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[Windows Phone 7 General] manmute98:
As much as i hate to agree with your observations, the simple and honest truth to WP7 poor recognition is not all down to sales personal but M$ and Network Carrier.

Speaking from first hand experience as a consultant & window phone enthusiast, since the launch of the new WP7 Os, not once have i seen a representative from M$ rep via HTC, Samsung or LG. HTC did when it was the classic window phone, despite its unstable Os, you find people with the WM6.

Apart from O2 & Orange uk, no other uk carrier advertise the new WP7, everyone of us on this forum leaving comments on this forum are possible previous owners of the WM6 or WM5 and has seen the transition & stability of M$ newer OS WP7, but M$, Manufacturers & Network carries got to do MORE.

I ATTENDED one of the M$ Window Boot camp recently for Developers & Enthusiast and posed the question to M$ reps why haven`t they maintained or improved their relation with network providers as well as the WP7 Os handset manufactures especially in the UK market and could not answer the question. Getting developers to develop apps for WP7 fantastic, but when there`s few advertising, few handsets to chose from or training provided to the sales personal, there`s no wonder why the Os systems is not doing WELL. With the launch of WP7.5 handset the only mobile phone you get on the Uk network carriers website is the new Nokia Lumia 800, as that`s the effort from Nokia, but HTC titan or Rada were or via indirect channel as third party vendors such as Phone4U or Carephone warehouse and NOT the direct channel as the network carrier.

With the new Nokia 800 adverts AIRING on tv lets hope its in the right direction as the WP7 Os is by far a total different experience from other mobile Os.

TO SAY THE LEAST of my first hand experience.
[Windows Phone 7 General] JVH3:
Moving an image from 1 idntical phone to another makes having a removable SD card useful, but for probably only for less than 1% of the users.

An SD Android image is not cross compatible with all phones. Sure, insurance will sometimes give you an identical replacement, but not always. My Tilt 2 was replaced by insurance with an LG Quantum. My removable SD card from my Tilt 2 did me no good. I had an android image on it. It also would have done me no good if my phone had been run over or fallen in the river. If the SD card is lost or broken you still can't swap it. It would not have helped if they gave me any other phone either, since Android for the Tilt 2 would not have just run on another devices.

My point on the photography. No real photographer is using a phone for their pictures. Try taking a picture of a landscape such as the Grand Canyon with your phone. Guarantee that it will not do it justice. For cameras, a swappable SD can serve a real purpose. But even most users of digital cameras have no need for swapping SD cards. How many pictures do most people take on a 2 week vacation? Usually less than 8 GB worth. If you are taking lots of videos you might also, but if you do that much video work, get a real video recorder.

Windows Phone 7 devices have an SD card. It just is not swappable, because the OS expands onto it and it uses the encryption features that are built into all SD cards.

If you sync with your employer's exchange server, you could have an SD card encryption policy pushed to your Android device making everything on your SD card unreadable by any other device.

Being able to expand the storage is not a bad thing. But most users never take advantage of it. Newer better phones are usually available before they would want to. Most people upgrade as soon as they are ellible to get a discount on a new phone. With AT&T that is every 18 months.

It might be nice to have an SD card that is swappable that you can copy things to or import things from. Or even let apps read data from.

This would allow you to transfer pics to it to print at Walmart.

Import documents, pictures, music, etc to your device so that you can edit it.

Read map data from a GPS program as needed, without filling up phone storage space with areas that you are not near.

I still think that it is a good idea to keep users from installing to a swappable SD card.
[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
Lol. What?! Bring an extra device because the phone has terrible storage. Never mind it will cost more money to get that device.

So in addition to my bulky zuca that is filled to the rim, my huge coat and other things I have to carry. I have to get another device to record video (which I put on my computer for video analysis and stuff ) because the wp7 OEMs are too brain dead to give decent storage.

That's notwithstanding I'd never use a windows phone because most of them only do 25fps 720p which is too much of a pain to work with, anyways.

The whole point if smartphones is to consolidate. We don't need pager and phone and gps and laptop and camcorder and digital camera and mp3 player. We only need the smartphone.

I cannot stop laughing.

Professionals use professional equipment. We know this. No one is telling a professional photographer to show up at a shoot with just his Samsung focus.
[Windows Phone 7 General] nicksti:
Please stop with the 16GB no SD card bashing. The most popular single device in the past couple of years has been a 8/16GB no SD card phone.

Please move on to something else. It is really silly.
[Windows Phone 7 General] vetvito:
^ you forgot to mention, those who want bigger have a choice. There's a difference in having a choice and not having a choice.

Also, pricing plays a big role.
[Windows Phone 7 General] alizafar:
Agreed, but If u ask me y wp7 is NOT popular?

My reason would be,wp7 been a closed box!

Like "Ios" the wp7 intends to keep the users in the Microsoft world like apple keeps its users in the apple world.this dose not allow the users to think out of that apple/Microsoft BOX!

Unlike Android,"Which breaks through that box" thus being complicated due to millions of things that can be done to improve your experience with your device!

IOS dose try to do the same but not to that extend

Whereas wp7 is well.....you know!

Bottomline is that If WP7 want a big piece of the pie Microsoft has to support the app development as well as open source programming

Sent from My Samsung Galaxcy Ace

CyanogenMod 7.1-cooper-KANG-RC1 Android 2.3.7

Firmware: 2.3.4 KPH

Dta2sd: enabled

4gb SD Card

Supercharge v6 Script On

v4 ram optimizer Script On
[Windows Phone 7 General] z33dev33l:
I still have 8 gigs left on my 16 gig DVP... Oh wait, I forgot. Cloud storage/netflix/zune pass takes care of most things for me. The services are there for a reason...
[Windows Phone 7 General] vetvito:
^ ok, great... the competitors have the same thing, except Zune pass.
[Windows Phone 7 General] z33dev33l:
that solves most of the memory issues though. Im not fond of Netflix on android though. For how long android users waited it seems kinda pieced together.
[G2 and Desire Z General] iBreakLoose666:
Hello guys. First ... sorry for my English and second .. let's talk about my problem :D I got my new Desire Z and everything was fine for a while .. then everything, even menu started lagging, so i rooted my phone with CyanogenMod 7.1. Again, everything was fine for about a week and then it started lagging again, frequently ... So i downloaded OS Monitor and after i started it i said: WTF??!!! My CPU is frequently switching from 250MHz into 1100MHz and back, same as the CPU usage is jumping from 0% to 100% and back every 2sec or so ... and this all happens even after reboot while not using telephone at all
[G2 and Desire Z General] martonikaj:
That is how the CPU is supposed to perform. It scales up to finish tasks, then scales back down to save battery. If the CPU sat at your max limit (in this case 1.1ghz) it would burn your battery.

You have a bad app or process that's causing the lagginess.
[G2 and Desire Z General] iBreakLoose666:
But it does this even after rebooting phone, no apps have been started yet and even when i delete everything from my sdcard and use the recovery to delete everything from my phone and return it to its original state ... It's still lagging ... It works fine only about 4 days after SW update .. first it was fine on Froyo, then it started lagging, so i updated to gingerbread, everything fine again for about 4 days and then boom lagging again, could it be that my hardware is broken? Thanks for the reply btw
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sark666:
I use a few apps that I allow to run fullscreen by pressing the << button on the status bar, however I can't get the status bar to return for that app.

I have it set at home, and trying the nook n button just returns me to my launcher. I tried making it volume down but volume down still acts as volume down.

I read some apps don't play nice with the full screen option, but even with the built in movie player in android I still can't get the status bar to reappear.

running cyanogen 7.1
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] liam.lah:
Same problem here, it works in a game i have muted(in game), does not work in movies, or in the game if i have music.apk playing in background.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sark666:
Well, it doesn't work in the video app, mame4droid, or snes9x. Can someone name an app where it does behave properly so I can test that?

Or does it work properly for anyone for the above?
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Blue6IX:
I use volume down as my unhide button too.

It works fine in ezPDF reader, when using the menu bar function to go full screen.

CM7.1.0 sdinstall using the latest verygreen sd package.

Can't think of any other apps off the top of my head, but I was just using this function in the above named app less then an hour ago.
[Nook Color Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] liam.lah:
The one app i had it work was "robo Defense" with the sound muted by an in-game option(not sure if that matters)
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] coolsid8:
I was thinking could some one port the original Android 1.6 Timescape Launcher and stuff ? Old Goodies !!

I seriously hate the new dark timescape !! It sucks and it is so damn slow !!

I loved the old blue timescape that came in Donut 1.6 Version !!

I bought this phone just for the Timescape Feature and i want to give it one more try :p

Anyone else also want it ?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] DyingBlade:
So, recently I put a lock on my phone (PIN lock and Password lock) and for some reason, my girlfriend has been able to get pass all of them. At first I thought I was using something too easy, like my name or our anniversary, so later on I tried a more random one that there is no way she could have known, but she also got pass that as well.

Does anyone know if there is a security flaw in our phones that allows it to bypass the password locks? I know that if I use Handcent, the popup text would show, but if you try to exit it or anything, it will go back to the password screen.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] jburnette87:
A good reason for me not to buy this phone. Lol. Maybe someone can chime in. I know the att one has a flaw.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Splaktar:
I know that the pattern locks on my HTC EVO often can be bypassed by swiping the wrong pattern. I've seen this happen on my SGS2 as well. I haven't used the PIN or password security but maybe they have a similar problem.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] DyingBlade:
Nope, the security on the SGS2 after a couple tries prevents you from trying again for 30 seconds, but it does not let you login via Gmail after any number of attempted tries, which makes me wonder what would you do if you forgot your password...besides a master reset.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] al52025:
how about you just ask her how shes getting past it lol
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] OuncE718:
I've seen a video about this on YouTube. I think if you press the home button while on the lockscreen it bypasses it. Check on YouTube and you'll find the video of a guy demonstrating this.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] DyingBlade:
She won't tell me how lmao.

That works only when there is no password lock and you have to press the home button twice to bring up voice command. I tried it with password lock an it doesnt work.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] asatnik11:
If she knows your gmail pw then its easy....
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] OuncE718:
Then Idk how she's doing it. Maybe she just knows your password.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] DyingBlade:
Gmail login does not popup after any number of tries and I created the most random password (agmekt56) and unless she's psychic, there's no way she could have known.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] amalio357:
She may be a tech ninja.lmafo
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] blakemoo:
Figured it out... Take a screenshot. Then sweep the screen. I was just amazed that it worked myself. Feel free to hit the thanks button. Hahaha #fail. Can't wait to try it on coworkers tomorrow!!!

Sent from my Herc + EagleBlood V1
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] blakemoo:
Check for lock screen screenshots too...

Sent from my Herc + EagleBlood V1
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Born_Immaculate88:
The only way for her to be able to get through either your Password, Pattern or PIN code is either if she knows it or takes a screen shot of it. So unless there is some sort of flaw in your software there's no other way. I've been trying this all morning and you get the 30 second unlock, then some amount of minutes and eventually you will hard lock the phone.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] DyingBlade:
I don't know, I'll try to get it out of her haha. Cause theres no way she can know cause I made the password as random as I can.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] raquel13:
I can get into my phone without a PIN after I receive a text message. Maybe she's getting in that way?

I made a quick vid to show this problem: vimeo . com / 31067628 (remove spaces)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Born_Immaculate88:
Do you have some sort of customization on your phone? because I have tried that as well and it did not unlock my phone at all. I sent two text from my Motorola Atrix to my Samsung Galaxy S II and the pin code was not bypassed at all. I tried it with each one individually Pattern, Pin, Password and none of them were bypassed by receiving an e-mail, text nor a missed call notification.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] DyingBlade:
Figured it out!

Okay, so I figured it out. It's not a security flaw in the SGS2 itself, but more from handcent. When I get a text from handcent, it automatically pops up with the text message on my screen (quick text) and also unlock my screen. It is only supposed to unlock it when viewing the message, but after I reply to the message it should automatically relock my screen. But, this is not the case with the SGS2, when I get a text the message will pop up, but when I reply to it, it brings me to the unlock screen but when I swipe to unlock, it does not ask for the PIN/password.

So if any of you guys are using Handcent, I would turn the pop up feature off.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rumz82:
Hi all.

Quick question.

Anyone know how to get rid of the annoying cloud animation that appears just after you unlock the phone. Im finding it really annoying!! :mad:

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[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prodygee:
Check your weather widget's settings. I've seriously never seen those on my Samsung. Only on my Desire.

I've been running a custom rom from the start.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rumz82:
Seriously, you never seen that before? It's always been there since I have had my GS2.

I am also on a custom Rom.

Also, there is no option to toggle this on or off. It's annoying because everytime I unlock the phone, I can't do anything until the animation finishes!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ephraim:
I also have never seen that before.has that animation been there when you first got the phone with stock firmware?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rumz82:
Hmm...

To be honest, I can not recall it never being there. As far as I can remember, It has always been there since day one. This is wierd, I can not be the ONLY one who has the cloud animation when unlocking the phone. am I? It is like how we get the animation on HTC Sense (Homescreen) but I hate it.

Does anyone with GS2 have the cloud animation like mine?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krico:
Mabey somebody owned the phone before you and returned it to the store.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Flowlance:
First time seeing this, lol
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ephraim:
Have you retired flashing a stock ROM?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DSA:
never seen the cloud...must be a stock widget thing....
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simes6600:
this is a feature of "beautiful widgets", had it happen to me today. click on the bf app icon, go to weather widget settings>advanced and untick "unlock animations"
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smeddy:
Lol. Want!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stylez:
Widget locker and fancy widget do it too.

Must be an installed program.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ultramag69:
Tapping the screen after the animation starts does stop it then you can do what you want.

If its beautiful widgets then as stated previously by simes6600 "go to weather widget settings>advanced and untick "unlock animations" "...
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rumz82:
hey guys.

I do have BW installed but i don't use it. Neither WL nor FW. However, i have checked the settings on BW and unlock animation is turned off. Its not a big of deal but i would like to use my phone as soon as i unlock the phone. I can touch the animation (clouds) and it stops but does slow the phone down. I'm confused. I might try and uninstall them even though i don't use them and see if that makes a difference.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rumz82:
So i froze the discussed apps with titanium backup and guess what? It didn't work. More ideas anyone?
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rumz82:
OK guys, found the culprit! Lol!

It was along the lines of the previous suggestions!

It was a weather widget extra add on(which again i don't use)that had the unlock animation ticked.

I totally forgot i installed it. Lol!

this thread can now be closed.

I would like to thank you all for your help and suggestions.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nepyk:
Hi,

I use mclock widget but now strange things started to occur. First of all disapeared widget's font and sometimes widget it self disapears (look at the pic). I reinstall and done various of things but the problem is still alive. I think maybe I should try to do wipe. But don't know which one because didn't understand what do each. Now I have CWM. Maybe someone could explain what to do. Thanks.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kailkti:
Go into cwm and just press factory reset... Oh use search before you do post something like this again... And search does not mean looking at the pages at page one...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] sfoksn:
I am trying to download some apps from the Market and they all seem to be stuck st "Starting Download..." screen..

I can't select cancel or anything, and I don't know how to get rid of this.

How can I cancel the download?

Thanks.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Epix4G:
Use task manager to force market to shut down
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] Manny92:
I've recently just rooted my phone and now i need to know how to do the following recovery and custom roms can anyone help me out thanks for your time.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] E4est:
Do you have X10 mini or X10 mini pro?
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] Manny92:
i have a x10 mini
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] E4est:
Basics:

- If something fails, than it's not my fault! You do it on your own risc!

- You will possibly need knowledge about how to use adb shell or ROOT Explorer.

- To start CWM (ClockworkMod) Recovery, you need to press several times the "Back"-Button as soon as the first white "Sony Ericsson" letters appear.

- Touchscreen isn't working in CMW (that's a fact), you need to go up and down by pressing the volume-buttons, select items with home-button and go back with back-button.

First you will need this, it's ClockworkMod Recovery. Read it carefully, everything about "how to install" should be explained there.

I don't have a X10 mini, I have the pro, but I use a port from this ROM and it should be almost the same and I find it nice.

If you'd like to take another ROM, search this forum for threads beginning with "[ROM]"

I don't like to lose my CallLog and SMS and since Sony Ericssons "Backup and Restore" ports for CyanogenMod aren't really working (for me), I use "Call Logs Backup and Restore" and "SMS Backup and Restore" for those. If you have important apps and maybe "important" game saves, you can back them up with "Titanium Backup". Those three apps are free in Market.

Before you start flashing the new ROM, make a backup in CWM.

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Make sure the zip-file of your chosen ROM is on your SD-Card and on an easy-to-find place. (I like to create a folder in the root of the SD-Card named "00". After flashing some ROMs, you will understand why. :D)

Select "Install ZIP from sdcard" and than you should know, what to do, if you understand some English. ;D Shouldn't be a problem for you.^^

First boot of a new ROM normally takes some Minutes more, but than it's just fine.

If it doesn't boot even after hours, try to get into CWM.

I heard there is a hard-reset-button-combo for X10 mini, because you can't put your battery out, cannot remember it. If CWM doesn't start, than there is something gone wrong. This happened to me, too, even several times. :P Just update your phone via PC Companion and ROOT again and try everything again, if you want.

I hope, I didn't forget anything. Please give me a feedback, if everything worked and click "Thanks" if it did. (:

Edit:

***Aaah, please make Factory reset (wipe /data) in CWM before flashing or it won't boot!

Sorry, I forgot this!
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] Manny92:
thanks 4 all that info. still kinda sounds complex do u have msn if soo hope u can help me out step by step cheers mate :)
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] E4est:
If you do it the first time, than it looks much to do, but after you got some routine and when you understand what you're doing it becomes pretty easy.^^

I prefer using Facebook and sometimes Skype, I don't really like MSN.^^ I'll PM you both. ;)
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] Manny92:
i've sent u a friend request on facebook thanks :)
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] overthatscreen:
I switched from Sprint's Galaxy S 2 to Tmobile's and there seems to be a problem. The screen has a a weird color distortion in the middle when taking pictures. As if the white balance is off. When I use flash it seems OK. But it only seems to be a problem in low light situations. If they won't exchange it as a defect, I might switch back.

Have you guys had any similiar issues?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] Splaktar:
I looked at a few of my photos. I don't see anything like that. Very odd.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] PoisonWolf:
All phone cameras will display this to a degree. It's the pink-hue spot in the middle. The degree to which they display this is a function of the camera and post-processing that has been done to the pictures.

Most Android cameras do this, I've yet to see one that doesn't. In particular, HTC phones. Once you've learned how to spot the "pink effect", it's really hard to not see it anymore. :D

But yours looks more severe than others. I'd suggest either trying different white colors modes to see if the problem goes away. If it doesn't you can always opt for a swap to see if you'd get a slightly better camera.

I believe the effect is due to the sensor nature on camera phones insofar that they don't allow enough light in relative to things like DSLR.