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[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] verks:
I just received my today and the screen looks great but.....

I have a yellowish spot on the bottom of the screen above the HTC logo. It is very noticable and I'll be exchanging it on Monday thru ImportGSM.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] anubis23:
hi

So did anyone actually upload the US 3G Rom and Radio yet? If so can someone post a linky, ty.

The ROM version is 1.93.422.4 WWE

The radio version is 1.00.25.08 (the one on the phone itself)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] omarnone:
Now I'm kind of worried till i get my phone on Monday look what this person had to say.

Man i better not get any yellow crap on my $649.99 phone!!!:mad:
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Youmoussa:
I will definitely take it to a BBY store, because I don't want to pay to return it several times if I have to.

If only I could check this just before I leave the store..
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] wpsantennas:
I can't speak for your store but at least at the one I go to they have no problem letting me check out the phones before I buy it. I had the Diamond fully booted before we even got to actually paying for it. Especially on new phones, the reps are typically pretty excited to rip open the box and check out the phone.

If you explain what it is you are concerned about before buying the phone and that you are trying to avoid multiple sales/returns that might also help your case.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Vector-SS:
Wow this is ******* terrible. I thought my spots on the screen were bad. Honestly this is really shameful from HTC and it's obvious that they were trying to cut costs and they get this crap.

The problem is, even people who are buying the diamond today are still getting this crap, and looks like nothing is being done about it. It is so damn frustrating.

As a result of my screen having spots, I was forced to send it in to the repair center and as an outcome, my damn phone got freaking lost going to texas. It has been a month now and still no one knows where the phone is.

My shipping company don't want to pay me my insurance money so I'm getting a lawyer involved. Sorry If I'm ranting away, but I'm beyond furious and I feel like hurting someone :mad:
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] keirmeister:
Fleetwoodguy79 and U-Nas, thanx for the pictures. It gives me a good idea of what you mean about the washed-out colors and the yellow tint.

Based on those pictures, I can definitely say my 3G US Diamond doesn't have the yellow thing (Holy Jeebus! that looks horrific!), and the flower picture on my phone looks more like the EU example in Fleetwood's pic.

It's starting to sound like another one of those "bad batch" problems.

Calito: It looks like they took out the front camera on the US phones. Mine doesn't have it. Do any US carriers actually use video calling?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] calito:
Thanks

Thanks just wanted to know if the camera was in front because in a review in the web said yes:confused:, but on the other side saw it was not:confused:. Therefore it is best to ask you:). In Argentina we have video conference but are hardly used, it is something very new and very expensive:eek:.

Calito
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] boolean22:
The irony is that when people asked me why was I buying this phone instead of the iPhone, one of my reasons was that it HAD a front camera for video call, and the iPhone lacked.

Me cago en la reputisima madre, carajo.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] calito:
Dear Boolean

So are the things we have the EU version with the front camera but without 3G and American version without the front camera but with 3G. But I think it remains well above the iphone. The problem of the Diamond is that it is HTC and not Apple.

Uno en mercado libre me juraba que si la tenía, hoy por la tarde le demostré (lamentablemente) que no. Seguiré con mi versión europea.

A seller in Ebay (Argentina), swore that was, this afternoon will show (unfortunately) not. I will continue with my European version.

Saludos

Calito
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Stingray66:
Yes, I would like to see this ROM too.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] hatoscano:
Rom 1.93.422.4 Wwe

Alguna noticia con respecto a la ROM Americana, ya esta para bajar de algun lado. Alguien que se registre con el numero de serie de la Diamond Americana en la pagina de USA y que pase el link de descarga de la nueva ROM, por favor sera de gran ayuda. Dejo mi email por si alguien quiere pasarme su numero de serie y yo me encargo de publicar el link en el foro.

hatoscano@yahoo.com.ar

Gracias .-
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] cyrilic:
I just got my US version of the HTC Diamond and it kicks ass :) No problems or yellow dots/crap on the display. I only wish I could edit what's displayed on TF3D's home screen though. May be I'm not looking hard enough
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] boolean22:
The guys at mercadolibre are being deceived just as I was when they told me that mine would connect to national 3G... I'm being offered a Samsung Omnia for a +100 dollars difference (returning my TD), but then again I made my investigations and there is NO possibility of connecting to 3G here either. So I really thought of giving up and keeping my EU Diamond... just for kicks.

The lack of front cam, ain't trouble, since I won't use it anyway... but I really love the slim Diamond... I've already packed mine, just in case I have to return it, I don't want it to be damaged or anything.

God, I know I won't like Omnia, but the better camera and multimedia capabilities (and my suffered loss of a d836 years ago, with TV out) are pulling me that way. I could live w/o 3G if I can snap shots in the dark and output them to my TV...

I am pretty confused now about all the hassle... I think the device I'd like is non existent, and that's a trick from the marketing departments from HTC, Sony, and even Apple.

I think I should get analized... :P
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] tzour:
This might help somewhat to edit the home screen:http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=413100

Nice to know there are US 3G Diamonds not in the bad batch with wierd displays.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Blazeitup123:
why is no one sharing the rom dump of their US 3g diamonds? come on guys get it together. its not like we don't deserve it.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] cyrilic:
How do you dump the original ROM?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] wpsantennas:
What about TF performance? When I switched from app to app I had a particularly long display. When exiting Opera the phone would grind to a halt. In the 24 hours that I had the phone I must have soft reset the device at least half a dozen times due to performance issues. Memory usage was usually in the 75 to 80% range (whereas my dual is usually down in the low 50% range.) I did do the recommended performance tweaks from elsewhere in the forums.

I know that at least one other person has said that the performance was slow but it seems that many people aren't experiencing it so I'm wondering if it is possible that perhaps I got a bum unit. Other than the performance I really liked the phone and I'm half tempted to grab another one *if* people think that I might have just been unlucky with the first.

Thoughts?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] cyrilic:
I'm satisfied with the TF3D performance. It's slow but not terrible. I'd say I get a less than 2 second lag booting a new app after switching to it. Some apps are slower than others like 'weather.' I've had no problems with Opera killing the device. I tried all the TF3D performance tweaks but to be honest I didn't see a noticeable difference. Overall, I love the phone. Just waiting on some additional apps to be released.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Blazeitup123:
i don't know :( someone help plz... :confused:

edit: maybe you can start here

http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?auto_redirect=1&pagename=TitleSearch&s=dump+rom
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] wpsantennas:
I suppose it is possible that I'm just nuts, too - I've suspected it for some time. I can live with a little slow here and there (I suffered through a Treo 700w after all) but the soft resets were really concerning me. The device I had was certainly frustrating me but 1) I do miss it, and 2) nobody else seems to be having the issues I was having.

I think they still have one left at the local Best Buy . . .
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] cyrilic:
Guys - I'm dumping the ROM right now. I'll start a new thread with a link :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] dario69:
Picked mine up at BB this morning. VGA is just fine. No yellow tint or washed out screen - matches the European version in the snapshot. Compared this to my other VGA ppc's - hx4700 and E805. Much better than the E805 and just as good as my hx4700. Pure white where it is supposed to be.

TF3D is okay. Not blazing fast but definitely not a deal breaker. Now if only Coreplayer could run my VGA videos like my HX4700. Major frame drops. A shame with a such a beautiful screen.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Blazeitup123:
omg great! so many ppl have been waiting for this! the moment of truth is upon us!!! bliss or EPIC FAIL :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] hatoscano:
Please, send me the link to download the ROM 1.93.422.4 WWE. Thanks you.-
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Blazeitup123:
i'm more interested in that radio. :p
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] 65coupei6:
I tried dumping the ROM but it kept failing for some reason. I was only able to dump the SPL.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] cyrilic:
Enjoy :)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=2669818
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Baxter:
My US DIAM110 has no issue.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] fleetwoodguy79:
At a crossroads

Ok here is where I'm at...

Tried to exchange the phone a best buy, they had 3 others in stock. We pulled them all out of the box and each one had the washed out yellow screen issue. I ended up returning it for a full refund (no restocking fee).

I'm very concerned about ordering one online because it could very well have the same problem. Can you guys that received good ones point me in the direction of your retailer?

One side of me says screw it and get an iPhone, but I REALLY like this phone!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] keirmeister:
I got mine from MobileCityOnline.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] calito:
mandame un mail

Mandame un mail ccalensport@hotmail.com
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] cyrilic:
I got mine @ mobilecityonline as well. Good price and cheap shipping :D
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Baxter:
The one I recieved from Expansys does not have any flaws. Maybe start a poll of what source the bad phones came from?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] wpsantennas:
I got both of mine from my local Best Buy store (and they only had two.) First one was returned because it was extremely slow and buggy - had to soft reset almost every hour of use. New one works infinitely better - w/o any of the TF tweaks. Screens on both of them were/are beautiful.

One thing I learned is that if you are using the Best Buy website to determine if there are any phones in any of the other stores in your area it is not accurate - you need to call the store be absolutely sure. I was told that once a store has less than 3 of any particular item the website will show that it is unavailable. That being said, one of my local stores only received 2 units but they did still show in stock. After I bought the first one, however, stock status changed to unavailable.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] omarnone:
I get mine tomorrow from>>>HERE I'll let you know for sure how it look's when i get it.Could you guy's believe i started this thread and still have no Diamond phone!!!LOL:D
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] tzour:
Ordered mine from Smart Mobile Gadgets (SMG), but waiting for its arrival next Tuesday. For concerns on color wash-out and greenish/yellowish display, SMG confirmed that "... we sold over 200 units since last week we didn’t have single return, where did you hear that there is defect?"

Remaining to be seen, but it's somewhat relieved when the dealer doesn't seem to even know the problem :) jsamuels: Could you please confirm with your US Diamond bought from SMG?

I will compare side by side with my EU model and confirm the display/performance issues when I receive mine next Tuesday. I also note the price dropped over the weekend at SMG - very attractive..
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] omarnone:
Yea me too,i bought it at $629.99 now it's $599 and I'm still waiting for my phone,tomorrow i get it!!!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] groovdafied:
I thought the Sprint US version of the Diamond's memory was expanded to 288 instead of having only 198MB of sys memor...
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Youmoussa:
I've just ordered mine at $ 589.94. i should receive it tuesday too, hope everything will be fine.

Do you think it's possible to test quickly when FedEx comes in order to return it immediately if needed?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Youmoussa:
I hope that you choosed the right one, because it's the EU version at $599 now, and $584 for the US version.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] tzour:
Envious, indeed.. Mine is $60 more on Friday:mad: Yes, I'll test the display and TF3D performance (relative to the EU model) right on receipt and report back immediately.

@Omarnone: I took it that you were comparing the prices of the EU model you are holding, correct? You may want to check Youmoussa's reminder above. Cheers.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] omarnone:
&

Nope i did order the right one check it out>>>HERE:D,I just hope they send me the correct one:confused:.I'm pretty confident they will because i talked to the guy to make sure and he said it was the U.S. 3G Version they shipped to me,I'll find out tomorrow.I'll post some pictures when i get it.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] princeasi:
Yeeeaah! just got my diamond today from best buys in northridge, ca! They only had 2, and i got one of them! If anyone who's in the area dying to get there hands on this phone before best buys official launch date(Sept. 28th) run up there and grab the last one !!! But so far im loving it right out the box! A little slow after it setup but it seemed to speed up after playing with it within 3min.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] omarnone:
Sweet!!! What was the total price$ ?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] princeasi:
$763, I basically got it free, I used $400 worth of gift cards that was given to me, and I sold my tilt for $300!
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Aturayd:
Is the TF3D really sluggish on the DIAM110s? Im rocking a DIAM500 for Sprint and the TF3D is like a dream. Very very responsive, not at all sluggish.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] joedoe:
No, not at all. Works just fine.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Malik05:
i am curious, is the back (red) cover changeable with the diamond designed cover?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] omarnone:
It is not RED it is Matte Black look at this veido>>>HERE
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Malik05:
actually, it is red...i was referring to the sprint, not att...

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=35q4g6dZdM8
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] verks:
Works great on mine!! Very quick.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] omarnone:
YES YES YES!!! I finally got my HTC Diamond today!! And it looks pretty cool,no yellow crap on the screen!!!:D
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Youmoussa:
i realized that the Smart Mobile Gadget store is at 3 hours from my home but I should wait 3 days before get it (2 days left)..
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] omarnone:
So how is your U.S. 3G Diamond doing?

Well let's get some info people,i finally got my Diamond today and i have been play with it for about 3 hours now,and so far i have to say it's really nice looking,very responsive,as far as reception I'm not sure but my Tilt phone still has better reception but that's because i TWEAKED that phone so much, i tried all the ROM'S & Radio's for the Tilt,So i guess to be fare to the Diamond i have to do the same to it,i guess I'll fine out in about a week or two if i can make it better that my Tilt as far as reception goes.Out of both phone's i would like to keep the Diamond of course but reception has a lot to do if i keep it or not?:confused:
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Youmoussa:
I'm not sure that in just one week you can tweak as much as you have for years(?) with your tilt. There is no new radio rom everyday.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] wpsantennas:
When comparing reception between the Tilt and the Diamond make sure that you are either using real world experience or #'s from Field Test mode. The number of bars shown on any particular phone is notoriously inconsistent/inaccurate. I haven't paid much attention to my Diamond but I live 3 blocks from one tower and work 1 block from another - reception tends to be pretty good for me :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] HyperM3:
I just picked up my phone tonight and after 2 months of waiting Im very happy aside from some issues.

First, Im only getting "H" not "3G" by my antenna. I dont know why. I had gotten 3G with the touch dual I had a couple months ago, so Im surprised its not happening now. That being said, Im still getting the 2 bars in my house like I was with my curve. However, call quality on those same 2 bars is like night and day. So much clearer on the Diamond.

Also, cant figure a way to get gmail working at all on this phone. Says I have no working network connection but I connect to opera with no issues.

Downloaded the .cab file for blackberry connect but have no clue what to do with it.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] wpsantennas:
With the Diamond I would expect you'd get the HSDPA 'H' which should be normal. I had the Dual as well and the 'highest' it would show was 3G (and an ugly 3G at that) but H is what you want.

Not familiar with the GMAIL issue but I'd guess that somewhere there is a spot to indicate which Network Connection to use (MediaNet, etc) and you may need to change that. In the case of AT&T, I found that the YouTube wouldn't work unless I created my own AT&T connection w/o the proxy.

Re: Call Quality: I can say that my call quality on the Diamond smokes the Dual. The phone is much louder and the people I'm talking to sound infinitely better. Well, it might not be infinite but it is clearly improved.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] omarnone:
Diamond getting very HOT!!!

O.K. So far this is what i have noticed,First my phone get's real (HOT):mad: After about 15 minutes of talking or internet usage? Second, when i go to Settings,Phone,Band,Select your network type= i have 3 choices 1.Auto, 2. GSM, 3.WCDMA when i select WCDMA that's when i get 3G all the time,if i select GSM or Auto i only get EDGE all the time,is any of this happening to anybody else?:confused:
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Youmoussa:
What is the ROM and radio ROM inside? I've read that with some radio roms, the device can be very hot
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] HyperM3:
actually i figured out the gmail thing, had to uncheck the proxy box. now I get emails instantly.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] omarnone:
It is

ROM version: 1.93.422.4 WWE

Radio version: 1.00.25.08
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] omarnone:
That's weird but i get 3G all the time now!!!:) That's what i wanted.Also i have it on Settings= Auto & Auto. Now i have to find out if the stock ROM or Radio is causing it to get HOT!:mad:
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Youmoussa:
With 3g activated all the time, it should drain your battery and make it hot?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] tzour:
Yes, getting hot in 15 minutes is a "known behavior" for the EU Diamond when using GPS and/or internet connections.. Won't be surprised to see the same happening to the US model. This should make us feel warmer in winters :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] wpsantennas:
Mine is a cooker, too, but with a small package with a fair amount of power I am not surprised. Not as hot as a SureFire can get, at least.

On EDGE vs 3G, it might just be that it took a couple of power cycles for the tower to let you on. I saw the same thing when I first got my Touch Dual.

One thing I've noticed is that battery life isn't particularly good. I usually try to set my expectations on battery power low but with the EU getting by on 900mAh I figured that 1350mAh ought to be great. Unfortunately, that isn't the case so far. Part of it may be because the battery is new and the other part may be because the auto adjust feature tends to run the display a little bright than I normally do. Would be nice if auto adjust allowed you to set a base brightness that it adjusted itself to.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Youmoussa:
I've also read that the battery may need few cycles too work at its best. Not sure it's true, we always read so many different things about batteries.

Do you keep 3g/gps/bluetooth activated all the time?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] wpsantennas:
Yeah, it has been my experience that you need around 3 cycles for the battery to get to peak performance. First cycle tends to give me about 2/3 of the final battery time.

I keep 3G on all of the time (I'm playing with data all of the time) but Bluetooth is normally off. Didn't really think about GPS but didn't turn it off. Might try that but I'm not sure how much of a difference that will really make.

Battery charging indicator is kind of flaky, too. This weekend it made it to about 92% and pretty much hung. Once I took it off and played with it it then showed full charge. Again, may be part of the battery conditioning process.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] HyperM3:
Please can anyone assist me here? I cannot for the life of me get 3G on my phone. I can only get "H" or "E". I know Im in a 3G area because I had it the whole time on my touch dual. Also because Im standing next to someone right now with the 3G Iphone and they have full bars while im stuck here with one bar on "H". What and where do I need to check/uncheck?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] princeasi:
if your getting "H" your getting "3G".
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] wpsantennas:
H is HSDPA is 3G - you just have a different icon.

As far as why the iPhone is showing better signal you could be on different towers, your signal indicator may be particularly inaccurate (or the iPhone's may be), or I suppose you may have a bum unit.

To get a better feel of the real signal strength you phone is getting bring up Field Test mode by either entering: *#*#364#*#* on the phone dialer OR running FieldTest.exe on the phone. (I am not sure if FieldTest.exe is on the phone - some phones have it, others don't, but if you have an old WM phone with FieldTest.exe you can copy it over and it *should* work on the Diamond.

You can look at the RSSI # on the first page of field test mode - it ranges from about under 10 to about 32 with 32 being great signal and low to mid teens being poor signal. If you are in the teens, your phone isn't receiving that great of a signal.

For something more granular, if you on 3G (H) go to the "3G Reselection Status" Group and look at the number for ServingAGC. It'll be a negative # between say -40 and -115. Closer to zero is better. In the upper 90s you are starting to deal with a bad signal 80's and better is normally fine. For an example, I am sitting 2 blocks from the tower and I'm getting -64. In reality you would think I would have a higher signal strength but the signal is going over our head since I am so close to the tower.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] HyperM3:
Cool just checked that. I have a 13 on my RSSI. I also saw 3G when it was booting up but then changed to H. The reception is terrible on this phone so far compared to the 3G iphone on the person next to me.