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[Touch HD General] keithrl79:
I have the Touch HD, and my roommate has the iPhone... so I have used them both, and have compared them as well.

To be honest, the Touch HD is MUCH better. Also keep in mind that the two have different display screens, the iPhone's REQUIRES heat (from your finger)... so you can never use a stylus or other similar item to control it. While it does have its advantages (such as multi touch) -- it still lacks in that on the HD, you can use the stylus, or pretty much anything.

Try looking at your settings. Try re-aligning the screen. Also there is a setting to turn on noise feedback (clicking) when you are touching the screen - which might help you when you are scrolling.

Lastly - while the iPhone and jailbreaking have a lot of items... I would say that the HD [Windows Mobile] has 10 times more items and way to customize.

Any way just my two cents. Hope it helps a bit.

Keith
[Touch HD General] thatg:
are there any sites you can recommend for free software cause i want to like and keep this thing for the camera but it loads apps prett slow and the media is not as easy to reach as it is on the iphone. im really just looking for sports scores updates and aim and some games for this phone
[Touch HD General] dazza9075:
The Iphone and the HD are two very good devices for their market, generally speaking however, depending what you use it for will determin which device is for you.

There are ways of adjusting the sensativity of the HD, i wouldnt recomend this, what you are expeiencing is simply the change between the Iphone and the HD, had you never used the Iphone you would have thought the HD touch screen was amazing. Which is better? Both have their advantages, but i for one keep my fingers nice and warm in the bitter cold wind and can still use the thing, whilst my Iphone brothers are freezing their fingers off! :)

Your data package is a mystery, i dont really understand what you mean by its not working, stick your SIM in, then go to system settings, network, then network wizard, that will take care of any little network settings issues that may be stopping you from getting it to work.

Assuming you are using Opera you just tilt the device on its side whilst facing you, that will flip the screen to wide mode, you can just read a full website without the need for zooming in this mode. If your using IE then give up, its old and doesnt work yet, new versions will fix this. Moving the page about is very easy in Opera.

To be honest, i think your being very nieve to think this phone is "simply" better than the Iphone, you cant just jump from one device to another and directly compare them, they are two very different devices, you have gotten used to the Iphone, that is why you like it so much, I have used both and i can tell you that for what i use this thing for the Touch HD is by far the most amazing device i have ever used, hell yeah, Id go as far as saying i love my HD!

I do have some issues with it, but ill live with it for now, hopefully someone will fix them soon. They would all be about the camera. Not overly chuffed with it in its current state.
[Touch HD General] biswasd:
get winterboard from vito software....google it....lot like the iphone interface
[Touch HD General] Psygnosis84:
Get HDTweak installed so you can the screen more sensitive.
[Touch HD General] thatg:
everyone whos got an hd says this to me but i dont understand, what are you guys doing with your phone that im not, the only capability the phone has that im aware of is things like word and excel, otherwise its supposed to be a pda phone and surfing the web on this thing is near impossible(i reset the phone and got the Edge working but it feels so slow coming from 3g). zooming in and out is much more difficult than the iphone. i almost wish there were some kind of package to give this phone all the same features the iphone has for zooming and scrolling pages(occasionally ill select something while trying to scroll because ill have to press down too hard). is it ok to post links to programs on this forum, i guess thats another issue with most of these expensive windows mobile phones, everyone and their moms has an iphone so theres a lot of attention paid in terms of modding and customizing. im trying to find the G sensor that lets you rotate any program some kind of mobile messenger and sports score updater. also does anyone know how i can take my windows contacts and export them to the HD.
[Touch HD General] CreepinJesus:
Loss of 3G? What are you talking about!? The Touch HD is 3.5G! Just as fast as the iPhone 3G, (depending on network coverage, of course). Plus it has even newer technologies.
[Touch HD General] Canaan:
There's a reason why as you said "everyone and their mom's has an iphone". This reason might also apply to you. You are obviously in uncharted territory. If you just want to web search/email/play music then stick to your iphone. A pda phone is designed for much more than that.

Dont blame the HD for your poor network connection.The HD can handle everything from 2G to EDGE, 3G and HSDPA. The phone will connect to whatever EDGE if it cant find a stable 3G (or even better HSDPA) connection. For browsing try opera mobile. And read the manual for the phone. You can adjust the screen sensitivity to your liking.You can also download a cab file here (HD Tweak) to help you with that. Any more complaints?
[Touch HD General] Canaan:
And yes, EDGE is slower than 3G but that depends on where you are (cell towers) and your network. If your cell provider has 3G or HSDPA signals coming off their cell towers then your HD would automatically choose the best and connect with it.
[Touch HD General] TheOnly1:
Good Lord :) Another Jesus Phone vs HD thread. Do we really need it :confused: It's like comparing a PS3 to a PC. One just has to learn the mysteries of WinMobile and that's what this board is all about :D
[Touch HD General] thatg:
ha, see this is what im talking about, you guys keep telling me they are very diferent and winmobile can accomplish a lot more but leave out what. i just dont get what i'm missing. im in the U.S. so the the 3g doesnt work here as far as i know. im on AT&T. i've read somewhere that its got the correct hardware but needs some sort of firmware to possibly accomplish 3g use in the future. i just went to the htc website and put on the 4 hotfixes they had under the support section along with hd tweak 0.5.4 i found. one of the hotfixes solved an issue i was having with the slider to answer calls.

so i still have this problem with exporting contact to the phone from my pc if anyone has any tips

i'm very sorry to anyone who thinks i came on here to offend you guys, just trying to figure this thing and its capabilities out. also can someone tell me what these roms are and should i be cautious loading them, could they cause damage to my phone? i found one that looks like a package of different modifications to the phone
[Touch HD General] Cheesy Dave:
What is the problem with contacts from your PC to the HD ?

I assume you have PC with windows and the outlook application ? And, do you have activesync working between the PC and the HD ?
[Touch HD General] thatg:
im using windows mobile device center with vista, and ive never actually set up outlook whenever i get to the email setup i start to stumble because i dont get this pop and map thing trying to setup my yahoo email
[Touch HD General] Cheesy Dave:
You should have an outlook cd-rom in the HD pack. I have set this up without access to email - I just ignored that in the setup.

I would suggest this is worthwhile as the sync from pc Outlook to HD is very simple.

I use the calendar feature and contacts in outlook on the PC and not the email.

Where are the contacts you want to sync with the HD ?
[Touch HD General] thatg:
right now my contacts are in my windows address book, if i go to the start menu then contacts theyre all in there i got outlook running and did the same chose not to sync email but when i try to drag a contact into the outlook contacts outlook tells me its unable to find the WAB DLL. whatever that is
[Touch HD General] jonajuna:
guy you really need to go and RTFM :)

this is xda dev, not "winmob for dummies"

sure we all have to start somewhere and i did, but i got my first winmob device and then read read read and read somemore. then played and tweaked and hardreset god knows how many times

sorry if you think im being arsey, but the questions you are asking and then solutions (where they exist) have been explored before

google is your friend, or to use the original phrase... "seek and you shall find"
[Touch HD General] JanSchotsmans:
For the heavyness of the touch, look on the forum. You can adjust how hard you have to push on it. Mine is set very light and you can just swipe over it with the lightest touch.

The plus side about a device like the HD is that you can adjust it as much as you want.

The reason why the iPhone is popular and liked by many imho is that its made to be easy for even the biggest idiot.

Just like game consoles are made to bring games to the masses, while a real gamer wouldn't touch a console with a 10 foot pole.
[Touch HD General] TravUK:
Coming from an iPhone to an HTC does take a little getting used to. I did find the extra screen pressure annoying at first as half my screen presses were ignored. Also, the iPhone is very user friendly, both out of the box and for installing new apps. With a WM device, you do need to do a little bit more to get the most out of it, but once you've got your sat nav installed, gyrator or other screen flip software, put your own skin on it, have voice dial set up and bluetoothed to everything else, and playing the video and audio formats of your choice, all in glorious 800x480, the iPhone will seem like a distant memory.

The threads to read are those pointing to the Wiki's on firmware updates, and basic tweaks (which makes a huge difference). Read the basics, and you'll find an army of people willing to help you get the most out of it. And they dont charge $9.99 for the latest firmware release!

I hope you stick with it.
[Touch HD General] thatg:
thanks for the encouragement and help, most other people seem to want me to just turn back to the iphone, im not welcome ? :(

i just tried dling gyrator but it says i need .net framework compact so im looking for that now. can you point me in the right direction of the framework and maybe where to change the sensativity so i dont have to press as hard against the screen, or is that in the HD tweak. also what will the firmware update change.

still having this issue getting the contacts from my windows address book to the phone
[Touch HD General] TravUK:
I upgraded to Dutty's 1.7 rom (Duttys ROM) which adds a few useful programs and provides updates to all the existing ones, generally making the phone much smoother, and includes all the recomended registry tweaks, but you can get the .net installation here and make sure its gyrator2.

I had troubles with contacts also, firstly Windows 7 is write-off for PDAs right now, dont try it, it needs several hacks to get it all working. Vista & XP I have working with Office 2003, but only after pulling all the patches from WindowsUpdate (including Office2007 patches oddly), without them you'll get sync problems telling you Outlook isnt configured properly. Office 2007 nuked all my data first time I tried it so I havent gone back to it yet. :-)
[Touch HD General] Cheesy Dave:
Here is the Microsoft .Net link for version 3.5:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...3c6b-42f1-9fd9-0041345b3385&displaylang=en&tm

This .Net stuff seems to be a library of applications and functions that are called by many other applications.

The HD comes with version 2.0 as standard. The current version is 3.5 and is often used by applications for the HD. I would recommend installing it.
[Touch HD General] eaglesteve:
Let me share with you my own perpsective on this.

In short:

iPhone is smoother, and offer better internet browsing, picture viewing, and media experience. I would not disagree with you on that.

What are you missing with iPhone?

Well, you don't have a GPS navigation software (Please don't tell me you have googlemap, because that does not qualify, that needs internet connection - and who can afford those roaming charges overseas anyway even if you assume there is signal for that). I use TomTom and iGO in Australia but Garmin and Mapking in Asia and have all of them installed on my HD. You can't do that with iPhone.

Then, you can create and view office documents. I do keep lots of excel spreadsheet-based models for example in my HD. I use SoftMaker to give me 100% desktop editing capabilities for those documents. If I receive office documents in my email, I can see them, edit them , and send them back.

HD has excellent battery life, but it is still insufficient to last a day if I use wifi throughout the day. What do you do with iPhone that has run our of battery in the middle of the day? With HD, I simply swap in my spare battery.

For those who use Asian languages such as Chinese, stylus is very useful. Often people are not able to find the character they want using PingYing, but can write them. Sometimes it is the other way round. So you must have stylus. You can't do that with iPhone.

And I'm not even going into stuff like copy/paste, bluetooth transfer of files, and the rest of the stuff yet.

I almost bought an iPhone instead of HD. Now I'm so glad that I have chosen HD.

Hope this helps.
[Touch HD General] thatg:
ok thanks, yeah it seems that win mobile accomplishes more, especially for business users. the iphone is probably a better fit for me because i simply need to check email, listen to music web browse and make a couple phone calls. ah well there goes my attempt to be different. will say i am very impressed with the screen resolution and screen size. i did infact get several of these upgrades programs installed on the phone and id just get frustrated with all the soft reseting and tweaking involved with each program. im thinking ill hang on to this 3g iphone till they release a new model which im sure will include a much better camera, hopefully flash and be based on the same os. but you guys do have to give these developers some credit, the iphone is capable of the same things as these window mobile phones, they hardware is there just need to release the software. itll get there
[Touch HD General] Cheesy Dave:
Very good point. I've seen loads of these iphone vs windows mobile (HD) threads. BUT, never seen the simple but important point about the battery.

IF, you have loads of applications running and take lots of phone calls and have wifi on a lot THEN the battery will go flat quickly. But, with the HD this is solved with a spare battery.

Personally, I don't use all the features for the whole day so I always get at least a day out of the battery. I do remember one time when I was on a long and boring conference call to colleagues in USA and so I said my battery was running low and then cut the call - even though there was over 30% available !!
[P3400 ROM Development] raajeshonnet:
I have tried to u[grade my rom to vanilla theme rom downloaded fron xda...but after 2% it giving message "image file corrupted, pls check your update utiliy". Why is it so? Is there any support issue..pls help..
[P3400 ROM Development] Addicted2xda:
Read the stickey, simple
[G1 General] The Great NY:
i just recived my unlock code from tmobile and i want to test the code and see if it unlocks my phone.

where can i get a foriegn sim card?

is there a website? or can i unlock it without a foreign sim card?

again, i have my code
[G1 General] The Great NY:
also, lets say, i am in germany.........

and i get a sim card from over there.........can people still call my US number? or will that change?

is this legit?

http://www.oneroam.com
[G1 General] schizox:
you dont need a foriegn sim card,

all you need is an "unsupported" sim card... any non Tmobile sim would work

once you have it in the phone and power on you will get a message like

"Please input unlock code"

punch in the code, then it will "find" the network the sim is attached to... so if you use an at&t sim card it will register to the att network in about 30 secs

.....

so mainly is

1. use an unsupported sim card

2. enter unlock code

3. verify it connects to the unsupported network (at&t since those sim;s are easy to get)

4. put your normal simcard back
[G1 General] The Great NY:
got ya, thank you for your fast reply, i thought i could do it that way, but just wanted to be sure.
[G1 General] Rudegar:
"

also, lets say, i am in germany.........

and i get a sim card from over there.........can people still call my US number? or will that change?"

the number is tied to the sim

if you put in a sim card from another operator you get a new number

and people can't call the number of your old sim

even if you get a dual-Sim holder and have 2 sim in the device granted it support it

most places the rules apply that if other people call your USA number

while you're outside

they only pay for calling you in USA

and you pay for directing the call from USA to what ever country

you're presently in

if this is fine by you you don't even need to unlock it as tmobile would have

roaming agreement in many countries in the world but at a high cost of cause
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Teej53214:
Hi Everyone...

I have posted a few times that I use my tilt with Einstein Wireless... They are a smaller GSM provider that had outstanding rates, but a limited area you can live to use their services... I have received private messages from a few mmbers who also use Einstein and can never get extra features besides basic phonecalls working on their network,,, Here are some settings to set up so you can use Picture & video messages in addition to TXT messages... and internet in general...

Internet:

Under settings, coto Connections...

Name for connection : EinsteinPCS Internet

access poin name : apn (case sensitive)

Usename : (leave blank)

password: (leave blank)

domain : (leave blank)

...under advanced

User Servier assigned IP address

click ok..

under proxy settings check: this network connects to the internet

check this network uses a proxy server to connect to the internet

proxy server should be :192.168.254.251

click advanced

http: 192.168.254.251:8080

wap: 192.168.254.251:9201

secure wap: 192.168.254.251:9201

socks (blank)

For MMS... go into MMS Options... goto servers.. set these settings :

Server Name : Einstein Wireless MMS

Gateway : 192.168.254.251

Port # : 9201

Server Address : httP//www.einsteinmms.com\+1(your 10 digit # here)

Connect via : EinsteinPCS Internet

I have also found that it works better if you delete the AT&T or other settings so it doesn;t default back to them on a soft reset.... Feel free to MSG me if you have any questions and I will do my best to answer them, but keep in mind I dont; work there and onyl got these from playign around and seeign settigns on some of their other phones I had... They don't have any smartphones for sale...

Other information may be found at :

http://www.einsteinpcs.com
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] techcompsolutions:
Just found out about Einstein Wireless

And have an unlocked blackberry that doesnt want to get signal with Einstein Wireless wondered if this might be an issue with the Blackberry or if Einstein Wireless runs off a slightly different signal versus my standard and if I might need to change some setting in the phone itself. Just a note this unit works with a T-mobile chip fine. So any suggestions?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Teej53214:
Is your Blackberry a tri/quad-band phone? You need atleast a triband as Einstein uses either 850 or 1900 in most of their areas... if your phone doesn;t use both of these then you wil lreceive areas where you get no service
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Teej53214:
Is your Blackberry a tri/quad-band phone? You need atleast a triband as Einstein uses either 850 or 1900 in most of their areas... if your phone doesn;t use both of these then you wil lreceive areas where you get no service.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] poggiami:
Here is link

http://www.htc.com/asia/SupportViewNews.aspx?dl_id=490&news_id=51
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] bobsbbq:
I tried to download but it said this ROM was not for my device.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] maxcasio:
Yes, I installed it already and the verdict was not good. This ROM made my HD to become very slow. I even installed the hotfix to enhance response time but still the response was very slow.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] peaceboy:
It's not a brand new ROM.

The version is the same as the one that came with my HD dated December.

I guess they just released it publicly in Jan while those in the stores are all shipped with it already.

Slow? I don't find it slow...feels ok to me...although every now and then there will be some hangs and bugs...as with all WM Phone..
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] bugsykoosh:
What about the radio? Asian and Australian are the same in the eyes of HTC so I'm hoping there is a radio that gets the American bands.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] poggiami:
maxcasio,can u show the download link here?
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] k33lin:
Guys,

The ROM version is "RUU_BlackStone_hTC_Asia_WWE_1.18.707.3_Radio_52.49a.25.26_1.09.25.14_Ship"

Now I'm uploading to Rapidshare, once finish I will post the link for download.

However, my upload speed is very slow, probably will take 40 HOURS to finish :(
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] P1Tater:
Is this one not the most current?

RUU_BlackStone_hTC_Asia_WWE_StarHub_1.18.723.3_Radio_52.49a.25.26_1.09.25.14_Ship.exe -->

Link

Instead of

RUU_BlackStone_hTC_Asia_WWE_1.18.707.3_Radio_52.49a.25.26_1.09.25.14_Ship
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] china8621:
waiting for it....

That's a new ROM, looks like fix some knew error.

Please download it and share for us.

thanks
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] tony-xd_wang:
This ROM is not so stable....installed and replaced alreaday
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] china8621:
Which ROM stable

can you give us some detail why you think that the ROM is not so stable?

Which ROM you are using?

Thanks
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] tony-xd_wang:
easy to hang.. twice to 3 times per day, the phone will be suddently no response...need reset, but unfortunately, the reset hole is inside the body, need remove back cover..

and if you keep charging at night, and next morning, it is also easy to hang if you have new SMS or call.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] tony-xd_wang:
looks I still can not find a version which is stable enough...I tried couple of versions ROM here, but looks the HANG issue still be there....just not so frequent....now, I am trying [ROM][WWE][2.02.2009]BLACKSTONE WM6.1 V08 (PV) - Build 20769.1.4.5 - pdaviet.net
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] pierrelp1:
If you are looking for a stable version please give this one a try :http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=3033441&postcount=98

I tried many cooked ROMs already but always get back to this one.

fast and stable.
[HTC Excalibur] MSFrara:
OK I lied.

Hi, if you want a gushy intro you can pretend I made one but I'll get straight to the question (YES I USED SEARCH!) after this aside: I've hooked up my Dash thanks to this site and appreciate all you lovely developer people there @ the big coding room in the sky.

I'm on WM6 and all that good stuff thanks to you guys and it's pretty amazing. My question concerns the SMS restore/backup etc system. Now I backed up a few old texts for personal reasons as the conversation was gettin a bit large.

Is there any program I can use either for the computer or the phone itself to read these backed up messages without restoring? I'd like to sorta archive them for later use in an email account but been having a hard time.

Thanks, any help appreciated.

(Oh and Don't ask about the username)
[HTC Excalibur] gixxum:
dashwire.com

as far as the ones you saved already...what file format are they in?
[HTC Excalibur] MSFrara:
They're in .sms format and thanks for the speedy reply I'll check out that website right now.