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[General Questions and Answers] z33dev33l:
A half-assed knock off of a widget? Wow... I know you've been trolling windows phone 7 forums for about a year now but at least at some point they had some foundation of truth. Trust me, the most advanced widgets on android aren't half as complex code-wise as even the most basic wp7 live tiles. I'll always be a wp7 fan because I enjoy quality over quantity, simple as that. I'll take a handheld with usability, speed, and a high quality overall presentation over a Lamborghini with a 4 banger under the hood, an amazing piece of hardware with a dated and stale OS that's only real selling point is the fact that you can customize it and add 6000 apps to make it ALMOST useful.
[General Questions and Answers] xaccers:
So what you're saying is, you need a lot more complex code to do a simple tile win WP7 than you'd need to do in a fully interactive widget in Android?

Doesn't suprise me. No wonder it needs hardware acceleration to be as smooth as android if it's code is as inefficient as you say.
[General Questions and Answers] vbetts:
Ehh, WP7 isn't too bad but even Mango it still just doesn't cut it for me like Android does. I actually use adobe flash on my Evo a lot, so that right there is a deal breaker seeing that WP7 doesn't have flash. That and all my emulators that are pretty simple to put on my device.
[General Questions and Answers] z33dev33l:
as smooth as android? I'm sorry, at that point I lost a little bit of faith in humanity. Yup, lets build a well-coded OS just to make it as smooth as winmo was in 1995? No thanks. I still just can't get past the fact that you seem to actually believe android is even half as smooth as wp7, even at its finest in the s2 it is ALMOST as fast as wp7 was in its earliest iteration. Mango completely blows even that out of the water. Anyway, no need for an interactive live tile for my music, I hit the volume rocker and it's there, just as easy a movement, and without the lag associated with most of the poorly coded widgets.
[General Questions and Answers] vetvito:
That's just one task a widget can do. Your live tile just show pieces of information. A widget can do a ton of task without having to open a app.

But there is no point arguing with you. You get too personal over your failure OS.
[General Questions and Answers] slapshot30:
The attention whore is back at it folks!

Sent from my HTC Desire Z
[General Questions and Answers] Jmatch:
I'm just wondering this. If WP7 is so smooth (I've never used it I'm not bashing it) if its perfectly smooth then why do they need to upgrade the hardware? Wouldn't that be unnecessary if its perfect?
[General Questions and Answers] z33dev33l:
I simply posted my adoration for the best OS to date, if you call that attention whiting then I dont know what all the praise for android could be considered but considering the OS itself itd have to be lesser.

And yes, widgets can do a lot, they can make an OS even more laggy, kill the battery even faster than the drain that is already a huge problem, it can force close and pretty much reboot the whole home screen, but hey, it saves you one excess tap of a finger, though certainly not any time.
[General Questions and Answers] z33dev33l:
for the OS and such they dont, that's purely for gaming and such, I mean as good as it is thus far it can certainly improve in the gaming department. I will say though, ever since I upgraded to mango, the harvest, ilomilo, and sonic 4, three of the most graphic intensive game in the xbl category run seamlessly.
[General Questions and Answers] vetvito:
Do you read what you type before posting? As that doesn't even have logic.
[General Questions and Answers] z33dev33l:
of course it does, it'll save you a finger tap but factoring the lag of android and the poor optimization of widgets more time is taken.
[General Questions and Answers] vetvito:
Again, foolishness is shown.
[General Questions and Answers] z33dev33l:
Just facts, when you release an OS that works on any hardware its not going to be optimized for any.
[General Questions and Answers] xaccers:
Well, logic would stipulate that if you're creating an OS (or any program) you'd at least try to make it well coded, OK so you don't think MS followed that logic.

I thought you were a developer? Don't you write efficient code? I know your understanding of Android widgets is apparently lacking, but you don't need to understand about widgets to develop efficient apps for Android.
[General Questions and Answers] slapshot30:
Facts? Good one. This thread belongs in the windows 7 section though. :P

Sent from my HTC Desire Z
[General Questions and Answers] CHURROPC:
please help me get a motherboard for my SGH i897, I burned the power source, the battery will not charge, urgently need a plate, where I can get it, IF POSSIBLE located in the U.S., THANKS
[General Questions and Answers] DroidFreek:
Get an external charger for now.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sirsanka:
I'm currently running Mango and I would like to restore my NoDo backup so I can unlock the HTC Trophy and then upgrade to Mango again but I don't want to loose my SMS. Is there a way to do that?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LiFePo4:
Assuming you saved a backup of your NoDo before upgrading, COPY that into the C:\users\<username>\appdata\local\microsoft\windows phone update\ folder (delete whatever is there), then launch Zune and look for update. It should give you an option to Restore.
[Dash 3G, Snap ROM Development] mmcrrc:
First a disclaimer. I am an Android user so this forum is first and foremost always my guide. Everything I learned about Android OS and Windows OS I learned here BY READING.

If your phone is bricked it cannot get worse. If this method does not work then you most likely have a hardware failure and NOT a ROM failure.

***All data not previously backed up will be lost from your phone!***

Thanks to ookba for his Flashing and Unbricking your Maple post

And the OP of several other XDA posts I read late last night and can't recall at the moment.

Thanks also to my crazy Doberman Pinscher Bella for keeping her nose off the keyboard long enough to get this working and the post typed out.

After a bit of frustration, a lot of reading, some trial and error here it is:

***This method works in place of the goldcard method stated in ookba's post**

REMOVE YOUR BATTERY, SIM CARD AND MICROSD CARD.

Download your original factory ROM from your carrier (T Mobile) in this case, they will ask for you IMEI # it's printed on the tag under the battery of your phone.

**I could not get this to work with other RRU files only the factory ROM**

Extract it to a folder you can find using Win RAR or an equivalent RAR program.

Open the folder and rename the RRU_signed.nbh (or similar RRU file; it will be approximately 140 mb) to MAPLIMG.nbh

****(just change the file name, DO NOT rename it MAPLIMG.nbh.nbh)****

Copy the MAPLIMG.nbh to your microSD card and insert the card into the microSD slot in your phone.

Install the battery and press the power on button.

The phone will boot from the SD card and the update process will begin. It may return to the tricolor screen once; in my case it did.

***DO NOT panic.***

***Leave it alone***

The update will restart on its own and complete. It will state OK next to each step and complete at the bottom when finished.

When it's complete REMOVE the microSD card and then the battery.

The entire process took approximately ten minutes to complete.

ERASE the MAPLIMG.nbh from the microSD card before reinserting it into the phone with your SIM and boot normally.

Easy Peasy! :) Enjoy your unbricked phone.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Demonith:
Hi all i have a theme that when i rotate my android like to be landscape background and when i pu it back in normal it get back so how i make to keep my background in landscape mode ?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 0semaj0:
As far as I know, the stock HTC Sense does not have the ability to force lock at landscape...this is depending on the launcher that you use.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Demonith:
yes i have a launcher and it have that option so there is no lock landscape app for that ? :((((
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 0semaj0:
When I was using LauncherPro, it did allow landscape mode when on the home screen and application menu but did not force landscape and changed as the position of the phone changed.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] zuzoa:
First off, I apologize if I'm posting in the wrong forum for this.

My main goal here is to replace a .wav tone in the Textfree app with my own custom .wav tone. (The app doesn't natively support custom tones)

I've retrieved the .apk from /data/apk off my phone, opened the .apk in 7zip, deleted the old .wav file from /assets/tones, and placed a new one in the same folder with the same name as the previous file. I've deleted the META-INF files, and resigned it using signapktic.

However, after the original version is uninstalled and the modified/signed apk is installed successfully, not a single tone will play. Everything else works fine and I can send/receive texts, but the tones no longer play. My volume is not muted or low on any channel.

Is there a different way that I should be going about replacing this file? Does the app make some file check that I'm not aware of / Is there something I missed?

Thanks in advance.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] zuzoa:
Anyone? I haven't made any progress on this yet.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] sn0b0ard:
Check out this post on how to reverse engineer an APK (in this case it's a guide on reverse engineering an EVO 4G FM Radio APK) overall process should be similar for any other APK:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=725870
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] exAusTiN:
I am running BAMF gingerbread and for some reason, my lockscreen does not appear whenever i wake my phone up. I tried running other gingerbread roms and the same problem happened. I always wipe the phone plus the cache.

Why isn't my lockscreen showing up?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johnrexb:
I have kinda that prob when I reboot my CM7 rom while plugged in.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] exAusTiN:
Do you think its a problem with gingerbread roms or just my phone?
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Saenzscene:
You checked all the settings? Tablet tweaks? For cm7 its under tablet tweaks but Idk if your rom has that.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] exAusTiN:
Yes I checked all the settings, nothing about a lockscreen option.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Saenzscene:
Hmm I will check out some info. You can always download a lockscreen app if it doesn't get resolved.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] exAusTiN:
It works sometimes and then sometimes it doesn't, I don't get it. Thank you for the help man, appreciate it.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Saenzscene:
Not a problem. I would try booting to recovery and wiping cache. Then reboot. See if that works. You can reflash rom and clear cache/delvik cache if you need. Good luck. Hope it is resolved.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] exAusTiN:
I've wiped all the cache and the data. The last rom I was running had this problem, and the one before that it would sometimes not come up but not as bad as this.

I have no idea what the problem could be.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Absolute_Zero:
I realize you said that you wipe data and cache before installing but are you by any chance restoring any system data with TitaniumBackup? Restoring some system related stuff (red or green. I think it's the green Settings Storage one but I haven't looked into it personally.) has been known to cause issues such as the lockscreen, home and search keys not working.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] exAusTiN:
Nope, I don't even have titaniumbackup on my phone.
[Thunderbolt Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] satseaker:
it is a gingerbread problem,you can either reflash your rom to get it back or use a car dock to unlock it and change your lockscreen the change it back,if it is not there use rootexplorer to copy it from the rom to your system/apps folder set permissions reboot then change it back,just happens that the lock screen disappears never got an answer as to why but that is how I have fixed it everytime
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 00McD00:
So idk how many of you are like me and follow popular android blogs like Droid-life or Android Central, but lately there has been a crazy amount of discussion about all these new super phones that are coming out in the next few months. And also if you are like me, then your contract is going to be up around the holiday season or a little after because that is 20 months after our phone was released.

I am just trying to get a little discussion going about what you think your next phone will be, you can answer my poll and/or just talk about what you are looking for in your next phone. Going for a 4.3in screen? Is 4.5in too big? Must be LTE? Needs HD (720p+) screen? Sticking with HTC? Liking the idea of Google/Moto merger? Ice Cream Sandwich or nothing? Will the next Nexus phone come to Verizon? These are just some of the questions that I am curious about and I'm sure that others are too. Happy discussion!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donnyp1:
I love htc phones, dont ask me why. I also love sense, so sonething dual core, 4g capable, sense 3.0 or whatever is newest. Rootable. Has to be verizon, right now i wouldnt change.

If ive helped you, please hit the damn thanks button!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zalatorisaurus:
I came from the Eris (got my Inc on eBay), so my contract is actually up next week. I'm probably going to get the Vigor if it has everything that is rumored and actually comes out close to that date. I don't want wait til next year.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] loonatik78:
Already jumped that boat and I'm happy.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] beard0:
DROID 3 lol

/droid3
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RMarkwald:
The mythical DInc 3 that's rooted already. It's got 16 cores with 4 GB memory, battery never needs changing cause it's powered by love.

EDIT: Seriously, I don't know. Verizon doesn't get great reception where I'm moving, so USCC is gonna be my next carrier. I heard they're coming with 8 phones and possible LTE by fall sometime, so I'm in a holding pattern, but the Inc rocks, no hurry.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 00McD00:
Sign me up for a box of these lol! I am usually an HTC man myself, but I think my next phone is going to be moto (unless the Nexus ACTUALLY comes to Verizon). I know I'll probably get some **** for this, but I actually like the new Blur. My biggest problem with HTC is the dock on their phones: it only has 3 spaces, you can't change what they are, and one is wasted on the "personalize" menu which there are like 3 other ways to get to. New Blur lets you customize 3 dock spaces and it just seems more functional. But time will tell.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RMarkwald:
Hey, whatever works for you man, nothing wrong with that! I like HTC, but depends on what USCC will get. Verizon likes to pass on phones, and USCC gets the best reception where I'm moving... Time will tell!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k_nivesout:
You can use an alternate launcher or custom rom, unless you're really attatched to sense widgets. I just don't think I'd select a phone based on the manufacturer skin's dock.

I'm intrigued by the possibility of the nexus coming to Verizon but I'm not getting my hopes up. At this point, what's important to me for my next phone to have is LTE, nice screen (preferably SAMOLED), and CM7/MIUI support (this would imply an unlockable bootloader). I wouldn't personally be one to buy a phone first day, I'd prefer to wait and see what issues it has and what the development community is like.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] I Am Marino:
Probably Nexus Prime.

-Sent from my Droid Incredible-
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 00McD00:
Yeah don't get me wrong, I have been an avid launcher pro user for almost a year. But I would love to be able to just use to stock launcher and just about any one would be usable for me besides sense. And yes being able to unlock it is extremely important to me too, so new HTC phones are looking good for that reason. I am hoping that the Droid HD will follow in the footsteps of the OG.

We can only hope so, if that comes to Verizon it will be a glorious day.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DustinBooyah:
Whatever has an AMOLED screen. Its looking like it'll be a Nokia ClearBlack running WP7 or some sort of Samsung Nexus kinda thing. I will certainly miss HTC though when I go!

I know the SLCD's aren't THAT different, but everyone is nitpicky about something and the ever so slight difference just happens to be something that gets to me horribly. I have been intrigued by WP7 for a long time anyways, and I'm sure it will be even more polished by the time I'm ready to peace out the Dinc.

Sense is awesome, and most (non-dev everyday) people I know who have a post-Nexus One HTC phone are in love with it, while there seems to be a large amount of "how come mine doesn't have that" coming from (non-dev everyday) people with other Android devices. I figure the positive feedback I see with WP7 and Nokias recent hardware will give me a solid alternative in 10 months when its time to upgrade.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] loonatik78:
You can't install any launcher on a Sense ROM. And ADW can kiss my ass for 6 or 7 bucks to do a fraction of what Sense does. I'd suggest hunting down one of the patches that allows you to remap those dock buttons. Something like Myn's Rosie or use a rom that remaps them. I thought pretty much all custom Sense ROMs allowed remapping of 2, if not all the buttons.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] loonatik78:
US Cellular? I'm not sure how much of what they say I'd believe. For those who don't know, they're a CDMA carrier which has strongholds in Chicago and many areas of West Virginia.

Not too terribly long ago before the introduction of EVDO Rev.A, USC operated a CDMA network that both Alltel and Verizon used under an interoperability agreement. The problem was US Cellular didn't use standard 1xRTT or EVDO and Alltel and Verizon devices couldn't authenticate on their network. They were possibly THE LAST adopter of EVDO Rev.0 and as of last year still hadn't fully deployed EVDO Rev.A across their network. It was only in the last year and half they got their network compliant with the standards Alltel and Verizon use across IL, and still their coverage is horrible.

In short, I'd be pretty skeptical about any claims they make about LTE until I actually saw proof.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bbeelzebub:
Nokia - Windows Phone. That is assuming Big Red gets a high end one (latest net rumors say they are). Who knows.

If they don't and there is no talk of it coming... I may look into the Nexus Prime if it's on Verizon. Like somebody else said, It's got to be AMOLED.

If it isn't.... I'll be checking out Sprint.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donnyp1:
Nothing worth changing for yet

If ive helped you, please hit the damn thanks button!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cavsfan256:
Another HTC phone I am extremely satisfied with my ability to tinker with this phone especially with the prls. I've got 3g in places I used to get 1x. And miui.us is tight
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gadzooks64:
I love HTC and Sense but I voted for the Samsung Galaxy SII.

However, in reality, I will probably go for the phone that has the best battery life be that a Samsung or an HTC phone - I'm not wild about Motorola phones.

I am so tired of the crappy battery life on my DInc.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brando56894:
I'm still not sure which phone I'm going to go for, I could upgrade at any moment but I think I'm going to wait. I originally had an OG droid and I loved the sturdyness of Moto's build quality, but I love the lightness and the look of sense on the Incredible.

One thing is for sure I need 4G, at least dual core, 1GB+ RAM, still haven't decided on screen size yet (at least 4"+).

I think I'm going to wait until ICS drops since I'm already in debt up to my earlobes :lol: Buying the Transformer didn't help that.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Keyboards:
LauncherPro
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zerocool79346:
Meh, wasn't the best I ever saw, but I wouldn't say the worst. Its pretty freaking hard to beat the Eris screen for worst and I loved that phone haha.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frostincredible:
The Bionic's screen isn't really that bad in my opinion. Its got great visibility in sunlight (probably the one and only downfall of my previous AMOLED DInc), its big, but not really too big, doesn't feel 4.3". I hadn't ever thought of getting a big phone, that's why I had the Incredible previously. The battery life is great with this screen. I'm typing this at 10:15PM local time and am at 40% battery. I unplugged it after charging all night this morning at 6:40. Almost 16 hours. So, yes, it does have a few downfalls, but the positives outweigh them. That's my assumption for why Motorola went this screen.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] loonatik78:
I haven't seen one yet where it didn't look to my eyes like the pixels were pulsing or something weird, causing solid colors to look like they were breaking up into diagonal lines. I don't like to have to zoom in on everything, but I simply HAD to on that device to identify small letters from the weird pulsing lines. There's some horribly grainy displays out there (I came from BlackBerry), but none of them strained my eyes constantly like that one did.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donnyp1:
Im with you. Cant wait to see what comes out for the holidays.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hersh40:
My wife got me an iphone4. I kept the incredible and use it as a iPod like device.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 86shelby:
I got my bionic the day after release. I had grown tired of htc, so I'm on to new things. Can't beat moto reception.....
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] watt9493:
Whatever drops closer to November 3rd (my birthday), hoping for the vigor though.

-My life is a shooting range, people never change-
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] superchaos:
Sep 20, 2011	Payment From	SquareTrade, Inc	Completed	Details Payment From SquareTrade, Inc.	$569.99 USD

I got that much from a warrantied Droid X that fell in the toilet. Already replaced it with an upgrade discount to a Droid X2. I could get the upgrade price in Late December or use the money received and buy the Vigor on the day of its release.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Skruffy Jew:
I'm gunna get booed, but I'm GETTING the iPhone 5. Why, cause I have an ipod for everything and i even use my rooted phone for wifi for my ipod touch 4g. The only thing I can't do on my ipod that I can on my phone is aqua pets. Sorry, but Oct. 10th and I'm out.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] loonatik78:
I'm very much hoping the newer BlackBerry OS pans out to hopes and expectations. If it proves to be as robust as many hope, I'm probably going to go back to BlackBerry. I still hate these goofy touch screen keyboards, Android is a DAMN ugly son of a ***** without Sense, and even Sense doesn't make of for some of it's inexcusable shortcomings, like the dictionary for one.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] POQbum:
Yeah I just checked it out today and it's really not bad at all, but with certain images/colors you can visibly see the pixels and I think that would bug me if I owned it.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zalatorisaurus:
HTC Vigor still has my vote. Hopefully they'll offer a smooth white battery cover for it.