yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] heineken78:
You are doing all right. It must do 3 parts updates, 1st bootloader, 2nd PDa, 3d phone, without errors. If its done, then its ok. Additionaly hard reset after procedure.

than flash any custom ROM with option "Update boot loader" on (by default).

I never expect such a issue as you had all those times, also when you brick you phone first time. May be its can depending from PC usb. never flash from front USB only from rear. Good luck ;) Il make German update in future with another kitchen, stay online =P

BTW: By relash to official update you just save your phone from next brick!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Shaved:
Thanx a lot. I will repeat the whole procedure. And I am looking forward for an update!!!:):):)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] PeppinoPeppino:
Hi to all ... ! :)

Congratulations for wonderful FORUM ..... this is my first message. :o

I would like to begin with this question:

In our i780, is it possible to activate the rear loudspeaker (big one, not one for ear .... :D ) while Bluetooth headphone is connected ?? :rolleyes:

Maybe by changing some key register flag ?? :confused:

Thanks to all !!! ;);)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] heineken78:
Im sorry man, im not a fan of bt headsets (for me looks like strange when someo one is speaking to himself driving ;) so wasnt investigating this.

Cant help right now. Thx anyway !
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] PeppinoPeppino:
Thanks ...... I'll wait here for a solution, until ice on Himalaya will thaw ..... :eek:

:D
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] heineken78:
Use Mr. Google- it will not let you live forewer ;)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] PeppinoPeppino:
Just DONE !!!:(:(

But seems that my idea it is so much scandalous !!! :eek:

:confused:

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[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] heineken78:
Found solution or what?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] PeppinoPeppino:
Absolutely NOTHING !!! :(
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] parkhaus:
I am not sure, but try the program audio route from teksoftco.com. Maybe it can help:

http://www.teksoftco.com/index.php?section=freeware

Also check out the a2dpToggle program!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] PeppinoPeppino:
Thank you very much parkhaus ...... I will try ..... OK!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Shaved:
I flushed again, first FULL Update, hardreset etc., then the ROM, hardreset etc. Bootloader ticked :), started and after installing the backup of SPB it got frozen again in the orange screen. Before the device booted. I have no idea any more... Should I flush with the Russian Rom unstead of Full update?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Shaved:
Hi Heineken, maybe the problem is: When I bought the phone from a friend it had wm 6.1 already. When I started FULL Upgrade (i780PDXIB1_Upgrader_XP.exe) it said "wrong software version". It would do the same now as I am back on WM 6.1. When I bought the phone I flushed your 6.5 right away- and after that I was able to start FULL Updater without the error message "wrong software version". After Full Upate I installed your Rom again. So with the 6.1 ROM (i780_PBHHJ4_v1) it is not possible to start Full updater. I started that FULL updater with your Rom installed and reflushed your Rom after that again. Maybe I have to start Full Updater with a different ROM on the phone (WM 6.0???) to get it work correctly? My phone now is back on 6.1 and says Phone Version i780PDXIB1. But maybe I have to run Fullupdate from a different starting ROM? As I said- impossible to run Full update from this 6.1 Rom, I would have to flush 6.5 and run it then- any idea? Thanx- I really want to get back your ROM!!!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] heineken78:
Shaved,

Just dont revert to that last SPB backup. Now its clear that it seems causing old troubles. After hardreset -restore only some things from it that you need phone book, emails, calendars, messages, etc. but NOT the system part.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Shaved:
ok, I will do that! Thanx man ans Happy Easter from Germany!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Shaved:
Update: I reflashed and everything seemed to work great. Now I found out: If the device is in off modus and gets charged it will get frozen in the orange screen if I disconnect the charger and start the device right away. So I must disconnect and wait a little time- then the device boots. I think it gets frozen only if it is FULLY charged and gets disconnected and started right away. Any ideas? Greetings :):):)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Shaved:
Does anynody else discover the same problem- device fully charged, disconnected from charger and started- stuck in orange screen? I guess heineken is right, just on mine. For the moment everything works great!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Shaved:
So far stil everything great! Is it possible to integrate a possibility to avoid data roaming (without nodata etc.)? And: In my Polaris Rom 6.5 I can refuse a call by sending automatically a SMS. The text is changeable, I have "I will call back later". That would be great, Heineken, if you could do something like that! :)

Update 15.04.2010: I had the orange screen again before yesterday. Went back to Win 6.1 for the moment. I suppose I am the only one with this problem. I am using SPB MObile shell 3.52 installed on the device. Any ideas about the problem welcome.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Jubelperser:
This rom (6.5.3 version2) is great so far.

Since I had some problems connecting to my home router I installed a hl2 rom and ran the hl2 official updater to get newer versions of the radio rom/wifi etc.

Using the hl2 wm6.1 rom (wifi 1.0.7.7) I was able to connect to the router (wpa encrypted).

After flashing your rom again, the problem is back. Wifi also is back to 1.0.6.6.

I am new to the i780, but I did some searching around. I still wasn't able to find a cab to patch the wifi driver to 1.0.7.7 or 1.0.8.1. Anyone able to help?

edit: I already tried the patch that supposedly updates the wifi drivers to 1.0.6.8, but that didn't work.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] heineken78:
You should to install pdxib1 full rom (boot+pda+phone) before updating.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Jubelperser:
I did that now. With the pdxib1 full 6.1 rom (boot+pda+phone) wifi works flawlessly (version 1.0.6.6). After I installed your wm6.5.3 v2 update, I had problems connecting again.

Anyway, thats just a minor gripe. Everything else works great. With your rom my new i780 is a joy to use. Thanks!

edit: Solved! I disabled wpa-authentification with the advanced config tool and now I can connect to the router.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Andi187:
Hi -

I just installed your 6.5.3, it works fine thanks a lot!

But is there any option out there to get a new phone.bin maybe a loader too? Mine is slightly Orange branded, I'm rid of these orange wap, email, etc. settings....

Thanks in advance -

Andi
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] heineken78:
Hi Andi!

U cant rid of orange settings, cos ii gonna install by itself on anyrom, according to your simcard.

Advice to flash full pdxib.exe, u can find on this forum, its latest version.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Andi187:
Thank you Heineken,

now I did a full update and the Orange settings are gone :-)

But there is something I don't understand right now, with my "old socket" and your 6.5 96dpi I had the windows buttons in a new style, grey and round ones, at the bottom of the screen and after doing the full update and reflashing your 6.5 96dpi they are gone and an "old" style but transparent menu at top and bottom is there.

Where are these cool an thumb friendly buttons gone???

Thanks-

Andi
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] heineken78:
Oops, I think you have to unlock your Orange first. Look for unlocking.

Can be another problem, as Shaved had- try to reflash full rom again, and 28205 omce more.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Andi187:
No, everything is fine there, no need for unlocking. The device is working really good now.

Cheers -

Andi
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] THE-E:
I have the same Problem. When I install SPB Mobile Shell I get a Black Screen. Any Idea ?

I have tried the Theme Fix, didnt help. Anybody else with the same issue ?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] heineken78:
THE-E, Spb Shell doesnt work on 96 di roms. sorry. Can fix it but will someone support?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] THE-E:
I have another issue.

Somehow I cant type more than 8-10 letters for the name, when I create a new contact. If I try to edit a contact with more letters (which I edited through Outlook) than It doesnt let me write any letter, I am only able to delete letters.

@heineken78 I really appreciate your work, really well done.

A suggestion for improvement: It would be useful if you could list all known issues, in your first post.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] caraboy:
Too bad it`s not working, would have been a great adition to this phone. :)
[General Questions and Answers] fame.avi:
while upgrading to new firmware (Asus p835) it shows "Connecting, Please wait" at the final step while update ;

then shows "update failed. This program will shutdown automatically.

can some one please help
[P3300, MDA Compact III ROM Development] drshakil:
after instal arabizer not see message only screen white p;z help
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] julienrl:
has anyone else had the same problem where if you try to press and hold to copy selected text when renaming files, editing contact info and more, it simply moves the cursor and deselcts the text instead of brigning up an action menu?

thanks
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] mayaxda:
Hi All,

I saw WM6.5 with Hero UI Manila 2.6 in Topaz forum, it's cool UI.

It's really cool UI, love it but can't have it.

Hoping someone cook for this kind of UI and sharing with us ??

Thanks. :cool:
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] supersanj:
Nothiing yet. We will have to wait until someone ports it over. I'm sure the hardcore Diamond dev's are already on the case. :)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] donald-c:
First 2.5 would be ported I guess, I'm not much of a fan of the coloured icons, they look a bit too cartoony lol.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] daniel.bigred:
if you look at how slow the 2.6 interface is with more RAM, imagine how we'd suffer, as it is the 2.1 can eat RAM like crazy...

but yeah it would rock:)
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] irusul:
nobody has it
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Tatek:
it would be cool

i like that manila
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] butterdori:
Porting to VGA is underway...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=540520
[Touch CDMA General] ingenue007:
I've read HTC hero has an app (htc sync) that allows syncing android with outlook.

Is this a stand a lone app? Does anyone have a copy and would it work with any HTC models? thanks.
[Touch CDMA General] weezyfeezy:
http://www.htc.com/uk/SupportViewNews.aspx?dl_id=631&news_id=222

That is the link to the Hero sync software. Haven't tried it suing Hero on the vogue...but there it is if you want to test it out.
[Touch CDMA General] ingenue007:
ok i d/led and installed it. won't work b/c i can't get windows to install driver to android. maybe the .inf file could be altered to install the driver for the vogue...

ugh i don't want to re-enter information for android contacts every time i upgrade.
[Touch CDMA General] weezyfeezy:
Why not use the same data file when you upgrade? I keep a set of data files for each android version (cupcake, hero, etc.) and swap them in and out when I switch builds. It's not ideal, but it keeps me from having to re-do things every time.

Or, you could do the following:

1. Create google account

2. Create exchange relationship in outlook with google as the server source

3. Sync contacts from outlook to google server

4. Sync contacts in android from google server source to phone and you're done.
[Touch CDMA General] ingenue007:
thank you for that great suggestion.

1. which file do i keep to retain contacts?

2. how do i create exchange relationship in outlook with google as the server source?

thank you very much
[Touch CDMA General] natefish:
1. You won't have to worry about that if you have a Google account and you sign in.

2. By using the search engine from the makers of Android ;)

http://www.google.com/mobile/products/sync.html#p=winmo
[Touch CDMA General] ingenue007:
ahhhhhhhhhhh i never saw that searching. THANKS!
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] J-Zeus:
Has anyone found a solution to the fact that the contact photos look bad and pixilatted. Cheers:)
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nicelad_uk:
Its a sync issue, there is no fix unfortunately as yet. Hopefully google will sort the issue with their wireless sync, but im not holding my breath. I have put the contacts on my phone then disabled syncing of them. Then I update the photos and its fine.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] J-Zeus:
Hmm...intersting....could you explain how you fixed it in a bit more detail ( I ain't too bright:D ).

I didn't try to sync them at all...they are all images I've taken with the Hero's phone, at max quality. If anyone calls me and the image comes up - quite frankly it look embarassing:mad:

cheers
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joemax:
Are we sure its not the Hero doing a really bad job of compressing them before they leave the handset on their merry way across the internet to GoogleMail ?

I hope so, as this means HTC can do a better job on the thumbnails and make them small enough for syncing.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Biffert:
I synced my contact photo's via Exchange, and they are blurry as well.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joemax:
So its an HTC bug then. Well at least to stands more chance of it being fixed ;) Can't see Google nor Microsoft fixing their end for HTC.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] J-Zeus:
Just out of interest, is there anyone here who is NOT experiencing this problem?

I have emailed HTC tech support - will post back when I hear back from them.:)
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] woobit:
I haven't experienced pixelated contact photos, only the problem with photos not getting displayed off of Facebook.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] J-Zeus:
So when someone calls you Woobit - you see their contact photo sharp and clear?

Interesting - were they photos taken with your phone or ones you uploaded. Anything specific about them or how you assigned them to your contacts?

cheers
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joemax:
The pics from Facebook on my hero are fine (a little grainier perhaps) its ones from my photo album from imported DSLR images that look awful post syncing.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] r.boeters:
We are talking about the contact photo which appears when he or she is calling you, or vice versa. How about you?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joemax:
Well as these images are sourced from either Facebook automatically or hand picked from your photo albums... yes ;)

Images Facebook has provided are of a dramatically better quality than those hand picked from the Albums application when seen in the Phone application (when called or you call).

It appears that once the Hero has synced to Googlemail, the Album sourced 'call' photo will be reduced to looking awful. HTC or Android is munching them up.

The Facebook ones stay pretty clean.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nicelad_uk:
Ok, heres whats happening with me, and this happened on all devices I have used, HTC Touch HD, HTC Touch Pro2, Diamond etc and also the Hero.

Say you have all your contacts initially downloaded from Google and synced with your phone. They all come down, so turn sync off as not needed for contacts anymore.

Link your contacts to Facebook, images all come down, work fine.

1 week later, they are still all fine, good quality, can see the pic when calling.

Now, sync again with Google or Outlook and it sends the pics to the server or to outlook, but then it sends them back to the phone (I presume because the phone thinks they have changed in some way).

When they come back, they are grainy and rubbish, so this is something to do with the sync.

Try it, turn off all syncs and replace some pics with decent pics and they will stay that way, unitil you sync.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] J-Zeus:
Just tried that Nice-Lad.

Turned off all syncing. The re-assigned an image to my contact ( my home phone ). Called myself from my homephone - and the new image popped up looking totally crap as before:mad::mad::mad:
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joemax:
BUT... the whole point of syncing as that you can add contacts, calendar events etc on your computer and have them automagically appear on your phone.

Turning it off is a work around 'maybe' but makes contact and event management useless.

HTC need to keep a local cache of images and use these in preference to those it gets back from Google (seemingly messed up by HTC before sending to Google). Facebook ones dynamically change when ever a friend updates their profile picture... these appear not to be affected by the same degree.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nicelad_uk:
Ok, it may be as its stored in the cache so won't change. Or, try changing to WIFI and re-assign a totally different image. Could be the mobile network downloading the image with network compression...?

Oh yeah, I never said it was ideal, I was just pointing out that its an issue with the Syncing. My contacts are now fine, but I know what you mean when you change a contact, you want it to update in Google or Outlook.

It is very annoying and always has been, it needs fixing. Google are aware of it, I posted a comment on their forum and someone said they were looking at it, but that doesn't usually mean anything.

Would not be as noticable if we didn't have full screen caller display.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joemax:
My N85 had a nearly as large an image for callers... never a problem on that... I synced with iSync over Bluetooth and

All HTC need to do to get around this is to keep a local copy of each thumbnail and ignore what Google sends back or is created to send to Google... which ever is the case causing the issue.

As a side note... I've noticed all my Facebook contacts that are also in my Mac Address book and therefore in Google contacts (I use Spanning Sync to mediate between all three) have a line of code in the Note section.

Appears that the Hero 'tags' these contacts and inserts the data into the Note field. Both in Google Contacts as well as passing through to my Mac AddressBook.

Like this...

<sn>id:578756042/friendof:706653099</sn>

But only if they have a Facebook profile picture that the Hero has downloaded. Some contacts that must have a privacy setting set in their Facebook profile, have no picture and this no line of code.

Anyone else notice this ?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] woobit:
Usually I don't really look at the picture when someone calls me, too busy answering :p I just had my gf call me so I could study the caller pic, and yeah, it could be better. The picture is synced from her Facebook account, and it taken with a not too expensive cell phone so the picture wasn't too sharp from the get go.

Basiclly: quality could be better, but I find the missing contact pictures more of a problem
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joemax:
woobit, try going to the Albums app and hitting the Facebook tab, mine earlier today (not tried before) grabbed a whole load of Facebook profile pictures that were not grabbed by the People app and its Groups tab.

Also, I think those friends with certain privacy settings will not allow their profile picture outside of Facebook.

I have a few missing but far more than I had prior to using Albums.

Worth a go :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] J-Zeus:
UPDATE:

Well I gave up with HTC email support, as they couldn't get their head around the fact that it is NOT a camera issue.

So I rang them, and the chap I spoke to was less then helpful - basically telling me there was no fix, he didn't know if they were working on a fix, and that it was all Google/Androids fault*

He seemed to think the problem was that when you assign an image to a contact, they phone makes a tiny thumbnail that is assigned to the contacts info page ( what you see when you view their details. Then, when that contact rings the phone tries to enlarge the very small image that you see in the contact page - thereby it is pixilated to look at.

Is this a problem with other Android phones? And surely to Christ someone in quality control s supposed to pick up these ( glaring ) errors?! :mad:

* This becomes somewhat of a pattern - each blaming the other so they don't have to take responsibility and actually do something.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joemax:
If that is the case HTC... then why do the FaceBook sourced images appear far far better quality than ones chosen from a photo album ?

I would say its an HTC Sense / TouchFlow issue - happened on Touch Diamond too, although there was a work around that for the life of me I forgot... I try not to remember too much about WiMo ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joemax:
Ok, just searched in the Diamond forum and the workaround was to use an image from your photo album... so I guess they broke that one then :mad:
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] J-Zeus:
Joe - PM'd you:)
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonny25:
I had this problem with the Diamond, and thus saved all my contact pictures using the HTC favourites tab, which saved them in high res. Those were then synced with Outlook and now I synced outlook with the Hero and the good quality pics are still there, so no pixels when I get a call, so it IS possible.

Same problem when I assign a new photo to a contact though... Highly annoying...
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joemax:
It seems only those added manually from Album are affected. The FaceBook applied contact photos are 'OK' (slightly grainy if you look closely).

For sure a bug that can be fixed easily by HTC saving an image referenced by the Phone app and ignoring any other image that is moved by a Google sync.

Its a shame that HTC make great hardware, a pretty darn good UI overlaid on top of Android and then screw up with simple things like this that can easily ruin the user experience.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonny25:
Isn't it just that when you save it onto a contact its automatically resized? The contacts app is from Android, isn't it?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joemax:
People is an hTC app yes. Its not their initial resizing... post sync to Google something rubbish's the images big time.

BUT, those contact pics that are sourced by People from FaceBook, don't seem to be ruined anywhere near as much. Maybe its due to the FaceBook pic already being reduced in size, People leaves it alone ??

Dunno.

I just which HTC or some clever Android developer could track what's happening and offer a fix.

Its a bit rubbish considering the Hero is all about people and social networks.

Making your friends images into mush is not a good start... but then HTC seem to always have this issue from TouchFLO onwards...
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] J-Zeus:
Hey Joe - have you figured out how to sync Calenders ( I can do contacts OK )

Ta
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joemax:
Its Simon ;) LOL ;)

Syncing calendars is easy - even multiple ones linked to multiple Google Calendars...

I use Spanning Sync, their servers sort out all the silly data munging that Google do and keep your OS X located data pristine and in order.

PM me if you need a discount code.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bunt83:
Has anyone figured out a fix for this VERY annoying issue?

Is there an app on the market that could help rectify this problem? (similar to slide 2 unlock on the TD2)