June 2010 -- XDA Developers

PushBall Game for HD2

mic_888 June 30, 2010

PushBall version 1.0 is a nifty little game developed by XDA forum member owtommywo. This is the first game that the dev has developed and has only been tested on the HTC HD2. The object of the game is to center the red dot, and if necessary bounce the blue ball against the edges of the...

Market Place Rules Updated

egzthunder1 June 30, 2010

Just in case some of you are not familiar with it, there is a section known as Market Place (MP), which can be used to buy, trade, or sell used phones by members of XDA. This has been up for some time and has been a very valuable tool for our members to sell devices,...

Use your Location as a Wallpaper with WMM

egzthunder1 June 30, 2010

We have been using all sorts of wallpapers over the years: pictures, drawings, animations, weather wallpapers, but this is a first. XDA member MikyWoW has made an app that will pull your location using Google Maps and will place a map (from GoogleMaps) with your exact location as a wallpaper. A nifty feature is that...

[VSS] WMD Visio Stencil File

orb3000 June 30, 2010

XDA member summoner developed this useful tool: Visio Stencil File. In case you are not familiar with it, this tool will let you create diagrams in Windows Mobile devices using vector graphics. On this first version of the application, the developer included Emulator and Sense SDK images. Also, he made an open invitation for others to join...

Shipped-Roms.com Not Going Down!

egzthunder1 June 30, 2010

In an interesting turn of events on the whole HTC vs Conflipper saga, we have learned some very interesting news directly from the developer himself (which he later posted in shipped-roms.com). Conflipper said that he has spoken with HTC and had reached yet another agreement on the kind of content that he can (and cannot)...

Comic Book Reader for Windows Mobile

mic_888 June 29, 2010

If you are a comic book fan, and wished you could read your comic books on the go, the wait is over as XDA forum member webgandalf has developed his first Windows Mobile application! CBZ reader is an application that lets you read CBZ files (compressed comic book files) on your Windows Mobile device, with finger scrolling...

Dell Streak Forums Up and Running

egzthunder1 June 29, 2010

As time and technology keep on advancing, we need to change with the currents. Due to popular demand, XDA administrators have added a section for discussion and development of Dell's latest portable device, the Streak. The device, which was only launched a few weeks ago, is ready for developers to get down and dirty as...

Keep your Wi-Fi Connection on Device Sleep

mic_888 June 29, 2010

If you get frustrated trying to keep your screen on in order to keep your Wi-Fi connection alive, you can finally relax as XDA forum member shantzg001 has developed an app for that. Wi-Fi Keep Alive lets you control whether Wi-Fi is disconnected or not whenever the screen turns off by setting your desired Wi-Fi sleep...

Turn Off the Hard Key Lights on your HTC Desire

mic_888 June 29, 2010

If you're watching a video on your HTC Desire and you find the light from the hard keys on your Android device distracting, there is now a way for you to turn them off! Originally requested by an XDA forum member, user mercianary has posted the solution. You'll need to copy the command posted by mercianary to...

First Froyo Build for the Vogue Hits the Forum

egzthunder1 June 28, 2010

You may remember an article which talks about Froyo being successfully ported to the Vogue by XDA member dzo (in case you don't, here is the link). The build was plain and without the usual amount of stuff that we are used to seeing in our devices, but it was Froyo nevertheless. Seeing this, XDA...

Android and Ubuntu Now Booting on HTC HD2

svetius June 28, 2010

Just three days ago, a big hurdle in the way of porting Android onto the HD2 was finally overcome. In short, the bootloader called HaRET has been patched in order to avoid CPU crashes when booting Linux through it. And we rightly labeled that as a major breakthrough because now, the devs working on this project have...

DrSrF BUUFfet UI Theme

orb3000 June 28, 2010

Many great themes for Sense/Manila are appearing. This time we will talk about DrSrF BUUFfet, created by XDA member Rurph. This original theme is based on Buuf icons made by Paul Davey and it was adapted by the developer to entirely change Sense UI style. The whole set has great graphics and will completely change your...