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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ElAguila:
I have been a long time user of the sprint voicemail app. I have decided to go ahead and stick with Google Voice after trying it out. I went thru the procedure and have it integrated with my sprint phone now. My question is can I go ahead and uninstall/remove the sprint voicemail app or is it still needed?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jborell3:
It is not needed. Assuming you are rooted I would back it up using titanium backup just in case you want it back in the future before you remove it. Or you could just freeze it
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ElAguila:
Thanks for the info. I removed the stock app. I have one other question now. Since I integrated google voice with sprint, all of my text messages are going to google voice now. How can I stop that so that I can use handcent again?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dajoip:
I've always used GV as well, and I've always uninstalled Sprint's Voicemail app with no problems. I tried doing that Sprint/Google Voice integration, but like you said all your messages come through to GV and I was unable to switch this back. I even emailed their support and never heard back...I've switched back to the non-integrated installation and haven't had any problems.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dirkyd3rk:
Try going to settings, then manage applications and find Google voice. Once you find it try hitting "clear defaults". Now go to your people app or contacts and select a random contact and find the option to send a text. There should be a pop up that ask you which application you want to text through and choose always use the stock sms app.

Sent from my PC36100
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ElAguila:
After doing some searching I have found that once you integrate sprint to google voice you cannot use any other app for the text messaging regardless of what you select as your default.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dirkyd3rk:
Glad I didn't integrate mine yet! I love the idea of having 2 separate numbers linked to the same phone that share the same voicemail lol. I pass out my gv number alot because I don't want certain people to have my regular number. #winning

Sent from my PC36100
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] pennywiseguy:
Hi everyone.

I'm just about ready to take the plunge from SD to NAND build. I have no problems with how to do it etc, but just a few suggestions and assurance is wanted.

Firstly, can you guys please recommend if availiable, a NAND build that is based on the CyanogenMod, No-Sense and ideally a zipROM, set for performance and battery life over functionality. Basically as similar to the SD AmericanAndroid build as possible.

Secondly, I just want assurance or information on how to back up my existing apps and settings etc. I have backed up my SD build using the Titanium Backup app. Will I just be able to reload this data into my NAND build, if not, is there a way to do it?

Finally, for the zipROM installs, is a sd format really necessary?

Other information, Based in the South of UK, using o2. Used mainly for internet, music and GPS. Currently using AmericanAndroid SD build.

Thanks in advance.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] TheATHEiST:
[04.JUN.11][MAG/cLK]TyphooN CyanogenMod 7 Nightly v3.3.4[2.3.4][A2SD][tytung r10]

Yes, You will be able to restore this to your new build, Just make sure teh titanium backup folder is on root of SD card.

Yes, its advised to do a proper format with Panasonic SDFormatter, ie full format, size adjustment on.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] pennywiseguy:
Thanks Atheist, is it one you have tried yourself or from others opinions?
[Windows Phone 7 General] Steven855:
On my blog, I recently wrote an article about some of the reasons why Windows Mobile 6.5 is still useful even with Windows Phone 7(.5) out. So with all of the news about Mango coming soon, do you think that Windows Phone 7(.x) has enough features to go ahead and completely replace Windows Mobile 6.5 or is there a reason why you still use Windows Mobile 6.5? For me (even though I do use Windows Phone 7.x), it's games and customization.

link to blog post: http://catholictechgeek.blogspot.com/2011/06/why-i-still-have-windows-phone-65-even.html

Update: I just got a part 2 of my article online and here's the link: http://catholictechgeek.blogspot.com/2011/06/why-i-still-have-windows-phone-65-even_07.html. Feel free to check out some of the other articles I have on the site as well. If you want, you can follow me on twitter too (link to my profile is @rctechgeek).

Update (6-25-2012): After a long while, I have finally updated my article with part 3, which includes the Windows Phone 7.5 "Mango" update (with a look at what has changed and what hasn't). Here is the link to part 3: http://bit.ly/LLsS7k

Update (6-28-2012): Part 4 is now up, continuing from where part 3 left off, for your reading pleasure. The link to part 4 is: http://bit.ly/NRzQdh
[Windows Phone 7 General] Nakazul:
Yes, and yes. Im satisfied when Mango comes, but im not unhappy now ether. I recently sold my HD2 as my goodbye to WM. Keept my BA and some other old WM devices out of nostalgia, but there in there boxes now.
[Windows Phone 7 General] domineus:
ditched my winmo as soon as windows phone was released and I didn't look back
[Windows Phone 7 General] drkfngthdragnlrd:
Love WP7 as an OS, miss WM for it's eye candy/customizable.

One thing I don't like about WP7 is the Metro UI. While it is clean & what ever, it's missing the eye candy & ability to customize that WM or Android has. I understand a lot of people like it, but keep in mind that is an opinion. Not a fact & in my opinion, it's kind of dull looking.

All that said, I'll never look back at WM or Android. I just love how smooth WP7 is & the games/apps.
[Windows Phone 7 General] oelapoel:
Yes n Yes. What I am missing most is garmin GPS (I live in indonesia and garmin is the only good gps with mapping system and POI here) and ability to search contact just like pc outlook, which will be sorted next update I believe
[Windows Phone 7 General] RoboDad:
When I migrated from WM6 to WP7, I kept my old phone charged and ready for the first few weeks, because I wasn't sure I would be able to get by without some of the features it offered. Truth be told, it's now been sitting (uncharged) in a drawer for the past 5 months, and it will soon be sold. WM has nothing on WP7 in my book.

If, for some reason, it became necessary for me to leave WP7, I still wouldn't go back to WM, I'd go with one of the other modern smartphone OSes.
[Windows Phone 7 General] :
Yes...and hell yes!

Since the first day I used wp7 on my old hd2 I loved it....but then Android pulled me back in cuz hd2 didn't run it perfectly. And Android since then became annoying to me. iPhone was my first smartphone, and I found my self loading my screen with colorful icons I never touched. Android is good.....BUT even with a bloody dualcore it will lag and can't touch any wp7 device in scrolling. Wp7 is only getting better, and I can't imagine how wp8 will be plus windows 8 tabs.....God bless Microsoft!

Edit: I forgeot WM lol....it was cool for the few weeks i used it.
[Windows Phone 7 General] kdj67f:
I have been a WM user for years... and I was excited when WP7 came out. I bought the surround Nov. 18th and it has been my primary phone. I also have some android devices I use for development and if it wasn't for the Zune media player and Zune Pass, I would be using android every day. I sure hope that Mango brings everything we as a group have been waiting for... Like multitasking and video MMS and......

Otherwise I am going to get an android phone for my daily driver and wait until WP7 matures some more.

But man do I love the Zune player and pass!
[Windows Phone 7 General] jabtano:
Though I love WP7 there are things that tick me off. Mango will correct them of course I just wish that MS gets to it fast and we do not see the cluster bang that we saw with NoDo. the problem really is twofold. MS really needs to push this OS and educate people on it. in metro Boston there is nothing on WP7 yet tons of stuff we see for android and ios. Secondly go into say a T-MO store and ask to see a wp7 device and get told why would you want that? we have this nice new samsung android here blah blah... MS needs to really step it up and get adverts out there that shows the OS and what it can do..instead of showing a bunch of peeps falling down or dropping devices in urinals’
[Windows Phone 7 General] phonejunkie30:
I just converted from Android and I will not look back I love wm phone better than the other os out there I just wish they had two apps my bank chase and navigon or Tom Tom come on get onto this os it is great . :)
[Windows Phone 7 General] argentocruz:
There are some things I can't do, or things I can't run on WP7 that I was able to run on 6.5... But WP7, pre-nodo and now with nodo was slick enough for me to make the full change and simply adapt to it... I found it that good...

Mango will simply make it much much better...

The apps I miss off ole 6.5 are TomTom and Garmin... But Turn-By-Turn is filling the gap for now...

I first tried WP7 on my HD2 and the HD2 came alive and ran quick like it always could... 6.5 hobbled it...

The simple things done on the phone each day, like checking messages and emails and such is much quicker on WP7... Zip in, do what ya gotta do, zip out... Its the OS for the serious user...

Users who want a lot of fart apps stick with haemorrhoid and igroan!
[Windows Phone 7 General] Steven855:
Hi everyone. I have another article up with some more reasons that I keep a Windows Mobile 6.5 device handy. Most of them have to do with bluetooth, but not all.

link: http://catholictechgeek.blogspot.com/2011/06/why-i-still-have-windows-phone-65-even_07.html
[Windows Phone 7 General] Steven855:
For those of us who like games, you have to admit that Microsoft would make things a lot better if they made it easier to get console emulators on Windows Phone 7, right (you can run emulators under Windows Mobile 6.5)?
[Windows Phone 7 General] domineus:
er...no...
[Windows Phone 7 General] Steven855:
I'm curious to know how many people actually used contact transfer via bluetooth in Windows Mobile 6.5. It seems to me that was a handy feature.
[Windows Phone 7 General] slight22:
I didn't I just sent my contacts to my SIM card and copied them that way. How ever I will not be giving up my 6.5 HTC TP2. Not until MS installs a "windows" explorer allowing me to truly use my device as I see fit.

As for the apps I know people are working very hard on them and they are coming, no different than WinMo 5-6.5 when it first came out. In three years time I'm sure there will be tons of stuff we have created.
[Windows Phone 7 General] deadwrong03:
I had the touch pro, touch pro 2, and imagio so i was pretty seasoned in windows mobile. I just recently got the HTC Trophy and im satisfied with WP7. No more lag, a browser thats dependable and can play most videos while browsing and not worrying about the videos making the browser close in the background because of too much memory being used, being able to open text messages without lags and freezes and reply instantly, much better keyboard and music player

theres only a few things that somewhat piss me off tho, no file explorer, no custom ringtones (coming in mango), no usb mass storage mode, no wifi tethering at the moment, and on winmo i use to download albums single mp3's through the web browser and i was able to add those files to my library on the go without being tied down to using a computer and syncing.

but other than those gripes i love wp7 and realize its still within its first year and i dont expect it to have everything right off the bat but i love the os and willing to wait things out its going to be exciting watching this platform grow.
[Windows Phone 7 General] arturobandini:
WP7 is ok, I like its simplicity, but I really miss the openness of WinMo.

I can't stand the absence of USB mass storage, I can't stand to be bound to Zune, I can't stand to be bound to my PC, I cannot stand the absence of file management with file explorer...

I cannot stand not to able to play quickly my DivX|AVI movie files, after a simple drag & drop.

I cannot stand the lack of decent storage (no swappable SD card, no slot for SD card, pathetic 8GB only devices...)

In September I will probably move to a high end Android device.

All my friends that used to have WinMo have now moved to Android and they all so satisfied :(

I realize I cannot stand locked down OS like iPhone and WP7 :( :( :(

I thought Mango would bring some flexibility and openess... But it didn't
[Windows Phone 7 General] Purple11:
WM is nothing in front of WP.. if someone has both WM and WP and chooses to use WM instead of WP, he/she obviously has some kind of problem in his life..
[Windows Phone 7 General] arturobandini:
Or maybe, more reasonably, he just needs a flexible and open OS, without missing features.
[Windows Phone 7 General] RoboDad:
That is a different opinion, but I don't see it as any more reasonable. Just different. But, it sounds like you have already made your decision to switch to Android, so I can understand how you might not see it that way.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Thunder_47:
Well I am satisfied. I have an 8gb Dell Venue Pro which is my first smart phone, and I chose it over the Samsung Vibrant. The reason I chose it because I already have a Viewsonic G-Tablet with android 2.3 (from the applicable section on XDA). I had already used and abused the hell out of iOS (with my ipod touch 2g), and I wanted something different. My carrier just got in the Dell venue Pro, and I was intrigued by the WP7 OS. Sure, there are some bad aspects (listed in previous posts, lack of file explorer etc). However, when I learned I could developer-unlock my phone for free using Dreamspark, I had to jump at it.

So yes, I am satisfied (except for the occasional crash due to the DVP hardware); and I look forward to the Mango update.
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
No.

I bought LG Optimus 7 in Dec 2010.

After few months I switched to Android and never looked back really. Still observing WP7 development but looks like it's not really the platform for me.

I was WM user and I totally regeret MS ditched some things in WP7.

What I miss? More sweet/less boring UI, file explorer, USB storage, bluetooth transfer, third party email and browser, illogical omitions in Zune sync, very bad Word abilities (it was a shock) and lack of flash.

Alot of things actually. And Mango will not really correct them. Pity. I was hoping for so much but on WP7 I felt totally limited.
[Windows Phone 7 General] hardcoreplur:
Yes and excited.

I had the blackjack 2 and tilt 2 (touchpro 2), now I have a LG quantum and I am in love. I love the clean look of wp7 and so smooth. Plus I haven't turned off my quantum for 12 days! My tilt 2 crashed at least twice a day. nodo fixed the marketplace and that was the only reason why I had to restart my phone before the update. it was the best move I have made in a long time. I miss some feature from my tilt 2, but the strengths of wp7 completely outweigh the couple of cool features.

The best thing we can do is request enhancements to windows phone because getting first party enhancements are always going to be better than some half assed hack. (no disrespect to the great chefs on xda)
[Windows Phone 7 General] Wyn6:
And, that is why choice exist. Now, admittedly, I'm not as techno-geek as many here but I still like my tech. Build my own computers and keep up with a lotta tech blogs. However, I don't flash roms, root devices, and dig around in a file explorer on a mobile device, I don't need to.

I'm the slightly above average smart phone user, okay, way above average but not the power user that some of yous guys are.

My DVp does me just find and I don't find much missing, honestly. It does what I need it to do on a regular basis and Mango will increase its effectiveness and overall capability. There won't be much it can't do after long, and if somewhere down the line MS wants to add the techno-geek features, I'm sure many would rejoice.

If they don't, we're still looking at one of the more innovative platforms available. Coupled with Kinect and Win 8, the possibilities of what we'll be able to do are nearing limitless.

Uh... did that answer the original question?
[Windows Phone 7 General] Strike_Eagle:
My life just get easiler when i bring my Windows Phone to school...
[Windows Phone 7 General] arturobandini:
Exactly! I feel the same, and miss almost the same essential features.

Though I like the WP7 UI, compared to the boring and ugly Android UI.

A device without USB storage, file explorer, swappable SD card IS NOT a smartphone.

I also need Google Maps and a third party keyboard like Swype. But MS blocks everything.

...

On a different note, it seems that Microsoft decided to mimic the iPhone (as the iPhone was so popular and successful at the moment WP7 was created) and also its pathetic locked down philosophy.

I remember all former WinMo users were laughing at the locked down iOS and were so proud of the WinMo flexibility and openness.

And they were right.

Now WP7 is exactly the same as the iPhone.

Microsoft wants to control eveything as Steve Jobs wants to do: no third party browser, no third party keyboard, compulsion to use Bing/Bing Map instead of any other provider (despite BING is US-centric and doesn't even work properly outside the US/UK), no other way outside the marketplace to install third party apps, and mainly.... users bound to ZUNE to transfer their music or videos (totally silly).

And indeed, Zune is just the MS mirror of iTunes....

How sad.

But many users don't like be treated like idiots or children that could not swap a SD card, use a file explorer, use USB mass storage without supposedly messing up the OS. Luckily many users still like their freedom, flexibility and the ability to have some control.

That is why Android is finally so popular, whereas iPhone's popularity starts to decline... People understood the limits of iOS and how a locked down OS can be boring.

I feel so sad that Microsoft decided to copy the iPhone model.

I feel so sad to see that almost former WinMo users actually had to move to Android to find what they always liked before.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Purple11:
It is not Microsofts worry if few of its users live in a workplace where their is little net connection available.. I know how all French WP7s have no 3G in it and I know how poor Wifi services can be in smaller less technologically developed countries Poland..

But the thing is the USB mass storage and file explorer thing is already been taken care of by introducing skydrive services and microsoft lync services.. it is the cloud based on the go anywhere, anytime, anyplace automatic syncing backed by legal agreements to ensure your privacy.. maybe 5 out of 20 other posters dont like it, but the fact remains that 15 others love the new cloud way of syncing and do not want an offline cord based syncing or any option to have it..

Either accept it and adopt to the change, orelse get android, but looking at how all other OSes want the same thing.. like Apple introducing their own cloud based service last month.. I dont think offline syncing will remain for too long.. we will soon see Iphone and Android IOs adopting cloud based on the go sync as well and drop the old redundant and inferior technologies.
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
What you write here is just a fairy tale.

And it's not about Poland beeing in any way behind technologically (What a dumb comment)

Of all the people I know NOBODY uses any cloud sync because it's totally POINTLESS to drain my battery and data plan to put a file from device 1 to 2 unless I really share my work with tons of people. And services like Dropbox exist for years.

But still I don't know how much you travel but I do alot sometimes. And must tell you in the most advanced countries like UK, D or F WiFi is not a standard until you travel around places like McDonald.

So the fairy tale about complete replacement of the useful USB sync with cloud may happen yes. In about 10 years. Now it's just a joke.
[Windows Phone 7 General] arturobandini:
How dumb you are.

Of course there is 3G in all French WP7 devices. I don't know where you find all your tech info.

And regarding your comment about Poland, what a cliché and what an insult to all Polish people here. You are both ignorant and arrogant.

PS: your comment regarding Skydrive replacing USB storage really shows that you indeed live in a fairy tale. What's the point draining my battery and also wasting my data plan (limited to 2GB per month)? And tell me how you plan to use the cloud and stream your music when you are in the subway, train, plane, countryside or abroad? How silly.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Purple11:
I dont know but when I bought my Omnia 7 for shipment to US from Europe, on one hand Amazon was selling French Omnia 7 with warranty pad in french language and everything... everyone in review section their wrote it that dont buy this phone coz its made for france and they dont have 3G capabilities in france,,, so when one buys it, his 3G never works in USA too.. i was like wtf? too when i read it.. they dont have 3g in france?

So I than specifically bought from expansys-usa.com which I knew were selling german omnia 7 phones with working 3G in it..
[Windows Phone 7 General] dtboos:
More than satisfied. And I can't wait to see what they do with Apollo (the next big update).
[Windows Phone 7 General] tiny17:
I'm just hoping that they learned all the hard lessons with the nodo roll-out so that Mango will go smoothly. I heard whisperings about a simultaneous roll-out across all carriers, but I have not heard anything since. Anyone else hear anything?
[Windows Phone 7 General] RoboDad:
I haven't heard anything, but given the way nothing changed with the certificate update (7392), I don't hold any high hopes of a painless Mango rollout. Has anyone on AT&T gotten a notice about 7392 yet?
[Windows Phone 7 General] Steven855:
No, I haven't gotten any word from AT&T yet regarding 7392. I am assuming AT&T will do with 7392 what they did with the pre-NoDo update, bundle it with Mango when it comes out (and I hope that AT&T won't waste time and test this update before Mango is actually released to the carriers so we're not waiting as long we did for the NoDo update).
[Windows Phone 7 General] RoboDad:
Considering that 7392 was basically a security update, there wasn't really any reason for them to delay it at all, yet they did.

My (pessimistic) prediction is that the Microsoft "Where's my phone update?" page will show "delivering update" for Mango on every carrier except AT&T in September or October, but that AT&T will remain at "testing" until December or January.

And if that happens, I'll be jumping ship, both on WP7 and AT&T, permanently.
[Windows Phone 7 General] tiny17:
You do realize that the problem could be even worse depending on the phone/carrier. Android devices lose official carrier support pretty early. The only way to avoid this is iOS, since Apple just rolls those out directly. I wish MS had that freedom.
[Windows Phone 7 General] RoboDad:
Android may be (slightly) worse than WP7 in that regard, but Android is already a mature OS, and even with a stale version of the OS, the capabilities open to developers make it possible for (almost) any phone to take advantage of great apps.

There are 1500 new APIs in Mango that I am certain that developers are already using to design a whole new breed of WP7 apps. Apps that I know will start showing up in the marketplace in about 3 months. Apps that I am afraid I won't be able to use for a very long time, given AT&T's propensity for ignoring their customers.

I really, really hope I am proven completely wrong, and I will be very happy to have the chance to eat that particular variety of crow ;). But I won't tolerate it if I'm right. If AT&T holds back Mango, even for a month beyond the other carriers, it will speak volumes about their contempt for existing customers. If it goes on for two months, I will reach my breaking point.