[Wildfire General] bx19:
1. IS YOUR WILDFIRE (buzz) ROOTABLE..?

Rooting is the process with which one can have superuser previlages. And custom recovery is needed for installing custom roms. The present popular custom recovery for wildfire buzz is ClockWorkMod recovery. CWM custom recovery helps us to make advanced things like installing custom roms, nandroid backups, advanced nandroid restores..

Presently every wildfire can be rooted along with installing custom roms. If your hboot is 0.80 then unrevoked is the way to root your phone. Unrevoked roots your stock Rom along with installing custom recovery so that you can install custom roms. And if your hboot is 1.01.x you need to use alpharevx for making it s-off and then you can root and install custom recovery with easy procedures.

** If ur device is htc bee, the above things will not be applicable to u. And sorry, i heard that there is no custom recovery for htc bee. So, u cannot install custom roms.

2. CONNECTIVITY OPTIONS: (includes features + bugs + fixes)

Basic ways of connectivity is through USB, BLUETOOTH, WIFI

Wildfire bluetooth profiles: Bluetooth® 2.1 with Enhanced Data Rate, A2DP, FTP, OPP, AVRCP, GAP, GOEP, HFP, HSP, PBAP, SPP, Service Discovery Application Profile.

Wanna learn something about BT profiles, go with wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth_profiles

a. BLUETOOTH DIAL UP NETWORKING (dun)

This is for tethering the mobile 2G/3G internet to a bluetooth enabled pc. Wildfire doesn’t natively have the DUN profile. But some applications emulate this profile. “Pdanet” is best application for this. It works both on rooted phones and unrooted phones. Regarding using BT DUN, the pc version of pdanet need not be installed. But pdanet had issues with some bluetooth drivers of pc (for example, it wont work with the latest bluesoleil drivers). Sorry i cant tell u the list with which it works, maybe that's what the users must post. Another application called “easy tether” is expected to support BT DUN in future. So check for its updates if u r intrested. Easy tether presently supports usb tethering to pc.

b. BLUETOOTH PERSONAL AREA NETWORKING (pan)

This is for tethering mobile 2G/3G internet to a bluetooth enabled pc. But unlike dun, this doesn’t need to edit some settings in pc connection. Its just like internet sharing through LAN. Wildfire doesn’t natively have the PAN profile. Presently there are ROOT ONLY APPS for this feature. “wireless tether” is the application for both wifi tethering and bluetooth pan tethering. U need to enable bluetooth pan in its settings for using this feature. One more requirement of "wireless tether" is u should have a custom kernel which supports netfilter. This works great on cm7 rom.

c. WIFI hotspot tethering:

This is the tethering of mobile internet to PC over WIFI. This is present as a default feature in stock froyo. It isn’t there in eclair. If u want to use root only apps “wireless tether” also works here as said above. There is

d. USB TETHERING:

This is included as an inbuilt feature. The only thing is it takes a couple of minutes to establish a connection. Just u need to install htc usb driver or htc sync in the windows pc to make this work (no need of drivers in linux). Pdanet also works great(also need to install desktop version of pdanet to connect). It establishes connection in 15sec. Pdanet desktop version is a 14day full functional trial version. After 14days, the limitation will be, “u cannot access secure websites (websites which require login)". Another application is "easy tether" which also works with limitation (its lite version blocks secure websites). An advantage in using application for usb tethering is, u can use the mobile simultaneously as a disk drive.

e. REVERSE USB TETHERING:

what i mean by that word is, "using the computers internet connection to the phone via usb". U must have root access. There is a process which worked for google nexus one and im just giving the link. Hope it (works or) helps someone to acheive that in wildfire. http://blog.mycila.com/2010/06/reverse-usb-tethering-with-android-22.html#comment-form

f. BLUETOOTH FTP [FILE TRANSFER + STREAMING] :

there is an application called "Bluetooth File Transfer". I recommend this for file transfer and streaming over BT. Actually there are other file managers which transfer files over BT but they limit the file types. This "Bluetooth File Transfer" allows u to access any files in a computer or another device (the things to be accessed depends on BT shared folder on other device). Also it can send any file type to other device. And also, this application allows u to stream the music and video files on the other device. Streaming depends on the file types supported by "Streaming Media Player" and also depends on the BT data transfer rate (around 200KBPS only).

g. FILE SHARING THROUGH WIFI:

There is an app called "File Share" (by Nav Jagpal) which can transfer files using wifi network .There is also a root only app called "Samba Filesharing" with which u can access the memory card of wildfire as a network shared folder in windows pc. Use drag and drop to copy files to and from..... Pls post the result if u have checked these things.

h. CONNECTING TO WIFI AdHoC NETWORK:

U need to have root access to use this. Go with this link for the setup http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=8201393&postcount=5

i. BLUETOOTH A2DP (advanced audio distribution profile) :

This distributes the media audio of wildfire to another device, like a bluetooth headset or a bluetooth pc (played through pc speakers) with advanced audio [remember wildfire cannot receive the audio distributed by another device. Wildfire only distributes its media audio]. To use this, just pair (first enable the BT advanced audio feature in PC BT driver and then pair) the devices and then in wildfire, go to BT settings / devices, long press the device name and go to options. Then check the "Media" checkbox and press connect. As it is a dedicated profile, it does not depend on the bitrate of media file. I have used this with 3 simultaneous music players. *** And the same process works with headset profile, where u can have call functions through BT PC with headset profile or a BT heasdset. U need to just check the "Phone Audio" checkbox.

3. SUGGESTING APPS:

Just suggesting some apps with a little info. And donot use many app/task/process managers as they slow down the system.

--"160by2 - Free SMS" is a text sms sending app using mobile internet (in supported countries only).

--"Android Assistant" - has lot of features like quick boost, process manager, cache cleaner, system clean, batch uninstall, file manager, startup manager.

--"APP 2 SD" (by Sam Lu) - lists the apps that can be moved to sd card (by froyo default apps2sd). batch moving

--"AppBrain AppMarket" + "Best AppsMarket" -search apps and filter apps. U need to enable fast web installer.

--"App Protector" - protects ur favourite apps with a password or pattern.

--"Astro File Manager" - has file manager + process manager + app backup.

--"Daily Horoscope" - nice app for horoscope believers only.

--"Dolphin Browser" - available in 3 formats mini, normal, HD. the hd has many addons and is not recommended for slow connections.

--"Dropbox" - online storage of ur personal files in a secure dropbox account.

--"Droid Meter" - displays the data transfer rate (U + D) on the home screen or n the menu.

--"File locker" (by Marcin Wojas) - lock ur personal files with a specific password.

--"Heyzap" - android gaming community.

--"IMDb Movies & TV" - internet movie database.

--"Moon + Reader" - an ebook reader which can read online and offline files. Also downloads ebooks.

--"QR Droid" -an app that decodes qr images. Also has many other functions.

--"Shazam" - what an app..! It hears to the audio from external source and gives the media details (using mobile internet).

--"SMS Backup & Restore" - it backs up (+ restore) the text messages to sd card to be saved as xml format.

--"Swype" - a better and a faster text input method.

--"X-plore" - nice file manager with many inbuilt features.

MEDIA PLAYERS: for playing music, "TTPOD" is an app which has the features of lyrics and album art picture download. For both music and video, u have the players "Real Player" and "Double Twist Player". double twist paid app has the feature of air sync.

Then for playing videos, "Rock Player" will be nice. It has optimised CPU variant versions, so download the arm v6 version from its website. Another player "MoboPlayer" will also be nice, and it has seperate codec support. Wildfire can also play the videos slightly greater than the QVGA resolution (previously it didn't).

USER INTERFACE: If u like sense widgets, then u will be most probably using htc sense. But if u have an idea to keep htc sense aside, then "Launcher Pro" will be the nice option for u right now. It has great features with great performance. great transistion effects, 3D app drawer, scrollable widgets, smoother scrolling, no lag etc.., explore its settings. The other apps u can consider next to it are "ADW Launcher" , "Go Launcher EX" , "Regina 3D Launcher". Have a look at regina 3d launcher once. If wildfire had gpu, then it might be the prefered one.

4. SUGGESTING GAMES:

Wildfire, with no GPU and QVGA resolution makes gaming horrible. However there are games that can be played decently. As there are already threads created, i will not focus much on this. But i will try to make it somewhat better.. LINKS: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=824589 and http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=997860

a. LIGHT GAMES: -- "Droid Jump" , "Diamond Islands 2" , "Traffic Jam" , "Yoo Ninja". droid jump is a nice smooth game using sensor (The game ending should be told by the highest scorer).

b. HEAVY GAMES: maybe playable or laggy or unplayable

--"Angry birds" , "Angry birds Seasons" , "Angry birds Rio" -the legendary android games. All of these can now be playable even on stock roms. Their performance is now better than it was before.

--"Asphalt3: street rules": an older version game unavailable in market. somewhat laggy.

--"Armageddon Squadron": too laggy

--"Reckless Racing": - laggy

--"Skyforce" playable

--"Super KO Boxing 2": paid app. needs additional game data to be downloaded to sd card. Playable

--"Wave blazer": too laggy. may expect performance improvements.

c. EMULATOR GAMES: U will be definately more satisfying with emulator games. Only negative point is their controls (even though playable).

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go to the market and download "Gameboid" , "Nesoid" , "SNesoid" , "Emulator Game List" , "Rom Gripper"

. Previously, "Rom Gripper" is a freeware in the market. Rom Gripper lists all the game emulator roms and downloads the roms to ur phone. Present rom gripper has issues with downloading roms, so check its reviews before purchasing. The "Emulator Game List" does the same thing as rom gripper except downloading (it just lists the roms). U can alternatively download the roms by googling. The Gameboid , Nesoid , SNesoid are the android game emulator engines which play the emulator roms. There will be many nice and cool emulator games. Im not gonna make a list bcoz, it will be in thousands....

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