hello guys, i did own a iphone but had so many problems so sold it and bought the htc one x while i love it and me being a first time android user i have a few questions please needing answered...ok here we go
1, the home screen wallpaper what size do i need to make one for just to have the middle home screen? so it will stay static across all homescreen's without scroll? what dimension's?
2, how do install ringtones, music , pictures as i'm on a macbook, can i just plug it into the usb to computer and drag and drop?
3, can i alter my default icons to different ones like the phone , sms icons etc...to custom ones i'm running stock everything as its brand new out the box yesterday and would like to keep it that way if possible...? is it possible?
4, how do i delete app's off the phone i no longer want?
5, i saw a app UCCW custom clock maker how can i install one's from here people have posted zip file for where do the files go? and can i use them running stock firmware etc out of the box?
1. 1280x720...someone please correct me if I'm wrong
2. I usually connect my phone and then open my phone's drive and extract my music files into the "dcim" folder. However you can also just use a program like windows media player or winamp or whatever else program and it should do the transferring part for you. Same with images, I put them in the dcim folder.
If you want to set a song or tune as your ring tone simply open your music app, touch and hold the song/tune you'd like to usw until an option menu extends. Option should be there, simply follow it
3. Yes, you can. However changing icons might only seem possible without rooting your phone if you use an external launcher. Try searching for "go launcher" in the play store. Or use "nova launcher".. note that you won't be able to use sense widgets on external launchers.
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4. Open your app drawer, click and touch an app you would like to uninstall. The.background will turn to your home screen and the top right corner should be highlighted "uninstall". Simply drag your all over.
5. That is something someone else would have to answer, but they would be doing me a favor as well, haha! Good luck with your one x. Welcome on board
shadehh has replied most of your questions but I could add in .
4 . You can go to Setting > Apps and click on the apps you want to uninstall too . You can also download Easy Uninstaller from Play Store to have a more easy uninstalling experience .
5 . In android , we use a file type ".apk" to install stuff such as Window's ".exe" to install stuff and so on . So maybe the zip file of the app you mentioned consist the apk file in the zip and yes you can use them running stock firmware etc out of the box .
You can create a folder called "Ringtones" on the root directory of your sdcard and put whatever mp3 you want to use as your ringtone in it. This mp3 can then be selected from settings -> personalize -> sound -> ringtones.
The same goes for alarms and notifications. Just create folders called "Alarms" and "Notifications" on the root directory of your sdcard and they will be selectable in the personalization settings.
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You can create a folder called "Ringtones" on the root directory of your sdcard and put whatever mp3 you want to use as your ringtone in it. This mp3 can then be selected from settings -> personalize -> sound -> ringtones.
The same goes for alarms and notifications. Just create folders called "Alarms" and "Notifications" on the root directory of your sdcard and they will be selectable in the personalization settings.
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on the jtc one x there is no sd card only internal memory if i'm correct so where do i put them?
shadehh said:
1. 1280x720...someone please correct me if I'm wrong
2. I usually connect my phone and then open my phone's drive and extract my music files into the "dcim" folder. However you can also just use a program like windows media player or winamp or whatever else program and it should do the transferring part for you. Same with images, I put them in the dcim folder.
If you want to set a song or tune as your ring tone simply open your music app, touch and hold the song/tune you'd like to usw until an option menu extends. Option should be there, simply follow it
3. Yes, you can. However changing icons might only seem possible without rooting your phone if you use an external launcher. Try searching for "go launcher" in the play store. Or use "nova launcher".. note that you won't be able to use sense widgets on external launchers.
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4. Open your app drawer, click and touch an app you would like to uninstall. The.background will turn to your home screen and the top right corner should be highlighted "uninstall". Simply drag your all over.
5. That is something someone else would have to answer, but they would be doing me a favor as well, haha! Good luck with your one x. Welcome on board
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thanks for the help very much appreciated :good:
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Hi!
Friends, I'm new to the forum and am looking for some ROM that has the option to hide icons, music, files, etc.
Smartphone see more and more as a personal computer, but always have a friend from work, personal friend, a family that wants to move out of curiosity on the smartphone. So look for ROMs that have the option to hide apps, photos, videos, music, files, or all that this smartphone. Example: You want to hide the game Angrybirds for a child to not see him and be done with the device's battery. The ROM would choose to hide the icon so it does not appear in the list of applications and only be accessed through an explorer.
Has anyone thought about it?
Does anyone know of a ROM that has this option?
Thanks,
Roka
Try look for an app on the market. I am sure there is something out there. I don't think (like 99% sure) that a rom doesn't include this. Have a look for an app.
Normally in cyanogenMOD there is an option to hide apps in the app drawer that you don't use often. They are not deleted but are hidden when you simply press app drawer, although they are only one click away from be seen.
CyanogenMod uses ADWLauncher not the default launcher by Google.
download adw launcher from the market. or flash cyanogen mod which comes with adw installed. open your app drawer and click menu. it will say create new catalog. create 1 then choose which apps u want in your hidden catalog
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As in, I don't want movies to show up. I also don't want folders with icons showing up. I've also had beautiful Widgets themes I have downloaded show up. Its very cluttered
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If you use quickpic you have an option on folders to not show media from that location (basically puts a .nomedia file in the folder). I don't know about just removing video from a folder though.
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monoxide.tryst said:
As in, I don't want movies to show up. I also don't want folders with icons showing up. I've also had beautiful Widgets themes I have downloaded show up. Its very cluttered
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1. Use something like Root Explorer (or just Explorer) and browse to the folders that contain these files, and inside them create a new file called:
.nomedia
(including the . at the beginning of the file name)
2. Now go into Gallery and force a Refresh from the menu. If that doesn't work, move on to #3
3. Go to Settings | Apps | All and do the following for Gallery and Media Storage:
Force Stop
Clear Cache
Clear Data
4. Reboot your phone.
Bear in mind, if you have custom ringtones/notifications set (meaning, files/sounds that are not stock) clearing cache/data for Media Storage will "break" them, you will just have to reconfigure them.
Using cm file manager, if you go into the folder in question, you can go into menu, and it gives an option to select exclude from media search, and auto adds the .no media file. After which refreshing the gallery yeilds no results. Tried step 3...which led to nothing being included, and no media being recognised in play music either. /cry
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Whenever I open the gallery, all of the artwork from my mp3s is mixed in with the my pictures. This makes it next to impossible to find something quickly. Is there an easy way to organize them out or hide them without clicking each individual picture? This seems very dumb. My iphone, nor any other phone I've ever used does this. Thoughts?
In your music folder, put an empty text file with the filename 'nomedia' (without the quotation marks and file extention). Then in settings > apps > gallery , select clear data.
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bibek86 said:
In your music folder, put an empty text file with the filename 'nomedia' (without the quotation marks and file extention). Then in settings > apps > gallery , select clear data.
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Sorry for being dense, but the hierarchical structure you listed doesn't work.
Did you mean setting>general(tab)>apps?....if so "gallery" isn't listed there. If I go into gallery and try to move the photos, it just randomly moves them around.....no labels or anything. I don't understand. Do I need to go into my windows explorer on my pc to adjust the folders?....that seems dumb that you can't easily do it from the phone.
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Sorry for being dense, but the hierarchical structure you listed doesn't work.
Did you mean setting>general(tab)>apps?....if so "gallery" isn't listed there. If I go into gallery and try to move the photos, it just randomly moves them around.....no labels or anything. I don't understand. Do I need to go into my windows explorer on my pc to adjust the folders?....that seems dumb that you can't easily do it from the phone.
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It normally has to be done on the computer I believe but it might not let the android media scanner find your music or use the pictures for album artwork. I honestly I just use QuickPic and it has the options to hide(.no media) and exclude folders and I just select exclude folders from my main music folder so it doesn't include them.
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MyXDADevName said:
Sorry for being dense, but the hierarchical structure you listed doesn't work.
Did you mean setting>general(tab)>apps?....if so "gallery" isn't listed there. If I go into gallery and try to move the photos, it just randomly moves them around.....no labels or anything. I don't understand. Do I need to go into my windows explorer on my pc to adjust the folders?....that seems dumb that you can't easily do it from the phone.
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Hi!
Yes i meant setting>general(tab)>apps. Under apps if you scroll horizontally u will find gallery under 'ALL' tab.
In order to move files, folders or any other operation to a file or folder, you need to use a file manager app. There are different file managers available for android. Personally i use ES file manager. A pretty good app called just File Manager is already there in G Pro. You can use it to manage your folders.
As jesi.james above pointed out putting the .nomedia (sorry i missed the '.' before nomedia in my previous post) file in your music folder will hide the album arts from the gallery but it will hide the music files from the music player as well. I am sorry i wasnt aware of that. i do not store my music on my phone. I listen to it from play music.
To solve your problem, i found that there is an option in the gallery menu to hide/show albums. You can choose the albumd you do not want to see in your gallery. If you have a large music collection, you will have to select the albums one by one. Frustrating.
Next option is to use Quickpic. This is a very good alternative to the default gallery and it gives you options to select folders you want show or hide in quickpic as mentioned by the guy above.
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problem with ►►[AOSP] 4.2.2 - S4 Google Edition - Final - Feel the Experience of Nex
Topic... I have these problems after I installed it on the T-mo GS4...
1. Can't choose lock screen wall paper... there is no options in display -> wallpaper...
2. Can't choose custom mp3 ring tones... or alarm tones...
the rom is nice but it's frustrating that these dont' work... can someone help....
errorrrr said:
Topic... I have these problems after I installed it on the T-mo GS4...
1. Can't choose lock screen wall paper... there is no options in display -> wallpaper...
2. Can't choose custom mp3 ring tones... or alarm tones...
the rom is nice but it's frustrating that these dont' work... can someone help....
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#1: not 100% sure on that one. Possibly try the solution below, but with a picture.
#2: clear the default ringtone chooser if set, then try to set the ringtone again. Once it asks you which app to use, select whichever file browser you have, not the default ringtone viewer. From there, just navigate to where your ringtones (mp3's) are and select it. You could possibly shorten that up by just opening your file browser and selecting the ringtone and setting it as a ringtone/notification tone straight from there. If you don't have a file browser installed, get one from the play store. ES File Explorer, Astro, Solid Explorer(my go-to browser), etc...
I'm trying to add some new notification sounds to my pixel 2 XL and it just refuses to pick them up. I've placed the MP3s in DCIM/Media/Notifications and they just don't show up. Google search tells me to use a secondary file explorer to select them but I made the mistake a while back and told it to use the default one always and can't seem to figure out how to reverse that decision. Is there some trick? I've tried shutting down/restarting and no go. My custom ring tones showed up fine, but notifications.. nothing.
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I'm trying to add some new notification sounds to my pixel 2 XL and it just refuses to pick them up. I've placed the MP3s in DCIM/Media/Notifications and they just don't show up. Google search tells me to use a secondary file explorer to select them but I made the mistake a while back and told it to use the default one always and can't seem to figure out how to reverse that decision. Is there some trick? I've tried shutting down/restarting and no go. My custom ring tones showed up fine, but notifications.. nothing.
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Goto app settings n clear the default for the app.
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Can you be a little more specific? Under "Settings | Apps and Notitications" I do not see an app for setting sounds and "settings" itself has no defaults set. In fact it looks like only Phone and Photo's have values set. What exactly should I be resetting?
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Can you be a little more specific? Under "Settings | Apps and Notitications" I do not see an app for setting sounds and "settings" itself has no defaults set. In fact it looks like only Phone and Photo's have values set. What exactly should I be resetting?
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Search for the apps called "files" or maybe it is "settings storage"
Normally the extra tones are simply stored on the internal SDCard under
/Alarams
/Notifications
/Ringtones
with a root explorer the file path is
/storage/emulated/0/Alarams
/storage/emulated/0/Notifications
/storage/emulated/0/Ringtones
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So the internet's suggestion to put them in DCIM/Media/Notifications was the issue. Moving them to just the notifications folder worked.
On a side note I still find the app to remove defaults from. I don't have any thing sound+settings related and Files has no defaults set. So for now problem fixed but wonder why it's not listed.
JoeWilcox said:
Can you be a little more specific? Under "Settings | Apps and Notitications" I do not see an app for setting sounds and "settings" itself has no defaults set. In fact it looks like only Phone and Photo's have values set. What exactly should I be resetting?
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Using your root browser app. Navigate to: /system/media/audio/ringtones(pic). There you will see the native ringtones on your device. I also change the file extension on my specific ringtones to .ogg, reboot, and they should work. They do for me anyway :good: