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[T-Mobile LG G2x] player911:
I posted a TON of information why I didn't like the Sensation. The encrypted locked bootloader was high on the list but here are others:

-The Tegra 2 is like 33% more powerful then the dual-core snapdragon

-HDMI/microUSB = No HDMI Out + Charging (since no TV's support the MDLP yet)

-Locked encrypted Bootloader + New Sense = Mercy of HTC for bug fixes

-NVidia pushing devs for enhanced Tegra Apps = No go on non-Tegra devices

-Lower Res Front Camera

It does look like a sexy phone though. We'll see what problems it has out of the box compared to the G2x.

The G2x does have its problems but Tegra chips are new. Most work pretty well out of the box. Most of the issues we have is from the phone shipping with a 2.2 Kernel and everyone is flashing the leaked 2.3.3 rom. The drivers and stuff get funky but we're expected to get an updated kernel soon (the OS was already leaked).

I would agree though that I would wait a few weeks. While the G2x is great, it would be best to know your options to what best suites you. The Sensation is due out soon and you can compare the two side-by-side.

If the bootloader was unlocked, I could "possibly" live with the other stuff.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] JHaste:
Wait and see what our big gingerbread update looks like on the g2x because like someone said before, this has been a frustrating experience so far... once we get that bad boy out and assuming it is a stable, quality build with much better driver support then the sky is the limit with this device! it will be the tegra2 flagship phone for the next 18 months

few things about the sensation that bothered me from my n1, and this is an HTC issue, their external speakers are a joke to say the least, poorly positioned, horrible sound, never loud enough... the g2x's external speaker is pretty solid in my opinion. And the HTC cameras are nothing to brag about either. I saw a video of both phones doing 1080p recording and the Sensation had a horrible red-shift problem...
[T-Mobile LG G2x] sarni84:
number 1 nicely put player911 and yo the g2x is a ****in beast i had alot of phones n this one is the fastest yea theres little problems here n there but they will get addressed with updates this phone is a dev magnet not so sure the sensation will be like that especially if htc doesnt to unlock the bootloader ...y the **** would they do that no one else does that just screams dont buy me ur at the mercy of htc n there never to come updates if theres bugs dude i say g2x all the way!!!!!!!!!
[T-Mobile LG G2x] EtherealRemnant:
Honestly, I love this phone but the lack of custom ROMs is starting to annoy me. I want a damn MIUI ROM or at least something other than CM7 and EaglesBlood (I love AOSP though but MIUI on top of AOSP would be perfect). HTC phones always seem to end up with the most development behind them and their touch panels are some of the most sensitive in the industry (quite unlike the G2x which annoys the hell out of me sometimes with how hard I have to press on it). I think the tides will start to turn on HTC development though with the locked bootloaders.

That said, between HTC, LG, and Samsung - I'd pick the Samsung. For one, HTC uses Snapdragon chips - Qualcomm has a long (very long) history of promising that their chips will do this, that, the third, and even the fourth - but they never come through. Tegra 3 is coming out this year though and that's going to be a beast to contend with - the Exynos from Samsung absolutely decimates the Tegra 2.

Build quality on my Captivate was phenomenal - I've never had an HTC phone with great build quality - and that's going all the way back to the PPC-6800. There have always been issues. This is my first LG phone and while I enjoy it a lot, the touch panel sensitivity is a huge issue when I'm gaming and really needs to be fixed.

Also, HTC tends to say that the phone has "x" amount of storage space but what really happens (like what happened with the Inspire) is they partition and format it in a way that means you get slightly less than half what they advertise. HTC also has a history of shoddy driver support.

The only pro I see with the HTC is how fast HTC does device updates - that said, they're always sloppy releases and devs have to take them apart anyway - add in the locked bootloader and I don't really see a lot of devs going that way. Also the TegraZone is quickly growing - developers are really taking to the Tegra platform and producing some astounding applications as a result. There is no Qualcomm or Samsung zone and Tegra-optimized applications will not run on another chipset.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] sarni84:
+1 etherealremnant
[T-Mobile LG G2x] orangemonster:
Thanks for all your answers so far, still, does anyone know if the GS2 will hit tmobile?
[T-Mobile LG G2x] jlevy73:
Nothing for sure yet, I think only ATT has been confirmed
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Lootes:
There has been some rumors that T-Mo is skipping this one for the Hercules, which will be a 4.5" screen beast, but like jlevy said, nothing confirmed yet.
[Xperia Play General] narflynn619:
problem solved by gingerbread 2.3.3 update ;)
[Xperia Play General] zerojay:
The problem is that gaming takes a lot of battery power. I haven't attempted to game for 6 or 7 hours straight but generally speaking, the Play has the best battery of all the handsets I've played with in a really long time. I jumped from a Captivate to the Play and even with little use, the only way I would get through a day is by charging while at work. No problem anymore with the Play, which always has way more charge than I expect to see when I check out my battery life. On the Captivate, you'd be lucky to get 3 or 4 hours of non-stop gaming before it was dead. My first charge, I went 36 hours on my Play with quite a lot of gaming (though not all in one sitting and probably not as concentrated as you). I can hit the promised 5 hours of straight gaming.

I've rooted and removed a few small apps here and there, nothing too huge. I don't bother with attempting to save battery life by going GSM only or just using a headset. Not sure what else you can do. Maybe your apps are more battery-hungry than mine.
[Xperia Play General] ammarcool12:
Well I havnt modden not even rooted my play but I get 24 hrs or more easily with 1-2 hours gaming and moderate web browsing
[Xperia Play General] neptune:
One thing I ha e noticed is if you are in a poor signal area and the phone is constantly searching for signal it will drain the battery quite fast.... just a tip to check out... I've solved my battery issues by turning the phone off when inside the office as after 2 hours of no use with no data or wireless connections the phone would lose 20% battery
[Xperia Play General] ncaissie:
I came from the iPone 3GS to the Play and the iphone had great battery life for movies, music and web. But when you played games the battery died fast. I still need to try with my Play but I think I get more playtime from it. Download Advance Task Manager and run it when you are finished playing around with your phone each time, great little app. I also killed the widgets. Widgets are awesome and I wish I could use them but they seem to kill my battery fast. I'm going to order the charger with extra battery from Ebay soon. (Probably today)

It charges a separate battery on a stand so if you have a big game day you can swap out the battery during the day.

I love this phone for games. The iphone has a lot of games but 1 in 100 are worth the time. And the touch screen sucks for playing games. But the iphone beats the android for ease of use for thing like managing space.

Also get App to SD Pro. It is worth it and I like to buy cool tools if it saves me time of going through all my games to see which ones I can move to the SD card.
[Xperia Play General] matknny:
I hear that at work I have to put it on Airplane Mode.

For to increase battery you can put advance task killer on or something and get it to auto kill after lock like I did for my HTC Hero but with new advancements in the custom roms I didn't need it. I expect custom roms to help battery. Untill then, think about getting a new bigger battery. Look in the accessaries thread and find mugan batteries.
[Xperia Play General] Rixter757:
You have another couple in there that I would get rid of ;)

Crash monitor, SecureClockService, SetupGuide, Sony Ericcson Sync.

If any of those make you nervous, have a look at this thread for details on each (look for the entry from "constin").

http://xdaforums.com/archive/index.php/t-1047689.html

As always, freeze first :p Oh, and kill your music service when not in use also.
[Xperia Play General] dsswoosh:
I leave my house at 7 am for work with a fully charged phone.

I play with it at work for about 2-3 hours on and off. (my work place is really easy going, not much to do atm ;))

I get home at 4pm (which is now) and battery is 48%.

Then i play with it around 1-2 hours at night when i am in bed after 10 pm.

Normally the battery is around 15% then and i put it back on charge.

So i guess 6-7 hours worth of non-stop gaming sounds about right tbh.
[Xperia Play General] zerojay:
For no signal situations, you might want to grab NoBars from the market. When it sees that you have no signal, it puts the phone into airplane mode to save your battery and then checks for signal again every ten minutes or hour or whatever you set it to.
[Xperia Play General] yanyu:
hey,

this is Android, not iphone

get more batteries and a dock charger~
[Xperia Play General] killa92:
Thank god its not an iphone, theyl forget to put a microphone on the next one lol
[Xperia Play General] typikal82:
I've been using Juice Defender, it works great IMO. Turns off 3G and Wifi whenever the screen is off, runs scheduled data periods to let apps/widgets update, etc.
[Legend General] Larkspeed:
I'm not totally new to rooting as I have already rooted my HTC Desire.

Yesterday my daughter came to me and asked me if I could root her HTC Legend.

I'm finding this quite confusing this time around and I am unsure what guides I should be following.

The wanted end result would be a rooted HTC Legend with S-Off after that installing a custom ROM should be the same as it is on the desire so I'm fine.

her phone has HBOOT 1.0 and android 2.2 currently

Can someone please point me in the right direction for my wanted end result.

Thanks in advance
[Legend General] madcat340:
Root is possible but s off isn't with hboot 1.01 or 1 being unable to revert it to s off XD

However you can use fake flash and still be able to do the same things

Look in the legend android development thread in the sticky with references there is a guide for rooting with hboot 1.01

Mines rooted with hboot message me if you need help XD

Sent from my HTC Legend
[Legend General] Larkspeed:
so I use the 1.01 guide to root 1.0 ok got that.

s-off was not a really big deal I just thought it would be handy
[HTC Inspire 4G] Focustom:
I to go get a new phone so I need to return it to stock. My buddy helped me and flashed the stock rom. Everything seems good except I have no audio and it still says Desire HD. I tried searching but couldn't find the answer. Can someone please guide me on what the heck to do. I'm about to break this phone lol
[HTC Inspire 4G] Nickovtyme:
This thread might help...not sure...check it out.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1048626&highlight=still+says+Desire+HD
[HTC Inspire 4G] Focustom:
Problem is I don't have root anymore. I really just need to get a new phone is my goal lol
[HTC Inspire 4G] Nickovtyme:
You could search for Shortfuse + SuperOneClick here at XDA.

SuperOneClick will give you Temp Root on the Inspire...probably long enough to fix the issue and as soon as you reboot...the root will clear and nobody will know the difference.

I know SoC gives root long enough to enable sideloading on the Inspire...worth a shot.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Focustom:
I tried but couldn't find a link. And I can't download anything from the market so I may be screwed in that. Will AT&T care if it says Desire HD?
[HTC Inspire 4G] Nickovtyme:
superoneclick
[HTC Inspire 4G] hyun18:
Itll always say desire hd, its just like that its the same phone.
[HTC Inspire 4G] P00t:
Edit the build. Props. In system folder. Use root explorer, gotta buy it tho
[HTC Inspire 4G] Focustom:
I need to take it to AT&T though.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Focustom:
Market doesn't work for me for some reason tried to fixed it but no avail.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Gene Poole:
It sounds to me like you unrooted it but left the downgrade ROM on it. If so, you'll now need to get the official HTC RUU (Ace Cingular US) and run that to restore it to stock AT&T.

Get it here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=917762
[HTC Inspire 4G] di11igaf:
its says desire HD in stock form out of the box I believe, so changing it to inspire 4g will be wrong(I'm 99%sure it says desire HD stock). Pull build.prop from factory ruu and see what it says
[HTC Inspire 4G] TXRangerXDA:
A friend just bought an Inspire and asked.me about that. His bluetooth set saw it as a desire hd.
[HTC Inspire 4G] fernandezhjr:
My stock Inspire says, HTC Inspire 4G. There is also a small TM to the right of Inspire, for trademark.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Gene Poole:
Mine does too, but I'm basing my advice on the fact that the OP mentioned that the audio didn't work either.
[HTC Inspire 4G] ST3ALTHPSYCH0:
Even HTC sync sees my phone as a Desire HD, but the "about phone" info shows "HTC Inspire™ 4G"

Phone is still bone stock (aside from apps) BTW
[HTC Inspire 4G] hyun18:
and??lol

it says desire hd by default, its like that.

But you can change it too.
[HTC Inspire 4G] mrrick:
I got mine from at&t two weeks ago. And when it was stock, straight out of the store, under phone info it read Desire HD. You will be fine. Pinky promise.
[HTC Inspire 4G] Focustom:
I got a new one and it actually says Inspire lol
[HTC Inspire 4G] hyun18:
Uhmm in where?? it says inspire on the labels, boxes etc but not on the software infos etc.
[HTC Inspire 4G] fernandezhjr:
Mine says Inspire under software info, the previous phone I exchanged said Inspire, and my wife's phone also says Inspire. All phones stock of course. However, most apps and websites are detecting them as Desires.
[EVO 4G General] mattfmartin:
Please sign this petition to put a stop to htc and their locked bootloaders. Takes 5secs. Even if your not getting this phone you should still sign it, so this wont happen to fututure phones.

http://www.groubal.com/htc-bootloaders-and-nand/
[EVO 4G General] fixxxer2008:
hint...hint petitions do not work!
[EVO 4G General] ItsLasher:
What is it with people and petitions? Next there will be a thread on "Lets sue HTC cause they locked it down".

Don't like it buy another phone it's just that plain and simple.
[EVO 4G General] tejasrichard:
You must not have much experience with community action/involvement. While it could be argued that petitioning alone won't work, when combined with a letter-writing campaign and townhall type meetings (like the email campaign and Facebook bombing currently going on), you have a proven recipe for getting results. The problem is getting people off their jaded asses, and involved. If it wasn't for the above strategy, the place I was married would have been closed and torn down, against the owner's wishes, 2 years ago. I'm not saying they are always gonna work, that would be a stupid thing to say, but saying they don't work at all is jaded and in blatant denial of reality.
[EVO 4G General] thegame3202:
DANG SON! 5000 sigs already? I'm kinda two-sided about petitions. A petition by itself will usually not get very far... however... if all of those people end up buying a different phone (i.e. one of the many many phones that are coming out soonish similar to the evo 3d).... HTC is going to be hurting money wise and will probably change their attitude. I myself was going to get an EVO 3d, but now am leaning towards the galaxy s2.
[EVO 4G General] Zabalba:
5000 is such a low number I doubt they would take it into consideration. I would perfer bombarding thier communication outlets and appear to look larger in numbers. Any big shot at HTC can say "Whats 5000 when we can sell 100,000+"
[EVO 4G General] mattfmartin:
Whether they do or not, it takes less than 5secs to sign.
[EVO 4G General] oespinoza83:
Still worth a shot.
[EVO 4G General] Rippley05:
I don't think it will help much but, I still signed it.
[EVO 4G General] Vinchenzop:
At $500 per phone ( that we get charged for the phone before rebates/deals/etc), 5000 is 2.5 million dollars. And yes, they'll still make more than plenty of money, but no wise company can rationalize a move that costs them 2.5 million+ dollars.

And someone can chime in that they will save money by not having to replace bricked phones... but in reality, those bricked phones get sent to htc, reset and sold as refurbished phones anyways.
[EVO 4G General] dangerruss:
Involvement is always a good thing when trying to make a change. I for one am signing.
[EVO 4G General] Jbcarrera:
Somebody give this man a beer cause he is definitely
[EVO 4G General] mattfmartin:
Hehe.........
[EVO 4G General] ItsLasher:
I can't wait to see the number of people complaining and signing THEN still go out and buy the phone regardless of the lock down.

Truth is they (HTC) see the complaints and they know that no matter what the majority will STILL buy the phone without any changes made. Plus there is all the free advertizing they are getting from the petitions and complaint threads that will also help their sales in the long run.
[EVO 4G General] Jbcarrera:
Are you serious? thats the dumbest statement I have seen all day things like this bring bad fame to a product and when people ask their techie friends about what phone to get do you really thing they will say get a HTC phone now?
[EVO 4G General] tejasrichard:
I bought in to android for one reason: custom roms and AOSP. I stuck with HTC because I liked their products in the past, and I loved the dev community that had built up around them. I do not understand the people who bought android and don't mod it. To me, that is missing the point in its entirety. So, why the fvch would I buy a totally locked down device that I couldn't mod to my heart's content?
[EVO 4G General] mattykinsx:
Please don't use logic and intelligence in our forum.
[EVO 4G General] ItsLasher:
The number of users who use and change modded ROMs is far smaller then the number of average users. Out of all the HTC phones sold the number of users who use and change ROMs regularly is if I was to guess 3% or less.

So bad fame, good fame it doesn't matter because the companies carter to the majority and this group isn't it I'm sorry to say.

Do I like the idea of lock down? NO.

Do I understand the way of business and how things actually work? Yes.

Flame me and hotlink pictures all you want but the fact of the matter is it all boils down to money and even with out your sale or your friends sales they will still succeed due to the larger majority that doesn't mind stock.

So buy or don't buy I could careless but like I stated before out of all that sign the petition I bet there will be a HUGE number that still buy this phone regardless.
[EVO 4G General] mattykinsx:
Yeah, it's true.

Most people are wishy washy.

Let's just hope that we can change HTC's mind.
[EVO 4G General] Zabalba:
At the minimum assuming they sold 100,000+ units (which I'm sure they will surpass easily) that accounts for 5% or less as more units are sold. They are simply looking at the bottom line, like any other company. I wonder how many of those on that petition are still going to go out and buy the phone. At the time of this post they did not state if they are going to reverse their decision on it or not.

The real question is why are they locking the bootloader. You can still get tether with regular root/sideloading. The only other function I can think of currently is to keep the life of the phone in control. It sounds as if this decision was based on keeping customers purchasing newer phones with the latest and greatest os and functions. An extreme example are those still using the G1 because they can still get GB. What they did not count on was the SIZE of the backlash of high end users/dev community.
[HD7 General] dacook2:
Is there anyway i can install .cab files on the hd7 this is frustrating because i wanted to watch mkv rips that i have on my pc and so i wanted to install the coreplayer that worked so well on the hd2 but it's in .cab file but this phone doesn't let me use activesync so i can use explorer and move and copy files into the phone and install it like i did with windows mobile 6.5.

I don't like zune (because it only allows audio and video to be transferred not apps or games) is there any other software for the wm7 i can use for sync my hd7?

OMG i regret buying this phone already i swear i am going to smash it if i can't install coreplayer.
[HD7 General] Audio:
You can't install Coreplayer or any other WM6.5 apps on WP7, it's a completely different OS on a completely different Kernal. Kinda like asking if you can install the WM6.5 version of Coreplayer on iPhone.

Did you not look into the device/OS before you bought it?
[HD7 General] dacook2:
I actually thought it would accept .cab files since it was running on windows mobile 6.5 and its the same family.

OK so what kind of a player should i use to watch videos from mkv format ?

and is there something else except Zune so i can explore my HD7 like i did with autosync ?
[HD7 General] Audio:
Microsoft started afresh with WP7, to differentiate the 2 they called the latest installment Windows PHONE 7, whereas the older generation kept it's Windows MOBILE name, however this doesn't seem to be the case anymore.

As for your MKV's, unless Zune automatically converts them for you when transferring them to your device, there is no way of watching them other than converting to .MP4 or .WMV.

No it's only Zune so far that will sync your stuff, similar to Apples love for iTunes, however Zune is much less intrusive
[HD7 General] morpheus1982:
How can people spend their money so blindly!?!
[Desire General] LinuksGuru:
I have HTC Desire with InsertCoin GB ROM 1.05 (not CM), used just for several days. Of course, almost all apps are moved to SD storage except few like Go Apps and small system utilities.

Today I started to get message that storage space is too low - just about 200K. I have moved GoSMS app to SD, then Gmail, and process hangs. GoSMS successfully moved to SD, while Gmail simply disappeared at all. After restart free space on internal memory left only 100K (yes, even less space then before).

Fixing permissions from ROM manager didn't help, so I wiped out cache partition. Free space increased to 65MB. Wiping dalvik cache increased it further to 72 MB.

I have very few data on phone, several hundred contacts and 20 SMS messages, virtually nothing else.

Now DiskUsage app reports this data:

Data - 194.7 MiB

Applications - 122 MiB

Free - 72.7 MB

I feel something is not right there. I can't understand why there so much data - almost 195 MB. Looks like some app draining free space on internal memory. I did video recording today on SD card, may be video recorder is buggy? I also had Locus map for some time, but then I deleted it with Uninstaller App.

Another possible clue - HTC Car Panel uses 50 MB for maps. Where they are? On internal memory?

Anyone can suggest what could cause this problem?

Thanks in advance for any suggestion(s).
[Desire General] EddyOS:
Dalvik cache is on the internal memory and can be huge depending on apps installed
[Desire General] Rageypeep:
try moving the dalvik cash to your SD, you can use Terminal off the market to move it, youll also need busybox - take a look http://code.google.com/p/android-roms/wiki/A2SD

Also InsertCoin may have an option to move it using a pre-installed app, i know RCMix s 1.7 as a cool app to do it, i would be surprised in the InsertCoin builds didn't have it as well.
[Desire General] shankly1985:
Or use a data2sd RoM and have the worry of space gone :)
[Desire General] spile:
Try this:

http://androidforums.com/htc-desire/127440-internal-memory-again.html