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Mach3te said:
I believe it lets you take several pictures and stitch them together to create a panoramic picture.
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I knew droid X had this, but didn't think Evo did, If it does, we should defo be able to port it over, as one HTC to another...

Think you might be thinking of the X tho tbh,
 
I'm not saying you're wrong and I'm certainly no expert on car BT integration or mobile but I do work as a software developer.

I find it very odd that multiple vendors would remove or alter stock libraries without a good reason.

Removing or replacing libraries from a working framework (in this case Google's) has the potential to break stuff, so you don't want to do it unless there's some reason to. 'They won't need it' isn't usually a good enough reason.

These OS images have been tested as a complete package. If you remove or alter pieces of the package Google probably hasn't done any QA on that and stuff could break.


adrynalyne said:
Not broken. Simply not included.

As for the cars, I dunno, kind of doubt they need BT HID support.

HID support is for game controllers, mice, keyboards, etc.
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Valka said:
I'm not saying you're wrong and I'm certainly no expert on car BT integration or mobile but I do work as a software developer.

I find it very odd that multiple vendors would remove or alter stock libraries without a good reason.

Removing or replacing libraries from a working framework (in this case Google's) has the potential to break stuff, so you don't want to do it unless there's some reason to. 'They won't need it' isn't usually a good enough reason.

These OS images have been tested as a complete package. If you remove or alter pieces of the package Google probably hasn't done any QA on that and stuff could break.
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It's possible that it isn't up to HTC to decide on that; I know VzW has had their influence involved with things in the past regarding BT, it wouldn't surprise me if they for some reason decided to maintain their stance.. whatever it might be. Plus, VzW is the final say before any new OTA's that HTC produces end up getting pushed out; who knows what differences might exist between the *original* HTC design for the Inc, and what it turned into post-VzW.
 
sucker4pa1n said:
It's possible that it isn't up to HTC to decide on that; I know VzW has had their influence involved with things in the past regarding BT, it wouldn't surprise me if they for some reason decided to maintain their stance.. whatever it might be. Plus, VzW is the final say before any new OTA's that HTC produces end up getting pushed out; who knows what differences might exist between the *original* HTC design for the Inc, and what it turned into post-VzW.
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HTC says they had nothing to do with it. They say it is entirely on Googles end and Google are the ones who need to fix it. I had never considered the notion that Verizon would have Google alter the stack but you do suggest a very valid point.
 
sucker4pa1n said:
It's possible that it isn't up to HTC to decide on that; I know VzW has had their influence involved with things in the past regarding BT, it wouldn't surprise me if they for some reason decided to maintain their stance.. whatever it might be. Plus, VzW is the final say before any new OTA's that HTC produces end up getting pushed out; who knows what differences might exist between the *original* HTC design for the Inc, and what it turned into post-VzW.
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No because its the same on Evo and thats on sprint, its to do with Sense...

If you use a None sense ROM like Vanilla, it works perfectly fine...
 
contagous said:
No because its the same on Evo and thats on sprint, its to do with Sense...

If you use a None sense ROM like Vanilla, it works perfectly fine...
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Ahh... well, that neuters my thought process then! I wish I was unemployed or didn't have a fiancee to deal with, I'd feel like I'd be able to get much dirtier into the code/debugging aspect of all cooking and tweaking. I've finally got my netbook setup to actually do some work on my own, but i don't have time. :(

Of course, I rather doubt I could figure it out considering the skillset of so many others on the forums and the fact it hasn't been fixed yet. :P

I wonder if it's possible to reverse engineer Sense? Decompile it, compare the changes to vanilla, maybe figure it out somehow...
 
But its not Sense thats the issue. Samsung doesn't work either.

True vanilla on these devices comes in the flavor of Cyanogenmod. That means its been tweaked for extra functionality. Was it added? Maybe, I'm not interested enough to comb through github to find out.

It works on the Droid too, but guess what? The Moto Droid also supports aac encoder for the camcorder. Incredible doesnt. Thats not a design flaw of Google, thats a design decision by HTC.

Don't let HTC pull the wool over your eyes. Each manufacturer has their own vendor setup, and its not like they are hacking the framework to death, or anything like that. They have a certain vendor setup that they use that automatically sets options that they do, or do not want in their roms.

While I understand you may be a software developer Valka, I think you should take a look at some vendor setups on aosp, so that you understand what I mean.

Android gets coded in a specific way, according to the vendor setup. It happens to be tailored by HTC, Samsung, etc. and is different for each device. AFAIK, you cannot compile Android without a vendor setup, even if its a default one.

A lot of the options are easy to toggle on and off, there isn't a lot of reverse engineering needed most times. Point in case, I compiled a Moto Droid rom that had BT voice dialing in 2.1 Eclair.


BT voice dialing. It was as simple as setting a true, to false.


http://www.droidforums.net/forum/team-chaos/44091-1-3-1-beta-area-3.html#post470023

** The voice dialer 'works' but the user experience is poor. The voice
* recognizer has trouble dealing with the 8kHz SCO signal, and it still
* requires visual confirmation. Disable for cupcake.
*/
public static final boolean DISABLE_BT_VOICE_DIALING = false;

(Default is true)


The source code is in BluetoothHeadset.java.
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I wouln't be surprised if BT HID support wasn't a simple enable/disable option that by default is disabled. Being that its a phone, a lot of manufacturers are probably overlooking it as unneeded.
 
I am finally going to pull the trigger and try this beast out. I was waiting for beta 2, but have been interested for a while now.

I do have one request, though. Could you please, PLEASE, put the "patches" into the main thread. A small description of what they are and what they *might* fix would be awesome, too. As the thread gets larger and larger it is harder to keep up with everything.

I would really appreciate it and it would make things a whole lot easier for some of us if we didn't have to go digging through the thread to find patches and small fixes to the some of the minor issues that might arise.

I just got done moving and I am too exhausted to try out the build tonight, but I look forward to it tomorrow. I made sure to get my PC back up and running in hopes that you'd have beta 2 up. =P
 
michaelnhf said:
sorry guys, i just finished building it, testing it then will post, i played 36 holes this weekend!
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Doesn't sound like such a bad way to spend a weekend :-)

I am really enjoying your Senseless version of this ROM, but noticed that live wallpapers were not supported (not a deal killer, but every now and then I like to put a little bling on the phone). Would it be possible to implement this feature?

Thanks!
 
adrynalyne said:
If MMS stops working, ask yourself:

"Did I install some stranger's framework hack to hide stuff, change icons, or colors?" If the answer is yes, thats what broke your MMS.


Thanks!
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Does this mean we can't install the smooth battery icons without breaking MMS? That, and if we DO install something like that, can we just restore the APN and fix it, or it is just plain broken?
 
heffe2001 said:
Does this mean we can't install the smooth battery icons without breaking MMS? That, and if we DO install something like that, can we just restore the APN and fix it, or it is just plain broken?
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I am using the round battery one with percentages and its working just fine. I have mms with no problems.
 
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