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[Windows 8 General] dazza9075:
Im not dismissing your opinion as worthless because it didn't conform to the party line, im dismissing it because you've not used it (you've used the DP and disabled metro) for a decent period of time, you don't understand it and haven't come up with an argument that's anything more than being plain dismissive of it. The reason you open yourself up to such comments is simply that whatever you think of it, if you have used it you will have found good points about metro, and constructive views are welcome, but your not being constructive

Why? its not like your forced to use metro and if anything its just a very fancy start menu...

Absolutely test it out, but actually try it, to test something means just that, don't just side step it, if you use it (metro) don't like it, then feedback your comments to MS be constructive about it and you will be in a much stronger position to pass judgement on it. No one can fault an informed constructive opinion my friend

good list of 5 good points, id add to that

The built in spell check to OS functions

Significant improvement in speed and productivity

skydrive was only properly put in to place yesterday and its great

IE10 is amazingly fast and touch wood I've yet to have any issues with it, its built in spell check is also very accurate and efficient

that top 300 list can be seen as more of an improvement list, there is a lot of stuff on there what is in Win7 and is behind the scenes so its difficult to tell if it is indeed an improvement

you let yourself down again with comments like that, install the CP, setup metro, use it, bring back your thoughts to the forum (some of your issues may just have been that you've missed something) On my desktop im in metro marginally more time than I used to sit around in the start menu, only im achieving a lot more doing so! I do have a couple of Apps installed that are quite useful but flicking between those and desktop programs is not an issue...

Now for a bit of CONSTRUCTIVE feedback on Win 8

For those of us that have had issues with multi monitor support and especially finding "those" locations to bring up the various menus try this..

Drop the resolution of the 2nd and 3rd monitor, then go to display settings and position the two screens in the centre of your main monitor, you will see the main monitor slightly hang out above and below the two side screens which gives you just enough room for your mouse to stop moving and active the menus.

not ideal by a long shot but its a work around for now.
[Windows 8 General] mdwbeex:
I have used it, although I'll admit not extensively - mainly because it's unusable as a production desktop. I'll concede that it's acceptable in a start screen capacity, and damned efficient on phones, but I prefer the start menu.
[Windows 8 General] Vintage144:
I just installed it , its running on a test machine full time and so far I love it , I like how I can switch between the desktop and the more intuitive Metro design , wish I had a "touch"" screen to test it on ! But it was a joy to install , almost as quick as Kubunto , the tweak factor is nice as well and for people who know nothing about networking it does it for you (of course you can go alot farther than that if you know how)!

We'll see in a month how I feel, but I dont think it will change , I loved Vista when it came out (never had problem with it) , WIn7 is still great!
[Windows 8 General] mdwbeex:
D

Installed it on a test machine to give it a second chance...

Day 1:

1. Did not disable metro, instead choosing to give it a "fair shake". Within about three hours, I was ready to throw the machine out of the window - and these windows don't open...

2. Start button? Seriously, what retard in Redmond thought that removing the single most-used item on the Windows desktop to be a good idea?

If it's not broke, don't "fix" it...

Scrolling sideways through a sea of applications looking for what I want, or having to use the search bar to get something isn't terribly efficient imho.

Tried a variety of replacements since a regedit to add it back actually reverts explorer and task manager to win7 versions as well... ViStart sucks out loud, but gets major credit for trying. Stardock Start8 isn't much better - basically it just minimizes that crap sideways scroll screen for applications. Kept it in the interest of maybe someday getting used to the idea. In the interim before my brain turns to gooey mush and I say to myself "oooohh, pritttttty, productivity be damned, man!" I went with simply creating a folder under C: and naming it "start menu" (my clever naming conventions are world renowned) - copying the shortcuts from %ProgramData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs and %AppData%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs and then adding a new toolbar to the taskbar. Drug it to the left side and locked it.

3. Shook my head slowly and sighed in disgust that I actually had to go through all of that to get basic and quick app navigation back.

On the upside:

1. Upgrade went smoothly, and fairly quick.

2. System is responsive and smooth.

Hopefully I'll have some pros to go along with those cons tomorrow...
[Windows 8 General] dazza9075:
1, why?

2, you have a start menu, granted the button that's been there for the last 17 YEARS! has gone, but clicking bottom left gives you the same information an a crap load more, the all apps button will give you a much easier list of programs and apps if the big icons are too.....big!

you say if its not broken don't fix it, well I kinda of agree and I am concerned about desktop clutter, however, after 17 years that argument is getting thin, after all, a horse isn't broken so why invent the car?

a little tip for you if you must have the function, and that's to add a desktop toolbar to the start bar, then add a shortcut to the start menu folder on your desktop. clicking on the desktop toolbar then gives you a very similar start menu to one we used to be used too.

personally I find it much quicker finding and running programs using metro now, the start menu can be a royal waste of time if you have a lot installed.

edit, oops I see you already worked that one out, well done for trying, btw, im a tad confused when you keep talking about disabling metro, on the CP you cant do that, so to be clear, you are using the CP aren't you? not the DP?

3, again, start menu is there and I don't find it any slower....im curious, (im giving you a get out of jail free card here so listen) are you using this on a laptop with a trackpad? that is the only input device ive had issues with, so if you are then that explains a lot.
[Windows 8 General] mdwbeex:
-8

A plethora of reasons, but to sum up: it un-intuitive, clunky and generally just feels as though it was designed by a group of meth addicts after a 7 day binge - I get that it's a beta, but if this is going to be anything like the final version, I actually may opt out entirely and be like one of those old bastards that desperately cling to their Windows 95 installations...

Information? yes. In an efficient format? No. The start menu now takes up a whole screen, (Really? Full Screen? w.t.f.) and requires left to right scrolling to find what you want rather than the simple, compact and intuitive "classic" start menu.

A more apt comparison, in this case, might be: A horse isn't broken, so let's try sandals.

Get of jail free card? For what? Using it on a laptop yes, but in a dock with dual monitors, keyboard and mouse - essentially a desktop. The issues aren't with performance - as previously stated, I find that it runs smoothly and is responsive. The disjointed, clumsy UI is what I find issue with.
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] punpun214:
hey guys..

I have a i9100m from bell in canada.. And I was wondering if there is anything to flash or whatever to change the system language to chinese?.. Any help would be great.. thanks :)
[Galaxy S II Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vareta:
It will be a little tricky because there is only one in www.samfirmware.com firmware available.

You could try to modify the firmware and you tried to put the translations that are available for other models like the SGS II if it is in Chinese
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Toaster Strudels:
The Skyrocket got a unofficial leak of the ICS build, so I was wondering whether that would help us with creating new ICS roms or anything, since the Skyrocket and Note have similar hardware.

http://rootzwiki.com/_/articles/lea...or-skyrocket-leaks-weve-got-the-link-att-r579

Thanks.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] ezu132:
It should help us, but we need a Dev willing to port
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] kaishi00:
why make a new thread when an existing thread is still on page 1?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] 918273645ams:
there is already a thread about this

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1565386
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] burhanistan:
I think this thread beat that one by 90 minutes. But, I think the Skyrocket ROM won't be all that useful, and I suspect there will be a Note ICS leak coming shortly.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] 918273645ams:
not that it matters but that thread was created by me, this morning around 6:30 AM and this one came around 5 PM.. so that one beat this one by a good 10 and a half hours... :o
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] Toaster Strudels:
sorry man, that's really weird, i searched q&a AND this thread and didn't see anything so i posted. I'm really sorry :/
[Sony Tablet S] jxl92182:
Sorry for asking this again, but the original one was not really updated and is almost 2 month ago.

So......

What bloatware are ok to remove after ROOT?
[Sony Tablet S] Schrammi:
So what's your question exactly?
[Sony Tablet S] Nesquick95:
I've removed this apps, with SystemApp Remover (see Google Play) once I had root :

MediEvil

Music Unlimited

Personal Space

Pinball Heroes

PS Store

Select App

Video Unlimited

Be careful because removing one of this apps (Select App ?) also removed the stock launcher : black screen then bootloop on reboot... Had to downgrade build.prop to force an OTA update and then get the famous unrootable kernel #10 :(

To my advice, better do nothing if you don't have your current OTA file saved somewhere. Condi's (great) AIO tool may help you for that...
[Sony Tablet S] Schrammi:
Root? So why do you didn't post this in dev? Or correct your topic. It's a lil bit confusing.
[Sony Tablet S] agc93:
Dev forum is for questions relating directly to Android Development, such as methods of obtaining root, or how to write an app that uses root. Could just be me, but this kind of questions seems like something that general users can more than adequately answer and is probably better posted here. Not to mention, the OP only has 10 posts and may not be able to post in the Dev section.

Also, with regards to the question he was asking might be better phrased as:

What system apps can be safely removed using root tools without affecting system stability?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Tubular:
Am I the only one who sees a pink color on the screen if the screen is tilted at an angle? I checked a floor model at Best Buy and didn't see any coloring.

If you take the device, rotate it so the corner with the clock is facing you and then corner with the Google voice search button is facing away from you and then tilt the device so you're looking at the screen in a sort of flat manner (but it happens much before it's flat) the screen turns pinkish. It also occurs when you do it from another rotation, same angle.

It sort of kills the quality of the screen since IPS is known for good viewing angles. It's a B6O, the floor model that didn't have it is a B7O.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] baseballfanz:
No problems here with pink screen. Really though if you have to flip to that angle to see it what's the big deal? It's not an angle you would normally have the TF at to use.:D
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Tubular:
I'm not the kind of person to whine about small things. Like I said in the first post it happens much before the tablet is laid flat. If I'm holding the tablet in a normal position and begin to turn it left or right the side of the screen that I'm turning it to turns pink. This is not a abnormal position for the tablet to be in. If I'm not directly in front of the screen it turns pink even if it's a little bit to the left or right.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] tweaked:
Call asus support.. i would.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] No_u:
You're holding it wrong.

Couldn't resist :D

(It's probably just you, never noticed it)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] slayr76:
I flashed this new foxhound 0.3 black ed 4.0.4 rom on my galaxy nexus GSM,everything works fine except the black theme that comes with it only shows the black ui there is no black wallpaper or lock screen theme just the usual gnex default phase beam live wallpaper shows up after installing this rom any idea's please I want the wallpaper an lock screen like into the foxhound rom screenshots.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] slayr76:
:p sorry i didnt realise you had to select the wallpaper yourself after installing rom please diregard previous post.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] androidoveriphone:
Ok, I purchased this LG Optimus T P509 from T-Mobile. I unlocked it officially for AT&T, it is for my sister who wanted an Android but no data plan. It is perfect for her. She loves the keyboard, gets great service, nice texting interface, but she can't MMS! I went into settings and set-up the AT&T APN, and the AT&T MMS APN. The phone was going onto mobile data and to prevent her getting a high bill, I turned off mobile data. With a mobile data block there is no MMS! So I bought this app called APNDroid. I said keep MMS enabled, turn APN off. MMS doesn't work. APNDroid worked on my phone. However, my phone is a carrier unbranded Gingerbread phone.

PLEASE HELP! I have been looking high and low for months. Any help is appreciated. We don't want a data plan but I don't understand why MMS works on my data-plan less phone and not on hers. She gets a download button for MMS, it says downloading.... then failed!

About her phone: LG Optimus T P509, Android 2.2.2, texting and calling work, tried mobile data once and it worked!, uses WiFi all the time,
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] G_O_P:
Hey there, I'm new to XDA and am sorry if I break the rules! Don't hurt me! :(

I'm a straight up noob when it comes to this stuff. So please understand when I'm asking the dumbest things. I've been crawling all over XDA for answers. Maybe I'm not looking correctly.

Anyways, I'm running on the MT4G with Zips Creamed Glacier V3.11 and I've got a bunch of questions and problems.

One of the problems is that I cannot make changes to my notifications tone and calling ringtones! When I try to open them up under settings, it crashes.

The other problem has to do with the trackpad. For hours I thought it would not work, there was a cursor (much like using the trackpad on those old blackberrys) that would not open anything up when clicking it. Then I found that it would click something if I pressed the trackpad while moving it at the same time. Can anyone help me with this or explain it?

If possible, I'd like to revert back to the way it used to be before the cursor added, is there a way to edit/customize the rom? If so, where can I find out about this?

Sorry and thanks in advance! I'm just thoroughly confused :confused:
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] invasion2:
Not sure about the notifications. Probably in the ROM thread. But the trackpad, that's all ICS. No way to remove it, that I know of.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SprigganMaster:
Hello G_O_P,

Zip ICS ROM is currently in beta.

It means you may get some issues.

I'm sure trackpad is not a priority since you have a workaround (use the screen). You can probably report your other issues in dev thread with as much detail as possible to help Zipnet.

If you still have the previous version, you can wipe and flash it to go back. You can try another ICS ROM too.

But, you must know that every ICS ROM are currently in heavy dev. If you absolutely need something without any issues, more back to gingerbread (CyanogenMod or a Sense ROM)

Regards
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jay10826:
Is there any way to be able to turn on the screen using the trackpad button instead of the power button? On this or other ICS roms?

Thanks
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jbsmd:
Trackpad wake

I know this is available in the GB ROMs, but I haven't been able to get it to work on my Glacier with I2IEAILiiTY's edit of CreamedGlacier and IceColdSandwich. I found out from one of the threads that the home button will wake the device (it works on mine). I'm sure it will be in there eventually.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jay10826:
Nice! The home button turns on mine too, thanks for the tip. I'm using IceColdSandwich right now but will probably switch to zips creamed glacier on the next release.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] G_O_P:
Thanks for your inputs.

And of course in no way am I complaining, I'd love to post in Zips ICS thread, but I can't because I haven't exceeded my ten posts yet.

I'm going to be checking out the other ROMS and play around with them and will check out Zips release when its out!

Thanks again!
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maverick_hunter:
If anything, I recommend reverting back to CM7 (TDJ's 7.2 kang is my personal favorite), and then equipping an ICS theme. You get the look of ICS with the stability of Gingerbread.

To get everything looking like ICS, I recommend you download and equip both Kovdev's ADW ICS theme and Sonny Sekhon's ICS CM7 theme from the Play Store (I hate that new name :mad: ). I'm sticking to Gingerbread until the devs iron out all the kinks, which I'm sure they will do soon enough.

Sent from my HTC Glacier
[Motorola Droid X2] ztotherad:
the contract im talking about is the one between motorola and vzw
[Motorola Droid X2] litetaker:
Apparently, that is a contract made with Satan himself, and is not gonna end anytime soon. In fact, never.
[Motorola Droid X2] Elite49:
No, no this isn't EA with Madden now.
[General Questions and Answers] the5:
Does any one know the cheapest cell contract with unlimted data and text. I would also need an android phone to go with it.
[General Questions and Answers] MattyOnXperiaX10:
Are you in the UK or Us etc. are you looking for a gaming handset, or what ever??

What screen size do you want??

Ask us any Android Related Questions @FeraLabsDevs on Twitter (Even If You've Bricked)
[General Questions and Answers] the5:
Us, I prefer a Sim card but I will do cmda with good phone choice.
[General Questions and Answers] 754boy:
Cspire. $50 a month for 500 anytime minutes, unlimited mobile to mobile, Unlimited data, text, and MMS. Thats the plan I'm currently on. Only negative would be their choice of phones. Best Android phone in their lineup is the Milestone X2.
[General Questions and Answers] the5:
Anyone else?
[General Questions and Answers] mrrick:
Straight Talk?

*signed
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whise1:
Please i cant install cwm recovery due to i have 3e recovery, can someone please tell me how?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ishangoyal:
Please first go through the old posts to avoid any duplicates

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1375145

at the above link same thing is discussed and I hope you'll be able to find the solution
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LORDFIRE00:
is there a way to install the android os on a tomtom gps unit? if so, exactly how do you do it? i know how to use odin if that can be used. i have an old tomtom one xl that i would really like to load android on , but just don't know how to do so.

any help would be greatly appreciated
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spunker88:
Dedicated GPS units usually have pretty low specs since they don't really need to run anything but the GPS software. The One XL has a 266mhz processor and 32MB of RAM, way too low to even consider Android.

You are better off getting a cheap Android device with a GPS if you want an Android based GPS.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dydycom:
what abbout car units

Hello

I have a laguna 3 whith navigation carminat. Would that be posdible to have android on it?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yollasho:
I doubt that the proper drivers exist for the hardware in those things. Even within the general Linux community, I can't see the demand for such a project being very high. I think you'd have to do a ton of searching and compiling from source, even then, as mentioned, many dedicated GPS units just aren't very powerful.

That said, I'd bet there are some random Chinese dedicated GPS units running Android or something.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dondreak:
Loading Adnroid on A GPS

I would think it would work. The two GPS units I bought in Hungary have Windows Mobile loaded on them. If it can take Windows mobile wouldn't it support Android too? I'm no expert on that so I'm relying on the answer too.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jimzamjimmyy:
Why?

Why do you want android? Full desktop looks prettier.

damnsmalllinux.org

...but I dont know how to do that.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leonaidus199:
Hey can we use sygic map or any other maps on tomtom
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cernivorous:
zzzontomtom.wordpress.com/getting-to-the-console-of-your-tomtom/
[HD2 General] Fears:
I was wondering if there is any way to access the internal Memory of the HD2 from a desktop computer ?

My HD2 is stuck at a white screen on boot and even though i can get to the bootloader all the flashes failed so far so i tought that maybe the only way of finding a solution is try changing the files directly on the HD2.

Thanks.
[HD2 General] samsamuel:
your problems run deeper than accessing and fixing a file. No, you cant access the files on there. Try chilling teh phone in teh freezer 20 mins or so, then try teh flash again from sd )make sure its the correct stock rom) chances are it wont fix it, but it might.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] md1008:
I have read some terrible reviews for this and was wondering what others thought about it. I want to upgrade and this phone is pretty cheap in contrast to other phones with the specs it has. I do intend to install a custom from so even if the stock from is terriv
[T-Mobile LG G2x] shovelhead83:
Its a good phone and it has spell check.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mt3g:
With a custom rom, yes without it's meh....
[T-Mobile LG G2x] md1008:
Sorry accidentally hit sent!

If this phone is terrible on stock rom but runs great with other rooms than it doesn't matter and this would be a wise purchase
[T-Mobile LG G2x] I.R.Chevy:
Dooooooo it!!!
[T-Mobile LG G2x] mt3g:
Ya, and hopefully its spell check is better then the MT4Gs lol.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Texan28:
Once i put CM7 on my phone i never looked back....LOVE this phone now! GET IT!!!!
[T-Mobile LG G2x] Yuhfhrh:
To sum it up, LG's software is what made this phone crap. But we have great devs who make it one heck of a beast!
[T-Mobile LG G2x] fabricatedhero:
Singh-Miui with faux kernel...buttery smoothness
[T-Mobile LG G2x] whozilla:
I use Hellfire pheonix with Trinity 1500mhz kernal. Its a monster now. Having stock is a bummer for any device. Some hate bulky sense. Some hate the ugly moto blur. Many get bored of touchwiz and that's just ui. Once you free your device it's a matter of hardware and manufacturers willingness to cough up source. LG is stingy with source but that hasn't stopped the devs. We still get good stuff. Thank them! Look at the hardware and decide based on that is my opinion. (If you plan on flashing roms that is)

"I'm just a hat tryin to get ahead"-whozilla.