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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tsukasa1992:
sense 3.0 can run on a lot of phones

sense 3.0 is a launcher with a bit of extra apps and framework,

now lets say we take all the apk's for the framework , apps and launcher and we install them on a samsung galaxy s2 then we have a probably pretty crappy version of sense 3.0 installed,

now we go to

lmgtfy.com/?q=htc+sense+3.0+rom+for+galaxy+s2

and we will find a good rom

reported working phones:

*galaxy s2

*galaxy

*desire A8181

*desire HD

*desire Z

*nexus one

thats the info i know

greetz tsukasa
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tuxStyle:
What is so great about Sense?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mathorv:
It just looks much better than vanilla Android. It is all about how it looks.

The unlocking screen, the clock widget with weather, weather widget, the way onscreen keyboard looks...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Byte_76:
Do the Sense 3 phones (like HTC Sensation) support all the hardware acceleration and media codecs that we have in the TW framework?

I also like Sense but I don't want a Sense ROM if I have to sacrifice my smooth UI, Browser acceleration and media codecs.

I had an HTC Desire HD and it did not have browser acceleration and media codec support though the launcher interface was fast and polished.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mattkaulitz:
its imposible i think :eek:
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] knights.JayTana:
So, how can we have it? im dying to see Sense 3.0 on my S2
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bruflot:
Or you could just customize it without any modding :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonny68:
I simply do not see why people are so obsessed with HTC Sense, this is coming from someone who owned a HD2 running Android for a year and a half, any sense build i had on my phone never ran as smoothly as a non sense build that is the absolute fact i tested numerous different ROM's and each and every time the non sense builds were faster and smoother,it might look good but at what cost?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] petreme:
Please where is this apk?

Thank You
[Intercept General] ErroneousBosch:
My contract is up with AT&T and I have been looking at virgin mobile to save some cash. I'm interested in the Intercept (arm11 processor :D) but am disconcerted by the lack of activity here. Since I primarily want a solid smartphone, ideally one that has some flexibility and will do tethering/hotspotting with my nook, is the intercept a good phone?
[Intercept General] brd912:
I had the intercept at the beginning of development,and the devs for the intercept are amazing. They truely care about each and every user. The intercept is a very nice midranged android. It has its faults,but like i said,its midranged. Its great for the price and if your into rooting,you will def love it. Oh and the development for the intercept goes on at sdx developers. Dodge and the ubuntu team havr taken this phone a long wag. Sorry for rambling,im reminissing lol. Anyways yeab man,id reccommend it if your not looking for a out of the box power house. Good luck with your decison!
[Intercept General] jasonalan4680:
I agree with preveus post I have a Intercept with virgin mobile and now Im pretty happy with it but before finding S.D.X. and before the Froyo 2.2update I wasnt very happy wth this phone.As long as your not afraid of rooting and moding this phone is a great deal 25 $ a month for unlimited internet and data and you can wifitether with your nook I did it so I say it worth it.
[Intercept General] flimsy888:
I wouldn't get it had if for 6 months and couldn't stand with the constant freezes and slowness!!! Bought a samsung epic on craigslist then for $170!!!! :) :) :) :)

P.S on virgin I would get the optimus V instead!
[Intercept General] larryvgs:
Gotta agree with the first two answers. I recently rooted the phone and I'm falling in love with it all over again. Even if you are not into rooting, after the update to Froyo 2.2 it is a much smoother phone. As to the Optimus V, I can't do without the manual keyboard as I hate all the virtual ones. Just don't get carried away and download tons of apps, and what you can send to the sd card do so. It's got limited memory, but if you are reasonable and don't choke it by downloading 100 free apps the first day and leaving them all in memory, then this is a great phone and $25 per month with VM can't be beat.
[Intercept General] EducateAndInnovate:
Video / Gaming or E-Mails / SMS / MMS

:D

Decide based on your need.

If you need a lot of Video / Gaming / Apps then Optimus V. If you are into heavy E-Mails / MMS / SMS then you need physical keyboard means - Intercept.

Optimus V comes with 512 MB RAM, separate processors for Application, Graphics, Floating Point (math), Digital Signal, Modem, etc. Optimus screen is 320x 480.

Intercept has physcial keyboard, real glass touchscreen, better speaker phone, better battery life, less heating but one processor, 240x400 screen, etc.

One can replace software easily but not the hardware!

:D
[Intercept General] entropy.of.avarice:
love my intercept

I also use a new Acer Iconia a500 tablet - which rocks for any situation where holding a 10.1 inch tablet is possible. Had my VM Incercept for over a year now - easy to root, easy to remove the annoying bloatware that slows the system down. Install a nice ad-blocker after you get root and remove the crap - and it actually becomes pretty awesome :-)

Just need to figure out how to enable wifi hotspot now that I have 2.2 rooted - would be epic to be able to use my wifi tablet anywhere I want with the low price vm charges for unlimited data :-)
[Intercept General] Gfabmag:
i know its an old thread but i wouldnt recommend the phone to anyone ,,ive been thru 3 and finally gave up
[Intercept General] Android311:
dont get it, there are way BETTER phones now....i mean...way better, for virgin, the motorola triumph is the best, lg optimus slider is good, htc wildfire is good and so is the lg optimus v
[Verizon Droid Incredible 2] efaden:
Hey all,

Got this phone last week and having some bluetooth issues. After much testing I think it is an A2DP issue. Basically I have a headset in my car and a FIPO adapter for my car stereo. Both are paired. When I get into the car both connect, but then both disconnect and reconnect repeatedly as long as any A2DP application is running. If I quit it works and stays connected. Any ideas? Anyone seen this? I have done a factory reset and that didn't do it.

-Eric
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gilberc:
After rooting my HTC Desire i thought i had done the hard bit.

After reading the mountains of info; about Roms I dont know if I am any wiser, confused maybe. As a Newby to this i have a great deal to learn, I am after some guidance with peoples reccomendations as to which ROM is best for me.

I think i want -Stability, more than anything as Much as the latest Android updates, thanks for any suggestions
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davebugyi:
If stability is priority fo you and you want bug-free ROMs, I'd reccomend to try Froyo ROMs. Gingerbread ROMs are stable, as well, but bugs occur in them - not big ones, but still.

And for the ROMs - Insertcoin HD/ RCMixHD / LeeDroid/ Starburst - take your pick, all good :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Moscow Desire:
CyanogenMod. I still run their RC3 and considering I've never had any issues large enough to complain about, I never bothered to upgrade to their current release
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gilberc:
Thanks for the Quick reply, will take on board
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gilberc:
Thanks for the quick reply, reads well
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Moscow Desire:
Honestly though, if you look at the desire forum, it gives you a good idea which ROMs have the most amount of issues. Although a lot are caused by noob errors :D
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alpivelopx:
GB: InsertCoin / RCMix

Froyo: Leedroid
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Chilldesire:
In the last few days I have tried all the major gb roms(rcm, insertcoin, reflex etc), all of them have been stable but not fast enough. I think that may be due to the fact that there is currently no stock rom for desire gb. I would recommend leedroid 2.4.1. Its very fast and stable. I will switched to a gb rom once the official software has been released.
[Windows Phone 7 General] markomarkogame:
Well yes, Microsoft did bought skype (read it HERE ) and that means Windows 7 and WP7 get special treatment =)

"It is assumed that the main motive of Microsoft (Ballmer) to buy Skype just for Windows phone 7 Phone Nokia in cooperation with the integration of VOIP services in the system as a competitive option Voice Google and Apple Facetime."
[Windows Phone 7 General] ceesheim:
well, 8.705 billion $ is a lot of money for something like skype :D
[Windows Phone 7 General] Freypal:
It is a lot of money, however you have to assume that it is a fairly profitable company that should pay for itself and in addition bring features to the WP7 platform
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
My sentiments also. To me, Skype is junk and I can't see how MS can make anything good of it.
[Windows Phone 7 General] SMG-UK:
Can't be that bad if 663 Million people use it.

I think this is great gives microsoft another weapon in their arsenal to use for WP7 & Xbox.

Just think of being able to talk to someone on your wp7 to someone using kinect with the xbox hooked upto their tv etc
[Windows Phone 7 General] Sir. Haxalot:
Well, well, well. Maybe we'll see a Skypephone that doesn't suck then :)
[Windows Phone 7 General] domineus:
I think the acquisition will be perfect for integration with their live services, as well as providing a unified solution to communication
[Windows Phone 7 General] TIGGAH:
I completely agree with you but the price seems crazy. I don't see Microsoft making their money back anytime soon.
[Windows Phone 7 General] truffle1234:
i think MS knows what they are doing...

Skeype is a good tool for business ppl to be mobile and still keep the same number..

Skype Pro services are not bad too.

i am not sure how good or bad MS take over of Skype for Android users....

anyway the Windows live will be intigreted in the peoples hub in WP7.5 n and if Skype will be as well then i think it will be great for us as users..
[Windows Phone 7 General] vetvito:
So..... what was wrong with WLM? Doesn't it already do video chat?

Someone please explain? Or is this a way to hold off the competition because Skype is already on just about every OS.
[Windows Phone 7 General] vangrieg:
I don't think video chat is the key thing here.

I can't "explain" it, and nobody seems to be able to make total sense of this acquisition. While individual pieces may be reasonable, the price tag is just outrageous.

I mean, VoIP may be useful, Skype together with WLM will be one big IM network, but there just isn't so much money as to justify the price.

If Google got Skype that would probably be bad for MS's "cloud" push, Google is already to big in online. But still, 8.5bn? In cash? Jesus...
[Windows Phone 7 General] nowei:
Why would Google want Skype? They have Google Voice.
[Windows Phone 7 General] vangrieg:
So what? Microsoft has Lync, that didn't stop them. Hardly anyone uses these things though. And Google was negotiating with Skype, too.
[Windows Phone 7 General] amtrakcn:
So what? This only makes currently crippled Skype better.
[Windows Phone 7 General] kdj67f:
Think about it... Microsoft just bought a **** ton of patents relating to VOIP. It's pre-emptively striking.

I like it, I use WLM and Skype. One less service when they roll them up together :D
[Windows Phone 7 General] smcshaw:
600k new members signing up a day is why they bought Skype.

A good deal that fits nicely into their portfolio and with $50b spare cash reserves why not.
[Windows Phone 7 General] efjay:
Could have spent that $8 billion and got Mango out faster :)
[Windows Phone 7 General] lqaddict:
Why? WP7 is not their main focus, it is a by-product. Kinnect sells like cupcakes, so Xbox+kinnect+Skype is the priority.
[Windows Phone 7 General] amtrakcn:
Mango is in beta phase or will be in beta soon, everything after is to guarentee the quality.
[Windows Phone 7 General] markgamber:
LOL....no lie. Know what makes sense of this deal? Ballmer. Period. Wild hair, woke up on the wrong side of the bed, paranoia that Google is actually a single person who replaces all his furniture with exact replicas while he sleeps...who the hell knows why Ballmer does some of the retarded stuff he does. But it only makes sense when you consider it not as a Microsoft deal but as a Ballmer deal. I'll be interested in seeing how quickly Microsoft turns Skype into the Visual FoxPro of VOIP. Visual what? Yeah, exactly.
[Windows Phone 7 General] nicksti:
I have no problem with the purchase, but boy I think they overpaid. But it was a bidding war and the highest bidder among Facebook, Google, and Microsoft probably won.

I always wonder where what is the point where you could have spent the money doing your own thing?

You are purchasing 500+ million users so that does cost something. I held back on WP7 because of lack of Skype. But $8.5B is *whistle* alot. I guess when you are rich you are rich.

But won't this be another antitrust suit waiting to happen if they integrate skype into the OS?
[Windows Phone 7 General] tfouto:
why's that? They already have facebook integrated in the OS and will have twitter. They might get an antitrust only if they stop development for others

systems...

Didn't Google bought Youtube? Any problem with antitrust? MS actually wants Google to make public API's for youtube, but that's it...
[Windows Phone 7 General] brummiesteven:
Antitrust lawsuits will only come if they remove Skype from competitors devices like Android, Mac, Linux etc, they said they wouldn't do that though.
[Windows Phone 7 General] andoridkiller:
why qwould they, it would be stupid as not only will they loose revenue but then people who can use skype will use it less as there will be less people using it.
[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
Skype is not a fairly profitable company...
[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
I know a ton of people with Skype accounts that never use it. That's the number of accounts, because they make you go through hoops to delete them so most people just remove personal information and leave them there stagnant.

The integration with XBox and whatever seems to reek of duplication. They can do all of that with Windows Live Messenger. It already supports Voice and Video (HD) over data connections.

I can see its uses for enterprise customers, though, but a lot of businesses block Skype for obvious reasons and Lync has Windows Live integration.

I can see how the roadmap for Skype makes sense, but it makes much less sense when you realize they already have Office Communicator/Lync and Windows Live [Messenger].

It seems like it as purely a defensive move to stop competitors from picking them up.
[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
Business people do that with Office Communicator/Lync, Cisco (Web Conferencing i.e. WebEx, what we use here), and Blackberries. Skype is more popular among consumers that call long overseas than it is in businesses...

Then there is Google Voice for consumers to aggregate phone numbers.
[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
I thought about this last night and I think that is probably the most sound reasoning.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Peew971:
One thing hasn't been mentioned but you can bet Microsoft will on deep Skype integration with facebook. They have big stakes there with advertising and the more people use facebook, the more they earn. I garantee you it will happen, not that this has to do with WP7.
[Windows Phone 7 General] nicksti:
I should have been more specific about the antitrust thing. I was thinking about Windows the PC OS, with plans to integrate Skype into XBox, and Windows.
[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
FoxPro was destined to die. The only desktop database that survived and thrived was Microsoft Access. FoxPro, dBase, and Paradox are all pretty much dead for the most part.

There's nothing Microsoft could have done to save it, once General Purpose development tools and languages pretty much gained much of the functionality and advantages of Visual FoxPro (i.e. people were writing desktop db apps in Delphi and VB instead of using Visual dBase, Visual FoxPro, or Paradox) and SQL database scaled down quite a ways (MS SQL Server Desktop Engine, Interbase, etc.).

Visual FoxPro was great (I own version 6 and 9), but it simply didn't make sense to keep developing it - sort of like J++/J#... I'm pretty sure Microsoft has used a lot of the technology they got from FoxPro in other products, though (Visual SourceSafe, Access, SQL Server, etc...). A lot of businesses who had large/widely deployed FoxPro code was running legacy versions on legacy systems (even DOS-based FoxPro applications) and didn't want to upgrade, either :P
[Windows Phone 7 General] mmelo76:
thread cleaned

Please keep this thread clean
[Windows Phone 7 General] Bongo2k:
As has already been stated, what microsoft gain the most from this deal is not really the "Skype" name but the underlying technology/protocols/infrastructure.

Another thing you have to remember is that Skype has a huge mobile following, which has prompted network operators to offer their technology with phone contracts; If a network operator is willing to go through all the procedures needed to set up a VoIP network alongside their standard voice network surely that shows people that Skype(in whatever guise it is) is here to stay.
[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
Yes, but a huge number of those people who want Skype want it for its free features, not it's for pay features. For example, they want free Video Calling and Skype to Skype VoIP - not to call another country.

The IP is definitely worth something, but I think paying that price was largely defensive for Microsoft.

They may make it back from licensing out the technology.

If Google doesn't wanna let Microsoft use YouTube stuff, they should not let them use Skype :P
[Windows Phone 7 General] hamzie:
as nice as that sounds microsoft announced that they will continue to support skype on non-windows platforms :(
[Windows Phone 7 General] Peew971:
Why the frown? Of course they should do that it's a business guys, not 3rd Grade! When are you going to get that? Don't they have Bing on all platforms too?

Also people love Skype because:

a) It's free

b) It's on every platform

If you change either of these you just kill the brand and render the purchase totally pointless. So yes Microsoft will keep it free and yes they will keep it on every platform, it just makes sense.

They will however push advertising on Skype to make their revenue, the same way they are with facebook.
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
Don't include me in that love. I'm not in the least in favor of Skype. The two mobile systems I had it installed on, Android and iOS, showed it to be very buggy and unreliable. Like...not announcing an incoming call from time to time and super bad sound quality. When it would ring an incoming call, the sound was too low to wake up a mouse. And there were no ringtone options. It would often sign out where I had to sign in again to use it. Made receiving calls even more unreliable.
[Windows Phone 7 General] jackleung:
I use Skype a lot with my family. Unlike other free VOIP solution, there are Skype phone that make it work like an ordinary phone so that even my mom does any computer knows how to use it.

For anyone who think this purchase will greatly benefit to WP7 in short term, I will suggest you to forget about it. For MS can't even include a official Windows Live right now, what do you really expect from them???
[Windows Phone 7 General] Peew971:
Windows Live Messenger is coming with Mango. Skype won't affect WP7 for now but obviously it will be the competitor to FaceTime in a future OS update. End of 2012 probably, enough time to complete the purchase and integrate the technology.
[Windows Phone 7 General] vetvito:
So which one is leaving, Skype or WLM? Will they combine or will they coexist? How?

I'm just trying to make sense of it.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Peew971:
I think the 2 services will coexist and be compatible. You can't get rid of either, too many followers on each.
[Windows Phone 7 General] tfouto:
they'll keep both produtcts and integrate them with each other... like WLM app for facebook... there are people who prefer to use one client and other to use other... both products have their userbase...
[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
Skype only puts a lot of attention into the clients they monetize, like the BB client on Verizon that uses your Verizon Minutes when you make Skype calls, Lol...

Yea, their other clients have been less than great.

Maybe Microsoft will turn Qik into a SkyDrive Video Sharing portal, though, of course with privacy controls and fully integrated into Windows Live and your Profile/feed...
[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
WLM was on iOS months ago.

Skype has Video Calling on iOS as well, in addition to FaceTime.

I'm failing to see how Microsoft is going to kill Facetime. As long as the Skype client keeps on feature parity with the WP7 client people who want iPhones will still get them because there will be even more ways to communicate on them (it will have Skype, IM Clients, SMS, and FaceTime, among other things).

Flexibility is a particular strength for other OSes vs. WP7 at this point in time.

But we aren't fortune tellers, so we have no real idea how things will turn out in the future... We'll see.

The lack of Windows Live Messenger itself isn't really bad. It was the lack of APIs making the implementation of decent IM clients on the platform that made the lack of Windows Live Messenger a real issue. Before the platform launched and before we knew all the limitations, most people just thought "WhatsApp or BeejiveIM/Trillian/etc. will make a good app..." but when the truth sunk in the issue just became that much more apparent.

Also, WLM already does everything FaceTime can do. Live Messenger supports IM, VoIP, and Video Calling, and it even supports making Client to Landline/Mobile calls through whatever service Microsoft uses on the desktop. They did not need Skype to compete with FaceTime.

In fact, wouldn't even be hard for them to compete with FaceTime since it's limited to one Desktop and Mobile platform (iOS and OS/X), especially for Microsoft leveraging their high Windows Desktop Marketshare and ridiculously large WLM userbase All they'd have needed to do to ensure success is integrate Facebook into it, and FaceTime would have been an afterthought...

That being said, Android's marketshare is so large that I doubt Microsoft really is worrying about Apple and it's closed ecosystem of service. Competing with Facetime is like competing with BBM - useless. There is a cieling with how well that service can propogate because it's tied to one vendors devices and systems.

Google's Voice/Video Chat + Google Voice in Android is a completely different story, especially when you take into account how well it is eating up the marketshare of some other mobile OSes (BB, WM/WP, WebOS, Symbian, etc.).
[Windows Phone 7 General] Peew971:
Well nobody talked about killing FaceTime, not me at least. Sure WLM can compete feature wise but there's also brand recognition to consider here and many people prefer Skype over WLM. Hell, many people prefer facebook over these two! Which is why I'm sure Microsoft's absolute priority will be to integrate Skype into facebook.

FaceTime only works with iOS/OSX, so we agree that's not the concern but rather Google Talk. The MS/facebook relationship is key here I believe, whoever gets their VOIP first on facebook is pretty much done worrying about the competition.