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[Venue Pro General] petard:
I don't see how people prefer on screen to physical keyboards. Physical isso much more accurate and faster.
[Venue Pro General] jelliottz:
I hope TMOUS releases the Nokia Lumia 900, or as rumor says the 910 with upgraded camera. I am also a fan of the HTC Titan.

Either way, the stock OS is great and doesn't require much modification to do exactly what it was designed to do which is work.
[Venue Pro General] weatherx:
holding out until microsoft fixes the orientation lock thing. then we'll see if nokia makes a keyboard phone.
[Venue Pro General] jelliottz:
Someone made a homebrew fix. It was published on the portal the other day. Sorry I don't have a link right quick. I have a headache and its making thinking and looking at a bright screen difficult.
[Venue Pro General] weatherx:
yes, i saw that homebrew. problem is, it disables the accelerometer completely, rather than stopping the orientation switch, and requires a reboot to re-enable IIRC. this setting really should be a quick access setting (like volume) rather than having to go thru an app.

i'll be honest, about 1/3 of the time i slide the keyboard out on the DVP just to lock orientation.
[Venue Pro General] SPYDar007:
Totally agree, I think physical keyboard is more accurate and I have small fingers.
[Venue Pro General] alodar1:
Not complaining. Ever ride in a Mercedes, then go home in a low end KIA or something. You become spoiled....even though the Mercedes is out of reach. With data speeds on the G2x and the Bionic, and now the Razr series, the data speed is blazing. Since most of my time on a phone is indeed data related of some sort, its noticable. Not like the Mercedes which is out of reach $$ wise, getting a dual core, 4g, android beast is very affordable. And I got used to it. If I never tried it, I could be of a different opinion...but it did.

With that said, the 710 with low end hardware, does indeed close the gap, alot. I've seen the reports from the TItans and some other devices, which lead me to no longer concern myself with the dual core question. But simple 3g vs 4g is an issue, and so is WiFi N availability. Both of these leave the VP in second place.

But, the VP is old hardware now. Its not so bad that you have to update, now. But, in the next several months, you will do it....as a normal progression.
[Venue Pro General] alodar1:
Agreed, mostly. When the Dell was introduced, I had anHD7 in my hand. A Dell rep was at our work and pulled out the VP. INSTANT love affair. When he opened the keyboard...bing.....I was sold. During the entire time I used the Dell, I opened the keyboard ONLY to access the EM menu. Never did anything else. I eventually learned the feel of the phone and mistakes were rare. I was always impressed by Joe B's launch demo of WP7...with his wild typing...but it works...usually. But so does android and apple...but who cares.

I do know that MS is working on an NFC solution, and has been. I'll be interested to see what comes up....but for now that won't impact my next decision.

Regarding screen resolutions, I believe....MY OPINION ONLY, ... that first in MS's mind is the proper mix of resolution, speed, power overall, and battery life. Until they can master the issue of battery life, dual core and any other high power drains will not be part of WP. The Droid Razr MAXX was released today with a whopping 21 talk time claim. Of course, they doubled the pwer of the battery, so the efficency is the same as before....I believe MS is looking for efficiency improvements and not battery claim.

The truth is, I guess, I only purchased the 710 to see if I could handle a Nokia. I would not use this phone as my primary everyday phone. But, I now have faith in the 900, 910,930's I've seen reported by Engadget. Its better than even money I'll have 1 of these by June.
[Venue Pro General] petard:
Same here, especially if I'm using it in bed at all.
[Venue Pro General] liquidgraphite:
I actually bought a used DVP a couple days back to replace my stolen iPhone 4 until something better comes along. So far, I'm actually a bit disappointed. Everything is great with the exception of the screen (stupid Pentile) and battery life.

I'm really looking forward to the Nokia Lumia 900, but until then, I'm not sure what to do. I suppose I can live with the screen for a couple months, but I don't know what to do about battery life. I really don't want to have to turn off push, but I also don't want to spend money on another battery when I'll probably replace the phone in a couple months.
[Venue Pro General] calgary_hero:
I have been a DVP owner for over 1 year - switched from iphone 4 - and the Mango update breathed new life in to the phone - the lack of Internet Sharing is the only major problem I have with the phone given my 5 year old Palm Treo has this feature.

I recently cracked the screen on the DVP and was looking for a new option - I picked up the Nexus S and installed ICS 4 on it. Overall a great phone, ICS is complete and Android offers much more selection of apps and 'internet sharing' built in - you must spend a lot of time customizing as it is rather 'vanilla' out of the box.

Installed Swype on the Nexus S and it was decent - however, I am a physical keyboard guy and use the phone for work and email is the most important feature for me.

Long story short, after 5 days with Android I am back using the DVP with a cracked screen - as a business user I find the Windows 7 interface is much easier to "get in and out" for making a call, sending email, sms, webpage, etc. Also, I have ridiculously fast typing speed on the DVP keyboard, almost the same as a PC keyboard.

I am shocked that the portrait slider format is effectively dead - other than a BB Torch 9810 I haven't seen anything else on the market with a physical keyboard.

I would love to hear other people's experience transitioning from a physical keyboard, maybe I need to give it more time...

Also, if anyone has any rumors or just wants to make something up about a new portrait slider for WP7 or Android please post here...
[Venue Pro General] alodar1:
I too love the portrait slider. The VP was my second. I previously owned the touch dual. Strange thing is, I almost never used the keyboard.

I just liked the combination.

Your 5 day android story is funny, as it is pretty much similar to mine. My dissatisfaction with windows phone was hardware based. Not to creative, not so powerful, old. The attraction of the android os is simply a matter of view. With customization available. But how many people do this in reality. My attraction to android started with the nexus one. It died with he Droid bionic. If you call android a virtual corna copia of creativity, then I would counter it with claims of lack of reliability, distortion, and a victim of expectation. The vision is to build what you want in a phone. The reality is far far less. All parts are not equal. Your expectations are different than mine, and your pleasure could be my pain.

Learning to use the touch keyboard was painful, but successful. The key is to learn by typing faster, and letting auto correct work. Its about developing a trust . I never thought I could do it...but I have. The second key...in some cases could be the first, phone size makes a difference. I am horrible on small phones, with screen sizes around 3.7 being the worst. I find my comfort, accuracy and effectiveness greatly improved with screen sizes around 4.1-4.5. My first reaction to the size was...no way. But, I grew to love it. The dell is at the extreme low end for me..but workable. My bionic is 4.3 and is extremely comfortable. The lumia 710 is too small. I held a 4.7 last week. That's too big.

So, as far as suggestions go, find a phone that fits your hand and is comfortable. The touch screen experience will be better.
[Venue Pro General] calgary_hero:
Thanks alodar1 for the above reply. I think I will take your advice related to screen size for my next purchase.

I do love Windows Phone, however, continue to be tempted by all the advertising for the Samsumg Galaxy Nexus - and in light of your screen size comment I may benefit from the larger screen...

I tried a Nokia Lumina 710 and found the screen size way too small for taste.

I realize Dell had dropped the ball related to their relase of the Venue Pro, but ultimately it is a beautiful device, hope they reconsider the release of the Dell Wrigley ; I would be a buyer..
[Venue Pro General] TheManii:
Dell consistantly botched the launch of every one of their Gen2 devices (S5/7, V/VP) so it's not just the VP.

Unless dell turns around and actually launches/announces it the "wrigley" is considered canceled just like everything else except the Streak Pro (millenium)

It's already pretty much past their original launch windows and they havnt even announced anything except the SP.

Once the SP launched in Japan (which is also very late there) and the S10 gets ICS the old roadmap is completely outdated.
[Venue Pro General] verrewolf:
My Next WP phone not out yet...

I would wait for some more time and see if an higher resolution phones comes out with WP 8 ... HTC titanII and Nokia lumia900 are the contenders now but just waiting and wishing for a sexier screen on soething like HTC titanII ... nut something with a Keyboard .... ..

Subj: Correction --- MY NEXT WP "DEVICE" not out yet...
[Venue Pro General] endGameXIII:
I want to say my next phone will be the Nokia Lumia 900...but I'm with T-Mo. In terms of carrier, there's the HTC Radar, but I'm not buying HTC phones if I can help it. HTC used to have awesome quality phones, but it looks like they grew too big and the phones started coming out with zero QC and the quantity-over-quality attitude, which is a shame.

Another shame is the hardware is so lackluster compared to what's on the market. Seems like every smartphone and tablet worth mentioning as of late all have dual cores. Winphones are the only ones still stuck with the strict processor guidelines. Sure the UI doesn't seem to suffer (in fact I'd say it runs faster than my Sensation's Android UI, even with everything stripped down), but some games do lag because of this. The screen resolution is also the same as the 1st gens...when everyone else is coming out with high-density HD/IPS screens.

At the end of the day, I'd be interested in another Winphone, even if the hardware leaves a bit wanting. I also think partly because MS didn't let OEMs go trigger-happy with the hardware, the battery on the Winphones can last much longer than Android phones, a big advantage when on average Android phones' batteries can't even last a usual day of 12 hours.
[Venue Pro General] vba.vargabor:
I've been using the the DVP for 1 month, switched from BB 9800 Torch. In my experience I can work only with vertical slider phones or phones with the classical BB form factor (I previously owned a classic BB Bold 9000 as well. I hate using touch screen for typing.

The DVP is a very good choice, if somebody whants to have a vertical qwerty phone. However a Blackberry is mor flexible and the messaging app is much better, but a WP7 device is much-much more stable, displays, internet browsing and other aspects are better, and the battery life is better as well compared to last generation BB devices.

At the moment I can't find any better device. the only thing I miss in DVP is the BB BIS service, which is very convenient fast even in 2G coverage areas.
[Venue Pro General] alodar1:
its been a couple of weeks now of running multiple phones. My Droid bionic is still my primary, and I carry the 710 for now. My gf has moved back to wp7 with the hd7. My son just ditched the sensation for MY VP. I've decided I much prefer the wp now and suffer myself to maintain control till the phone of my choice comes out. Right now pointing at the lumia 900...or whatever varient will eventually make it out.

Primary job is to have self control. Lucky only small low end phones are available right now.
[Venue Pro General] Technosquid:
I just bought a Dell Venue Pro used off ebay. It's the phone I always wanted, but could never use with my grandfathered $10 unlimited web2go data plan. I bought one as soon as I found out T-Mobile was allowing Windows Phones to use 3G data with web2go without APN change.

Speaking of last-half-of-life, my DVP had some AMOLED dimming. On a mid-grey field, you can see some patterns and streaking. On a dark grey field, you can see the battery/charging/power plug image in the middle of the screen, as well as some home-screen-tile-sized squares. The darker the grey, the more visible the pattern dimming becomes.

Especially considering the price I got on it, it doesn't really bother me that much, it only comes up in certain dark color situations, and it's not extremely noticeable. So I guess my point is that you should use it conscientiously, realizing that pattern dimming of the AMOLED screen can happen.

I'd really love to see the Internet Sharing option come to the DVP, but since hardly anyone seems to even know it exists, I'm not going to hold my breath.
[Venue Pro General] alodar1:
I'm wondering how they are going to handle the quad cores, when the dual cores, like you said, won't last a day. Microsoft has said, they won't spec dual core or above until they have a better story on battery life. Curious to see how its done with the quads.
[Venue Pro General] TheManii:
Strangely enough, the batt on my VP varies wildy.

When I first got my VP, it was losing around 9%/hour, after disabling everything (including all wireless/cellullar and apps from fetching stuff) I managed 5 days/60% once. It's not a realistic scenario though, but food for thought.

I'd imagine I would get about 3%/2hour on normal use from idling from it at best.

My V is consistantly getting 1%/hour drain idling, so I get about about that much time before having to recharge it.

Keep in mind the V and VP arnt just superfically nearly identical, unless someone is willing to take both of them apart to check, the expectation is that they're more or less identical internally too.

2nd gen Dell devices as a whole have pretty bad battery life, it's only really improved in the Streak10 as it's a 3rd gen dell.

(See Dell Devices Navbox for an explaniation)

I wouldnt be surprised if 4th gen snapdragons used less battery then 1st gen, keep in mind that the 8250 (in the V/VP) is 65nm and the S4's are 28nm. Hypothetically if you ported the S1 to 28nm (ie change nothing/as little as possible while making it 28nm) it would likely last 2-3x as long on the same batt (or very least a good deal better then 65nm obv)

The Tegra3 does a basic version of what x86 CPUs can do now (at least some Core ix cpus specfically), turn off inactive cores so it's like they're not there at all. Hopefully qualcomm will do the same/similar for snapdragons, though I dont believe even the S4 can do that as they havnt announced anything about it.

Really the quality of the rom/drivers determines the battery life though, the Streak5 can vary from less then 20 hours a charge idling to 300+/h idling due to bugs in the drivers. (The VP has it's own host of issues, but they're in different/unrelated things)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] GReddySetGO:
I tried searching this forum as well as Google and cannot find the answer to this question.

How do I sync my Facebook contacts pictures with my contacts? I'm coming from an HTC EVO which was very simple to do. I can't figure it out on the S2 though. Any insight would be appreciated, thank you!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] bryank930:
App syncmypix. Free in the market.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RayTrue04:
From Facebook app go to settings scroll all the way down and sync contacts. Or set up your fb thru social hub and check off the option to sync contacts.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] SRT300:
I had the same problem. HTC adds notes to each contact. Once your in your contacts list, hold each contact till the edit shows. Once in edit, see if their Facebook account shows. If it does, just delete your original pic and save. Facebook pix well take over. Hope this helps.

BTW, don't use social hub!
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] GReddySetGO:
Tried syncing contacts with Facebook already. Doesn't bring the pictures. Sucks that we would need an external app for this...

For syncmypix, do I have to keep updating it whenever my contacts change their pictures?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RayTrue04:
That's weird because mine are synced no problem thru the FB app.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RayTrue04:
What's wrong with social hub? Social hub does a better job at displaying the pictures. The FB app shows the pictures like if they were zoomed in. I like the way social hub displays them better than the FB app.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Imaginos:
Facebook app used to update the contact pics in my phone too. After an update, it stopped syncing them. I had read in a post somewhere that it was blocked for some reason?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RayTrue04:
My FB app wasn't syncing either after I started restoring with titanium backup. It would always have the old pics while my media hub showed the updated pics. Then I just logged out of the app recently and logged back in. It syncs after that. So try logging out and see if that helps..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Imaginos:
Mornin' Ray,

Gave it a shot and nope - photos still don't sync like they used to. One of the free apps on market did sync them, so I was assured it is still possible. Removed the app and it reverted to the placeholder images.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] 4redstars:
Seconded for Syncmypix. It is quick easy and you can schedule it.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] blkhwkz:
To set the FB profile pic as the contact pic I had to go into each contact, hit menu and then mark as default. The first option is for what to use for the caller ID. Chose FB and saved. A lot more complex than my Evo 3D that just did it on it's own, but whatever this method worked. Before I did that it was showing each contact with the default pic saved in my Gmail contacts.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RayTrue04:
Hmm that's weird. I just checked mine and saw that one of my friends who recently updated her pic it still shows the old pic thru the FB app sync but its updated on the social hub sync. I guess that's why I'm not really having an issue this phone chooses the pics on social hub by default. I would say try a third party app if you don't feel like setting up social hub..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] GReddySetGO:
OK, so I tried manually syncing contacts, I tried logging out and logging back in, all with no results. I even tried uninstalling the app, then downloading it again. This did not fix any of the pictures, however now when I edit my contacts I can see that they are linked with them on facebook, this wasn't there before. There is also a phone and facebook tab on top when I edit them, so this must be some kind of progress. Under the facebook tab, there is an error that reads: "Unable to edit SNS contact on phone" what does this mean?

Lastly, I tried using syncmypix, but it only works for some contacts. For the others it says "contact is read only"
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] GReddySetGO:
Anyone with any ideas?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] choyt2011:
Go to your setting from phone home screen...look for accounts and sync. From there look for facebook. tap on facebook and sync all contacts. That should work.

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[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] shreyasvb:
+1 THIS IS D EXACT METHOD FOR ALL SAMSUNG PHONES :-)
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] GReddySetGO:
Tried the above mentioned method before, and again today... still no added contact pictures.

Like I said, I have pictures for some, but most do not. When I go to that contact, it is in fact linked with that persons Facebook account, but does not show the picture... For all of those people whos picture does not show, when I click on edit contact and then go to the Facebook tab, there is an error that reads, "Unable to edit SNS contact on phone" Does anyone know what this error means, and how I can go about correcting it?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] uriel1971:
This works for adding pics but how do you make Facebook the default pic...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RayTrue04:
Once contacts are joined click on the contact hit menu and select mark as default. There should be a list right at the top with a circle to select for whatever account you want as default. Like i've been saying media hub by default when accounts are linked it makes your FB pics the default unless you have one saved under the contacts main contact profile. The FB app syncs the contacts but it won't make the pics default unless you manually choose it...

To be perfectly honest the FB app's syncing sucks really bad. Once it syncs for the first time it will never update again. And when some people put full body shots their heads are cut off. This is why I rely on media hub for my FB syncing needs..
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RayTrue04:
Here's a sample.. first pic is from syncing thru the FB app, 2nd pic is thru media hub, and the third pic is to show how the FB app never updated again after its first initial sync..

Edit: PS to all the pervs who try to call Ana that's not a real working number that was my number 10yrs ago.. Lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] guyver2077:
So came across this thread since I am having a similar issue.

Does anyone know how to install social hub? My current rom had it stripped away.

Basically none of my contacts show their FB picture..

edit- so finally got it to work. Pulled the social hub from a stock rom along with the sns.apk's and injected them into my system/app. Then added my fb account. That seemed to really only sync calendar and messages but after that I added the regular fb account and synced all contacts. Pictures appeared.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] guyver2077:
So how did you sync through the media hub? I thought i did it correctly but my pictures look good on the contacts list but horrible (like your first pic) above when viewing the contact, etc
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Success100:
this has been my issue with all galaxy phones. sense does this without a hitch.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] guyver2077:
yea htc has the social stuff down packed.. sense integerated nicely...
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RayTrue04:
Well at the time I was running stock el29 rooted and once i set up my social hub accounts it automatically added the contact pictures. This however was stripped away on ics builds and now we are left with just the fb app to sync contacts. So as of now i have the same issue as you. They look good from contacts but when clicking on a contact individually its looks horrible..

Edit: I would also like to add other apps like Voxer sync contacts in good quality so its safe to say fb app is the issue. It's the only app that has trouble syncing pictures to render correctly.
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] RayTrue04:
That is because the fb app is set up for htc resolution. Atleast thats what im assuming. On htc you can use either the built in htc social friends app to sync contacts or the fb app itself and both render the pictures correctly. Us on the othet hand the fb app does a crappy job and all we had was social hub which did a great job, but that just got stripped away on ics. It was the same issue on my og epic horrible quality from fb app but great quality from the built in friends stream. Both the htc Evo n Evo 3d always look great no matter what method u use. The og Evo had that same problem when it was released but was fixed either by htc or fb developers. I'm leaning more towards fb. Maybe we should bomb them with issues so they can look into it lol
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] leaderbuilder:
Came across this and have a question in the same vane. I wish to grab my FB contact pictures but do NOT want ANY information to 'go back/sync' with FB. I downloaded Syncmypix and it looks OK and has the option to keep my current pics for those I've already custom loaded. But when it wants to log into FB, FB asks for the right to access all my contacts! This is a non starter for me. I will not give them access to my contact(s) information. I simply want the pics 'out'.

Anyone have any ideas?
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] Success100:
htc sense also has contact syncing down packed. Total ass ache on sammys
[Samsung Epic 4G Touch] jmwood3:
SYNCMYPIX says package file is invalid. Runnig Blend ICS Rom "The Goodness" v5.1.

Any suggestions?