If you have Launcher Pro, or any other home replacement running, sometimes you’ll notice it will restart itself (redraw icons) when you try to go back to your homescreen. This can be caused by the app running out of memory or something crashing in the background causing it to restart. Either way, it’s ok if…
Here’s a neat bootanimation from xda that should be familiar to PC builders. No root access required to install this. You can either ADB push this zip or follow the below terminal emulator steps. Download the bootanimation for your device. The Moto Droid/Milestone version is linked locally below for your pleasure. Rename the downloaded zip…
I use Tweetdeck mostly to send updates to Twitter and Facebook. For the past few weeks, I’ve been attempting to upgrade Adobe Air to version 2.0.2 from 1.5 and it just keeps failing with the above error. If you try to Google this error, you’ll notice this happening a lot across all OS platforms. The…
The CyanogenMod team has just released the second stable CM6 release for the Droid. To get this installed, open up Rom Manager (Market app) and install via the CyanogenMod rom section. I just loaded this up on the Droid, here are a few tips to get you going. Clear your download cache in Rom Manager…
Without much difficulty, the Droid X has been rooted. Birdman has successfully done the previously unthinkable – rooting the e-fuse enabled handset. Although the whole e-fuse hoopla was about loading custom roms at the end of the day, rooting the Droid X is a great step towards the right direction. Grab the needed exploit then…
For the past day or two my downloaded apps in Android Market kept disappearing. I would see about 5% of what was downloaded. I’m not sure if this is related to me running the new CM6RC1, but this hasn’t happened before with any other release. Either way, it’s not a difficult problem to fix. Go…
The camera and video recorder sounds are there to help victims of voyeurism. However, for normal folks like us, we just don’t want to wake a sleeping baby while snapping the cutest picture known to man. Let’s disable the sounds shall we? Note: This requires root access as well as ADB or terminal knowledge To…
After having ran Bugless Beast 0.4 for nearly 2 weeks on and off, I decided to try CyanogenMod’s latest Froyo (from source) rom, 6.0.0 RC1. My steps on swapping roms: Titanium Backup all apps Nandroid backup current rom Download CyanogenMod via Rom Manager app There’s a pre-requisite that you have to be rooted to perform…
I’ve pocket dialed many a numbers while my Droid was in my pocket. I have a few local police precincts saved in my address book and since they start with a number, they are at the top of my contacts. You can imagine the weirdness when the police pick up on the other end. I…
The Droid X hunt is over. A total of 21 Droid X units were given out at locations all across the US. Did you end up getting one?