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[Touch Cruise 2 General] pgh1969pa:
Your call but I'd be very wary of these clones. As with cloned ipods, memory cards, Li Ion batteries, etc you usually are not getting anywhere near the same quality and durability as the original and definately less support than the real thing. They fail at a higher rate than the real thing. There is a reason they sell for the prices they do and often turn out not to be worth the price they were sold for. These bargains often turn out not to be when things wrong.
[Touch Cruise 2 General] chivas228:
yeah, after reading this thread and thinking about it, i'm going to get the real McCoy
[Touch Cruise 2 General] slamming_sammy1:
how can you tell that it's fake?

looking to buy a touch cruise 09, but darn, there are so many fake ones out there. how can you tell that it's fake or not, other than that the cpu is faster and it doesn't have 2g? but that would be after I receive it though. thanks.
[Touch Cruise 2 General] Blubster:
Check the cpu speed, it is your best shot.

I have seen no clones with the original 528MHZ processor, but instead with

T4242 with WM6.5 by default should be clones too.

They come most of the time with a spare battery.

They may alter the name like "HTC T4242+"...
[Touch Cruise 2 General] Baga12:
Also low price can tell that it's a clone.
[Touch Cruise 2 General] lococosam:
hi, i bought the same phone.......it is a fake...help... i cannot flash via usb but i know that

it could be flashed via sd card. do you know something about it?

help me please.....
[General Topics] robboy:
I haven't been on here for ages. Whats the best HTC handset to rival the iphone? I'm going to buy soon or am i best waiting for something new to come out?
[General Topics] rogerinnyc:
Same here

If anyone is willing to give their 2 cents, I'd be interested to hear as well. Having had a Kaiser, I eventually gave up on its large (in truth, thick) form factor and switched to a Nokia E71 (which is super-thin, and a terrific phone). However, I'm ready to go back to Windows Mobile -- Symbian, although hackable, has fewer programs and, more importantly, no equivalent to xda-developers!

But none of the current offerings yet have all the features I want:

1. US 3G support (what's up, HTC? You would have sold a zillion Touch HDs, including to me, if you had made it available with US 3G support unlocked)

2. 3.5 mm headphone jack

3. D-Pad (I can live without keyboard)

4. WVGA screen -- at least 3.0 in diagonal (capacitive would be great too, but I'm not holding my breath)

4. Thin form factor (12 mm or less, please)

5. GPS/WiFi/Bluetooth

6. microSD support

7. Decent video playback with CorePlayer

8. A reasonably quality camera (HTC continuously disappoints on this front)

I don't think there is anything currently out there that fits the bill, but is anyone aware of something coming up (and the sooner, the better)?

Thanks.
[General Topics] Lokioki:
First: Go get iPhone if you want it. It doesnt make you instant gay/stupid if you own one.

Second: I would suggest Touch Diamond 2.

Third: If not, then I would wait for Snapdragon/Tegra devices. These will kick ass most likely.
[General Topics] orb3000:
Definetly Touch Pro 2!

Have a look here for a little bit of history:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=446362
[General Topics] adesonic:
I have read (at WMexperts amongst others) that a version of the TP2 with a 3.5mm headphone jack is to be released in North America.
[General Topics] galaxys:
Go for the TP2...see the Rhodium section for details.
[General Topics] galaxys:
It's CDMA only!
[General Topics] orb3000:
Welcome back galaxys!!

how was vacations?
[General Topics] Irregular Programming:
Well, according to most reviews the HTC Hero running Android stands up rather well against the iphone.

It should be out some time this month.
[General Topics] gsvnet:
It is _possible_ that the AT&T (US GSM) version will also have a 3.5mm jack, I don't think it has been proven that it doesn't have one yet...

As far as the best HTC device(s), my recommendations are (in no particular order):

Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 (supports US 3G on both frequencies 850MHz and 1900MHz with X1a model)

Touch Pro2 (no NAM 3G version released yet)

HTC Touch HD (can import from Australia with 850MHz 3G, which is costly, but may be worth it to you for such a nice device)

Both the X1 and HD have 3.5mm jacks. Some versions of the TP2 will also have it, namely the Telus and Verizon CDMA for now, but I am not sure about what AT&T will have. The European GSM version doesn't have it.
[General Topics] galaxys:
Hi Orb! I'm still on the great cross country road trip...my blue slk benz is a very fun ride! Just checking in on the xda gang...:)

Any thing is possible till we see the final at&t model. But, so far all the initial pic's I've seen don't have the 3.5 jack...
[General Questions and Answers] sandy80:
Hi,

Can any one guide to upgrade my ROM for Gsmart i120 English Version.

Please get bck to ASAP on nnokia72@gmail.com

Regards

Santosh
[General Questions and Answers] orb3000:
Welcome to the forum

As this is an HTC device forum only you won´t get too much atention, however there is winmodevs.com for any non HTC devices.

I recommend to to remove your email if you don´t like the spam:eek::eek:
[HTC Excalibur] zapras:
I just bought my excalibur about 1 hour ago and waiting for it to be sent to me.

Im buying it because my universal drained to much battery and was too big. I just checked the battery life on the excalibur just now and am very worried about he battery life on this as well.

I usually charge my phone every night.

So if i use this phone for say 4 hours of music with bluetooth headphones, 2 hours of wifi internet and bluetooth gps for 1 hour.

Will that last me through the day? :o:)
[HTC Excalibur] stylez:
Yep should do and there are plenty of battery threads that will help you here :)

My device used to last 3-4 days with an Simplo 1550mAh extended life battery... "Past tence as i use my Tilt as everyday phone"
[HTC Excalibur] jeonatl3:
I have the standard 960mAh battery and need to charge every 1-2 days. Especially if I'm listening to music using Kinoma with an A2DP headset, browsing the web and so on, it can really drain the battery.

I normally keep a short USB cable in my bag that came from one of those 3G dongles, I'm often near a computer so it's easy to top up the charge if I need to. I charge short and often!

:)
[HTC Excalibur] Tritan88:
My battery will normally last a couple days depending on what I am doing with it. I do a lot of web browsing on my phone and it it will drain faster but it still will last a full day. I normally do not use the phone to play music so I am not sure how much that will effect the battery life.
[HTC Excalibur] anddep:
i bought the 2200mah battery on ebay for 19 bucks yeah its bigger but the battery life was imaculant the stock battery if i used it most of the day then i would have to charge it all the time like say i go to work at 7 check my emails do some web surfing listen to music by 4 in the afternoon my battery life was at 1 bar and if your always on a constant go to places and the only charge you get is in the car but your not sitting there waiting for it to fully charge...here's one situation that really pissed me off i was 30 min away from home then suddenly my car dies (the altenator goes out) and from using my phone all day i tried to make calls but then the battery on the phone dies so i cant charge it or make any calls so i had to walkl to the nearest gas station to use their phone all cause the battery life of the phone sucked so the next day i ordered the 2200 mah battery and it lasted 2-3 days without charging
[HTC Excalibur] zapras:
I was thinking about getting an extended battery as well. but then i though about the size. Is it worth it? If my Excalibur is going to be just as big as my Universal then i might as well keep my Universal!

Do you have your phone in your pocket? If so is it very comfitable and does it bulge out if you have tight jeans on?

I know what you mean with bad experiences with battery life!

My battery on my Universal is getting ready to die so much that if its completely flat it just wont charge with my car charger!

I was at work which involves alot of driving using my gps and Universal, my gps was going flat so i plugged that into my car. Mean while i didnt notice that my Universal was going flat as well. I couldnt do anything! So i just prayed that my Universal wouldnt go flat before my gps had enough charge to last a little while longer. But i was wrong. My Universal went flat and i was done for. My boss was very annoyed that he couldnt contact me and i got a big telling off!
[HTC Excalibur] stylez:
Here is a pic with extended battery it's got a gullet but to be honest as many others have stated after getting extended batterys the phone is far more comfortable in hand.

If you go for extended your better of going for a Simplo Sendo etc rather than buying a cheap a*s battery off ebay.
[HTC Excalibur] jimmybailey14:
simplo battery 2200 mAh

how much does it cost?
[HTC Excalibur] zapras:
That looks rather nice actually. Blends in quite well with the back of the phone.

Where can i get a Simplo Sendo from. I presume ebay? (Im from New Zealand by the way)
[HTC Excalibur] stylez:
I have no idea as i blagged by carrier out of 2 x 1550mAh have a look like you said on ebay but sure there will be other suppliers and as previous mentioned no point buyin cheap as Simplo are well renound for battery's.
[HTC Excalibur] orb3000:
Personally I prefer to carry an extra normal sized battery as I really like the slim design!

And as it´s my wife´s device (even if I´m the one installing an uninstalling ROM´s and apps :) ) she only use it for calls and sms so battery lasts a lot:D
[HTC Excalibur] zapras:
Still haven't got my phone yet :(

Hope there wasn't a muck up at the post!
[HTC Excalibur] ygb:
I just received the 1550mah simplo battery with cover from an ebay outfitter based in hk for a total of $15. Its the original oem part with an htc branded cover. Works great. The cover fits much better than the one for the 2200 batteres.
[HTC Excalibur] orb3000:
Checkout Marketplace, a member is selling a bunch of Excalibur batteries
[Touch HD General] geronimo98:
Hello! I’m new here and I have a problem with my HTC Touch HD’s GPS.

Because of a GPS lag of my HTC Touch HD PDA-Phone (Windows Mobile 6.1 OS), I asked advice of a HTC Europe representative, in order to improve GPS receiver performance, who has recommended to me to change (Start - Settings - System - External GPS – Hardware) Baud rate field value from 4800 (default) to 9600. I was impatient to apply this official recommendation, I selected the new value, saved the change by clicking “OK”, but … surprise! - After reopening of External GPS – Hardware, I saw that the new value wasn’t registered and the device seems to be locked to the previous value (4800). Also Hardware port field has the same behavior and seems to be locked to the default value: (None). I tried to do these changes even a hard reset, with several and also with no any navigation software installed on my device, but it was useless – the values still remain the same. HTC official, and also my telephony provider told me that they don’t lock GPS receiver’s settings.

Please, can anybody tell me:

-	which registry key I have to change to make this fields editable, or

-	maybe there is another way (except to follow the tutorial described here: http://blog.mohdimran.com/htc-touch-pro-gps-problem-tweaking, which I’ve already did… useless of course) to improve GPS performance?

Technical specifications: - GPS Chipset: Qualcomm gpsOne A-GPS

- Network: Vodafone (Europe)

Thank you in advance
[Touch HD General] grzegorzaksamit:
The "hardware" tab in GPS configuration from start -> settings is broken on many windows mobile 6.0/6.1 devices. The only way to change those settings is to go to:

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\GPS Intermediate Driver\Drivers

You'll find "CurrentDriver" value there, which points to one of the subkeys.

If you want to use the builtin GPS receiver, the driver settings in the key pointed by "CurrentDriver" should be as follows:

InterfaceType = "POLL"

CommPort = "GPS0:"

PollInterval = 1000 (DWORD value)

There is no baud rate setting for builtin GPS receiver, but you can try experimenting with various PollInternal values. I don't think that would help a lot because GPS receivers are reporting GPS location once per second and poll-ing the device more often would not give you better GPS precision. But I can be wrong here.

If you're using external/bluetooth GPS receiver, you can point "CurrentDriver" to a subkey with values like these:

InterfaceType = "COMM"

CommPort = "COM3" (or whatever port you choose)

Baud = 4800 (DWORD value)

Regards
[Touch HD General] geronimo98:
Thanks a lot for your promptitude

No, you aren’t wrong, because I’ve already tried several changes, for my builtin GPS receiver, in HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\GPS Intermediate Driver\Drivers\GPSOneDevice, which, at the beginning, looked like this

Default = (value not set)

CommPort = GPS0:

DriverName = GPS Device Driver

FriendlyName = QualComm GpsOne Card, version 0.0

InterfaceType = POLL

PollInterval = 1000 (this I’ve changed to 100)

Version = 2

and any change that I’ve done, didn’t improve GPS precision at all. As I said before, see this link: http://blog.mohdimran.com/htc-touch-pro-gps-problem-tweaking.

So, seems that things couldn’t be worse because, as I have supposed too, HTC and Vodafone have nothing to do with GPS Baud Rate field locking, but Windows Mobile HAS. Because it looks like it isn’t possible to change (which anyway will be useless, even if I could) Baud Rate field’s default value, please tell me

-	maybe a new ROM (unofficial) after a HSPL or SSPL installation could improve GPS precision (I have already did the new official ROM upgrade from HTC, two months ago) and

-	what is the best ROM in my case?

All the best
[Touch HD General] geronimo98:
... or there is another way to fix this Windows Mobile 6.1 deficiency?

Best regards
[Touch HD General] geronimo98:
… HTC representative suggested me that my device could be damaged or that this problem could appear from my GSM provider's CID (or SIM) locking. Yesterday I went to the store from where, four month ago, I bought my HTC Touch HD, willing to find out what could be the cause and if, on other brand-new, sealed up device (HTC Touch HD of course), GPS Baud rate’s value can be changed. The new device had the same behavior like mine!

So, on one hand, because it is hard to believe that all HTC devices from that store are damaged, the conclusion is that my device is working properly and, on the other hand, I looked up for an explanation that all Windows Mobile OS on HTC from that store have the same broken setting – I can’t still think at anything else but GSM provider SIM locking. Please tell me if could be this the cause of the Windows Mobile broken setting, because, in this case, I could resolve the problem by unlocking my HTC !?

Thank you
[Touch HD General] geronimo98:
Hi, everybody

I’m back and I apologize if I’m bothering you with this problem again.

I asked a Microsoft representative about possibility to have a spoilt Hardware tab on several devices running WM 6.1 and I received this answer:

“Are you sure you have chosen the correct hardware port? That is the only thing I can think of that would affect that change unless your GPS does not support a higher setting.”

Does anybody know if builtin GPS receiver’s Baud rate of HTC Touch HD supports higher settings than 4800?

All the best
[Touch HD General] geronimo98:
Please, could anybody try, on HTC Touch HD, to set a higher value than 4800 in Baud rate field and tell me if, after “External GPS – Hardware” reopening, the new value was registered?

Thanks a lot
[Touch HD General] alltruism:
It doesn't, it always reverts to 4800.
[Touch HD General] geronimo98:
Thank you very much

Seems that builtin GPS receiver doesn't support higher settings indeed!

So HTC representative was giving me a wrong solution for GPS's lack of precision.

Best regards
[Touch HD General] alltruism:
I think so, although weirdly if I use the HTC GPS App it lets you pick much higher BAUD rates, but these still don't "stick" in other apps or Windows itself

http://rapidshare.com/files/84815853/Nadavi_HTC_GPS_TOOL.cab
[Touch HD General] geronimo98:
Thanks again, alltruism

It still remains the same problem with "Hardware port" field, which always returns to "(None)", although I picked other values in a previous step (as I said above).

It is important to me because I got a licence for Sprite Terminator and this work only if "Hardware port" is set to "COM0" or other value, except "(None)" and "COM4", which appears in "GPS program port".

Do you have same problem in “Hardware port” field too (like in “Baud rate” field)?

All the best
[Touch HD General] alltruism:
Yes, it always reverts to "none" immediately. I haven't tried unticking the "managed by windows" bit though
[Touch HD General] geronimo98:
Hello

Thanks a lot

It doesn’t work

Several days ago I was wondering why HTC Europe representative recommended me to change some settings in "External GPS - Hardware" to make built-in Internal GPS to work faster??!

(Anyway, following this recommendation on Samsung Omnia, didn’t improve GPS precision at all!!)

Though, trying to do this, I noticed something else: these changes can't be made on HTC Blackstone (Touch HD), but on other PDA-Phones running WM 6.1 OS, as for instance Samsung Omnia i900, there are no problems doing these changes.

Thinking at this, it still remains the question: why some settings can be made on other devices running WM 6.1, but not on Blackstone?

Best regards
[Touch HD General] geronimo98:
Hi

Please, other HTC phone owners, tell me if you have (or not) same problems with your Blackstone or other HTC model?

Thanks a lot
[Touch HD General] tedious:
I have an HTC Touch Pro and I have exactly the same problem as you
[Touch HD General] denniegst:
cant change it in the kaisers either... its pretty well none in the kaiser section.
[Touch HD General] geronimo98:
Thank you all

Few days ago I received this answer from HTC Europe, which is TOTALLY DIFFERENT than what they told me several weeks ago:

“The reason why you can not change GPS hardware port and baud rate values is because you use the built-in GPS, which has got its own hardware port and baud rate values set up as factory settings.”

Now I have official confirmation that Blackstone’s built-in GPS receiver CAN’T DO MORE than 4800 transfer speed.

Because my PDA Fujitsu-Siemens Pocket Loox N500, with a MUCH WORSE configuration than HTC Touch HD, is incredibly precise and provides a REAL TIME position, but has a SIRF Star III GPS, I can conclude that SIRF Star III GPS receivers are much better than those on Blackstone. Don’t you think?

All the best
[Touch HD General] David_PDA2K:
Hi Geronimo,

I've also noticed this on my Blackstone when trying to configure the "GPS hardware port" & "Baud Rate" under "Settings>External GPS".

Yes I'd agree that the built in GPS is not as good as the SIRF Star III GPS. When I'm in my car I actually use my old external bluetooth GPS which certainly works better.

Great work in following up with HTC to confirm this information.

Best Regards,

David.
[Touch HD General] t0p0gigi0:
Hi guys,

I have a HTC HD and I'm having this same inssue that I can't resolve. I read all your answers and anything solves my problem.

I made already all configurations (well... I think yes :D ) and nothing results.

Basically neither NDrive neither TomTom can find GPG on my HD :(

If somebody can help me I'll apreciate.

Thanks
[Touch HD General] handsomedog:
4800 baud is the NMEA standard, a consumer GPS unit will transfer around 80 characters every second, so 4800 baud is easily fast enough to cope. There's no need for anything faster, it won't improve the performance of the GPS in any way.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] quarintus:
Is this a known problem?

I installed Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 3.5 on my phone to install the program shoot me. Afterwards, the start menu, the close (X) button and the notification bar didn't work anymore (so that's the top bar).

This would happen between 5 to 30 minutes. Anyone else having this problem?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] stunno:
No, hasn't happened to me, but I don't have Shoot Me installed
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] HarveyR:
Nope, but no "Shoot me" either. Maybe try removing "Shoot me".
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] quarintus:
Hmm Iwill, but even when shoot me doesn't run it happens (after a reset)

Will try it though. Thanks. for the feedback
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] drawflex:
On certain websites i visit on my TP2 i get low res, small screen, mobile versions.. i'm guessing javascript is checking my browser/os and redirecting me to mobile versions of said site... anyway i can fool these scripts into letting me have the real deal ?
[Touch HD General] laidbackfreak:
Well looks like my HD has developed a nice fault and is going to have to go back to orange.

The screen is black and no leds light up (charge etc) The hard buttons respond to being pressed and indeed if I press the phone key the screen does (or at least the tones corespond correctly(

I have\had been running HSPL, Dutty's 6.5 rom no worries.

I can get get activesync to see the device ok but obviously can not see if I can get into bootloader mode.

Now I'm going to attempt to restore to stock before reporting the fault in order to try and avoid "oh the software has caused the hardware fault"

I've managed to restore back to the orange stock rom (obviously now unconfigured) or at least I think I have as it ran through the install screen ok and the phone rebooted (or appeared to going on sounds only)

Now my only issues is to try to restore the stock SPL, however as I've said I cant get into bootloader mode (or cant tell if I'm in it) I've tried running the Hardspl and extracting the stock rom into that, but I'm just getting an error here. USB\Connection errors.

Tried rebooting etc but no joy.

Anyone got any ideas ? Or am I just gonna have to bite the bullet and see if it get's picked up?

cheers guys
[Touch HD General] MaskedMarauder:
I could be wrong, but I always thought when you flashed an operators own ROM it set the SPL also. I could be wrong though, but this is certainly what happens when I re-flashed my O2 Orbit back to the original software.
[Touch HD General] laidbackfreak:
cheers fella :-) will bite the bullet and report the fault and see what happens. :(
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] mobgame:
Many roms have integrated a newmenu in the home manila home screen as a right softkey.

This context menu can quickly enable/disable wifi/bt, shutdown etc.

This is very much useful and hope someone can post the soft/configuration for this.

Thx in adv!
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] sualc:
Do you mean this?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=496631
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] bonesy:
Hi im trying to root my Sapphire... Can't get adb to work or fastboot? When i fillow any instructions (even from google android forums) i try to run fastboot and it opens a cmd window then immediately closes? i read that sometimes windows can be too corrupt so i got a new hard drive, Reinstalled windows and still cant do it?

All i want to do is root my magic to install apps to sd :( PLEASE HELP!
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] redmdc:
lol

you need to open cmd and change directory to the tools folder which contains the adb and fastboot files and proceed from there entering all adb and fastboot commands within command prompt as it calls the program to execute eg adb pull
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] KarrdeNZ:
http://www.karrderized.com/romguide/

Try referring to that - step 8 explains using cmd to open a command prompt so you can run fastboot. It's a guide for installing a new ROM, but the same principles apply.