yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[XPERIA X1 General] thepunisher1979:
i found this entry, too ... but there is no improvement ... :-(
[Touch HD General] kevinsmbuk:
Using active sync it's sending older contacts to my phone which i do not want on there (this was when i previously used a nokia and sync'ed them).

How do i go about deleting old contacts on my PC, to ensure they are not transferred when sync'ing?
[Touch HD General] Fallen Spartan:
Delete your olders contacts from whatever programme they are in. i.e. if they are on MS Outlook, delete them, or Hotmail...delete them
[Touch HD General] kevinsmbuk:
I have so many not sure which one holds them! i tried outlook but apparently i have no contacts! i didnt know whether there was a folder i could explore on my pc to manually go through and delete them?
[Touch HD General] kevinsmbuk:
Yeah... no.
[S740, S743 General] amaric:
Does anyone knows how to remap Volume Up/Down keys?

I tried creating \Windows\Long_VolDown.lnk shortcut and setting HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Shell\KeyMaps\195 to 0, but what ever I do those keys just repeat.

I would like to start my application on Long press to any of the volume keys.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] turco.f:
some of you geniuses has been able to translate the new manila v.3 in Italian and to build a cab to install the original rom?
[Touch HD General] spikez93:
is it possibe to get the multi-touch iphone feature on the htc touch hd

(gesture internet browser feature)
[Touch HD General] spikez93:
is it possibe for u to upload it or post a link
[Touch HD General] Fallen Spartan:
The whole point of xda developers is to share your knowledge and help improve everyones phones performances etc

If you aren't willing to share this, why post in the first place???:mad:

In future don't post anything unless you are actually going to share the knowledge!!!
[Touch HD General] seal:
You come to these forums to take what others have to offer, there knowledge and skills yet you will not share so your phone can be unique from others..... There are 6.76 billion people on this earth, you and your phone will never be unique because the odds are stacked against you. The feelings you get from being selfish and thinking you are unique in amongst 6.76 billion people will be insignificant to the feelings you will feel if you become a giver to even just a small group like us that is here to share with you.....
[Touch HD General] Psygnosis84:
your full of **** and you know it..

what are you, like 12?
[Touch HD General] scottyuk:
I think its time for an IP Ban, looks like arsenalfc is back.

Just ignore him, he craves attention.
[Touch HD General] Fallen Spartan:
One problem to ignoring him is that he actually gives bogus help. My concern would be that some noob wud believe him and possibly damage their phone!

I just hope they have enough common sense to realise what a fool he is!
[Touch HD General] Fallen Spartan:
My apologies spikez93 as we have gone a bit off topic

As to your query I am not sure, but I will look into it. Anyone else?
[Touch HD General] gaelynx:
The real answer is: no you can't have hardware multitouch like the iphone. If you search in this forum, you'll find that some people are working on a software solution to be able to press 2 differentes buttons at the same time; But you wont get pinch zooming etc on Blackstone.
[Touch HD General] moshbeard:
From what I've read it will be possible to get a 'pinch' effect but only when holding one finger still and moving the other, it won't be able to pick up both fingers moving towards each other though.
[Touch HD General] gaelynx:
If you keep one finger still on the screen and move the other to pinch, the touch screen won't be able to differentiate whether you are pinching in (for zoom-in) or pinching out (for zoom-out), because it only see one displacement: the movement of the center point between the 2 fingers.

So if we can't distinguish zoom-in from zoom-out, how can we use this 'pinch' effect to zoom?
[Touch HD General] Fallen Spartan:
Ws thinking of same thing but probable wouldn't have explained it as well as you did!!!;)
[Touch HD General] derrickonline:
Good call on banning that dipshi*t. What an iddiot.
[Touch HD General] ash3012:
Ban the a$$h0l3 :mad::mad::mad:

Even noobs like me try to help people with whatever knowledge we have.
[Touch HD General] abeery:
I'M NOT SURE i AGREE WITH THIS AND HERE'S WHY...

When the first finger touchs an X,Y coordinate is available... when the second finger touchs there will be an instantaneous coordinate displacement that does not include the intravening points and also with no cooresponding finger-up event... it should be possible to look for this programatically and know that you are in a two-finger style event... also based on the change and a knowledge of the screen size, the first finger point and the resultant two finger average it should be possible to determine point number two as well as the changing delta between the 2 points which will give you pince or expand when you remove your fingers and you get a finger up event... note it is true you will not be able to distinguish more than two fingers but I'm betting this is enough for most uses.
[Touch HD General] bobdude5:
:)

they made it possible on the g1 :)
[Touch HD General] monzablue16v:
It's difficult but can more than likely be done, would be a fair bit of maths to work it out though. Difference between resistive and capacative. But you can use a stylus or wear gloves with the touch HD so it's a trade off. :)
[Touch HD General] Step666:
The G1 uses a capacitive touchscreen similar to the iPhone's and the Android OS already had redundant coding for multi-touch capabilities, IIRC.

So all they effectively did was throw a switch.

For the likes of the Touch HD, everything will need to be coded from scratch.
[Touch HD General] bugsykoosh:
limited multitouch IS possible on the HD - I took a video of it in fact:) BUT don't tell me it's not true multitouch - I know it isn't. In Windows if 2 points are touched at the same time Windows interprets it as a touch between the two points. If a developer maps a virtual key press between two 'buttons' then the virtual key will register as both keys. So no, there is no iPhone type multitouch but there are ways to mimic it. See these two postings and in the first one there's a video using an HD that shows what I am referring to:

http://www.fuzemobility.com/multitouch-exists-now-without-new-hardware-or-software/

http://www.fuzemobility.com/multitouch-in-action/
[Touch HD General] Step666:
Well not even the iPhone has 'true' multi-touch as it's limited to two fingers.

This bit's wrong though.

The limiting factor is not the OS, it's got nothing to do with Windows, it's because the handset uses a resistive screen.
[Touch HD General] jacago:
If this is true - "In Windows if 2 points are touched at the same time Windows interprets it as a touch between the two points", I do think multitouch can be implemented. It means Windows knows the position of the 2 points. So we just need the software to read the 2 points being touched and interpret the touches differently.
[Touch HD General] spikez93:
hmmmmmmm now all we need is someone to create this software ;)
[Touch HD General] abeery:
I know its repeated alot but this is not really true

Resistive and capacitive screens are BOTH equally able to be implemented with multitouch... that particular aspect of the hardware is not a factor... how the input is read (drivers) and other hardware items are at issue not the input type. I'm working on a proof of concept which I will post in the next day or so along with the code should anyone wish to do more with it.
[Touch HD General] gaelynx:
Your idea is interesting but its implementation might be limited I think:

The phone constantly sample contact points from the touchscreen.

If we move one finger on the screen very rapidly, then lets call dmax the maximum distance between 2 following samples.

Now if you keep one finger still on the screen at position x1,y1 then you put a 2nd finger on the screen, the following sampled position will be the average of the positions of the 2 fingers xm,ym. If the distance between these 2 following sampled positions is greater than dmax then we can "programatically" consider that there is actually a 2nd simultaneous finger on the screen and that we are not just moving one finger quickly.

The problem is that we only can detect that case when the 2 fingers are quite far away from each other. So the fingers have to be near the sides of the screen to get a greater distance, and therefore the area on which we can move the 2nd finger will be limited.The stretch/zoom-in will be hardly possible, pinch/zoom-out would work though. And what if we release only one of the 2 fingers?
[Touch HD General] rauldln:
Interesting ... maybe htc touch hd 2 jejeje.
[Touch HD General] spzero:
remember when you press the screen it goes

..........\/...\/.........(fingers)

from ========== (screen) ,

______________________________________________________________

.........\/

..............\/

to ====_===== ,

______________________________________________________________

if you press two points the place where pressure is put increases and as such

........\/....\/

this =--_--===== so the software interprits this touch at the middle of the two points

so technically it can be used to a degree but is limited unless the programme is made to understand the middle points of two presses. but it can not see both presses
[Touch HD General] Step666:
Further to what spzero has said on the matter, read this thread.

The problem is (in part, at least) down to the type of screen used.

Of course fully functional drivers are important but they will not be able to compensate for the fact that resistive touchscreens are not well-suited towards multi-touch usage.
[Touch HD General] bugsykoosh:
You can see multitouch in action right now with the links I put in post 19. It's just a question of developers writing it into their software. Windows interprets 2 simultaneous presses as a press in between the two so you need to map a virtual key at that point that is mapped to a simultaneous press and you're done. There are even apps using it right now including a controller that shows you what presses you are making (including simultaneous presses) and a 'drawing' app that showing you where the keypress is being mapped to so you can see it in action.
[Touch HD General] Step666:
Yeah, that's all well and good for a keypad but it won't work for things like zooming.

Think about it, if you're using Opera and you press two of your fingers onto the screen, say about an inch apart, why would the browser interpret that as two fingers an inch apart as opposed to a single finger pressing on the point halfway between?

And as you pinch or spread your fingers, all that will happen is that the halfway point will move, which is no different to dragging a single finger around the screen.

The reason why Windows interprets two fingers as a single point halfway between them is because the phone uses a resistive screen - when you press on a resistive screen, it pushes one layer down onto another to complete a circuit. So if you press two fingers down, you just end up with one big large blob being pushed down onto the second layer, because the material is not elastic enough to create two individual depressions.

And it is this precise reason which makes multi-touch so difficult to implement properly on a resistive screen.

Believe me, I'd love to be proven wrong and if abeery is actually able to produce a software-based system that can compensate for these issues, I'll be happy to eat my words.

But to sit there and say that it's possible and that the only problem is WinMo glosses over a big part of the problem.
[Touch HD General] NikD1:
Sorry if this has already been posted but I didnt see it:

www.engadget.com/2009/02/19/stantums-mind-blowing-multitouch-interface-on-video/

Now THAT is resistive multitouch for you! they did say that their software wouldnt work with current resistive touch screens though. im sure somebody could develop somthing, even if it is not quite that good!

If your any good at making software for phones - Give it a go!!! see what you can come up with!

Even the finger pressure this is quite cool. Hopefuly windows mobile wont prevent this kind of stuff being done.
[Touch HD General] Step666:
That is resisitive multi-touch, yes.

But it's using a a custom-manufactured screen

, so it won't be compatible with the likes of the Touch HD.
[Touch HD General] abeery:
Actually I suspect the reverse is true... note there are no capacitive writing programs with anything near the fidelity of a resistive system... have a two finger prototype multitouch working which I will finish next weekend at the latest... working full time plus taking an advanced seminary Greek class for my Presbyterian ordination so very little free time free time right now but I promise I will finish and release the code ASAP
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] guruk:
Hi,

after I got my Unlock Code from TMob, I like to activate my G1 now with Vodafone in Romania.

This is what I found so far:

Title: VF Internet pe Mobil

Connection: UMTS

Autentificare: PAP

User: live.pre.vodafone.com

Pw: vodafone

APN: live.pre.vodafone.com

MCC: 226

MNC: 01

So when i start my G1, It starts to show the bar with my connection (good with 3-4 Bars). but NO "G" sign in the Top bar. (Does it have to be there??)

When I try to sign in (activation) it always fail of the connection.

Does I have to see a "G" or so in the Top Bar, before I try activation? (i dont have 3G here, only GPRS Data Transfer, that works fine for Internet with my other Mobiles)

Really I would appreciate really your Help, to make the G1 working and activating in Romania.

Greets

Chris
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrjay:
i'm searching for the same thing. i didn't manage to make VF settings. you can try with an Orange sim. easier settings to use. let me know please if you manage to solve the VF settings issue.

PS daca nu te descurci da-mi un PM
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] guruk:
:)

nice to read from you.

so you got it running with Orange? and only with 3G or just with GPRS.

greets

chris
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrjay:
3G. working like a charm :)

easy settings

Name : Orange 3G

APN: internet

the rest is blank
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] guruk:
hmmm but so i have to buy also a Orange card.

and I am living in Medias.. we dont have 3G here.

will it also work just with GPRS

and what dataplan do i have to buy from orange for a prepaid card.

do you know?

greets

chris
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrjay:
GPRS is working too.

for a prepaid you only need to activate internet and the costs are taken from your credit.

you can use it at least till we figure out the VF settings.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] guruk:
Thanks for your help.

so i guess my wife has a orange (have to look later)

does she had to activate internet plan or so..

or is it enough when i just place it in my card and make

apn internet?

anyhow.. also your profile and HP is interesting. what are

you doing for business.. we can talk about also

privat at: ilovesinai@gmail.com

thanks again

chris
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] guruk:
GREAT !!

just bought a Orange Card and now works like charm...

thanks for your info.

greets

chris
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrjay:
i managed to solve the problem

settings are like this:

Name: Mobile Internet

APN: internet.vodafone.ro

User:internet.vodafone.ro

Password: vodafone

everything else is blank

hope this helps
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pascanu:
I use my (unlocked) G1 with Vodafone Romania using these settings:

Name: vodafone

APN: internet.vodafone.ro

Username: internet.vodafone.ro

Password: vodafone

MCC: 226

MNC: 01

(all the rest are not set)

Works perfect using 3G or GPRS (depends on the covarage)

Hope this helps...

I have not managed to use Vodafone Live. Does anybody know if the G1 is compatible with Vodafone (RO) live? What are the settings?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrjay:
i'm not sure if the G1 one works with Vodafone Live! but if you're not on prepaid you can go for a data plan of 500Mb/month @6EUR/month
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mihneagabriel:
I know this thread is old but im going to bump it because i have a question.

I dont have a G1 but i do have an incredible 2 which is GSM capable and unlocked. Im going to romania this summer and was wondering if the settings are the same?

Also, can someone over there tell me how much it would be for a monthly card? most important to me is internet over there, I dont know if unlimited exists but i would prefer that.

Multumesc foarte mult.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] demkantor:
after putting in the sim card of whatever company they have out there you would need to update your apn to allow for data use. double check what frequency their cell company uses as in gsm,cdma, and what band(s)
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mihneagabriel:
I understand that. Was just wondering if the apn settings posted earlier still apply..

Sent from my Incredible 2 running Zeus 1.3
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] jchuillier:
Hello all,

I have a raphael, I'm using Romeos 190.1 (waiting for 190.2) and i'm very happy with this phone...

However I'd like to know if a solution exists to make the phone auto answer when it's connected on Bluetooth (in the car).

I am using phone weaver and it's very nice to change profiles but still when I'm in the car or skiing with m BT helmet it would be VERY nice to move the phone setting to "auto answer" after 1 ring...

Thanks for the help
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] mxzhonkey:
start, settings, phone (in personal tab), then in the more tab it gives you the option
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] jchuillier:
Yes, but i don,'t want it to answer automatically ALL THE TIME, only in bluetooth mode (ideally only when Bt is active and connected...)

Thanks
[G1 Android Development] austinjreid:
Like, WOW. I mean, erm, yeah, I was just about to do that, you beat me to it.

Nice work!

Kudos!

Havent tried it yet though :)
[G1 Android Development] austinjreid:
Hang on, you waited 3.5 years to make your first post? :confused:
[G1 Android Development] PeepoTurton:
Lol yeah :( I had a XDA something on O2 years ago but never had anything intresting to say about it :( Hadn't really been back since as after that broke I decided I would't get sucked into new mobiles and went back to a Nokia 3310. Then the G1 got me so tempted I joined the dark side again and now I'm toally hooked.
[G1 Android Development] wellsie:
Nicely proven that it is a UK issue.

I wonder if it will be enabled across the board at some point. The only reason I can think of that TM would disable it is bandwidth usage. How much traffic does Latitude generate?
[G1 Android Development] PeepoTurton:
Can't see it been very much just a tiny bit of text sent to google every so often. No idea why T-Mobile wouldn't want us to have it they might think its a privacy issue us Brits tend to make a fuss over things like that. I could see the daily mail now 'New Google Phone Allows Government Track Every Step You Take'
[G1 Android Development] wellsie:
Very true...
[G1 Android Development] zabouth:
You mean something like this.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...Google-lets-track-friends-family-mobiles.html
[G1 Android Development] austinjreid:
That's a point, its available for other mobile handsets?

Obviously TMUK being £$%$s again!

They even block internal access to google.com / latitude!
[G1 Android Development] PeepoTurton:
LOL WOW well that just proves the point
[G1 Android Development] austinjreid:
And the greatest thing is, we'll never know why its not included. TMUK will blame google, and google will blame TMUK. So easy for them to do.
[G1 Android Development] PeepoTurton:
We should hunt the person who decided not to include it down and slap them.
[G1 Android Development] TonyHoyle:
Having tried voice search on the iphone, you're not missing much.. it's tuned to an american accent and comes up with some hillariously bad interpretations of british accents.. it's *way* quicker to type than try to pronounce the same thing 50 times with a vague american drawl... (although strangely I believe it fares quite well with the welsh accent).
[G1 Android Development] TonyHoyle:
As an experiment I enabled latitude then reflashed my data.img from the nandroid backup, and latitude vanished again... so it's a setting on the maps app itself somewhere.
[G1 Android Development] PeepoTurton:
I have a feeling you will have to set up all your apps and stuff from scratch and then back that up with nandroid. Once maps has stored the fact you shouldn't have latitude in your user data it wont appear even if you have no sim in. So as soon as you flash your old user data back it will vanish again.

I have tried it with a backup made with nandroid after my latitude fix and that works fine.

The maps app itself is identical to that in RC33 and ADP1.1 as far as I can tell, I think T-Mobile have done something in the framework to check if its a UK sim and if it is it writes something to your user data that stops latitude from working. This is a guess however I'm sure someone much smarter then me will be able to figure out where it is and remove it. :)
[G1 Android Development] TonyHoyle:
What finally worked for me to preserve my settings:

Perform prodecure as above to enable latitude.

Flash data.img from backup. Reboot. Do not replace SIM. Do not enter maps yet.

Using adb, Add the following to /data/data/com.google.android.apps.maps/shared_prefs/com.google.android.maps.MapsActivity.xml

<boolean name="FF_SHOWN" value="true" />

<boolean name="SHOW_MY_FRIENDS" value="true" />

(the second line will already be there - just modify it to 'true')

Now enter maps. Hit 'menu' and the Join Lattitute button will be there. Join, and it'll stay when you replace the SIM.

I'm not sure that all of the above is needed, but that combination works consistently for me.
[G1 Android Development] citizen71:
Hi and thanks for solving this bloody annoying problem that has bugged me since I received RC9.

I have no problem doing what you suggested so thanks for that and for supplying the ready made up file (Thanks to JF also) but the only concern I have is the section I have quoted above.

It's the restart bit, can you give a clearer indication when to switch the handset off and did you just battery pull? I'm guessing it's when they update is finished and the phone switches off and just before it restarts just remove the battery? I just want to seek a bit of clarification really

Hope that makes sense
[G1 Android Development] dalelane:
I am on T-Mobile, but my SIM card was in another phone when the RC9 update arrived.

When the update was complete, I had Latitude, and was able to play with it using WiFi.

I shut down my G1 to insert my SIM card, but after rebooting, Latitude vanished, and I was back to old Maps. :-(

So very annoying.
[G1 Android Development] Karolis:
RapidShare link is gone.

Anyone care to re-upload?
[G1 Android Development] PeepoTurton:
Sorry about that I will change it on the main post soon. I just did a battery pull. However you can take take the sim out before you even do the update then you dont have to worry about it. Just update and then home and back to reboot :)
[G1 Android Development] Karolis:
Could you possibly also modify JFvMOD too? :)

I would like to not have Amazon MP3 in it and also have Latitude enabled.

The files can be found here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=480582

I could host the files in return ;)
[G1 Android Development] LucidREM:
http://www.kyubinc.org/files/JFv1.43_RC9_LatFix.zip
[G1 Android Development] Karolis:
Wow, that was fast :)

Does it also have Amazon MP3 removed? If not, can I remove it myself somehow?
[G1 Android Development] LucidREM:
heheh .. i'm not THAT fast .. i'm hosting the file since he lost his RapidShare link
[G1 Android Development] Karolis:
Oh, so this does not have your MOD :(

Does either one of you plan to take JFvMOD and make it into JFvMOD_LatFix? :)
[G1 Android Development] PeepoTurton:
I'll see what I can do :)