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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Ummagumma:
After using Google calendar for about a year, I finally gave up. The service, for most part, is reliable, the calendar loads fast, but there's no way to sync Todo's and I have tons of them. Used to work around this by using GogTasks but the latest change from Google broke the sign-in process so there's no (free) way now to sync tasks.

So, I decided to give MS another try. Synced to Windows Live - this time calendar sync worked (I had a major problem with it a year ago). Still, there's a few issues.

1) It appears MS no longer allows syncing multiple calendars to Win Mob device.

2) It appears MS no longer supports categories in Tasks or Appointments.

3) It appears there's no way to add contact photos unless contacts create a Windows Live account and set up a profile picture.

Now, I can live with 1 and 2. It sucks but I guess there are some underlying problems they were trying to get rid of - AS always used to choke on category sync.

#3, in our day and age, is completely, utterly retarded. I don't understand why they did it. I don't understand the thinking behind it. Do they seriously think everybody in my contact list will just stampede all over one another rushing to create their own Windows Live ID ? The only thing more retarded is Google's joke of a practically unusable task list.

I'll stick with WL for now - unless I get an Android device next, and unless I start having problems syncing, I'd rather have bastardized Contacts and ToDos than "normal" Contacts and no ToDos. Still, why isn't there a single online provider that just works for basic PIM info on WinMob ?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hotrodwinston:
gmail?

I use exchange and pocket outlook to sync my calendar and contacts with my gmail account - google runs the exchange server for free. I add my todos to wm's built in calendar app and gmail syncs them with google calendar or put it in google calendar save then sync your phone. It also syncs all my contacts including contact pictures - when I hard reset I just sync and everything is there - the only thing it will not sync is tasks so I just put them as appointments in the calendar.

http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=138636&topic=14299
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] SDreamer:
The first 2 I just learned of today, it is a pain it doesn't do that, and this is one huge deal breaker for me to go almost to another OS as a whole, this whole unintegrated Microsoft ecosphere. It seems like though that Microsoft finally understands how broken they are and are finally integrating things all together, but that's only in their new products.

As for your problems...

1) Windows Mobile devices never synced multiple calendars, even with Google Calendar (you could get around it with other programs though which I used to do but alas, that was broken like you mentioned when Google updated...)

2) I'm not sure but my categories sync, when I make them in WLM Messenger (Favorites category seems to be syncing). Maybe the work around is to make it in WLM or on Live. Doesn't seem to sync the categories from your phone though....

3) I don't know what exactly is wrong, because I have been able to sync contact photos on my phone. I'm not sure if you're trying to do it from the Live services side of things though, if so, then I think it's impossible unless you do it through Windows Live Messenger.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mitsi:
Wow! This is all very interesting. A few weeks ago, my company's Blackberry server was upgraded. At the same time, MS Activesync stopped working for me. It gave me an error message code 80004005. I Googled this and it said that some software needed to be upgraded or something like that. I had assumed that because the security in my company's IT department is so strict, this had put a spanner in the works somehow into Activesync.

From what you guys are saying, it is a microsoft thing. :confused: I thought it was a RIM thing.

I am currently syncing with Blackberry Connect for both appointments and contacts. This is an old and crap system.

The contacts don't sync with their photos and also they sync lastname, firstname whereas I have set my preference to firstname, lastname. I then have to manually change this on my WM6.5 phone :mad:

The calendar syncing is also crap. Catagories don't sync and also some annually recurring appointments show up on my WM6.5 phone one month early! :confused: :mad:

I don't have Windows Live installed on my phone. If I did, would Activesync then work? Would it get rid of the 80004005 error code?
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] yellowjacket1981:
so I was tethering to my laptop, and everything was working fine, but suddenly it would only take me to a T mobile page that says I need a tethering plan....I have the unlimited plan where I get throttled after 5 gigs...the tether was working fine previous to today....anyone else having this problem?

I am rooted, and still on stock.....:(
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] mcdeezy:
I'm sorry I don't have the answer for this but I really would like to know this also. Tethering is a pretty big deal to me and I was told that when you are rooted, you don't need the plan. Really hope someone sheds some light on this.
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] yellowjacket1981:
so I figured a work around of sorts: you have to change your user agent string in your browser on your computer to the one on your phone....so then you get all the mobile sites on your computer....so not perfect, but usable
[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] mcdeezy:
Wow that's not terrible
[Verizon Droid Charge] ace5198:
Title says it all anyone know how to get a screenshot option in the shutdown menu.. Holding back then hitting home always takes pic of home screen
[Verizon Droid Charge] Bear55:
Nope. Try again.
[Verizon Droid Charge] ace5198:
I meant an option 4 screenshots in menu .. Not a screenshot of shutdown memu
[Verizon Droid Charge] Bear55:
Sorry, can't help you there. There are some apps on the Market that take screen shots but I can't recommend any since I never have problems with the built in one.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Eris _2.1_2010:
Try shootme. Its not in the market any more, but i've found the apk before here on xda.

Sent from my Glitched MIUI Fascinate
[Verizon Droid Charge] Endless2232:
I don't think the previous responders get your question. Some roms do support custom boot animations, there are a few threads on the site that explain how to do this. Feel free to look some up.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Bear55:
I think he wants a button in the shut down menu that will take a screenshot of whatever is under the menu. Haha not sure ...
[Verizon Droid Charge] imnuts:
Similar to what is available in CM7? Don't know how that is integrated, but it would require a decent amount of smali work to get it accomplished.
[Verizon Droid Charge] Endless2232:
Obviously the title doesn't say it all. Haha
[Verizon Droid Charge] ace5198:
Precisly.. And I guess the title didn't say it all... When I hold the power button.. I get a menu with a couple options.. airplane mode/power phone off ect.. I want an option for a screenshot button in this menu ... Lol.. 2 clear up the confusion.. And than you all 4 your responses
[Verizon Droid Charge] anoninja118:
i know its late bute Drocap2 (probably have to get the apk from a search as it was pulled from the market) will let you have a notification bar trigger, map screenshotting to the search button, and has a shake trigger if that helps

blazing through on my 4G Droid Charge
[Verizon Droid Charge] KarateExplosion6:
Honestly, it's a timing issue... I used to have a hard time getting shots by holding Back and then hitting Home, but I've gotten MUCH better at it. It's all in the timing of how you do it, the best way i can explain it is to press back and kind of say "one one-thousand" to yourself then tap Home without moving your finger off of Back. You'll here the camera shutter sound and it'll be saved to your SD card in a folder for screen shots.

This is the only way I take my shots and it works fine, provided you've got the timing down (also, I've only used Froyo ROMs).
[Verizon Droid Charge] imnuts:
There are still some things you'll never get a screenshot with. Why not just use one of the screen capture apps like DroCap or Shootme? There are likely hundreds more that do the same thing as well.
[Verizon Droid Charge] ace5198:
i will def give them a shot... thank you!!!
[Desire HD General] M..N:
Hi I'm just wondering has anyone had the bad emmc problem with their dhd?
[Desire HD General] M..N:
Anyone?
[Desire HD General] M..N:
Bump
[Desire HD General] daedric:
Any reason ?
[Desire HD General] M..N:
Just been reading on the issue and just want to see if dhd suffer from this , I just don't want my device to brick .
[Desire HD General] daedric:
NAND, as with any other type of storage, is efemeral. It will go bad some day.

Compared to say, Magnetic HDD's, NAND is very small lived. Reading does not waste it much, but writing, that's the killer.

We will have bad eMMC. Yet, nand drivers are god at detecting bad blocks and marking them as so. You'll loose some kb for each block, but it's not that much :)
[Desire HD General] M..N:
Yes I do understand it will go bad someday its just that some desire z/g2 and desire s have bricked because of bad emmc so I'm just wondering if those were bad batches or if there are different models of emmc chips which are good and bad.
[Desire HD General] daedric:
You might be referring to another issue. On problem is emmc wasting it valuable life in the MTBF estimated time.

The other, is a emmc going bad WAY before MTBF.

I'm not aware of G2/Z problems, as i don't have any. Care to point a link ?
[Desire HD General] M..N:
I cant remember the specific thread but this is one I read

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1150917
[Desire HD General] daedric:
Check this thread, we might have a case :

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1285310
[Desire HD General] Telek:
Yes that is my thread and certainly appears to be my case. I haven't found anything to confirm yet but my suspicious is that my flash memory is pooched. Does anyone know of any way of actually testing this out? I tried to use recovery e2fsck tools to run a badblocks scan but they didn't seem to run.
[Desire HD General] M..N:
Maybe try this its for desire s but may work http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1284196
[LG Optimus 2x] deff_ins:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1274070

wanted to post here that i love cm7 i will donate to people who will make a2dp possible on cm7/2x

tho i cant post there because im noob or smth like that. ok il get it. so i spam. now i have 15 posts or so - still cant post. so what exactly should i do to post on devs section? i promise i will not spam there :D
[LG Optimus 2x] Rusty!:
Offering donations really isn't likely to get anywhere, RC is some sort of freaky genius and was at it for months.
[LG Optimus 2x] hisham027:
If you want to donate send a PM to the OP of the thread.
[LG Optimus 2x] deff_ins:
already did that and didnt get any answer :(
[LG Optimus 2x] bronz1983:
same from me, not so good rule, you can't post in android development thread unless you have 10 posts...

why this, I know that there are some noob spamer people but i can't tell that for my self .
[LG Optimus 2x] PG101:
MOD ALERT

Guys,

Seriously!!!

Thread closed!!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maor66:
I think I bricked my mini galaxy, I installed ROM manager and pressed "backup ROM", the screen went black immidietly. I tried to remove the battery and put it back but it didn't work.

The phone doesn't work now, can't turn it on,can't get to download mod.

Is there anything I can do now?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djice000:
Try removing battery, then hold the buttons for download mode and slide the battery back in, if all else fails, grab a jig off eBay £9.99
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maor66:
Couldn't find a jig for mini galaxy, got a link?
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tamen:
Basically I'd like to be persuaded as to whether to use a sense rom (e.g ARHD) or a nosense rom (e.g CM7). And if I use CM7 can I install the HTC dialer and messaging app?

--

Previously I was using ARHD (sense) and go launcher, and I've just updated to the new ARHD with sense 3. As much as I like it, it's not quite as minimalist as I liked with go launcher and my battery life is not as good (sense is a battery hod, no denying).

I'm tempted to go the other way; CM7 with no sense features. What are the advantages of this? Why do some people prefer no sense?

Can I install the sense APKs of the apps I like? The htc dialer is great, as is the messaging/
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] affinity121:
I can't answer all your questions however I recently went from RCMix3d 1.4 runny to CM7 and I'm loving the change. The battery life is excellent and it makes me wonder why I was using sense in the first place.

I don't even miss it that much, apart from the odd thing. I'll take longer battery life over flashy show off animations any day :)
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hopscotchjunkie:
No, the HTC apps won't run without the Sense framework.

Beyond that, I'm not going to persuade you with way; the only way to decide is to backup, flash cm7 and see which one you prefer.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Black1982:
I suggest giving MIUI a try. It is basedd om CM7,has great features and is very easy to customise!
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clouds5:
Definately take a look at MIUI as well ;) Its an AOSP rom like CM7 but with some very nice additions. If you like to try out different themes and lots of personalization options MIUI is definately the way to go.

But in the end both ways (sense or no sense) have their advantages. What i dont like about sense is that its so bloated up with stuff you rarely ever use. You can cleane some of it with scripts like rom cleaner but still we're talking 350mb rom (sense) vs 80-90mb rom (CM7 or MIUI).

On the other hand with sense you get one good looking theme and good to very good apps for all the features of your phone. On CM7 you might need to find another app to play music via DLNA for example and another app for weather and so on.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HACKDROID_X:
sense and see how you feel if you dont like then go for no sense .....simple really

im with sense atm and feel that it is good
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] desidunda:
you could try the better of both worlds by flashing DeDense from this thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1207645
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sully6789:
Try Helios 0913 for a CM7 rom if you're gonna try one. It'll make you not wanna go back. These forums are crowded with sense roms that look exactly the same and offer nothing different, except some visual stuff, than the other 20 or so sense roms that are here. A good AOSP rom is hard to find on HTC phones now. Like I said though, try Helios or better yet, Hydrogenmod and you'll forget all about sense.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BenRoark:
I love Helios too but, more broadly, I went the way of CM7-based ROMs in general + Lord Clockan's amazing kernels and never looked back.

I never enjoyed such a snappy and responsive device when I was on Sense-based ROMs. Ditto battery life. I'm a massive CyanogenMod fanboy now, and will be flashing Nightlies (which are in a very good condition ATM) until Richfish updates Helios.

People on Sense ROMs have good things to report too, though, so my suggestion (which you've probably already heard a million times) is to try stuff out for yourself.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zelendel:
No one will be able to tell you what you would prefer. Test out a CM rom and a sense rom. Make your own mind up.

Thread closed
[Motorola Droid Bionic] lrs421:
Title pretty much says it all. Is there a way to increase the font size without rooting the device? Spare parts doesn't seem to stick, font size reverts after a few minutes.

If I have to root the device and I change the density to 230 will it stick If I unroot the device?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] Versatile1:
It should stick, also I think you can use the developer tools and push the changes without root

-Motorola Droid

-Motorola Droid X²

-Motorola Droid Bionic
[Motorola Droid Bionic] lrs421:
For some reason its not sticking but I'm going to give developer tools a shot.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] lrs421:
I think the issue with spare parts was due compatibility mode. Unchecked it and all seems OK now. Font sizes are sticking.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] uTriple:
Stop being monkey and root your device... So many security reasons to do so
[Motorola Droid Bionic] lrs421:
Yeah, im so tired of rooting, lol. 4th android device, wanted to play it straight this time. Let it be known, manufacturers force us to root.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] BigB6162:
lrs421, how well did the procedure work?

lrs421,

I am a noop...just signed up and watched the video. I read your post and have the same issue. I am coming from Blackberry to Droid Bionic. Already called to return phone because of small fonts. CAn you explain the procedure to increase fonts? And, comment on how well the results were?

Thanks,

Brad
[Motorola Droid Bionic] lrs421:
Hi and welcome to XDA. It didn't really work that well, it's a resolution thing. You can change the DPI by rooting the phone but it screws up the market. You kinda just get used to the fonts. Some apps allow you to increase the text size which helps dramatically. All the apps I frequent (Dolphin Browser, Text Messages, GMAIL and Tapatalk) allow you to increase font sizes in the menu so I just forgot about it. I love my Bionic otherwise. I'm leaving it stock with Launcher Pro Plus and enjoying it more and more everyday.
[Motorola Droid Bionic] BigB6162:
Increase in Texting app and Contacts would suffice

Thanks for the feedback. If I could get an Increase in Texting app and Contacts would suffice. What Text message app do you use? do you know of a contact app whereby I can increase font size?
[Motorola Droid Bionic] lrs421:
I use the stock text app. Open a text message, press the menu button and select more. There you will have an option to resize.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini, Mini Pro, Xperia Pro, A] przemo5020:
Hi, I downloaded from Xperia Ray launcher . I installed but still did not change my appearance launcher. Who will tell me how to install launcher? Please help me.
[General Topics] iPwn_:
Every device these days has dual core Cortex-A9 based SoCs. And that's every SoC; The Exynos 4210, the Qualcomm S3, the Apple A5, and the Exynos 4212.

Recently Samsung announced a new 4212 based on 32nm architecture that can reach speeds of 1.5 GHz, and has "50% faster 3D graphics performance". The old 4210 in the SGS2 uses 45nm processing, which uses much more power, and has a fairly slow GPU (Mali400MP4) compared to the A5 (SGX543MP2).

See here:

Going by this chart, a 50% boost should put the new Exynos, rumored to be used in the Nexus Prime, at over 100 FPS off screen.

Since Apple takes excessive care over battery life, we can expect the iPhone 5/4S variant of the A5 to run at 700-800 MHz, underclocked fron the iPad 2.

This would mean the Exynos 4212's CPU runs at almost double the clock speed of the iPhone 5.

So do you think the (estimated) 33% loss in GPU performance in the Nexus Prime with the 4212 would be worth the gain of maybe double the CPU performance compared to the A5?

I think we finally see an A5 killer here.

That is, unless Apple decides to throw away its battery life throne and clock the iPhone 5 at at least 1.2 GHz.

Am I suggesting losing battery life for gains in CPU performance that many users may not notice is worth it? Not necessarily. Just pointing out that Apple may have met its match.

But then again, the A5 is 45nm and the Exynos is 32nm, so power consumption may be similar .
[General Topics] iPwn_:
If this is supposed to go in some other section, please move it.
[General Topics] x2k4x4:
longer battery life + unnoticeable performance gain ftw
[General Topics] iPwn_:
Some people think that's more important. :rolleyes:
[General Topics] kersh:
How can you expect a chipset that move a 50% more of 67fps that is 100.5fps on a 800x480p screen be better than other that moves 148 on a 1024x768?

Oh and the iphone screen it is 960, so with less mhz will move the same fps as the ipad.

No, the new gpu of samsung it is still worse than the A5 in equal comparison and after more than 6 months.
[General Topics] iPwn_:
Read the image smart one. It is a 1280x720 off screen test for each device in the chart. They are all rendering at the same resolution.
[General Topics] dimeim:
Let's hope they are able to find a working balance between performance and battery life. Because it's the combination that entices users.
[General Topics] tolis626:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Look at this smart guy. :rolleyes:

As iPwn already said,you idiotic iFan,they all run the test at the same resolution.Not to mention that the chips in the iPad are larger,which means more transistors are placed in one chip,thus making it more powerful BUT MORE POWER CONSUMING.The variant in the iPhone won't just be underclocked,I can vouch for that.

Next time read before you post sh!t please,will ya? :)
[General Topics] Drzfr3shboialex:
Lol this hahaha
[Defy Themes and Apps] crakeron:
Hi everyone, i used to be on the stock 2.2.2 ROM, and i've now (finally ^^) installed CM7. The only problem is, i really miss two things:

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The Stock messaging app

(or motorola's one), white background, yellow and greyish threads...if you see wich one i mean

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The multitouch keyboard

(again white, and slightly bigger keys than the one in CM7).

Now i've got a nandroid backup of my /system (i have unyaffed it), i've tried to install my odex, framework, etc files for messaging.odex/etc, failed, i've deodexed the messaging.odex, failed ("app did not install")... how do we do it? Can someone help me on this?

And the Keyboard i was talking of, i couldn't find it in my nandroid, does someone know where to search, and what to do with it?

i know handcent or other apps exist, but i'll be fussy on these two apps, especially the messaging app which i really miss ;( ^^

Thanks in advance to any kind hearted person who is willing to help me =)
[Defy Themes and Apps] morpheusgt:
I also miss the stock messaging app. With the stock app, you could send SMS with characters like [á, í, ó, ú] without problems. With CM7, if you enter one of these characters, you are stuck with less than 70 characters per message (I know it is because the char encoding changes to Unicode, but Motorola solved this somehow).
[Defy Themes and Apps] aks.techscience:
Do u have a titanium backup of it?....it may be possible to restore it using titanium backup ....I used it to restore the stock Connected music player
[Defy Themes and Apps] crakeron:
Yes i think i have kept a Titanium backup, even though i have tried already to restore the messaging app, didn't work (doesn't even show so i can restore it) :/

Sent from my CM7 Defy
[Off-topic] Wolf Pup:
Here's a Multi-Colour picture I slapped together in Windows Vista Paint, in about 10 minutes.

If you make something in Paint then please post it here.
[Off-topic] trell959:
Thanks for the wallpapers
[Off-topic] HondaCop:
Good jooooooob! Pixar ain't got **** on you. Now try spelling your name. Come on, you can do it.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S II Epic Touch 4G WTF BBQ
[Off-topic] LordManhattan:
You're almost as good as the dude behind this painting. He used about 500 hours on it. Yes, it's MS Paint. (Source)
[Off-topic] Wolf Pup:
Gulp! That's Embarrassing!
[Off-topic] Wolf Pup:
Um, since when was it a wall paper. Would be brilliant for testing your screen though.:)
[Off-topic] Dirk:
Everyone has to start somewhere!

OP, try your hand with a more powerful application:

http://paint.net/

It's free and pretty easy to learn.
[Off-topic] idavid_:
This is amazing, dude. Photoshop ain't nothing compared to this! :p

Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e
[Off-topic] sakai4eva:
I smell a strong burn on the OP...
[Off-topic] theebest:
This^^
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TDm3732:
When i want to download something, the market says that the app is not available in my region, is there any way to fixfix