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After being a member here for about a year, I finally bit the bullet, and picked up a Droid X.
I work from home, so its a bit hard to justify a smartphone, but comparing monthly charges for the phone I had (prepaid) vs a contract, I noticed it did not differ to much, so now my w510 flip-phone is officially retired.
I pondered a few days on rooting, and I guess the hacker in me decided to go for it, and eventhough I ran into a few complications, I am now running Rubix Blur 1.0 with 968 Dark Glass. Initially I tried Rubix Focused 1.6 (which seems to be snappier) but after Dark Glass, the home button didn't work, so I flashed it to Blur instead, and now it works fine.
Before I ask my questions, this is mainly what I use my X for:
* Video. (of course )
* Email. One of the main reasons for me picking the X is the larger screen. Besides making things easier to read, the onscreen keyboard is also larger than the physical keyboard on the 2, making it easier for me to respond to people who have questions in regards of my software. At nights as well as when I am out and about, I don't have access to my computer for responses, so this is where the X comes in.
* Internet. looking things up quickly whenever I want, or just to check the forums here for example.
* Being reachable. I don't call much myself, and I don't get called much, but people do try and reach me.
With the rooting I did quite a bit of research on these and other Android forums, but I have a few questions I could not find answers to.
Questions:
*Canned Responses.
For email I use gmail, and one feature I use quite a bit is "canned responses", which basically lets you save a draft as an easily selectable portion of text. In gmails web interface on a PC, this option is a quick dropdown, and when you select a draft from the dropdown, it inserts its contents into the email. For a few commonly asked questions, I have saved detailed information this way, and when needed, I can just insert the procedure into the email. Is there a way to use canned responses on the X, or an app that would do something similar (copy/paste of some sorts)
*WiFi/3G reception.
At home my reception is not the greatest, so I have it set up for wireless as well. Unfortunately, with Stock and both Rubix roms, I am having a hell of a time connecting to my wifi network. I have 3 different access methods, 1 set to WPA (my main router) and 2 set to WEP (a LocationFree box and another router used only as a wifi accesspoint) and on all 3 I am experiencing issues. With all other equipment, including netbooks, iPod Touch etc, I have no problems at all, but with the X as well as a modded Augen GenTouch, I'm having trouble with actually setting up the connection as well as when I turn them on. Is there a rom or app that would:
a. resolve the wifi issue and b. maybe increase my celltower reception a little, maybe by a voltage adjustment or different drivers of some sort?
*Startup apps.
Is there something like hijackthis or even msconfig for Android that would let me turn off crap that runs at startup? I noticed on a clean boot, there are a lot of things automatically running, which I don't need. Skype for example, but there are others as well.
I have auto memory manager installed, which seems to help a little, but I rather prefer to turn these things off myself. Just like on my computer, I rather have things start when I start them, rather than having them take up resources when I don't use them.
*Clean Rom.
I prefer performance over functionality (while maintaining/increasing battery-life), but also enjoy some eye-candy. If there are better options for the Rubix+Dark Glass combo, please let me know
.
I work from home, so its a bit hard to justify a smartphone, but comparing monthly charges for the phone I had (prepaid) vs a contract, I noticed it did not differ to much, so now my w510 flip-phone is officially retired.
I pondered a few days on rooting, and I guess the hacker in me decided to go for it, and eventhough I ran into a few complications, I am now running Rubix Blur 1.0 with 968 Dark Glass. Initially I tried Rubix Focused 1.6 (which seems to be snappier) but after Dark Glass, the home button didn't work, so I flashed it to Blur instead, and now it works fine.
Before I ask my questions, this is mainly what I use my X for:
* Video. (of course )
* Email. One of the main reasons for me picking the X is the larger screen. Besides making things easier to read, the onscreen keyboard is also larger than the physical keyboard on the 2, making it easier for me to respond to people who have questions in regards of my software. At nights as well as when I am out and about, I don't have access to my computer for responses, so this is where the X comes in.
* Internet. looking things up quickly whenever I want, or just to check the forums here for example.
* Being reachable. I don't call much myself, and I don't get called much, but people do try and reach me.
With the rooting I did quite a bit of research on these and other Android forums, but I have a few questions I could not find answers to.
Questions:
*Canned Responses.
For email I use gmail, and one feature I use quite a bit is "canned responses", which basically lets you save a draft as an easily selectable portion of text. In gmails web interface on a PC, this option is a quick dropdown, and when you select a draft from the dropdown, it inserts its contents into the email. For a few commonly asked questions, I have saved detailed information this way, and when needed, I can just insert the procedure into the email. Is there a way to use canned responses on the X, or an app that would do something similar (copy/paste of some sorts)
*WiFi/3G reception.
At home my reception is not the greatest, so I have it set up for wireless as well. Unfortunately, with Stock and both Rubix roms, I am having a hell of a time connecting to my wifi network. I have 3 different access methods, 1 set to WPA (my main router) and 2 set to WEP (a LocationFree box and another router used only as a wifi accesspoint) and on all 3 I am experiencing issues. With all other equipment, including netbooks, iPod Touch etc, I have no problems at all, but with the X as well as a modded Augen GenTouch, I'm having trouble with actually setting up the connection as well as when I turn them on. Is there a rom or app that would:
a. resolve the wifi issue and b. maybe increase my celltower reception a little, maybe by a voltage adjustment or different drivers of some sort?
*Startup apps.
Is there something like hijackthis or even msconfig for Android that would let me turn off crap that runs at startup? I noticed on a clean boot, there are a lot of things automatically running, which I don't need. Skype for example, but there are others as well.
I have auto memory manager installed, which seems to help a little, but I rather prefer to turn these things off myself. Just like on my computer, I rather have things start when I start them, rather than having them take up resources when I don't use them.
*Clean Rom.
I prefer performance over functionality (while maintaining/increasing battery-life), but also enjoy some eye-candy. If there are better options for the Rubix+Dark Glass combo, please let me know
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