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[Windows Phone 7 General] nicksti:
And not because of its limited features, apps, lack of market presence, etc? See if that was even true, then iOS would not be as successful as it is. iOS is not losing marketshare because people are moving from iOS to Android and the numbers clearly show this.

Record iPhone sales on every carrier. Growing sales with each iPhone iteration. Even this slight upgrade 4S did record numbers. Android is winning the war through share numbers; they are bringing more handsets to the fight. And eating at Blackberry and Symbian and dumbphone marketshare, not iOS.

You think Android would be the king of the market if iOS was licensed on other phones? I would bet not. Without going too OT if this ridiculous legal angle does not work for Apple, they should seriously consider licensing. People will still buy their phone. But the majority of the market does not care about how open Android is, and that includes some techies that do use the iPhone.
[Windows Phone 7 General] vnvman:
Yeah, most people pick android because it looks like a "cheaper iPhone" to them, not because it's open and whatnot...anyway you have to think that right now the market is overcrowded, and Android and iOS aren't only operating systems but ecosystems, it's not easy to make the switch if you've been involved in one or the other for a while. New smartphone adopters instead tend to look at what other people have: being WP7 such a tiny new phenomenon no wonder they pick either iOS or Android.
[Windows Phone 7 General] drupad2drupad:
I will agree with tiny new phenomenon bit. I showed my Titan to few friends at Christmas Party in December, 4 of them have WP7 now! 3 Lumia 800 and 1 Titan.
[Windows Phone 7 General] ROCOAFZ:
Mp4's work fine on Windows phone 7. I have 4 movies on mine that i watched when i was camping over the summer. I haven't tried other types but they don't have to be wmv. Just sync them through Zune.
[Windows Phone 7 General] z33dev33l:
Drag and drop that didn't exist through Zune would make deploying xaps too easy. You'd likely not need chevron or DFT which are complex enough to deter most users. Honestly, for me, wp7 is the first OS I haven't felt I needed to hack to make it fun.
[Windows Phone 7 General] madphone:
i showed many people the omnia 7 and htc radar. especially people who were used to feature phones liked how smooth everything is, althogh they didn't like the 80's look of UI. But they didn't understand why they couldn't send me a song or a picture via bluetooth. or why they could't give me the latest video they made. to most people it feels like a step backward. only iphone user don't complain about, cause it's an iphone and iphone is special.

most movies or tv shows others and me have are using xvid or divx codec, what isn't supported. And camcorders use special none-microsoft codecs too. On android you can simply download a video player alternativ when your stock player does not support it. on iOS there are some alternativs too. But on windows phone you are lost.

If microsoft had abandoned those apple-like restrictions from the very beginning, and they had offered some cheap phones, they would have convinced many feature phone users before they moved on to android smartphones. Now they have one percent of marketshare, it will be hard for nokia to change that drastically almost on its own.
[Windows Phone 7 General] z33dev33l:
I love how everyone is announcing this 1% market share as though it's a fact. How long has it been since 1% was announced? I'd be pretty amazed if you found people who actually still send stuff via Bluetooth. I mean, I'm not using my original razr anymore. That was the last time I've seen anyone use Bluetooth.
[Windows Phone 7 General] lowandbehold:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/10/tech/mobile/nokia-windows-phone/index.html

Oops...its actually 2%. Congratulations.
[Windows Phone 7 General] madphone:
i don't use it that often either, but feature phone users do that to share their pics und music. they are used to it, cause they don't have dadaplans or wifi.

and they don't want to install zune on every friends pc only to make sure to be able to share things. even sending a picture in full resolution isn't possible with windows phone. uploading to skydrive doesn't help. so you need a pc with zune installed, just to transfer a picture in full resolution.

the summery of all these restrictions is what people keeps them away from wp7, not only the controversial user interface.
[Windows Phone 7 General] z33dev33l:
I wonder if those numbers are U.S. only, like the article, or worldwide. Either way, I'd be interested in finding the source after the splash the lumia 800 made across Europe.
[Windows Phone 7 General] madphone:
2 percent are for us only i guess. 1 percent is the global marketshare, cause in asia it is only available in a few countries for a couple of months now.

but thre are no numbers including lumia so far. but they say it was shipped one million times in europe. it's ok, but this small number won't change anything cause the others sold new phones too (iphone 4s for example).

Here in germany nokia lumia is the most advertised phone (ever) but no one speaks about lumia. It's simply to expensive. New OS Phones need to be cheep cause there are to many big players right now. For example Samsung Galaxy W with almost the same hardware as Nokia lumia is sold for 230€. Nokia Lumia is at 400€. Only because of design there won't be that many willing to spend almost double of money.
[Windows Phone 7 General] z33dev33l:
I do agree that the Indian market needs to be attacked with low end devices, it's a low end device market. As far as the galaxy w point, for 230 dollars you get a laggy phone that you have to build from the ground up. With the lumia, you get a phone you can enjoy.
[Windows Phone 7 General] vnvman:
Let alone the Lumia, which is great but imho a bit overpriced...look at the guy right here, the Omnia W: same hardware as the Galaxy W, same price but with WP7.5 Mango on top. In most shops, either online or offline it has the same exact price of its Android counterpart, and basically apart from the Samsunghish design and build quality which might bother some people (not me because i use cases anyway) it has the same hardware of a Lumia, just with smaller storage and a 5 mp camera instead of a 8 mp one. Here's your perfect top selling mid-range WP7 device.

Anyway, guess who generally buys mid-range phones? Mostly the new smartphone adopter, a regular dude who is not a techie but has some friends using Android and most likely knows **** about WP7. It's out of question, the Omnia will be a better choice for him for a bunch of reasons: it uses the hardware properly, it's AMOLED, it's good for a noob because it just works and has a simplistic ui, it comes with some additional storage for music, so that the guy won't have to buy a microsd card and much more...but guess what? The guy will go for the Android because of how hyped and widespread Android actually is right now, or even because the TouchWiz reminds him more of the look and feel of the iPhone which is the phone he would buy if he had enough money, or because it has Galaxy in its name and bull**** like this. Later he will probably regret his choice because the phone won't be reliable and will need to be hacked in every possible way in order to be usable, but who cares? The Galaxy is bought and the Omnia is still on the shelves.

That's how most people think. Sad but true. Basically if WP7 won't gain traction that will be mostly because most consumers are sheep, not because of its shortcomings: WP7 isn't born as a cheap iOS alternative, it's proud to be what it is, it's proud to be differen't, it's a genuine piece of software, and these are some of the reasons why i like it.

Too bad the world goes in a different direction.
[Windows Phone 7 General] prohibido_por_la_ley:
Found one more unique thing about WP that made me once again really glad that I chose it. I went into Bing to search for this mall and it showed up in local,I clicked on it and panned over to apps and selected one of the public transit apps I had. It was then able to give me directions to the place of interest. Can an iPhone or Android do that?
[Windows Phone 7 General] FinancialWar:
Galaxy Nexus lags? I tried the phone at local phone store, the phone is as smooth as butter. Don't know why you would like it lag..?
[Windows Phone 7 General] FinancialWar:
which is a deal breaker for me, I want to be able to downloaded movies and anime on my phone, without going through a software, just drag and drop onto SD card and watch it on my phone. Is is the main reason why I am still hesitant to switch to WP7.
[Windows Phone 7 General] ScottSUmmers:
That's interesting because I have Zune open syncing an xvid mp4 TV show to my phone.
[Windows Phone 7 General] madphone:
yes it does, but it takes ages because zune needs to convert it.
[Windows Phone 7 General] adamski123:
We just use Google maps mate...

sent from my iPhone 4S.

haha I bet that confused ya ;)
[Windows Phone 7 General] sayonical:
Bing Maps will also show you indoor maps of the malls (if is available) so you know exactly what floor a store is on. Works pretty well too :)
[Windows Phone 7 General] 937dytboi:
I played around with ICS and I didnt notice any lag myself. Not sure if the guy had it modded or not because he tends to do that but I was impressed by its smoothness but I hate the UI, never did like Android UI.

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You know I wish Microsoft would have never taken this feature from us myself, pretty much the only thing im hating
[Windows Phone 7 General] vnvman:
I know, also Gmaps has that function since the latest update or so. It works fine.
[Windows Phone 7 General] prohibido_por_la_ley:
does this google maps provide u with public transit directions? This specific app I used was using Bing maps and it looked exactly like the Bing navigation.
[Windows Phone 7 General] anseio:
I'm using Mango Transit for WP7. Let's GPS grab your location, then all you have to do is long press on your destination and it will get transit directions. v2 is releasing soon and will allow for features like history and pinned locations and stuff.
[Windows Phone 7 General] prohibido_por_la_ley:
that's what I'm using too. It was able to get me directions right from the local tab in Bing. Just click a place,goto apps and select it, it will then open and give directions from current location as if it was actually built into the OS.
[Windows Phone 7 General] anseio:
That's awesome! I didn't know about that feature.

I was having major issues getting it to work on my imported Lumia 800. Was emailing the developer. i couldn't figure out why I could get it to work on my HD2. Finally found that I had not actually changed the region from UK to USA. Problem solved. That's when he told me about the changes in v2. I'm very excited. Granted, I really only take one bus, and I know its schedule. I just like to know there's a reliable app to help out for other things.
[Windows Phone 7 General] ROCOAFZ:
You do realize you get a 25gb hotmail / skydrive account right? Those upgrading automatically have to have a data plan (unless they buy out of contract and how many feature phone users honestly would do that). So ... lets not bluetooth... instead lets use windows live which also allows us to chat.. yes you and me friends since i want to give you a photo. So.. i add you as a contact and add your hotmail address. Take a picture at any time, hit share, choose hotmail, choose you as contact... and blammo... you got my picture. (or i could share via facebook)

how is this harder for a feature phone user? bluetooth and dealing with folders and such are way more complicated.

Video however is too big to send that route... although in zune i could connect to hotmail on my pc, load it to skydrive and share it so they could watch it.

Also i have NEVER seen a feature phone user remove a micro sd or try a bluetooth transfer. Only saw that with people that have smartphones that were above normal users. And they however always preferred the microsd method to get it on a pc then onto the other persons microsd card.
[Windows Phone 7 General] madphone:
i don't know anybody beside me using skydrive. by the way, you can't upload in full resolution.

feature phone users normally start with a small dataplan when they buy a smartphone. so they don't want so be forced to send everything via mail/facebook...

There are to many dealbreakers on windows phone for them. why should they buy a wp when there are plenty android alternatives for less money without apple like restrictions?

They will never know how good wp7 really is because there are to many points why they don't even consider to buy one.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Connor1:
I must say a stock Galaxy Nexus isn't laggy at all...
[Windows Phone 7 General] ohgood:
Have you seen the videos showing the the BUMP application in use ?
[Windows Phone 7 General] drokkon:
Wait, feature phone users wanted to send things over bluetooth and felt like WP was a step backward. Hm...

Exactly.

These two comments took me aback and made me LOL. Of all the criticism I've heard leveled at WP, the UI has NEVER been among them! The vast VAST majority think that this is a colossal strength for the OS, differentiating it from the others. It's beautiful and simple and...well, as a designer I fell in love with it a year before the first WP hit shelves and the only demos were online!

Piino...what exactly did these folks say about the UI? What in the world is 80s about it? (Not that that would be a bad thing, as I loved the 80s...) Do you really think it is "controversial" on a large scale?
[Windows Phone 7 General] ROCOAFZ:
Holy complicated!!! this is why i don't like android.

Use this

http://www.windowsphone.com/en-GB/apps/1aea3523-df4f-43e8-8eed-e212e59a7ac7

It puts the qr code for the contact on your screen and the other phone scans it via bing vision.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xs7UxwKUEbw

or you can forward it via text. For apps, in the marketplace where you got the app, click share and send it by email or txt. No special app needed.

Welcome out of the 2005 era and into the current.
[Windows Phone 7 General] prohibido_por_la_ley:
It did cause some initial panic to those who saw those old leaked photos of WM7 before it was scrapped but it did eventually grow on people.
[Windows Phone 7 General] vnvman:
Yeah. For some reason it's really (or at least it was for me) unimpressive when you look at it for the first time in vids and pics, but once you actually use the thing for a few minutes you're hooked. It's insane: you can't really figure out the way this thing flows under your fingers until you try it irl, it almost feels like touching some living being lol...
[Windows Phone 7 General] ROCOAFZ:
Yeah, i tried to figure it out via windows mobile with one of those Modifiers for the homescreen that claimed to do what windows phone would with the tiles. It gave me some understanding and some frustration. Finally i decided to buy an HTC surround which i won of ebay for 180.00. (pre-nodo) (i had a contract renewal in 3 months so i figured if i didn't like it i would get something else or wait). I picked up on it very quickly and loved that phone. I used it all the way up till black friday this year when i got my titan. Woot that big screen is awesome. My wife who wanted to save money sold her iphone 3gs back to ATT for 99.00 for a flip phone recently has been using my old surround to play games and check facebook. She hates technology but i'm thinking in a week or 2, it may be her phone (without a data plan and wifi only because she wants to save money.) She loves all the free games on it and even though she swore she would use the facebook app, i have been seeing her use the people hub instead... because it's faster. She hates technology, but i see her using that phone every day to play a few games and check facebook via wifi. if Windows Phone can win my wife over, it can win anybody.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shad0wboss:
I was wondering if there's an app which gives priority to games (CPU wise) and thus the games would run smooth at 1ghz just like iphone 4.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shad0wboss:
no one? i guess there's no such thing as this probably because Android is not at the level of where windows is.

I was wondering about this because since it was discussed few days ago how the iphone worked (the cpu priority would go 100% or something on every press thus making browsing experience smooth alon with the gaming experience)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChunLi:
I know it is a bit late but now our app is on Google Play Store. You can try and see the differences by yourself.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.burakgon.gamebooster

Have a nice day :angel:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KoKoOo^^:
Some for info about how much stable actually is on some devices ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChunLi:
We have tested It works on every phone very well
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] finance.resat:
I think U should upgrade your phone soft or root it and overclock it. this program doesn't work.
[Desire HD General] rogermorse:
I flashed an original rom, but the phone in the bootloader still says

SHIP S-OFF RL

the radio is 26.14.04.28_M

(Android is 2.3.5 and sense is 3.0)

Is it ok? I thought the phone should be S-ON to be accepted for warranty. I want to send it because the GPS never worked (sure many people can remember all the problems we had with GPS and desire HD...)....i used the phone always without gps, but now I have another phone so I can easily send the Desire HD, because I don't use it anymore and can stay many days without it no problems.

Thanks for the help.
[Desire HD General] macfreaknl:
I guess that depends on how smart the HTC employee is but I don't know. It seems quite a risk to me.
[Desire HD General] rogermorse:
And how can I set back to S-ON?
[Desire HD General] leinpfad:
Flash 1.32 ROM, then root your phone with visionary and use Easy Radio Tool for S-On.

Don't forget your CID.
[Desire HD General] ghostofcain:
I returned mine for repair without returning to S-ON, I doubt very much that they would check the status anyhow and if your back on stock ROM I'd claim ignorance. Plus in-spite of all their bluster, in the UK at least, they cant decline a warranty claim for software hacking UNLESS that is the cause of your problem.
[Desire HD General] Aamir.Badat:
so i can claim warranty if i flash a stock 3.0 wwe rom with s off because my warranty claim involves my volume rocker not working neither is wifi or bluetooth but ive flashe many custom roms to check if wifi starts working and it doesnt so it must be a hardware fault am i correct?
[Desire HD General] dimik1:
Ive send my phone with RUU and S-Off to HTC and they repaired it without any problem
[Desire HD General] dalanik:
I've sent it with Radio S-OFF (flashed RUU over rooted phone, but Radio S-OFF remained) and they took it for warranty repair...
[Desire HD General] ghostofcain:
Yes, although I'd flash the appropriate ruu first, probably best not to rub the fact that you've been hacking it in their faces

Sent from my Desire HD
[Desire HD General] evronetwork:
I've bought my DHD from Singapore because it was cheaper(60 Euros less), I doubt if I have any warranty :p

I hope I don't have a H/W problem and if I have it would be tricky to get the stock firmware and contact this singapore guy for warranty purposes(also its risky because he can just...disappear)
[HTC Sensation] pmbldc:
My problem is a little complicated.

It dates back to last night. Suddenly i just want to try ICS so i download the firmware and rom from this thread(http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1408351). I met with a problem, after i flash the firmware, the system stuck but i pulled the battery out then problem solved. The next step is just as usual and nothing unusual happened. It's not so smooth and perfect as CM7, which i think it's just a problem of maturity.

After i restore the apps and finish setting the phone, i check the bootloader and find that the bootloader shows it's locked. There wouldn't be a problem if i just accept that. But i decided to do something, unfortunately, i messed up.

The bootloader shows "locked" and "Security warning" and the phone can't boot into system by any means. I tried a lot of methods and finally i unlock the bootloader by official method. Result seems to be good. The bootloader shows "unlock" but "s on" and the phone can boot into recovery. It seems i just wake up from a nightmare.

but the nightmare never ends. Although i can wipe or install any rom, but the phone just stuck at the splash screen. I tried but i faild. Is there anyone has some suggestions? And how to s off?

The hboot version is 1.23.0000 and it doesn't install any PG58IMG files no matter it is radios or else.

Thank you in advance
[HTC Sensation] big_sw2000:
You need to Soff again.

Its normall for the latest firmware hboot 1.23 to show locked. Its not really locked
[HTC Sensation] pmbldc:
Could you tell me how to s off please? Or downgrade the hboot? It seems that hboot 1.23 isn't supported by revolutionary?
[HTC Sensation] big_sw2000:
Have a look

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1192300
[HTC Sensation] pmbldc:
I have read the thread, if relotionary is the only way to s off, i don't think it help because it requires hboot is under 1.18, but the hboot of my phone is 1.23, is not in the supported list. Besides, my phone can't boot into system, the revolutionary is always waiting for device
[HTC Sensation] akos.szekacs:
Revert to 1.17 and S-off using revolutionary

I hope it is possible, don't know exactly what is possible to be flashed with s-on, but since your phone is unlocked you can use fastboot commands, so I think it wont be a problem.
[HTC Sensation] pmbldc:
In this thread, it mentions that how to revert to 1.17(http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=20681060&postcount=22), on the condition that the hboot is 1.20,but my hboot is 1.23. I'm trying the zip from the thread, hope it works

It remains usless. The bootloaders shows "PG58IMG.zip" is a wrong image.
[HTC Sensation] jkolner:
My Sensation XE came with HBoot 1.2.000, so i installed at ROM from here with HBoot 1.18.000 and then got S-OFF.
[HTC Sensation] pmbldc:
And which ruu? I tried ruu too, but it didn't work.

i know that 1.20 can be reverted to 1.17 and then s off. But my hboot is 1.23 rather than 1.20. And i have another problem: the bootloader can't update by PG58IMG.zip, it always shows no file or wrong image.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] michelau:
hello all

I'm new and do not speak English very well, but I get along perfectly.

I have a htc hd mini with WM 6.5 base. I installed Android, thanks to your guides. I formatted my SD, I copied the folders, I started the application and part of everything perfectly. works well except that I have some problems:

1) sometimes does not work on 3g.

2) I did not understand what to do with this program downloaded: adb-win32.zip (http://code.google.com/p/photon-android/downloads/detail?name=adb-win32.zip&can=2&q =)

the phone works perfectly, but every time I turn it off deletes all the data I have saved through Android (called, applications, messages and settings) and returns wm 6.5!

I also tried to use this: (http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=647822&d=1310029097) but I can not install it to. I insert it in the phone memory, I start the application but nothing happens!

please help me mad because they are not free to use the phone properly! I always have to be careful not to download it! To invite then I wanted if there was a newer version than the 20/11/2011!

Hello everyone and look forward to hearing aids

I thank you in advance!

Please write in English to understand !!!!!!

Michele
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] michelau:
nobody can help me?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] SonicTab:
Nice well written review.