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[XPERIA X10 General] Bin4ry:
I think this will never happen if WP7 won't change its whole structure.

I can just speak for Germany, but if you see which devices are preferred by ppl:

Just smatphones:

1.) Android & iOS

2.) BB RiM

3.) still Symbian

4.) WP7

WP7 was nearly dead before it was published. Also many Germans don't like Nokia anymore after they closed the fabrics here: many ppl lost their jobs and nokia built new factorys with the money they got from the country :'(

But thats just another point which leads me personally to the decicision that "I WILL NEVER BUY A NOKIA AGAIN" :)

Let's think this way: Nokias smartphones are nearly dead and simply not serving what ppl want this days.

WP7 is nearly dead too and doing just the same, ppl want to customize their phones and install many many apps etc. etc. They want a cute homescreen, big displays and the variety of devices. (Or they want a Apple product, just because it's apple :P )

So if you put this 2 products together:

Nokia + WP7 = "dead" + "nearly dead before release"

what will you get ?

dead + dead != superb

dead + dead == really dead :)

But that's just my point of view! Let's see what the future brings.

But what i can say is that i always see people looking at different devices in Shops and i see them mostly buy Androids.

On Saturday i was in the shopping mall and in one of the bigger electronic shops.

I saw a woman playing with an HD7, after a short while she took the DHD and said: "Wow this is much nicer, but it's almost the same device" !! And this is not the first time is see a behaiviour like this between WP7 and Android.

So now you can think yourself, if a standard customer behaves like this, how they want to be big together on this base ?

Also a nice point PRO Android: The german government decided to take a special customized Android System as the new platform for secure communication between members of the higher government levels!

The choice was between: stay with Nokia, go to WinMo or Android. They decided for Android.

You can read yourself, but you must take a online translator, because this article is in german (of course) :)

http://www.zdnet.de/sicherheits_ana...n_android_handy_story-39001544-41549815-1.htm

That's all from me now :D

Regards

Bin4ry
[XPERIA X10 General] alxrg:
I love android, don't get me wrong, but WP7 will very likely pick up a nice chunk of the market..

WP7 and the various other versions that will come after will only keep getting better.

The operating system is actually good and getting better, and the minimum specs that WP7 requires of the manufactures insures that you won't get a lemon.

Updates are "supposed" to cover all the phones at the same time and make it seamless for the customers.

It's also Microsoft that were talking about, even if they lose money year after year, they'll just keep going! So is WP7 dead? Right now, perhaps.

But it'll get better and it's backed by Nokia and Microsoft, two HUGE companies with loads of cash.

I'm still rooting for Android!
[XPERIA X10 General] theskeptic:
The storage partition on the device is only hidden and there is a registry hack that unhides it so it can be accessed just like any other mass storage device, but this is far from an ideal solution when it should be implimented as a matter of course. Only caveat is that you must have Zune installed but this would likely be the case anyway.
[XPERIA X10 General] svtfmook:
same here. wp7 makes you realize how peiced together android really is.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] centralrock:
Hi i got a Xoom From USA is there any way to get a 3G sim card from EU to work on the Xoom from USA?

If yes ?

how to do it?

Thx
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kcarpenter:
No.
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] centralrock:
When you say no , do that also means it will never ever be a solution on the future?

Thx for you reply :)
[Xoom Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jase33:
There is no gsm radio in the US wifi xoom. so never is as good as it gets right now.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] xman002:
Hey guys, i wanted to upgrade my x10 mini pro to froyo android, but i have one problem. It seems that all was installed properly, in settings there even stands android version 2.2.1, but the design of the whole phone is like in android 1.6, tried it with 2 versions of ROM, the same problem. Is it something i did? Sorry for my english
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] xman002:
thanks for the answer...
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] Eyama:
try with reflashing your costum rom. but before that wipe dalvik cache, full wipe (factory reset) and install it
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] xman002:
i guess stupid question but...what is reflashing? And how to do it?
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] Eyama:
in xrecovery select factory reset (full wipe)

and then install custom zip (rom that you want)

reflash means that you install rom again
[Droid 2 General] Delhow:
I rooted my Droid 2 with Z4Root. I have ROM Manager Premium. I was able to create backup of current ROM. If I try to install a ROM from the SD card with ClockworkMod phone reboots back to normal screen, and stays Android 2.2. If I manually reboot into recovery the ROM install shows signature error. Recovery screen shows 4 options, not the 8 I've seen displayed in instructions on the web.
[Droid 2 General] xustfosorcim:
I'm not sure exactly how ROM manager is supposed to do it, but I wouldn't bother using it just yet.

Get the Koush's Droid 2 Boostrapper. Install it.

Open the program and hit Bootstrap recovery, tell superuser yes, then wait for the success message. After that, click on reboot recovery, and you should boot into ClockworkMod, where you can install a different ROM.
[Xoom General] risq:
Just brought a Xoom today and after trying to find ways to get 3.1 manually installed, low and behold I reboot and get greeted with a Üpdate found - 3.1

Being a new xoom, i need to charge it for a bit first before it would let me!

So if you have a UK Xoom, reboot and check your updates ;)
[Xoom General] bd85:
What store has open on a sunday?

If its true that you got the update is great news.

Do you have wifi-only or 3G?
[Xoom General] madpete:
You sure? I got nothing here on my 3g / wifi
[Xoom General] rickyvilla:
Nothing here on Wifi model.
[Xoom General] MediumO:
Can anybody confirm this?
[Xoom General] directmail:
Sure it wasn't an US import?

Nothing for me so far...
[Xoom General] hatworthy:
Better not be, after I wasted most of my Saturday night rooting and installing the US update :mad:
[Xoom General] iammodo:
Please can you check it wasn't 3.0.1

Im in uk and got nothing so far.

Sent from my Xoom
[Xoom General] Lothaen:
that's what I thought it might be - but UK Xooms (Wifi at least) all started at 3.0.1 out the box.

As no one else confirmed this it's probably a US import I guess...?
[Xoom General] hatworthy:
I think they ship with 3.0.1, don't they? I've bought two (returned the first due to screen problems) and both had 3.0.1 when I first booted them.
[Xoom General] Cwiiis:
I think this is someone's cruel joke :(

Pics or it didn't happen!
[Xoom General] fkofilee:
just spoke to my friend who works at carphone warehouse, part of the geeksquad and he says its not out in the uk for another 2 weeks (fully) but will be starting to roll out from tomorrow.

Whether this is 100% accurate not too sure :)
[Xoom General] Cwiiis:
I guess this would be for the 3G model? I hope Wifi roll-outs begin soon and I get it soon... Patience is not my greatest virtue :)
[Xoom General] risq:
no it isn't a joke and it was a device brought today in PCWorld, so its not an import as suggested. All I did was restore to factory settings, added my gmail account and connected to wifi. It instantly found the update and I'm now on 3.1.

I have no need to lie, I'm a regular poster and although a new to the xoom...I know android.

What was so annoying was I had been trying to root it to get 3.1 but after bootloop I had to get the firmware from Motorola UK, reflash the boot and system.imgs and recovery.img and was back to a full OEM stock xoom. Whether that has anything to do with it, I couldn't tell you.

Anyway hope that. Explains a bit more.

Why does the XDA app FC once you login? Hoped 3.1 would sort that as even with the browser ,XDA lags.
[Xoom General] qwerp_:
How did you manage to get hold of a copy of stock firmware? Don't think its available yet. Please share the link if you got it. Thanks.
[Xoom General] hatworthy:
Hmm. They haven't released the UK system image yet, have they? Is it possible you got US firmware and the update came as a result of that?

When you booted up did the language screen say English or UK English?
[Xoom General] risq:
I created a moto account then it let me download. All I did then was extract each component and flash via ADB... I.e boot boot.Img system system.img recovery recover.img
[Xoom General] risq:
It said English (united kingdom)
[Xoom General] hatworthy:
Cool. You should upload your system.img , if you get a chance. I'm sure a lot of people would appreciate it.
[Xoom General] rudedog1979:
Something is quite weird:D here, no screenshot, no upload. Fishy...:D
[Xoom General] iammodo:
Just made an account. Went to products/software. Still could only see us retail.

Sent from my Xoom
[Xoom General] stevebakh:
I'm sure that I got an OTA update on my WIFI xoom when I first purchased it.

I'm also pretty sure 3.1 isn't going to be rolled out for another couple of weeks, at least.

Hope I'm wrong.
[Xoom General] s.t.s:
Nothing here... still on 3.0.1 as I have been from launch day here in the UK

Really hope you are not yanking our collective chain here... sounds like you have far from a "stock" device so not sure how much your validity your results have for the rest of us.

sent from my mz604

you live and learn ... at any rate you live
[Xoom General] risq:
Not are what you want me to screenshot? A version number? Can I even screenshot on this natively? I know on the SII its home n camera button but don't know it on here. As I said, created a motor account and downloaded. The guy above has said he's been told its meant to start rolling out tomorrow so I don't see why there's so much speculation?
[Xoom General] risq:
Couldn't agree more with it being an odd setup. As I say I was trying to flash it earlier...failed, so I had to manually flash each section to get it working. As said above....I replaced all but the user data.I mg as I don't think that was changed in my one click root attempt. I'm not at home now so only have the tab in hand.unless the flash was a Us ROm with united kingdom support, but as I said English UK was the default.

Didn't think the Us file would work on the UK com tho?
[Xoom General] qwerp_:
Are you refering to motodev? Or other link? As motodev only have us stock image. Can you show us which link you download that from? Thanks.
[Xoom General] Cwiiis:
It does kind of sound like you could've ended up with the US update, but I'd love to believe that the UK update is coming so soon - Could you link to the ROM you downloaded? And have you still got the UK language option available in the settings? Maybe a quick photo? (obviously, this doesn't matter that much to you, but I'm sure it'd give hope to a lot of users here :))
[Xoom General] risq:
hey all - OK firstly apologies for my haste with my thread and secondly thanks for the comments as its helped me realise what has happened and maybe explains a few going ons. It appears, due to my lack of experience with flashing the xoom (used to Samsung and Odin) that I've somehow created some sort of frankenrom. It seems confused as to whether its a UK xoom or a US Xoom. I guess this is due to flashing just parts of another ROM and not the user dat.img as well? Not too sure yet.

Maybe that's why I have UK language as default? Not sure but either way I apologise for getting hopes up and will mak sure I do a bit more homework before I get excited next time. Still, its odd as the download link came from the UK motor site which I guess is what threw me out

Cheers all!
[Xoom General] qwerp_:
darn... how i hoped its real...
[Xoom General] grellanl:
Pretty sure mine started out at 3.0, and on first boot updated to 3.0.1. I had a preorder unit, one of the first off the container.

Still haven't seen the 3.1 OTA though! Hopefully soon, or I'll have to bite the bullet and backup and flash it manually, cos the wait is making me impatient.
[Xoom General] alias_neo:
Risq

I can personally vouch for Risq's credibility, however, as he has now pointed out, I think he mis-understood what was going on.

Motorola has not released UK images, however, both the US and Non-US sites link to the same images for the stock images. In the case of the european wifi version, it is the same as the US one except for languages, so flashing the US images as Riqs has done would function correctly, but also means he will get the update scheduled for the US.

As for the 3G and non-"franken" devices we havn't had any solid information yet, and worse still, there are NO stock images that we can relock with, so non of us modded europeans can get the OTA until a custom version is built from the OTA (which I will do myself as soon as I get my hands on it).
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] axy_david:
ummm it's like this whenever i try 2 install skyfire 4 it says installation failed

skyfire 3 works but why dosen't 4 does install

ins there any way manually to install an apk?
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] axy_david:
no replies?
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] Satch09:
I've got it installed, I'm running CM6. Are you installing it over v3 or is it a fresh install? What have you set your install location to (CM settings>app settings>install location) Maybe you have it set to external and Sfire doesn't like it.

Worth a shot, let me know what methods you have tried

Lood Guck :)
[XPERIA X10 General] orangecheeba:
Just extract the apk from the tripN arc rom & install it on your tripN miui rom got it to work with PS3 & laptop + my partners aino phone can't get it to work on my blu ray player for some reason:( it looks a bit funny but runs well all videos & music play fine over wifi:)
[EVO 4G General] ronnienyc:
Just went from Evo > Nexus S 4g, and here are my brief notes.

-Nexus is faster, but not by much.

-Nexus screen makes the Evo's look washed out and soft by comparison. The Nexus has amazing blacks, which really makes a big difference in terms of clarity, apparent sharpness. (though the Nexus colors often look too saturated)

-Speaker sounds a lot better (playing music) It has more bass and generally sounds less tinny

-call quality is good. Loud and clear.

-The nexus is only a few days old, but thus far, the battery is not longer lasting than the Evo's. Hopefully that will improve after a couple weeks.

-screen seems slightly less responsive than the Evo's - resulting in an occational missed press. Overall it is very good though.

-on the down side, the screen does have a yellow/green tint (especially in the whites), and it bothers me.

-in terms of being more pocketable, in practive the 1.5oz weight difference is barely noticable, and the Evo seems more secure in the hand (robably because it has better texture on the back, and because of the extra weight.) So far the Nexus feels a little fragile and almost too light (thankfully though, it does not feel "hollow" like the Epic does.)

So far, I am not sure if I am going to keep the Nexus (purchased off of Craigslist for $350) or use my upgrade for the Evo 3D when it comes out. I am not leaing toward the new Evo - expecually since it will (hopefully) have improved battery performance, and that amazing new screen.

Stay tuned...
[EVO 4G General] jeriel05:
I have to disagree on the nexus speaker being louder than the Evo's..... Evo sounds much louder. Agree Evo screen is more responsive, despite colors being a little saturated nexus screen looks much better than the evo's. Also the nexus keyboard is very laggy when texting, I am using smart keyboard now.
[EVO 4G General] ronnienyc:
I said the Nexus speaker sounds *better*, not louder ;-)
[EVO 4G General] DirtyShroomz:
Only things my evo does better than my Nexus is the kickstand and bigger screen. Speaker is louder on the evo but sounds better on the Nexus
[EVO 4G General] ronnienyc:
Mr. Dirty, how is the Nexus battery life for you?

Mine says the display is consuming 83% of the battery for some reason...

Also, do you disagree that the Evo browser is better? I hate that the notification bar does not go away on the Nexus browser. Also pinch zoom is much better on the Evo. I am about to root so I can use the Evo's browser instead...
[EVO 4G General] Rem3Dy:
I'm sorry but the aosp browser blows away the HTC sense browser.
[EVO 4G General] jeriel05:
Sorry for the misunderatanding :-),For some reason I can't get the nexus s browser to always display desktop sites, it always reverts back to mobile view. Anyone have this problem? I'm using the about:debug method.
[EVO 4G General] ronnienyc:
Um...How?

(I noted that on the Evo pinch-zoom works much better, and the Evo's notification bar hides, giving you more screen real estate...)

As to the speed: sitting side-by-side on WiFi, the two browsers load pages at precisely the same speed.
[EVO 4G General] Rem3Dy:
I for one like being able to see the status bar while using the browser. I can check the time, check notifications, enable one of my power control options all without leaving the browser. Flash playback and page rendering feels much smoother and quicker than sense.
[EVO 4G General] DirtyShroomz:
Now that you mentioned it, that is the other thing I noticed is that pinch-to-zoom is horrendous on the Nexus. I use dolphin so I haven't compared stock-stock browser but yes, the Nexus browser disappointed me in the PTZ feature.
[EVO 4G General] ronnienyc:
I don't know if you have an Evo, but what is nice about the browser's notification bar is that it is there when you need it, and gone when you don't!

If anyone is rooted and get's the Evo browser working on the Nexus, let me know.

I have not had the time to root yet...
[EVO 4G General] mlin:
If you need the notification bar its just a quick tap of the menu button away, no need to leave the browser...

I have to disagree that pinch to zoom is better on the evo. Its immensely smoother on the nexus.

Tapa tapa tapa
[EVO 4G General] Rem3Dy:
I do have an EVO as I am posting from it. Once it disappears the only to get it back is to click a link, go back or refresh a page. That is not being there when I need it.
[EVO 4G General] phatmanxxl:
That's the main reason I don't like asop. And away from the nexus. Dolphin browser is the closest you'll get to the sense browser, but last time I used on on Cm7 it seemed buggy and frustrated me. Its not as smooth and polished as sense in comparison.
[EVO 4G General] jeriel05:
yeah, there is a few things that I'm not feeling about this nexus. Is there any way to bypass the 160 characters for text messaging? I hate the fact that it will stop and not auto split the messages, I have tried a few apps from the marketplace but whenever I send a message over 160 characters the message sent will be all symbols to the recipient.
[EVO 4G General] DirtyShroomz:
Dolphin browser kills sense browser and all others out there by a landslide.
[EVO 4G General] twiz0r:
And miren. I prefer it over dolphin at this point (including the latest dolphin update)

Swyped via my cyanogenized and gingerbreaded EVO
[EVO 4G General] ronnienyc:
My Nexus does NOT reflow the text properly after pinch-zoom, so you are stuck either panning back and forth, or using the + and - buttons.

As to the showing the status bar when needed on the Evo browser, simply pressing menu does the trick.
[EVO 4G General] laydros:
Evo browser relies on Sense framework, so it's a no go.

In theory possible, but no one has ever done any sort of Sense ports for a portion, only of the entire ROM.

I think there was a Sense Nexus S port, so it might be available later.

I'm in the stock browser camp, but understand how some might prefer the Sense browser. HTC knows how to make people keep buying their phones instead of switching manufacturers.
[EVO 4G General] ronnienyc:
Nexus > Evo

As a follow-up:

Nexus issues:

-Build quality is no where near as good as the EVO (feels light weight and flimsy without a case, and with a case it does not feel any lighter, or much smaller than the Evo.)

-Nexus has terribly slow charging. Seriously it seems to take 5 or 6 hours to charge completely. Ouch.

-Nexus battery drains very fast (though I have only charged it maybe 15 times total, so maybe it will get better.) But this morning I went from 100% to 60% in two hours of light use (and no calls)!

-Nexus screen misses key strokes very often! It is simply less sensitive than the EVO and many times I need to re-press keys. Very annoying.

-The green/yellow screen is very annoying

-After making a few days of calls on the Nexus, the Evo has better call quality, and the speaker sounds clearer during calls. (thought the Nexus sounds better for music playback through the speaker phone)

-I miss the screen real estate - the larger type on the Evo (though less contrasty) is just easier to read.

So...the Nexus is now for sale. And I will be using my upgrade for the Evo 3d.
[General Questions and Answers] holy1304:
Hey guys, I need to roll back my android to 2.2.1 again but i don't know how to do it. At the moment I have 2.3.3. Anyone can help me ?
[HTC Inspire 4G] acrossbetween:
Im unable to post this in cattleprod's thread or the miui thread...so i'll ask here!

Ive installed the latest miui yesterday and everything works great! I decided to install cattleprod's new kernel from last night. It says in his instructions...

"my cpu frequcines and voltage are quite different to the cyanogen an miui so you will need to do drive selection in setcpu."

I look in setcpu and I dont see drive selection...I found device selection, combined with the faq for setcpu it has a way to se custom frequency sets through a text document...but the info in cattleprod's post doesnt correspond with what setcpu wants...

SO, can anyone give specific details in what to do exactly by doing a drive selection?

Also, it's working fine with autodetect but it drains fairly quickly...Im on 1267200 max 768000min on interactive and im draining around 10 percent an hour with light use.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Flippy125:
I just got NOVA 2 and tried playing online but it won't lest me over 3G/4G. Is there a way to spoof a wifi connection so I can play?

Sent from my HTC Vision
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vimto25:
I didnt no they are 2 colours? seems there 1s with silver(chrome) banding and surround around home button and the other is gun metal grey around the banding and home button surround "mine is grey",

any1 else no this?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UncleScar:
Not sure about this, mine does say "Noble Black" on the box and it's a 'grey' finish to the silver surround.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robbiekhan:
That's just the reflection of the flash making it look silver.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vimto25:
huh flash make it look chrome any thing on ya box to say the colour?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robbiekhan:
Box says noble black. Mine looks exactly the same as yours. It just might look different due to the light reflection from flash/windows etc.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vimto25:
maybe my eyes then lol, looks rather shinny, you been using the mr sheen :D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robbiekhan:
Is yours Orange or sim free? I know Orange do tend to have custom colours sometimes! Just in case :p
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vimto25:
sim free, i really think its differant
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robbiekhan:
:D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vimto25:
you think its the same? ive tryed a few pics taken from mrs galaxy ace with flash (i no its not the best of cameras) and no way it looks that silver
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robbiekhan:
Is your Mrs' flash one of these:

? :D