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[XPERIA X1 General] charly-whiskey:
BT Headset problems

I can confirm that the problems with BT and HBH-DS970 are a fact - and it seems to drain the battery enormously. I have tested for a few days the PV 710 (Mono handsfree), no issue. Today with the 970 my battery was empty after 6 hours standby, and it was disconnected allthough the icon said "BT-Stereo-Headset connected! After switching it off, the icon remained. Strange, isn´t it?

I come from P1i and there was no such problem at all.
[XPERIA X1 General] zeef:
I experience the same problem. New NL firmware and a Volkswagen (Bury OEM) Bluetooth carkit. My Nokia 6500 and SE K850i work perfectly but terminating a call makes the BT connection disappear on a fairly regular base. If the other party terminates it usually stays connected
[XPERIA X1 General] Freako:
...very strange but anyway it seems that it is mainly affected with AD2P / AVRCP devices - I hope it is just a software/firmware bug that can be fixed easily and not caused by a hardware failure....
[XPERIA X1 General] ell82:
Sorry guys but again I have to say it doesnt effect on my X1 and DS-980, never and I'm using it a lot. Have you guys tried it on fresh phone, without any additional software?
[XPERIA X1 General] Freako:
The first thing after the purchase of the phone was to couple the device with the DS-980 headset and the bluetooth issue was really not expected and made me angry and at that time I didn't have any extra software on it...

When did you buy your headset ? I bought mine approx. 1 1/2 years ago...

Maybe the current items go better with the X1?? I don't know.

But we found out that this issue was also caused in other Windows Mobile devices like the Kaiser, TyTn etc.

The poll shows significantly that there are still some who have troubles with bluetooth, even after update-

AND now we can ask them if any of you have tried the headsets with clean and fresh install ? (Xperia X1 without any additional software, even without sbp panel, etc...! )

I am curious...

Freako
[XPERIA X1 General] Freako:
... Approx. one third still have troubles with Bluetooth after firmware update ...

Maybe it will fixed in later WM6 versions ? Maybe at Windows Mobile 6.5 or 7 ?

Who knows...
[XPERIA X1 General] ell82:
I have my ds-980 headset only half year but before that i have used ds-970 (previous model) and i was using it on different devices - ds-980 on X1, Toshiba G900 and HTC TyTN and ds-970 on G900, TyTN, Wizard, m2000, C600 and maybe others (can't remember). Never had problem with accidentional headset disconnecting. Before DS-970 i had also one Siemens bt stereo headset but can't remember what was it, but it was also working ok.
[XPERIA X1 General] Freako:
Did anyone tried these two fixes in this thread? : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=471181

Maybe this is the solution to these BT troubles.

Will try it next.

Greetz,

Freako
[XPERIA X1 General] mathiosn:
just installed it, i will give it a few days of testing and then i will post a reply.
[XPERIA X1 General] mathiosn:
this little program KEEPS BLUETOOTH ON AT ALL TIMES i's a geat help!!!!!! try it out!!!!!
[XPERIA X1 General] Freako:
Hey Mathiosn,

Thanx for your post - I still couldn't try because of less time.

But could you confirm the troubles posted on the first page and is it now solved?

I mean the bluetooth turning off problem was done after new firmware - but the problem in here is the disconnection of some headsets even if the bluetooth icon on the phone is still active -

Do you know, how I mean?

Thanks and I am curious if it is the disconnection of BT devices or the turning on/off problem from BT what you described...

Greetz,

Freako
[XPERIA X1 General] mathiosn:
after insalling R2A GENERIC UK the bluetooth switching off was still an issue with my x1. after installing btkeepalive bluetooth did not switch off any more. I own 9 different headsets hbh-660,662,300,602,608,600,pv703,200,610. all headsets disconnect at regular intervals EXEPT FOR MY HBH-608 it has a very stable connection all day. isn't that strange? together with my headset my mbw-150 is connected at all times. right now i'm very satisfied with the connections they are very stable but if i use another headset other than the HBH-608 the connection of the headset drops about 5-6 times per day.
[XPERIA X1 General] Freako:
Ok so we can say that btkeepalive tweak does not bring the solution for this problem.

First I thought to bring my phone to the service center but now I think it is more a software issue than a hardware failure.

I can't imagine that all of those people facing with the same problem have a buggy phone ...

However,

I am curious about a new firmware R3A maybe could solve this problem....

Thanks,

Freako
[XPERIA X1 General] mathiosn:
after 2 weeks of testing 9 different headsets as i mentioned above i can now confirm HBH-608 DOES NOT DISCONNECT together with my mbw-150 watch all the rest disconnect randomly up to 10 times per day. btkeepalive works perfectly bluetooth has not been randomly switched off ever since i installed the cab file. great work!
[General Topics] garethsimpsonuk:
Hi guys,

I know some people get emotional when they're asked what's the best ROM but I think it's useful to see the trends and general consensus of what are good roms.

so am i (or somebody) allowed to make a poll regarding this?

thanks
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] killer8nl:
I've searched at the forum but couldn't find a good answerd for my question.

I got a Vodafone NL X1 it's currently on the Vodafone R2 release but i want to change it to the generic release(hate the vodafone crap). So my question is do I need hard spl to flash another official rom to my X1. I know that you need hard spl to flash a cooked rom but is flashing another official rom the same case?

And another question, i've read on websites that spb backup can restore a backup after a rom update. Does anyone have experience with that and is there a big change that i will have problems with that? And if I use this when I flash the generic rom instead of the vodafone one to my phone does it also restore all vodafone crap?

Hope someone can help me

thanks in advanced,
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ianl8888:
My 2c worth:

a) official ROM's have SPL in them, so you don't need hardSPL to flash these

b) regarding "restore after ROM change", in reverse order:

if you restore a full backup from your existing installation after a ROM change, it will obviously restore all that is currently there - including the Vodaphone fluff

both Spb and Sprite offer "full restore after ROM change" options - however, registry changes from one ROM to the next make this risky. Most cooks will advise against it
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] killer8nl:
Oke thank you for the answerd, will do a fresh install then after the rom update
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcbyte_it:
SPB restore can let you choose what to restore, the necessary things will be contacts, sms, email and documents, you can skip the programs, registry and other non personal things, but like this you will need to reinstall all programs and configure them from scratch
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ianl8888:
Yes, that's the technically correct way.

After you've upgraded the ROM and re-installed all your apps, (say) weekly Spb or Sprite backups for a full restore are obviously viable. I've been doing this for about 5 years now - saved my bacon more than once.

Still, I agree that re-installing all the apps after a ROM upgrade is a real pain in the butt. People who change ROM's constantly must have another day phone on the side :)
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] killer8nl:
I tried to update the generic NL R2A rom from my vodafone NL R2A phone but it doesn't work. It keep saying "No image file!".

I also got another question. Is it really necessairy to format my ms before flashing. Because I only got the hancock ms and it said not to be working again when I format the ms. Thats why I didn't format the ms yet and only tried without formatting.

I have read almost all tutorials but all said I must use the hard-spl but other forums posts said I don't need when using a official rom. Anyone can help me a bit further please?

Regards,
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Substance001:
hi guys

as you can see im a total noob to the forums and to updating ROMs on the diamond

my htc diamond is running rom version

version: 1.37.707.1 WWE

date: 06/10/08

radio version: 1.00.25.03

protocol version: 52.26a.25.09H

i find that phone lags a bit and slows down especially when im unlocking with my password.

it also lags a bit when im activating the keyboard to write a sms..

so i guess i was hoping somebody could guide me in the right direction to get the latest rom update, and how do i do it.

i can see there are some custom roms around...so i have no idea whats the best way to proceed..

ive tried to download the latest rom update from the HTC site but it says that my device is not supported?

i dunno, cause i entered in the serial number located under the battery...

so im hoping somebody here can help me out..

thanks!

subs.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] lasterato:
More info...

What's your diamond model number? It's under the battery.

You should look into HardSPL and then check out the official ROM's and Cooked ROM's and make a decision on which one you want to flash your phone with. Read the forum's and how-to's for more info...but first you should work out what version of the diamond you have before you go looking for ROM's...also, always HardSPL before you flash! :)

Good luck.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Substance001:
under the battery it says

HTC P3700 DIAM100

is that what you are referring to?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] cobbs:
hi you really need to read this first and then read it again http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=416211 or you could brick your phone
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Substance001:
yeah, ive been reading that and im slowly starting to understand what i have to do...

i would like to do this rom update on my phone

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=423418

so from what i understand i first have to install a unsigned hardspl, any recommendations on which version i should use?

1.23

1.24 or

1.34 ?

i was going to use 1.24 only because i saw somebody post saying they used it and had no problems, but if i should use one of the other ones because it will work better then please let me know.

after doing the hardspl install i was going to backup all my contacts and then do the rom update.

am i missing any steps?

do i have to do a radio update before a rom update?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Prewien:
I use HardSPL 1.40 and had no problems so far so I havent updated it to 1.93.

I would recommend one of the new roms 2.03 (official or cooked, it depends on what you'd like :) ).
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Substance001:
ah ok

so

if i can install hardspl 1.40 and this rom http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=423418

and shouldnt have any problems?

is that what im understanding?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Kevbodian:
Install hardspl 1.40 or 1.93 (I use 1.93, but didn't have problems in the short time I used 1.40) hardspl and then install any rom you like. Just try to read as much as you can because chances are, any question you have, someone else has had it and it's on the board for you to read.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Substance001:
ok cool, i will install hardspl 1.40 and then that rom i mentioned

at the moment i dont have any questions, i will follow that thread that explains how to update roms and hope for the best :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Substance001:
1 last question, i did do a search but didnt really find any definite answers...

if i brick my phone *touch wood i dont*

will it be difficult to unbrick it?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] zer0tr:
if you brick your phone, the only option left is to claim warranty.

And i believe the only step that could possibly brick your phone is flashing HardSPL, right guys?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] FyreMasq:
I was in the same state of anxiety when I did my first ROM flashing. Thankfully it all went smoothly.

My 2 cents :

1, Think about what you are gaining by a ROM upgrade. If your phone is working well out of the box and your routine functions are satisfied, you are well off with you stock ROM. I flashed a couple of ROMs and now I am with my stock and I am perfectly fine.

2, Read this -> http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=416211 and this -> http://www.modmydiamond.info/ And if you understand every single letter of it only proceed.

Happy flashing :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] kaloyski:
i have a diam100. can i flash it to a WWE dutty rom?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Substance001:
thanks for all the help guys, but i decided to flash my htc with the original rom from the htc site.

for the moment it runs like a dream and has fixed all my lag issues.

so im gonna stick with that....for the moment :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] band27:
It's important that you feel comfortable crossing over......but I have to say, when you decide to cross, it's an exhilarating feeling to know that you can select what ever Rom from, what I think are, top notch chiefs here but also the fun continues by selecting which ever Radio.

Many post on here that say, "I bricked my phone," truly didn't brick anything. They just hit a wall so they panic. Hard SPL really does a good job. So the chances of your bricking this device is not as high as some people think..
[Touch Pro CDMA] lowridin88:
Anyone have a solution. I have two of these phones, one works perfect, the other wont receive a call. (i can see the alltel tower from my house)

Any settings i can check?

Did *228 several times, took battery out for over an hour, did hard reset
[G1 Android Development] keraba:
Using adb, I pushed JFv1.41_RC33_MOD.zip to /sdcard/update.zip.

Then I rebooted into the recovery screen. I hit alt-S, it did a lot

of stuff - verify, copy, delete, etc. When it asked, I hit home-back and it

rebooted. It then hung at the T-Mobile G1 screen. After about 5 minutes,

I pulled the battery.

After reading a bit, I tried alt-W then alt-S at the recovery screen.

Aside from claiming to wipe everything, it didn't change anything.

Still bricked.

Is there anything I can do at this point ?
[G1 Android Development] APrinceAmongMen:
The update.zip couldve been corrupted during the push.

Don't use adb.

Take out the sd card. Put it in a card reader. Connect it to your comp, and copy over update.zip.

Do the Alt+S and it should work.
[G1 Android Development] inpherno3:
card reader is a must, or another phone of a friends that takes the minisd.
[G1 Android Development] keraba:
<whew!> Thanks. BTW, does update.zip *have* to be the only file

on the sdcard, as some posts imply ? I didn't have to do that with

the first update...
[G1 Android Development] widto08:
No it doesn't but you should make sure that you only have 1 (one) update.zip file on the card.
[G1 Android Development] keraba:
Ok, all fixed. Woohoo!

Part of the problem may have been that I used LucidREMs

JFv1.41_RC33_MOD.zip image (c970f2a224227dbcfa7e42e144e9c60a)

not the "official" JFv1.41_RC33.zip (2a3da4241fdd63d1df690f8c7bef2445).

Dunno...
[Touch HD General] Hagow:
Hey everyone,

Let me start off by saying that this is not a promo or hate post for the iPhone.

I was always a WM user, had a Trinity for a few years and loved it. I went to the iPhone and I must admit it is much better than the WM in many ways. Months later I heard about the HD, I have it now but after using the iPhone I feel such a diconnect with WM. I used the HD with a few various ROMs but went back to the iPhone due to the superior integartion of software and hardware, everything just seems to work so much better. Now my HD is just collecting dust. I know that the HD is a much superior device in hardware (except for the touch screen-I am not talking about resolution). There are a bunch of little things that annoy me about the HD and I know it is just software realated. For instance, I can't even go on the Facebook site with Opera Mobile, looking at pictures just does not work properly. Youtube video are not as smooth or high quality partly due to lack of 3G, I am in Canada. I know this can't be changed but still a bit of a bother. The camera is 5mp but I can't even take pictures of my 1 year old son without blurring due to the shutter speed. I read many threads and hacks but it is just overwelming. Can you guys make a few suggestions as I really like the HD and want to use it instead of the iPhone. How can I get faster browsing on EDGE? I don't care about streaming Youtube but is there at least an option to download Youtube videos in HiDef to watch at a later time? I don't want to ramble on and I hope you understand what I am asking, any help is appreciated.

Yes, I do like and I don't mind tweaking my phone.
[Touch HD General] bugsykoosh:
If you really like the IPhone's simplicity check this out: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=473116&highlight=finger+friendly

to download youtube vids look at this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=427702

for facebook just set your browser to iphone.facebook.com (isntead of m.facebook.com).

Other browsers are faster than Opera but I have a 3G Touch Pro and an Edge Touch HD and the speed difference actually isn't that much - just a few seconds no a full page. You can try to use Iris Browser (it is based on webkit so it looks iPhony) or NetFront or SkyFire (fastest but not high resolution yet).
[Touch HD General] ez2remember:
Also have a look at Opera Mini not Mobile that comes installed on our THD. This browser is fast.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=469469&highlight=opera

I recommend Opera Mini v4.2.13216 if you don't want to do any tweaking.
[Touch HD General] maati:
Concerning the camera: I recently compared it to the iPhone camera under daylight conditions and the HD camera really is about 10 times better. The pictures are very sharp, there's no grain and you can zoom in 4 times and still see details.

The iPhone pictures were blurres, zooming in was useless and they were grainy even in brigt daylight.

I suggest you disable the shutter sound and set the picture quality to 'super-fine'. I took photos with the HD while skiing, which makes it impossible to hold the phone still and the pictures were perfect nevertheless.

Concerning Facebook, try using another browser like Iris, Internet Explorer or Skyfire (which is not yet released but will definitely be able to display any website, including video).

Next, I have to say that my HD recently annoyed me a lot and I already thought of getting an iPhone (again).

I tried to replace all the Windows Mobile applications with finger-friendly alternatives and was quite successful (see the video bugsykoosh posted earlier).

However, Winterface caused crashes and could not make me happy at all (in fact, I was even more annoyed by the crashes and the lack of beutiful animations like the ones on the iPhone).

Then I made a WAD2 skin using bluemetalaxe's realize iconset and the iPhone-like launch animations. Now, everything runs smooth again. No crashes anymore, an interface that's completely customizable and beautiful and launching applications is fun :D

I then installed FingerMenu and replaced all the horrible green with a nice blue and now I love my HD again! :)

OK, that's my story... please excuse my any bad grammar in my story as I'm not English :(
[Touch HD General] inspireme87:
i looked up bluemetalaxe threads and i ended up with huge sets of icons and i have no idea how to assigne them or how they would look like on my hd :S can you please post screens for your hd and how it looks like now and direct us to the thread with the instructions to follow ? please.. this sounds so interesting to my and i am actually bored with the touchflow style and capabilities :\
[Touch HD General] eaglesteve:
There is nothing wrong with wanting the iPhone if you don't need to switch in spare battery during the day, do not require GPS, and do not keep important excel, power point, and word document on your device.

iPhone is an extremely attractive product. The user interface, smoothness of operation is way ahead of winmo devices'.

However, if your need could only be met by HD, like in my case, you would have to sadly give up the extremly sexy user experience.

To mimic that interface, if you really really like iPhone's UI, I recommend using Vito's Winterface. It is as close as you could get to program launching and navigation. Without complication.

Then, start replacing and looking for finger friendly software to replace the older ones that you had collected. For example, replace the standard contact application with Inesoft Phone 4, may be also use its fovourites (althernatively you can use Winterface's). Use Vito's SMS Chat to replace the SMS. Opera browser is good, but check out Opera mini (It's fast, and scrolling is just as good as Safari's). Use ThumbCal for Calendar for example. Use Google Map with Street View to beat iPhone's standard google map. Use Vito Audio NOtes Touch for voice and call recording. Have you tried Web Video Downloader? It lets you watch not just youtube but every other type of flash websites too, with better video quality downloaded or watched instantly. Try out Panaromic Calc Pro for calculator

GPS applications is the area that winmo devices really shines over iPhone. I have TomTOm7, Garman, Mapking, and iGO8 on my devices. In Australia, I use only TomTom but I use others while travelling overseas.

DOn't forget SoftMaker for desktop class functionality in word processing, spreadsheet and presentation. Or use it just to open attachments without losing any formatting.

The day before yesterday, I was using TF3D, customized with wallpaper on every tab and applications changed with SSMaPa. Today, mine desktop is based on Winterface. Tommorrow? May be SPB Mobile Shell again. This is so much fun playing with all types of software. It makes my toy brand new again each day. Yes, it can be a little laggy at times with tons of software installed. It may also freeze my device once in a while. But, I get to play, and the device serves my need. :D
[Touch HD General] darthbane2k:
Its not just the iphones UI which is better, its the quality of its apps. Developers make more efort with the iphone. Just compare shazam on WM to shazam on iphone, and also lastfm, facebook etc.

Commercial developement for WM has stopepd, everyone develops for iphone now.
[Touch HD General] sneila:
Not to mention a iPhone app is 2-3 USD/EUR, while WM apps are like 20 USD.

SO WTF !!!?!? why should we pay more, how more supperior is WM apps against iphone. with NOTHING, in fact, i have 4-5 apps for HD that actually use the HD capabilities (screen res and accelerometer) while, ALL applications on iPhone look better, work better and are cheaper.

There is a commercial product i looked at last days (can't remember, something like a chat program), WM version was 19,99 USD, while iPhone was 3.9 USD .. so again WTF ?!

THAT is why iPhone gains so much momentum. (and because of the capacitive screen :P )
[XPERIA X1 General] pinsho:
Hi all guys!

Anyone has tested the screen visibility under sunshine?

I have an HTC Touch and it's horrible...

Thanks!
[XPERIA X1 General] paroxysm:
It is visible but I won't say it is terrific. If it is not too good, I just need to tilt it a little and the screen will contrast and brighten.
[XPERIA X1 General] tehnoobzorz:
Its horrible sometimes i think my phone is off..
[XPERIA X1 General] contaygious:
I can barely make out the time in huge numbers
[XPERIA X1 General] Shadowdh:
Actually this is another area that impresses me... I tried this out when I first got the phone and it is very readable/seeable... even in full sunlight I can see the screen... much better than my Kaiser/MDA Vario III
[XPERIA X1 General] orelsi:
Seconded. :D