[Q] Noob alert - Xperia SP Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hi guys/girls, I just got an Xperia SP yesterday. Although I'm reasonably tech savvy, these days I'm not to clever. Just introducing myself really and hope to learn from the forum. I will endeavour to research as much as I can myself, however I'm on a few other forums ( none phone ) and have always found people very helpful. Thanks in advance ..... Mikey

Mikeybonsai said:
I have a Galaxy Tablet and managed to get apps etc' for free on that by downloading .apk files
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That's against forum's rules. Nobody will help you.

cachanilla86 said:
That's against forum's rules. Nobody will help you.
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Ah gotcha, apologies. I will attempt to edit my post. Really didn't want to alienate myself on the first post. Thanks for the reply

cachanilla86 said:
That's against forum's rules. Nobody will help you.
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Mikeybonsai said:
Ah gotcha, apologies. I will attempt to edit my post. Really didn't want to alienate myself on the first post. Thanks for the reply
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Ok so any questions about the phone? Had to stop visiting Sony forums as I can't stand the continuous complains:crying: XDA is not just for developers but also in general for people who want to learn.
Just a few basics:
1. Always use the search button. Many, including me are particularly annoyed by people who can't be bothered to search
2. Press the thanks button for helpful posts. It helps a lot by pointing out the useful replies and for the poster's ego...
3. Finally, the video
Please don't feel offended LOL.
As always, feel free to ask questions.

such stertywo
No questions yet Jason, just looking around for tricks/ tips etc at the mo. I just find forums a plethora of info and thought I best join one first. No doubt I will have plenty soon. Thanks for the reply. In fact I would like to configure specific sms tones for specific people if you knew off hand, only just noticed I can't seem to personalise my missus's profile

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Uninstalling applications..

Is there an uninstaller somewhere or do I just go on activesync and delete the folder/file?
You really need to read the manual. All of your questions will be answered there. Posting questions like this is unnecessary.
it takes the same effort for u to tell me that and for u to just give me a quick answer.. thanks for being an ass
Lidberg
Tap Start > Settings > System tab > Remove Programs
RTFM ---> Page 234 of the PDF .
Ofiaich
mrkoven said:
it takes the same effort for u to tell me that and for u to just give me a quick answer.. thanks for being an ass
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And if you actually read the manual, you would spend less time posting inane questions.
Seriously, read the manual. Sit down with your phone and go through all the menus and settings. You will learn so much more about your phone than you could imagine.
mrkoven said:
it takes the same effort for u to tell me that and for u to just give me a quick answer.. thanks for being an ass
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Dude, that's just a messed up attitude by you. I spent alot of time helping you with another issue. You are NOT the first person to own this device. Many times before your questions have been asked and answered. We all went thru this and learned by searching and researching, NOT by being spoon fed answers.
You just asked one of the most basic questions I've ever seen asked. And YOU REALLY SHOULD read the manual. The point is, sure we could tell you all the answers, but you know what? We have lives too. We don't post here just to help newbies asking stupid questions that are easily answered by doing the basics like reading the manual or doing a search on the forum.
I'm actually sorry I spent time to help you on the other thread with this callous attitude you disaply here.
Good luck.
sorry guys, i will read, i apologize for my attitude
mrkoven said:
sorry guys, i will read, i apologize for my attitude
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Thanks...Things work much better here when people both help eachother AND try to help themselves also.
Closing this thread so it can die before becoming another "Flame the Newbie" Argument.
FWIW, both side have valid points on the topic...

diamond wallpapers

Can someone please post all the stock diamond wallpapers for me? i'm most interested in the aquarium one and the standard blue but i'd like to have all of them, if possible. thanks for your time.
They were already published, and if you used Search you'd already know that
I'll give you a link: http://rapidshare.com/files/127631094/wallpaper.rar
Please always Search before posting!
pedmond said:
They were already published, and if you used Search you'd already know that
I'll give you a link: http://rapidshare.com/files/127631094/wallpaper.rar
Please always Search before posting!
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thanks for your help but don't gimme that sh**... i did search. this is what i got... http://forum.xda-developers.com/search.php?searchid=14289874
gammarho55 said:
thanks for your help but don't gimme that sh**... i did search. this is what i got... http://forum.xda-developers.com/search.php?searchid=14289874
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You spoiled brat! Well you are not very good at searching then!
Sergio PC said:
You spoiled brat! Well you are not very good at searching then!
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i posted the f-ing link... if you find it there tell me where its at. it was just a simple question, and i didn't need the damn "search police" bugging me... if you're not going to be nice when you answer a question, why bother?
and i just found it... it was a thread i overlooked. but seriously, if its really a bother for you to answer questions, why do it? we all make mistakes... i overlooked it, woohoo... big deal. i'm sure that in you're 70 something posts you've made a mistake.
gammarho55 said:
and i just found it... it was a thread i overlooked. but seriously, if its really a bother for you to answer questions, why do it? we all make mistakes... i overlooked it, woohoo... big deal. i'm sure that in you're 70 something posts you've made a mistake.
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Well, as you noticed I DID answer your question, and also pointed you politely towards the Search facility which, as you have noticed, would have given you the answer and would spare people from answering the same questions again and again, which is a waste of time and also unnecessarily clogs this forum.
However, I do not take kindly to verbal abuse and to the kind of language you seem to be using here. Once people get beyond the mental age of 10 they usually start talking a different language.
Please remind me not to help you next time.
All the best.
pedmond said:
Well, as you noticed I DID answer your question, and also pointed you politely towards the Search facility which, as you have noticed, would have given you the answer and would spare people from answering the same questions again and again, which is a waste of time and also unnecessarily clogs this forum.
However, I do not take kindly to verbal abuse and to the kind of language you seem to be using here. Once people get beyond the mental age of 10 they usually start talking a different language.
Please remind me not to help you next time.
All the best.
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i know you did help and i said thanks... but seriously, it was an honest mistake. and i did eventually find it. and i apologize for the language, but i just get tired of hearing "use the search button"... you want to not use up so much space on the forum, but yet you reply with "search button, search button." just gets a little old is all. if its that big of a deal, then don't bother to be a person that helps people. you should probably give people the benefit of the doubt sometimes.
Although I'm a great opposer of the "reply with 'search!'"-mentality seen around here, pedmond was so kind to take the time to answer your question ánd correct you on your mistake instead of just flaming the hell out of you. He was being anything but the search-Nazi you're making him out to be.
If this'd be a forum of mine, I'd have you slapped and on moderation for a week. There's not agreeing and arguing about it and there's plain verbal abuse.
In any case, glad you found your stuff, and lower your temper a bit. Your kind of replies makes a forum a better place as much as those guys with their search-syndrome do.

[Q] Launcher Pro Iphone icon pack and dock?

Hi,im new to the site.Have a Samsung Transform...For those of you that dont know it looks like the Epic hardware wise and like the Moment software wise.
My question is if anyone has an iphone dock and icon pack for launcher pro plus.Im familiar with applying docks but not icons...Sorry if its been asked just cant find it.
Thanks in advance.
Icons: Here.
Longpress any dock shortcut > Change icon.
Dock: Here's a nice collection. If not, Google helps.
"Glass" under Apperance settings > Dock backgrounds also works.
zHk3R said:
Icons: Here.
Longpress any dock shortcut > Change icon.
Dock: Here's a nice collection. If not, Google helps.
"Glass" under Apperance settings > Dock backgrounds also works.
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This is the best answer I have ever seen.....
Yeah. It was a **** answer too.
The whole reason people post in this forum is to seek help and help others.
If you take the time to be a douche and post one of those "Let Me Google That For You" links, then you might as well just help them.
Being from a senior member too, that knows exactly where those icon sets are, and could easily have pointed them in the RIGHT direction. Or even provided them with the icons.
If they wanted to Google it, they would have. Not asked the question in the forum where it should be. Just sayin'. ;D
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Yeah. It was a **** answer too.
The whole reason people post in this forum is to seek help and help others.
If you take the time to be a douche and post one of those "Let Me Google That For You" links, then you might as well just help them.
Being from a senior member too, that knows exactly where those icon sets are, and could easily have pointed them in the RIGHT direction. Or even provided them with the icons.
If they wanted to Google it, they would have. Not asked the question in the forum where it should be. Just sayin'. ;D
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A **** answer?
There are literally a thousand - No, a million iPhone icon sets on the web.
Google iPhone icons and you get 10 relevant pages on the first search.
The fifth link was actually iPhone icons over at DeviantART where there would be a thousand more related icon packs.
If you take the time to be a douche and post one of those "Let Me Google That For You" links, then you might as well just help them.
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Most people come here and ask questions without searching. This is a very, very basic question that would have been 'resolved' with a quick search either here on XDA or Google. If you feel "Let me Google that for you" is a '****' link then I assure you I was not trying to be a ****. I was given that link at some point and realized Google'ing might be a good idea before raising a question or creating a thread.
You're very helpful yourself, Mr.God. Your answer to this thread really helped the OP more out than I did.
Someone here has problems keeping their temper down.
a simple search on google, xda would find plenty. Can't remember and post the links for the iphone icons soz, but you can find plenty of them on my dropbox
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How hard is it to be nice and help a guy out? lol everyone has to start somewhere..
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A **** answer?
There are literally a thousand - No, a million iPhone icon sets on the web.
Google iPhone icons and you get 10 relevant pages on the first search.
The fifth link was actually iPhone icons over at DeviantART where there would be a thousand more related icon packs.
Most people come here and ask questions without searching. This is a very, very basic question that would have been 'resolved' with a quick search either here on XDA or Google. If you feel "Let me Google that for you" is a '****' link then I assure you I was not trying to be a ****. I was given that link at some point and realized Google'ing might be a good idea before raising a question or creating a thread.
You're very helpful yourself, Mr.God. Your answer to this thread really helped the OP more out than I did.
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That's not the point.
The point is they asked here in the forum. Where help is needed and tended to.
It was perfectly acceptable to post that question here.
My reply wasn't to help them.
If I knew all the answers, I would've helped them.
My reply was simply to put you in your place.
I love how everyone sucks your **** all the time.
Even when you're a **** to people, they still can't get their head out of your ass.
dont know about the docks - i dont use them
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=824656
there is a link for the icons, there are a ton in that thread.
good luck
Whatever happened to being helpful as opposed to being a douche?
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That's not the point.
The point is they asked here in the forum. Where help is needed and tended to.
It was perfectly acceptable to post that question here.
My reply wasn't to help them.
If I knew all the answers, I would've helped them.
My reply was simply to put you in your place.
I love how everyone sucks your **** all the time.
Even when you're a **** to people, they still can't get their head out of your ass.
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Haha, what!
What are you on about, man?
- I made a suggestion he Google search and provided a link to a dock thread.
It¨s a forum, more than one individual can answer,
Instead of having theories about people sucking my **** all the time you could've answered the OP with an actual answer.
zHk3R said:
Instead of having theories about people sucking my **** all the time you could've answered the OP with an actual answer.
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LMFAO....that is absolute gold!!
FWIW, I agree entirely with your first answer. It would have taken less time to search the XDA forums and/or Google than it would to open a new thread. Sheeesh!
manicmoose said:
LMFAO....that is absolute gold!!
FWIW, I agree entirely with your first answer. It would have taken less time to search the XDA forums and/or Google than it would to open a new thread. Sheeesh!
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Couldn't agree more, this is why XDA is going down the pan, because of idiots diluting the forums all the time. Then you get children like "God!" who think its fine to post silly questions but not ok to give silly answers, Although the answer given was not actually silly as it 100% answered the OP's question and took him directly to what he needed aswell as also a lesson to use XDA search or Google FIRST.
How bout everyone just CHILL THE **** OUT and get back to being good neighbors and helping our FRIENDS in our online community. Xda doesn't stand for XTREME-DOUCHE-ASSHOLES.
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alexdemonumber3 said:
How bout everyone just CHILL THE **** OUT and get back to being good neighbors and helping our FRIENDS in our online community. Xda doesn't stand for XTREME-DOUCHE-ASSHOLES.
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Did you even bother to read the topic at all ffs? Or did you just skip straight to talking crap?
If you had bothered you would know that the OP ...WAS... helped!
Im not talk crap. You obviously didn't read my post correctly. I didn't insult or threaten anyone. .--!-. (^_^) .-!--.
TheATHEiST said:
Did you even bother to read the topic at all ffs? Or did you just skip straight to talking crap?
If you had bothered you would know that the OP ...WAS... helped!
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Just New Here

Hope to read more each day .. thanks for a very good website
Dwarfspider said:
Hope to read more each day .. thanks for a very good website
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Same here, welcome
Welcome you will like it here
Reading here in this General Android forum you get the general info not real detail. But, go to your specific phone forum (e.g. mine is Vibrant) and there will be a General section a Q/A, Theme/mods and Development
The General usually will have a bunch of tutorials on how to mod the phone install custom roms, etc. In that area you will find a treasure trove of all the information that you ever had questions about your device. I Recommend READ as much of this as you can before losing focus. This will help you to understand how and why the phone does what it does.
The Development is where we post our custom software for the phone or modems ...etc.
This is the fun area (for me) amazing skills in this forum and on this site.
After you are adept on your phone you will never go back to stock out of the box anything .....and then --- you will hooked
Welcome.
And now all of you are in MY little corner of the place...
Hehe, welcome to off topic ! Watch out for trolls ..... They are unleashed
This is a great forum!
JiiJii said:
This is a great forum!
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Ya it relly is
Welcome to forums
Read, Search, Respect and Enjoy!
Dwarfspider said:
Hope to read more each day .. thanks for a very good website
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[Q] Do we have any wordaround with the Camera yet?

Hallo Guys,
Have any developer or group of them published any type of workaround with the Camera on Android CM9 (or Stock ICS) for this Touchpad?
Thanks
Arwany said:
Hallo Guys,
Have any developer or group of them published any type of workaround with the Camera on Android CM9 (or Stock ICS) for this Touchpad?
Thanks
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Don't you think there's gonna be some special announcement or thread once we get the cam and Michael working?
Don't you think that instead of being LAZY that it would serve you and the community better for you to do a search instead of posting a USELESS thread
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cdzo72 said:
Don't you think there's gonna be some special announcement or thread once we get the cam and Michael working?
Don't you think that instead of being LAZY that it would serve you and the community better for you to do a search instead of posting a USELESS thread
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You talk about a useless thread then post a useless answer.
This is a forum that's supposed to help not browbeat and insult posters. If you don't have something useful to post then DON'T POST! This is the q/a section, questions are going to be asked. If you don't like the question, or the way it was asked, ignore it.
cdzo72 said:
And forum rules dictate that you search before posting.... and last week alone there were five threads started by lazies such as yourself
So before you speak of the forum make sure you adhere to its rules
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And who named you 'keeper of the forum rules'? Also 'lazies such as yourself '....? Really?? I mostly post to answer questions, apparently you don't read the forum as much as you should...
If you think there's been a breach of forum rules, report it to a Mod, don't take it on yourself to insult noobs. Talking about rules, did you skip over the one about making rude and insulting posts?
Don't forget to donate to cdzo72 using the link on his profile.
Got my HP Touchpad only one week ago...
cdzo72 said:
Don't you think there's gonna be some special announcement or thread once we get the cam and Michael working?
Don't you think that instead of being LAZY that it would serve you and the community better for you to do a search instead of posting a USELESS thread
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Sorry for posting useless posts, I searched well in the rules before asking, and searched a lot in Google and other places...
Note: I bought my HP Touchpad one week ago, and only had time yesterday to crack its software and install CM9 and other stuff like Ubuntu... please be patient on ppl like me, startes...
Thanks for your replay
chicle_11 said:
You talk about a useless thread then post a useless answer.
This is a forum that's supposed to help not browbeat and insult posters. If you don't have something useful to post then DON'T POST! This is the q/a section, questions are going to be asked. If you don't like the question, or the way it was asked, ignore it.
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Thanks for your reply, it was a little hard on him, the man got a point, this is a stupid question, but I really didn't knew that this issue is a huge issue that everybody is working on...
patience is a virtue some people here have yet to receive, cuz they clearly can't figure it out themselves
camera and mic really depend on drivers for the touchpad being released/leaked/found.....and if we know what they are then we can find those drivers.
There is a project regarding this at rootzwiki but its kind of a "stop-start" routine.
Dalingrin, the dev who came up with android on the touchpad pretty much has said that it'll be a very long to impossible time for those two to be working on the touchpad, but hey you never know we might get lucky
Very helpful answer, thanks a lot
ace9988 said:
patience is a virtue some people here have yet to receive, cuz they clearly can't figure it out themselves
camera and mic really depend on drivers for the touchpad being released/leaked/found.....and if we know what they are then we can find those drivers.
There is a project regarding this at rootzwiki but its kind of a "stop-start" routine.
Dalingrin, the dev who came up with android on the touchpad pretty much has said that it'll be a very long to impossible time for those two to be working on the touchpad, but hey you never know we might get lucky
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Thank you very much for your answer, it helped me a lot, because I got some ppl who work with hardware development and would love to try, but they don't want to start from zero...
I contacted the guy "Faux123", the person who develope a very stronge Android Kernels that last longer and overclock, but he replied me with no time...
I will contact that guy and try to get some info from him.
If you know the URL of that specific thread/git/doc please share it with me here.
Thanks a have good night for you all
Arwany said:
Thank you very much for your answer, it helped me a lot, because I got some ppl who work with hardware development and would love to try, but they don't want to start from zero...
I contacted the guy "Faux123", the person who develope a very stronge Android Kernels that last longer and overclock, but he replied me with no time...
I will contact that guy and try to get some info from him.
If you know the URL of that specific thread/git/doc please share it with me here.
Thanks a have good night for you all
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http://rootzwiki.com/topic/16347-dev-ics-camera-hd-video-hw-acceleration-fix/
here's the thread, just hit the thanks button if both posts helped. Hope you're after what you want.
cdzo72 said:
I have more money than I can spend so keep your pennies all of you and get some Android tutors
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[email protected] "more money than I can spend" + "donate to me" button.
Sw339 said:
[email protected] "more money than I can spend" + "donate to me" button.
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