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[HTC One X] NP_Watford:
Hi everyone! my first post

I've been browsing here for a while and decided to go for an HTC one X off ebay. It was advertised as new unlocked and rooted. Seemed a little cheaper than the ebay shop prices about £70 buy it now cheaper so I went for it. It arrived and I put it on charge.

Switched it on it was boot looping so I called HTC support. THey talked me through the power and volume up button press and confirmed to me I had been sold a faulty phone and it was definately hardware related :-( although I was protected as It was bought through paypal and advertised as new. I read through the posts here and gained a lot of info on rooting and recovery procedures. After a few hours play It was up working! He had put LeeDrOiD One Xtreme V6.2.0.zip on the sd but not quite got to booting it up possibly not cleared cache etc. I updated the clockworkmod and put LeeDrOiD One Xtreme V6.4.0 on. Worked very well. Since then I've updated to HTC One maXimus V2.0 Android 4.0.4 Sense 4.0 base 2.05.401.2 yesterday upgraded kernel module to Franco's R11. I'm enjoying the site and will update my experiences as a noob with the development. Thanks a lot for all the superb info here as a great community you saved me a lot of hassle! :D
[HTC One X] alpha-niner64:
Make sure you press the Thanks button for any posts that helped you throughout. And awesome deal.
[HTC One X] mafia187:
Welcome to XDA mate pretty new here also. Addicted to the site spend hours reading and soaking up knowledge- thanks to everyone. enjoy your stay NP_Watford
[HTC One X] godutch:
Your warranty is now void, you should have gotten a new one, get to know it and maybe then devide to root, are you at least still entitled to the 23GB dropbox? Anyways, welcome here..
[HTC One X] xl VipeR lx:
probably never flashed the boot image. But Welcome to XDA!!!!
[HTC One X] NP_Watford:
Thanks for the welcome! I'm loving the site, great community spirit between the Rom developers and testers.
[HTC One X] lawrence750:
the dropbox promotion terms and conditions state that its for the first account on the device only :(
[Windows Phone 7 General] tboy2000:
It has been said that developers will code for Windows Phone 8 devices and neglect Windows Phone 7..

I totally disagree. If I was a developer I would code for WP7 and not WP8. Not immediately anyway. At launch of WP8, there would be millions more WP7 devices than WP8 devices so why limit my sales to WP8 devices only? WP7 apps work on WP7 and WP8. WP8 apps ONLY work on WP8 devices. Therefore, I would code for WP7 devices which work on WP7

AND

WP8. Makes total sense if I want to make more money from my app. I would wait several months before coding for WP8 to allow time for a large user base of WP8 owners to grow.
[Windows Phone 7 General] GnatGoSplat:
Considering WP7 market share is only 3.8% and the fact that it will continue to drop as people start to realize it's an orphaned platform, if WP8 is successful, I would think most developers would prefer to compile their apps for native WP8. The existing user base of WP7 phones will dry up quickly as people will upgrade at the end of their 1 or 2-year contracts.

For new developers, there's usually a good learning curve when it comes to an SDK, so I don't know why they would want to learn the WP7 SDK when they can jump right to WP8.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Zhariak:
My company has developers that we are currently contracting for mobile development. We had an active project going on for WP7 for an enterprise app (business purposes).

The day of the announcement we halted all development... First idea was to stop coding immediately, get our hands on the new SDK, and re-write the app so it would be native to the new OS for when development is finished...

Unfortunately, no SDK is yet available for WP8, and after the business guys got involved, meeting with developers, we are thinking of switching platforms (to iOS, or Android. Whichever is more friendly for the enterprise) just because we don't want to run in to this again...

-We don't want to push this app for WP7 and have it not run natively on the new WP8...

-If we did stay with Windows Phone, we'd want it to be coded in the best way possible (using the SDK and coded best practice using the new development methods of WP8)...

-We don't want to halt development until we hear more as to WTF is going on with the SDK, development, and a product that isn't even out yet...

-We don't want to code for a platform that is obsolete (WP7).

And most of all, this applies not just to us, but to the typical dev writing a complex app... We don't have the time, funds, and budget to develop for both platforms WP7, and WP8...
[Windows Phone 7 General] sitizenx:
How many people are creating apps for Windows Phone exclusively? Besides the Nokia Collection (for obvious reasons) not a single other app on my phone is unique to Windows Phone. You are going to need to give us more information. Why would you ignore iphone and Andriod anyway? That's insane. It sounds like the place where you work is poorly run. I don't think that is the fault of MSFT.
[Windows Phone 7 General] fatclue:
The only app I know of that is exclusive to WP7 is the Walgreen's app. If you're an old, broken down POS like me, it occupies the top left tile.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Zhariak:
We are a small biz, this isn't your average tinker app... We chose a platform and OS to our liking... Don't have the resources to manage the same app over multiple platforms... That's the main reason why we aren't developing for both development methods for WP7 and WP8.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Laquox:
Did we all watch the same 2 hour video of the summit? Because Joe specifically states that all windows phone 7.5 apps will work with windows 8 with "little to no tweaking of the code." So I don't get why everyone is so worried.
[Windows Phone 7 General] GnatGoSplat:
They are worried about developers preferring to use the WP8 SDK instead of the obsolete WP7 SDK. Because if they do, the new apps won't run on the old phone.

Valid concern, because if I were a mobile developer, I'd prefer to use the newer SDK. The WP7 user base is not large enough for a new developer to justify learning an obsolete SDK, or an existing developer to faithfully continue using an old SDK just to appease a small base of users which will rapidly diminish. IMO, of course.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Laquox:
I can see that but we probably won't see a SDK for at least 3-6 months. No developer on the planet (that I can think of) is going to wait for that amount of time to get to market. And my take from the Summit was that the 7.5 SDK will not be obsolete as your app will run on WP8. By the time WP8 has a decent enough market share it will be time to refresh your app anyway (14-18 months from now) and then you can make the jump to the new SDK which from what I watched will be almost effortless and will allow native code.

Just my thoughts here.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Strike_Eagle:
In term of money, they would make more money if they can make an app that can run well on both OS without further development.

But in technology side, Native C and C++ would be easier to develop, i am start worrying that Microsoft is driving to a wrong way. Not a straight way to success, but a narrow and longer one.

Just keep thinking about what if they put the native-code support for Windows 7.8 (Simple Speaking, would be what if they make Windows Phone 8 Apps (written in Native C) can run well on Windows Phone 7.8 as well without any modification...

A little more works to be done , but think about what they can get from it. People will respect Windows Phone more, recent user will not regret with their 2-years plan as much as they do right now.

There will be some reasonable explanation about the hardware limitation of the current Windows Phone, but just think about that. I don't think it is impossible to make the current kernel support apps from Windows Phone 8.

If they can't do that right now , just be clear that they don't sound like "Windows Phone 7.8 mark the death for the current Windows Phone gen."

Windows Phone lovers won't be hurt since i know they (and i) will purchase a new phone anyway, but with some users, it is a broken deal if they just picked up a Lumia or Titan for 2-years contract and feel like Microsoft just forget about them.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Wyn6:
If you think WP7's userbase is small, what does that make WP8's? Non-existent. There are millions of WP7 users. By some accounts 12-16 million. How long do you think it will take for WP8 to reach those numbers?

Let's be mildly optimistic and say that WP8 launches in September and sells 2 million units per month. It would take 6 months (March 2013) before it reaches the low end WP7 number of 12 million phones sold. So, six months from now that would be equal or a bit behind what WP7 has NOW.

But, during those six months WP7 will have sold more phones. But, let's be a little more pessimistic with this outlook. Let's take the mean of the two numbers above (12 and 16) and say WP7 has sold only 14 million units in 18 months. That's almost 800k phones per month. Now, let's say in the 3 months leading up to WP8's launch, WP7 sales drop and it only sells 500k phones per month. That's another 1.5 million units prior to Wp8's launch for a total of 15.5 million phones in the wild.

So, at launch WP8 zero, WP7 15.5 million potential customers for developers. Considering that 80-90% of your code can be ported over, as a dev, why would you NOT code for WP7 first?

I know. I know. Native code this, native code that. Okay, let's look at this. How many apps are on the market place right now that can absolutely and overwhelmingly benefit from native code? I mean, the differences in performance and features would be night and day. I'd wager a small minority of apps.

So, if an app written for WP7 will perform on par with the same app written for WP8, why, again, would you not code for WP7 first? If you didn't do this you cut out millions of potential customers and who knows how much in potential revenue, all to wait for WP8 to build a userbase.

ICS is on approximately 7% of all Android handsets right now. So, using some of you all's logic, a developer should code strictly for ICS and what it offers and forgo the other 93% of potential customers. That's nigh insane to even think about if you're trying to make any money at all.

Granted Android's user base is much larger, but that was an example. Even if we say that by the time WP8 launches WP7 will only have say... ten million users, that's ten million more than WP8.

I'm going to code NOW for those millions of customers which are actually out there with phones in their hands as opposed to holding off for customers of an OS version that is probably no less than three months out and no less than six months out from building a decent user base. I hope I'm wrong and WP8 explodes like Android did after the "Droid" ad campaign.

But, if I'm not and my hypothetical numbers are even remotely close, I leave you with the old adage... a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. WP7 IS the bird in the hand in case y'all missed it. ;)
[Windows Phone 7 General] tboy2000:
Excellent post Wyn6. Well said. For anyone to say that WP7 SDK is dead..

well, they clearly need to change their mind pronto if they want to make money as a developer. I wish WP8 lots of success and think it will be successful, but there is still (and will be) plenty of life in WP7.
[Windows Phone 7 General] drupad2drupad:
Very well said Wyn6. Can you please post it on some more threads here and around other forums where we have headless chickens running around wanting to jump the ship? I've run out of my thanks for today but will make sure they go where they are due. I will be quoting your post in numerous threads I've pulled my hair reading in past 48 hours! Hope you are ok with that ;)
[Windows Phone 7 General] Strike_Eagle:
Exactly what i want to say...

Countinuing supporting for Windows Phone 7 right now is the way the developer would do... Since Windows Phone 8/ Windows 8 user base would not reach to the point that WP7.5 has right now.
[Windows Phone 7 General] sitizenx:
I agree. I know in the video game console market there has been a long history of making new systems incompatible with previous generations of a console. The reason being is console makers wanted software developers to use the new console's new features. If left to their own devices software makers would be a lot slower to code solely for the new hardware. I don't know why smartphones wouldn't be the same.

The people that think they are clever waiting for Windows Phone 8 are going to be disappointed. The OS will have some great new characteristics that the MSFT built in apps will take advantage of on day one but I doubt there will be a deluge of Windows Phone 8 exclusive apps for a loooonnnngggg time. Who doubts this?
[Windows Phone 7 General] pillsburydoughman:
nice post.

except..

you are not a developer. You don't pay 100$ a year for AppHub. You don't have to buy Visual Studio, but even ignoring that your logic is also flawed.

First developing for WP7 platform is not a profitable for the majority of devs. This is a fact, development costs are higher compared to IOS and Android (xcode is free, andriod tools are completely free), and the user base is small. Unless you're one of the few devs making enough money, there's no point supporting something that has negative returns.
[Windows Phone 7 General] drupad2drupad:
You are right. Those 100,000 apps that school kids have made for WP7 in about 20 months might be better when a developer who pays $100 makes them. You will be alright.
[Windows Phone 7 General] nicksti:
Here is what logic tells me:

They switched to a new way of doing things (kernel) for a reason. Not because they are fickle and like to screw people over.

By switching over to a new way of doing things, this will allow them to do new things that either were not possible on WP7 or were going to be very difficult.

(so far all this makes sense to me)

Therefore, if those two things are logically sound:

Windows Phone 8 will have non-trivial improvements over Windows Phone 7.x. Things that were important enough to do something as publicly damaging as what they did by switching the kernel. Maybe it is a deeper integration (skype), an experience exactly like the PC one (IE 10) or a shared programming platform (silverlight).

How many people in here honestly believe Windows Phone 8 won't have a bunch of wow features in it when it launches that Windows Phone 7.8 will not nor ever have?

How many people believe OEMs will push out new phones with Windows 7.8 on it? Maybe Nokia on some low end Lumia bound for Asia/Africa.

The Android 2.3 vs 4.0 anaolgy really is not the same. If I am looking to port my game to Windows Phone, after that announcement I would have shelved the project. Why code for a single core phone when I can code for a dual?

The "oh I have to wait" critics of WP just got more fuel.
[Windows Phone 7 General] lqaddict:
This issue whether this aspect or another of that app will work on both WP7.5 and WP8 is already present with Audible release - voice control is WP8-only affair.

So there must be more things that possible software-wise on WP8 that is impossible on WP7.5 - and it is not the hardware difference.
[Windows Phone 7 General] nicksti:
I believe people in here understand that if a software dev wanted to he/she could make software that would be compatible on WP7.8 and 8. What they are debating is if someone would. Because in theory they would want to include as many devices as possible.

Are OEMs going to make new handsets with WP7.8? If the answer is no then WP7 is dead. Dead as my goldfish Goldie.
[Windows Phone 7 General] vetvito:
Develop for Metro Windows 8. Thats what most developers will do. When WP8 SDK is available, you'll see that you'll only need to do minimal changes(if any changes at all)for your app to work on WP8.

Thats what Belfiore was saying in the video.
[Windows Phone 7 General] vetvito:
For the millionth time. What you are getting with WP8 is scaled down Windows. All a developer has to do is code for Windows 8 Metro, and that app will be ready for WP8.

There will be millions upon millions of Windows 8 users. No way around that.

WP7 market share is a non issue.

Target a shrinking OS or a ubiquitous OS?
[Windows Phone 7 General] nicksti:
Somewhere along the way Microsoft make some discoveries. It is so very unfortunate that it pissed people off along the way.

From Windows 6.5 (Win CE Kernel) to Windows Phone 7 (Win CE kernel) they scrapped everything about WinMo and pissed all the people off who loved how open WinMo was. But they created a UI that was bound for something else. Something they could use to unify everything - XBOX, PC, Tablet, Phone.

So somewhere between the launch of Windows phone and where we are now, they decided to reload their Mobile platform again. Maybe it was during the development of Windows 8 with the Metro UI but I doubt this was the intention back in Nov 2010. Maybe we will find out. Maybe we won't.

I know it is easy for me to say because I did not sign a contract and buy a Lumia 900, but I am 99% sure I will get a fancy new Windows Phone 8 device now. Right after I get a new W8 Ultrabook.
[Windows Phone 7 General] yeahyeahyeah1981:
At the rate that Windows 8 will catch on I can see how developers will just code for Windows 8 and make the slight changes for WP8 while ignoring 7.5. The number of users alone is incentive enough. Money talks.
[Windows Phone 7 General] sitizenx:
No Sympathy

You're right. I'm not a developer. I have a job where I have to drive in to work. I use more than $100 worth of gas every few months just to commute.

That's the same for every OS. You think there are hundreds of thousands of millionaire iOS developers?

All the apps on my phone are from multibillion dollar companies, MSFT, ebay, Netflix, Nokia, Adobe, etc. I don't buy buggy apps from cheapskate developers that can't even scrape together enough food stamps to subscribe to AppHub. Get serious. Even a ditch digger buys more than $100 worth of cloths and tools to do their job.
[Windows Phone 7 General] nicksti:
Um, what? Devs have gas and clothes overheads as well. They are coding away naked in their parent's basement?

The response was a simple one, but to make it closer to home you would not spend $100 a week in gas to a job that paid $85 a week. So a software dev is not going to spend time (=money) developing an app with a low customer base and to make matters worse lowered customer confidence. Windows Phone had enough problems already, but now it has this as well.
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[Android Apps and Games] Eyal-b:
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[Android Apps and Games] tjulnev:
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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gawright:
I have 3 email accounts set up on my S3: An Exchange account and an IMAP account, using the default email client; and a gmail account using the gmail app. Frequently the whole IMAP account gets deleted. The exchange and gmail accounts are unaffected. This seems like a major bug. Has anyone else had the same?

The sync frequency for the exchange account also doesn't appear to work properly. I originally had it set for push email between 7:30am and 10pm and manual only outside those times. Sometimes it would still sync emails when it should be set to manual. I've since changed the settings to be check only four hourly during the day but it often (but not always) seems to behave as if still set for push email. Anyone else noticed this?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d4fseeker:
Do you have a spamfilter installed on your mobile?

It looks like another client may be downloading the email-account through POP3 and not have the option to keep the emails on the server checked.

At least that usually is the reason for emails disappearing when my customers complain about such problems...

S3's Exchange looks to be broken. I've seen very high battery drain of the exchange service even if the account was completely disabled, but it would go away as soon as the account was removed.

Your mailserver's policy may require an open data connection at all times (at least I _THINK_ there is such a policy option), mine seems to work fine in pull mode.

(I'm using a modified (added SMTP) Z-Push to provide Push-Email from IMAP-accounts even tough the german carrier (T-Mobile) has blocked mobile Email access)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gawright:
Thanks for the reply. It's not just the emails that are being deleted, it's the whole account. It disappears from the email program and doesn't show in the accounts and sync page either. I've had to re-enter the account settings twice now. I've seen one report of something similar on another forum.

I understand what you mean about POP but that would only delete the emails not the account. The account doesn't support POP anyway, only IMAP.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hmoroni:
It is also happening with me. The third email account I have configurated, which is Gmail, is indeed being deleted after a couple of hours.

Any idea on this guys?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hmoroni:
No one facing this same behaviour?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gawright:
I don't know if this has fixed it, but since I did this my email account has survived longer than before. It's only about a week though so could still go at any minute

In Setttings->Accounts & sync->Samsung Account->Device backup I disabled auto backup (which seemed to be failing any way). I'm not sure if it conflicts with having the google back up enabled as well. Since then my email accounts have survived. Fingers crossed it stays that way
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmd512:
Y'all living with your angry, jealous ex-girlfriends? :D
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hmoroni:
Nope. Although she does not know my passwords ;)

---------- Post added at 12:03 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:01 PM ----------

I've deleted Samsung account and now it seems everything is fine with my third email account (which is Gmail ).
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hmoroni:
Mates,

The only thing that duly worked was reseting the phone. Now everything is fine and no more deletions of my third email account.