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[Windows Phone 7 General] downloaderintruder:
yeah that one WP7 is me :D

umm. well facebook integration has been successful, though the only thing i know iphone does is sync with facebook, but it doesnt list the people as contacts. what else... for xbox gamers, xbox live gaming is getting there, its good that it is really the actual xbox profile on WP7 and gain live points with (selected) games on phone... better office integration.. the zune pass subscription (eg. stream music over the air).

in the upcoming mango update, IE9 will have better HTML5 support. this was demonstrated somewhere i saw on youtube :D

also you can upload/share photos and other files via skydrive which is free unlike mobileme service.

thats all i got so far :)
[Windows Phone 7 General] sylau90:
Lol,nice one mate,good that you admit it is you.First time I found a real non fanboy in the forum.

Anyway,You are the lucky one,has zune pass in your country,but not mine.

Have a great day,nice to chat with you and shared our experiences.
[Windows Phone 7 General] foxbat121:
Marketing a new product to mass is not easy. It takes money, time, effort and strategy. At this time, we can safely say MS missed all the marks for marketing WP7. The only strategy left from MS is wait for Nokia to turn on the flood gate and flood the market with cheap WP7 handsets. If it pans out, by this time next year, everyone should know there is such thing as WP7.
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
Unfortunately the Office is actually worse o WP7.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Rowdy.nl:
My brother works in a dutch Vodafone shop, they don't sell it. He guesses that there will not be enough request to it, and it's not profiting enough to ship it to the shops and educate all employees. I guess that's the problem with most shops. (mostly also because it's not released official in the netherlands)

It's available on the website though. Pretty cheap also... :)

He told me that he will try to sell another device (Android/iPhone/BlackBerry) to them, not because he thinks WP7 is bad, but just because they have to reach their amount of sold contracts/phones.

It's all about the money... :/
[Windows Phone 7 General] nidave:
Having moved from an iPhone to a WP7 the answer is - not a lot.

There is very little (in my opinion) that you can do on WP7 that is not available on iPhone. In fact there is more in the iphone.

The big thing (in my opinion) it is the way it does things. the iphone is very disjointed. you open a separate app for everything. it feels like there is no integration between different elements.

I am very impressed with the UI and I am hopeful the missing apps etc will come along in time.
[Windows Phone 7 General] vetvito:
^ that is what Microsoft needs to be pushing.

One other thing I would like to mention. Has anybody been watching the NBA play offs? It sponsored by Windows Phone, the funny thing is I have yet to see a Windows Phone. I see nothing but Android and iPhone commercials. Even the halftime time show is filled with the commentators holding and advertising Android phones. A major marketing fail.
[Windows Phone 7 General] eknutson:
Hrm, not sure I agree. I use / follow iOS for my iPad, and the following article is a rumor dumping ground for iOS 5 (i.e. D.N.E. yet) from one of my favorite sites for finding apps. I was struck by how much they are adding for iPhone that I'm already using in WP7 (less, of course, the rumored payment app): http://appadvice.com/appnn/ios-5/
[Windows Phone 7 General] Dr.8820:
I think , after todays announcement, WP7 will pick up :).

Sent from Clark & Scranton using XDA Windows Phone 7 App
[Windows Phone 7 General] Jakeway:
I didnt start this thred to drag up a best phone flame war. As far as I am concered they all do the job.

I was just suprised that when you asked to see a phone you get such a shockly negative responce.
[Windows Phone 7 General] PieOfJustice:
I'll agree to this. The Office app needs allot of work. as for the WP7 not selling well, when I went to get my phone they strongly pushed the iPhone. They however didn't have anything bad to say about the phones. They did in fact mention that of all the WP7 products that they sold very few have been returned because of problems and none have been returns because they where unsatisfied.
[Windows Phone 7 General] munkeyphyst:
OS comparison posts shold be made in the sticky thread specifically for that.
[Windows Phone 7 General] downloaderintruder:
It all really depends on the person anyway. I only bought WP7 because I needed a new phone and make it last a good 2 or 3 years, it has xbox live on it because I sold my xbox console, use for call and text, and internet use. Dont really care about the apps though.

Most people only buy the iPhone, well like I said, its only because its popular.
[Windows Phone 7 General] hardcoreplur:
It few att reps that I talked to when I bought my quantum, had only good things to say about wp7 other than the fact that we have no apps... The fact is... I decided to "think different" and buy an wp7. Apps will come, but if you don't have a solid OS the apps are useless. Mango will be the real test, if it works has well this the MIX demos, we will see a huge bump in respect in the mobile ecosystem. Nokia on the band wagon will help too.
[Windows Phone 7 General] professorwol:
I had the same issues when trying to buy an hd7 The folks at mobile were quick to point out Android phones

HD7 unlocked
[Windows Phone 7 General] Necroman_AI:
Same here, that is really annoying.

I don't really know why, but you can bet if Apple sold bricks with an apple logo and triple price, they would sell, oh yeah they would sell! I see that but don't get it.

Manufacturers and carriers also have to make ads, not just MS. MS makes software but manufacturers make the phone and carriers sell them.

Nokia adopting Windows Phone is great to both Nokia and Microsoft - the positive effect will be huge!

Also, when cheaper devices from ZTE come to the market the numbers will improve. Don't forget carriers will definitely rebrand some ZTE devices to sell them like hot cakes :D Remember that one of the reasons of Android's success is the availability in both low and high end devices.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Dr.8820:
Yeah, I don't get it either...it's like these employees are getting paid not to sell it. I broke my Body Glove for the HD7, went to T-Mo today for another...not one HD7 on display.

Sent from Clark & Scranton using XDA Windows Phone 7 App
[Windows Phone 7 General] ROCOAFZ:
Iphone vs Wp7

Well no one tells you you are holding a WP7 device wrong. Also it may break if dropped but it's not all glass at least.

I agree iphone seems disjointed.

Android issues at my work.. someone couldn't connect to exchange for like 4 months thanks to google mucking up an update.

Exchange services i think work better on Wp7 out of the box. With iphone it's like you don't have all of your email with you. Seems like just a bit and refreshes the rest when you open up the email.

Android... reminds me of early windows mobile when going through email.

btw i have a surround and have always been able to pause on the lockscreen (and adjust volume). Maybe that was just an issue with that user?
[Windows Phone 7 General] munkeyphyst:
post OS comparisons in the sticky thread specifically for that. We don't want to drag another thread into a "my OS can beat up your OS" troll war
[Windows Phone 7 General] jzark:
Yeah, it also happens in Singapore. When I walk into an electronic store and ask for a Windows Phone, the clerk tells me repeatedly that Android is far more better than Windows Phones.:mad:
[Windows Phone 7 General] webwalk®:
well, i have a story too from when i got my mozart some time ago (like dez 2010).

in germany in a local store you will only get it from Deutsche Telekom

so i went to the city to get my hands on the mozart which i only saw on youtube untill then.

so ive visited around 3-4 stores, all with the same results:

get a 2 year contract (100€/month)

and pay 300€ one time fee

i was like woah! its 2700 EURO

earlier i checked ebay, were i could get a brand new mozart for 350€

(hd7 was around 450€ at this time)

or 15€/month and 0,-€ one time fee contract.

i dont know how it currently is, but these local telekom retailers were crazy.

one store further you would get iphone4 for 0€ on a 2 years 20€/month contract.

but its with everything BRAND NEW JUST RELEASED

now with mango i expect way more sales (important features were added)

and by 2013 (2014) wp could be #1 mobile OS

iphone had a good run, android is killing is, but if you have a wp handset you know what im talking about,

android and iphone are no match for the metro ui
[Windows Phone 7 General] sbrownla:
Sadly, I avoid tech stores in certain areas because the employees are just plain idiots. The fancier the neighborhood where I am, the friendlier and more knowledgeable the staff.
[Windows Phone 7 General] strtch:
Same thing happened with Sprint. Took my wife's EVO in to be swapped out. Asked about the Arrive.Rep told me it was trash& I should stick to Android (not knowing I had an HD7). I asked had he even tried wp7. He said it's just like the TouchPro 2... Nobody in the store had even picked one up...
[Windows Phone 7 General] Freypal:
Not been into any phone shops lately. This has inspired me to go see what response I get
[Windows Phone 7 General] jtn04:
Wow, thats just sad.
[Windows Phone 7 General] brummiesteven:
I didn't have this problem however, when I bought my HD7 from o2 it was a day after Windows Phone Launched and they were promoting the HD7 as their flagship windows phone device (they had an exclusivity deal on the HD7, had HD7 posters etc).
[Windows Phone 7 General] yardie.spike:
Orange UK were happy to discuss all phones and OS's, with a competent level of knowledge about all their phones(for sales staff anyway!). I didn't feel they were pushing any particular brand or OS. I walked away with a mozart for £20 pm on 18mths contract...bargain.

I think the problem with both the shops and to some extent here, is the glory boys(all OS) who seem to think that because they own a certain phone, it must be the best and everyone else must want it.

IMO there is not really much difference with all current OS's, all have good and bad points and do the same stuff, just a little differently.

So could we all stop the 'My phone is better than yours' crap, the best phone is whatever does what you(personally) want it to do, regardless of brand/OS.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] lattera:
I'm running NVFlash on an Ubuntu 11.04 VM. Host is OSX and VMWare Fusion. NVFlash has been running for around ten minutes now. How long does it usually take?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] nate420:
Wrong section.

Read rules please before posting
[T-Mobile LG G2x] KiNG OMaR:
[rant]Your post is completely useless and doesn't help at all. Do you feel better knowing that you've only contributed to loading the servers with more useless spam? Thanks for the much needed input :rolleyes: [/rant]

Anyways. Yes. Wrong section. But whatever, mistakes happen!

Just copy and pasting this from my NVFlash for windows guide:

the phone screen should say "S/W Upgrade - Please wait while upgrading...". You can let go of the volume buttons at this point. Once the files are sent and the program is finished running in the command window, you CAN just pull the USB cord or be safe and just wait a few extra minutes, however it will still say "upgrading."

Hope that helps! :)
[T-Mobile LG G2x] drewtang:
Yeah once it says the recovery has be sent successfully you can unplug..
[T-Mobile LG G2x] nate420:
LOL

I like to increase my post count when ever I can... glad u feel like you got something off your chest but I've seen you and many "mini mod" wannabes make useless post that help no one but there own ego... so rant away! hope you feel content with the feedback you just tried to implement into my xda experience
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shaunblaze:
I rooted to CM7 from TNT Lite. I've been trying to install the gapps but when I'm in recovery it doesn't show the file. I've used root explorer to copy the file to what I think is the root of the machine ( / ). But when I reboot the machine the file is no longer there. Am I copying it to the wrong place?
[G Tablet Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shaunblaze:
Figured it out. Didn't know that /emmc was the root of the machine for CM7.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] illushinz:
Came from a highly modded EVO on Sprint to the Incredible on VZW. Now I'm looking to find a ROM that will help with this horrible battery life.

Suggestions?
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Jrkoffjonson:
CM7 with the latest tiamat kernel and vipers voltage scripts work well.

You should also invest in a sedio extended battery.. I've been looking at 2+ days of use without a charge
[Droid Incredible Android Development] illushinz:
Will do, thx!
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Jrkoffjonson:
Accidentally hit submit haha
[Droid Incredible Android Development] C Brown:
Rom-CM 7.0.3

Kernel- Tiamat 4.0.3

I use my phone quite a bit being in the IT field and I can usually get about 28 hours off a full charge. All the nightlies I've used have been roughly the same but figured I shoot you the stable first to try out.

Edit: lol took to long to type looks like jrk beat me.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] yoyomonk:
If you head over to the Droid Incredible Accessories Forum, there is a lot of discussion about extended batteries and their effectiveness.

Otherwise, Pick a stable rom like Skyraider Sense 4.0 or Athena 1.2 (along with many other ROMs), get SetCPU and set a profile to reduce cpu usage while the screen is off
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Andassaran:
I'm having good luck with the stock software just I replaced the kernel with chads incredikernel and I must say wow huge difference. My stock battery will last all day and then some and my extended seidio 3500mah will run almost 3 days..
[Droid Incredible Android Development] carpemortis:
If you want to keep the sense interface, Skyraider is working great on my wife's dinc. If the vanilla android interface is cool, then CM7 is certainly the way to go. Also I'm getting noticeable improvement using the 1900mAH bat that fits in the stock case. Though I am still testing.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] KrisPeezy:
what profiles do you make in SetCPU? I tried it out while using Nils Business Gingersense, but it seemed to be killing my battery more than saving...
[Droid Incredible Android Development] Andassaran:
Using incredikernel I don't set any profiles as the "smartass" governor in the kernel handles sleep on its own
[Droid Incredible Android Development] bigsapz:
Agreed. Looks fugly. Plus, The ext battery isn't even necessary once you have a good kernal. unless you are gonna be away from electricity for 2-3 days on the reg, skip it.

Sent from my Ultimate 2.3.3 Incredible
[Droid Incredible Android Development] jwm1986:
As far as batteries.. .Don't forget about the stock EVO battery. 1500mah and fits behind the stock cover. Doesn't sound like much but it was a good 20% increase for me.

Also it's only $7

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260706244528
[Droid Incredible Android Development] sucker4pa1n:
I've been a devout LG fan... VX6000, VX9800, VX10000 until I got my DInc. Never had issues with LG, but their Android offerings suck on VzW. Now I've got huge respect for HTC, and a strong but dormant love for LG.

As far as battery life... try stuff out. Every phone reacts differently with different kernels and ROMs, not to mention the fact that batteries and hardware - although semi-standard in manufacturing - can have variances at the microscopic level. Trial and error is your best bet. I do about the same with any AOSP kernel and CM7 nightlies... though some run smoother than others.

Tapatalk Pro Sig. Yep, boring.
[Droid Incredible Android Development] lonnyrs:
MIUI beats CM7 hands down on battery life with incredikernel..
[Droid Incredible Android Development] POQbum:
Agreed, I think OP should take a look here :rolleyes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmvCpR45LKA

and I guess, to help answer the question.

Top ROM choices:

1) SkyRaider - if you like Sense UI and stock, this is a very popular choice

2) CM7 - If you like to have all the latest and best from Android OS, if you like extra features- this is for you. Quite stable, though some nightlies may have bugs, usually fixed quickly.

3) MIUI - Unique expirence, some compare it to the iPhone. Really though, it's a very nice UI with many great looking skins to get with it.

Top Kernel choices:

If you're using a sense ROM like Skyraider, make sure your using a sense kernel.

1) Chad's incerikernel - he has different versions for Sense and AOSP, both are really great on battery with still nice performance and stability.

2) Tiamat's kernel
[Xoom General] frigorific:
Nice to hear about this kind of progress and testing =)

now all we need is encoder software that'll copy original video but encode the audio with a simple click... batch processing and maybe copy to device in one go.

doesn't handbrake have a "keep video" setting? =)

looking forward to more tests.

i'm still hoping that when coreplayer for android gets released all our playback woes will be over...

@corecodec: "Subtitles completed for CorePlayer on Android and Windows."

Fred
[Xoom General] Digital Man:
I was thinking that too. Would be nice to do it all with one click. But I haven't gotten that far ahead just yet. Now just trying all sorts of videos to see how many work.

But its still not hard once the tools are set up with GUI interfaces. If you just want to download a video and watch it right away without waiting to re-encode the whole thing it's great. I just put the links to the three tools on my desktop and go throught the steps and you can be up watching a movie or TV show in about 10 min after its downloaded.
[Xoom General] parrotheadmjb:
Theres already a bunch of 1-click tools that will remux it for you.

XenonMKV works great, theres a number of other tools that were made for the xbox 360 that do this since the 360 will play mp4 but not mkv. Try out xenonmkv and see how well that works on the xoom, I haven't tried yet.. I did think about it a few months ago but never got around to it.

edit: also, if you want it to, it'll split the file for you if its >4gb since the file system kinda limits us to 4gb files
[Xoom General] Techsniffer:
Not really a conversion tool but I use Plex (app and server on my PC) and I can stream anything over 3g and WiFi without having to do all this conversion mess. The app costs $5 but its well worth it, there was literally zero setup and my Xoom found my plex server instantly and I was streaming video/music anywhere I was. Obviously for 720 and 1080p videos 3g likely wouldnt be the best but I stream Blu-Ray rips (1080p) over WiFi and it looks and sounds great. I no longer have to convert anything (even plays .mkv's)
[Xoom General] vidriera:
Awesome. I was looking for something just like this with no luck, but I downloaded this and tried it with a 720p scene release I had been meaning to watch with great results! Video plays great on the xoom, and it was larger than 4GB (4.1), so I'm unsure about that limit. Thanks, I recommend this for sure!
[Xoom General] Digital Man:
Great suggestion - I'm trying XenonMKV right now. Its basically an automated 1click way of performing the steps I outlined above and it seems to be working very well. It looks like we finally have a way of converting and playing MKV files on the XOOM fast and easy without waiting hours to re-encode!! Wow this really changes my opinion of the XOOM.
[Xoom General] thor17:
Tried Xenonmkv out on a 1.2 GB 720p high profile h264 mkv file with ac3 audio. It was able to change the container to mp4 keeping the video quality the same and reencoding the ac3 to aac and remuxing all in less than 5 minutes.
[Xoom General] keitht:
What settings are you using? I am trying it now and it has been running for 40 minutes. Forgive my ignorance with this video stuff. It seems to be taking just as long as using DVD Catalyst or Handbrake.
[Xoom General] Digital Man:
Somethings definitely wrong there. Try re-installing - downloading required libraries Nero- visual basic runtimes etc - also watch all the messages it displays as the MKV is being processed and observe what step it gets stuck on - that should give you a clue as to which tool or library is missing. Of course, its also possible you fed it a video it can't handle, for example I wonder whether it can process a file with DTS audio - something like that might make it hang or give an error message.
[Xoom General] keitht:
I tried a different video file and it worked much faster, 17 minutes. The one that took a long time did say "Detected video or audio codec: A_DTS". Not seeing any error though. If most are around 17 minutes, that is good enough for me.
[Xoom General] Digital Man:
That seems about right - a 40 minute 720p MKV takes about 5 or 6 minutes on my computer.

A two hour 720p video takes about 15 minutes. It still takes time to re-encode that much audio, but still far less than something like DVD catalyst or Handbrake. And on a faster computer, I would imagine it would take hardly any time at all.

I assume from your results that the DTS file worked eventually, just took a long time. I was able to convert a two hour DTS file using the manual tools I listed above in conjunction with OjoSoft Audio converter and it took more than 20 minutes, so I gues DTS takes a bit longer than AC3.
[Xoom General] nubsors:
Dvdcatalyst 4 seems to be working the best for me. Only 9 buks right now.
[Xoom General] Digital Man:
DVDcatalyst is an excellent program. And until now, was one of the best solutions for converting MKV videos for the XOOM. Only problem is, with DVDcatalyst and Handbrake and similar programs you are re-encoding your entire video - and in the case of DVDcatalyst, to a lower profile, with a potentional loss of quality. Using DVDcatalyst, I have noticed macroblocking and distortion on its fast, and HQ1 settings. And its HQ2 setting takes a very long time.

By re-encoding only the audio, with something like XenonMKV you are leaving the video un-touched with zero loss or change in quality.

Put more simply, DVDcatalyst and Handbrake are doing a tremendous ammount of unnecessary work to convert a video. Work which is no longer necessary under HC 3.1, because it is capable of handling many high profile 720p h264 files now natively, without conversion.
[Xoom General] Williamsmith123:
After viewing this posts, i think this is a good idea. but i still don't know how to operate. i usually use Fox Real Xoom video converter to convert mkv to mp4 for playing. i know it is sample, but i don't know if the way Digital Man provides is also simple?
[Xoom General] alias_neo:
Unless there is a freeware one click solution for this, there is no point for me, I can handbrake Tron bluray in under 20 minutes. Ripping from the disc takes about 10 more.
[Xoom General] Sarahlili:
oh...your post seems really amazing, but i had took money to buy a xoom video converter. maybe i should watch your post earlier.
[Xoom General] thor17:
Xenonmkv is a freeware one click solution.
[Xoom General] Digital Man:
Ummm what he said.

I think thats the whole point. We now have a one click solution that doesn't require re-encoding. (have to read the whole thread people - its really not that long!) I am not using my original steps anymore either. I am using the batch/folder convert in XenonMKV.

I think I will edit the first post in this thread and add XenonMKV as a better solution. Special thanks to parrotheadmjb for sugesting a one click solution in XenonMKV!
[Xoom General] DroidHam:
Good work, i kinda gave up on movies on my xoom as dvdcat took so long. Does this support 1080p rips? Is the file size cut down alot?
[Xoom General] parrotheadmjb:
GOTSent is another alternative, it works well. I gave it up in favor of Xenonmkv awhile ago, caused me less problems