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[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] argentocruz:
I'm a windows mobile / windows phone lover and have been since day 1 so I won't go on and on about why you should jump to wp7, but I will say this...

Now that Nokia has entered the fray the app market and support will grow more and more... There will be new wp7 users purely because of nokia...

My mates are all android boys and i gotta say, its looking dated compared to wp7... My android mates marvel at the speed of metro ui when they see me check on several emails and some text messages and delete them and have the phone back in my belt pouch in seconds...
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xcen_xda:
Well you won't need SPB Shell or Beautiful Widgets in WP7, since WP7 is already 'beautiful' enough and I'm sure you'll agree with me. PowerAMP is pretty sweet in that it can play a lot of file types, something you can't do in WP7, but I really don't see the need to play so many types of files. Usually I use my phone to watch Youtube videos, which WP7 does flawlessly, or listen to MP3 songs, not some other funny formats. But then again, it depends on your usage.

There are a lot of quality apps in WP7, but I don't know what to recommend because it's basically all up to your usage. I find things like 'The Onion 7' and 'Cyanide and Happiness' really unique and good on WP7, but it's not for everybody.

For those apps that are 'for everybody', the integrated Facebook and Twitter experience is really something that is unmatched. There are really good Twitter apps too like Birdsong for more functionality.

As for Microsoft services vs Google services, I'll have to say that Microsoft has the upper hand in Office compared to GDocs, and Google has the upper hand in their Maps. Bing vs GSearch, it's subjective. I find GSearch much better for searching serious stuff, while Bing in WP7 is really useful is helping make your life easier. Local cinemas, food and stuff like that. I don't get to enjoy them because I live in a country that is not supported by Bing.

At the end of the day, I think the question you have to ask yourself is this: Are apps more important, or general user experience more important?

Because WP7 is still really short on apps. The big names are there, but when it comes to maybe your local cinema or airlines to purchase ticket, or funky apps like FaceNiff to steal people's Facebook passwords, WP7 just won't have it for now. I can't say for the future.

Meanwhile, WP7 is great on the user experience. Live Tiles to me is much more functional than Widgets, battery life is great, UI is fluid and responsive, seldom crashes, more integrated services (I use the integrated Facebook chat a lot, it has become sort of a WhatsApp for me.), less problems.

I'm using a HD2, couldn't stand using NoDo, went back to Android NAND, wanted to try Mango 'just for fun', stuck with it. Just couldn't leave it. I'm seriously considering buying the Nokia Lumia 800.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] one2one69:
it depends...now I'm on the WP7 side...

I'm a proud owner of a HD2 and with it I passed through WM 6.5 all Android Roms and finally WP7

The decision is hard, by the way if you go with WP7 will not regret you just have to wait 6 months to have a Marketplace comparable (in quality) with Android Market. If I have to chose, I would not consider Android if I was not meant to root it; if you want to root then wait for ICS to see if that brings something worth...

This is my view;

- Phone core features: both are extremely dependable, Android has been optimized a bit more and usually drains less battery (even if that depends also on the HW). I would give 10/10 to Android and 9/10 to WP7

- Phone UI: Android stock UI sucks, maybe ICS will be better but at the moment the only comparable UI are MIUI (there are excellent themes) and at some extent Sense, but that means that you have to root it. I would give 9/10 to WP7 and 6/10 to stock Android (8/10 to MIUI and 7/10 to Sense)

- Embedded Apps: WP7 has embedded Mobile Office, a wonderful Zune and an excellent Messaging apps; I would give 9/10 to WP7 and 6/10 to stock Android

- Third Party Integration; Android is great and API natively support deep integration with 3pp applications; I would 9/10 to Android, 6/10 to WP7

- Market: Functionally wise they are similar; Android Market counts "uncountable" apps, MS Marketplace is at its beginning...but many useful and popular apps have been ported and in the last 3 months it has improved a lot, so I expect a huge development with current (Nokia) and future device launches (Christmas)

- Other: WP7 is coupled with Zune that is a great piece of SW; nothing similar on Android side. I would give 9/10 to WP7 and 6/10 to Android
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] syrenz:
Thanks guys. I was worried I would be getting "Android sucks GO WP7!" posts as replies, but responses so far have been exactly what I'm looking for - good analysis. Of course I'm not quite ready to make my decision, but does anyone have any idea of any upcoming T-mo or other AWS 1700/2100 band WP7 phones coming out soon? Do you think Nokia will make a 1700/2100 band Lumia?

On a side note - I find it dissapointing that there's no front facing camera on the lumia. With the skype buyout by microsoft that seems like a really poor decision.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MartyLK:
Yeah, MS is still ironing out WP7. It's still in the invention mode, so to speak, and probably in another year WP7 will be finally fully caught up to iOS. We all should begin to see some serious hardware by then.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] poyensa:
Not right section, this is not related to Q&A about WP7. Thread closed.
[myTouch 4G Themes and Apps] febycv:
There are so may themes, boot animations & splash screen in this section, but none of them has some patriotic feelings.

So,here is a collection of boot animations, splash screen & other stuffs truely dedicated to the Proud citizens of the United States.

I included the The Star-Spangled Banner music with the boot animation.

The flashable version of boot animation is for sense 3.0 Roms like Virtuous Unity.

Please tell your suggestion for further improvements.......:)

If you got something cool to share, then you can add your own collections here......:cool:

Splash Screen

Stock MT4G screen with the Great Seal.

Boot Animations with audio (flashable)

1. The US Marines

2. The US Air Force

3. The US Army

4. The US Navy

5. The US Coast Guard
[myTouch 4G Themes and Apps] CoNsPiRiSiZe:
I'm going to use one that's awesome dude. Thanks so much.
[myTouch 4G Themes and Apps] The Archangel:
Oorah, hell yes to the marine corp

From my fist to your face, enjoy.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] s049031:
I don't like not being able to have one adjustable volume for all alerts. Same thing goes for the missing silent mode...any ideas?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] tenaciousj:
Would be nice.

Sent from my Epic 4G Touch.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] schwab002:
I'm not sure exactly if this is what you're looking for but I use widgetsoid for a bunch of toggles and I found this volume panel as one of the options:
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] wrn1138:
Try Home, Menu, Settings, Sound, Volume.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] icexige:
i use audiomanager by smart android apps. under settings, there is an option to link ringer and notification volume.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] fnut6969:
Quicksettings gives you all of the volume options as well
[EVO 4G General] tgrantjr:
Ok, im at work and for some reason this happened. I dl revolutionary and ran it. I have s-off now. It tries to download cwm and i get a failure. i bet its from the work network. I try to go into recovery and it does not exist. I get the triangle with the !. What can i do to get recovery back? Is there a file i can download and rename to pc36img and flash it for the recovery? Can someone help me out please. thanks
[EVO 4G General] King_Me:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=705026

This thread has everything you need

Sent from my Super Sexy Classic EVO ;)
[EVO 4G General] tgrantjr:
Thank you so much. I searched but didnt see that post.
[EVO 4G General] King_Me:
No problem man. Always glad to help.

Sent from my Super Sexy Classic EVO ;)
[Droid 2 Global General] fechina:
*******************Pls remove..posted in wrong section**

I can't get this bootstrap program to work on my Droid 2...it will not give me all the options when I reboot into recovery..Pls help..
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ibrahima:
Hey guys I have a questions that bugging me.....I have the g2 and I want the sense browser to be ported over to nonsense g2 Bliss...the reason I want this is because that brower have thde option to disable. MOBILE VIEW and other roms don't...every time I try to put the apk file and download it it works but the browser force closes plz help anything or any browser with the option to disable mobile view is good

Thanks in advance
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nipqer:
See if the browser you use has a 'User Agent' option, if it does, change it to desktop or something. that will disable mobile veiw.

-Nipqer
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] killj0y:
It just use almost any third party browser, they pretty much all have that option
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaszek:
I use skyfire, and they have the option to change right in the toolbar.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] martonikaj:
Most every non-stock browser (Firefox, Miren, Dolphin, Opera, etc.) has the option built in to set the User Agent string to desktop.

The sense browser won't work on non-sense phones.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ajhavery:
I use dolphin browser and most of the time it displays the real content of the page.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ibrahima:
Thanks opera has the option
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WTF?:
Skyfire is a good choice for you because its default is NOT mobile view, so you would not have to change anything, just install it from market
[Droid 2 General] fechina:
I can't get this bootstrap program to work on my Droid 2...it will not give me all the options when I reboot into recovery in order to load a custom rom...I am rooted...Pls help..
[Droid 2 General] sd_shadow:
are you using Droid 3 bootstrap?

http://rootzwiki.com/topic/4792-release-cwm-recoverybootstrap-for-the-droid-3-by-hashcode/
[Droid 2 General] fechina:
Nope, we purchased Droid 2 Bootscrap Recovery..we installed the gummy rom and now nothing works...do we need to re-root, if so, what steps do I need to take?
[Droid 2 General] Jesushaxyou:
Why buy it? I downloaded the d2 app from 4shared and it works like a dream. Search it on there and install it. Also, click the bootstrap button before the boot into recovery button. (Duh, but it doesn't hurt make sure haha)
[Droid 2 General] Camspanners:
Hey, don't ever suggest stealing/pirating on this website again.

Sent from my Droid 3 via the air
[Droid 2 General] Jesushaxyou:
Sorry. Thought it was kosher considering the purpose of this forum. Ok, disregard the first half and read the second half.
[Droid 2 General] fechina:
return to stock

how do i return to stock if i cant get to my bootstrap?

Verzion Droid 2 (Rooted - Zroot)

system ver-2.3.20.A955.

android ver-2.2

baseband - BP_C_01.09.07P

kernel ver-2.6.32.9-g462500f

build#:squildly 2.3.20.2

eri:5 prl:52363
[Droid 2 General] Jesushaxyou:
Have you tried to SBF?
[Droid 2 General] fechina:
What is that?
[Droid 2 General] sd_shadow:
How are you getting to recovery?

What does the screen look like in recovery?
[Droid 2 General] JDunc:
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Motorola_Droid_2:_Full_Update_Guide
[Droid 2 General] fechina:
I am pressing the Power + X down, then the Search button to get to the recovery menu...

The only option I have is:

Reboot system now

apply sdcard:update.zip

wipe data/factory reset

wipe cache partition

At the bottom of screen, I am getting

error: E:Can't open /cache/recovery/command

We have the Bootscrap recovery for droid 2 loaded and it doesn't work.

Another thing I just found out is my daughter tried to accept an ota system update...This is when the problem started..

Pls help..

**************************

Verzion Droid 2 (Rooted - Zroot)

system ver-2.3.20.A955.

android ver-2.2

baseband - BP_C_01.09.07P

kernel ver-2.6.32.9-g462500f

build#:squildly 2.3.20.2

eri:5 prl:52363

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[Droid 2 General] sd_shadow:
ok you can try to get to Clockwork Recovery

phone off

press and hold camera button plug in charger

How to flash sbf-file (standard binary file/ return to stock rom)

- Download and install Motorola driver

- Download and install RSD Lite 4.9

- Open RSD Lite

- Enter Bootloader Mode on you phone (Power+both volume buttons)

- Connect phone to your PC (USB)

- Open RSD - Lite

- Flash new SBF
[Droid 2 General] Jesushaxyou:
This is the easiest method to sbf_flash.
[Focus General] pdangcil:
I'm having problems with my Focus to where it just restarts at random. Usually when I'm accessing the internet. It would also restart itself when i'm on Maps (sometimes). What's more puzzling is the fact that, if my Focus is plugged in to the charger, and i'm using the phone heavily (internet, twitter,...) it would restart but not fully restart. It would just keep flashing the Samsung logo over and over.... and over... and over again.

Help please!!!

I'm bummed that the Nokia Lumia is not coming to the States. Oh Titan, wherefore art thou?

:mad::mad::mad::mad:
[Focus General] sregitz:
Focus restarts continuously

Mine has been doing this ever since the Mango update. Does it most often with Bing Vision..also web browser use. It would just keep flashing the Samsung logo over and over.

Also have the disappearing keyboard.

Also have the issue where device refuses to charge on outlet or USB. Just continues to cycle power thinking it is empty...after removing battery phone reports full charge.

Did this even after a full reset of phone before any software installed. No sd card.

Do not have Zune freezing issue yet.

Focus v1.3
[Focus General] EnderPsp:
@pdangcil: what version of the OS are you on and what software Radio version do you have? Do you have a microSD card installed? How warm does the phone get during use (with&without internet)?

@sregitz: I'm guessing you're on Rogers? same questions
[Focus General] pdangcil:
I have the latest Mango installed with V1.3 running on my Focus. And no, I do not have an SD Card installed. I'm with AT&T and I've never really had any problems with them - I highly doubt it's a Network/Carrier thing. I believe it's the Samsung thing - defective, cheap and plasticky device.

I bought the Focus mainly because of the screen. But this issue is really irritating. And yes, just like the person above, I started getting this problem after the Mango update. And no, I will not roll back to NoDo. Mango is much sweeter.

What's odd is, it restarts ALMOST ALWAYS when the phone is plugged onto the wall and i'm on the internet with background music on (8Tracks or Soundtracker). It really sucks!

:mad:
[Focus General] EnderPsp:
You should report this problem to the MS WP7 forums. There are good people there and very responsive + MS might fix it for you and others (not warranted but I doubt anyone here can help you).
[Focus General] Cojois2b8321:
I purchased my Focus at Costco on 12.26.10. I have been having issues with retarting off and on for several months but much more so since the latest update. The problem is intermittent but sometimes worse than others - this past Saturday (12/10) my phone restarted itself at least a dozen times, Sunday at least 4 times. I have made several calls to the AT&T phone repair/replacement line - they instructed me to reset the phone to the factory setting (didn't help - seemed worse) and/or replace the battery. Since I am so close to my "year" - I don't want to waste the money on a new battery.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] |Melvin|:
Well As the tittle says, lets report the problem to samsung as we dont really like paying so much for faulty phones..

WE NEED A FIX FOR THE ISSUES ON THIS PHONES!

PLEASE GO HERE AND FILL THIS OUT
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] The_Biz:
T989 isn't on the list.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] hughey2k2:
Tmobiles Galaxy S 2 isn't up there yet
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] |Melvin|:
Just noticed it. Lets Blow samsing's twitter then

HERE, [URL="http://twitter.com/#!/SamsungJohn"]HERE And [URL="http://twitter.com/#!/SamsungMobileUS"]HERE[/URL][/URL]
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] KillaHurtz:
You PAID for your phone ?
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] |Melvin|:
Ahhh i guess.. besides the donatios i paid like 350
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-T989] AllGamer:
eehhh... did you guys miss the big sticky post in general?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1300404

that's the link they are expecting all the bugs and defects to be reported to
[Epic 4G General] machx0r:
So I recently switched from Windows 7 (32-bit) to Windows 7 (64-bit) because I upgraded my memory to more than 4GB and ever since I've been unable to reliably connect to my Epic 4G through adb. Before the upgrade I had no issues with connectivity and even creating a VM (Windows 7 (32-bit)) on the same machine connects to the phone ok. Have been searching for a solution for a while but haven't come across anything. The phone appears to connect ok in Win 7/64 but quickly goes offline.

Other android devices I own are working fine in Win 7/64 so I'm wondering if I'm just missing something or if the Samsung drivers have an issue with Win 7/64. Thanks in advance for any info...
[Epic 4G General] TexasLTE:
did u try DL drivers again ? = worked 4 me when I went from 32 to 64 myself ;)
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
I let Windows Update update my drivers and they work great on my 64 bit Gateway.
[Epic 4G General] machx0r:
The Win 7/64 was a clean install. However I have tried uninstalling all the devices from the device manager, rebooting, re-installing the Samsung exe, rebooting again and connecting the phone. Have also tried using USBDeview to remove any left over registry entries and what not.
[Epic 4G General] machx0r:
So you're saying you never even installed the Samsung drivers and just let Windows Update find the appropriate ones? If so this is not something I have tried... Maybe I should? :-)
[Epic 4G General] TexasLTE:
how 'bout trying a different USB port ?
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
Yeah. I plugged in the phone with USB debugging on, hit connect usb on phone and then went into Device Manager and found Samsung Android under USB. Hit update driver from Windows Update. Takes over 30 minutes to get them all.
[Epic 4G General] machx0r:
I've run out of ports I haven't tried. I'm going to try uninstalling the drivers I downloaded and letting Windows Update give me whatever like kennyglass123 suggested. Will let you all know how it goes. Thanks for the suggestions!
[Epic 4G General] TexasLTE:
You'll get it working right soon ;)
[Epic 4G General] poit:
I've been Odining and doing other USB things on my Win7 64bit Thinkpad T400 with no problems at all. I don't remember where I got the driver, it may have been the Samsung website, but the info panel says :
[Epic 4G General] machx0r:
Grrr... It still works off and on. Certainly not as reliable as my Win 7/32 laptop (or VM). Do you guys with working connections have to retry things often and/or disconnect/reconnect?

This is the kind of stuff I get:

C:\Users\ccharlton>adb shell
$ exit
exit

C:\Users\ccharlton>adb shell
$ exit
exit

C:\Users\ccharlton>adb shell

The last 'adb shell' command just hangs as does everything else until I dis/reconnect (ie: adb logcat). I can successfully repeat the same commands all day long on my Win 7/32 laptop/VM so I'm not sure...
[Epic 4G General] zanderman112:
Have you tried a different cable than the stock Samsung cable?
[Epic 4G General] KennyG123:
Yup, bad cable. Get a heavy duty Blackberry or Palm Pre cable.
[Epic 4G General] nutswillkillme:
I went through the same thing on win 7 64 on my buddies pc and we tried literally everything. He ended up swapping his motherboard at one point and low and behold it worked fine... I honestly think that microusb is so touchy that certain USB busses have compatibility/power issues, especially with non standard applications like odin or adb commands of any kind. On my PC I can only use my onboard USB ports. The ones on the front of my PC absolutely will not make it through a oneclickroot or Odin, yet I can plug into them and transfer data and charge my phone no prob. Very frustrating.
[Epic 4G General] sonarchist:
getting win7 to detect + load drivers for your samsung device is a bit trial/error, where the PC auto detecting + loading drivers part usually works out fine but the SDcard file won't mount (even after tapping 'USB connected/Mount') .......have experienced a conflict where the drivers were obviously installed yet MyComputer would not show the device as an external drive (to the mounted SDfile in the Epic)........in that instance have instead Odin'd the device and flashed a ROM (proving the usb cable was ok)........thereafter have been able to run SWUpdater --again, using the supplied samsung usb cable-- or else mount the SD card direct to the win7 and work w/ the SD file in MyComputer, something that it had not allowed me initially to do.

Edit: was on the PC last night (win7professional 64 bit) and experienced this very issue again , the external card on the device mounted (w/ PC notification beep), but not viewable as external drive.......tried changing various cables, + finally re-booted both the PC + Epic (was not going to ODIN as i did last time w/ this issue), and FINALLY the D: drive appeared!.............very likely (as others on this thread have suggested) the cable is the culprit, what else could it be?
[Epic 4G General] machx0r:
Ya I'm at a loss here...

- All three USB cables I have work fine w/ another laptop (Win 7/32), on the same laptop while redirected to a VM (Win 7/32, different system drivers since it's a VM), and in the past on the same laptop when it was Win 7/32...

- I get connected for a brief period of time if I connect/reconnect (it's a crap shoot and honestly something like 'adb logcat' will run forever [when it works] as long as I don't disconnect)

So I'm not really sure what the issue is as there as so many potential targets. Very frustrating...
[Epic 4G General] chkchkboom:
I have trouble now and again where i get a lockup when transfering files(using winxp) to my epic and explorer crashes.

I cross my fingers whenever im transfering large files. Im also using the latest samsung driver off thier site.

Ive also used many different types and quality of cables and all of them act the same. Bleh
[Epic 4G General] ac16313:
I had this happen too I link it to having a bad ROM I odin'd and problem went away.

I know lol it would suck because id be sitting there transferring a 10mb file and next thing you know windows exlorer crashes I'm like wtf??! Lol

Sent from my SPH-D700
[Epic 4G General] camrok:
Use different cable

Had that problem with stock cable. I use my kindle micro usb cable and it works fine.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] hashas:
hi,

i want to change the imei number of my galaxy s gt i9003 with the imei number of a old htc t3333. what is the best way of doing it. after the change there will be any problem with gsm and 3g services?thanks in advance :)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] fedaa1426:
Also me I need it
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Alucardis666:
Thanks for the tip bud.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Rocky7032:
Thanks really needed this I'm a quick learner but the terms allways help. Btw Miui is awesome!
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] tejones36:
Glad to help. Hopefully the thread won't get totally buried in the blizzard of posts here. :)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] tejones36:
If anyone can point to a post that gives information on different Galaxy S II modems and kernel's, I'll start updating the post.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Dungeon47:
Add in AFAIK (as far as I know)

IIRC (if I remember correctly)