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Android tutorials, guides, tips, tweaks and tricks.
February 5, 2011
I recently started running Gingerbread again on my HTC Desire, instead of the custom Android ROM MIUI. I love Android 2.3, but one of the things I really miss is MIUI’s native file manager that could turn my SD card into an FTP server with the simple press of a button. I had gotten used [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Guides, Tutorials | Tagged Android apps, Dave Revell, File management, FileZilla, FTP server, How to, MIUI, SD card, SwiFTP, Transfers, Tutorial, Wi-Fi, Wireless
January 29, 2011
Have you ever gotten that mildly heartbreaking “SD card damaged / You may have to reformat it” message on your Android phone? Alas, I’ve seen it quite a few times on my HTC Desire. I don’t know if it’s the actual device that causes the error, my 16GB SD card or even Android itself. I’m [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Guides, Tutorials
January 15, 2011
One of the main benefits with having root access on an Android device with a limited amount of internal storage such as the HTC Desire, is support for A2SD+. Of course, with root access, you also gain full control over your phone, can install a bunch of great apps only available to root users, and [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Guides, Tutorials | Tagged A2SD+, Android, ClockworkMod, EXT2/3/4, GParted, Guide, How to, Linux, Partitions, Recovery, ROM Manager, Tutorial, Unetbootin, USB flash drive, Windows, x86
December 16, 2010
This is probably a rare issue, but sometimes when I’ve copied a set of wallpapers to the SD card on my HTC Desire, the Gallery app simply refuses to update itself and reflect the changes. It can be mildly frustrating, and even a reboot won’t help or clearing the cache of the Gallery. You can [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Tutorials | Tagged Android, Benjamin Rosseaux, FAQ, How to, Manually update, Media libraries, Media storage, Refresh, SD card, SDrescan, Solution, Update
November 5, 2010
LauncherPro is the most popular homescreen replacement for Android, mainly due to its speed, look, flexibility and ever-expanding set of features. Another benefit of LauncherPro is that it’s easy to customize and personalize the app. Users can make their homescreens look unique, and this post shows how to customize LauncherPro with docks, icons and wallpapers. [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Guides, Tutorials | Tagged Customization, Desktop Visualizer, Docks, Icons, LauncherPro, LauncherPro customization, LauncherPro Plus, Personalization, Tutorial, Wallpapers
October 31, 2010
The solution in one sentence: it’s most likely the .android_secure folder in the root of your memory card that’s causing the Market errors, where Android 2.2 and above stores all apps installed to the SD card – deleting it and starting over might solve the issues. A more detailed explanation and other popular solutions below. [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Guides, Tutorials | Tagged .android_secure, Android Market, Download unsuccessful, How to, Installation unsuccessful, Market issues, Solution, Tutorial
October 26, 2010
Swype is probably the most hyped, loved, and fun and innovative input method to have hit mobile devices since T9 (Text on 9 keys). If you haven’t heard of Swype yet, check out the demo video at the bottom of the post. However, Swype for Android is still in closed beta for some reason, even [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Guides, Tutorials | Tagged Android, Guide, How to, How to install Swype, Multilanguage Swype, Multilingual, On-screen keyboards, Swype, Swype 1.6, Swype v1.60.36.8214, Tutorial, v2.15.56.14870
October 26, 2010
Setting a new default on-screen keyboard on Android might be too easy to warrant a tutorial, but while the process on HTC Sense devices indeed is uncomplicated – it’s not that obvious. There are many great Android software keyboards to choose from now, such as the groundbreaking Swype, as well as SwiftKey, BlindType that Google [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Guides, Tutorials | Tagged Android, Android on-screen keyboards, How to, HTC Keyboard, On-screen keyboards, SwiftKey, Swype, Top Software, Tutorial
October 23, 2010
LauncherPro became one of the most popular homescreen replacements for Android in just a matter of weeks after its initial release in May 2010. It currently has an average rating of 4.69 in the Market based on almost 100 000 reviews. It’s easy to see why: the app is fast, powerful, very customizable and foremost [...]
Posted in Android, Android Basics, Featured Posts, Guides, Tutorials | Tagged Fede, Federico Carnales, Guide, Homescreen replacements, How to, LauncherPro, LauncherPro Plus, LauncherPro tutorial, LP Shortcuts, Swipe gestures, Tips, Tricks, Tutorials
September 18, 2010
Got 2.2 Froyo running on your Android yet? Good. Now let’s move some apps to the SD card and free up precious internal storage! To install an app to the SD card on Android Froyo, the application itself is supposed to support it first. Furthermore, Froyo installs all new apps on the internal storage by [...]
Posted in Android, Android Basics, Featured Posts, Guides, Tutorials | Tagged Android, Android 2.2, App 2 SD, Apps2SD, Froyo, Guide, How to, Install apps to SD, Memory Card, Move to SD Card, SDMove, setInstallLocation 2, Tips, Tutorials
September 16, 2010
Here’s a quick Android tip that might come in handy from time to time. A softreset is essentially a reboot, and it turns your device off and then on again. This is useful if your Android is behaving badly, and when there are changes that won’t take effect until your phone is restarted. You could [...]
Posted in Android, Tutorials | Tagged Android, Android softreset, Android Tips, HTC, HTC Desire, Reboot, Soft reboot, Softreset, Tips, Tricks, Tutorials, Warm reboot
July 19, 2010
I recently checked out a port of Samsung’s TouchWiz: the launcher that is featured on the Android powerhouse Samsung Galaxy S. The port, courtesy of xda-developer’s member rolle3k, is mainly intended for the Nexus One, although it worked fine on my HTC Desire as well. I loved the look of the icons in the app [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Guides, Tutorials | Tagged Android, Force Close Loop, Guide, How to, Safe Mode, Tutorial
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