Ive been knocking around these forums for da while....I was a big WM user. I jumped into Android on the Streak, and I just have a couple of questions, almost mundane, but ive searched everywhere and cant find a straight answer on two matters....
1. With 2.1/2.2 does the home screen do native portrait to landscape rotation natively?
2. The keyboard on my stock At&t Streak (1.6) doesnt seem to do multitouch very well, is that something that 2.1/2.2 solves?
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Yep and yep
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Much appreciated.
I've tried updating on my own....but never got the flash to work. I'm just waiting on Dell at this point. *ugh*
Thanks again.
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QDL repair tool
Search here for the QDL repair tool, FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS to the letter getting the drivers loaded, one click, (for me 174 seconds), wait for the dell logo to go away (could take a couple minutes, up to 5) and VOILA! 2.2 (309) installed.
Good idea to do a fastboot then select reflash, then download the 318 update file, allow it to update (keeps all of your settings), and you're done.
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Ok so the OTA 2.2 should be around the month.
I was just wondering is there an android app or program for the pc to back up the current state of my phone such as all apps and preferences so i dont have to start from scratch after the update?
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When I tried to update to the unofficial 2.2 (and failed ) titanium backup did the trick. Reloaded all apps with settings, just had to rebuild my screen layouts. Problem is most of the backup programs require root. Accordin to streaksmart.com the "dell insider" was not able to root the official build. Not to say the smart people on these forums wont have that figured out in no time after its released: )
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Sorry. Didnt read completely. Don't know of one for the PC...
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Dell have said that they will tell you how to back up all your data before applying the update so maybe they have a program they are sending with the update
Theres a free dell backup app on the market now specifically for the streak so problem solved
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futurama said:
Theres a free dell backup app on the market now specifically for the streak so problem solved
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Nice find did not know that thanks
scan this code for direct link to market http://ow.ly/i/5jiE
Its just on the market, search for it... Froyo is very near I think!
If it isn't working the first time ( invalid backup), reboot your phone... Try it again and it will work.
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Just did mine. Froyo next!!!
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Just did a backup went smoothly lets hope it restores perfectly when i get the ota 2.2
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Made by/distributed by Nero? ah well who cares
Nero? We probably can connect external USB-Burner to the Streak and burn our data on DVD *lol*
kasperke said:
Its just on the market, search for it... Froyo is very near I think!
If it isn't working the first time ( invalid backup), reboot your phone... Try it again and it will work.
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Awesome find! Hopefully 2.2 is very near!
hope the 2.2 is as slick...... feels like I have been waiting for every for this up date... come on dell
got it
got my streak a week ago, found dell backup in market a few days ago
+2 for froyo release.. I would bet it will be release on the 11th.
thanks - this saved me a heap of time
Where does this program save the backup file to? I don't see it on my SD card
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Its under com.nero.android.dellsync on your sdcard
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Nice find, worked great.
Keeps hanging on backing up applications, or when the screen turns off. Running official o2 2.1
Scratch that, rebooted my streak then tried again, works fine.
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I'm confused. Two questions.
1. What makes this program a good sign for Froyo's release?
2. What is different about this from the PC suite that I use with 1.6 and came standard with the Streak for backing up the program?
akguy said:
I'm confused. Two questions.
1. What makes this program a good sign for Froyo's release?
2. What is different about this from the PC suite that I use with 1.6 and came standard with the Streak for backing up the program?
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1) it was on Tweeter and on Facebook (dell uk) stating that prior to receiving Froyo, backup using this app.
2) no difference, backs up the same stuff but the difference lies in the fact that this way, you don't need a pc to restore your settings.
So ive got froyo 2.2 and I downloaded the sims3 for android but ite wont install.. anyone know why and how I can play? Do I need any1 emulators?
Also does anyone else experience device not responding to touch and inactivity of soft keys every know and then till battery is removed?
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I think the community may need more specifics from your SIMs 3 issue. I for one watch my wife use it quite a bit on her froyo'ed streak daily. Did yours installed entirely from Market?
And not really on the soft keys mine are good and have been good.
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I think the community may need more specifics from your SIMs 3 issue. I for one watch my wife use it quite a bit on her froyo'ed streak daily. Did yours installed entirely from Market?
And not really on the soft keys mine are good and have been good.
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YEA, did that it just wouldnt install. Then I dlded 2 others on the net and one has the same error - doesnt open while the other says something about parsing!
Another thing ive noticed recently is my streak automatically restarts in the middle if im using FB or anything else. Using the Stage UI also causes weather, fb and system to force close :S
I have the AVG pro isntalled.. Doesnt seem to be any good!
Help!!
Have you tried a factory reset?
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Nope.. Apparently I'm a noob at this! Do my contacts and apps get cleaned off with a factory reset?
Will try that now.. My phones giving me lots of problems now can't even use fb with out it force closing 19 times.
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Ok all input is needed.....do gameloft games actually work right on 345 I'm on 1.8.1 and they all crash. Plus I get a bunch of reboots
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Why not just try them both and see which works better for you? There are pros and cons for each that really depend on your personal setup and useage
whats the easiest way to get 345 up since im already on 1.8.1
Naked woman are the best
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I was unable to come up with a stable configuration using 1.81 and various install.txt's as I always ended up with reboots after a few days so I would recommend 345 over that. ( If anyone has a solid config please let me know )
That said, I am sticking with 318 and the tweak patch as I personally didn't notice a difference between 345 and 318 aside from the Stage UI which I don't use anyway.
I just did this.
Go to the wiki for the dell streak (at the top) and get the following for the 345 build:
Recovery (You will need this flashed with fastboot onto you streak)
PKG (This will need to be on the root of your SD card named update.pkg)
DSP (You need to flash this for video after you install the PKG)
1) Copy the PKG to the root of your SD card
2) Flash the recovery image
3) Reboot your phone holding down the up and down volume and install the new rom
4) wait for reboot
5) Flash the DSP file
Gonna try 1.9 first see how that goes ill let u know when i do that
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I think that the choice now is 345 or streakdroid 1.9.0.
I am testing 1.9.0 right now. It is based on the latest official roms so it is Android 2.2.2. I have tested and you can make nandroid backups from 1.9.0 (does not hang at backing up firstboot)
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Naked woman are the best
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with beer is better.
1.9.0 with 240 pixel - for the win!
240 is huge I like smaller like 140 or 120
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with beer is better.
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with beast is best.
I'm running 1.9.0 and everything works fine including gameloft....
I used this option....
volnoppt - flashes a kernel without the new kgsl(3d) per page table support AND VOLUME BOOST - fixes some gameloft games
Everything i've tried just works....and damned quick too!
I updated to 1.9.0 and now some market apps don't appear. anyone else have this issue?
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I updated to 1.9.0 and now some market apps don't appear. anyone else have this issue?
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Yep, some apps don'y appear in the market.
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What about appbrain ?
So all the games play and u can see all the colors in the games? The golf game I still cant see the characters and in modern combat 2 I cant get any of the game data to download. So what did u do about this
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1.9.0
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Ok im on dj steve 1.9 and im annoyed....every game freezes my phone I gotta pull the battery and restart. My phone even has a mind of its own it likes to just randomly restart. And sometimes I have to wait like 30 min before I can even got yet my phone to start. Im upset that this big ass screen does nothing cause I cant get anything to work right.......grrrrr....im frustrated about this.....I did a factory reboot flashed steves rom with clockwork...please help me idk what Im doing our did wrong....
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Would 347 official be better for me?
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you can try that and see if it works... However u have to use the nandroid backup posted. There is no update.pkg file .
Equally good is 340 . Good thing is that it has update.pkg and update.zip file available for download
Each phone seems to work better on a different rom.
Ok with the 347 can you explain how to instal it like I was a noob
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you have download the files from 347 thread.
then flash them with adb.
Someone has described in detail how to do it there
Whats adb
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U can come to irc.freenode.net and join channel #dellstreak
Someone should be able to help u
See idk wat that is I type it into my browser and it just comes up with text and says it works!!!
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What ??????
What is the irc.freenode.net. I type it into my browser and it goes nowhere
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its the irc channel.
if u r using ur phone , there is a good app called yaaic.
You can get into the irc channel through it .
Noones on there tho
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error.
On Steve's 1.9 I keep on running into the issue of all of my essential apps force closing. Such as android.process.core and Messaging, and Calendar storage, and essentially, I feel locked out of my phone because any action I take results in 2+ force closes of apps that close off and come back.
I wiped the Cache initially, and that had no avail.
I used the ClockworkMod cache wipe, and now I'm testing out a straight up factory reset will work.
I'm using the Factory Reset option provided when you get to the initial Clockwork screen "Directly after holding volume and power buttons, but before running Clockwork itself"
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On Steve's 1.9 I keep on running into the issue of all of my essential apps force closing. Such as android.process.core and Messaging, and Calendar storage, and essentially, I feel locked out of my phone because any action I take results in 2+ force closes of apps that close off and come back.
I wiped the Cache initially, and that had no avail.
I used the ClockworkMod cache wipe, and now I'm testing out a straight up factory reset will work.
I'm using the Factory Reset option provided when you get to the initial Clockwork screen "Directly after holding volume and power buttons, but before running Clockwork itself"
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That's not going to help you. Factory reset is broken on 1.9 go back to 1.5.1 first to get factory reset working.
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