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Screenshot without Screenshot App

Screenshot App Help!
Dunno why but it stopped working suddenly. Between one screenshot and the next something happened now it just says "Screenshot.raw file not found" and doesnt take the screenshot. I use the timer method. Any ideas?
|Spike|

uinstall and reinstall?

try to see if it still has super user rights

try to post in the screenshot thread so that the person that wrote the app can see that there was a random problem

just reboot

The app is bad,did you install a theme because this has happened to me a bunch of times,reinstalling the app wont work you need to install what ever JF build your using and it will work just fine.
If you did install a theme which theme is it?

Since the Screenshot App refused to work for me (>_>) I had to find a different way to do it which many of you probably already know about and is the way all those websites obtained screenshots of the G1 before release.
You can do it via a tool in the SDK called DDMS. You need to have the JDK installed first! You need to have your G1 plugged in via USB (but not mounted). Enable Debugging in the Settings > Applications menu and then you can open up DDMS. Once it starts select your device from the menu on the left (yours should be the only one and you really dont have to select anything. Then simply press CTRL+S and your screenshot is taken. A new window will open asking you to save, cancel, etc. It saves it in .png format in a location of your choice.
Just thought I would share.
Also, worth mentioning. The site I got this information from suddests having a IDE installed but I didnt and it worked just fine. Dont ask me what an IDE is cuz I dont know >_>
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/10/22/taking-screenshots-on-an-android-based-phone/
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This is old and has been seen many times,and if you had root,the Screenshot app would work. Did you search before you post?

As I said I'm sure you all have known about this. To answer, yes I did search but didn't find anything on Xda but found it on google. I had mentioned previously about the Screenshot app not working for me (kept saying a file was missing) and no one mentioned an alternate method. Again, I was fairly sure everyone already knew about this but I still felt it worth mentioning for those like myself who may not have known.
Sry to have made a redundant post. Not my intention. I just like to share my findings and try to be as helpful as possible to people.
|Spike|

As I said I'm sure you all have known about this. To answer, yes I did search but didn't find anything on Xda but found it on google. I had mentioned previously about the Screenshot app not working for me (kept saying a file was missing) and no one mentioned an alternate method. Again, I was fairly sure everyone already knew about this but I still felt it worth mentioning for those like myself who may not have known.
Sry to have made a redundant post. Not my intention. I just like to share my findings and try to be as helpful as possible to people.
|Spike|

News to me. Good to know if the screenshot app fails (which it did once, had to wipe the phone to get it to work again). Thanks.

AGX HOW DARE YOU POST THIS UP AGAIN!!!! DIDNT YOU KNOW ITS FORBIDEN? AND ITS A SIN?!?!?!? lol wow ok so dont worry about people trippin about you "re-posting" something. not everyone knows every damnthang so thanx bro. good find for those of us that dont know snot (like me)

LatinSilEighty said:
AGX HOW DARE YOU POST THIS UP AGAIN!!!! DIDNT YOU KNOW ITS FORBIDEN? AND ITS A SIN?!?!?!? lol wow ok so dont worry about people trippin about you "re-posting" something. not everyone knows every damnthang so thanx bro. good find for those of us that dont know snot (like me)
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It's not that it's forbidden, but if someone uses message boards, it is assumed that one knows how to use the search function. It's just like on a job, if you are asked the same question over and over and over and it's something that it's documented already, that would annoy you, right? That is all.

I didn't actually ask a question. I just posted up what I found. And I am very well versed in searching. I found what I was looking for didn't I? But I couldn't find any results for it in XDA of all those I looked through. Anywho, don't want to argue or waste space posting in this so again, sry if this annoys anyone, not my intention. Lets leave it at that so this topic can drown in the sea of posts like the one I couldn't find did.
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AGx-07_162 said:
Lets leave it at that so this topic can drown in the sea of posts like the one I couldn't find did.
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/me starts his "rimshot" app on his G1.

Desire Rooted!

Just posted by Paul.
http://twitter.com/paulobrien

saquib said:
Just posted by Paul.
http://twitter.com/paulobrien
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Just got this through on Twitter! He has only had them for an hour and a half and he has them both rooted!
Fantastic work!

What's the background of this person? Any evidence yet?
EDIT: He probably knows what he is doing

Congratulations Paul, I'd love to see how he did it!

sh500 said:
What's the background of this person? Any evidence yet?
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He made some famous Roms for example for the I7500. So I say it is definitely not joke!

sh500 said:
What's the background of this person? Any evidence yet?
EDIT: He probably knows what he is doing
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=636048

Yipee!! Mine is only due to arrive!

The-Nazgul said:
He made some famous Roms for example for the I7500. So I say it is definitely not joke!
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Ha, comparable to not knowing who Michael Jackson is; will have to keep a keen eye out Not been on the Modaco forums for ages...

Check this out!

But can we revert it back so we can get the handset replaced etc without hassle?

http://www.androidcentral.com/htc-desire-legend-rooted-already
very nice!

TheAshMan said:
Congratulations Paul, I'd love to see how he did it!
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my guess would be, probably this one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=635961

StuMcBill said:
Just got this through on Twitter! He has only had them for an hour and a half and he has them both rooted!
Fantastic work!
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Wait a minute, he's not done yet.
Paul via Twitter:
HTC are SO trying to spoil our fun with the Legend and Desire. Root = easy. Getting write access to /system, not so much.
about 1 hour ago via Tweetie
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My Reply:
@PaulOBrien (Root=easy. Write access to /system not so much) Wait. You're not done yet? XDA awaits tapping feet wondering "Midas subverted?"
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TheAshMan said:
Congratulations Paul, I'd love to see how he did it!
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Well, remember, allegedly he's on holiday (wink wink)... So must be the snowboarding and whisky.

Hi,
Sorry to be such a noob but what are the advantages of rooting?
And if I was thinking of doing it, why would I?
Sorry again ... I am a newbie

@Raminder1992
Plenty of advantages to root but in order to understand them and the whole process you need to search the forums with reference to other handsets to give you an idea, if we answer your questions it only leads to more new members posting basic questions in what is a development forum that currently is hanging on what happens next with the desire rooting process.
In other words click the search button and take some time to read or you'll just annoy those of us that desperate for progress on this handset.

CarpeDiemsNuts said:
@Raminder1992
Plenty of advantages to root but in order to understand them and the whole process you need to search the forums with reference to other handsets to give you an idea, if we answer your questions it only leads to more new members posting basic questions in what is a development forum that currently is hanging on what happens next with the desire rooting process.
In other words click the search button and take some time to read or you'll just annoy those of us that desperate for progress on this handset.
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Best way is to make a sticky FAQ thread with all the answers to thies

Raminder1992 said:
Hi,
Sorry to be such a noob but what are the advantages of rooting?
And if I was thinking of doing it, why would I?
Sorry again ... I am a newbie
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Simple:
root=administrative rights to the system........ basically the same thing in your computer when you have administrative account...
normal mode is like a normal windows user account where you have possibility to (un)install software but you cannot change the system

So the final piece in the puzzle is about to be delivered. I'm buying it!

Raminder1992 said:
Hi,
Sorry to be such a noob but what are the advantages of rooting?
And if I was thinking of doing it, why would I?
Sorry again ... I am a newbie
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there are many, many reasons, but to give a few examples. firstly, those of us not in regions where google allow us to access the paid apps, we can change that by a few parameter settings, we can also change where we're from, if a developer wanted to block out our region, for whatever reason. after that, when you look even further, there are plenty of apps on the market that require root to work properly, there's one that allows you specify what apps launch on startup, there's a firewall that allows you control what connects through your data plan, there's a flashlight that keeps your camera flash on and many, many more. without root, these things don't work properly, because they don't have the right permissions.
for me, the reasons above are good, but not the main reason. for me, where I work, we use a LEAP wireless security system that (I think) all Android devices can connect to, without a problem. unfortunately though, the Android developers haven't added that option to the wireless config GUI. this isn't a problem if I get root, because then I can just edit the config file and change one line. without root, though, I don't have wireless connection during a good part of every day, which sucks.

Want app that speaks alerts

Hi, I wondered if anyone has come across an app which will speak alerts to me?
Perhaps something like "Text message from Jemima Puddleduck" and "Email from John Doe".
And preferably in a human sounding voice, not that abomination that is the standard Android text-to-speech!
Any ideas?

check out "Vlingo" or "edwin"

Just tried both, but neither does what I want :-(

setspeed said:
Hi, I wondered if anyone has come across an app which will speak alerts to me?
Perhaps something like "Text message from Jemima Puddleduck" and "Email from John Doe".
And preferably in a human sounding voice, not that abomination that is the standard Android text-to-speech!
Any ideas?
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you won't find any. An app would be alot more than the usuall 0.5 to 2mb. My reason for saying that you won't find any is because the app would have to know every name (and surname!) in the world, also any nickname etc! You'd proboly find that would tell who it is just by spelling the name out letter by letter, and even that wouldn't be very smooth (tone between letters and speed).
hope this helps! good luck!

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you won't find any. An app would be alot more than the usuall 0.5 to 2mb. My reason for saying that you won't find any is because the app would have to know every name (and surname!) in the world, also any nickname etc! You'd proboly find that would tell who it is just by spelling the name out letter by letter, and even that wouldn't be very smooth (tone between letters and speed).
hope this helps! good luck!
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I don't know if you're right. I don't think it would take that much space. Sure it wouldn't fit in 2megs, but I reckon fifty megs would be sufficient for all known English names. That's just a figure pulled out of my arse btw!

How about a custom message tone for a person that is a recording you have made. You would have to record a message for each person you want this for, Not the most user friendly way but will do what you want.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App

setspeed said:
I don't know if you're right. I don't think it would take that much space. Sure it wouldn't fit in 2megs, but I reckon fifty megs would be sufficient for all known English names. That's just a figure pulled out of my arse btw!
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woow, no need for that kind of sh!t anyways.. what if you have someone saved in as a nickname (Ginger, Gypsy, my 2 favorite contacts ;D) then it would not tell you who was calling you cos the app would not know how to pernounce it..
hope this helps! good luck!

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woow, no need for that kind of sh!t anyways.. what if you have someone saved in as a nickname (Ginger, Gypsy, my 2 favorite contacts ;D) then it would not tell you who was calling you cos the app would not know how to pernounce it..
hope this helps! good luck!
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I wasn't being rude/sarcastic so please don't take offence!
I literally meant that I was just guessing how much space would be required

Use this app:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=750721
It should work fine
Let us know your experience!

gogol said:
Use this app:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=750721
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+1 for Saymyname Dessert, I love it!

setspeed said:
I wasn't being rude/sarcastic so please don't take offence!
I literally meant that I was just guessing how much space would be required
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sorry, I'm not exacly English anyway, so I don't understand the meaning of some lines

One of the best apps out there is called Tasker. It can do everything! One of it's tricks is you can set it up to read your text messages out.
Is quite tricky to get used to at first, but once you 'click' with it, its fantastic.
It costs £4 (which is a bargain IMO) but there is also a free 1 week trial.
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Agree with Tasker, I am using it
BUT .... BUT ...
It does NOT have this say NAME feature.
Tasker can only say the phone number.
The developer plan to add this feature in the next release ... Which we don't know when ... or NEVER
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One of the best apps out there is called Tasker. It can do everything! One of it's tricks is you can set it up to read your text messages out.
Is quite tricky to get used to at first, but once you 'click' with it, its fantastic.
It costs £4 (which is a bargain IMO) but there is also a free 1 week trial.
Sent from my HTC Desire using XDA App
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gogol said:
Use this app:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=750721
It should work fine
Let us know your experience!
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Nice one! This does pretty much what I want, and you can customise it quite a bit too - thanks very much

[APP] Google docs officially released!!

http://www.conceivablytech.com/7066/products/google-quietly-releases-docs-for-android
Download Google Docs in the Market
I am happy now

Is this an app or is it over the web?

truewarriorkb said:
Is this an app or is it over the web?
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It says right in the linked article, that its a Market app. Or you could have just went to the Market and looked.

Google=win
G2 running Xboarder56's v1.9.5 Stock Gingerbread

Yeah I was stoked about it at first, but this app royally blows. It's seriously NO different than opening your browser on the phone and going to docs.google.com. You still can't edit formulas in spreadsheets (a must since I do my budget on there), and the editing interface is just as bad as the web page, in that you click on a line, have to edit only 1 line at a time and have to save it after editing. Why not just let us edit the cells individually? Thanks for finally getting around to mediocrity Google.

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Yeah I was stoked about it at first, but this app royally blows. It's seriously NO different than opening your browser on the phone and going to docs.google.com. You still can't edit formulas in spreadsheets (a must since I do my budget on there), and the editing interface is just as bad as the web page, in that you click on a line, have to edit only 1 line at a time and have to save it after editing. Why not just let us edit the cells individually? Thanks for finally getting around to mediocrity Google.
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I have to admit that I haven't really explored the app very well. But at least it is a start. Maybe make a comment on the app page and email them as to how they can make it better?

adamhlj said:
I have to admit that I haven't really explored the app very well. But at least it is a start. Maybe make a comment on the app page and email them as to how they can make it better?
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My problem with it is that it's literally no different than just opening Google Docs in your browser. I'm just not sure why it was even made if they were going to do it like this, that's all.

how do you even delete documents you dont want on here???

Sinistah_ said:
how do you even delete documents you dont want on here???
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I can't find a way to. Yet another reason why this app is useless
Sent from my G2

How horrible. Hearing this, I'm definitely un installing
Gwanatu said:
I can't find a way to. Yet another reason why this app is useless
Sent from my G2
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Hey they updated it so that docs can be deleted. Now just to add the formula functionality and ill be happy.
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The app is supposed to be able to perform OCR on text photographed with the phone. Anyone get this to work very well? Every time I've tried it (on different forms of source text) it just one line of the text, or a few scattered letters. Seems like it could be a handy function, if it worked.

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The app is supposed to be able to perform OCR on text photographed with the phone. Anyone get this to work very well? Every time I've tried it (on different forms of source text) it just one line of the text, or a few scattered letters. Seems like it could be a handy function, if it worked.
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Ah yes, that is a VERY useful thing! Glad to see that there are indeed more features. I just tried it and it's actually very good; I just scanned a page from a book, and although it has a few odd formatting problems, the text was almost perfect. Nice job Google.

Fix 'search' option for 'xda' (tapatalk) app?

I can't tell u how many times I've ask this question without anyone answering ....so maybe I'm the only one (prolly I'm missing something obvious)
But I have had no success finding anything useful (or even remotely close to wut I'm trying to find) while using the 'Search' option, in the 'XDA' app.
Does anyone know wuts up? ...will it ever be improved ...either I'm missing something or it needs removed, cuz as is, its completely useless!
*please, someone reply ...even just to say u don't have a clue but have also noticed it ...or that I'm stupid n the answer is right in my face ...just reply. Thnx.

Im tempted to say I agree, but I don't search enough.
One major thing I've noticed is that it's useless to the degree that it searches the whole damn site. It'd be nice if we could search forum specific or even thread specific.
Sent from my HTC Legend using XDA App

Asovse1 said:
Im tempted to say I agree, but I don't search enough.
One major thing I've noticed is that it's useless to the degree that it searches the whole damn site. It'd be nice if we could search forum specific or even thread specific.
Sent from my HTC Legend using XDA App
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This should already be possible in the app.

Yea should be more precise its hard looking for anything having to revert to the desktop and search is a pain

pulser_g2 said:
This should already be possible in the app.
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How do you do that? The only way I can search is by going back to the main screen, selecting more and then search. I do use the free app though.

Cool, nice to see I'm not the only one ...figures after I stop checking the thread, people start replying
But yeah, I was startin to think my app was defective. I should (prolly check the Actual 'tapatalk' since I finally bought it ...but I suspect its the same.
Thnx, for the responses