[Official] R2-D2 [D2] Owners Thread

[MrPib]

This is a question for those of you who are running stock R2-D2 (i.e. haven't flashed a custom ROM; rooted or not shouldn't matter).

Are you able to create a new instance of the "Vader widget"? From what I remember, when you try to add a new photo widget to a home screen, the photo gallery appears for you to choose a photo for the widget, and the original Vader picture is not available for selection (unless, of course, you happen to have that very same picture somewhere on your SD card).

If this is the case, then efforts to restore the "Vader widget" to a custom ROM are futile (short of hacking it or writing a new one, of course).

I'm rooted but otherwise stock. Can't seem to recreate that Vadar photo thing.

 

[mingaldrichgan]

I'm rooted but otherwise stock. Can't seem to recreate that Vadar photo thing.

That's what I thought. It may actually be impossible to recreate (again, short of rewriting the code or hacking it).

 

[negropy]

Here's the pic if you just want to use it a your default pic in the widget

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[P2D2]

Hello fellow r2d2 owners! So, I got my droid r2d2 couple weeks ago from amazon wireless and I love this phone. Unfortunately it was really buggy and kept freezing. So I ordered an exchange and the second one is flawless. But, for some reason my old faulty unit has a better qwerty keyboard than the one exchange that I just got, which is flatter. I might request for another exchange, unless I'm alone in this and that all your phones have the same "not as protruding" qwerty keys?

 

[rockhead262]

Have a question, if I factory reset the r2d2 droid, do I lose any of the star wars things? I want to activate it to another line. I bought it today and had to activate it to my one line. I want in on my other line on the plan, but didn't want to have the other person to be without a phone for a few hours. So if I factory reset, all the star wars stuff stays on there right?

 

[negropy]

It does. You're just putting the phone into a "out of the box" state.

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[mingaldrichgan]

It does. You're just putting the phone into a "out of the box" state.

Factory reset is the same as wiping data and cache, right? In that case, you'd lose everything in your /data/app folder, which would mostly consist of market apps... but I think the Best of R2-D2 app might be in there too?

I'm running a custom ROM so I can't say for certain one way or the other, but someone else told me recently that the Best of R2-D2 app (com.motorola.blurdemo-1.apk) resides in /data/app.

 

[rockhead262]

Actually I just reactivated my old droid. So what I can do is just activate it on her number, and remove the gmail account and put her gmail account on there. So no factory reset needed really. I didn't do anything.

 

[stetsonaw]

Actually I just reactivated my old droid. So what I can do is just activate it on her number, and remove the gmail account and put her gmail account on there. So no factory reset needed really. I didn't do anything.

When it activates, it automatically resets (I had my R2D2 on my wifes number, switched it to mine). It turns it back to like it's brand new out of the box, you don't lose any of the stock apps, just anything you have installed and gets rid of the Google Account (IIRC it's the only way to remove the google account to go into settings and do a factory reset).

 

[GuiltyBreak]

Upgraded from my D1 to a R2D2. Really like the phone and I am a star wars fan

One question where are the insert smileys for Text messaging? Are they not suppose to show up in the actual text as a android? Bummer if that feature was removed.

 

[stetsonaw]

not sure, I rooted mine the day i got it.

 

[negropy]

It shows. You need to put a nose on them to show e.g. instead of

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[GuiltyBreak]

It shows. You need to put a nose on them to show e.g. instead of

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weird for some reason its just the plain text faces.. on D1 you could hit menu in mid text and insert a smiley from a list.

 

[commodore_dude]

Just ordered an R2D2 Droid yesterday! It'll be my first smartphone, so I'm looking forward to seeing what Android can do. First question - what's a good case that will fit in the included dock, and also the car dock? If there's a clear one that works well great, if not ohwell.

 

[stetsonaw]

I have the clear plastic one from Verizon. They had to order it for me from the warehouse.

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