^Root access required too, IINM. The SDK way maybe?

It's not illegal in the sense that it will land you in jail.

Void warranty because when ppl root their phones, they do crazy things with it. Doing these crazy things without fully understanding it will sometimes result in a spoilt phone that cannot be repaired by means available to the user. The term for this kind of situation is that the phone is 'bricked'.

Under the warranty agreement, usually there's a clause that says the warranty is void if some form of modification has been performed. Imagine you're a manufacturer, and ppl keep returning these phone cause they do something that they're not supposed to do. Will you repair it? It will cost money to repair these phones one you know.

All rooting guides have disclaimers stating warranty will be void when you root, usually bolded in red. If uncle didn't read that then it's his fault. Fact of life.

sadly enough contact sending via sms is not natively supported by android.

One advantage is lurking in hacking websites like XDA is that the devs there develop apps for common use too. Here's a relatively fresh app that does what I think you're looking for.

http://www.xda-developers.com/android/shar...-android-phone/

AFAIK, only way to remove is to factory data reset. You're talking about google account, right? Coz twitter or facebook can remove easily.

This post has been edited by DJFoo000: Apr 12 2011, 10:53 PM

If by firmware you mean RUU,

firmwares are region coded because they contain radios specific to a region. Like an Asian ROM would have a radio best suited for the Asia region (even Asia ROM also can be sub-divided into ROMs for each country, like HK, S'pore, Taiwan etc to name a few common ones). Not that an European ROM wouldn't work in Asia, just maybe the radio performance might not be the best the manufacturer thinks it can be.

And some regional RUUs are carrier specific, meaning it contains carrier specific bundled softwares.

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

^is data configured on your phone?

^you did not search hard enough:

http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=1400511
http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=1349142&hl=

^ how long have you waited? One minute can feel like forever while standing outdoors.

The newer HTC Android phones have Android Market preinstalled already, unlike the HTC Hero days where you need to do extra stuff to get Market.

^there're tons of that stuff in the Market.

^android market has lots of free games that does not involve any kind of user modification to install.

In fact, androids can install apps from sources other than the market. Meaning, as long as you have the file, you can install it (like on a PC).

To combat piracy, it is forum policy to not discuss pirated games. The official channel is thru the market. Good news is that paid apps can be viewed on the Android Market in Malaysia already.

I'm not proficient on processor architecture, but isn't Android an ARM platform?

Anyway, the problem you see by installing apps not made for tablets is that the UI is not made for the huge screen real estate. Like let's say the twitter app, on the Xoom it will look enlarged with a lot of unused space. It's not stretched, the font size is still the same and the app still fills the screen. Just that the boxes become larger and thus having a lot of empty space. Until devs make tablet-specific versions of the app, you'll need to live with that.

Then you select a pic for wallpaper, the orange box come out. Drag one of it's edges until the box fills the picture. Tap save.

there's an app for it. Android doesn't support VCard natively. Here's one featured on XDA sometime ago:

http://www.xda-developers.com/android/shar...-android-phone/

Try resetting your college wifi password. Ensure your new password works normally. Then retry on your phone.

^change phone.

Haha joking. Try and see if your college can do anything about removing your phone's MAC address from the system and you reconnect again. Or just ask them for assistance about the issue.

factory reset will not touch your SDcard.

i'm not sure what you're talking about. Factory resets will not touch the SDcard. Whatever on the SDcard will be untouched.

I dunno what will happen to apps saved to SDcard, but they will most likely be left untouched. Don't take my word for it though.

^with stock launcher (except TouchWiz 4.0), you can't. With certain alternative launchers you can.

There's a reason why a 'normal' app drawers doesn't allow you to make folders. App drawers serve as the penultimate way to locate an app because it is always arranged alphabetically. For folder-ing purposes you do it in the homescreen. I guess it's to prevent users getting lost and forgot which folder they placed the app into.