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[Touch HD Themes and Apps] jtoyz2:
you should ask this question over in that section or PM the author of that theme...any question post out of no where like this most of the time get ignored. try the search top right corner that should help or read all the sticky first.
[General Topics] Millivan:
I recently got a new contract with an XDA Serra (HTC Touch Pro). After a few days I noticed that the 'received' dates on several SMS mesages were wrong and were showing dates well into the future. O2's help guy said the dates had become corrupted because the phone had been dropped - the shock causing a momentary break between the phone's SIM and its connector. I don't have a lot of faith in these guys and it sounded implausible, but I've been given the same explanation by a trusted source so it may be correct as the phone was actually dropped (no damage).

I know the best way to protect against this sort of problem is to keep backed up regularly. Actually, would a normal backup (I use Sprite) cover SMS messages?

I don't want to delete the messages, so is there any way to edit these fields manually so I can correct this kind of problem? Perhaps with some program on the host PC?
[XPERIA X1 General] Lizzo:
hi, i've done a few searches, and i cant come up with something to match wat i am lookin for which is a instant messenger that supports video calling similar to the desktop version of msn instant messenger.....can someone please help me locate something like this, if there is one?
[XPERIA X1 General] killer8nl:
I think skype for pocket pc can do this, but I'm not sure.
[XPERIA X1 General] Lizzo:
no it cant...i've tried:(
[Shift General] kenndah:
:confused: Hi!

I,m new on this forum and i have had my Shift for 1 week, just perfect!!

Liberated with Thaihugos latest rom.

Now the question.. Is it possible to have both 3G & Wlan activated at same time on Vista side? 3G disconect when enabling Wlan.

I can use both on my laptop so maybee it is something in the registryfile.

Have tried to find some help on the forum but cant find enything.
[Shift General] kiwi45:
In Vista go to Control Panel -> Network and Sharing Center -> Manage network connections (left panel) -> Advanced (menu bar) -> Advanced settings

Move the Wireless connection above Local Area Network and it will automatically use it first when there are both connections available.
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] jschramm97:
Is it possiable to use the Titan as a GPS device? I am taking a road trip in June and am exploring some options. I like Sprint Navigation but want something a bit more robust.

So i was wondering if it's possiable to teather my Titan to my Netbook via either USB/Bluetooth and use the Titan as a GPS receiver and have something like M$ Streets and Trips running on the Netbook? Is this even possiable?

If not i'll just buy the $$ version of Streets & trips which comes with a USB GPS receiver.

Just thought i'd ask.

Thanks!
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] drewcam888:
I personally use Garmin XT on my titan and it is great. I have North America maps loaded.

Also look here (Post #11)for a list of applications.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=423972
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] jambrose:
See if you can get the streets and trips with out the GPS receiver. If you load a Titan ROM from here then you will unlock the GPS to use it with Streets and Trips software. Or better yet find the TomTom PPC application and buy the map from TomTom. There are lots of apps even a few free ones out there that will run on the Titan phone.
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] GansitoLoco:
I tried a couple GPS Proxy programs ( GPSGate 2.6, GPSProxy 2.2, GPS2Blue ) that were supposed to route the GPS data to the USB, or Bluetooth.

I only tried these with MapPoint software on my laptop, and I did not have any luck getting a connection. I got frustrated and gave up because I didn't have any real reason to use it other than curiosity.

I still have that "curiosity" though, and I would like to find something that works well.

Google for those names. GPSProxy is available at gpsproxy.sourceforge.net
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] madman34:
GPSBlue works for me

GPSBlue, I downloaded it a while back just to see what it would do and after a little playing with it I was able to connect with the laptop and use streets with it and it worked well, actually better than the TripMate USB unit that I use with it normally. Garmin Mobile XT runs on the Titan and works great as well, kinda nice because you have it all in hand.
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] drewcam888:
i vote garmin xt. it is great
[Touch HD General] spud_work:
Don't get me wrong, i love my phone and i think that it is a seriously cool piece of technology, but we are just not getting along at the moment when it comes to texting.

I've come from a n95, where i could quite happily bash out text messages all day with very few errors, however, on my HD i can hardly type a word correctly either using the full qwerty or phone keypad. I've tried to persevere with both, but things seem to be getting worse rather than better. I'm fine when using the stylus, but when using fingers I am all over the place.

The thing that annoys me most is when i press a key and the key increases in size (as it should) but then nothing appears in the message. The space bar is the worst culprit for this, i'll be typing away and the space bar will acknowledge the press, but when i check the message something like teoitoerteritktret will be there as the space bar presses haven't been put between the words.

So please help me and my HD to remain friends and if you can suggest alternative keyboards that can be downloaded or any tips that you have I'd be more than grateful to hear about them :)

Spud
[Touch HD General] Svegetto:
For myself, texting has been great on the HD and I have pretty big fingers (i'm 6"4'...and sorry for the 'standard' units). What might help is using the keyboard in landscape if you're not already doing that, that way the keys are alot bigger, especialy in qwerty mode. Also, T9 might be helpful since it corrects mistakes (like hitting the wrong key for one of the letters). As for hitting the key but not having it input it into the text, that occurs when you touch the screen where the key is (good) but before picking up the finger moving it of that key (bad). This tends to occur when you 'roll' your finger onto/off a key. Another thing which might help is this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=479464&highlight=finger+keyboard (there might be a v2 out already...or still in testing not sure) which is suppose to be a more finger friendly keyboard. A last option which I can give you from the top of my head is Dutty's v1.8 ROM which i believe uses a different keyboard which looks a bit more finger friendly as well.

Hope atleast some of this helps and good luck
[Touch HD General] dataSaMm:
I had a bit of difficulty typing at the beginning with the HD, I tried all the keyboards. Even in landscape (full QWERTY) although better than portrayed I found the Compact Keyboard to be the most effective way of typing. I was going to choose the default phone keypad where you have 3 letters but with compact QWERTY you have 2 keys on each key which is even better/faster/accurate (T9-wise). I typed for 2 weeks and now rarely make mistakes, sometimes I even type taking my eyes of the screen because I have memorised the distance between the keys.
[Touch HD General] tboy2000:
I hated the keyboards and nearly wanted to throw the HD in the bin.

This is what I recommend for fast accurate texting.

Use PHONEPAD keyboard. Large keys so you can't accidentally hit the wrong key.

Turn on T9 input (not ABC)

In T9 settings, from Settings, Input, Options menu, uncheck Auto-Substitution and Word Completion in ABC mode. The other two leave checked.

In Word Completion tab, uncheck Suggest words when entering text and check box for Enable auto correct.

I found my frustration came from the words i was typing were automatically changed and substitued when i didn't want them to.

good luck!
[Touch HD General] mysterd:
Do you know if Cootek TouchPal works on HTC Touch HD ?

I use it on both my HTC Prophet and Diamond and I really like it.

IMHO, it's much better than the provided full and compact qwerty keyboards.

The only drawback is that it's not free software.

Just my two cents.

Cheers.

David
[Touch HD General] spud_work:
Thanks for the input guys, i've gone for the finger keyboard option to start with and intial impressions are that it is much better, not perfect though, but certainly better :-)
[Touch HD General] Psygnosis84:
Try getting a smaller keyboard and you will have a great time typing with the stylus.
[Touch HD General] afhstingray:
i can type pretty fast on the phone pad method on my touch HD with t9 activated. the interface is good, much better than the one they included on the universal.

i cant type as fast as i did on my touch dual, but almost as fast now since i've had practise.

i never got the point of full qwerty onscreen, i cant stand them lol, i always use phonepad method. plus with this you can text using one hand
[Touch HD General] crashDebug:
movig from a physical keyboard to a touchscreen is indeed a big change of habits. rather than suggesting a input method I would suggest you some behaviors that helped me a lot in the beginning:

-do not try to type when walking as it makes aiming the keys more difficult

-try to look at the actual keys not at the word written, look at the word every now and then to check for errors

-take your time, it needs concentration on the beginning :) a.k.a do not try to type too fast just to realize you can do it, speed comes with practice :)

-try all the input methods with all possible combinations to see what fits you most

-not really the thread to discuss about this, but there are some tweaks and programs available to your device that help a lot, mainly like:

touchresponse by snailslug which provides a small vibration every time you hit the screen, this helps on understanding whether you actually pressed the key :)

hd tweak and advanced configuration tools can increase the sensitivity of your touchscreen so that less pressure is needed to interact with it

these small tips and a lot of patience helped me a lot in the beginning, now (just after a couple months) I happily type with full qwerty on portrait only both with 2 and 1 hand (and i'm 1m90 tall so don't have exactly small fingers :)... and I feel there is a lot more room for improvement :)
[Touch HD General] nkmoore:
I have just upgraded to the Touch HD. My previous two phones were the TyTn and the TyTn 2 with hardware keyboards, and as you can imagine how well I'd get on with the touch screen for typing was my biggest concern.

I've played around a bit and found the transition much easier than expected, I find that using the QWERTY keyboard with the T9 dictionary turned on works best for me.

As someone else has mentioned, don't try and touch type, that will only lead to mistakes, look at the buttons as you press them and then check your text every so often to make sure it's how you think it should be.
[Touch HD General] Meza1:
Try Cootek's Touchpal keyboard, best I've tried so far for HD.

There are some others that you may get on with, like Resco and CM.
[Touch HD General] ahbao:
try fingerkeyboard, it works better for me than the stock HTC keyboard
[Touch HD General] orangecrush:
I've always used FSK (FULL SIZE KEYBOARD) by Spb. I've used it back when I was using an Eten and 5 HTC products later, I've got it on my HD.

Because the screen is larger, it has the tiniest amount of distortion on HD but nothing that makes a big difference.

Like someone mentioned, I've gotten use to using a stylus so many times it's just as fast for me to use the little keyboard.

But then again, I've never been one of those 500 texts a minute person anyway.

HTH's,

Mark
[Touch HD General] sephiroth_vg:
:( jst first day of my HD usage...i used to have a nokia E61i (still got it) and coupled with nimbuzz i was easily using my mobile to chat to friends and family for abt 3 hours non stop easily like np... but...jst 15 mins of typing on HD and like omg :eek: i could only see one line of the conversation box ( landscape mode) and den the keyboard was lil small on te potrait mode. btw...used finger keyboard ver 2 to type...n in jst some minutes my wrist was hurting from keeping the mobile up ( e61i waws heavy as well but was no problemo to me :|) so u people got any sugessions i could try ? Else i'll have to switch to Xperia X1 cuz i would have had no choice left :(....help me out plz guys...:(
[Touch HD General] Plonker:
I was using my nephew's iPod Touch the other day and the keyboard had a feature I quite liked. When you pressed a key it popped up, but above your finger, so you could actually see what key had been pressed. Are there any apps that copy this?
[Touch HD General] Psygnosis84:
the new HTC keyboard from the new manilla has this that feature now. I think you can get the new keyboard from the app section or the development part.
[Touch HD General] Sian:
I was very used to physical keypad on Nokia phone. When I switched over to D810/Trinity, I was using Phonepad, then when TouchPal was launched, I started using it. Since then, TouchPal has been my keyboard. I am using the compact qwerty instead of Phonepad layout. TouchPal has pretty good predictive engine. If you type mostly English or those language supported by TouchPal, then it will be great. Else predictive engine may not be that helpful.

Anyway, what's helpful about TouchPal is also the swipe feature. e.g. swiping the word backward give you the past tense, upward gives you the plural, forward gives you the continuous tense, downward give you the other choices related to the word.

On the key it self, swiping left or right allow you to select the specific letter in the key : 2 letters per key, plus a number (bottom) and a symbol (top). Swiping upward gives you the capital letter, downward gives you the symbol and up and then downward give you the number. Cool, right?!

It comes with copy and paste as well as other useful symbol, preset words features.
[Touch HD General] Sian:
For those who really really hate typing, check out ShapeWriter. You 'glide' from one key to another without lifting your finger. Just that the keyboard layout is not too big. The key is pretty small. I'm waiting for 'Swype' which has the same technology, but with bigger key. Sadly, it's not out yet. :(
[G1 Apps and Games] brandenk:
So I used this app a while back and loved it but recently I have been doing a lot of flashing and such and just wasnt using it. Now I figured I want some custom ringtones again but after downloading Rings Extended I cant change the ringtones. When I go to the picker I only have the default options and not the option of launching Rings Extended. I also cannot launch it from the Market, I get an error "Rings Extended" could not be launched. I have tried uninstalling, restarting a couples times and installing again with no luck. Does anyone have any ideas?
[G1 Apps and Games] Mikey:
If you ever backed up your phone go into the folder where your backups are kept (on your card) and find the .apk and install it by pushing it onto your phone?!??!
[G1 Apps and Games] jayaustn:
Try going into "Manage Apps," scrolling down to Rings Extended, and hitting "Clear Defaults." See if that helps.
[G1 Apps and Games] Mikkado:
same problem here. but...NOTHING helps. i realy tried everything. looked up a lot of forums, concerning this problem...like i said. nothing works

last time i had this problem, i gave the backup a trie, but it didn't work.

so my next idea was flashing the rom again, didn't work either.

finally i wiped my phone, flashed the original 1.6 rom from HTC and then flashed the newest rom, i want to use. THAT works...and yes, it was a long long evening.

well, i gess there must be another way, too. i must admit, don't know very much about program structures and things like that. so please i guess we need a expert for this problem -.-'

thanks in advance for any helping ideas!!!
[General Topics] synthetikid:
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/02/25/upload-files-to-multiple-mirrors-ine-one-step-with-gazup/

i thought this would help developers.
[Networking] lotion:
EDIT: A more easily read version of this quandary is up at StackOverflow. Read that one.

So I'm trying to make an application that determines your location via any means possible. In doing so, and in making my application as available to as many devices as possible, I'm reverse engineering popular location look-up services (mainly, google maps and windows mobile live search).

Fortunately for me, the google maps lookup was already reverse engineered by a guy on CodeProject. I am now working on the same for Live Search. This is what I've determined so far:

A HTTP request is made to:

mobile.search.live.com/positionlookupservice_1/service.aspx

with a user-agent string of:

Windows Live Mobile Local Search

An an expected response of:

100-Continue

Once the application is returned the 100, it sends a bunch of data. This is where it starts to get messy. Here is what I've found so far:

After the 20byte header, there is a 7 byte value. In what I captured, it is are:

0x00 0x00 0x00 0x01 0x00 0x00 0x00

After that, you get the following encoded value.

Hex values immediately before a text string are equal to the length of the string:

(0x05)UTF-8

(0x05)en-US

(0x05)en-US

(0x01)

(0x06)Device

(0x05)dummy

(0x01)

(0x06)

(0x02)PL

(0x08)

(0x0E)ReverseGeocode

(0x01)

(0x07)

(0x0B)GPSChipInfo

(0x01)(0x20) <-- I guess I don't have GPS enabled

(0x06)

(0x09)CellTower

(0x06)

(0x03)CGI

(0x08)

(0x03)MCC

(0xb6)(0x02) <-- according to cellcatcher, should be 310

(0x07)

(0x03)MNC

(0x03)410

(0x08)

(0x03)LAC

(0xCF)(0x36) <-- cell catcher says 6991

(0x08)

(0x02)CI

(0xFD)(0x01) <-- cell catcher says 259

(0x00)

(0x00)

(0x00)

(0x00)

Here's the response breakdown:

Following the header and HTTP headers:

0x00 0x00 0x00 0x01 0x00 0x00 0x00

(0x00)

(0x01)

(0x06)

(0x02)PL

(0x06)

(0x08)Locality

(0x06)

(0x08)Location

(0x07)

(0x03)Lat

(0x09)42.375621

(0x07)

(0x04)Long

(0x0A)-71.158938

(0x00)

(0x07)

(0x06)Radius

(0x09)2000.0000

(0x00)

(0x42) <-- Node B (thanks RiverRat!)

(0x07)

(0x0C)LocalityName

(0x09)Watertown

(0x07)

(0x16)AdministrativeAreaName

(0x0D)Massachusetts

(0x07)

(0x10)PostalCodeNumber

(0x05)02472

(0x07)

(0x0B)CountryName

(0x0D)United States

(0x00)

(0x00)

(0x00) <-- Bonus?

I think the data is being sent in a hash.

This is what I make of some of the prepended hex characters:

0x00 - Closing bracket

0x01 - Base level element terminator

0x06 - Opening bracket

0x07 - Field value is text

0x08 - Field value is encoded (anyone know how those values are encoded?)

There are a few things I still don't understand ...

1) Is there any significance to the 7 byte header?

2) What is the significance of the opening and bonus closing (0x00) in the response?

4) How are the values with type 0x08 encoded?

Attached are the raw packets also available here: http://www.copytaste.com/or1a15g0
[Networking] RiverRat812:
According to the data you received...

You were connected to AT&T site 0025 (AKA

Mt Auburn Street Wine Shop)

Site is located at 818-826 MT AUBURN ST Watertown, MA

the 9 is related to the sector you were in

the sites true location is... -71.1506	42.3747 (These are the coordinates that the LMU has in it)

based on the LAC, you were connected to the 3G radio, a LAC of 6012 would have meant you were connected to the Nokia 2G Radio side.

check out this post:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=393189&page=17
[Networking] RiverRat812:
Node B is a term used in UMTS to denote the BTS

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Node-B
[Networking] lotion:
Bump in case anyone can figure out how the type 0x08 values are encoded.
[Touch HD General] Leglehid:
I've been searching for an answer to this question for a while with no luck so far.

Outlook 2003 has a placeholder for a photo on each contact's details page. This picture can be used in the People tab on the Touch HD.

What is the ideal specification for such a picture (resolution and actual size)?

It may be obvious to others but it isn't to me!

TIA
[Touch HD General] wizzzard:
I don't know what the optimum size is, but if you add the contact photo from within the contacts app it will be small and at low resolution.

The best option for me is to resize the desired image to the same size as the screen and then add it to a contact from A_C's S2V program. This then allows a full screen photo for caller ID with another of A_Cs programs S2U2. This works fine on my Kaiser and I see no reason it wont work on my Blackstone when it finally arrives.

Hope this helps.
[Touch HD General] oxygen2k:
i just got my touch hd yesterday and i instantly had to figure out the same problem.

i recommend to sync all your contact with your pc and then add the pictures later at the "people tab" on your device.

anyways,

the contact pictures in the "people tab" are 268x268 pixels.

that works pretty good, just try it.
[Touch HD General] moshbeard:
Most people seem to agree 256x256 is the best resolution to use, however if you import the picture from Outlook it'll be horrible quality no matter what the original resolution was.

You need to select the picture from TouchFlo on the contacts tab to get the best quality (which still isn't fantastic).
[Touch HD General] Dredd67:
some clues here:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=3388796&postcount=100
[Touch HD General] hesian:
Is it still 256x256 in PNG format for HTC Sense ?
[Touch HD General] FileFixer:
Try 400x400 pixel size. I use a 400x400 JPG and work fine for me.
[Touch HD General] hesian:
Should have read up higher. I can confirm that is still the exact resolution for HTC Sense.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Mkrahl69:
Im sure this is a noob question and I havent been able to find info on this but when I am getting texts (SMS and MMS) I am only getting the number of the person sending me the text. So even if the person is saved in my contacts it still only shows up with their number and it makes it quite hard to recognize who the text is coming from. I would like all of the threads or texts to show my contacts name like they did on my T-mobile Shadow. Im sorry if this answer was posted elsewhere. I was unable to find it and I am getting more and more annoyed as the days pass. Any info would be great. Thank you.

Stock Fuze

Unlocked and using T-mobile service.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] tyguy:
Your contacts are on the phone not SIM?
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] dsoler702:
According to your sig, I think I can assume you're using the stock rom. I would first make sure that you use the sim manager to save your sim contacts on to the phone itself. if that doesnt work, try a hard reset and save your contacts again.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Mkrahl69:
I got it figured out. A hard reset and saving the SIM contacts to the phone again worked. Thank you for the help.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] liamhere:
all sorted

job done

thread closed.

thank you
[XPERIA X1 General] bluespire:
Hello everyone,

This is my first post. Anyways, I have searched the forum, for this answer, but could not find it.

I understand that the X1a will be best in the US, as I understand it, because the network I will be on, AT&T, will be expanding their network to the 850MHz band. OK, well what I need to know is what kind of connectivity I should be expecting outside the US.

My new extended international family is all over the world. I don't travel real often right now, but I will be traveling more frequently over the next few years.

As I understand it, in the major cities in the US, the X1i will do fine on AT&T, as they have 3G on 1900MHz, but again, only in the big cities. This would be fine with me, I just don't want to be screwed as I move beyond the cities when traveling in the US.

So, for my situation, what is recommended? I fully understand the differences between the models, I am just not as familiar with the networks across the world.

Thanks,

-Steve