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[Touch Pro CDMA] criptix:
YAY!!!! finally got the file off telenav and my gps is working, dont know why mine only works with alltel nav installed.

Well alltel nav works but google maps dont.......guess this will have to do. Should i post the cab that i used?
[Touch Pro CDMA] GatorsUF:
absolutely
[Touch Pro CDMA] criptix:
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=acff82a7dacd7955391d7d881749d3a7e04e75f6e8ebb871

Well it works sometimes......the gps is the only thing that disappointments me with this phone....
[Touch Pro CDMA] mthieman:
If you are using the newest Alltel radio (1.12.20F) the GPS is terrible. Try a different radio. I'm running the Verizon 1.03.09V radio and GPS is working great.
[Touch Pro CDMA] criptix:
yeah thats the radio ive been using you have no probs with the verizon radio? never messed with the radios before.
[Touch Pro CDMA] mthieman:
I've been using the Verizon radio for a few weeks with no issues. I've been getting decent battery life with it too. I used the Sprint 1.03.15F Radio for a while too with no issues.

I've seen two Alltel Touch Pros personally that the 1.12.20F radio killed the GPS. Change the radio and everything was back to normal.
[Touch Pro CDMA] criptix:
That verizon radio worked google maps found 9 sats, no more iffy alltel nav problems.. thanks.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Peter Franks:
Can one of you nice people explain to me on how I set up my emails to sync together. My host site who has my domain and website have a £5.99 monthly charge for Outlook Sync, but I'm guessing if I don't want calendar and contacts and only Inbox and Sent items to sync up on phone and PC, then IMAP should do this? Is there any other difference??

I've tried IMAP on the phone but it only received two emails when there were 5 going to PC, Not only that but the second one overwrote the first one and it completely disappeared. And there was no copy in my sent box on the PC after replying from phone, and what do I need for security etc... None/SSL etc?

My PC is set up as POP, and is Outlook 2002 OK for this and if so please can you tell me how I do this? I really can't afford to mess up my emails in Outlook as it's work.

I set up a personal one in the GMail account in programmes really easily and that does what it says on the tin, but the other one is a nightmare,

Sorry, but you'll have to talk to me like an idiot, as I've never received email on my phone before, let alone Android phones.

Thanks for your help
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Peter Franks:
Nobody can help?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mils69:
Peter,

Are you asking how to have both your PC inbox/sent items look exactly like the inbox/sent items on your Hero?

As far as I know that's not possible unless you use IMAP on both PC and Hero - but I think you know that already.

Are you able to switch Outlook to IMAP (probably means re-creating the email account and copying mails around - I've forgotten how to do this in Outlook 2002)?

When you talk about the mails not corresponding between PC and Hero what do the POP3 settings look like on your PC? It's not doing anything silly like removing the mail, etc?

Sorry I don't have a specific answer to your question but I figure we can sort it out!

Regards,

mils
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rhedgehog:
if your outlook is set to POP, have you set it to leave a copy of the message on the server (Somewhere in the email account settings, i can't remember where on 2002, but the help files are your friends in this case). if not, POP will REMOVE the message from the server when you download it to your PC. hence it will not be available on the phone.

change your outlook to imap, or set it to leave messages on the server and then you can have the same emails on the phone as on your PC. that is they way you have needed to do it to get this since pocket pc 2000.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Peter Franks:
Hi guys, thanks for your reply,

Obviously I don't want all the emails that are already in Outlook on the phone, but Basically, when I'm out I want to be able to answer emails that will have copies on the PC for when I get back, including the replys.

Even when PC was off I only got one to the phone, and the rest still went to PC when I switched on later. I thought if the PC was off, they would have come to the phone regardless?

My POP settings on Outlook are mail.mydomainname, smtp.mydomainname.

Does the 'leave copy of messages on server' work on IMAP and POP and if both, that wouldn't include replies from phone would it? Are there any disadvantages to leave copies on server? How does it work, when you get back and open outlook does it update sent items as well as the inbox?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rhedgehog:
al it does is leave the message on the server so that it is available for other devices, instead of being removed from the server.

you don;t need it for imap as imap leaves them in place anyway (or at least it usually does)

if you're using imap, then yes, you should get the sent items, but if using POP, then no, normally you wouldn't.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Peter Franks:
Thanks for that, any idea how I set up IMAP in Outlook, is it just a case of imap.domain name, smtp. domainname .... and it starts another folder inbox? What do you do with the POP one?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ethan3686:
Guys as omnia Has launched in my country [India]...i am a bit confused over which handset to pic..I love the looks of HTC hero AND its Android!!...i would be very greatful to you if u could give me ur precious and honest inputs on HTC HERO ...the people who actually have it.

what i really want is:

1. Fast UI...Obviously iphone is the best here but i need something at least close to it..my bro has iphone so i m taking another phone..HTC obviously has ANDROID but is it quite quick..i heard about the lag but some say there is an update coming??

2. MUSIC.. i want the bass specailly to be good and loudness in the overall music of the handset and good for the video as well..

3. MESSAGING...has to be easy..i heard that OMNIA has only landscape mode..so both hands needed!! but HTC hero has a good keyboard.. i have seen in the videos..is it fast??

so which one should i go for guys?? please give me ur honest views and dont just give it cause u own a HERO ;) ...THANKS! :)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] kiz:
Android as of yet has no equalizer, so boosting bass for music is out of the question for now (it's on the roadmap, however). Music quality is definitely passable for average listening but not as high quality as most dedicated players.

As for a fast interface, well the current phones have varying amounts of lag (some people seem to suffer worse than others, probably depends on what apps you install). The upcoming updates plan to at least fix the lag caused by the homescreen widgets.

My impression of speed on how I currently have my Hero set up is that it is very liveable with. It isn't always LIGHTNING fast (sometimes it is though!), but very usable and responsive.

Messaging is great in my opinion. The keyboard is the fastest phone keypad I have used yet (although I've never used a flip out qwerty on such phones as the touch pro) and I really enjoy typing. The prediction is pretty good and almost always knows what I want to write.

Hope that helps!
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ethan3686:
thanks KIZ for ur useful input...

but i wanna know if the music is loud enough or better than samsung omnia HD?? i know the videos arent that great though..
[Hero, G2 Touch General] hannissis5:
I've got both.

To be honest, I think that the hero blows away the omnia in every area apart from video playback and recording. Only go for the omnia if that's of a great priority to you.

In terms of music playback, id recommend a separate mp3 player if you want top quality. Both machines don't have great sound quality but they are decent and comparable. Not even the ipod cut it as far as I was concerned so I got the Sony x series mp3 player.

Overall, the hero is awesome. Apps are easier to find, and tend to be better than the symbian alternative. Email, YouTube, facebook integration, the keyboard, easier doc editing, stability, podcast software are just a handful of reasons I prefer the hero.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ethan3686:
no i dont care for the camera...but ill have to convert most videos for HERO...but then i heard that more than 15 fps and video playback isnt great??

and another question...what is the highest memory card supported?? 16 gb?? or if i use 32 gb??
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] corp769:
this is for legal reasons. where exactly are sms messages stored? a lot depends on this!
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tubaking182:
I don't remember where exactly they are, but I think we have an app that can back them up. Even if you find them though they will be in a weird format
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DirectMatrix:
Texts are stored in a database file located here in this directory:

/data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases

the name of the database file you want is called mmssms.db

To get it from your phone enter this code in terminal:

su
cp /data/data/com.android.providers.telephony/databases/mmssms.db /sdcard

That should copy the file to your sd card then you can mount your sd card and pull the file off to your PC. To read the file, download sqlite studio, install it, add the database and you should be able to figure it out from there. Sqlite studio can be found here

http://sqlitestudio.one.pl/index.rvt
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] corp769:
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[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] crazysane:
I was cursed recently with a bad charge mini usb port on my phone. I had bought it from ebay but took it to Verizon and they are sending me a new one to replace it for free. It is the Titan xv6800. The problem is I would love to just make an image of my phone and place it on the new one like one would do with the computer. Is that possible and if so how do ya do it?
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] griffincash:
Not sure about making a complete image, but you can copy the pim.vol from the root folder to your memory card. You want have your settings but you will have calender, contacts, ect.
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] jmclogsdon:
Refer to this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=299705

backs up contacts, notes, messages (including email), call history. I have used it successfully many times
[Mogul, XV6800 ROM Development] kflipproductions:
SPB backup is my choice. you just need to be sure that the current rom on your phone matches the rom on your replacement. if you're using a custom rom, make sure you flash the same rom. if you're using a stock rom from verizon, make sure the versions match or you flash the correct version. i used dcd 3.2.5 and make consistent backups with SPB because i know that i wont be changing my rom. it doesnt create an 'image' necessarily back it backs up all your files, settings, contacts, system folders..everything on your phone. i actually reflashed today and restored my most recent backup to have everything the same in one easy step. you can get a trial of SPB backup and solve your issue. you wont need to install SPB backup on your new phone as it creates a self extracting archive.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] MvP77:
http://gizmodo.com/5340981/software-update-fixes-the-htc-heros-only-real-problem

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYV9NNoI8Hc

Well, this changes things. Right after it came out, Matt called the HTC Hero "tragically flawed." Why? Because the otherwise fantastic Sense UI was slooooow. HTC, presumably run by competent, rational human beings, has fixed this.

From the review in July:

The Hero is flawed, though, in ways that are truly depressing in light of its potential and how much it does get truly right: It's often sluggish, which absolutely destroys the user experience. It's a particularly unfortunate affliction as the iPhone 3GS and Palm Pre emphasize speed, making the Hero feel that much slower.

This was all but a dealbreaker, this frustrating slowness. But! Paul at MoDaCo has a preview of HTC's forthcoming update, which was vaguely announced yesterday, without much mention of what it would actually do. Now we know: It's about speed. And as someone who's been using a Hero for a few weeks now, this video makes by fingers tingle, ever so slightly.

Best of all, this update, due in a few weeks, looks like it could be ready before the Hero even shows up on whatever US carrier it's destined for, by which I mean, Sprint. Now, excuse me while I go remove the asterisk from that "Best Android Phone Ever" title. [MoDaCo via Slashgear]
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Tone-Fu:
Can I get a 'Hell yeah!'?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] p13:
awesome

Can't wait. Loving my hero so far, except for the lagginess.

Rebooting helps but that's just a bit too "windows mobile" for my taste :D

I come from an iphone and i really like the openness.

I've got an unbranded urban brown so i should be able to get the update when they release it.

One thing i've noticed from the video is that the clock widget thingie is no longer animated but is now just a static picture.

It's very un-HTC like to actually release an update so quickly and to actually *gasp* fix things :p

But OTOH, they really set out to prove something with this phone, they can't afford to screw the pooch on this one.

HTC guys, we deffinately know you read these boards and all i can say is ... if this proves to be true and you keep releasing updates on a regular schedule ... i think you will win a lot of customers and dominate the android market.

Take Care,

-Kevin
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ethan3686:
does the new update lets HERO play video files encoded at 3p FPS ??

and what about the keyboard messaging speed?? is it better now??
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ghoonk:
I have no problems running videos at 3 fps. Keyboard text input does get unbearably sluggish at times though.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ritdaw:
The keyboard can get very slow in webpages I find.

I hope that this update also fixes the missing text messages issue, lots of angry peeps because I don't reply to them!
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ethan3686:
actually i meant 30 fps...LOL i made a mistake by typing 3 only...lol 3fps is supported by even the most basic video phone! :p
[Hero, G2 Touch General] nin2thevoid:
thank God...

I really wanted to love the Hero (but the speed problem totally made me reconsider, having had a slow Diamond before) as the UI really is one of the best among the likes of the iPhone, and despite the fact that I am still using WinMo now I must admit that the iPhone UI is just a hell of a lot more out there. The Hero's UI is the first I see on any phone that really does match the iPhone's UI (if not exceed it).

If it actually speeds up so much with the update, it would be absolutely perfect, and I will buy one.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] El Droid:
Agreed. I've just boxed/RMAd my Hero for return. I thoroughly enjoyed the time i spent with it but as it is now, its just not practical for me. Plus i dunno how HTC do their updates and if they truly fix anything useful or just random fixes no one cares about, which is why i wasn't willing to gamble.

If the update does improve things significantly then i'll come back or simply wait for the next iteration but in the meantime i'm returning to my trusty iPhone. Yes its UI is dated, yes it sucks at multitasking, yes the app store policy is draconian, yes battery life sucks. However the little things the iPhone does, it does well and is dependable for me.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] cyberden:
I'm looking for a phone to buy in the next 2/3 months and if the hero gets as fast as we can see on the video, my choice is done. Otherwise I'll stick with my old phone waiting for a real Iphone competitor...
[Hero, G2 Touch General] phel21:
Speed the only problem?

I'd say that functional shortcomings are even worse. The speed-issue is mostly a feature of true multitasking. Don't expect good performance from a low-end CPU when it's trying to run all the fancy widget applications simultaneously. Optimisation is always appreciated though.

More important issues IMHO are:

Email not able to display messages with digital signatures. Never mind verification of the signature, but there's no good reason why the unencrypted message body can't be displayed. K9mail from the market handles it, as well as the mail-app in a stock android 1.5 dev.kit.

Email has no option to specify the path for IMAP folders. No folders other than the inbox can be read from servers which require the path to be specified.

The currently used 2.6.27.x kernel has serious issues with wi-fi (performance issues, temporary loss of connection). There are good reasons why the entire wi-fi stack was replaced shortly after (see kernel mailing-list) and we should hopefully soon see Android built with kernel 2.6.30 or later.

LEDs and trackball lights have stopped working on some units. It's been claimed that these problems are software related.

The music-player needs more consistent sorting of songs. Now it sorts songs alphabetically when browsing all tracks from an artist, while the default should be sort by album+disc_number+track_number. Similarly when you browse all albums the ordering of tracks within an album seems random. The natural order here would be by track-number.

Fade out-in between music tracks can be more smooth, as can the fade in/out of alarms and phone-calls.

Peep needs fixing so that it doesn't drain the battery when there's no twitter account configured. I don't know what it does, but it certainly can't be idle when it reduces the standby-time to 6-8 hours. Kill Peep, or give it a valid twitter user-name/password and the problem is gone.

The dialler and phone-book could do with some optimisation. This is the only place I've found where lagging actually causes a problem as it sometimes leads to calls being accidentally initiated.

These are just some of the problems I've found. I'm sure people with other priorities and who use the device differently have other issues.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] frandavid100:
I really would like that person to post a video showing the contacts app :D THEN we can know if performance issues have been really solved.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Aridon:
Hero lag can't be worse than what the Pre has in just about every program. Looking forward to playing with one in person so I can check it out for myself. Palm has done a terrible job of implementing a good idea.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] El Droid:
Pre was very zippy/responsive when i played with it
[Hero, G2 Touch General] simcarloc:
Speaking of terrible jobs of implementing good ideas, how about the fact that despite creating a fancy new UI for Android, including an innovative widget idea,

yet again

HTC have given us an essentially useless music player. Why on earth didn't HTC learn from the Diamond's problems in order to implement a music player that did not skip during tracks. Unbelievable! I'm so furious about this. And before someone tells me that if I want a music player I should use a seperate player, if the phone cannot perform the most basic function of any music player, which is to play music uninterrupted, it should not be included at all; I am not an HTC tester.

I have a class 6 micro SD card coming soon, if this doesn't help, it's bye bye Hero and hello iphone. It may not multitask and have a bland UI and have a draconian app store (frankly, who cares!?), but what it can do, it does very well indeed.

As for the update, I like many cannot get too excited about this because I am with Orange and their update will no doubt follow in 2015.

What a bum deal.

Yours sincerely,

A fed up HTC customer.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] The Jones:
My Hero never skips when playing music not that I do so that often. Its so much better than my Diamond was.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] joemax:
Well that may not be entirely true.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] simcarloc:
The Jones - listen more often and you will experience it. Unless of course, it's a problem only affecting certain handsets, in which case there are serious inconsistencies in HTC's manufacturing at work here, I doubt it though.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] sproxy:
What audio formats you are using? With mp3 and wma (some are high bitrate) I use both wired and ad2p heastets about 4 hours a day and never experienced stuttering. I have a brown one from mobiles.co.uk with vodafone.

Also, while listening to music usually a few applications such as browser or news readers are being used as well.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Leviathon:
Interesting sproxy, mine is also from Mobiles.co.uk on Orange and I get no skipping here either, listened to music loads on the phone over the last couple of days. Mine is also one of the ones with no lag, or screen gap I wonder they had a newer "fixed" batch or something?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] simcarloc:
I have witnessed the skipping on AAC files (cannot be sure about MP3s). I have no screen gaps on my phone and I have no significant lag problems.

This is the very same inconsistent playback fiasco that the Diamond had then, with some people experiencing the playback issue and some not. Either way, it's a joke.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] foxmeister:
I never get skipping in the music player either - not once! Black T-Mobile handset.

Regards,

Dave
[Hero, G2 Touch General] simcarloc:
Do you play AAC files?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] phel21:
I doubt a class6-card is going to make a difference to audio skipping unless you're using an audio-format that require such memory bandwidth ;) You may otoh have had a problem with your old sdcard.

I'm using a 16GB class2 card and haven't yet noticed the phone skip a beat on my MP3 collection which files vary in bitrate from 128 to 320k. Guess I've been listening some 30-40hrs so far.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] simcarloc:
Can people please state what files they are using -MP3, AAC etc - so I can decipher if certain file-types could be the problem (even though they shouldn't).

It seems lots of you are saying that you have trouble free music listening, well, I am stumped then. I also have a problem whereby if I set an mp3 as a ringtone and then switch my phone off, my phone loses the mp3 song as ringtone and reverts to a standard ringtone. I wonder if these issues are linked in some way? Dodgy SD card perhaps?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] foxmeister:
No - only MP3.

I didn't see your post about AAC files as I was writing my response when you posted it. I will see if I can create some AAC files and give them a try. I presume that iTunes can rip a CD to AAC?

Regards,

Dave
[Hero, G2 Touch General] simcarloc:
Fox, it can indeed. Much appreciated.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Ovek:
I've found that mp3 files sutter like hell within the first 10 seconds or so, however I get no suttering at all with aac files a bit odd really just another issue to add to the list ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ewans:
No stutter at all using mp3 files (t-mobile version).
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ghoonk:
I'm noticing some stutter with some MP3s that I have encoded at a high bitrate (>200 kbps). Those encoded at 192 kbps or lower do not have problems.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] chiz65:
Are you guys getting stutter using the phone speaker or externals? I think it may be linked to the headphone jack in my case. When connected to external speakers it is literally unusable, picking random sections of song to play. If it stops doing that for even a second, it can be reliably made to do it by touching the audio jack plugged into the headphone socket. Can anyone else get the same problem?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] Huey85:
No stutter here. But then again I rarely use the phone for audio.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] EDA-One:
My phone started to stutter a few days ago, after I put more music on the sd card. But it only stutters for a few seconds, when a new song starts.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] cengal:
I thought I was going nuts, and my family were not happy with my failure to respond. Has HTC acknowledged this?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ghoonk:
Did you do a wipe as instructed before installing?