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[Touch Pro, Fuze General] tdfreeman:
I've had the Tilt since March of this year and loved it. For about the last 2 months, something went awry and I've been playing phone swap with warranty since (on my 5th one). I went to the AT&T store yesterday and told them my situation and they offered to "extend" my contract for 2 years if I purchased a phone with the 1 year contract price. Since it was cheaper than voiding my current contract and buying a phone, I agreed. I'd love to have an "all-in-one" product. I travel constantly and carry my Tilt for phone/PDA (email, contacts, & calendar are major items for me), a Nano for MP3 playback (hate the headphone adapter for Tilt), and PSP for games and video. I also use the phone semi-regularly for tethering when on customer sites that don't allow my to connect my laptop.

My options:

1) Fuze:

P: Good upgrade to the Tilt.

P: Great VGA screen, but much smaller than other choices

P: very nice that it's smaller.

P: Battery seems to last longer.

P: Keyboard for email

Video playback is better, but not great, not usable for the long haul.

OS is sluggish. I've flashed NATF's ROM no major improvement.

Phone still needs to be "hacked" for tethering.

Can't seem to get used to the lack of buttons on the phone.

2) iPhone:

P: Great Video, MP3, Battery

P: Able to read Word, Excel, Adobe?

No keyboard

Need to Jailbreak for tethering

Calendar and Email seems sketchy compared to WM with Exchange

3) Warranty:

Keep dealing with them and possibly get cheaper upgrade for 1 & 2?

4) Storm:

Really been looking into this phone. Apparently Verizon is using a SIM for this device. According to CS, the phone is unlocked and I can use any SIM in the phone (asked because I travel alot). I could get it and cancel for less than buying the Fuze or iPhone.

P: Edit all docs

P: Good Video and MP3?

P: Good Email, Contacts, Calendar

P: Tethering enabled

Seems Verizon charges more for BB and another charge for tethering, but does AT&T charge a higher price?

Virtually no customization

Never loved Blackberry's or their OS.

People around here seem content in bashing the iPhone, but I haven't seen any real reasons why. Anyone care to state why they hate the device? Can anyone compare a Blackberry vs WM?
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] iceman4357:
I personally like my fuze the best. I too had a tilt and was phone shopping for a while. I think, that for me, the fuze has the greatest capability and works best with business for me. The things I hated about the Iphone: limited software capabilities, no keyboard, calender/email. I also HATED that the keyboard did not turn sideways when trying to type an email or text message. I have big hands so on my friends Iphone I would always hit wrong keys, and eventually it pissed me off. I do however like the screen and functionality/ease of use of the phone. The heat sensitive screen makes it the most responsive.

I really didnt research the Storm, because I have not really liked any BB I have ever played with. The only thing I can say, is that you do have 30 days if you dont like a phone to return it. Try the one you like the best out and see what you think.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] tdfreeman:
Yeah, there's a free trial period. I got the Fuze yesterday with their offer. I'll probably go to Verizon to try out the Storm tomorrow. My wife also has the iPhone that I'm trying to convince her to swap with me for a week. I'm trying to keep the fees down to a minimum though. Taking the Storm home would mean a month of services plus any return fees (AT&T charges at least $20 for any return now).
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] fone_fanatic:
dont get me started on the iphone! Ok, its got an amzing user interface... its very simple.. anyone can pick it up and use it.. but its specs are horrible!

The bluetooth can only be used for a mono headset.. so it can't be used to transfer files (whether it be pics, ringtones, or videos). Thats one.. two.. where to start, no MMS. Email attachments can only be pictures.. the 3g on the iphone 3g is capped.. no good navigation software, your stuck with google maps... theres much more that i can't think of right now.

As for blackberry, i've never tried on and was contemplating the blackberry bold, but i felt as i would only need a blackberry if worked for a finance company or law. Also I see its main benifit is the bb messenger and only 2 or 3 of my friends have blackberrys.

If you do however go to wmexperts.com a long time die hard winmo user has swapped his fuze for a blackberry bold from one of the writers for crackberry.com and he's giving his thoughts and perspectives on blackberrys from a wm users point of view.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] branko.savic:
Please do yourself a favour, check out Samsung Omnia before deciding what you want to buy! It´s almost like the I-Phone but way better!

Search for my Touch Pro vs Omnia thread to see what I have found!
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] tdfreeman:
Specs as in hardware? I'm more concerned about functionality. I've transferred multiple videos to the wife's iPhone and it didn't have any issues playing any of them.

I've never used bluetooth headsets or to transfer files, so that's not an issue. I've also not done any MMS, don't even have a plan with it at the moment.

What is the 3G capped to? I've did tests sitting in my living room with the Tilt, Fuze, and iPhone using http://www.dslreports.com/mspeed and the iPhone consistently got the highest speed (Tilt and Fuze both with H icons).

I'll check the site you mentioned for info on the BB. Thanks.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] tdfreeman:
I actually read your post earlier. Not sure what vendor sells the phone in the US. I checked ATT, Sprint, & Verizon. Is the Samsung Behold the same thing?

http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/phones/Cell-Phone-Detail.aspx?cell-phone=Samsung-Behold-Espresso

Is there somewhere to get an unbranded one?
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] tdfreeman:
Looks like that's the 684, not the Omnia. AT&T just released that phone as the Samsung Eternity. Verizon is supposed to get it at some point, but no word on when. Looks like an unbranded costs about $700, out of my price range.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] fone_fanatic:
but you cant use bluetooth to transfer files or any media... Say i have a video on my fuze, tilt, or e71 and a friend wanted it on his phone, i can send it to them via bluetooth... not the case with the iphone.

Also mms now is included in messaging plans. So if you have the lowest messaging plan, 200 messages or so, you can read in the details online that it inclues picture and video messages.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] tdfreeman:
I've never used bluetooth beyond a bluetooth earpiece/speakerphone(Garmin & Moto T505). I guess I could use the stereo with the 505, but hate FM modulators. Most of the files I have would be large videos or music that I wouldn't be transferring. Basically the bluetooth functionality listed isn't of importance to me.

Is this something updatable by software (assuming Apple came out with a patch or upgrade) or a hardware limitation?
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] mikemorris:
Fuze: Havent played with it much, but it was responsive and looked very clean when i used it (mine arrives next week)

iPhone: Great touchscreen, but on the other side the lack of buttons is very annoying.

Applications, 100's of dollar up (semi useful to Useful) applications. The main problem with all their apps is it has to be "Apple Certified" So some applications that you may find here on XDA will never show up through Apple like ICS Sharing and PocketSNES

Battery I believe it's quite comparable to the Tilt as far as the battery goes, but the Fuze (according to people here) seems to have a better battery life.

MMS, well i believe there is a free app in the app store to send an MMS, so there is a fix but it's not native, also i don't know if it works for receiving MMS.

That is my 2 cents, things you may take into consideration is what type of e-mail you'll be hooking up, corporate e-mail, g-mail/yahoo account. if it's a corp/outlook account i've heard some people make the switch just for the new e-mail interface the iPhone offers.

i don't think there are anything else that are huge drawbacks or improvements over different phones, also i know nothing about the BB Storm, but BB is it's own operating system and has a list of applications for it through certain sites like www.Handango.com and they can be costly.

Hope you enjoy your choice whichever it is!:D

-Mike
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] whenemusattack:
I just wanted to comment on this post because I came from an iPhone to an HTC Touch Pro. First off I want to say I love my HTC/ATT Fuze and I liked the iPhone (although not as much).

The main reasons for me switching from the iPhone to the Fuze was that the iPhone was too damn restrictive, unless you hacked it and even then it was still quite restrictive. The iPhone lacks MMS, Bluetooth (except for mono, no A2DP or any other form that I know of),the background is not customizable so unless you agree with El Jobso on his views of beauty your SOL (unless you hack). Their is absolutely no camera software (alls you can do is take pictures on it's low res camera) for it's ****ty 2.0 MP camera, no video capture at all, can't tether, cant stream, and much more.

You can only download Apple approved applications. Also you must get iTunes with the iPhone and although it is not that bad of a music player, it requires you to install quicktime (which I think sucks), it also tries to stealth download other apple programs (such as their browser) and often adds bloatware (such as apple updater, and their Mobile me service icon even if you don't have mobile me). Although some of this can be alleviated by hacking your iPhone, it voids you warranty and can be quite tedious as Steve Jobs likes to update the software frequently which breaks your hack and you have to wait another few months for someone to create software to hack the new software so it ends up being a never ending cycle for hackers. iTunes also only allows you limited syncing functions if you don't have a Mac.

Also most of the hacking community is gone as most took their free apps away and usually try to sell them on "the app store" for way more than they are worth.

Also the iPhone is often associated with idiots as many of the "jocks and frat boys" at my college all have one, but don't know a damn thing about what it is capable of, they just know it's the cool thing to have. It also attracts a lot of shallow women and I will be damned if I use my phone as a tool to get laid!

With the HTC Fuze and Windows Mobile, it is like the complete opposite of the iPhone. It is mostly open you can install apps without voiding your warranty, the included Windows mobile software is, in my opinion, very useful (Office mobile, hands free, etc). Their is a huge modding/hacking/development community for this phone (such as this site, Fuze Mobility, etc). The VGA screen on this phone is beautiful (I will never go back to QVGA) although the iPhone's screen is quite good, as I often enjoyed it watching movies and surfing the web. The Touch Flo 3D is fantastic (although that is subjective). The QWERTY keyboard works great (I don't like on screen keyboards). You can also choose between using your fingers on the touch screen, the stylus on the touch screen, use the d-pad/scroll wheel, and the physical keyboard.

I could go on, but I am going to stop here because I am tired and I doubt you want to read anymore. Sorry for the long rant/comparison, I have just really grown to hate the iPhone and it's restrictiveness and have grown to love this phone and it's openness.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] tdfreeman:
Spent the day with the iPhone and pretty much ruled it out. With "normal" usage for me, the iPhone was pretty much dead by 1pm. Also the signal on it was weaker than that of the Tilt or Fuze. Comparing the exact same video copied to both the Fuze and the iPhone, played fine on both devices. The Fuze had a much better picture, but the iPhone was obviously larger. Add the modding and customization of the WM platform and it's no contest.

I went to Verizon store today, but they were sold out of the Storm. I ended up ordering one, so should have it next week to compare. Will update this for everyone.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] mindfrost82:
You might want to read this article and some of the comments about the Storm:

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Storm-Reviews-Come-Rolling-In-99208
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] tdfreeman:
In the last few weeks I've played with an iPhone, Fuze, Storm, and Omnia. The iPhone was ruled out a while a go. I thought I ruled out the Fuze due to the screen size and mediocre video. I just got the Omnia and not really satified with the video playback. Since this seems to be a major selling and praise point about the phone, this seems odd. I assume most issues can be fixed by a custom ROM, but I don't see any for the Verizon version. I actually got the Omnia for $129.99, so it was the cheapest of the bunch. That's where another issue was thrown in.....

Called AT&T warranty as I've had the Tilt replaced about 5 times. He mentioned they would give a warranty replacement and offered a Bold, Fuze, or Incite. I selected the Fuze and now have a brand new sealed in box Fuze. I'm wondering, can I sell the Fuze the way it is? If I cancel my contract and go with the Omnia or Storm, can I sell the Fuze sealed? I'm guessing I'll need to pop it open and activate it before I cancel in order for it to be "contract free". I can't make up my mind which one I want to keep. I figure I'll play around a little more with the Omnia to see if I can get better video or if a patch for the Storm comes out. Once my time limit on the phones get closer, I'll have to make a decision.
[Google Pixel 6a] slugger410ft:
Hey all, just looking for any input on a USB-C to Headphone adapter/DAC. Wanting something slim or inline for travel. Quite a few options on Amazon ranging from $5-$50, but looking to everyone here for any input with real life experiences. I prefer wired headphones/buds over Bluetooth when traveling.
[Google Pixel 6a] ctfrommn:
Under $50 will be the Fiio KA1 or Periodic audio rhodium. If you only want Amazon.

There are lots more good/better options in Ali for under $50.
[Google Pixel 6a] slugger410ft:
Thanks. Only looked briefly at Amazon, dont know why I didnt consider checking out Fiio. I have an older, bigger, DAC from them for my HD600's.
[Google Pixel 6a] ctfrommn:
I have the ka3 I'm using on my PC and it's amazing.
[Google Pixel 6a] mariojohn:
Following as I've gone through 3 adapters and each works at first but then get loose in where it connects to the phone and the audio pauses.
[Google Pixel 6a] slugger410ft:
I ran into this on my 6t eventually and hand to put a new usb-c port in. I'm not a fan of an all-in-one port for this reason. But I also understand that a headphone jack can only get to be so small/thin...
[Google Pixel 6a] ctfrommn:
Weird, never had an issue with any usb c port wearing out
[Google Pixel 6a] CobreDev:
Lots of people swear by the Apple USB C to 3.5mm adapter, and I can confirm it works great. People say that it's the best overall mobile (or even desktop) DAC until at least $100
[Google Pixel 6a] ctfrommn:
Depends on the source and headphones (or speakers) you're playing through. The apple dongle won't be a bottleneck for low to mid quality source and phones but if you use high quality either I would get something nicer.

Apple does a great job with the low end chip in that dongle but there are much newer, better dac chips out there now.
[Google Pixel 6a] zyhk:
Entry class USB DAC's (under $80 or so) usually adopt an interface chip communicating with the adaptive mode or the synchronous one defined in the USB audio standard. As in these modes an Android host controller sends audio sampling rate clock signals to the DAC, jitter generated at the host side affects the audio quality of the DAC tremendously.

Higher class DAC's communicate with the asynchronous mode (also defined in the standard) to a host controller, but they actually use a PLL to reduce jitter from the host not to stutter even in heavy jitter situations. As this result, they behave as the adaptive mode with a feedback loop to dynamically adjust the host side sampling clock signals while referring a DAC side clock in a real sense, so even with the asynchronous mode they are more or less affected by host side jitter.

You can see the mode of your USB DAC with root permission by opening "/proc/asound/card1/stream0" on your phone while playing music. See a word in parentheses at "Endpoint:" lines; "SYNC", "ADAPTIVE" or "ASYNC" means that your DAC uses "synchronous", "adaptive" or "asynchronous" mode to communicate to your phone, respectively.

If you like Magisk mod's for reducing jitter, see Audio Jitter Silencer and Audio Misc. Settings.
[Google Pixel 6a] slugger410ft:
Well I got the FIIO KA1 as an early b'day present over Labor Day weekend. I usually just use buds for everyday listening, but my HD600's definitely sound better with this device. Buds sound better too. Definitely a better bass response, but not over done, and the highs are crisper as well. Not mad at all for the $50 and it's definitely portable.
[OnePlus 9] joshcantcode:
Hey all,

I have an LE2115 OnePlus 9, running the C.62 version of ColorOS 12. I followed a guide I had found and seen posted by members here to root my OnePlus 9. I originally was trying to boot into TWRP to perform a full backup, however someone here mentioned that TWRP no longer works for this device. I followed this guide exactly step by step, however now my phone will show the splash screen, vibrate and show it once more, and then boot into recovery. The boot reason states: "fs_mgr_mount_all". Just to clarify, I patched the boot.img and vendor_boot.img via Magisk on my device, and flashed the two boot files along with the vbmeta.img, as shown in this guide.

Is there any hope getting my data back? I am aware I can use MSM tool to restore functionality to my device, but I am much more concerned about the data as I have a lot of important 2FA information on here. Any help would be insanely appreciated!!

Edit:

After 7 hours of flashing different images and trying different methods, I finally got it to boot again! I had been trying many things, but for some reason it worked after I repeated something I had done many times already. I simply flashed dtbo.img, then vendor_boot.img, and lastly boot.img, and it magically worked! I used the C.62 images created with this amazing tool! The issue was that I flashed the C.48 images, which were provided in the article. They didn't consider some people might be running on C.61-C.62.
[OnePlus 9] nirogu325:
If it isn't a bother, can you explain what kind of commands did you run to extract files from the incremental OTA? I already have python and the latest PIP for it, I also downloaded the tool folder you linked but have no idea which commands to run and where do I put the OTA payload.bin. This tool isn't as simple as the one I've been using to extract from full OTA zips back in the OnePlus 6 days.
[OnePlus 9] joshcantcode:
Yes of course. I used the OnePlus OS Update Tracker to get the downloads for the firmware.

C.48

C.61

C.62

Dump the C.48 payload and place the dumped images into a folder called "old" in the update_payload_extractor tool. I ran this on Linux so it made me remove the .img extension from each image, but it might be different for you. Place the payload.bin of the C.61 firmware into the root of update_payload_extractor, and perform

py extract.py payload.bin

After it finishes, you will have a new folder called output. which contains the upgraded C.61 images. In my case, some of the upgraded images were 0 bytes. Copy all of the files that have a normal size from output, and paste them into the "old" folder again, overwriting the C.48 images from earlier. Then place the C.62 payload.bin into the root again, and run the same command. Now the output folder will have the C.62 images!

You can repeat these steps if you have C.63, simple copy from output -> old and extract the new payload.
[Realme GT Master Edition] Olezhaevskiy:
Hello. I need to use a wide-lens in google camera, but I ran into the problem of gcam crash when using it. I've tried many google camera builds and widelens doesn't work in all of them.

I found out that each lens has its own ID. By default widelens = 3.

I downloaded CameraHW, Camera2test (you can download to check how many id you have) apks in order to find out the ID number of the wide-angle and was surprised that "Camera IDs visible to Normal Apps = [0,1]".

There is:

0 - back (Main) camera

1 - front (Selfie) camera.

It turns out that the realme blocked the use of a wide-lens and macro in all applications except the main camera. What for?

Spoiler content hidden.

I need help. Who has RealmeUI and Magisk installed, can you install the "camera2api enable" module and see how many camera IDs you have will be available in third-party applications (cameraHW, camera2test etc)? I think this should solve the problem, but I don't want to waste time. You will help me a lot. Thank you.

UPD. I unlocked bootloader and install magisk with Camera2apiEnabler module.

Unfortunately, this did not give any results.
[Realme GT Master Edition] Slowly1120:
realme ui blocks access of auxiliary cameras
[General Topics] CustomOShacks:
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[ZTE Zmax Pro Questions & Answers] 05chris:
Can a zte 981 running Android 6.0.1 be updated to Android 10,11, or 12 etc ?
[ZTE Zmax Pro Questions & Answers] amarithetopg:
no if you want to build it but it will be laggy becuse the phone only has 1gb of ram
[HTC Breeze] kerestosttas:
Hi there! I really hope that you can help me!

during some day my mteor was in a friend. after that i pick up the phone, but now there is pin necessary to unblock. really strange, because I try almost everything and no way.

what can I do?
[HTC Breeze] ResuRRectoR:
Ask your friend for the pin and next time don't borrow him your phone ;)
[HTC Breeze] kerestosttas:
HEHEHEH, but the biggest problem is that he doesn´t remember the pin :S
[HTC Breeze] jerpelea:
search the google how to hard reset the phone

!!!You will loose all data on the phone not on the card
[Galaxy Tab S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xfile102:
I have read multiple Forums, tried many guides that state that they work. So far I have not been able to Root this tablet.

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I have followed the steps to Download the Stock Rom from this site, as it is not available on Samsung's site for some reason. I have enabled Developer Mode, but for the life of me, I am unable to get the option to enable OEM Unlocking. Does anyone have any advice on how to get this puppy rooted?
[Galaxy Tab S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shadowstep:
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