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[Samsung Galaxy Fit GT 5670] a.cid:
Giving a small review/update on these...

So I finally bought a pair a few months back, but I am frankly really really disappointed with skullcandy...

I bought a one for around 1199 INR, and it left a lot to be fulfilled...

Utter disappointment, as I expected something way better than the stock earphones, but it was only nice in noise-isolation, and everything else was comparable to the stock samsung earphones that came along...

And the build quality is really delicate, I was very careful with them as dropping them could have broken them...

So disappointing that I sold them off to an acquaintance within 3 weeks...

I did gave skullcandy another chance, since shortly after that, I bought another different pair/model for 699 INR...

And this one is just plain horrible...

Low volume, no clarity at higher volume (as high as it could get), poor bass, no warranty card...all in all, I was worse off than before...

Only thing going for these ones was that they had *comparatively* better build quality, and were cheaper...

Been using this for two months, but unfortunately, one of the earpieces has stopped working...

No warranty, :crying::crying:

My review, skullcandy :thumbdown:

Stay away if you can...

Stick to stock headsets, those aren't the worst pair...
[Samsung Galaxy Fit GT 5670] SohamJ:
well I feel skullcandy is overhyped to be frank

I always liked our stock headphones , more than the apple ones .
[Samsung Galaxy Fit GT 5670] a.cid:
Apple normal earphones were better than the skullcandy in-ear types...

Used it with my iPod shuffle, and without any equalizer, the experience was horrible...

Haven't purchased the Apple new semi-in-ear earphones, anyone has them/tried them?
[Desire HD General] 13770147:
Well...

Sad thing happened.

HTC has officially canceled the update to Android 4.0.

I am so dissappointed and lots of people has complained about it on their blog.

It is officially stated on his blog.

BLOG

http://blog.htc.com/2012/03/ics/

ETA

http://www.htc.com/www/help/android4faq/?cid=android4blog

roid-4-ics-update.htm"]Article from Mobie & App[/URL]

Vodarfone is still waiting for ICS submission for Desire HD

http://blog.vodafone.com.au/blog/software-update-weekly-wrap-25072012/

Fortunately, here we got surprise.

we will get ICS custom rom from Virtuous Team called Infinity.

They said "Infinity: Desire HD, Desire S, Desire Z, My Touch 4G Slide, Incredible S, Incredible 2, Inspire 4G".

So, we will get it soon and can experience the true ICS taste.

YES: D やったぁ～♪

Sorry for writing Japanese..Lol
[Desire HD General] scaryshark:
... or August! LOL. Doesn't matter when we get it - as long as we do. Also, the Desire S may get it a few weeks before us which could be helpfull.

Nevertheless we will still have to wait a couple of weeks after the update for htc to release the kernel source code.

Then the fun begins :D
[Desire HD General] 13770147:
Yes!! we still hve to wait for it.

But, Im just so excited about it.

This is coz i thought da update would be very late like On Nov.
[Desire HD General] Anonymus91:
Better then never:D But it's sense 3.6 which isn't so cool.... Dedicated hardware needed on my ***... Many ROMs run the sense 4 on DHD
[Desire HD General] wbbigdave:
Problem is as far as i can tell is that there is no real ICS kernel for the DHD, waiting for another few months for this to come in and get a proper release of ICS for my HD doesn't seem worth it now.

Been waiting forever it feels like. :(
[Desire HD General] t0mas_:
buy a new phone then :)
[Desire HD General] getaceres:
I hope to see some leaks before the final launch, so ICS on our devices with working camera is really not that far.
[Desire HD General] rzgomba:
HTC blog says July - August.

I say August 8th:
[Desire HD General] JediDevil:
Why August 8th??

I say August 10th :-D
[Desire HD General] fatfred1:
I say midday on 9TH August....but which year?
[Desire HD General] AdamiX:
I say July. Finally we have got a date. Now we have to wait :)
[Desire HD General] pa lidhje:
finally we have a date :P
[Desire HD General] Kiz_:
This is actually too late... Due an upgrade and gonna jump ship to Samsung. Been loyal to the HTC brand but this has taken the biscuit to put it lighty...

6 months from now we'll see profit warnings from HTC... It's been long since they haven't listened to their customers...
[Desire HD General] Mavican:
August 13th, so a birthday present for me.
[Desire HD General] Karsten95:
Desire S ICS Ruu was leaked from Virtuous Team :)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1669497

Gesendet von meinem HTC Vision mit Tapatalk 2
[Desire HD General] lay012:
How does that help with the DHD?
[Desire HD General] Karsten95:
That Kernel will help to fix Camera issues because HD has the Same Camera Sensors then S

Gesendet von meinem HTC Vision mit Tapatalk 2
[Desire HD General] 13770147:
i guess some recognized dev make Android 4.0 with sense 4.0 coz development has started since last year.
[Desire HD General] 13770147:
i hope it will help :).
[Desire HD General] lay012:
Even the video issues? :)
[Desire HD General] wtr_dhd:
If what you mean is that AOSP roms for our DHD work less good than original Sense rom I don't fully agree.

i.e. CM 7 works flawlessly on the DHD and I even got the impression that above-mentioned work even a bit better than the stock rom..
[Desire HD General] zelendel:
Most things do work better then the stock rom. For sure it lags less. But if you compare those things I mentioned then you will notice a difference. Most people dont notice them, for as long as it works they are fine. But I have to test everything completely before my team releases anything and for a long time I was a huge supporter of Sense/Tw based roms just because of the drivers used. BT, WIFI, and cell signal are all stronger using the drivers built for the device over using ones that are not built for the device.
[Desire HD General] Nece228:
Im not sure, but then why developers need dhd kernel source for making aosp roms fully functional (camera, wifi, bt etc). Im assuming that they need drivers to make everything work fine on their aosp roms, and those drivers are from htc, same as on original sense roms?
[Desire HD General] XL3N7:
Last time I used sense I switched back to CM7 because of poorer wifi reception. For sure there were more bars on my wifi at home on the sense rom but I couldn't get any reception from a wifi spot I could get poor reception for cm7. After a nandroid restore I was able to connect to the network. That was my last experience with sense roms about a year ago.
[Desire HD General] springy:
From what I understand and someone can correct me, it is the way the rom is designed. The rom is meant to work on a certain kernel release, and because the kernel is not part of the official release things inside it are changing which breaks old code.

Google needs to get their code in the official kernel and then oem don't have to waste time testing and rebuilding things again when new versions are released.
[Desire HD General] zelendel:
Because included in the kernel source are pre built files that are used to make things work. Unlike the Nexus devices that can use the straight google coding and lib files.

Sent for a corner cell in Arkham
[Desire HD General] Nece228:
So those prebuilt drivers are used in AOSP and they are same driver files like on sense rom. If the drivers are same, then they behave the same, unless i miss something. As i understand you just put sense rom preloaded drivers in aosp, and you get same experience.
[Desire HD General] zelendel:
What you are missing is how these pre built things interact with the rest of the system. Just because they are the same does not mean they interact the same way when they work with different coding.

With HTC roms you have many jar files and others that are not in AOSP roms that the prebuilt files are normally looking for.

To help to understand more I would suggest reading up on built Android from source code. I have started doing this and I'll tell you it is easier to understand after reading a bit.

Sent for a corner cell in Arkham
[Desire HD General] Zeus20:
Count down to July has begun. Too bad no one has leaked kernel 3 for desire hd.
[Desire HD General] Muikkuman:
First July tomorrow :D
[Desire HD General] danielgek:
I have asked to football for a leak but he hasn't anything for DHD :/

This waiting is ****ing with my brain lol
[Desire HD General] commando0:
i may be wrong,

but the scenario suggesting that update might hit by end of july .....

and we may get a leak by mid of july ...........

pure assumption only .:D
[Desire HD General] bosas200:
July 9 on "3" Sweden :)
[Desire HD General] P00t:
When people say leak version of the ruu, it means that Its not stable or in the perfect stage? And when there is an official ruu it means that everything is stable and smooth?
[Desire HD General] trh1341:
Well at the moment we need kernel, that's it. But usually leaked versions are usually pretty stable...but usually slightly slower that official.
[Desire HD General] 13770147:
well well....we never know.

But, we will get by it by this August for sure.

:D
[Desire HD General] zoot600:
Let's hope so.
[Desire HD General] chrisund123:
It's July, so where's my Ice Cream Sandwich???

:D
[Desire HD General] zelendel:
I wouldn't get into too much of a rush lmao. Knowing HTC they will wait till the last min to give the update like End of the month meaning source will be released around September lmao

Sent for a corner cell in Arkham
[Desire HD General] motherninja:
HTC just want us to give up and upgrade to One series.
[Desire HD General] ghostofcain:
Unless the update is released to end users there is no compulsion under GPL to release the source.
[Desire HD General] recolor-shrink-spool:
Unbelievable! They mention their once flagship device as if it's just another budget device with very little ROM. It's hilarious how many mistakes the HTC support and Facebook teams are making. They just threw in a fourth, maybe even fifth excuse for the absence of the update...
[Desire HD General] Quinny899:
OK, so now the DHD has less than 512mb of RAM. What's next? The one X having 5gb?
[Desire HD General] gogsy1975:
Amazing, Desire S gets RUU update to ICS and nothing for flagship model Desire HD... Same procesor, same 768 Mb RAM...

Shame on you HTC...:crying:
[Desire HD General] gtramt1:
so it is the 1st of september... would like to ask people who taught that HTC would release update where can i download it :laugh::rolleyes::laugh::rolleyes::rolleyes:

never ever again HTC...
[Desire HD General] Muikkuman:
True, HTC is history.
[Desire HD General] Rendering:
321,000 views of this topic.

1 view != 1 user, but HTC managers must see how many people will no longer buying HTC products
[Desire HD General] gogsy1975:
Can somebody please explain me something. HTC Desire S is getting RUU update (not OTA)... Update wipe all user data, and maybe (i don't know exactly) format internal phone memory... DHD has exactly the same phone specification. Why DHD don't get RUU Update? :confused:
[Desire HD General] Rendering:
Welcome. Well, that's a long history...
[Desire HD General] gogsy1975:
Thanks Rendering... :fingers-crossed: Well, what HTC explain as a reason on their HTC Blog as "it would require re-partitioning device storage and overwriting user data in order to install this update. While technically advanced users might find this solution acceptable, the majority of customers would not." That is crap. This Desire S update do the same, wipe all user data but user regullary update their phones. If re-partitioning device is necesary, i would like 2 do repartitioning my DHD just to have ICS...
[Desire HD General] rohithksaj:
nw its sept 1 . . . .

No news about the update. ,

I hope this is it, .

This is the end. .

I know there are kernels avail wid all d thingz working . .

But we wil never get a rom as smooth as GB . And stability also. . .

Too bad htc. .

U lost many customerz . .

All hopez are shattered. . .

RIP DHD . . . . .
[Desire HD General] ghostofcain:
I can only assume you haven't tried AOSPX and Jellytime, in my experience they are at least as smooth as stock GB roms.
[Desire HD General] Rendering:
HTC is violating GPL license by non relasing source code. We should organize some legal actions together with Free Software Foundation
[Desire HD General] ghostofcain:
Not until they release an update theyre not. You can mess with the code a such as you care, but release anything and you are required to make the source code available.
[Desire HD General] angramenyu:
However they are not stable.
[Desire HD General] rohithksaj:
yup ! They are not !
[Desire HD General] Teichopsia:
Guys, what you have mentioned in the last couple of pages has already been talked about. The reason this thread is open is for people not to open new threads about this every other day. If you can't read through what has already been suggested to find a solution to which concerns you, you are not going to reach very far.

Sent from a dream.
[Desire HD General] frank_test:
I tried ICS but can't work well on my phone
[Desire HD General] Pop Tarantula:
let me guess.... you mainly use your DHD for 720 video recording?

Suck it up and look again. Personally, I've used IceColdSandwich & Blackout ICS & they both work perfectly well.

Desire HD : * Blackout ICS 3.0.0 * : Tapatalk 2.2.8
[Desire HD General] rohithksaj:
many are reporting problems of automatic shutting down after they have flashed ics roms . . . . . . .

Including me. . . . . . .
[Desire HD General] getaceres:
I've been running IceColdSandwich and it was very unstable with random reboots. I changed to Existz and it was more stable but not without issues. As well as a Sense 4 ROM that I'm running right now. It has issues with Bluetooth. There's no ROM with ICS as complete and stable as the ones based on GB with Sense and I fear that it's because HTC supports our device with GB but not with ICS, so the drivers and libs are better.

Enviado desde mi HTC Desire HD usando Tapatalk 2
[Desire HD General] robinmobile:
This is true. We have to keep asking for the official ruu.
[Desire HD General] Walderstorn:
Yeap it also bogs me, i mean wtf... but im honestly not expecting nothing from htc, and this will be my last phone from them either way so i dont really dont care anymore.
[Desire HD General] rohithksaj:
this is the end brothers. . . Htc wont release the official ics . . . .
[Desire HD General] motherninja:
Stop wasting your time asking HTC for ICS update, at least now we have a perfectly running phone with GB 2.3.5 and Sense 3.5, what else do you want from it anyway?

ICS with Sense 3.6 is so buggy, and the interface and functionality is not a big different from Sense 3.5. Why you keep using it while it is just a little different from super stable ROM with Sense 3.5?
[Desire HD General] shithead:
Because this is XDA. People want to run custom ics (or jelly bean) on their devices.
[Desire HD General] kalbasnik:
I have official GB 2.3.5 with Sense 3.0...
[Desire HD General] motherninja:
So what? :confused:
[Desire HD General] kalbasnik:
just saying, Sense 3.5 is not ture for Desire HD users...
[Desire HD General] Muikkuman:
Does anyonknow what happened to max petition?
[Desire HD General] kalbasnik:
was it ignored by HTC?
[Desire HD General] raulz28:
I see a few posts of Jellytime not being stable well it is VERY stable from what a lot of users have said including myself RB is doing a badass job on it just saying.
[Desire HD General] ricc@rd:
He is still working on it, and he probably won't give up till he gets something (particularly after the last update on android 4.0 faq section on htc site). Just visit the page of the petition (also in my signature) to see the last update ;)

The petition is probably our last hope now, so we need to support him continuing to share it the more we can!!

Don't give up guys! There is still some hope to get something :p
[Desire HD General] getaceres:
Well, I installed it yesterday (R3) and had a few FC on applications, then I tried to take a picture of my friends and the camera was failing, not always, but often and at random time, like when there was much light or much movement, I don't know exactly but it crashed so much that a friend had to take the photos with his phone. Then I went back to a Sense 4 ROM which don't have this issues, just one with bluetooth. For me, this is not stable at all. And neither is the Sense 4 ROM but at least is a LOT more reliable than Jellytime.
[Desire HD General] motherninja:
Yes, it is not officially released for Desire HD but it is very stable (I suggest you to try ARHD 7.0.4, CoreDroid, SmartDroid, or ER3BUS XL SP1), I haven't face any issue until now, it is just better than outdated official Sense 3 for DHD, the whole interface is not much different than Sense 3.6.
[Desire HD General] leopardtag:
Why are you still waiting for HTC to release something they told everyone that is not going to happen? In fact they realized that releasing an ICS rom to its "newest DHD brother" would have the same effect so they cancel it. HTC runs with money not with developing updates for their smartphones. Want updated OS ... go to Google phone. Samsung, HTC, LG, their all the same...

We still have many developers willing to give us some good ROM's and I'm very happy to see JB in my DHD when HTC told it was impossible.

HTC will suffer for letting DHD users down... karma will take care of it.
[Desire HD General] ogbrandon:
The update is not gonna come. \\ Might not even exist.

Flash a custom rom. Jellytime for example gives you android 4.1.. It is stable and great.
[Desire HD General] daedric:
Is this usefull ? http://htcsource.com/2012/09/source-code-for-the-european-versions-of-the-desire-s-and-the-rhyme-up-for-grabs/
[Desire HD General] rohithksaj:
Certainly. . .

But for desire s . . . .

Not for hd . . .
[Desire HD General] robinmobile:
U are probably just ryt m8. Hell it might not even be planned by HTC. And now we know, what to expect from HTC with other new devices like one x. They will ditch those customers just like us.

Spread the word, spread the love.
[Desire HD General] barboul:
No update from HTC for the DHD

We can see on the official HTC dev web site than the latest kernel available from HTC is 2.6.35 and the latest Android version is 2.3.

When I knew HTC was not going to upgrade the DHD to ICS or JB, I rushed to XDA forum, root my phone and put the Blackout rom (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1531218). :victory: After a little bit of research, it was done quickly. Finally got ICS on my DHD after waiting so many months and being betrayed by HTC.

I am not looking to change my phone for the moment. I understand that their strategy is not to update the phone forever and most of the companies are the same but still... I did not like the fact they said the phone will be upgraded to ICS and then no.

I am enjoying my much faster phone since I changed the rom for the moment. Very few bugs so far. Will try to report it when I will be able to post on the dev section. If they do not correct them with the next very soon update... :p
[Desire HD General] blackwolfsa:
HTC really dropped this one if you ask me. I see samsung confirmed jelly bean update for the S2.

I also rooted my phone after they said no ICS for us. And to top it off I also suffer from the dust in the screen problem....
[Desire HD General] Frank1604:
Exactly like me! :D
[Desire HD General] geejay008:
imho the latest IceColdSandwitch from LordClockan is the fastest, most stable and complete ICS rom available for the DHD at the moment. ^_^
[Desire HD General] AgentCain:
But it lacks the Sense UI, no? So if you want the Sence you'll have to use Blackout ICS which comes with sense 3.6 (essentially sense 4 but adapted). Thats why Im waiting for the new release, soon...:laugh:
[Desire HD General] geejay008:
...was a fan of sense... I did have a bash at using AOSP GBs with alternative launchers, ended up not liking it.

Then I started using ICS AOKP with Apex Launcher, and appreciated a cleaner, more efficient UI with more features, less bloat and an increased battery life.

A VERY small part of me still misses the Sense UI, but since most of the features I require are catered for by the ICS AOKP\AOSP with Apex Launcher.... I've not looked back since converting...^_^
[Desire HD General] tonzeero:
ggedNam

i think ICS is slowly rom
[Desire HD General] blackwolfsa:
The stuff I miss is the facebook sync and the proper working contacts merge the rest, not really

And HTC has released the desire S rom on their dev site
[Desire HD General] geejay008:
IceColdSandwich (and i think most ICS AOKP/SP ROMs) has options to merge contacts... It just doesn't do it automatically... It's what actually sold me to switch, since its one of the defining features of sense roms... Being able to do it manually actually made the ICS version better though... Since sense merges the wrong contacts sometimes...

Facebook integration within sense is overrated... I actually found it better and more efficient to use the apps directly... Although i would say you need an app called HAXsync to make sure all your facebook sync contacts get HD profile pics... =/

Don't knw about the sense ICS ROMs, but the latest IceColdSandwich AOKP rom that I'm on is constantly responsive in its UI... It supports HW acceleration for my movies, and my 3d games (asphalt, dead trigger, shadowgun, final fantasy 3) are all running on decent speed...

I would actually say it ran faster and more efficient battery-wise compared to the previous sense rom that i was on ages ago....
[Desire HD General] I_L_I_J_A:
Motorola aiming to upgrade all possible devices to Jelly Bean, promises to give you $100 credit if it can't

By Daniel Cooper posted Sep 5th 2012 2:26PM

http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/05/motorola-jelly-bean-upgrades/

SENT FROM MY LAST HTC PHONE
[Desire HD General] cdordon:
WOW. F*** HTC. If Motorola is upgrading EVERYTHING to Jelly Bean, surely we can get kernel source from HTC. If only...

Sent from my Cellular Telephone, which can do magic things over the internet.
[Desire HD General] ricc@rd:
It isn't what you think!! The bonus of 100$ is given as a discount in buying a new phone. So Motorola strategy is: "we don't update your old phone? we give you 100$ so that you will have to spend 500$ instead of 600$ in buying a new one from motorola"

This isn't really an interesting thing :)

Inviato dal mio HTC Desire HD With Beats Audio
[Desire HD General] macanovic88:
I have less problem with IceColdSandwich than I had with BlackIce gingerbred rom!
[Desire HD General] blackwolfsa:
I am running icecoldsandwich but I dont see any think to merge your contacts. I had to revert to other external apps, like go contacts. And then they only did a mediocre job.
[Desire HD General] AgentCain:
Yes but HTC doesnt even do that.
[Desire HD General] azrael97c:
I totally forgot about this thread since I started using Jellytime @_@

The longer HTC delays releasing ICS (kernel), the less relevant it becomes
[Desire HD General] geejay008:
... If you go into a contact, press menu/edit... If you press menu again... You should see 'join' as one of the options available.... It will then take you through a list of your contacts for you to sellect which other contact to join it with.... The ones at the top are a couple of suggested contacts that the phone deemed closest to the one ur trying to join...

Hope this helps....
[Desire HD General] blackwolfsa:
In the people?

Because I can only see display options.
[Desire HD General] shamps:
Yes. But you should first sync your facebook contacts with your phone. Yiu cn use facebook contct sync app for this. Its availble free from the market.. Then you can edit your phone contact and then join it with the corresponding contact.

Hope that helps.
[Desire HD General] geejay008:
Yes, in people...

But you will need to go into a contact 1st... Not the main bit where you see everyone...

Once you click on a contact... You press menu/edit...

Then on 'edit mode' you press menu again.... This time you will see 'join' as one of the options...

Its very well hidden... But its there...

I would also recommend you install HAXsync... Makes all your contact profile pix decent quality...