be 5 sections in the market now? (wallpapers / widgets sections?)
They've mentioned it, but doesn't seem to be implemented yet.
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They've mentioned it, but doesn't seem to be implemented yet.
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They're in the 2.2.7 market that came out last week. Looking at them on my phone right now.
Maybe it's another US only thing for now or something, I've still only got "Apps", "Games" and "My apps" showing up.
Reporting back: Still doesn't work.
This really sucks, I can't understand why it would work on some people's phones by getting updated automatically and not on mine by updating manually... >_>
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Maybe it's another US only thing for now or something, I've still only got "Apps", "Games" and "My apps" showing up.
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That's all you're supposed to have.
ahhh when they said "adding 2 categories" I thought they meant Games - Apps - Wallpapers - Widgets - My Apps
Live Wallpapers and Widgets are both found under "Apps" ... they meant THAT category...
Ah right, I just assumed it'd become a carousel with them all. Whoops.
Is anyone else finding the new market a bit slow and buggy? Even on Wifi I tend to get the loading screen quite often. Also I've been having server errors for last two days whenever I try to go to "my apps" (my downloads).
New market suddenly appeared magically on mine 2 days ago n i didn't do anything...it was just there.....n im in Brunei...
nazrin313 said:
New market suddenly appeared magically on mine 2 days ago n i didn't do anything...it was just there.....n im in Brunei...
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Yeah it's getting pushed to phones, but I don't know if it gets pushed to phones running custom ROMs...
Just appeared magically on mine running Geo's rom.
galaxys said:
Just appeared magically on mine running Geo's rom.
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Glad to hear, I'll be waitin' then
So i turned on my tab today and all my widgets on my screen were gone. My desktop visualizer shortcuts to folder organizer apps were completely wiped along with my clock. WTF? It took me ages to sort them out and now they're bloody well gone. Why? I did nothing different or unusual with the tab yesterday. Interestingly though my sons screen is totally fine with all his regular app shortcuts to his kiddy stuff. Anyone else have a similar problem?
this may help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18947171#post18947171
Had that happan on HV very old version. Like you, just turned on and all was gone.?
What are you running..?
shaun298 said:
Had that happan on HV very old version. Like you, just turned on and all was gone.?
What are you running..?
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Taboonay 2.2 and richardtrip kernel 3.7.
gh123man said:
this may help
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18947171#post18947171[/
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So titanium bacup could be my problem. That's weird I always thought of it as my failsafe backup that could never go wrong. Naive I know but I'm fairly new to this stuff :
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gh123man said:
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So titanium bacup could be my problem. That's weird I always thought of it as my failsafe backup that could never go wrong. Naive I know but I'm fairly new to this stuff :
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Never used it, titanium (very few apps) and never apps2sd
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Whats launcher3 and why is it always running in the background on my phone?
isnt it the stock app to show the homescreen?, try kill/freeze the process and see what stops working
i think it is about google launcher or google search. i tried to uninstall then i couldnt use some google services.
It's safe to leave it on
i uninstalled it a while back and nothing happend
thelous said:
i uninstalled it a while back and nothing happend
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Did anything happen to Google services?!
Launcher 3 is the Googlequicksearchbox app. If you stop launcher 3 you will lose the speech input for Quicksearch or translater app
CronaMell said:
Did anything happen to Google services?!
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everything works normally, i dont think i could uninstall it anyways if it was important for google apps... (i am not rooted because only thing i used with root was xposed)
thelous said:
everything works normally, i dont think i could uninstall it anyways if it was important for google apps... (i am not rooted because only thing i used with root was xposed)
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It is better to leave it
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It is better to leave it
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for me its not, i never use that voice thing because theres poor support for my lang (finland) it just ate some ram and cpu for me by randomly being open on background
thelous said:
for me its not, i never use that voice thing because theres poor support for my lang (finland) it just ate some ram and cpu for me by randomly being open on background
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I meant to disable it, not deleting it
use sd-maid to freeze and control the auto start receiver for it!!! Otherwise there are a view invisible receivers active. Maybe this can cost battery power
There's a new update on the Play Store for the stock Google Phone app. And man they killed one thing I LOVED the most about it, the swipe to the different panels. I would always swipe left to my Favorites, or swipe right to the Contacts, or further swipe to the Voicemail. It was so smooth and fast, to just swipe from anywhere on the screen.
Now it's been moved to the bottom of the screen, no more swiping, now you need to tap on which panel you want. Which to me takes even longer now, and is not as fast and smooth as before.
I have been using the stock Google or ASOP Phone app for years, probably 8 years or so. This change is no bueno.
It was probably done for the benefit of those with phones that had less than quality touch screens and might have activated swipes unintentionally.
I dont mind though.
Oh man. Just go the update, too. I hate it that I can't swipe. In what weird direction is Google moving? I don't get it. They keep removing great features or replacing them with things nobody asked for or things completely out of touch with users.
The argument of the guy above me is kinda invalid. Even the worst digitizer + SoC combo will be able to do a simple swipe. I don't buy that argument, whoever came up with it. Even if they did not. In what world is an inferior, low end device getting a recent Android version on which the latest phone app is available?
Thank god apk mirror exists. AFAIK 18.0.187698947 is the latest and last one with swipe enabled.
Do you have the link for the .apk of a previous Phone app
Zorachus said:
Do you have the link for the .apk of a previous Phone app
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Just uninstall the update on the play store.
Str0ntium said:
Just uninstall the update on the play store.
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Good idea, thanks. I did, and now I have swipe back
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Good idea, thanks. I did, and now I have swipe back
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Awesome :good:
Mine keeps stopping!
I haven't been able to use the "Phone" app since the update!
I've done everything but reset the phone, nothing works and
since I can't even open the app, I can't even get rid of the update.
Any suggestions?
Thank you.
samteeee said:
Mine keeps stopping!
I haven't been able to use the "Phone" app since the update!
I've done everything but reset the phone, nothing works and
since I can't even open the app, I can't even get rid of the update.
Any suggestions?
Thank you.
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Can you open the play store? Don't need to open the phone app.
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Can you open the play store? Don't need to open the phone app.
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Sure can! You mean disable the phone app?
samteeee said:
Sure can! You mean disable the phone app?
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No. Open play store, search for "google phone", uninstall.
Str0ntium said:
No. Open play store, search for "google phone", uninstall.
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Mine is still the "Factory Version" so I can only
disable or update!
samteeee said:
Mine is still the "Factory Version" so I can only
disable or update!
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That would seem to indicate that it has not been updated, and the update is not the cause of your issue. Try updating?
Str0ntium said:
That would seem to indicate that it has not been updated, and the update is not the cause of your issue. Try updating?
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I have and still the same!
samteeee said:
I have and still the same!
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I take it you're saying the May security update is when your phone app broke, right? If that's the case, you can try flashing the May factory image after removing -w from the batch file. That 'should' rewrite the phone app, but I am not 100% sure it will. If not, a factory reset/reflash with wipe command left in batch file might be necessary unless someone else has an idea.
Maybe try an earlier version apk from apkmirror.com
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I take it you're saying the May security update is when your phone app broke, right? If that's the case, you can try flashing the May factory image after removing -w from the batch file. That 'should' rewrite the phone app, but I am not 100% sure it will. If not, a factory reset/reflash with wipe command left in batch file might be necessary unless someone else has an idea.
Maybe try an earlier version apk from apkmirror.com
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No the May update was fine, right after the app update started crashing.
But I think I'll try the earlier version from "apkmirror.com" before committing to re-flashing again.
Thank you.
samteeee said:
No the May update was fine, right after the app update started crashing.
But I think I'll try the earlier version from "apkmirror.com" before committing to re-flashing again.
Thank you.
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Let us know how it works out.
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Let us know how it works out.
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I had to disable the system "Phone" app first then installed
the latest that I downloaded from apkmirror.com and got
my phone going finally!
Thank you for replying.
samteeee said:
I had to disable the system "Phone" app first then installed
the latest that I downloaded from apkmirror.com and got
my phone going finally!
Thank you for replying.
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Cool! Good to know you didn't have to do a reset.
Based on the layouts for their new apps like the pixel 2 launcher or chrome beta, it looks like they are making apps easier to navigate with one hand by placing things towards the bottom of the screen. Seems easier to navigate than having to reach to the top of the screen in the prior version.