Does anyone have a tutorial or something that explains the relationship between contacts in gmail and contacts on an android phone? Gmail has that awkward "all contacts" and "my contacts" dichotomy, and I'm wondering how that transitions to the phone--I'd hate to have hundreds and hundreds of names from the all contacts list on my phone.
Only the contacts listed in "My Contacts" area are imported to your phone. Anything that is edited or deleted there will also be edited or deleted on your phone and vise versa.
I think what I did before i got my Droid was cleared out the My Contacts folder since I was going to have Verizon transfer all the contacts from my old phone to the Droid anyway. Then I went on the Contacts on a computer and edited then as necessary.
Is there anyway to copy a calendar appointment from one day to another in the default calendar app on Android 2.0? Any ideas/workarounds would be awesome.
Is there anyway to copy a calendar appointment from one day to another in the default calendar app on Android 2.0? Any ideas/workarounds would be awesome.
Number one issue with Android right here. Calendar is badmo.
So, does anyone know of an app or a hack to turn the screen brightness down lower than what is in the settings? Like, I don't need backlight at all. Basically, when the screen dims from inactivity on the lowest brightness setting is what I want during use.
It's getting frustratingly hard to find an Android phone in Australia.
I've been to several phone shops that don't stock any, and it looks like there's none on the Telstra or Optus websites. Vodafone and 3 have the HTC Magic/Touch and it looks like that's it.
Any good radio apps? And how do I use an htc rom to play flash video from g4 and the daily show on my droid?
I use an app on my Hero called Antropia to stream live internet radio, mostly stations I've discovered on itunes like soma.fm, etc. Just discovered that it plays audiobooks too, with pause/resume for phone calls. I got to use Grooveshark as part of the Android Developers Challenge 2, and I was very impressed with it's audio management. I'd also recommend TuneWiki, it's a great replacement audio player that offers suggestions based on your MP3 library.
Erm, I was under the impression that all the "with Google" phones are the "true" Android.
Seem to remember seeing something about a Google Phone not necessarily being an Android device, but being a Google Voice-based one.
EDIT: My Google-fu is failing, so I'll ask here. What are the benefits to running Apps2SD? I'm using a HTC Hero, which isn't as RAM-limited as the G1/Dream, so I'm just wondering if it'd be beneficial in any way.
EDIT: My Google-fu is failing, so I'll ask here. What are the benefits to running Apps2SD? I'm using a HTC Hero, which isn't as RAM-limited as the G1/Dream, so I'm just wondering if it'd be beneficial in any way.
it all depends on how many apps you want. I have 29 apps loaded on my Droid at the moment and have 198MB of free internal space left. That's still quite a lot more apps. The larges app i have is WeatherBug and it's 2.88MB's so even then it's not much. Unless there is some huge GB size app out there that I'm missing I can't imagine ever filling that up.
Now, if it makes things faster then.. i don't knowmaybe it might be useful.
Oooh, does it play audiobooks like normal MP3s that can then be resumed at any point?
I would assume so, but I don't listen to audiobooks myself. I just noticed the feature when I was tooling around in the Antropia app. Give it a shot and let us know...
Yeah. Just picked up a class 6 one (I know, not really that good an indication), so I guess the best way to find out is just to give it a shot. Hopefully there's a painless way to reverse the process.
How much faster/capable are the new sets compared to the G1? I pretty much noticed slowdown from when I first got it, not enough to really bug me though.
I'm running a custom ROM and there's still some slowdown here and there. Mostly in the virtual keyboard, but sometimes in the Sense UI as well. Still love it, though.
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Been using a droid for the past couple of days, and unless something clicks for me, I see myself returning it and getting a cheapo PAYG phone for myself for my second line (as I already have an iPhone as my main).
It seems to be a solid device, but the UI is really pissing me off and it feels like too many steps to get to things.
Also, what douche decided to call Folders "view Labels" in email?
Having a 5 MP camera is really nice, but it takes much longer to get to the point where you are taking a picture with this thing. Maybe a software update will help, but right now its a hinderance.
I dunno, I went in really wanting to like it, but this is a device that just feels like a "me too!" which is really counter to the whole ad push they had.
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Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Yeah. Just picked up a class 6 one (I know, not really that good an indication), so I guess the best way to find out is just to give it a shot. Hopefully there's a painless way to reverse the process.
I have been thinking of getting a class 6 card to replace the one that came with it. Notice any difference? The one area I am hoping to improve is camera writing to card. I just don't want to plunk down money on a card if I am not going to notice any improvements.
Yeah. Just picked up a class 6 one (I know, not really that good an indication), so I guess the best way to find out is just to give it a shot. Hopefully there's a painless way to reverse the process.
I have been thinking of getting a class 6 card to replace the one that came with it. Notice any difference? The one area I am hoping to improve is camera writing to card. I just don't want to plunk down money on a card if I am not going to notice any improvements.
Not sure you'd actually notice the difference for things like the camera - it's pretty slow taking a picture in the best of circumstances, IMO. It might be marginal, but admittedly I've never tested it.
I put a Class 6 in to use it for swap and application partitions that the hacked ROM I'm using can take advantage of (yay for practically unlimited space for applications!), where it does make a significant difference (conventional wisdom tends to agree that you shouldn't even bother on a Class 2).
Class 6 is pretty cheap (up to a certain size), so if you play your cards right, the difference might only be a dollar or two more, if anything. At the time, when I was shopping on Amazon and Newegg, some of the Class 6 cards were cheaper than some of the Class 2 or 4. If you're buying a new card, there's little to be lost in going Class 6.
Erm, I was under the impression that all the "with Google" phones are the "true" Android.
Seem to remember seeing something about a Google Phone not necessarily being an Android device, but being a Google Voice-based one.
EDIT: My Google-fu is failing, so I'll ask here. What are the benefits to running Apps2SD? I'm using a HTC Hero, which isn't as RAM-limited as the G1/Dream, so I'm just wondering if it'd be beneficial in any way.
According to the rumors from Tech Crunch and Gizmodo from unnamed but trusted sources, it seems like it'd be a new version of Android (and, I imagine, with hardware to get the maximum performance out of the OS)
Another rumor is that it'd be VOIP for calls, necessitating only a Data plan, but it'd still be an Android device (and even if that wasn't in the reports, I can't imagine why a Google Voice phone wouldn't use Android for its OS)
The debate over Droid v. iPhone rages on, but lots more Android surprises are on the way. Get ready for the Google Phone. It’s no longer a myth, it’s real.
The next “super” Android device will almost certainly be a HTC phone that’s much thinner than even the Droid or iPhone – The Dragon/Passion. This is the phone the senior Android guys at Google are now carrying around and testing, at least as of a couple of weeks ago. If you’re willing to give up the Droid’s keyboard, the Dragon/Passion is going to be a really cool phone. It should be fully available very soon.
But it isn’t the Google Phone. Everything up until now has just been a warm up to the Google Phone.
Way more interesting are the rumors we’ve been hearing for months about a pure Google-branded phone. Most of our sources have unconfirmed information, which we describe below. But there are a few things we have absolutely confirmed: Google is building their own branded phone that they’ll sell directly and through retailers. They were long planning to have the phone be available by the holidays, but it has now slipped to early 2010. The phone will be produced by a major phone manufacturer but will only have Google branding (Microsoft did the same thing with their first Zunes, which were built by Toshiba).
There won’t be any negotiation or compromise over the phone’s design of features – Google is dictating every last piece of it. No splintering of the Android OS that makes some applications unusable. Like the iPhone for Apple, this phone will be Google’s pure vision of what a phone should be.
That’s it for confirmed, super-high confidence information, which frankly isn’t a whole lot more than we all heard back in late October. But we also have a few more details as well that we’ve gathered from a number of sources. Everything that follows we still consider to be just well-sourced rumors:
One source told us that HTC, a Taiwanese company, is building the new Google phone, but we think that information is incorrect. We have some fairly good information that suggests Google is working with a Korean phone manufacturer on the Google phone – LG or Samsung (we mentioned this on CrunchGear earlier this week). Samsung has multiple parts in the iPhone and could be pressured by Apple not to work with Google, which says LG is the more likely partner for Google. So rumors like this one may be much more important than they first appear. But either way, the best information we have right now points directly at Korea as the birthplace of the Google Phone.
We’ve also heard from a good source that Google is planning a big advertising push around the device early next year – like January.
That’s all we have for now. We don’t yet know what the device will look like, how big it will be, or even if it has a physical keyboard. But we do know that Google is getting into the phone building business directly, and doesn’t seem too concerned about competing with all the other device manufacturers building Android phones.
The alternative is using a Palm m100 and a dumb phone for 8 years because you're scared of making an investment in something that will become obsolete quickly
Yeah, I have a Magic and as long as it is as open as it is, I'm not too worried about future-proofing. I can still flash most innovations directly to my device or the best parts will get grabbed and put on there eventually.
The alternative is using a Palm m100 and a dumb phone for 8 years because you're scared of making an investment in something that will become obsolete quickly
Holy crap you're giving me flashbacks. I went from a Palm m100, to the m125, to a Sony CLIE, then finally smartphones because I got sick of maintaining two seperate phone books.
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Ok so a month ago HTC said they were working on a Sense UI for Android 2.0. Well fudge all that, there's leaked images out there of Sense UI running on Android 2.1. Theres already a leaked release out there for GSM phones, but word is the official release for CDMA (Sprint) phones will be before Christmas.
Joy!!!!!
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Ok so a month ago HTC said they were working on a Sense UI for Android 2.0. Well fudge all that, there's leaked images out there of Sense UI running on Android 2.1. Theres already a leaked release out there for GSM phones, but word is the official release for CDMA (Sprint) phones will be before Christmas.
Joy!!!!!
Official word came out (Thursday) regarding VZW's Eris to expect the update in Q1 2010, in case anyone was curious.
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I think what I did before i got my Droid was cleared out the My Contacts folder since I was going to have Verizon transfer all the contacts from my old phone to the Droid anyway. Then I went on the Contacts on a computer and edited then as necessary.
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I'm thinking something like Hulu, but any cool web series you know of that works would be nice too
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I've been to several phone shops that don't stock any, and it looks like there's none on the Telstra or Optus websites. Vodafone and 3 have the HTC Magic/Touch and it looks like that's it.
I've been using Pandora a lot and there is Slacker as well, but I was not a fan of that one so much.
Unless you mean over the air radio, then I don't know.
I use an app on my Hero called Antropia to stream live internet radio, mostly stations I've discovered on itunes like soma.fm, etc. Just discovered that it plays audiobooks too, with pause/resume for phone calls. I got to use Grooveshark as part of the Android Developers Challenge 2, and I was very impressed with it's audio management. I'd also recommend TuneWiki, it's a great replacement audio player that offers suggestions based on your MP3 library.
particularly the idea that we haven't seen the "True" Android yet?
Seem to remember seeing something about a Google Phone not necessarily being an Android device, but being a Google Voice-based one.
EDIT: My Google-fu is failing, so I'll ask here. What are the benefits to running Apps2SD? I'm using a HTC Hero, which isn't as RAM-limited as the G1/Dream, so I'm just wondering if it'd be beneficial in any way.
it all depends on how many apps you want. I have 29 apps loaded on my Droid at the moment and have 198MB of free internal space left. That's still quite a lot more apps. The larges app i have is WeatherBug and it's 2.88MB's so even then it's not much. Unless there is some huge GB size app out there that I'm missing I can't imagine ever filling that up.
Now, if it makes things faster then.. i don't knowmaybe it might be useful.
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I would assume so, but I don't listen to audiobooks myself. I just noticed the feature when I was tooling around in the Antropia app. Give it a shot and let us know...
Yeah. Just picked up a class 6 one (I know, not really that good an indication), so I guess the best way to find out is just to give it a shot. Hopefully there's a painless way to reverse the process.
It seems to be a solid device, but the UI is really pissing me off and it feels like too many steps to get to things.
Also, what douche decided to call Folders "view Labels" in email?
Having a 5 MP camera is really nice, but it takes much longer to get to the point where you are taking a picture with this thing. Maybe a software update will help, but right now its a hinderance.
I dunno, I went in really wanting to like it, but this is a device that just feels like a "me too!" which is really counter to the whole ad push they had.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
With the exception that the camera doesn't work properly (red lines through pictures) and the camcorder doesn't work at all.
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The same one that made Gmail work that way?
Can trade TF2 items or whatever else you're interested in. PM me.
I have been thinking of getting a class 6 card to replace the one that came with it. Notice any difference? The one area I am hoping to improve is camera writing to card. I just don't want to plunk down money on a card if I am not going to notice any improvements.
Not sure you'd actually notice the difference for things like the camera - it's pretty slow taking a picture in the best of circumstances, IMO. It might be marginal, but admittedly I've never tested it.
I put a Class 6 in to use it for swap and application partitions that the hacked ROM I'm using can take advantage of (yay for practically unlimited space for applications!), where it does make a significant difference (conventional wisdom tends to agree that you shouldn't even bother on a Class 2).
Class 6 is pretty cheap (up to a certain size), so if you play your cards right, the difference might only be a dollar or two more, if anything. At the time, when I was shopping on Amazon and Newegg, some of the Class 6 cards were cheaper than some of the Class 2 or 4. If you're buying a new card, there's little to be lost in going Class 6.
According to the rumors from Tech Crunch and Gizmodo from unnamed but trusted sources, it seems like it'd be a new version of Android (and, I imagine, with hardware to get the maximum performance out of the OS)
Another rumor is that it'd be VOIP for calls, necessitating only a Data plan, but it'd still be an Android device (and even if that wasn't in the reports, I can't imagine why a Google Voice phone wouldn't use Android for its OS)
here's one article
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/17/thegoogle-phone/
Plus whilst shopping for a case for my Hero today I see that Best Buy is offering it for only $99??!?
So I got double-boned today...AWESOME!
No man should have that kind of power.(Twitter)
Holy crap you're giving me flashbacks. I went from a Palm m100, to the m125, to a Sony CLIE, then finally smartphones because I got sick of maintaining two seperate phone books.
No man should have that kind of power.(Twitter)
That's why I'm a little worried, but so far I've been good.
Joy!!!!!
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Can't wait for the final though.