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[Touch Pro CDMA] twist:
So I popped into my local sprint store today to check out the phone in person and I am wondering from some people that actualley have it. It was a half hour before closing and all the reps were busy so I didnt have a chance to talk to them. I am also wondering what kind of deal everybody got on this phone cause I know sometimes it depends on who u talk to with what they can do for you.

The floor model the buttons on the bottom felt really cheap and clicky, was this because its an abused floor model or is that just how it feels ?

I thought this phone auto flipped when you tilted it like the iPhone and that other verizon PPC ?

And what is up with the dpad ? are you able to just slide your finger over it ? Cause clicking it next to the other buttons felt weird and akward ?

Until I played with it in person ( a floor model though) I was really sold on getting this phone espicalley with all the cool 6.5 roms for it. The touchflo interface didnt feel very smooth either but that could be a number of things.

I guess I am just wonderng from some of the fans here who use the phone regulerly if these concerns I have are just some of the negatives of it or what ?

Obviously I would love a touch HD but that isnt an option at this time.

I am currently on boost mobile and ive gone from using a tytn back in the day to this w385 flip phone piece of garbage. But for 50 a month unlimited I cant complain much, but I called sprint and to my amazement with my credit I was approved for no deposit and 150 spending limit and I just want teh unlimted eveyrhting plan. Which I am also wondering if that includes tethering the phone ?

Hopeing some of your Touch Pro Sprint gurus can answer my questions so I can feel better and become one of the family and finally get posting again back on XDA I sincerly miss hanging out here but since my tytn died and I left atnt I havent been around much.

Thanks everybody!!
[Touch Pro CDMA] chAz15:
1. I got the phone from Best Buy on a price drop for $150 2-weeks after release.

2. I got $100 mail in rebate from Sprint (This is hit or miss from what I hear, but for .40 cent stamp try it).

Phone itself:

D-Pad is weird, yes.

Buttons and slide keyboard feel cheap, yes.

(Coming from a Mogul)

It's a cheap phone, for a cheap price, with some pretty descent insides.

Now at this point and time, personally...I would wait a couple months for TP2, which has reported on engadget coming to sprint 3rd Q, so I would guess 4th Q for real. Always late it seems.

And supposidly the Instinct 2 is literally an iPhone killer (potentially) according to reviews, but that is probably inappropriate statement without literally playing with it personally. :eek:

Contract speak.

Check this unless you have corporate deal (they seem to be better):

http://delivery.sprint.com/m/p/sprint/epc/epclanding.asp

E-Mail: russ.s.mcguire@sprint.com

CID: 383

$59.99 Everything 500

Not as good as the old SERO deal, but still descent compared to EVERYONE else out there...

Sprint will tell you, YOU can't teether. But you can get PDA Net or other's and do it, just keep you streeming bandwidth under there alloted contract amount and you shouldn't get dropped.

Most of the current ROMs and such the flipping of the phone (Accelerometer) works. There are plenty of applications in which you can define what can flip via gyro and what can't and utilities to set it up. In the Stock Sprint ROM, it's very finnicky as to when it will do it or not.

I've had my TP since December, it's good, I like it. Droped it a couple times, still runs like a champ, no dents or dings suprisingly tough for how cheap it feels. So I guess my fingures are decieving me...:eek:

But it's really up to you on if you want to hold off until TP2 Rhodium, or Diamond 2 Topaz, come to sprint later this year or not...

Hopefully this was enough info...!!!

L8R
[Touch Pro CDMA] Sweeny Russ:
Just buy it!!!

There will be no dramatic improvements in the mobile device industry to early to mid 2010. The latest on the touch pro 2 is that they are still under contract negotiations and there is no expected US release dates yet. The touch pro is a solid phone and buttons work great. Dpad takes a little getting used to. Interface is snappy and hardware keyboard is fast. Instinct 2 will be out of date before it is released. $250 after rebates at alltel.
[Touch Pro CDMA] twist:
Hey thanks for all the great info man I really appreciate it a lot!! Sprint has quoted me at 399 for a new signup and a 100$ mail in rebate. It just seems a bit pricey for the phone. Im jealous u got it for so cheap thats it much more reasonable for the this phone. I used to have a TyTn er whatever the second generation one was and then the company I worked at I had a Palm (those are just aweful) and now I have this w385 flip thru boost and I am having serious PPC withdrawls latly. I really would like to go ahead and get this phone but if something cooler is in the wings maybe I should wait I really dont know, I was even looking on ebay to see about picking this phone up and going with sprint and if I bring my own phone I shouldnt have to sign a contract and I could just bail on them if I wanted to. just for 99 unlimited everything I really am leaning towards sprint as I am paying 50 unlimited for everything with boost on my current phone.

I am checking out your referral link now, it shows the touch diamond as having the touchflo but I thought the touch pro did too ? Or maybe just with a Rom upgrade. it also has teh touch diamond for 50 bux cheaper guess that having a real keyboard counts. I would be all for the touch diamond if it had a bigger screen but having such a small screen with what seems like such a waste of space on the bottom of the phone that I need to have a hardware keyboard to make much sense of it all.

So with this referral the 500 minutes includes unlimited everything else ? thats not too bad of a deal I really will need unlimited minutes too eventualley but not quite yet so I could save some cash in the time being.

If I were to buy this phone on ebay and singup with sprint I wouldnt need a 2 year contract anymore would I ?

Oh wow the touch pro 2 looks AMAZING! I wish I could get a definite timeframe on this phone oh man I hadnt seen any pics of it and its all I need in a phone for a while how cool.
[Touch Pro CDMA] weso:
Coming from the Mogul as well, it was a major let down not having as many buttons on the side. That said, it's a whole lot faster, and worth the money. The buttons *are* clicky I guess.......suppose that's subjective.....but it never felt cheap to me. As for waiting for the TP2.... having used the TP1, I wouldn't wait :) I didn't get the cool deal that chAz15 got, but Ebay has them. I think I paid $379 for mine, and I didn't have to extend the contract. Just go to your Sprint acct web page and activate the new phone.

FYI, Sprint quoted me at $399 *with* a $100 rebate - meaning it was $400 after everything was said and done. Also, at the store they wanted to hit me $20 as a "conversion fee" or something. Did the one raised eyebrow thing, and put my money away. Jury is out on the TF3D. It screams "Aero" to me every time I use it: It looks really nice, but the phone is simply faster when it's off. I keep turning it off and on again, depending on how I'm feeling that day.

Coming back full circle - if you liked the Mogul, you'll love the TP....except for the buttons thing :( It's worth it to me to have gotten it.

Hope that was helpful.
[Touch Pro CDMA] twist:
Thanks for the info. I am actualley not a sprint user currently I am on boost mobile and am wondering if I signup for sprint and bring my own phone if I will have to still sign a 2 year contract ?
[Touch Pro CDMA] Chaotic Peace:
If you are going to get it, I say go to Best Buy and pick it up. They take off the $100 MIR already for you.
[Touch Pro CDMA] twist:
Nice info bro, I didnt know best buy sold sprint phones! So even if I bring my own phone "Jessica" on there chat told me I still have to sign a contract. last time I spoke to there live chat there name was Jessica too, and the person totally blew me off just now haha

wow the bestbuy website says 749 for the phone haha

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage...h+pro&lp=1&type=product&cp=1&id=1218014505438
[Touch Pro CDMA] twist:
I see the whole best buy mobile thing I never knew they started doing this, so paying 299 plus tax on the spot sounds good to me much better then 399 lol what about the SAVE50 code I prolly cant use that at bestbuy though but I get my 100 right there. Hmm decisions decisions, I am getting close to finalley do this deal!
[Touch Pro CDMA] cmajewsk:
Hey before you do - go out and look for a SERO Plan to purchase off someone. Got to PPCGeeks or SprintUsers.com. I purchased a $30/month 500 minute plan (I don't use it to talk all that much)+unlimited data and text messaging for $110 dollars. The guy called Sprint and conferenced me in and it was done in around 20 minutes. I used to be with Verizon paying 60/month with no data and no texts. What's great is I got my bill and there is also a $5 discount taken off every month - so it's more like $25/month I am paying. I added in TEP (Total Equipment Protection) and now I pay around 35/month. It'll have paid for itself in a few months! IT'S SO WORTH IT! PM me if you need any tips.
[Touch Pro CDMA] lilbitz_1018:
To my knowledge you DO NOT have to sign a new contract. Boost is a part of Sprint/Nextel and the contract shouldnt need termination in order to switch to a different section [if you will].

I did something rather sneaky without noticing. I bought a bought a Mogul from ebay for $40..only thing wrong? (nothing) LOL! the seller somehow thought it was bricked because it got stuck on the loading screen. all i did was hard reset it again and it worked perfectly. I called Asurion to get it replaced because it was scratched up, I paid $50 for my deductible (now $100 after the 19th) and they sent me a BRAND NEW FACTORY SEALED TP instead =0

Total= $90+ sooo worth it lol.

THANKS TO EVERYONE HERE FOR WHAT YOU GUYS DO ALSO.
[Touch Pro CDMA] syaoran68:
The SERO plan is officially DEAD. you cannot get the 30$ sero plan anymore the cheapest they have i think is 45 or 55 for their lowest tier sero plan. the plan was changed last year on july 13. i got my phone plan on the 11th :D

sorry to burst your bubble :o
[Touch Pro CDMA] Polargoat:
i have every sprint htc device and by far the touch pro is the worst. imo it is a pos. the only reason i have one is because assurion didnt have any titans left and they sent me a touch pro. I hate this device for soo many reasons. The screen is lifting on one corner and if i wanted to i could peel the screen off easily with my fingernail. The stock roms and customs roms ive flashed all have bugs. Im really close to smashing this phone just for the enjoyment i would get from all the time ive spent trying to get it to work the way its supposed to.

If you havent bought this device yet, dont. wait for the touch pro 2, and hopefully HTC has stopped eating Big Macs and fixed their sh|t.
[Touch Pro CDMA] cmajewsk:
While that's true the plan is dead, I stated that he could purchase the plan itself off someone else (i.e. not directly thru Sprint), who currently has a SERO plan that they'd like to transfer. So while you can no longer purchase these plans from Sprint - you can still find them out there...
[Touch Pro CDMA] twist:
The touch pro did seem a bit cheap feeling to me, I have had alot of HTC devices as well but I have no time frame on the touch pro 2 and I have this POS motorola flip phone and I cant stand it anymore I gotta get back to PPC land where I belong. Ugh what to do what to do...
[Touch Pro CDMA] twist:
So I was just on the HTC site and went to the HTC store to purchase this phone for sprint and have a 99 unlimited sprint plan. It is saying I will be paying 299 today and still have a 100 MIB ? Can anyone else check this out and let me know what they think if this is true I might just go ahead and do this today. 200 bux for this phone is pretty dam good. It mentions something about LetsTalk I dunno if that is some sort of third party that handles these transactions or what ?
[Touch Pro CDMA] twist:
I took a screenshot of the deal, I wonder if its legit, or am I just looking for excuses to buy this right now lol
[Touch Pro CDMA] egzthunder1:
@twist,

I am not sure where you might be located, but let me tell you a couple of things regarding this phone and Sprint. I'll put it as highlights and will give you a nice site that has much more users than xda-devs for the cdma version of this.

*The battery life sucks. No matter what you do (data off, unlock and put a different rom, disable TF3D) it will eat battery like there is no tomorrow.

*Overheat. The phone will get crazy hot even after talking for only 5 minutes. Also, it gets hot while charging and syncing as well.

*The volume (speaker) stinks as well. You can barely hear the person on the other end. There is a fix for this (audiopara3), but even with this, it is still pretty bad.

*There is the chance that an oil spot looking rectangle will start developing in the middle of your screen, which will get bigger as you use your phone. I believe that this is due to the overheating, but it can render your touchscreen useless after a while.

*Half the time, you will get missed calls. I literally stood in one place monitoring the bars in my phone for a couple of minutes and I saw them ranging from 0 to 3 to all (I live in Miami and most providers have very decent networks around where I live). You will only realize that you missed the call because you will get new voicemails as the callers will be directed there. I have tried changing polling parameters so that this phone would poll the towers more often, but no dice.... I have read that this is Sprint's fault and not the phone since I have seen comments from people with various devices (Blackberries, regular phones, etc) reporting similar issues.

Long story short, the $99 (the one I have) is pretty good, but if you cannot communicate with the rest of the world is kinda pointless. I am telling you this because I bought one for my wife about 2 weeks ago and I am going to return it tomorrow (and break my contract with Sprint). Save yourself some time and don't do it.

Take a look at this site and you will see a lot of people complaining as well regarding similar things to what I just described.

Good luck and I hope I helped you some :)
[Touch Pro CDMA] twist:
I dont know what to do then bro, I need a new PPC I want to go with sprint cause of there unlimted plan, I am currently with boost paying 50 a month unlimited with this POS motorola w385 flip phone and I need my email and browsing and all that good stuff back. :confused:
[Touch Pro CDMA] egzthunder1:
Honestly, like I said... I am not sure where you live, but GSM providers are normally a little better (and for the most part cheaper) than CDMA. Sprint's everything plan is really cheap for what you get, but alternatively you could try going with one of the following:

*If you get MetroPCS where you live, they have a $50 all-inclusive plan (and yes, there are way of doing tethering with most of their phones too!). You can get a CDMA PDA phone (used or new without contract) and get the people at Metro to flash it into their networks for you. I have seen lots of people with the Touch Pro flashed on the network. I know that the internet can be a little sluggish but I heard that they are in the process of upgrading to something very fast. They have the Samsung Finesse if you don't want to go through the trouble of flashing a phone to their system. I know it doesn't have M$ OS but...

*AT&T offers the Fuze (GSM version of the Touch Pro). I actually have this one from my work and the worst thing that I can complain about is the battery life. All the other points in my previous post are not applicable to this one. The cons? The same (than the one from Sprint) plan costs $20 more.

*T-Mobile finally has 3G in many areas and you could try going with the Android, which has 3G capabilities. Most of their other phones suck (considering that they have heavy emphasis of the Sidekick). At this point, the only M$ OS capable phone that they carry is the T-Mobile Wing, which in essence is a Wizard painted blue. The Android (G1) is actually cheaper than the Wing too!!

*Don't even bother with Verizon... they are expensive as hell...

Hopefully, this will help you make a decision. Good Luck!
[Touch Pro CDMA] twist:
I am in southern california, I was going to go with atnt but I wasnt very impressed with them in the past and the fact that I will be paying much more for unlimited everything is kinda my major down point. One of my main concerns is unlimited everything thats why I am leaning towards sprint these days. And having the speeds of Rev A would be amazing.
[Touch Pro CDMA] egzthunder1:
I compared both Fuze and Pro 3G with my wife's Vaio TZ150 and it seemed to me that AT&T was a bit faster. I haven't done any actual benchmarking or anything like that, but it just seemed overall faster...
[Touch Pro CDMA] twist:
So I randomly talked to my buddy and asked him to check out this thread I have going on, and after he looked at it he told me he has the answer to all my prayers. I guess he has a second SERO line that he was going to just cancel and after seeing this he is going to hook me up with his SERO plan he has a 500 but he said he can upgrade it to 1200 for 20 bux more so it will be 50 a month.

I was wondering if any1 who has transferred a SERO plan to themselves knew what all was involved with the process as neither of us know.

Thanks.
[Touch Pro CDMA] twist:
So its offical I will soon be a member of the Touch Pro crowd. I got a Touch Pro off ebay should be here this week and I am getting a Sero plan from a buddy of mine that has an extra line. Needless to say im ecstatic. When its on mother@#$&** then its on G.
[Touch Pro CDMA] weso:
Congrats!

You've been following long enough; it's obviously got some flaws. Hope you like it though. I'm more or less agreeing with everyone else's grievances here, but I still love mine.

I bought a $6 case from Amazon, because the phone picks up smudges easily. Not to get the thread off track, but I suggest you do the same.

Again, good luck with yours. :D
[General Questions and Answers] sr55111:
I recently purchases a tp through alltel only to find that changing the desktop apearance to anything I might want is all but impossible. I downloaded various themes including the spb mobile shell and have had varried success implementing them. I Love the mobile shell program however the add on that gives you more themes will not work on my phone, so I am stuck just changing colors....(kind of lame)..... Is there a way to unlock this phone so I can use the add on to that specific program or maybe load another theme? My phone is using build 19972.1.2.7........

And thanks in advance.
[Wing, P4350 ROM development] d474rpr:
Hey everyone!

I am curious as to if anyone has checked out MarketPlace and if there is a current WinMo6.5 ROM open to the public or otherwise that has MarketPlace build in?

I must have MarketPlace asap!!!!!!!!

I appreciate all the questions and taltin shoulfe
[Wing, P4350 ROM development] quicksite:
I think this Opinion Piece says it all... Requires WM 6.5 ??

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Gizmodo's overview.

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And a snip from Microsoft.com's current "Mobile Catalog"

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Lastly, some of you may know that an XDA-user initiated a WindowsMobile Apps store some time ago, codenamed "Gecko" (an unfortunate name they just wont give up, despite it heavily branded connected to Mozilla's web rendering engine that's been around for years)

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Gecko Development Website

XDA Thread

I followed this for a while, and there was UI development from various contributors, as well as underlying code. Not sure where it stands.

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[Wing, P4350 ROM development] d474rpr:
I appreciate all the wonderful information but I'm not looking for it in a consumer capacity. I already have 6.5 loaded and running and would like to see the WinMob Market Place as a "research project", for lack of better words.
[Wing, P4350 ROM development] ivanmmj:
I'm not sure I quite understand what you mean by research project?
[Wing, P4350 ROM development] ace10134:
Since your on the Wing, check out my website! Link in my signiture right below this.
[General Questions and Answers] iggnored:
Hi,

just installed Manila2D Update 19b on my Omnia. Everything works fine.

But there is a very frustrating problem - when my phone is not used for 1 minute it goes to sleep mode and only soft reset can turn it on again. Please help.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] fredezzz:
Hi all,

This is my first contribution at XDA.

I wrote for my own purpose a set of 3 tools to quickly enable, disable and query the WIFI on my device.

My goal was to have a shortcut on my SPB Mobile Shell interface running these tools.

Maybe that could help someone else also!

I didn't test it on any other device than mine. So it works for sure on my HTC Touch Diamond, but most probably on Windows Mobile 6.1 devices.

Enjoy it!

Here are the BIN and the source code:
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] chrisstavrou:
Thanks a lot,

much appreciated.

I was looking for this for some time.

Good work.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] alexirsi:
Thanks for that :)

Is it also possible to switch off WiFi again after a certain time? Or after there's no more WiFi-traffic?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] fredezzz:
I already have this functionnality integrated into my Diamond. Haven't you?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] alexirsi:
No, i've got a LG KS20. Only GPRS gets auto-disconnected after a certain time.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] fredezzz:
Ok, I could try to have a look, but not sure to know how to do that
[HTC Startrek] Cvetkoff888:
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[HTC Startrek] BHSPitMonkey:
Well said.
[XPERIA X1 ROM Development] dunkleosteus:
【17/04/2009】【WWE】AUS2liteEvolution21042.1.6.1[CHSSupport]【Reflash new download link】

ORIGINAL ：X1i_GENERIC_AUS_CDA1223-8642_R2AA011

THANK U for htainlin(WWE kitchen),jerpelea(WWE kitchen)

l_evo(Chinese support can not show Saturday problem)

另类(Technical guidance)

ＶIp少爺(Technical guidance)

ricky(Chinese plus sofiasans.cab)

hillinsilence(Chinese SofiaSansRegular V0.92)

Wild Child,Bxsteez and all friends have helped.

REMOVED

-AdobePDF

-All games

-All panels (Does not include 3DFish)

-Calculator

-GoogleMap & GoogleSearch

-HandangoInHand

-HelpCenter

-Most of the OEM\ExtendedPkg\mp3, mp4 and pictures, etc

-Opera

-StreamingMedia

-Unnecessary programs: OneNote, WelcomeCenter, WindowsUpdate, etc

-Unnecessary services: Catalog, ErrorReporting, SQM, etc

-WindowsLive & WindowsLiveSearch

ADD

-3Dgame Xtrakt

-Select Pinyin Contacts

-NetCF3.5 (Exchange NetCF2.0)

-Chinese Support

Theme

-Windows Default

-Windows Mobile 6.1

-Xperia black

-Xperia silver

Timezone：GMT+10 Sydney

There are some changes I can not remember...

Download(English)：

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FJ04AD92&setlang=en

Download(Chinese):

【WWE】AUS2liteEvolution21042.1.6.1[CHSSupport].rar
[XPERIA X1 ROM Development] shaoshao:
Congratulations on your success!
[XPERIA X1 ROM Development] yujie787:
very good! the rom is fast
[XPERIA X1 ROM Development] dunkleosteus:
thank u~~~~
[XPERIA X1 ROM Development] Da_nao_yan:
thanks, the rom is awesome, fast and proper. Hope can see your wm6.5 edition.
[XPERIA X1 ROM Development] dunkleosteus:
thanks Da_nao_yan

i hope it too.

i will try 6.5 next time
[XPERIA X1 ROM Development] dunkleosteus:
sorry

some body pm me said no ConnectionSetupDB with my rom,i did check-up and add ConnectionSetupDB.

and TouchFLO change back to TouchScroll.
[XPERIA X1 ROM Development] htyhzd:
very smooth lite rom. great job!!
[XPERIA X1 ROM Development] wk1029:
:D Thx～great job

I think it will be a good rom～～
[XPERIA X1 ROM Development] kheavy:
How do I get a today screen like your's in the pictures on your 1st post?

What program is it?

Nice smooth ROM - thank you.
[XPERIA X1 ROM Development] dunkleosteus:
get the monkeyking picture here

and the software is Resco Contact Manager (v1.11)

download here：http://www.resco.net/pocketpc/contactmanager/