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[HD2 General] apallohadas:
I agree with everything you said here.

My replacement will have to have at least a 4.3 inch screen, dual core, more ram, and no frikkin 3D crap.
[HD2 General] Marvlesz:
There is no way I'm changing my HD2 right now, but if I had to I'd pick the Evo 3D, not because of its specification nor of its supposed 3D. But because of it's design . It's so sexy :D
[HD2 General] chars91:
Lol totally agree with you but.. still the atrix looks good.. or even the lg optimus whatever the name is..
[HD2 General] jjblaster3:
sumthing dual core, but specifically qualcomm snapdragon.. not a big fan of the dual core tegra

reason - QC chips kick ass :D
[HD2 General] Tachi91:
Idk why but the Atrix... Something about it throws me off... The Optimus X2 looks good
[HD2 General] catchtheball:
I can't leave my hd2...
[HD2 General] dude0316:
I could not live without my HD2.
[HD2 General] T-Macgnolia:
I will never get rid of my HD2, even after it completely dies one day it will go into my go into my archieves as atestamony to it's greatness lol. But I am looking forward to tbe release of the HTC Pyramid. It is a dual core Snapdragon. Hell yeah!!! :D
[HD2 General] Skellyyy:
Guys come on! I know we all love our HD2's but if you had the opportunity to switch to a native android device which didn't have any bugs and had the new snapdragon processor you'd definitely change. Also wake up lag is a *****. :eek:
[HD2 General] camoko:
I think this would make me wanna leave my HD2...

http://wwalczyszyn.deviantart.com/art/HTC-quot-Eerie-quot-HD3-159409776

:p
[HD2 General] 631836798:
A phone with multi-os :p
[HD2 General] Kailkti:
Whilst I love my HD2 I have temporarily traded it for my cousin's captivate. Main reason so as to try out a native android phone.

So from my experience, i can conclude that android on this captivate is so much more smoother/faster than any rom from my HD2. In terms of variety of roms, it sucks, its either stock, themed stock, vanilla, themed vanilla. No variety in their roms really...

But that is where all those 3rd party launchers come in, like launcher 7. ;D

Whilst I do not know which device I want next, I do know it won't be another HTC or a motorola device. Reason being for both motorola and HTC, they've locked down their bootloaders now, so that means no more custom kernels, true root, etc. Also for HTC, snapdragon GPUs just suck, period.

I am keeping a keen eye on the galaxy s 2 however.
[HD2 General] mattfmartin:
Definitely plan on getting the Htc Pyramid. Reasins why, 4.3' native android phone, dual core, 8mp camera, 1.3 front camera. 540x960 qhd resolution.
[HD2 General] chars91:
I don't know if i'm mistaken but i think that the devs are working hard on the locked down bootloaders that you mention.. and with a dual core snapdragon the htc pyramid sounds great.. but like you said just keeping an eye on it..
[HD2 General] abufaris:
i think HD2 is the best right now with no comparing,but the time cpu upgraded the heat come more and more without solving,i think HTC should be ware of designing internal component in the future ,most of common problem related to hd2 comes from heat,:confused: stuck.freezing and sometimes i have to put mine in freezer to boot,:D ,
[HD2 General] matt07930:
My contract runs out next month and I like to get the latest technology as soon as possible as then the phone retains its value when you want to sell it.

But what will be the next HD2? I love the fact that I can run WP7, Android etc will any phone in the future be so versitile? Probably not.

I'm really not sure whether to just stick with my HD2 or upgrade to the EVO 3D, just a shame it doesnt have a Tegra 2 processor as that would pursade me.
[HD2 General] Moon2:
A Tmous HD2 with 1gb rom
[HD2 General] Kailkti:
@chars

Yes they are working on it. However since HTC just released the source code for the thunderbolt, by which allows devs to truly root the device, maybe HTC isn't following in line with locking bootloaders. If so I will be keeping a keen eye on the pyramid. However since it's an adreno GPU I'm not sure....
[HD2 General] T-Macgnolia:
Check out the leaked pics of the Pyramid that is posted in the XDA Portal.

http://www.xda-developers.com/android/exclusive-htc-pyramid-photos/
[HD2 General] mattfmartin:
I originally said the pyramid, but looking at the evo 3d it has better specs and definitely looks alot better
[HD2 General] yugoport:
For me it will be something like the atrix, those docks are astonish, being able to use your phone as a computer and media center is incredible..
[HD2 General] stevedebi:
Only one device would make me stop using my HD2

... another WM6 phone. Since there are none, I plan to keep using mine until AT&T shuts down the 3g service for T-Mobile.
[HD2 General] hdurina:
Exactly...precisely...perfectly my thoughts as well :D
[HD2 General] uxu:
totally agree!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ynmqtopi9g
[HD2 General] backlashsid:
an IPHONE !!

cos i will b so pissed looking at it....

will perhaps throw my phone to break that piece of **** !
[HD2 General] DPMAce:
dell opus one, or some other beastly phone with a gigantic screen
[HD2 General] bbot3k:
not many phones. my ideal phone would need a strong developer base. and dual core
[HD2 General] chars91:
Ok then what about the new xperia play?? He seems awesome!!
[HD2 General] mydoooom:
Samsung Galaxy S II
[HD2 General] Kailkti:
The xperia play will receive a lot of gaming support so that's a plus. However its hardware won't be able to keep up as gaming improves. It would have been better if they placed a powerVr Sgx 543 like in their new psp.
[HD2 General] pakure:
iam going to stick with hd2 because cotulla/DFt will come out with winmo booting from sd with a new magldr..........so it will be wp7 nand + android SD + winmo SD :D

...triple boot bliss....now, which phone would do something like that?:eek:
[HD2 General] Marquis63:
I agree the Pyramid sounds like the next HD2
[HD2 General] T-Macgnolia:
+1 Here

I think the pyramid has some real potential.
[LG Optimus 2x] MeX_DK:
Anyone who has or know if tun.ko has been ported to work on the LG 2x yet?. Its because I need the tun.ko drivers to activate a VPN connection and the 4 standards provided off the shelf is not supported :(.

The only way I can connect is via an app from market, but said app requires the presence of tunn.ko to work.
[LG Optimus 2x] maedox:
MoDaCo has a kernel with tun included.
[LG Optimus 2x] MeX_DK:
I would prefer it not being a custom kernel etc :P. Im not really that much into flashing new roms and such until at least I have seen Gingerbread on the 2x.

So at present I am hoping for a solutuon that only requires me to push it to the phone and not flash a new rom.
[LG Optimus 2x] maedox:
Then either get it from the kernel image or ask Paul nicely to help you out. ;)
[LG Optimus 2x] MeX_DK:
Does this paul have name on this board. :P
[LG Optimus 2x] maedox:
You must be new here. ;)

It's paulobrien. His 2X forum is at http://2x.modaco.com.
[LG Optimus 2x] MeX_DK:
I just joined a few months ago, so no im not venerable yet ;). But does this paulk frequent these boards as well?.

The reason I ask is that I find it a bit excessive to register at yet another board for the mere reason of needing to contact him and enquire about that tun.ko file :P
[LG Optimus 2x] maedox:
Alright, let me put it this way; You wouldn't regret taking a minute to sign up for modaco.com, because his custom ROM's and kitchens tend to be for members there only. The MCR (MoDaCo Custom ROM) kitchens are famous for their easy way of choosing what you want to include and not in the ROM.

He's frequently here and on Twitter as paulobrien.
[LG Optimus 2x] MeX_DK:
Yea I sent him a PM already on here :P. But for all the goodness of custom roms I have never really ventured into that realm and tried one. I meant to do it when I had my Desire and started to realise I might get Gingerbread for it. But then HTC says they would give it gingerbread so I stalled even more :P

And now I have the LG as well, and for what it is worth I am generally content in a a large extend with having a stock rom, albeit with some of the provided apps removed and a few tweeks and addons here and there, without going all the way.

But time will tell with the LG
[LG Optimus 2x] maedox:
It's definitely a good phone, and hopefully it will get even better. Let's cross our fingers for Android 2.3 or 2.4(?) soon.

In the meantime I can tell you that flashing custom ROM's is very easy. It's close to impossible to screw up the O2X because we have nvflash working and can overwrite all partitions easily. Nvflash is Nvidia's own tool for writing to the ROM. Paul has a guide for how to flash the latest stock ROM in the dev section here. Just beware that using nvflash will in most cases format (delete) everything including your external sdcard, but you can of course remove it first.

Better yet is to install the custom (ClockWorkMod) recovery, backup and flash a ROM from there, because then you don't have to reinstall apps+data. All data+sdcards will be intact, but system settings and any manually added apps in /system/app will be lost though.

If you decide to give it a go we are all friendly and helpful people, just do a little bit of homework yourself. :)
[LG Optimus 2x] MeX_DK:
I had rooted and security offed my Desire which I have have now passed on :P.

My LG 2x is also equally rooted, I got CWM on it and flashed radio drivers . So I have already did some manner of mocking about with it :P. But is NVflash a "required" item on our phones. Because I considered installing it, but didn't thnk I really had a need for it at first.

But sadly rooting and doing such to your phone also means OTA software downloads are not possible as the phone is not detected as being the original phone anymore :/
[LG Optimus 2x] aMpeX:
NVFlash poses as a "last resort" if you brick your phone beyond the ability to make an adb connection. As far as I understand it, it hooks in far earlier and thus enables you to flash system partitions.

If you don't brick your phone, you probably won't need nvflash, but its a safety net to revert the phone to a stock ROM if you screw up.
[LG Optimus 2x] MeX_DK:
Still no dice, I sent Paul a PM some days ago and not a word back :/

So is there anyone else that might be able to help, since I will assume I can't just "reuse" the version I got for my Desire :P
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] burt35:
hi my first post but im not a noob have flashed and tried many roms including darkys rom, docs, insanity and now my latest ultimate rom.

my question is that when i set the ua string to desktop the browser still behaves and accesses pages meant for mobile.

any clues why?

the same happened with darkys latest rom.

cheers for any help.
[Surround General] jwzg:
Your device needs to be dev-unlocked for this to work. Use the first two steps below to unlock. If you have already unlocked, skip to step 3.

First, download the WP SDK developer tools from here. You'll need them to be able to sideload and install the necessary XAP files.

You will need to developer unlock your device using the instructions here. It was tricky for me, as it took the better part of an hour as well as a hard reset to get the Chevron unlocker to communicate with the phone.

Download the attached .zip file below, and deploy the TouchXplorer, HTC Connection Setupfiles and ChevronWP7.Ringtones.xap from this package onto your device. I have inserted the proper .xap to change the carrier setting in the registry.

Run the ChevronWP7.Ringtones.xap and wait till it displays “Ringtones added… and CustClear.provxml underneath”

Run the TouchXplorer app, navigate to My Documents/My Ringtones click on CustClear.provxml and select Copy from the Application Bar.

Navigate back inside TouchXplorer to the Windows folder.

Select paste from the Application Bar, this should scroll right to the bottom and put a copy of CustClear.provxml in the Windows folder.

Now run the Connection Setup application and click on the Ok button (it’s the one with the tick).

Follow the directions here, but after disabling the the data connection on your device, wait 5 seconds and then hang up the VPN connection. The update will almost immediately appear. (Suggestion came from CR1M1N4L. Thanks!) YOU MAY ONLY GET THE PRE-NODO UPDATE AT THIS POINT. If so, you'll need to repeat step 9 after you've updated to get NoDo.

Run the update from Zune and enjoy your NoDo Surround.
[Surround General] eclipsisme:
Can confirm this worked for me on a Telus Surround.
[Surround General] honcorrd:
Confirmed

Yeap it work for me too on AT&T
[Surround General] jwzg:
Updated first post with proper ringtones.xap.
[Surround General] dtraser:
Worked!

This worked great! Thanks for the info.

I also discovered after following this tut that you can quite easily get your own ring tones following these steps. Apologies if someone has already posted this.

1. Select a sound file (MP3 and WMA seem to both work) and email it to yourself.

2. When you receive the email on your phone, tap the attachment to download it completely.

3. Tap the sound file to open it.

4. Tap the Home button.

5. Open TouchXplorer and navigate to Volitile\EmailAttachments

6. There will be sub folders depending on how many attachments you have recently opened but serch through them until you find your sound file.

7. Tap the sound file once to highlight it then select Copy.

8. Navigate to My Documents\My Ringtones and paste the sound file there.

9. You should now be able to select your sound file as a ring tone.

:)
[Surround General] macjr82:
Worked for me. At least I hope so. It's currently at 58% on step 7 :o

Edit: It's complete and it works, but it seems it's relocked my phone. Not a big deal for me since I only unlocked it to do the update. Still, I haven't been able to unlock it. Just a warning for those with side loaded apps. It made me uninstall touch explorer. Funny thing, I haven't had a desire to unlock this phone in general until the nodo update, though unlocking and flashing was the thing I loved about winmo, which i used from the HTC 8125 through the Tilt/Kaiser.
[Surround General] jwzg:
Outstanding, folks...just outstanding.
[Surround General] Nikoloz17:
it worked for me too.

but i used different solution.

Solution 2: Using a VPN dialup connection, here, after i connected to the VPN i disconnected my internet and continued, i instantly received my update even without turning cellural connection off
[General Questions and Answers] Deleted member 2870764:
Samsung Captivate has been on sbl.bin while running ODIN3EXECUTION 1.00 for the past 10 minutes. Hoping I haven't screwed myself. I have to send the phone back to Samsung so I wanted to make sure that it was running complete stock since I rooted and deleted the Mobile AP app and such.

How long does ODIN take on this? :\

<ID:0/007> Added!!

<ID:0/007> Odin v.3 engine (ID:7)..

<ID:0/007> File analysis..

<ID:0/007> Set PIT file..

<ID:0/007> DO NOT TURN OFF TARGET!!

<ID:0/007> Get PIT for mapping..

<ID:0/007> Firmware update start..

<ID:0/007> Sbl.bin

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] moseso:
I am running Sprint Lovers ROM, w/ Netarchy 4.3.2, cfs, no havs, nouv, sbc kernel on 0003 hardware -- with a few of JsChiSurf's mods thrown in: 5 row rosie, transparent app drawer, vanilla lock screen Z& banner text mods.

This has all been working swell for me until yesterday. The most recent addition is SiMi Folder app. Since I started using that, Sense won't come-up right after a reboot. I get my wallpaper -- and NOTHING else. No widgets, no apps -- just a nice nice background picture with nothing in the foreground.

I have deleted Sense data and rebuilt my desktop from scratch. Works until the next reboot, then same problem. I have restored Sense data, from before the appearance of the problem, via Titanium Backup. Works until the next reboot, then same problem.

I guess the next experiment has to be getting rid of the SiMi Folder app and then see what happens.

Anyone else with a similar experience in Sense?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k2buckley:
If this started right after you started using simi folder, the first thing I'd try is getting rid of it, and then a reboot.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tke0834:
what he said
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] moseso:
Update

The problem has simply vanished. I thought I would reboot one more time, see what happened, and then do exactly as y'all have suggested if it didn't start up right. It started up just fine. And, has one more time since then.

Gremlins... But then, we get used to those in this OS.
[Desire General] wardy277:
I am going on my honeymoon next month to italy and I would ideally like to have 3g for navigation and looking up stuff online.

I am on t-mobile which charge £1.50 per mb which seems expensive. Is there any cheaper ways of doing this? Is it possible to get an Italian aim card? Is there Italian tmobile as my desire is locked. Do they do 1 week unlimited packages for abroad?

SwiftKeyed from my Desire using XDA app
[Desire General] wilbur-force:
http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/services/boosters/eurobroadband/

those any good ? ;)
[Desire General] DreamWiva:
I went Italy and backpacked for about 10 days, took out the 50MB bundle, which was more than enough for me to check my emails, google map my location when I was lost...etc (I was on Tmobile too)
[Desire General] wilbur-force:
there are also some map apps on the market that will allow gps location from a stored map on your SD card. not proper satellite navigation but good enough to get you from A to B without any need for data connection :D

Used one in the canary islands but cant remember which one :confused:
[Desire General] wardy277:
Thanks for advice that boost back sounds promising. What is the best way to manage network usage. Will simply turning off data in the settings turn all data off? What about roaming. I assume abroad usage uses roaming, do I need to turn that off too to turn off data when not in use

SwiftKeyed from my Desire using XDA app
[Desire General] Drillz:
I think using Google Nav for a while will easily get your usage over 50 megs.... For navigation try Sygic Aura it's pretty good.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] bwolmarans:
Anyone else annoyed by this? When I take photos with the default 2.2 camera app, they don't show up in the gallery. I have to install and run the "rescan media root" application. Kind of annoying when you want to share a photo quickly.

This problem is especially bad with the Camera Magic application, which is a great little free app, and has a gallery button, but never shows the pictures in the gallery until I have run rescan media root.

Please move to Q&A if you want, I thought this forum was the best place for this.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] whiteguypl:
The default camera shouldnt be doing that. The 3rd party camera on the other hand... only real solution to that would be write the app devs.
[Nook Color Android Development] nemith:
It seems that there are a lot of ROMs out there that are doing some funky stuff from the edify scripting in CWM and providing a poor user experience. This overall hurts the entire custom NookColor community and puts a bad taste in peoples mouths.

This post is to point out best practices when creating CWM flashable zips in a consistant way allowing the user to upgrade and migrate between roms in a predictable way.

Rule #1: Don't touch /data!

There are many reasons why you don't want to touch /data but the most important is to allow the user to be able to upgrade your rom without completely wiping your data.

If you want to bundle in an applications (first of all... don't but if you reaally think it is necessary) put it in /system/app as a system app.

Rule #2: Don't overwrite /boot/uRecRam and /boot/uRecImg!

ROM and CWM should be separate. Users should be able to use your rom with CWM or even the stock recovery if they wish to. Allow the user to choose what version of CWM they want to run and allow them to upgrade it independently of your rom.

This allows you to not re-release roms every time a new version of CWM is released.

Exceptions to the rule are update zip that are intended to install CWM (which is ok) or zips that will restore the entire system to stock.

Rule #3 Learn edify

Edify scripting is quite powerful. It saddens me to open up the updater-script of a rom and see it extracting a script and then executing the script.

Don't store your roms as .tars and require a script to extract them to the right locations, you should be doing this all from edify scripts.

Rule #4: Only touch /system and /boot/uImage and /boot/uRamdisk

All other files should be off-limit! This goes back to rule #1 and rule #2. A rom should consits of a kernel, a ramdisk to boot the system and /system files for running the rom!

Rule #5: NEVER EVER EVER modify partitions or wipe the EMMC completely!

I cannot stress this one enough. Use stock partition scheme for your rom. It may seem like a "waste" to you but this is what will make all our roms compatible with each other!

Also the Nookcolor stores NVRAM type information on /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 and factory restore information and a backup of p2 on /dev/block/mmcblk0p3.

If you wipe these directories in your update.zip you WILL BRICK THE USERS NC! It may work for you but they can never return to stock. Their serial number and mac addresses will be lost!

Just don't even think about doing anything with the partition map or these partitions!

Rule #6: When in doubt look at the CM update.zips

A good example of the rules above is portrayed in the CyanogenMod nightly roms for the NC. Look at the updater-script in META-INF/com/google/android and see how things are done.

If we all agree to follow these rules the NC users will get a better and more consistent experience and you will have more users for your rom.
[Nook Color Android Development] nemith:
For the users I will list the ROM that are compatible with the list above and list ROMs that don't follow these rules.

ROMs that follow proper packaging

These rom have been built properly according to the rules in the OP. I highly recommend testing any of these out.

Cyanogenmod Nightlies

phiremod nook V5.2

Nookie Froyo 0.6.8

(Utility Update.zip) Nook Color SDcard and emmc swap

ROMs that DON'T follow proper packaging

Use these roms at your own risk!
[Nook Color Android Development] ADude:
This looks very wise and in accord with general programming principles.

In the same area of discussion, can you talk about whether or not to clear cache while doing this same update process.

In fact, some explanation of /cache and Dalvik Cache and Market Cache might help to alleviate confusion, especially in regards to specifically what they are, and when one should clear them.

Sure, a "cache" is a piece of data that is frequently used, and so put in a more accessible place, but in typical confusing fashion, that general term is being used in a specific way in Android.

Thanks !
[Nook Color Android Development] 12paq:
Nice. Good guidelines.

It would, in a perfect world, be nice if a standard CWM recovery would give a choice to either write to SD or EMMC. Then we would not have many of these more involved boot file and CW file edits and changes that are making things more complicated.

If everyone used CW to right to EMMC, this would be easy. But users like myself are running ROMs from SD and are always looking for a way to easily update and flash mods or ubdate ROMs to SD. Yes I use ADB, and other methods, but often I am traveling and away from my office or studio were my PC's are.

Any ideas on CWM to keep things more unified as the op suggests and be able to write to bootable SD cards?

Thanks for starting the discussion.

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