I've just had my HTC Hero upgraded to Android 2.1, and I have heard about the Car Home function, which sounds great for when I use the new Google Maps Navigation in my car. However, this doesn't seem to be on my phone. Is that because of HTC installing HTC Sense? If so, can I get Car Home back again?

I'm using the Samsung Vibrant, T-Mobile's variant of the Galaxy S, running Android 2.1. When I create a contact on my Android phone, I can choose to store it to the SIM, the phone, or to Google. If I choose phone, is there an easy way that I can move or copy that contact to Google (so it shows up in Gmail, for example) at some later time? The edit menu for contacts shows options for _Edit_, _Delete_, _Link contact_, _Mark as default_, _Send namecard via_ and _Copy to SIM_.

I've been following these very detailed instructions to take a screenshot on my Motorola Flipside . When I get to the step #10 where I launch ddms.bat I get this error and my phone doesn't show up: > C:\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk-windows\tools>ddms.bat > 12:09:01 E/adb: Failed to get the adb version: Cannot run program "adb": CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified (and here I thought the difficulties of taking screenshots on Android were exaggerated)

How do you keep Google Play Services from stopping or get it to start back up? It has deleted all my apps and is now telling me every time I try to download that I don't have enough space. What do I do?

When you are entering text field entries on Android, you get the soft keyboard on my Samsung Galaxy S. In the lower left corner there is the key that switches between the alphabetic characters and the keyboard with punctuations and digits (and smileys and so on). Now if you have to enter a large number, this is a bit tricky - because the numeric keypad's keys are much bigger, it's much easier to enter numbers and digits. Therefore, I was wondering if there is a way I haven't discovered , yet , to somehow **switch to the numeric keypad, even when entering text entries**.

I am using an Xperia X10 mini pro (Android 2.1-update1). I rooted the phone and partitioned the 8GB SD Card into two parts. 1. ext3 2. FAT32. I installed Link2SD to move the apps to SD Card. This has been very useful as this application has an option to move the installed/updated apps to SD Card automatically. But recently it happened to remove my SD Card from phone and inserted another 2GB SD Card for some other purpose. I started the phone and the apps that are showing on phone aren't working as I installed them on my SD card. So I put my 8 GB Micro SD card back to phone. Now the problem arose. I was not able to access the apps installed on SD Card. I had to reinstall all the apps that are there in my phone. Is it how it behaves ? Don't I remove my SD card from phone ? I did a little amount of Experimenting on this and found that its happening only on inserting another SD Card. My mobile is searching for the apps on the newly inserted SD Card. As there are no apps found it might be deleting the links on phone memory. This is my guess only. Still the question stays "How to overcome this kind of scenario ?"

I have a very old samsung phone (Galaxy Ace) which runs Android Eclair. Surprisingly, Google Play and other apps still work and connect to the Internet, but there's a few problems. I had to hard reset it a few times, and all the apps I had were removed. Until last year or so, most of the apps were still compatible with my phone, but now they just can't be installed (they require a later version of Android I suppose, since it says "your device isn't compatible with this version"). So what I'm trying to do is to install every single app from an APK file, which I would download from the Internet. The thing is, I waste a lot of time looking for the **latest supported version**. This means I don't want an older version, I want the exact last version that was compatible. iOS has this feature, if you previously "purchased" an app you can actually download the last compatible version, but I don't know how to do this on Android. Do I have to keep looking for the correct app version or can I get the last compatible version?

I have setup three alarms on my HTC Desire (running standard 2.1 with Sense). 1. Mo, Tu, We, Fr @ 05:45 2. Th @ 05:30 3. Sa @ 07:00 They are set as repeating alarms and the phone displays the little clock symbol in the top right corner indicating that an alarm is active. I have been running the phone with DeskClock activated each night and this also says that there is an alarm active for 05:45 the next morning. However I have watched it (with it not working for some strange and bizarre reason I am waking up before the alarm goes off) and at the time the alarm is set for nothing happens. Can anyone shed some light on this? My wife has a HTC Hero that is also running 2.1 and her's appears to be working correctly. I also have ATK that is running and is set to auto-kill running applications and I have been wondering if this is the cause, however this does not kill the DeskClock app that is running so I am not sure if it is relevant.

I've got a device (HTC Magic) with Android 2.1 (rooted, with CyanogenMod). It has Google Market app v2.23.6 - pretty old. I wonder, what's the latest version of Play that runs on Android 2.1? In the past, this device once had trouble with updating the Market. I wonder if this is the same trouble all over again, or Market 2.23.6 is the latest I'm going to ever get? EDIT: more about upgrading Market to Play [here](http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28073772) . The app still calls itself Market, not Play. This might be relevant; probably Market->Play transition changes the package ID or something.

I have a very old version of Tasker I use to create apps for an e-ink reader running Android 2.1 (Eclair). After a recent (security) update to the OS, I found I could not install Tasker unless I resigned it. This worked OK except that apps which function as plugins would not work in tasks (although they do work if the tasks are compiled as apps with App Factory). This makes debugging very tiresome. I've tried resigning the apps used a plugins with the same key to no effect. Based on my reading this might be an issue with "shared user ID", but I don't know where to go from here to see if there might be a "fix".

How can I transfer my SMS and MMS messages from my old phone to my new phone? My old phone uses Android 2.1 and it seems that you currently need at least Android 2.2 to log in to a Google account. Therefore, I can't use any tools which require a Google account, such as Android Market/Google Play.

When I receive a large SMS and when I select "Forward" from options, it shows "Converting to multimedia message" and I'm getting charged more. Furthermore, if the person on receiving end doesn't have a multimedia phone he is not able to receive it. I have un-rooted Samsung Galaxy 3 I5801 I don't want to convert it to Multimedia message.

My nook simple touch has been bricked by a tool designed to wipe all partitions that I found on a deep google search. I can still boot up into CWM and attempted to use the backup to restore my nook to previous conditions. Its obviously a vain attempt at this point to try anything else as I was capable to mount my internal nook partitions onto my ancient laptop. The nook's partitions show up as unallocated on gparted.

I have a Galaxy S (Android 2.1 Update 1), and a Windows 7 Pro machine configured to allow incoming connections (i.e the built-in PPTP VPN functionality). I can establish a VPN connection to the laptop from the phone however I can't ping it or access a simple HTTP service running on 8081. Windows Firewall doesn't seem to be the issue as it doesn't work with it turned off either. It makes no difference if I use my house Wifi or disable that on the phone and connect via the phone's broadband connection. I notice via IPCONFIG on the laptop that the subnet for the phone's RAS connection is 255.255.255.255 whereas the network is 255.255.255.0 - could this be a problem?

Recently, I had to re-root my nook simple touch after the stock recovery removed the su binary. Unfortunately, it deleted my settings for remapping my upper left page button to use as a CTRL key. I would love to go back to using the terminal app running an Ubuntu Distro. I tried fixing the problem by installing the patched jars needed for nook touch tools. Although, I successfully installed them but when I go to the app to do the remapping the CTRL option no longer exists in the list of options! I already found my keymap file in this directory > /system/usr/keylayout/ The file is named **TWL4030_Keypad.kl** The content of the **TWL4030_Keypad.kl** file is here. key 399 GRAVE key 2 1 key 3 2 key 4 3 key 5 4 key 6 5 key 7 6 key 8 7 key 9 8 key 10 9 key 78 0 key 158 BACK WAKE_DROPPED key 14 BACK WAKE_DROPPED key 230 SOFT_RIGHT WAKE key 106 SOFT_RIGHT WAKE key 107 ENDCALL WAKE_DROPPED key 62 ENDCALL WAKE_DROPPED key 60 ENDCALL WAKE_DROPPED key 229 MENU WAKE_DROPPED key 139 MENU WAKE_DROPPED key 59 MENU WAKE_DROPPED key 127 SEARCH WAKE_DROPPED key 217 SEARCH WAKE_DROPPED key 228 POUND key 66 POUND key 227 STAR key 65 STAR key 231 CALL WAKE_DROPPED key 102 CALL WAKE_DROPPED key 232 DPAD_CENTER WAKE_DROPPED key 108 DPAD_DOWN WAKE_DROPPED key 103 DPAD_UP WAKE_DROPPED key 63 HOME WAKE key 105 DPAD_LEFT WAKE_DROPPED key 106 DPAD_RIGHT WAKE_DROPPED key 115 VOLUME_UP key 114 VOLUME_DOWN key 116 POWER WAKE key 212 CAMERA key 148 DPAD_CENTER key 149 SEARCH key 202 EXPLORER key 203 ENVELOPE key 102 HOME key 16 Q key 17 W key 18 E key 19 R key 20 T key 21 Y key 22 U key 23 I key 24 O key 25 P key 26 LEFT_BRACKET key 27 RIGHT_BRACKET key 43 BACKSLASH key 30 A key 31 S key 32 D key 33 F key 34 G key 35 H key 36 J key 37 K key 38 L key 39 SEMICOLON key 40 APOSTROPHE key 61 DEL key 353 ENTER key 44 Z key 45 X key 46 C key 47 V key 48 B key 49 N key 50 M key 51 COMMA key 52 PERIOD key 53 SLASH key 28 ENTER key 56 ALT_LEFT key 100 ALT_RIGHT key 42 ALT_LEFT key 54 SHIFT_RIGHT key 15 TAB key 57 SPACE key 150 EXPLORER key 155 ENVELOPE key 58 SHIFT_RIGHT key 12 MINUS key 13 EQUALS key 215 AT key 407 RIGHT_NEXTPAGE key 412 CTRL_LEFT <----------Here I tried to edit the file in adb key 139 LEFT_PREVPAGE but is not recognized by the nook. key 158 RIGHT_PREVPAGE

Is there any alternative keyboard for Android HTC Desire 2.1 that supports English/Czech dictionary and easy way to switch between them?

I am using Micromax Android A60( version android 2.1 ) phone since two years ago. Now the Market app is not working. When I download any other app it gives error download unsuccessful. Even the Facebook app which is already downloaded to the phone is also not working. Is this problem because of Market is not upgraded to Google Play? Why is my mobile is not upgrading Market to Google play? How can I upgrade it? On Google I got following steps to upgrade Market App but not able to do 3rd step. Follow these steps to upgrade it manually on your Android device: 1. Go in to Settings in your Android device and then Apps. 2. Look for Market under the "All" tab and then press clear data. 3. Now open the newly updated Play Music app (Google Music). (This step not found) 4. Hit that little Market icon in the bottom tray. 5. Confirm Google Play upgrade.

I downloaded facebook for Android latest version just now. This version is much better than the one which was pre-installed on my Samsung Galaxy S phone. But can I see my Facebook **groups** somewhere in this version ?

I've lost the ability to change my lock screen wallpaper (in the course of trigger-happy removal of some phone company apps). I used to be able to do 'Menu > Wallpaper' and be prompted for either the phone or lock screen, but now this stage doesn't appear and I'm taken straight to the 'Select wallpaper from' screen. I'm looking for a way to get the lock/home screeen prompt back or failing that, possibly the location where the active wallpaper is stored in the file system if that would work, or an app that would let me change the lock screen wallpaper directly. (No luck with Google.) I'm using an Orange San Francisco (ZTE Blade) running Android 2.1.1 *Edit*: and Launcher Pro.

On my Samsung Galaxy S Android phone: if I start a couple of apps, I can get an overview of them in the 'Active applications' icon on my first screen. Clicking this icon, shows me all active applications but allows me only to end them. I find no way to activate them. Pressing the center touchpath at the bottom displays the last 6 clicked icons - which may or may not be the ones running. F.i. if I start 6 applications, I see these 6 icons, if I start a 7th one I see the last 6 started. I wont see the first icon again . So how can I activate this first one, other than knowing it is running, and tapping it's icon again ? Please don't start telling me why I should start 6 or more applications. That's not the point, here , of course :) ANSWER: **You can't** - at least not by using the system as it is installed. A well, no big deal, really. Just wanted to see if I was missing something here. Coming from a Windows background (*and aren't we all because otherwise we should be holding an iPhone now*), this did not seem to illogical. Thanks for all answers.