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[Windows Phone 7 General] xHausx:
Having picked up a touchpad during the firesale I can see why Web OS also had good reviews but never took off. I think it's an awesome OS but their marketing and hardware was what doomed it.

Before I got my first WM6 phone (HTC Vogue) I almost picked up a palm device but refused to because of the lack of sd card. Stuff like that is why an OS can be great but at the same time not gain traction.
[Windows Phone 7 General] ScottSUmmers:
I know this is off topic but please do tell; I love conspiracy theories.
[Windows Phone 7 General] hah2110:
More opinions?
[Windows Phone 7 General] haree87:
Me too like wp7. Hope to buy one soon. But only when the restrictions are lifted.
[Windows Phone 7 General] hah2110:
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[Windows Phone 7 General] prjkthack:
Short story is that making a switch from Android to Windows Phone 7 is going to be like switching from a Windows PC to a Mac.

There is some great potential in there, it looks nice, fast and stable, has some great apps, but there are downsides as well. You can't do everything possible that you probably can do on your Android phone, and the nature of Android allows it to be more open when it comes to customization and hardware options.

The decision is really based on how you use your phone. Windows Phone is something fresh, socially connected, people-oriented, and if you live in a Microsoft ecosystem (Hotmail, Zune, Windows Live, Xbox Live), then Windows Phone 7 is a great place to be, though its still a baby which means there are gonna be apps you won't find and things you can't do yet, and if you are impatient and are under the impression that you need quad cores to have a decent device, then Windows Phone may not be for you.

T-Mobile gives you what, 15 days to try out stuff? If you are doing a new 2-year upgrade, get a Radar and try it out for a few days, see what you like or don't like.
[Windows Phone 7 General] hah2110:
I live in Google land... I do a lot of customization on Android, but I don't think I HAVE to. I am a power user, but mostly e-mail and web browsing. Not much multimedia, etc. Sometimes I remote into computers for work (hence http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1445405). A lot of the customization I've done on Android is A) for phone or B) to try and get a great experience with better battery life then being married to a charger. I love toys, gadgets and new tech, etc. but having a good damn phone that can last and do what I need is most important.
[Windows Phone 7 General] prjkthack:
Integration with your Google Mail, Calendar, Contacts, and To-Dos are there. But if you heavily use Google (stuff like Google Voice, Google+, etc.) then you probably won't be happy on Windows Phone. Google has yet to really develop much for the platform, which is understandable because its still so new and doesn't have the marketshare that other platforms have.

There are some okay Google Voice apps, lots of great Google Reader apps, and other stuff here and there, but nothing of the quality you'd really find on a Google platform itself. Which is the way its going to be. You'll get the best Google experience on a Google phone.

Battery life is usually as good or better than a typical smartphone. Depending on which phone you get, I would say average is about 12-16 hours with typical usage. Built-in battery management and the fact that the phone manages multiple tasks different than Android usually yields better power conservation, especially with the Battery Saver feature enabled. Personally, with my HTC Titan, I can go about two days with moderate/heavy usage before having to really plug it in. It has lasted longer than any smartphone I've had in the past 5 or 6 years. My HD7 and HD7S also lasted me a good day or so and I've never had to carry around a separate charger or battery.

Customization is just not at the top of the list of awesome things with Windows Phone. Which is fine for me because I find Metro to be attractive, and it functions very well, and doesn't make me wish I could get some kind of replacement launcher or UI, but its not for everyone. You choose what colors your tiles will be (accent color), and the lock screen wallpaper, and what tiles you want on your homescreen, and that's the real extent of customization. There are other small things here and there, but the main takeaway is that the less customization you have, the more stable your OS will be (unless you happen to be able to program perfectly and can anticipate bugs, but thats not possible). Which is why Apple also takes baby steps when it comes to customizing the phone. If you are too much into playing with ROMs, or tweaking the hell out of your phone, then Windows Phone will not serve your purpose (yet, as there are many people working on this very aspect here on XDA, of course).

If you are also an app person, then Windows Phone is getting there, but not quite there in terms of the number of apps and the more popular apps that people expect on other platforms. You may want to browse the Marketplace to see what you can find. windowsphone.com has a web-based Marketplace you can browse. There are some remote desktop apps (VNC). I don't think there is a LogMeIn app yet, but all it takes is time.
[Windows Phone 7 General] hah2110:
Thanks for the response. The only thing I do with Google Voice is my voicemail. If it can handle that, I'm ok on that front. Can I have multiple Google Accounts (Google Apps Business and my Personal)? Any good video chat solutions? Skype? Google Talk? Anything else that you REALLY miss from Android besides customization? I feel like I'd be a trader going to WP7 without first going to ICS (not yet available on my T989).

Does LMI work on IE9?
[Windows Phone 7 General] speedfreak228:
btw you can get youmail for visual voice mail and tango works great for video chat
[Windows Phone 7 General] hah2110:
Thanks... I want Google voice though. I'd rather Skype or Google talk also. Are any on the way
[Windows Phone 7 General] hah2110:
bump...........
[Windows Phone 7 General] ROCOAFZ:
I don't use google voice not has anyone tried go voice? I think that it does what he looking for but i haven't used it, so if someone who has could review it.
[Windows Phone 7 General] prjkthack:
I haven't heard any issues where you can't have multiple Google accounts. Though I believe that it does have to support Exchange, and I do believe Google accounts by default support Exchange, though not entirely sure about Google App accounts.

Video chat right is only available through the Tango app, with Skype coming soon, and you can bet that since Microsoft now owns Skype, eventually the best Skype experience will be only on Windows Phone. I believe Microsoft just announced today that Skype is coming soon, and that integration with the OS will follow in a future platform update. No exact time frame though.

There are some Google Talk apps, and I personally use IM+ for all those random IM accounts that aren't already supported on the device (such as AIM and Google Talk).

GoVoice is decent. I think it used to cost money, and now its free and has push notifications. I think its probably the best of the Google Voice apps currently available on the platform.
[Windows Phone 7 General] hah2110:
Thanks... I may be taking a shot.... Anyone been to a radar or other mango device and regretted it?
[Windows Phone 7 General] drupad2drupad:
Nope

Sent from my TITAN X310e using Board Express
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
Interesting what you'll say after you'll take this for a serious ride.
[Windows Phone 7 General] hah2110:
are you being factitious?
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
Never. Just curious.
[Windows Phone 7 General] drupad2drupad:
^Ofcourse not.

Sent from my TITAN X310e using Board Express
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] thanku:
Hi I have always been a android owner and up until there was no major cause of concern.

I recently migrated from Galaxy s2 to Nexus and found the way ICS browser show this web site is very disappointing any though on this please

http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/#/shelves/top_offers_in_asda.html?store=tesco

Why it fail to deal with it

Many Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
Because the Website is fail.

They have it mobile enabled but never built the mobile version, and/or never checked to make sure it worked.

Works fine as full desktop site.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] sn0warmy:
You are determining whether or not your phone is "good" based off a poorly made mobile website? Strange...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] fliint:
Lmao:D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ipkryss:
Definitely a troll..
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] TorontoR:
I want my click and 30 seconds of my life back
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jonathan3579:
I was not gonna bite into another one of these GS2 vs Galaxy Nexus threads but since i own both... This is how my GS2 loaded the page. You fail!!!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] zeekiz:
Your judging a phone on the basis of one pointless poorly designed, created and maintained website? I'm curious as to how you made it this far onto the internet.

Just so you know as well you can fine tune the way the web browser loads websites in the settings menu, but that may be too difficult for you to possibly comprehend.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tauruslei:
lol I have to +1 this one.

Empty mobile version? Seriously?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lambda30:
+1

Damn idiot, give us our lost time back. These kind of people should be killed on a daily basis...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] skynet11:
Don't take this sitting down! Send a petition to fix this bug right away! You can send it to the following address: View attachment 849720

Terminators run on Android :cool:
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Paul_Hammons:
As it is known that HTCUtility.dll will provide complete, unrestricted access to the TCB chamber on HTC devices, can this be used to unlock (at any level) the OS?

I have not heard anyone speaking of it and exists on my HTC Arrive. Seems to be a bypass for unrestricted access to anything within HTC devices.

I am looking at it myself, but thought I would share.

See details here...

http://labs.mwrinfosecurity.com/files/Advisories/mwri_htc-htcutility-kernmem_2011-11-10.pdf
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] MJCS:
Your link is down
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] starsoccer9:
very interesting but you link is down so please fix it so I can take a look. I too have a HTC arrive and have been working on an unlock.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Paul_Hammons:
Don't know what happened to the link.

Here is the link to the google docs version.

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&...1C1HkN&sig=AHIEtbTwK-r8RyAyFmt1ai119m7EVAqsNA

-Paul
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] dragonide:
This looks promising, I'd like to know if what's written there is true ...
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
The paper is a couple months old, so it *could* have been patched by HTC... but hey, it also might not have been! This bears investigation post-haste.

It's easy enough to use this to execute some arbitrary code at high permissions, which is certainly useful as-is (do things like unrestricted registry and filesystem access). The real potential of it, though, is to turn off the security restrictions for specific apps. Essentially, get the benefits of a "fully unlocked" ROM but on a stock ROM, and only for the apps you specify.

One thing to note here: this is still going to require an interop-unlocked phone. It's opening a handle to a driver, and just like everything else that does so, it needs ID_CAP_INTEROPSERVICES. This is great news for owners of interop-unlocked/unlockabe phones (since this makes interop-unlock useful again) but probably doesn't help on 2nd-gen phones or on the Arrive (unless you want to roll back to NoDo, in which case this can probably be used to make an interop-unlock that works on Mango, though it wouldn't be easy).
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] starsoccer9:
I hope some one gets this working for the Arrive ASAP
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] MJCS:
Oh this was talked about a while back. It was patched back in NODO
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
Really? The paper is from only 3 months ago (assuming USA numeric date style, 2 months otherwise). You don't typically publish security advisories for things that were patched more than 6 months prior.

In any case, HTCUtility.dll still exists on my phone. No idea yet if that IOCTL still works, though. I'll try it out in any case, and report back.

For those asking about it for the Arrive though, you're likely out of luck even if this works. It is *not* a way to interop-unlock a phone, and it is *not* a way around interop-unlock. It's a way to do more things on an interop-unlocked phone. You can't even reach a driver (which is what HTCUtility.dll is) unless your app has ID_CAP_INTEROPSERVICES - that's what the capability is actually for, accessing drivers - and you can't install a homebrew app with that capability unless interop-unlocked (or on pre-Mango).
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] dragonide:
Thank you ;)
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] MJCS:
Yeah I think it was mentioned here on XDA and it was believed to already have been patched.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Paul_Hammons:
I think by "patch" they mean that Interop was restricted as of Mango, thereby securing this exploit, in Mango. But for those that are Interop unlocked, this should still grant full access to everything else.

Just my observations. I have an Arrive and am not Interop unlocked yet, so I can't test it.

Looking at the hand-free provisioning to see if I can find a way to leverage that....

-Paul
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
It works. I successfully opened a handle, read a kernel-mode memory address, modified it, confirmed the modified value, and restored it.

Next trick: finding something really useful to change. Ideally, probably the process security info - if I can simply elevate a given process to full permissions, then I'm golden.

Will share code soon. If somebody knows where I can find the important part of the process info, let me know - I have a little familiarity with NT process contet blocks, but none with CE ones (if it even uses such a structure).
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] n0psl3d:
All the information looks like it is in the advisory. KDataStruct is what you want. That is equivalent to the PEB in Windows CE.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] dragonide:
Can you confirm this works only on already Interop Unlocked device ?

Thx for your efforts.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Paul_Hammons:
Could htclv.dll be helpful in setting security on an app? It supports the following functions:

LVModInitialize LVModUninitialize LVModAuthenticateFile LVModRouting LVModAuthorize LVModGetPageHashData LVModCloseAuthenticationHandle LVModGetHash LVModProvisionSecurityForApplication LVModDeprovisionSecurityForApplication LVModGetSignerCertificateThumbprint LVModSetDeveloperUnlockState LVModAuthorizeVolatileCertificate LVModGetDeveloperUnlockState

In particular the "Deprovision Security for App" and "Get/set DeveloperUnlock" or maybe "Authorize Volatile Certificate"....

Or maybe htcpl.dll which seems to be the HTC policy engine interface. Supports:

GetFunctionTable PolicyCloseHandle PolicyEngineInit PolicyRuleAbortTransaction PolicyRuleAddRawData PolicyRuleBeginTransaction PolicyRuleBuildRawData PolicyRuleCommit PolicyRuleCommitTransaction PolicyRuleCreate PolicyRuleDelete PolicyRuleFindFirst PolicyRuleFindNext PolicyRuleGetInfo PolicyRuleOpen PolicyRuleParseRawData PolicyRuleReadRawData

These all look good to modify the security policies on HTC, assuming Interop-Unlocked.

-Paul
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
@dragonide: Confirmed, this requires interop-unlock since the very first step is opening a handle to a driver.

@Paul_Hammons: The LVMod functions look quite interesting indeed. Where are you getting these functions from (straight out of the DLLs, or some doc somewhere, or decompiled code, or...?), are they user or kernel entry points, and what permissions do they require? The ability to modify app security doesn't do as much good if you already have to be high-privileged to call it, though it might simplify my current goal.

@n0psl3d: Cool, I'll get to work on it.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
@n0psl3d: KDataStruct contains kernel information, but I'm pretty sure what I need is in a PROCESS struct (such as is pointed to by pCurPrc). The problem is, I can't find any documentation for that struct. I'm searching online but so far coming up empty. CE doesn't seem to use PEBs or TEBs as I've seen them on NT (not terribly surprising, but annoying).

EDIT: I'm downloading the Embedded CE toolkit, which comes with source code. It'll take a while but hopefully that will have what I need.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
OK, digging through the CE source I've found some interesting things. No idea if this will work yet; it'll be exciting just to make it compile.

PROCESS struct -> hTok (handle to a Token) -> phd (PHDATA, pointer to the handle data) -> pvObj (PVOID to the actual object, which is probably a TOKENINFO) -> psi (pointer to ADBI_SECURITY_INFO) -> contains the actual ACLs and privileges, and can be created from an account ID.

Probably the easiest option is to find a relatively high-privilege process and clone its token or some such. Token re-use (if I increment the reference count, this should work) may be easier. Modifying an existing token might also be doable.

Anyhow, I'm not going to have this finished tonight, but it'll get there. For those wondering wht you can do with this, it basically breaks you out of the sandbox entirely. You can call any function, access any resource, etc. that is available to a userland process (executing in kernel mode is also possible but trickier). Practically speaking, this makes all the other high-privilege COM DLLs useless - instead of ComFileRW, just use the file IO methods (anywhere you want), instead of DMXMLCOM just call ConfigProvXml directly. Even things like launching native EXEs directly should become possible (run those Opera ports on a stock ROM, for example).
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] dreamcaster012:
I'm sorry, I still don't know what any of that means. But it sounds good! I wish I knew how to do this kind of stuff. Thanks for all of your work!
[Samsung Infuse 4G] krantiredeyes:
Can anybody post the apk for samsung Readers Hub for samsung Infuse?

Thanks.

Cheers !
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] larrynooktb:
I have a NT and tried a couple of times to do the 1.4.1 rooting procedures found on this forum but never could get my audio back on the device. So, I decided to go another route...go back to stock 1.4.0, root and then block the updates.

I went to here and installed and ran the hijacker:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1419598

However, my software version still shows 1.4.0. Doesn't the hijacker set it to 9.9.9?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] larrynooktb:
Nope

After finding and watching the videos, I see that I had the wrong impression of what Hijack was supposed to do even though I installed it.

So instead I purchased Titanium backup, went in and started freezing DeviceManagerService 2.3.4.

It's been in the process of freezing for 20 minutes now. Any idea how long this should take?

Thanks!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] ShinnAsuka:
shouldn't take that long, make sure usb debugging is checked, both of the usb debuggings. as a precaution check usb debugging once, uncheck it, and check it again to make sure it stays for the rest of the time you have your NT on. This only applies to the top usb debugging option. hope this helps!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] larrynooktb:
Checked

Ok, I went in and noticed that the USB debugging was not checked so I checked it.

The freeze is still running. Should I turn my NT off and retry again?
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] larrynooktb:
Update

I restarted the NT, went in once again to confirm the USB debug settings.

When I went back into Titanium backup and checked, the device manager was frozen, so maybe it was the UI that wasn't updating.

The software version now is 'Unavailable'.

Thanks!
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] bobapunk:
Yeah, mine behaved this same exact way. I installed "Button Savior" from the market and not I have a "back" button I can get to when ever I need it.
[Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet] larrynooktb:
Button Savior

I also installed Button Savior but can't get it to show up on any of my screens. Not sure what's up with it, didn't have any permissions problems installing it.

Thanks!
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rahulsuneja:
I just upgraded to Samsung's Official 2.3.6 ROM on my SII and was wondering if there's a way to change the overscroll effect back to the Bounce Effect?

FYI, I my phone is rooted using Siyah Kernel v2.6.4 and I have the latest CWM 5 flashed.

Just wanted to know if there's a flashable zip out there that would lemme choose the overscroll effect.

Thanks in advance! :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danielsf:
Hi, you can use the mod here in this link I believe: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1386890 I hope this helps :)

If I helped please could you press the thanks button below :D
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rahulsuneja:
There you go my friend.. Thanks for this! It's exactly what I needed. I was tired of the colored overscroll. It's nice but it ruins the pages while browsing.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] almousawi:
thank u danielsf , the new mode and color suck !
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danielsf:
No problem :), I know what you mean, I really don't like the over glow too and especially in the web browser :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rahulsuneja:
Hey there peeps.. There seems to be a small problem here. As I mentioned in the OP, I'm on a Siyah Kernal (ver 2.6.4). Installing the flashable zip from the above mentioned thread gave me errors while flashing via CWM. It gives out an "Error 7".

Is it the custom kernel that isn't supported or is there any other issue with the mod not installing.

I really need help on this one guys as the overscroll color effect is ruining my browsing experience. :( :(
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Scovik:
Hello all, do any of you know at least one app that is similar in functionality to iPhone's Mobile Log or iSmart Dialer??

I went from iphone to android and this are the only to apps I really miss, mostly because of their simplicity and the fact that they did exactly what I needed, nothing more nothing less and with no complications.

Mobile Log is a replacement for the recent call history and can hold up to 200 individual calls and as far as I can tell an infinite amount of calls for one number or contact, it also shows the number of the contact from recent and groups all the calls you make to one contact in a single row.

iSmart Dialer is an app that could integrate with in the keypad of the iphone and you could call people from there using the smart dial option. i guess i could live without this as ICS has a search option in every tab of the call application but I could really use an app like Mobile Log.

PS: So far I have tried several call log apps but none of them have what it takes, the best one I found was ToucPad Dialer but it has some issues with ICS(I presume it's not fully supported yet).

I also tried Call Log Manager Pro but this one is bad not to mention that most apps have the tabs at the top of the screen and GN has a rather log screen so it's difficult to reach them.

I would appreciate if someone could tell me at least one app that is similar to Mobile Log and iSmart Dialer
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Themes and Apps] SpaceCaker:
here are the ics icons

themed to work on stock rom

and themyth roms

Special thx to lovetz

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how to install?

first use any recovery

go to install zip from sdcard

choose the icsiconstheme.zip

then when done reboot

then it worked and you will have ics ICONs in stock rom

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download:? huh wheres that link ??

no my friend its in the atachements :eek: :cool: