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[General Topics] Kiboe:
we will get that in about 3 years. really, the tech we have here in the states, is about 3 years behind asia

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so, by physical, do you guys mean somthing like actual buttons like on the Droid X and Droid Charge?

or the capacitive touch buttons?
[General Topics] amdViper:
I like the physical buttons on my phone. But I don't think I would have a problem with it if it didn't. They weren't the determining factor for me buying it. The one thing I thought I would miss was a physical keyboard. Before getting my phone, I was looking at the MyTouch slide and the Sidekick just for the keyboard. But after getting the MyTouch 4G and having a little while to play around with it, I don't think I will ever get another phone with a physical keyboard.
[General Topics] Felimenta97:
I preffer Physical buttons, I think I am the only who wake up the screen with the buttons at the bottom. I like the way Sony Ericsson do with Xperia models, the buttons are thin, slim, and the silver gives ''another touch'' to the beuty of the devices.

For me, every phone should have the following:

Sorry for english: Home, Menu, Back, Power, Vol Up/down, Camera. The others should be optional.

On screen is beuty? Of course, but They're not so usable as physical ones, in my opinion. But I am just one in millions. (It is woth double L, right?)

Sorry for english, btw
[General Topics] Ohlikken:
Google can't tell the company's tom stop making them, 90% of the people don't want them and it pretty damn awful quality on them.

When you get a touchscreen everything on the front should be touch, start and such things I personally like to have physical buttons...

God what if they actually was touch :o
[General Topics] Europa.:
When the screen function great and you have been used to it, then the physical buttons are less than decoration.
[General Topics] ABSquaredX:
I generally prefer the touch over the physical but to each his own.
[General Topics] aaadictedone:
I prefer the Camera button most of all... Its harder to take pictures with the onscreen button and to focus is a pain... Thats my opinion...
[General Topics] mattpannella:
yeah but this isn't true at all because they made the aspect ratio wider to make up for the extra few rows of pixels at the bottom being used as the buttons. you'll still have the full 5x3 display area you had before
[General Topics] King Shady:
**** on screen buttons. I want my haptic physical glowy buttons!!
[General Topics] mayfair2005:
Ill take physical or capacitive buttons any day, i hate how my tablet only has on screen buttons and their awful.

I also like a physical keyboard on my phone, much faster and more accurate on it.
[General Topics] Sjael:
I dunno about you, but I use a Droid 2. It has a 16:9 screen. Most higher-end phones are packing qHD screens now, which are again 16:9. The new wave coming in have a 720p screen in addition to capacitive buttons. The Nexus Prime has basically just cut off a decent amount of screen for no practical gain - there's still plenty of bottom bezel those buttons could have occupied.

I have no problem with on-screen keys, as long as I can set them to auto-hide - I can't stand wasting screen space. I've yet to see anything indicating this is possible in ICS. :)
[General Topics] Dirk:
Like a lot of you, i'd prefer it if manufacturers stuck with capacitive buttons rather than adopting these new virtual buttons from ICS. The thing is we don't know what they will do yet.

We just have to wait and see.
[General Topics] seriouser:
One thing that sucks about no physical buttons is that you can't press anything when the OS stops responding. You have to wait or press the power button to restart. With a physical home button you can usually access a task manager to shut down the misbehaving program.
[General Topics] freefall2:
This is exactly what I was thinking. The desire only has a few buttons and they hardly get in the way. I prefer the odd button anyway.
[General Topics] kanariya:
There are pro and con but I like the sleek look of the buttonless design.
[General Topics] z33dev33l:
Android has some stability issues to resolve before I'd want them personally.
[General Topics] sygeek:
not again, please, not again.
[General Topics] zerocool79346:
:rolleyes:

And yet, nobody cares.
[General Topics] Erze:
not at all :D
[General Topics] nxdu:
After seeing Nokia N9's truly buttonless UI, I was vastly disappointed with Google's attempt.
[General Topics] MrTrackZed:
Take the buttons and shove 'em baby! Hey, at least this will get rid of the button-order-placement-configuration everyone complains about. And besides, the phone looks better without them.
[General Topics] vis80k:
nexus s tries to hide them buttons... ;) screen off and the buttons black out as well... but actually Ibwould prefer physical push buttons than touch buttons
[General Topics] aaa:
+1 for physical button
[General Topics] polobunny:
I thought I would never get used to typing on a touchscreen, but with great prediction I can manage to type decently.

What I really miss them is for gaming though. Too often in the midst of a difficult part in a game my fingers will slip and hit buttons I don't want. Rarely happened with physical buttons. You're also pretty limited in the number of buttons you can use at the same time, having to hold your phone pretty much only your thumbs can press buttons, whereas many console or portable console games also use your index fingers.
[General Topics] mkropf:
I hate droid X buttons, but buttons like the Fascinate has is ok.
[General Topics] Akulamenuri:
What games outside of emulators and you using physical keys for on your phone. There are very very few titles that actually support physical keys nowadays.
[General Topics] Zephyrty:
I'm certainly in favor of keeping physical buttons, I don't really see any reason to get rid of them TBH.
[General Topics] Dark lord me:
I saw keep physical buttons and get rid of capacitive buttons because those are annoying and can easily blend into onscreen buttons
[General Topics] pimppoet:
still waiting & hoping for htc to release a new android with the tp2 design but for now my mt4g slide will due.
[General Topics] vis80k:
+1 for physical buttons. not touch but an actual push button.
[General Topics] Drummansam:
The Blackberry storms whole screen clicks in when you press on it. It feels like it's going to fall out! It makes it feel less reassuring in the end. Going from my Storm to my Desire S I'd never look back!
[General Topics] CraiaSoftware:
Physical Keyboards +1

I also hope for the ultimate in phone design:

Portrait Keyboard (Like Droid Pro) but with a borderless, hi-res, OLED 3.7" screen, no too thin, with bulk added only by the battery that is thin but as large in profile as the device itself (~2800ma)
[General Topics] kuttyjoe:
A lot of things that were better are being replaced with things that are worse, but cheaper and maybe trendier. I want physical buttons on my phone. I can use it without having to look directly at it. It makes operation of the phone faster and less problematic. Less accidental key presses since I can feel the button without actually pressing it. I would prefer a simple "call" button over a ridiculous "search" button. That's ridiculous. It's there to drive business back to Google or Microsoft by seriously trying to influence you to search with their engines. It's kind of insulting.
[General Topics] mrf582:
I concur.......
[General Topics] Rocky7032:
I definitely agree but id also wish slide out key boards would make a come back.
[General Topics] Hodapp007:
Combining both works well
[General Topics] MMakoto:
I came from a couple of iPhones before my current samsung gs2, and boy do I miss that physical button. If only samsung/t-mobile made that one physical home button, it'd be perfect for my taste.
[General Topics] Djidara:
i love search button, im using it for searching web, typing addresses, opening my apps and basicly everything else it can "search". i hope it stays :)
[General Topics] ajithpregy:
Hai im new here..,:)
[General Topics] wassupjg:
Helps to have something physical to click, especially in the dark
[General Topics] upichie:
There was recent technology introduced in Japan that was similar to our haptic feedback, but instead actually vibrated the portion of the screen you were touching in order to give the sensation you were touching physical keys. For example, if you were to slide your finger across the dialer pad, you would feel the keys as you went over them.

Physical keys are a thing of the past. I've already moved on.
[General Topics] LGOptimusVin112011:
Im brand new to the world of not having a physical button and i have a few questions:

1) Will putting a "Screen protector" on the screen ruin the function of my phone (hard or impossible to interact with the screen?)

2) How will my screen NOT get fingerprints?

3) When i move to Florida, will i begin to hate my phone?

Thanks. (I am 100% new to this phone, never had a phone w/o buttons. I think of my Sidekick iD and i almost bought a phone with a slide out keyboard because of it, want to give the phone a chance first!)
[General Topics] mr626:
My preference would be to have physical buttons if possible, but too be honest I haven't missed them on my U8800.
[General Topics] upichie:
Certain screen protectors do cause problems, such as reducing the sensitivity (causing misinterpreted touches, or the need to press uncomfortably hard on the screen). Although this isn't the case with all of them. Just like everything else, there are cheap ones and there are good ones—and various models aid you in various ways. Check out the accessory forum for some suggestions.

I'm not entirely sure how to not get fingerprints on your phone. As I said above, certain screen protectors aid in various ways: one of those being fingerprints. I've heard positive things in this regard. However, if you're looking at a fingerprint-free phone, you're probably out of luck.

Never lived in Florida! But I certainly hope it wouldn't make you hate your phone. :)
[General Topics] sgsalas258:
Totally agree! That's why I went with my Droid 3 instead of the Bionic. Give me an awesome keyboard over 4G any day!!!
[General Topics] supermult:
all i want is capacitive buttons, but no on-screen buttons, please.

menu, home, back and power. i don't need the volume rockers. i think it would work fine over the touchscreen to adjust volume.

can't say anything about the searchbutton, because i never used a phone with it.

i also hate mechanical buttons, because they tend to fail..
[General Topics] upichie:
Just out of curiosity, why would you prefer capacitive buttons instead of on-screen buttons? If you lost the capacitive buttons, the screen would be bigger—and while you wouldn't notice it when the buttons were there, you would get a sizable increase in screen real estate while playing games, watching movies, etc.
[General Topics] OptimismPrime:
capacitive touch buttons are not that far removed from onscreen controls like on the Galaxy Nexus. That last device that wasn't realy low end when it came out here in germany, that implemented the 3 essential buttons (home, menu, back) as hardware clicky buttons was the HTC Desire, and that's way old now.

natural progression:

all clicky => some clicky, some capacitive => all capacitive => onscreen
[General Topics] voldu:
Physical buttons are nice, dont take them away from us ! we need something to click!
[General Topics] upichie:
I think I'd have to agree with that natural progression. It seems to be where we're headed.
[General Topics] sspikey:
its been a weird migration from me from a BB but I have to say I dont miss anything physical all that much to be honest!
[General Topics] treater:
Keep 'em!!!
[General Topics] springy:
I think that having a buttonless phone might be what differentiates android. The potential of this is that you could have button along the bottom, top, side or wherever that is cater for what you are doing on your device. I think this is a big thing and it will take time for developers to take advantage of this. I think going forward that all devices will be getting rid of there buttons in favour for buttonless phones. It will be interesting what developers will come up with to best use this new way of interfacing.
[General Topics] rogier666:
I wouldn't mind giving up the search button if I get a camera button in return. Push halfway down to focus, push all the way to shoot.

Taking pictures with an on screen button sucks.
[General Topics] manimmal:
Physical buttons vs virtual buttons, I think there should always be an option. Usually phones with physical buttons (depending on where they are) last longer, or give you more usage out of them. (ie. when I had my Touch Pro 2 and my touchpad stopped working. I could still navigate with the keyboard.) I'd rather have both!
[General Topics] FightingChance:
Wow, awesome that it can be rotated so that the display is either out or in. Would love having the screen protected... miss being able to just toss my old flip phone around and not treat it like it's made out of glass... (well, nothing is as fragile as an iPhone, of course ;) )
[General Topics] upichie:
To be honest, I kind of miss that too. Nowadays you have to be ever so delicate, what with prices nearly hitting $1,000 for a damn phone.
[General Topics] Paulenski:
I loved physical keyboard and buttons when I first got my Sidekick years ago and when I upgraded to Android, I wanted to get another physical keyboard phone with touch but after using one of my friend's phones, I really didn't mind the virtual keyboard. The buttons must stay, I like the feel of still having something physical. If anyone's ever had their phone lag up or freeze, the instance you feel no response from the touch screen, it just feels wrong and you feel like theres nothing you can do now.

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My phone doesn't have this but they need to bring back Camera button, I hate using the touch button, you never know where it is when you have it faced away from you....
[General Topics] galaxys:
Physical buttons are so old school...you really need to move on like the other 99% have! LOL
[General Topics] :
So apparently 99% of us who prefer to have physical buttons are in the 1% of those who prefer virtual buttons? lol :D
[General Topics] undead30:
just want reply of 10 for my important future
[Desire General] 85matt:
I've had mine for around 6 months, and the buttons on the bottom front dem to ne losing sensitivity now all of a sudden? It's in good condition, never dropped or anything. Anyone have the same problem? Sometimes takes 2 press to get the button to work or you need to pea down hard.
[Desire General] crazybones:
Same issue here, but my phone is 14 months old - it was one of the first Desires.

Now for the bad news, HTC have a backlog of repairs. My phone was collected by UPS on 9th May and delivered to the HTC service centre the following day. The tracking tool on the HTC site says that it is still en route to the service centre although HTC have confirmed that it has been received and they are unable to advise when it will be fixed.

I would suggest that you live with it for the time being, until HTC sort themselves out!
[Desire General] andQlimax:
Same me..I have my desire from April 2010..And sometimes I have to press 2 or 3 times the menu button (just it) to make it work..Bit annoying.. :(
[Desire General] twogubs:
I cant remember if it was here or Android forums where this was discussed before but the overriding answer was that you need to stop sticking the phone in you jeans pockets.As that seemed to be causing constant pressure to the buttons and in some cases causing them to flake.
[Desire General] 85matt:
ah ok, thanks for the advice. i wonder if a phone repair shop would be able to fix it?
[Desire General] MatDrOiD:
Go to your shop of your trust and ask. ;)
[Xoom Themes and Apps] luis86dr:
Anyone know where I can find some custom folder icons for the xoom? Thanks.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] bibsta:
Try deviantart.com just search android icons i found some nice sets on there.
[Acer Iconia A500] abuosba:
how to connect ELM 327 USB OBD2 Car Diagnostic Interface Code Scanner to iconia A500 via usb cable , i know that there an bluetooth obd ii scanner but here :confused: i need to connect the device via USB :eek:
[Acer Iconia A500] goldfingerfif:
I highly doubt it until 3.1 update with support for many more usb devices, even then I wouldn't hold my breath. A HID mouse or HID gamepad wont even work through usb currently (although a keyboard does) so it is hard to expect a usb ELM to work. My Bluetooth ELM327 works perfect with Torque app though :D in case you were wondering.
[Acer Iconia A500] thor2002ro:
from what i've read even if you manage to connect it the Torque app only supports wifi or bluetooth so no point to search further....
[Samsung Infuse 4G] razor950:
I do not have a infuse 4G and that is why this is untested. I just built this recovery after setting up the configurations. It is quite possible that this doesn't work but I shall be active throughout the day to work on it.

Initial CWM (test)

http://www.mediafire.com/?ha2iu5mq8l51mnq

Flash it after installing this 3e recovery w/o signature checks: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1091465

I shall hopefully be on freenode irc #infuse4g but if not just send me a twitter at

twitter.com/razor950
[Samsung Infuse 4G] samsungcaptivates:
just downloaded will be trying in a moment
[Samsung Infuse 4G] samsungcaptivates:
ok had a working cwm recovery on my phone it was a older 2. something version with green writing i flashed this and the color changed to orange writing and it says clockwork mod recovery v3.1.0.1 follwed by the orange clockwork options follwed by

E:missing bitmap icon_clockwork

(code _10

clockworkmod recovery v3.1.0.1

E:failed to open /etc/recovery.ftsab (no such file or directory)

E:unknown volume for path [/cache/recovery/command]

E: cant mount /cache/recovery/command

E:unknown volume for path [/cache/recovery/log]

E:cant mount /cache/recovery/log

E:cant open cache/recovery/log

E:unknown volume for path {/cache/recovery/last_log]

E:cant mount cache /recovery/last_log

E:cant open ?cache/recovery/last_log

E:unknown volume for path [/cache/recovery/command]
[Samsung Infuse 4G] samsungcaptivates:
old version was 2.5.1.2 i rebooted into recovery after the install and it went back to 2.5.1.2 i dont know if it isnt working due to me having already put in cwm ?
[Samsung Infuse 4G] LinuxBozo:
Yep, I get the same exact behavior. Using the posted CWM gives orange screen, using CWM from Rom Manager gives green, and functions correctly (does nandroid backup at least)
[Samsung Infuse 4G] samsungcaptivates:
yep clockwork from rom manager takes nandroid backups and allows me to flash cwm zips made in the uot kitchen
[Samsung Infuse 4G] kornklown69:
Hows the development on this?
[Android Software Development] FreeTheWorld:
I want to give a contact 5 categories to be rated from. Would I be able to take an average of all categories added up and have it display 9.5 or 80% on another screen next to the contacts name.
[General Questions and Answers] ichitec:
I just got an 07 BMW and my Glacier is syncing with the bluetooth, but its not loading my contacts into it. On the BMW forums, people have been complaining that the Glacier won't sync contacts, so its not just me. Does anyone know a resolution for this? Would loading a custom ROM help solve this situation? Any help is appreciated.
[Touch HD General] raving_nanza:
usualy i am good with physical problems like this but i am now forced to make my own thread because i have no idea why my device wont power on.

after opening my blackstone/touch hd to tighten my screws, my power button has stopped working.

(fyi, a screw came loose a while ago near my sim card after dropping my devive :( so i thought id tighten all my screws while i had my screwdrivers out fixing my cousins phone)

however, without having the plastic power button attatched to the device, i am able to press the actual button with my stylus and make contact with the main button on the motherboard, the device will now power on.

(eliminating that the actual button to power on is broken)

but, when i attatch the plastic button and press it to power on the device, it doesnt make contact with the actual button inside on the motherboard.

(not making contact with the button on the motherboard)

i have examined the plastic button, all is intact and i am assembling it to the device correctly.

i have examined the actual power button on the motherboard and that is working perfect.

what the hell is going on? :rolleyes:

thanks

Rn

ps, i need my power button :(

cba putting my stylus in and taking it out whenever my backlight goes off :rolleyes:

* if you want a picture of my plastic button, i will dissasemble my device and take a picture.
[Touch HD General] Simon_WM:
Pictures ?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] bx10r:
I'm hoping someone can help me. For some wierd reason the other day my phone tunred off on me. When i went to turn it back on it was frozen on the boot screen. Will not go past it. Ive tried holding the power button to get to the magldr menu and reflash my coredroid but cant even do that. I tried a diff battery..nothing. Tried the little yellow button ythe battery and again...nothing Let it sit for 3 days and still the same....

Anyone know how to reset or is this phone just a paper weight now?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] nshivas:
Are you using CWM? if then try clearing cache. Format, re-partition will do the trick.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] bx10r:
But I cant get there. It stays stuck on the boot screen. Even when I hold the power button down it does nothing...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] YZ:
check out my thread, it may help
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] bx10r:
cant get into bootloader. totally stuck....cant even get my phone to go from charge only to disk drive to see my files.....
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jsmccabe78:
omar...what happens when you pull the battery, put it back in, reboot and hold down the DOWN volume key?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] bx10r:
Nothing. Phones been without a battery since Wednesday. This morining iI thought i'd try to see hwat happens and ..nothing Ive been using a backup phone. My new one got in today. So i'll go home and load the hspl,magldr & rom and like i said give this paper weight to my son as a toy...lol. I wouldve like to unfreeze it and try to sell it to help pay for the deductible atleast. But no biggie....
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nattnet:
Hi guys...just curious if anyone here have bought the phone from O2? Would love to know if the one u get is R800a or R800at rather than R800i (which is most probably not the case rite?)? I'm travelling to the US a lot and the network interoperability is the issue here. Would love to have the phone coz I could kill a lot of time during flights and stuff but 3G is a real issue here coz my trip is usually for work so e-mail/web is ultimately unavoidable -_-''
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] axiomjunglist:
Unless I'm mistaken, the R800a and R800at (not even released anywhere), are sold only in North America - in Canada or on eBay. I think everywhere else gets the R800i. And the R800i is definitely not 3G capable in the US. It will only work on EDGE.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Laird_Attwood:
O2 Uk/IE/GER etc will be the R800i be it generic or with their own bloatware.

as stated R800a and R800at are US/Canada. Not sure what the model in Asian markets is.

European market is always an i with Sony Ericsson
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nhialor:
Some people have the r800x
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Laird_Attwood:
R800x is Verizon Wireless, 'a' is always Americas with SE and at is AT&T device.

Still not sure of model number in Asia (Japan) market