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[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
In my case, the issues are a matter of clear and effective instructions. That's all I'm going on about. The example of Spotify being in "Offline mode" is one that needs an explanation that if the system is in "Offline mode", what is that and how do I change it. The only thing that is said is, "You can't access playlists in offline mode". Okay...ummm...thank you for informing me of that, Spotify. Now would you mind ever so much to tell me what I need to do to get to "Online mode" so I can access those playlists?

In MS, Apple's case, they need to set the system up in such a way that leads a person directly into knowing how to setup SkyDrive, iCloud and such and explain in a common user's language of how files are selected, what might be going on if files aren't appearing, things you can and can't do with SkyDrive....like whether or not it will work for playing music and such. The issue with the iCloud is that it supposedly streams music to my iPhone 4, but I spent 30 minutes trying to find how to make it do that and Googled and searched and got nowhere. Before iOS5 and the iCloud, I knew what to do to get my phone ready for an update. I would sync it to backup all of my docs, info and apps and all was good. Now, however, with the iCloud, it supposedly syncs to it. But tonight, when I started to update my iPhone to the latest release, iOS 5.0.1, it popped up a message saying I had new apps that weren't backed up and I proceeded to sync my iPhone but didn't see the progress of the apps being backed up. I was thinking to myself, "will I lose my games saves if these apps are deleted and I have to manually put them back on?".

No apps were deleted but I still have no good understanding of what the iCloud is doing for backing stuff up. If they figure out how to explain this stuff to us so we can grasp it a bit better, they would achieve a lot.

By the way, I'm in Gates, Ballmer's, Jobs generation for age. Though I think maybe they are slightly older....1 to 3 years.
[Windows Phone 7 General] PG2G:
I think I agree with you when it comes to things like iCloud, it is a bit much and does more than I think it needs to.

I think we'd both agree that the cloud is best when the user doesn't know that it exists. A few examples I can think of

1. Read up to page X of an eBook on your phone, you go to your tablet and open the eBook and its at page X

2. Contacts, texts, etc that sync to the cloud so that if you lose your phone they are back as soon as you setup a new one

3. Zune Pass / Smart DJ will automatically generate a playlist that is a mixture of streamed and local music
[Windows Phone 7 General] vetvito:
^ iCloud supposedly does all of that and more.
[Windows Phone 7 General] PG2G:
Yeah, was just giving examples of seamless use of the Cloud. Some of that more are the problem though. Things like automatically syncing music purchases, pictures, and apps is a bit much in my opinion. I'd rather download the music and apps again (because I don't necessarily want the same apps and music on each device) and pictures (why store them locally on each device when you could just access them over the web via an app).

I haven't actually used iCloud so I only go by what I read. I wouldn't be surprised if you could turn some of that stuff off.
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
I just got through uploading about 12 folders of pics and docs to SkyDrive through Windows Live Mesh and tried to find them on my phone in the SkyDrive section of the Office app and nothing. Nada, zilch, zip, zero. None of what I just uploaded is showing up on my phone.

Here's where MS needs to explain WTH is going on.
[Windows Phone 7 General] PG2G:
I'm with you here. Live Mesh is some bullsh*t and Microsoft needs to do something about it. I believe Live Mesh syncs to a separate part of the SkyDrive (limited to 5 gigs). It really is stupid, haha. I've got no excuses for that one :/
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
I don't understand that. My understanding is that SkyDrive is 5GB for free. I'm not even aware of different versions of it. I just followed instructions which said I needed to load Mesh...install if it wasn't...in order to upload files. I didn't know it sent files to a different part of SD.
[Windows Phone 7 General] PG2G:
SkyDrive is actually 25 gigs :) If you go to http://skydrive.live.com, that is what your Windows Phone will see. It is essentially just online file storage.

Live Mesh is actually something else that is meant to sync files across different computers, it is limited to 5 gigs. If you go to http://devices.live.com/, you will see "SkyDrive synched storage" which is where the Live Mesh stuff goes.

Don't think there are any good tools for batch uploading to SkyDrive, but there is a way to map it like a network drive so that would allow you just copy folders into it.

Hope that clears it up a little bit. I know it's a mess, haha. Microsoft really needs to integrate these two services.
[Windows Phone 7 General] hotnikkelz:
Yeah it's as PG2G says.

You get 25 GBs storage for uploads. Best used for read only items, pdfs etc. A Back-up in the cloud. And you get 5gb SYNCED STORAGE, which is what operates under live mesh. This operates like dropbox, and syncs whatever folder YOU choose and operates seamlessly in the background. IT is actually VERY good. However in typical Microsoft fashion, they have a good thing yet they take forever to implement it everywhere they should so windows phone does NOT tap into the synced storage :/ BOOOOOOO.

There are some 3rd party windows 7 apps that allow you to batch upload and integrate with explorer...but Microsoft should be the one doing this ala dropbox. We shouldn't require a 3rd party app. They should just look at what dropbox does, and do the same exact thing....but they're kinda dumb :)
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
Still doesn't matter. SkyDrive is more a hassle than a help. I just selected a bunch of pictures to upload and 1 picture appears.

Screw the cloud in all of it's forms and brands. It's the worst invention humanity has ever come up with. I'll have noting to do with it. If MS endeavors to reduce physical phone storage in favor of the cloud, they will destroy WP7 as surely as the cloud sucks to the highest heaven.
[Windows Phone 7 General] hotnikkelz:
I wouldn't go so far.....

One shouldn't replace the other. Cloud is VERY useful, Microsoft just doesn't implement it well enough. Don't use that as a basis to call it the 'man's worst possible invention'. You said that you're in the baby boomer demographic but you're sounding very childish (no offence) ;) be reasonable.
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
True. I was frustrated...severely...at the time. It's really annoying how MS's programs sync and how unintuitive they are and how lacking of instructions...non-master's degree type instructions...or non-headache inducing type instructions...they are.
[Windows Phone 7 General] JustinTV773:
I'm sorry but the cloud is far from being the worst invention. I've had no problems accessing or using it. In office it shows where it is right from the start. Also if you use live mesh to sync it won't be recognized by WP as that is a different area than the rest of SkyDrive

Sent from my T7575 using Board Express
[Windows Phone 7 General] bennyj71:
I thought Live Mesh was shutdown.
[Windows Phone 7 General] hotnikkelz:
Nope live mesh is well....very alive. I use it all the time. It works in the background in system tray keeping folders in sync ala dropbox
[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
No.

Learn to toggle?

You can basically toggle off iCloud in the iOS settings.

Or you can just nit create an iCloud account. Its actually not required to use the device and is separate from your appleid.
[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
You're better off just synching your camera roll, IMO. I don't see no Erasmus to not do it if you have a 2+ gb data plan. It syncs to a private album just like icliud and Google+ instant upload (which sends it to Picasso iirc)
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
What I was wanting to do, with the iCloud, SkyDrive and Spotify, was stream music to see if it could be something worthwhile and to observe the battery life since MS is pushing the cloud storage. But unfortunately I can't get any of them to work. I can't even find the iCloud music streaming function and I looked everywhere I could think of and even Googled for instructions but nothing that a search brought up was any help and I now know SkyDrive doesn't do music streaming. Spotify is a mystery why it doesn't work.
[Windows Phone 7 General] PG2G:
Did you not notice the line where I said I haven't used it and it can probably be turned off?
[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
That should have been where you discarded that post. If you haven't used it, don't try to have an opinion about it.
[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
iTunes Match is not live yet. The toggle exists in the OS, but the service is not yet live. That why you cannot find it.
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
Makes sense. At least I did find that particular toggle.
[Windows Phone 7 General] PG2G:
Please, I don't need to have used it to understand what it does.
[General Questions and Answers] Wilhedgehog:
I have accidentally flashed my samsung galaxy s I9000 with odin3 one click downloader for samsung galaxy s I897

Now Im stuck with a att logo in my claro phone and if I try to flash with odin it does nothing and with heimdall it just crash...

Is there a way to resolve this problem??

(I'm willing to buy a beer :D)
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] NOWO1983:
CC LAUNCHER is a launcher "3d", it is on the market, it's free!! But is only in Chinese language, any idea to star cc launcher in Spanish or english???
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] NOWO1983:
Ok, no anwers, anyone knows about other 3d launcher?
[LG Optimus 2x] sidus86:
Hi there,

the XDA community is great and I thank you anyway,

I'm searching for a good radio update for my 2x, I have MIUI and I flashed an unstable radio.

Can you show a stable one ?
[General Questions and Answers] Mykhailo Malega:
Hay Guys, I know it’s an old PC phone, buy I just wonder if there is a way to give a new life to it and improve its performance by installing Android on it.

This is for XDA lli model its also called Qtek 2020i or HTC Alpine or HTC Himalaya.

Is any one knows what Version of Android will be suitable on it? And if possible what steps are necessary to install it? :confused:

Many Thanks
[HTC Desire S] cobrax2:
Hi

Just a quick question. I have been using a nexus one, with go launcher. if i switch to a desire s with sense, can i deactivate sense? on the stock rom, and use go launcher instead?

thank you
[HTC Desire S] Tectas:
You for sure can use go launcher instead, but without root you can't kill sense, cause of this it would always run in background.

Swyped from my Desire S
[HTC Desire S] cobrax2:
thanks for answering me

and with root, how can it be killed?

thanks again
[HTC Desire S] sadsac:
Sense is very built into the rom. But there's plenty of non sense roms, cm based including miui etc
[Milestone 2 General] czajunia:
I've been using CyanogenMod for a while on my M2. BTW, works like a charm and installation was painless - thanks a lot for all the tips and your hard work.

One thing I am missing quite a lot from the stock ROM (probably the only thing, really) is having dictionary suggestions displayed at the bottom of the screen when using the physical keyboard (as when using any onscreen keyboard). I have searched the settings menus and simply can't find it anywhere. I have even installed MIUI for a while to see if it was there but no luck either.

Am I missing something or is this feature only available on stock ROM? If so, do you think it would be possible to have it ported to CM7 or any other non-stock ROM in that matter? That would be quite useful especially considering that the M2 keyboard is a little bit on a rubbish side - improved a lot with the Debounce fix though.

Thanks a lot for any suggestions!
[Milestone 2 General] wadimka:
Smart Keyboard Pro is quiet good!
[Milestone 2 General] czajunia:
But this is on-screen keyboard, isn't it?
[Milestone 2 General] wadimka:
yes, but got also auto-correct for HW keyboard with many languages
[Milestone 2 General] czajunia:
Oh, didn't know that. I'll have a look. Cheers.

This is quite odd though. Doesn't it mean that installing a stock keyboard patch would bring this feature back? I installed it and the stock on-screen keyboard was fine but I am fairly certain it didn't work. Unless there were some settings I missed.
[Milestone 2 General] czajunia:
Works fine actually. Thanks a lot for the tip wadimka.

Wonder if there is a free app with the same functionality.
[Milestone 2 General] czajunia:
I ended up using GO Keyboard. I like the interface more, the dictionary seems to be a bit better for some reason (not sure if that's even possible :) ) and on top of that it's free.

I am fairly certain I have tried it before as I use other GO apps including GO Launcher and the dictionary wasn't working with the built-in keyboard. Looks like I must have messed up some settings.
[HD7 General] bigjrocc27:
Just a question guys..I was wondering will there ever be a way to change this text alerts an email alerts with custom tones without having to unlock the phone and, using the chevron app.
[HD7 General] Irrdial:
Probably, but not at the moment.
[HD7 General] bigjrocc27:
I hope so...
[HD7 General] GoodDayToDie:
Hmm, my crystal ball is murky. Let me try summoning a demon that can see the future and ask it...

Seriously, what's the point of questions like this? Microsoft doesn't announce their feature plans fan enough in advance for us to know yet - it could be in the very next version and we wouldn't know yet - and I would be quite shocked if any MS employees decided to give out confidential internal info on a public forum, so I hope you're not expecting that.
[HD7 General] bigjrocc27:
Was not expecting either one sarcasm nor the likely hood of them giving out that information...remember in the beginning I stated just a question which is what it was...Mr./Mrs. Intelligent.....Thank You Bigjrocc27
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GT-I9100G:
Hello

I have a Samsung Galaxy I9100G

I need Root

Version information

Model Number

GT-I9100G

Android version

2.3.4

Baseband version

I9100GDZKH5

Kernal version

2.6.35.7

root @ DELL81 # 2

Build number

GINGERBREAD.JPKH8

Do you help me explore

And how I can take a backup of my 2.3.4 is available

Thank you​
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CMvan:
So I tried rooting and flashing my phone tonight. I messed up somewhere along the line and almost bricked my phone (phone--!--pc). I lucked into getting it into download mode and I flashed what I thought was a stock rom which is in the link here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=748131

I am on the Bell network in Canada with a Samsung Galaxy S Vibrant by the way.

Now I got that rom to work eventually as in it doesn't boot loop and I have wi-fi working. Every now and then I get service through bell for text messages and voice calls but for the most part I only get "emergency calls only" or "no service."

I have no 3g connection whatsoever at any time.

I'm in desperate need for this to work properly even if it means losing the root I really don't care at this point. Just a working phone. Any help is greatly appreciated and thanks for your time.

Edit: Okay I did more research and finally found these APN settings: http://androidforums.com/optimus-on...l-canada-internet-settings-lg-p500h-help.html

The 3g network seems to be working now and phone service and text messaging works more often than before but I still get a lot of emergency call only and no mobile network messages. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tkruijer:
Go into recovery. Same buttons as download mode but instead of volume down you press volume up. When you are in recovery mode, search voor the reset and when you reset you phone, it will probably have the original rom installed again. That should help! Let me know if it works!
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] vishal24387:
Guys first of all sory for making a new thread but I think its a discussion topic so I created a saperate topic.

I talked with developer doomlord regarding SOD issue in overclocking. He said that we should look into similar device having same chipset omap 3630 which have overclocked successfully. I searched on net & I found motorola defy which has same chipset & also they have lot of developement regarding overclocking, official CM7 (fully functional camera, video player), undervolting etc.

So i want to ask/discuss with u people that should our developer take defy for developement of i9003 or not?
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] ayush95gupta:
A try should be made.......!!

Ya our great developers should make a serious try.....and i hope they will succeed..in overlocking..best of luck to them:cool:
[Samsung Galaxy SL i9003] big_sky:
No problem.. more dev on our phone is sound like good.. but look for a friendly and easy to carry discuss.. hehehe
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brandy1402:
Hellou,

i spend much time with remaping hw buttons but still without succesfully. I try everything what i know and what i found here. In es209ra_keypad.kl are just normal buttons (non long-press). For search key may be there a key 217 but it isn´t there and when i added nothing happened. Search key is for me priority, becasue i want use it for CALL (exactly for Call log). In CM this works.I tried menu long press and it works for another app, but I can´t find there app Call log :confused: and why ? I don´t know...Search key long-press isn´t work for any apps...so have somebody idea how can I do that? Just touch for long search key and execute Call log no search and for short normal menu.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brandy1402:
any idea??? developers please help :(
[General Questions and Answers] mk3pete:
Hi all Sorry if this has been asked already but search came up with nothing

I'm From Australia so my carrier is telstra

My desire s came pre installed with a bunch of crap

Some still useful though

Hoping there was an easy way to get rid of some of them

IV already tried manage applications but doesn't give an option to Uninstall

Cheers Pete
[General Questions and Answers] bklaas92:
To do this, your phone has to be rooted and you have to install 'Root Explorer' from the Market. Then; follow this steps:

1. Open Root Explorer

2. Go to the root (a '/' is shown in the upperleft corner if you are in root menu)

3. Go to the 'system' folder

4. Inside the system-folder, open the 'app' folder

5. Find the app you want to uninstall, but don't delete it..

Instead, move it to another location

so in case something goes wrong, you can move it back.

6. Reboot your phone
[General Questions and Answers] incapable:
The only way(as far as I know) is rooting your device and uninstalling a tool which actually supports this option, normally the stock application manager will not allow this. I have seen this in the forums already so I recommend to do a little more searching.

---------- Post added at 03:58 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:49 PM ----------

You forgot to tell you actually need to ROOT the phone to successfully use root explorer
[General Questions and Answers] s2kdave:
You have to root your phone in order to do that. Most providers put those preinstalled apps in the system directory where you need root permissions.
[General Questions and Answers] bklaas92:
@incapable: read my post again... i did say that phone must be rooted
[General Questions and Answers] incapable:
yes i saw it, sorry
[General Questions and Answers] orgwizard:
found rooting my vibrant then using titanium backup did the trick...you can backup the apps then before you remove them...and what I did as I started slowly experimenting with what was safe, is the freeze option in titanium backup...so you can basically keep the apps inactive without having to risk removing them...

so you can see what if any negative affect it may have.
[General Questions and Answers] mk3pete:
cheers for the replies people

i recently installed app brain

which allows me to manage my apps

i havent tried it yet but it gave me the option to Uninstall the programs i want rid of

twitter for example
[General Questions and Answers] mk3pete:
Uninstall not successful :-P
[General Questions and Answers] Dark-DJ:
You must have ROOT before removing apps by a program.
[General Questions and Answers] siem123:
they should forbid those preinstalled apps. it always sucks..
[General Questions and Answers] silentsigma:
so titanium backup allows you to back up just apps?
[General Questions and Answers] jimbo.levy:
Correct. System apps and user apps. It also enables you to remove them. That includes any manufacturer's bloatware.
[HTC Sensation] Pluto:
Instead of making two threads I'll combine them in one, even though the first question might belong in the RAZR forums but it isn't really active so..

1) I'm confused what to get between the XE and the RAZR, the RAZR is technically the better device but I'm quite concerned about the lack of dev support in Motorola devices and Motorola's generally weak support. The only big difference is really the RAMs (Which makes the RAZR noticeably faster in videos) and the front camera which I really don't care about. The dev support is quite scary though, especially since it probably won't get ports of other OSes in the future. The Rezound could've solved my problem but it's only US-bound. :mad:

If you were in my position what would you chose? And why? (P.S I'm not a big fan of the Galaxy SII so don't recommend it to me)

2) If I got the XE (Which I picked over the Sensation pretty much due to the headphones and design lol, no big difference) will I be able to flash non-Sense roms such as MIUI and Cyanogen? Is it possible to keep the software Beats function in the ROMs?

Thanks.
[HTC Sensation] malybru:
Hi,

In answer to your first question:

Sorry,I know nothing about RAZR.

In answer to your second question:

Yes,you can install any custom ROM once you have s-off.

The beats SOFTWARE is just that:SOFTWARE.

If it is included in the ROM,then you will have it.

There many ROMS in which this is included.

:)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mohsin786:
HELP!

I recently updated my ROM through ROM manager, i updated to the cyanogen mod 7, however when i proceeded to download the Google add-on pack, my nexus one restarted and kept rebooting, now it refuses to work. it just about boots up, and then it will just shut down and restart. Please advise on how to fix, also i cant send to HTC because my warranty is void

Thanks
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cyberstoic:
I switch back and forth between miui and CM7 on my nexus and had that happen once.Here is what I did......

First I redownloaded the rom on my computer. I wanted a clean download to make sure that it wasn't a bad download that was causing the problem.

Next, I booted into recovery, selected mounts and storage, connected the phone to the puter via usb and selected usb mount and copied the new download over. When done unmount the phone, disconnect the cable, and back out of that menu in recovery.

Now I wiped everything. Then went into "advanced" in recovery and wiped the dalvik. Then backed out of that and went into "mounts and storage" and formatted /boot and /system to make sure there was nothing left from any previous roms.

Then I backed out of that and "install zip from sd card", selected the new download of the rom and reflashed it. Flashed gapps afterward and rebooted from the menu.

It worked and that took care of it. I am not sure if it was a bad download, that there was bits of a previous rom floating around in /system or something else I didn't even know, but it worked and I do this now whenever I am switching from one rom to another.

Hope that helps.