Re: [android-beginners] can you help me about this deal?

2010-02-17 Thread Disconnect
It is called "spam" and the moderators don't approve every post. They only approve the first one or more (until the account is 'vetted' basically), so spammers are using the public archives to get working emails and spoofing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_%28electronic%29 has some info you mig

Re: [android-beginners] Nexus One as Dev Phone?

2010-01-13 Thread Disconnect
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 1:14 PM, ryan alford wrote: > You will be able to "download unsigned apps" and "debug on the phone". > These actually have nothing to do with being an "unlocked" phone. They are > settings in the Android OS. > > I don't know about the "flash custom Android builds". > > Ye

Re: [android-beginners] Re: Did you know you can do this?

2009-12-07 Thread Disconnect
Go read the list info again - the first post needs to be approved. So all those posts they approve containing "hi i like the group" and other similar BS? Thats them approving the spammers. Fun stuff. On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 12:59 PM, DaveInNYC wrote: > So could someone tell me why all my new pos

Re: [android-beginners] private application on Android Market

2009-11-05 Thread Disconnect
No. Andappstore has such a feature though, if I remember correctly. On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 7:42 AM, greg wrote: > Hello, > > I'm currently developing an Android application. I'd like to know if > it is possible to publish it in Android Market as a private beta, only > accessible for the people t

[android-beginners] Re: getting open source eclair source code

2009-10-29 Thread Disconnect
It is currently closed source. There is no word on whether it will be opened, much less when. (In the past, eg 1.5, they were saying "we don't know when it will be released." Now they are saying "we don't know IF it will be released.") On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Vishwanath Madapura Gangara

[android-beginners] Re: mailing lists

2009-10-22 Thread Disconnect
What web site? (Specifically.) What lists? On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 12:01 AM, kypriakos wrote: > > > Hi all, > > I tried all mailing lists listed in the Android subcription web site > and all of them returned back with the error that their email does not > exist - I clicked on them and not copy t

[android-beginners] Re: Computer.

2009-10-16 Thread Disconnect
Cuz now they can send spam. On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Justin Anderson wrote: > Why? > > -- > There are only 10 types of people in the world... > Those who know binary and those who don't. > ---

[android-beginners] Re: happy diwali

2009-10-15 Thread Disconnect
For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en Try that. (Yes, "more" implies "other than what is listed above" but it includes everything. Including a working unsubscribe.) On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Julie wrote: > Because maybe those are SPA

[android-beginners] Re: How do I unsubscribe?

2009-10-15 Thread Disconnect
Click the more options button and do it from the web interface. On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 9:51 AM, Danny W. Pimienta wrote: > > The unsub email doesn't work I keep getting a mailer-daemon return > email. > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You rec

[android-beginners] Re: happy diwali

2009-10-15 Thread Disconnect
At least "How do I download the sdk" is on topic. Its a beginner question in a beginner forum... On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 9:14 AM, benjamin.grant.du wrote: > > This would be a nonissue if someone said merry Christmas on the > listserve. Let's review the following. Mike, you have clogged the > for

[android-beginners] Re: Please tell me how to update firmware of HT-03A from Android 1.5 to 1.6.

2009-10-12 Thread Disconnect
Updates come down regardless of carrier. (The phone periodically polls an update server and downloads the update in a zip.) On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Jeffrey Blattman < jeffrey.blatt...@gmail.com> wrote: > you should get an OTA update from your provider. or you can install a 3rd > party d

[android-beginners] Re: No Market on Samsung i7500 Android

2009-09-21 Thread Disconnect
Market is closed source and only provided by google to certain partners. You'll need to ask Samsung (or your cell provider) why its missing. On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 12:59 PM, blockedmind wrote: > > I have just bought Samsung i7500. It's just great, Android is amazing > BUT there is no Market on

[android-beginners] Re: Hello Everyone!

2009-09-08 Thread Disconnect
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Lurther wrote: > > I just joined this group and wanted to take a moment to introduce > myself. > > > > Its nice to see you, welcome aboard, etc. Since your first post was approved by the moderators, any subsequent post - unfortunately including spam - will go throu

[android-beginners] Re: Developing on a G2.

2009-07-27 Thread Disconnect
Terminal > apps, etc), it just requires working a little harder to find the ones > that will work. > > As Disconnect mentioned, I don't believe that there is a Dev version > of the G2 out yet, but if you are just wanting to use your consumer > grade phone for development, it

[android-beginners] Re: Developing on a G2.

2009-07-26 Thread Disconnect
AFAIK nobody is developing with a G2 because tmobile hasn't announced such a thing. On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 9:36 PM, Dale Wiles wrote: > > Is anyone developing code on a G2 phone? If so have you run into any > real world problems? > > I know I wouldn't be able to flash custom OS's. Is that a r

[android-beginners] Re: [android-beginners]

2009-07-16 Thread Disconnect
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Rafa Perfeito wrote: > Hey all, > Been doing some work in the emulator but the idea (as obvious) is to test > them in an actual physical device. The HTC Magic is already available in my > area, but i'm still thinking of its advantages to the Dev Phone 1... > Espec

[android-beginners] Re: Official Google Android Developer Phone G1 (running in Canada) needs Cupcake!

2009-07-15 Thread Disconnect
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Ben Watson (bitpakkit) wrote: > > How do I best install Cupcake on my dev G1 from Google?  It is the one > with the Google logo on it. > http://www.htc.com/www/support/android/adp.html --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this messag

[android-beginners] Re: USB data acquisition

2009-07-10 Thread Disconnect
t; connection be made to allow communication with a sensor (assuming I > make the sensor work with a Bluetooth module)? > > Thanks for the help, > Mas > > On Jul 10, 5:32 am, Disconnect wrote: >> When you plug your headset in, its not a usb port at all. Its straight >> anal

[android-beginners] Re: USB data acquisition

2009-07-10 Thread Disconnect
When you plug your headset in, its not a usb port at all. Its straight analog audio. (Take a closer look, there are 10 or so pins. There is even a pinout diagram floating around, and 3way headset adapters that allow usb data, headset audio and charging..) At the end of the day, usb host/guest is

[android-beginners] Re: adb - for developer handsets only

2009-07-06 Thread Disconnect
Thats generally a sign of a bad usb cable - I routinely push 70-90 meg updates and such to sd without issue (except on one cable, which can get really hosed up.) On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Tony Su wrote: > > You can run adb against any Android device connected in debugging mode > (supported

[android-beginners] Re: VMWare Image of the Android Emulator

2009-07-03 Thread Disconnect
VMware emulates X86. Android emulator emulates arm. So.. no. You could make it worse by emulating a linux system running the android emulator though, that'd be funny. On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 10:18 AM, MCON Dev wrote: > Is it possible to create a vmware image of the emulator ? After all its a > ope

[android-beginners] Re: Can I get Root access on my Google IO Magic?

2009-06-26 Thread Disconnect
They broke/removed su. Simplest way is to just copy /system/bin/sh to /system/bin/su and chmod 4777. Better answer is to install the superuser app, which prompts when an app tries to elevate privs. On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Mike Wolfson wrote: > > I know the Magic phone I got at IO is unlo

[android-beginners] Re: Orientation Aware websites

2009-06-18 Thread Disconnect
Did I miss something or are you too "busy"? He's not SETTING orientation, he's adjusting for it. And he's talking about javascript (as in, from a web page) not an android java app. On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Kent Loobey wrote: > > "The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development". page 46 > >

[android-beginners] Re: fBook on G2

2009-06-08 Thread Disconnect
Thats pretty weird - g2 is a tmobile trademark, and I haven't seen HTC announce anything with that name yet. Since nobody knows what phone you are on or even what market it might be using, maybe you should ask your vendor. On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Debasish wrote: > > Hi guys, > > I can't

[android-beginners] Re: HTC G1 vs G2

2009-06-01 Thread Disconnect
Ctate (@google) on IRC yesterday spent over an hour distancing them from the "magic" name as well - same hw platform, different software, different radio hardware/firmware. (No, I don't necessarily agree that its that different, but if we're gonna let them wince at 'g2' they can wince at 'magic' t

[android-beginners] Re: Is there any official way to upgrade Android OS?

2009-06-01 Thread Disconnect
nually update to Cupcake, once the > instructions came out early last week (knowing that there was a > minimal risk I could brick my phone). > > > On Jun 1, 1:36 pm, Disconnect wrote: >> In the USA you can't void the warranty with software. Especially with >> carrier pro

[android-beginners] Re: Locked Phones for development.

2009-06-01 Thread Disconnect
Almost certainly - so far, no carrier has released a phone with development disabled. (Its possible, but unlikely, that future phones might be locked that way.) On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 6:33 PM, johnht...@gmail.com wrote: > > Hi All, > > According to rumors there are 18 Android phones in the work

[android-beginners] Re: HTC G1 vs G2

2009-06-01 Thread Disconnect
Really? I heard they gave away the Ion, a rebranded magic. G2 is a tmobile trademark, not htc, and last I checked they hadn't used it yet. On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 7:53 PM, Bruce Boyes wrote: > > So Google gave away hundreds of the newer HTC G2. Will there be a > developer version available soon,

[android-beginners] Re: Is there any official way to upgrade Android OS?

2009-06-01 Thread Disconnect
t;> "Will I be able to upgrade HTC Magic to Android 2.0?" >> >> I know I might be able to upgrade manually. >> I want to know if Android officially support this. >> >> Thanks. >> >> Koala >> >> On 6月1日, 下午7時24分, Disconnect wrote: >> &

[android-beginners] Re: Is there any official way to upgrade Android OS?

2009-06-01 Thread Disconnect
It depends on the phone but for G1 and Magic (T-mobile and Vodafone) you receive updates automatically off the air (OTA). The ADP1 (and if it comes out, the ADP2) upgrade manually by copying a file to sdcard. (The files appear on HTC's web site, or you can use community versions such as JF's - jf

[android-beginners] Re:

2009-05-31 Thread Disconnect
Congratulations, that is very easy to do. You can go to groups.google.com, or you can look at the bottom of each and every message and read the "To unsubscribe" directions. Its fun! On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 1:33 AM, SONIH MANSOUR wrote: > i want to unsubscribe from every google android group !!!

[android-beginners] Re: How selective are the Android Marketplace "police" in allowing our apps to be published?

2009-05-19 Thread Disconnect
There is no filter other than the terms of service (fairly standard, except you can't gather money outside the market, or charge for updates. Give them a read though..) On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Amir Memon wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a fairly simple iphone app (2 quizzes with a global high

[android-beginners] Re: Apps updating update

2009-05-08 Thread Disconnect
..its had autoupdate since the rc33 release. On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 1:11 PM, El wrote: > > Since we have not heard about when Market will have auto-updating for > apps, we need to clarify current best practices before exporting. What > is the latest way to let users know when new version and/or

[android-beginners] Re: How "Linux-ey" is Android?

2009-05-07 Thread Disconnect
Although the first part of the answer is perfect :) On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Mark Murphy wrote: > > > How many of the freedoms that we've gotten used to using other Linux > > frontends ("desktops"), such as xfce, Gnome, KDE are available with > > the Android frontend? > > As many as

[android-beginners] Re: Cupcake version 1.5 to firmware update on phone

2009-04-26 Thread Disconnect
rt > without being tied by as many proprietary bits. > Relying on outdated platform binaries would be fine, of the entire AOSP relied on them. But it doesn't. The AOSP relies on the commercial binaries, and you are saying that the "right" answer is to constantly be backpo

[android-beginners] Re: Cupcake version 1.5 to firmware update on phone

2009-04-26 Thread Disconnect
each of those has advantages and > drawbacks, and I know that there are people already actively working > on the first two). > > JBQ > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 7:26 AM, Disconnect > wrote: > > You have an interesting concept of platform hacking I guess. I don't

ATTN MODERATORS: [ERR] [android-beginners] Re: Cupcake version 1.5 to firmware update on phone

2009-04-26 Thread Disconnect
s] Re: Cupcake version 1.5 to firmware update on phone To: dc.disconn...@gmail.com Transmit Report: To: jeka...@magicn.com, 402 Local User Inbox Full (jeka...@magicn.com) 12,104857,104855 -- Forwarded message -- From: Disconnect To: android-beginners@googlegroups.com Date: Sa

[android-beginners] Re: Cupcake version 1.5 to firmware update on phone

2009-04-26 Thread Disconnect
ne. > > On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 6:30 AM, Disconnect > wrote: > > Will the ADP1 "phone for platform hacking" always be behind the final > > releases of the platform? > > > > That seems .. not good. (Esp since quite a few people bought it to do > >

[android-beginners] Re: Cupcake version 1.5 to firmware update on phone

2009-04-25 Thread Disconnect
Will the ADP1 "phone for platform hacking" always be behind the final releases of the platform? That seems .. not good. (Esp since quite a few people bought it to do platform work.) On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Jean-Baptiste Queru wrote: > > -The T-Mobile G1 isn't meant to be updated with ar

[android-beginners] Re: how to update the firmware of the dev phone to 1.1?

2009-03-02 Thread Disconnect
..except the ota update they just pushed specifically has a totally unlocked bootloader. This is an employee dev phone (image), they are unlikely to lock it down. On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 6:03 AM, Andrew wrote: > > On Mar 1, 7:13 pm, Disconnect wrote: > > For 1.1, your official

[android-beginners] Re: how to update the firmware of the dev phone to 1.1?

2009-03-01 Thread Disconnect
That will not get you 1.1 - it will get you master, which (iirc) is to be called 1.5. (What it is right now is a bleeding edge development branch, that is rarely updated from the internal google branches, plus the fixes needed to build without google's huge collection of closed-source apps and fram

[android-beginners] Re: multi-touch?

2009-02-19 Thread Disconnect
> > > -- > > *From:* Disconnect [mailto:dc.disconn...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Thursday, February 19, 2009 7:08 AM > *To:* android-beginners@googlegroups.com > *Subject:* [android-beginners] Re: multi-touch? > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 19, 2

[android-beginners] Re: multi-touch?

2009-02-19 Thread Disconnect
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 5:43 AM, Strawp wrote: > 2. It has been *suggested* that the lack of multitouch is intentional > to avoid potential trouble with Apple > http://www.talkandroid.com/790-google-apple-multi-touch-g1/ > If this is true then even if full MT could be hacked in then it will > sti

[android-beginners] Re: Rc30 root

2009-01-26 Thread Disconnect
It sometimes works fine without, if you can convince the phone to save the file with the right name. It has a signature and crc, so if it is damaged it will not flash. On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:24 PM, technick wrote: > > I don't think this is possible. From my experience, to downgrade to > the

[android-beginners] Re: Rc30 root

2009-01-26 Thread Disconnect
http://www.gotontheinter.net/content/rc30-downgrade-merry-christmas-everyone On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 1:07 PM, mikedmeyer wrote: > > How do you do it with a PC? Unless I've read incorrectly, once your > G1 is (unmodded) RC30 you're SOL. > > On Jan 23, 11:39 pm, "cbowley...@gmail.com" > wrote: >

[android-beginners] Re: Wifi --> 3G when the phone goes into stand-by mode

2008-12-23 Thread dc . disconnect
power > source? > > Sander > > On Dec 22, 7:05 pm, Disconnect wrote: >> It is built into the screen blank. >> >> Once cupcake builds for adp1 again I'm probably going to see about using >> actual wifi powersave modes instead of the very-expensive drop/r

[android-beginners] Re: emulator: ERROR: you must provide the name of a virtual machine to start the emulator.

2008-12-22 Thread Disconnect
Run: . ./build/envsetup.sh emulator On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 7:50 AM, moontain wrote: > Hi, > > I downloaded the platform source code and completed a build. > When I trying to run the emulator with following command,error occurs. > $ ./out/host/darwin-x86/bin/emulator -system ./out/target/pr

[android-beginners] Re: Wifi --> 3G when the phone goes into stand-by mode

2008-12-22 Thread Disconnect
It is built into the screen blank. Once cupcake builds for adp1 again I'm probably going to see about using actual wifi powersave modes instead of the very-expensive drop/reassociate that it does now. (And for the record, its 2 mins after the screenblank fires.) On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 6:13 AM, S

[android-beginners] Re: Android on HTC Touch Pro

2008-12-17 Thread Disconnect
So feel free to port it to other hardware. People have already done so for the freerunner and n810, as well as run-from-ram versions on at least one windows mobile device. On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:15 PM, caseyd0 wrote: > > Will we ever get to install the Android OS on other phones, like my >

[android-beginners] Re: [android-developers] Re: G1 owners: "A system update is available" - is it safe?

2008-12-17 Thread Disconnect
What he's not mentioning (and this is importnat if you are a developer) is that the update will remove root access, so you lose most of the (potential) control over your device. On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Stoyan Damov wrote: > > @ JBQ, I'm sorry for the wrong place to ask. I got this impre

[android-beginners] Re: buggy Android phone (Tmobile g1)

2008-10-29 Thread Disconnect
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:36 AM, guzjd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You might want to try replacing your certificate with a trusted > certificate from a company like Verisign. Your phone is essentially a > small computer so it will warn you when you are using a certificate > that could be a susp

[android-beginners] Re: Please cancell, do not send more emails. thanks

2008-10-28 Thread Disconnect
If you look at every single message, including the one you sent, you'll see something really cool at the bottom: You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group.* To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, v