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[Windows Phone 7 General] Alcoholic:
I already have a first gen HTC windows phone. For me to buy a 2nd gen wp it would mean i won't be able to upgrade my phone (at a discount) until 2014. The Titan is an excellent phone and probably the best wp but it is not going to last me through 2014.

Titan is an upgrade over my first gen wp but barely. It can't do anything my current wp can't do other than video chat using ff camera.
[Windows Phone 7 General] nicksti:
I think there is a misunderstanding that happens.

When people say Windows Phone updates are too slow I think what they really mean is the feature gap is not closing fast enough.

There are a handful of reasons why someone may consider moving from a first gen to a second gen WP. Games would be one. I am waiting for a good deal on the Lumia 800. I don't need FFC or quad core. Good battery life and stability are much more important to me.
[Windows Phone 7 General] drupad2drupad:
Yeah true said, but going to android -how will that help?

Especially when major update for Windows isn't that far away as such. Probably mid-2012 if this rumour is false and if recent news are true. Those 3rd gen phones will surely have better specs and software too! I would suggest wait till end of Feb b4 you jump the ship ;)
[Windows Phone 7 General] drupad2drupad:
Battery life has been amazing on my Titan so far. I thought with all these live tiles and so much updates on tiles constantly I might run out of juice, but has never happened to me. Well, unless I play games for good 3-4 hours!
[Windows Phone 7 General] Alcoholic:
Because the specs of android especially the 720p display is very tempting. I refuse to use iTunes and other icrap.
[Windows Phone 7 General] koolkid09:
Well if you do go Android, Please get a Galaxy Nexus. Or your views on Android could be skewed. Sad to say that is the only device to give you a pure idea of Android (besides the Nexus S, but the phone is old) as you will likely never see updates with other devices.
[Windows Phone 7 General] ohgood:
people are actually suggsting to "wait 4-5 months for a possible hardware/software update" ?

also, this is a very good argument for not relying on contract "upgrades" for new phones. the lock in and waiting game is just to much for me. :-)
[Windows Phone 7 General] XxAndrexX:
I really don't get why the hell is it so hard to bring skype!!!!!

I had skype on my old Windows mobile a couple of years ago, maybe 3, and it worked perfectly!!!! now, every ****in dumbphone has the App except WP7. and with the reléase dates of tango and apollo, good night microsoft, go on sleeping.

ah, by the way, I actually don't have wifi theetering on the phone and not even night mode on video camera.

thanks god I've my 2 years old Nokia with Skype ad perfect videocamera nd wifi theetering.

I would use my old WM6 HTC, but Microsoft discontinued that cool system :(
[Windows Phone 7 General] drupad2drupad:
I think you should look at it as not 'discontinuted' but instead haven't introduced. Remember WinMO and WinPho are two separate operating systems! It's written from scratch this time. Yes I totally agree that they are too slow in deliverying certain key features and apps but when they do it, they do it solidly different! e.g. facebook integration, pictures hub integration and office integration. At least you don't have to buy the high end phone to experience this! ;)
[Windows Phone 7 General] Alcoholic:
Ya, I follow the latest mobile technology. Im waiting for CES to see if anything good comes out soon. If not I'll buy the nexus even though camera is disappointing I can't deny pure vanilla android on good hardware.
[Windows Phone 7 General] PG2G:
You'll probably want to wait to MWC in February if you can. I think that's where most major mobile announcements come.
[Windows Phone 7 General] nicksti:
What do you mean?
[Windows Phone 7 General] ohgood:
People are suggesting that users not happy with a current situation should wait 4-5 more months, for an only possible update with no specifics of what is actually being updated. This applies to both the software (wp7.x) and the hardware (dual-cores, better camers, LTE, etc).
[Windows Phone 7 General] PG2G:
The only suggestion of waiting I see here is until February, which makes plenty of sense considering that is MWC and is when major announcements will come for both Android and Windows Phone.
[Windows Phone 7 General] nicksti:
So what is the alternative? I just literally cannot understand this "wait" issue.

If someone is unhappy with Windows Phone I would suggest you cut your losses and move on. It is better to get something you want now and pay a penalty upfront that to suffer for an unknown period of time.
[Windows Phone 7 General] ohgood:
well, if there was a possibility of folks creating their own apps (becoming developers) that would be the best idea. as far as cutting losses or paying a ETF (most folks are on contracts) and then paying for another phone out of pocket, it's pretty pricey to do that. i was just wondering out loud i suppose. :)
[Windows Phone 7 General] Dr.8820:
I laugh at some of the comments in this thread...my HD7 is over a year old...still works great...some of you have phones that all of a sudden stopped working properly because a better phone was announced or the update schedule is too long a wait...but they'll jump to an Android (only 1 phone shipped with ICS, the other had update issues), or the iPhone, which won't be updated until June...but Microsoft is bad lol.....ICS was announced in the summer!

Sent from The ACSyndicate Tower using XDA Windows Phone 7 App
[Windows Phone 7 General] prohibido_por_la_ley:
yup Apple and Google can do no wrong.
[Windows Phone 7 General] dazza9075:
Completely agree, i have the HD2 which is the older brother to your HD7 and its still great, a 2 year old device, ill patiently wait until a WP update or my phone dies by then im sure there will be newer devices but at the end of the day, this phone still does what it does very well, an im more than happy with it. I think some people seem to get sucked in to this cutting edge trap, its new! it MUST be better mentality.

To be fair, people should be happy they get upgrades at all. you buy a device, you live with it. Theres very little else in this world that has this upgrade model, and i think people are now seeing the signs of problems this brings with it, Android network, "yes you CAN have the update, but we're not going to pay to do it" when we can get you to buy a new phone instead

anyhow everything about that device you buy is available on the net somewhere so theres no excuse, I wouldnt buy a WP7 device now because Apollo will be here next year, ill buy it because it suites my needs now, updates along the way are a bonus.
[Windows Phone 7 General] drupad2drupad:
Yup you couldn't have put it better! ;)
[Windows Phone 7 General] ohgood:
Great opinions !
[Windows Phone 7 General] drupad2drupad:
...... +1 ;)
[Windows Phone 7 General] the_Enlightened:
I'd say that Mango measures up well against ios5... Tango is the "cheap phone-update"... at least that's what I thought. Getting the alerts on top of the screen was a giant leap in ios5:)
[Windows Phone 7 General] falconeight:
Who cares the os is fine as is. Anything else is a bonus. Most of time anyone updates software it messes it up.
[Windows Phone 7 General] danielmegson:
Skype app is now available in Beta... I got a link sent from Insider... App is ok but needs polishing hence beta status. My big complaint is why to the UK get stuck with the Omnia when the Focus is far better? I got a Focus shipped from the states and got it running on O2 and I love it.

h ttp: //ww w. windowsphone .com/ru-RU /apps/ c3f8e570-68b3-4d6a-bdbb-c0a3f4360a51
[Windows Phone 7 General] pillsburydoughman:
pure speculation I would guess. What do you mean nowhere near enough time? They better develop fast or they are gonna fade away like RIM.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] iSaint:
Anyone try this yet ??

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=873276

I know it worked on my OG Epic ... and this phone has pretty much the same mic ... but im scared to be first to try ... :p

Here are some pics of my OG Epic with the mic silver ... I used a razor blade
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] il buono:
I didn't even know about that! Come on. Someone here take one for the team. I give you many thanks :D:D:D

Sent from my E4GT
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] iSaint:
Me 2 !!! :)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bluefire808:
That would be sweet, chrome looking baby! Im going to keep cheching back for sure
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
I just read the first 5 pages of that thread...hilarious! I am not brave enough to try it though. Maybe Mazook can offer up another prize for the first one that does it like in that lowest Quadrant thread..lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] iSaint:
Lol .... anyone ... anyone at all ?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] il buono:
Would another bounty thread help out? ;)

Sent from my E4GT
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] droidiac13:
LMAO! Come on now. Someone get to it!

Sent from my Team Nocturnal'd Epic 4G Touch.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] djjosh:
Maybe a little dremel tool could do the job
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] iSaint:
Thanks lol my bad fixed title
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] JohnCorleone:
Nobody yet?!?! Lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] djjosh:
It may work , I'm thinking it may also rust if its not the right metal or it could be plastic .

Use an old screen protector to mask around it then get some fine sandpaper and buffing wheel, don't forget to suck out the holes if there's no filter
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] cruckus:
ill do it I'm a tech so I can either replace any parts or just have a fellow tech order me a phone. Advantage to being one of sprints pawns.

Edit: just put up a thread for it remember to thank if I've helped you haha
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] AnnitaAlwaysInTroubles:
Hello, ive searched enought to find the right place to post so sorry if this place is not the right one..

I just reseted my xperia, rooted it and deleted some system apps. Im sure that i deleted the right things! I turned off the mobile but now for a strange reason when turning it on it freezes to the startup se image..Ive tried many times and it wont go on..I dont know how to reset it via se pc companion, it requires to connect it via its screen but i cant do this since my phone is always stuck..Is there an other way to reset it without having my mobile being turned on? I dont know what to do, my mobile is totally useless atm so please tell me if theres a solution, thank you.
[Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini] lowsmoke:
Start the "companion", seus. Press support zone, find repair option, simple. Follow instructions. I think i remember it to be, press and hold back button, while connecting it too pc...but just follow the directions there.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Genious:
This is the feature that miss the most from my thunderbolt anyone got any suggestions
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cc16177:
Download the app called exdialer and there's an ICS theme.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jamontoast1291:
I used to use Youlu. It integrates SMS with the dialer, which I always liked. It's a very nice looking app and has some themes to pick from.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] dehelflix:
theres several roms that use the CM t9 dialer as well, its the stock 4.0 dialer with smart dialing (t9) added, im using gummy's rom and its worth flashing for.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] player911:
I posted the dialer in this forum. Needs a a custom rom.

It worked better on Rootzboat V4 that I manually copied in. I since went to CM9 kangs and it locks up some. Notably when entering T9 digits. It just locks. I don't 100% think its the dialer but the rom itself.

Galaxy Nexus - 4.0.3 CM9

Asus Transformer - 3.2 Revolver
[Samsung Infuse 4G] dotpkmdot:
Out of curiosity has anyone else had an issue with keeping the power cable connected snugly to the phone? I've been noticing that my power cable is barely staying connected to the phone and even the slightest of pressure on it pops the cable right out.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Ph0z3:
cant say that i have.. mine stays firmly snapped in.

suggestion: plug it in, then tuck the wire under the phone, then set the phone on top of it, so it holds on to it.

or

get a new charger? i have my old charger from my Milestone next to my bed, it works just as well. most chargers from htc, motorola, and other galaxy devices fit in also.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] phazeonphoenix:
Yeah new cable or charger should do the trick
[Samsung Infuse 4G] diablo009:
I faced this issue once with captivate. One of the third party cables was sitting properly. So I feel a new cable/charger should set yours right.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] jpapa1086:
Same here, although I realized my charger had a hairline crack. I bought a third party charger that has the thicker end to it where it connects and it works great
[Samsung Infuse 4G] kywildcats:
My first cable that came with the phone broke within a month or two. I bought some new cables and now my phone will not charge half of the time
[Samsung Infuse 4G] doctahjeph:
I find that the HTC cables fit better than the samsung ones. I threw away my samsung cable because it would stop charging halfway through the night.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] thephoneguy206:
I believe when you buy the infuse, depending how long ago, more recently made infuses had an upgraded cable. I know cuz I've had about 10 of em ;) the the stock cable you want is labeled "U4". Stays in there real snug. The other cable "T..." is a piece of junk. It bricked my phone multiple times due to disconnecting.

/cable master out
[Samsung Infuse 4G] JDBoogie:
Anybody found a cable that will charge and do data transfer?

---------- Post added at 08:56 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:54 PM ----------

Ive found plenty that will charge but wont data xfer.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] GGXtreme:
Mine did after it was accidentally yanked out several times. I just use 3rd-party microUSB cables now, which all fit fine (but the original cable doesn't).
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Nerz:
I'm not noob to flashing or soft brick recovering but this has me confused...

I was running unNamed lastest for a lil while now. Everything was working fine until here recently, while stopped at a rest area checking a webpage my phone cut of and got stuck on a boot loop, only showing the kernal splash screen. Was like wtf? Tried pulling battery ,wiping cache and dalvik. No help. Was like that's fine, have a cwm back up from week ago. Nope didnt work. Was like ok let me try flashing something on my phone that's saved on sd. Flashed Miui, didn't work. Finally got back and tried using this Odin One click "Odin3 One-Click Downloader Stock I-777 UCKH7 with Root no BL" by entropy from the flashing without triggering flash counter guide. Still boot loops only showing the black Samsung Galaxy S II screen. This is after 3 what the odin says as 3 successful flash attempts.

I'm at my wits end, of all the soft bricking i've recovered from, where I assumed as long as a bad bootloader flash didn't happen and i could still get to download mode I'm fine, it could be fixed. But this has me stumped.

*After going into 3e recovery and trying to wipe data, it won't even now go back into 3e recovery. Attempts to but says something like deleting cryption meta data or something of that nature.

-confused-
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Entropy512:
The one-click downloader is NOT from me, it's a repack of my tar file - and it's starting to sound like the one-click is doing something weird and not flashing the kernel properly.

Use regular old Odin (or Heimdall) to flash the raw tar package.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Nerz:
I'll try it. Though I don't understand how I am in the position I am in from browsing the web on my phone to directly going into a hootloop that neither that odin one click will fix, or any cwm roms won't fix.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Nerz:
I won't have access to computer till later today but I'm trying to figure out what could be wrong. I was thinking that maybe my partitions were bad, but doesn't that odin used, repartition, using a pit file (think that is what pit is for)? Although, this was not from a flash, but rebooted from a couple weeks old successful flash of unNamed while browsing the web so I don't see how that can be the problem. However, even if the partitions were bad, wouldn't odin fail a flash because it has no where to send the firmware files? Also if it was a type of hardware failure, such as processor, wouldn't it not even show the kernel Galaxy S II splash screen? Or is this something that only the gpu handles? It was able to get into cwm before I used the odin though so I can't believe it's cpu because I'm sure that recovery should use it. Just can't figure it out, never had a problem with a boot loop a flash couldn't fix.

If I can't get it to work, will flashing a stock kernel with cwm increment the flash counter? If not I guess I could access my internal sd, try and pull my pictures and the roms off there and then send it to warranty. However I really don't want to. Thanks to anyone in advance.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Nerz:
Ok so after flashing the odin file from http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1286432 it is still bootlooping at splash screen.

I'm not sure what my options are right now. I'm pretty sure bootloaders can't be the problem. I can't re-partition from odin because it says it can't open the specified file "(Line: 1828)". Is this because it doesn't have pit file? I don't understand how this problem manifested.

If I need to pull contents from sd card from cwm, will flashing a cwm kernal increment flash counter?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Entropy512:
Don't repartition using a PIT, it's a great way to screw up your phone. (Hopefully you haven't flashed a PIT at all yet... If you have, I don't quite know what's going on.)
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Nerz:
Have yet to flash a pit file.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Juq:
I'm in the same situation, except with a Sprint GSII. Have you found a fix, yet?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] hardgrid:
Hello there from colombia, i have the same thing over here, i`m stuck with a SGS SGH I777 the flash counter says 7 and either flashing CWM 5 or re-uploading stock room wont work, i have no way to buy a jig and it is pretty odd that im in a different country and i can`t send my phone for warranty repair, i`ve read all over and seems like there is no answer for this. Can anyone get rid of the Deleting Crytion Meta data?? this is all i get. ( and eternal boot loop ).

Thanks in advance.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] creepyncrawly:
Will try to help, but will need more specific information.

The OP of this thread started bootlooping while checking a web page in his browser. So, how did it happen for you? Please give as much exact information as possible. Was it after a flash? Or did it start while you were using the phone? Or how?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Nerz:
Mine was connected to an aftermarket car charger while it happened. I read a post somewhere and a couple ppl it happened to believed the same thing, since it was in my 30 day trail period I sent it back to Sams club and got my replacement today. Since I didn't have a jig at the time, I didn't want to flash a cwm kernel and increase my flash counter so I lost some pics of my kids.

Not sure if it was charger related but I couldn't find a fix and wouldn't really call myself a noob at flashing. Might have some things to learn nut far from a noob.
[General Questions and Answers] suitebaq99:
I currently got a cheap little samsung impression 7in tablet. Im currently a little confused. I downloaded superoneclick and unzipped the folder. I keep getting hung when the superoneclick says "waiting for device". I tried turning the debugging off than on, tried unplugging right before and during the message. Just want to get the android market for my kid, Can anyone give me a simpler solution?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] SpaceCaker:
can we port these buttons t our framework ? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1407003
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] jusada:
no port is needed, they just need activating. But no point till a final product is made as it means going through the prosess every time.
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] SpaceCaker:
so if we activate it . iit actually works¿
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] madman:
yeah it works on activating

but we already have hardware buttons for simulation..

so activating those would take up space on our screen and for keyboard things i really don't think its worth including
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] QNBT:
this +1

I even think that the statusbar is kinda taking up space, if I were to have those buttons i'd go crazy :eek:
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] SpaceCaker:
but my girlfriend has also galaxy ace but its broken home key is missing and thetouch keys dont work anymore . she had it dropped while riding bike

and tought maybe thisactually works
[Galaxy Ace S5830 General] SpaceCaker:
ive tried but in the bools.xml i didnt find the config_shownavigationbar so doe i need to insert it then?
[Kindle Fire General] docfreed:
or should we use KFU 0.9. I ask because IMHO, this forum has the most confusing series of threads on rooting/recovery/TWRP installation that I have ever read.

Without meaning to be disrespectful to the valiant efforts of the devs, I informally count at least ten times the number of posts stating issues as for successes and every time I check, there is yet another "method" for unbricking or installing, etc...particularly for the notorious yellow triangle.

Could one or more mods please clean up this forum to provide a guiding light.
[Kindle Fire General] eldarerathis:
BurritoRoot is the only software root method available, so yeah, it's relevant. KFU uses it to perform the root, it doesn't have its own exploit or rooting method. It was created to make common tasks more convenient, so it compiles all kinds of different functions into one application. There's nothing in KFU that can't also be done manually (as far as I know), but it can sure makes things a hell of a lot faster.
[Kindle Fire General] harry_fine:
kfu .9 seems to have a serious problem with the recovery image that is part of the zipped file. It is an 8 kb file. It is the wrong file. The correct file is 10,624 kb.

If you are going to use the script, then for goodness sakes copy the proper .img file into the Recovery directory. If you need help finding it, it's at:

http://teamw.in/project/twrp2
[Kindle Fire General] babbabooey97:
I agree 100% the kindle fire forum needs better flow and direction showing people exactly what needs to be done if you want to root and flash Roms on a brand new fire. I see things like burritoroot, twrp, kindle fire utility v.9 , ext... what do we do first?
[Kindle Fire General] krelvinaz:
You do realize that the kindlefire utility is just a script which grabs the various pieces to do the rooting?

In the batch file (which makes up the kindlefire utility)

set twrpurl="http://techerrata.com/file/twrp2/twrp-blaze-2.0.0RC0.img"

Which IS the correct twrp install image...

Also, the website for the TWRP project was down a lot of the day, so perhaps you tried it when it was down and got a truncated corrupt file?
[Kindle Fire General] babbabooey97:
Videos or links to videos would be tits too!
[Kindle Fire General] YMark:
I agree with the others as far as the rooting of the Fire has become mass confusion. Ever since 6.2.1, there has been no "sure way" of rooting this firmware. There are several "guides" and "official ....", and personally, I'm not sold on any of them.

I was rooted prior to the 6.2.1 update, and I'll stay unrooted until a new root procedure is given that has a better success rate than the other 10 procedures posted.

Personally, I think only a MODERATOR should be able to title a thread as "Official".

This is my official opinion.
[Kindle Fire General] Felnarion:
Burrito root works perfectly fine, what're you talking about