Droid Sector

A release candidate of CyanogenMod has been released today, and here is a quick overview of all featured tweaks.

Application settings

Check the “Allow application moving” option and you will be able to move any app to your SD card. If you select the “External” as an install location, new apps will be automatically installed on the external storage.

Input settings

Now you can tweak how strong the haptic feedback will be for softkeys. Enable the “feedback up” to get more natural response.

You can tweak a long-press of a home button so it will display up to 15 recent apps or any applications of your choice.

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Dolphin Browser:

• Go to settings and select User Agent
• Select Desktop.

Stock Browser:

• Open your Browser and type about:debug and press Go. The browser will not show anything, but this is normal
• Go to settings and scroll to the bottom and select UAString (User Agent)
• Select Desktop.

New things I have noticed in the Android 2.2:

• Gmail: select/copy text, colored labels.
• Dialer: grouping repeated entries in call log.
• Settings: 270 degree rotation, better “Set volume” screen.
• Flash works fine, but didn’t find yet option to disable it and you can enable it on demand.
• Edge/3G: enable/disable data access over Mobile network.
• Contacts: option to sort by last name, display last name first.
• Battery: sound when battery is low.
• Multi-language stock keyboard

Just click this link in you Android browser: www.adobe.com/go/getfp10android

If you are running stock recovery (not rooted phone):

• Download the Android 2.2 firmware for the Nexus One
• Rename the file update.zip and copy it to your microSD card via USB. [Note: make sure the file is named update.zip and not update.zip.zip.]
• Power down your phonez
• Hold down the “Volume Down” button and power the phone on.
• A screen should appear showing your phone’s system searching for various files. Scroll down to “recovery” and press the “Power” button.
• When you see the triangle with an exclamation point symbol, press the “Power” and “Volume Up” buttons at the same time.
• From the menu that appears, select “Apply sdcard:update.zip.”
• When the screen displays “Install from sdcard complete” select “reboot system now” and wait for the phone to power back up. It may reboot itself instead of asking you to do it.

To restore the root, you can use Quick rooter for stock FroYo systems by Cyanogen.

If you have a rooted phone:

• Flash FRF50 (Froyo) pre-rooted update zip by Paul from MoDaCo.

See 15-minute video review of new features by James Kendrick:
http://jkontherun.com/2010/05/20/first-video-look-android-2-2-flash-10-1

Via phandroid.com

In a video below Ryan Stewart demonstrates how various websites running flash work on the Nexus One. As a bonus, you can see a new home screen (Android Froyo?) at the end of the video.

He also posted a few comments on YouTube:

ryanstewart: re: enable/disable flash. Yeah. There are three modes in the browser settings for plugins. Always disable, always enable, or on demand. On demand seems to be just like “click to Flash” so the Flash content is replaced by a little arrow icon and doesn’t load until you click it. I’ll try to do a screenshot or demo of how that works.

ryanstewart: yeah, double tap is the zoom mode. And yup, on YouTube it works exactly like the desktop player, when you press the button it takes you into full screen mode on the phone. You have to zoom in to make the button easier to press, but it’s not too bad.

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