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August 15, 2012 By: Jimmy McGee
When you are as awesome and knowledgeable as XDA Elite Recognized Developer and XDA Developer TV Producer AdamOutler people inevitably want to pick your brain. AdamOutler has been receiving questions from various sources, email, private messages, YouTube comments, and we assume even smoke signals. Today, he takes time out of his daily duties of hacking, developing, and just being awesome to answer some of your burning questions. So take some time and check out the answers given in this video.
August 8, 2011 By: Ben Elliott
In this regular XDA feature, the news writer team scours the forums to find five questions and answers which may be of use to you, or may simply provide an interesting read.
Q‘I don’t understand what is different between Clockworkmod Recovery 150MB, 250MB and 400MB? If I flash a 400MB recovery can I install a ROM that requires 150MB? If I flash a 150MB can I install a ROM that requires 400MB recovery? ‘
AThe size speaks for itself. Some ROMs (like Sense ROMs) have lots of components, which requires more space from your internal memory (NAND). And others don’t, like MIUI and CM). If you flashed a 400MB Recovery you MAY be able to use a 150MB ROM on it but it’s absolutely not recommended as the ROM may malfunction and when you try to use a 150MB recovery with a 400MB ROM it will not install or get stuck in a boot loop.
You can check the modded size by checking flash.cfg (open with Notepad).
Q‘I want to unlock my Nexus S’s bootloader and root the phone using a Mac running OS X 10.7.
I downloaded the SDK, installed it, put the phone in debugging mode, turned it off, booted into the bootloader, then opened terminal and typed fastboot devices — nothing shows up, cannot find, doesn’t exist.
This is what I get — -bash: fastboot: command not found
I’m not here to waste time, I’m sure it’s a simple thing I’m missing.’
A On Windows or Linux, you would use “fastboot devices”‘.
On OS X, you use “fastboot-mac devices”.
fastboot-mac oem unlock
Q‘Is there a way with Android to transfer calls?
Example:
Phone 1 calls Phone 2
Phone 2 transfers to Phone 3
Phone 2 drops from call, leaving Phones 1 & 3 connected.’
A You’re thinking of call conference. Yes it’s possible. Just follow the steps in this article [external link]. When you’ve done that and want to end the call so the two others can talk, just hang up.
Q‘I received an email containing a WMV file. I tried to open it using my Nexus S 4G and get the error message that it is not supported. My father has an EVO 4G and he can open the exact same email and get the WMV to play fine. What am I missing here? We tested this on numerous emails. I have Rockplayer and many other players on the phone and none of them seem to work. Anyone else having this issue?
‘
A The Evo may have a video driver that the Nexus does not. You could try arcMedia – it plays everything I throw at it.
Q‘I’m new to the Nexus One. I can’t find a overclock kernel over 1.1GHz. Is there one out there?
‘
A All the custom kernels allow overclock.
Almost no Nexus will work when overclocked above ~1150MHz.
If you come across any questions that need to be addressed in next week’s Q&A, feel free to PM any of the News Writers.
Thank you for reading.
April 24, 2011 By: Ben Elliott
In this regular XDA feature, the news writer team scours the forums to find five questions and answers which may be of use to you, or may simply provide an interesting read.
Q‘My phone’s LCD screen isn’t working properly. Is there any way to diagnose the fault?’
A XDA member facdemol has created an extremely useful post detailing LCD faults here – It’s definitely worth a look if you want to understand what the problem actually is.
Q‘After updating one of my downloaded apps using the Android Market, the notification simply won’t clear. Is there any way to solve this?’
A Try deleting the market cache/data. Go to settings > applications > manage applications, then the “all” tab. Find the market and force-stop it. Then clear the data and the cache. If the notification is still there, reboot and it should go away.
Q‘While browsing the XDA forums I’ve had trouble using the ‘thanks’ button when someone has helped me out. What’s going on?’
A To prevent spam, the ‘thanks’ feature is only available to users who have made at least one post themselves. In addition, you can only ‘thank’ people five times a day. Finally, only posts made since the introduction of the feature may be ‘thanked’.
Q‘Is there any software I can use to send and receives through my Windows Phone 7 device, but using my PC?’
A An app called TouchXperience Windows Phone Device Manager is currently available in open beta and should be exactly what you’re looking for. You can download it here (external link).
Q‘I was wondering, is there any type of hack or modification where we would be able to add codecs to the phone in order to play .flac files? I have a lot of my music in that format, and would love to play it. I believe that the first hurdle would be to get the Zune Player to recognize it, so is there any way to do that as well?’
A Getting Zune to recognize it is not hard; it’s a registry edit under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT (HKCR) much like it is on Windows. You can look at how WMA and MP3 are handled.
Adding the codec itself… interesting idea. On desktop Windows, codecs are DLLs (they may have other extensions, but that’s what they are internally) that take a compressed stream in one function and return an uncompressed stream. It’s relatively easy to add more codec support into the OS; create new DLLs to do the decoding, and register them.
The creation of the codecs is possible. I don’t know if managed code would work, so you’d probably need to use the native WinCE dev tools. If there’s already a FLAC decoder for older versions of WinMo on AR, it may work unmodified. Registering it, though… no idea how to do that. There may be an API for it, though.
If you come across any questions that need to be addressed in next weeks Q&A, feel free to PM any of the News Writers.
Thank you for reading.
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