yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Questions and Answers] 3piece:
Hi all,

Been a while since I've posted since my Touch Diamond (1) got pinched 1 month after owning it.

I've been waiting a while now for a decent handset to come out and now 2 at the same time are available.

1. The Samsung M8920 AMOLED 3.1inch 12MP 3x Optical camera phone

2. The HD2 (Leo) which needs no introduction.

Question 1: I see that it is now possible to multiboot OS's i.e Linux, Android and WinMo 7 on the HD2? Any virtualization software out yet? and what performance reductions would we see?

Question 2: Is it possible to flash Samsungs, i.e the all new M8920. I love AMOLED screens (Please HTC start to bring devices out with them) and It is annoying to take out a camera as well as a large phone since most camera phones without xenon flash can't take decent snaps at night. Samsungs OS is pretty poor compared to the competition and if you could multiboot it would be awsome.

Question 3: Has anybody seen the details on the M8920 regarding the type of touch screen it is?

Cheers people.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elmoono:
Hi, i just installed copilot, onto a 8GB card, that now has 3.2GB data on it - all works fine and fast.

I was trying to install extra voices via copilot device center - fails, so i tried making new directories with Astro - the new directory 'create' button is now greyed out. I can make folder via PC - however this is now an issue!

Any ideas? its like the card has become write protected within the hero, but i cant find a way to change this? All was fine before copilot, and i cant create a new folder anywhere on sd card from within hero.

Upon further testing: ak notpead can make notes, camera can store pics - possibly this is an Asto issue as i installed its update yesterday? may install additional file manager in a bit.

Update: installed another file manager, can create directories. uninstalled and reinstalled Astro - still no go on new, so assuming latest Astro update has damaged Astro.

Mods: feel free to remove this as no copilot issue on SD card, just a flaky Astro update. emailed dev.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] salmanbodla:
I ran into a very similar problem with ASTRO, and thought what you did: something wrong with ASTRO. Would love to see it fixed as it is my fav file manager. Linda makes directories for me fine.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] polystirenman:
Hi

I have flashed WM 6.5 to my TP2 and i was bored with the old Manila Icons so i created this and decided to share with you all.

I`ve made two cabs so you can chose which once you want to use.

- polystirenman Manila WM 6.5 Icons.cab - Will install only manila icons.those you can see on today screen

- Manila WM6.5 Manila Icons People.cab - Will install additional icons to All People Tabs

i`ve also made a cab which will get rid of ugly top courtain in manila and one which will change Notifications Highlights In calendar tab from grey to better visible green.

Install:

Disable TF3D from settings-personal-today

Soft Reset (to make sure manila is not runing)

Install cabs

Reenable TF3D

that should do the trick

i hope you will enjoy this small tweaks.

sorry for my bad english.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] polystirenman:
More Screenshots
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] bhalkias:
I just have one question, do your cabs also work with WM 6.1 specifically the T-Mobile stock version ?

They look great by the way

Thanks...

Bill
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Themes and Apps] polystirenman:
as long as you have manila 2.1 they will work
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kane159:
hummm yesterday I found some code to add she slider in Titanium

but unfortunately, it just show, can slide,but dont do any thing jajajaja

but I find it can lock the slide function on Titanium

and for unlock, push the hardbutton up and down to jump to another plugin then the slide function is back

here's the preview

and I need developer to help me,for now, these stuff just can slide,lock the slide and actionurl function in Titanium,developers,try to put some function in the sliders please :D

and here is the slider code

<Slider ID="Slider2" Top="20" Left="-100" Width="440" Height="40" Orientation="Middle" >
<Layer ID="Slide" Width="60" Height="40" >
<Layer ID="SlideDown">
<Image ID="SliderFocusIcon" Width="60" Height="40" Visible="True" Opacity="1.0" ScalingAlgorithm = "TriLinear" Source="\windows\LS_LockSlider_Dwn.png"/>
</Layer>
<Layer ID="SlideUp">
<Image ID="SliderIcon" Width="60" Height="40" Visible="True" Opacity="1.0" ScalingAlgorithm = "TriLinear" Source="\windows\LS_LockSlider.png"/>
</Layer>

</Layer>
</Slider>

this should put before

<Layer ID="Page" Clip="False">

and you can change the slider by here

<Slider ID="Slider2" Top="20" Left="-100" Width="440" Height="40" [COLOR="Blue"]Orientation[/COLOR]=[COLOR="Red"]"Middle"[/COLOR]>

right is slide right to left
middle slide to right and left
left is slide left to right

enjoy ;)

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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Deleted member 1198227:
Perhaps you know where the original slider is.. I want to change the word "slide" to something else. Do you know anything for this ?

Thanks ,
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] chriscsh:
i have try this b4 for the CS2P, next or rewind, as you said, i can add the slider but can't do anything :p
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] aeroflyluby:
It would be nice to see 'Slide to lock' :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kane159:
I have test a little, I can use color_code check to make the slider "do some other things"

but I dont like it.....if use colorcode, it's not easy to skin...or change the layout....

and check colorcode needs lots of ram

hope some one can fine another way to make this stuff work....
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] zooster:
I noticed that my new TD2 has a very poor quality of the front camera compared to the D1. I don't know if it's faulty, but it looks like digital zoomed, even if settings are superfine and L size.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] AceofSpades25:
It's just a crap camera... that's all. You wouldn't need a better resolution for video calling anyway. If you really need to make loads of self portraits, then rather find a friend. :D
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] haranbh:
LOL !!

But I think that the back 5mpx camera is crappy too... (compared with my old Nokia N95 classic).

If the ambient light isn't PERFECT, the camera is useless...
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] DeathJester:
Front camera is a VGA (640x480) CMOS unit with no zoom capabilities; It will look blocky on almost any screen nowerdays (It's even lower resolution than the screen on the phone itself). As for the rear camera being worse than the N95 classic, the N95 was fitted with Carl Zeiss optics; Specialist lenses for cameras, and fairly good quality considering the market. It was (and still is) a very good camera phone. HTC cameras are *notoriously* bad. Autofocus is great, but no use without a decent CCD and optics. Heavy blurring under motion and poor ambient light handling are typical issues. The trouble is that HTC don't make camera phones, they make PDAs with camera and phone capabilities. Still, it's better than the iPhone...

If you want a decent camera above all else, send your phone back and get either a Pixon or any SE phone / Nokia N series handset.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] haranbh:
OK I know that... but why make a phone with *5mpx* camera with crappy lens ? Why don't make 3.2mpx camera with good lens ? Just marketing ?

And I`ll pay some extra 20$ for some LED flash too :(
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] zooster:
Wait.. I said so 'cause the front camer on Diamond 1 was waaaay better!

This one looks ugly, dark, pixelated and zoomed. Just sh**ty!

I was supposing that it's kinda faulty. I would try how it is after a rom upgrade... atm still stick to the rom in signature.
[Touch HD General] devilpera64:
Hi.!! There is an application that give me the possibility to use touch HD as a voice recorder.? i want save some university's lessons...can i do that with this phone.? any suggestions.?:)
[Touch HD General] Rudegar:
notes can record just fine

though not sure if the mic in the headset

is sensitive enough you could tear the headset

apart and solver a better mic to the wires connecting

to the mic in the headset though
[Touch HD General] bledubd:
Of the times that I have used it to record speeches, I have found it to be good. The only problem is I had to put the phone next to the speaker. I did not try it with the mic on the headset though.

overally I'd recommend it for close contact (ha!) speaking.
[Touch HD General] macsonoferika:
Try "Vito Audio Notes". Works perfect.
[General Questions and Answers] jeff_sin:
Hi forumers, i would like to know if i use sprite software to backup my device, is the backup include all my current setting? like theme? wallpaper?

include all my notes? tasks? messages? email?

i am using htc bundle sprite for diamond 2, thanks.
[P3600 General] drummerian:
Hey guys,

I am planning on buying a htc hero on ebay and putting a virgin liberty sim in (Virgin £18+ Unlimited data). However, it is much cheaper to get a htc hero that is locked to orange of t mobile.

I have seen a few threads around saying it is do-able, and some people seem to have problems. Basically i am asking if it is always possible to unlock these phones since i don't want to end up with a very expensive paperweight?

On my last phone (htc tinitiy) it was possible to unlock it via flashing, is this possible?

Thanks!
[P3600 General] AdrianK:
This is the Trinity section, why not post in the Hero section?
[Touch HD General] be3978:
Hi Blackstone (aka HD users),

Need your advise.

My HD failed after only about 4 month use. Symptom was the unit would not power on. Connecting the HD to the charger caused the battery to become hot. After 1 month at the supplier the unit is now back with me.

Besides being unsatisfied with the quality of the repair work -physical damaged to the covers, I also noted that the planar board was not replaced. When asked what was done, the supplier also could not inform me. All my data on the phone, phone address, photos, callendar events etc are still on the phone. ROM, IMEI version were all the same as before it was sent for repair. Even the battery came back the same.

On top of this I now notice that the stylus doesn't turn on the phone when its engaged. The stylus have to be almost 80% out of the storage before the phone would turn on. I recalled that the phone would turn on as soon as the stylus was engaged when i first had the phone.

Can you guys please help to confirm this so I have a good reason to throw the phone back to the supplier.

Waiting for a reply soon.

Thanks and regards.

-shim

ps. Does any one know if the HD can support a hardware compass.
[Touch HD General] Freypal:
My stylus needs to be almost completely removed for it to turn on. Has been the same with two seperate handsets. Needs to be retratcted at least 3/4s of the way.
[Touch HD General] Jason1978:
My stylus is the same, about 3/4 the way out before the phone recognises it has been removed.

With regards to your phone and it getting cosmetically damaged on a repair, I would complain, it has devalued the handset if you wish to sell it on for a start. At the very least they should take it back and replace the facia parts that were damaged.

Jason
[HTC Excalibur] rxj2809:
dear ookba

i feel that use opera is better than IE5/6 ,and i dont want to use both in one room ,could you tell me to uninstall with IE5/6?

tks so much!:D
[HTC Excalibur] stylez:
No you cannot uninstall programs cooked into a ROM, you are not going to save a great deal of space even if did remove via cooking your own ROM....
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] wuningfu:
My Magic 32A can't mount SD card either in the recovery mode....who can tell me how to flash a new ROM so that i can use my SD storage.....appreciated in advance...

PS:it's absolutely not a hard disk problem....
[General Topics] joplayer:
Hi everybody, I just have some questions.

I plan to change my HTC Hermes next year but I don't know which based-device will be the best...

Snapdragon or Tegra.

Tegra seems to have 8core of execution for great graphics but not a big frequency(600-800Mhz). Snapdragon got the Ghz and is supposed to reach 1.3Ghz in 2010. There is also a dual core snapdragon 2x1.5Ghz supposed to be available this year but will it be for smartphones?

These are the questions I have because a PDA is a lot of money for me and I wanna choose the right device...

Thanks:)
[General Topics] Wishmaster89:
Well snapdragon is multi core SoC just like Tegra but what nvidia is so proud of is power island. It means that they can shut off unneeded module(ex. turn off all modules except of modem when in standby). Tegra uses ARM11 CPU where snapdragon is based on improved cortex A8 besides it is clocked at 1Ghz so tegra can't win this one. GPU is better on tegra and probably video performance is better too but when it comes to brute force snapdragon wins hands down.

I think that is all you need to know about tegra and snapdragon. About that 2x1,5Ghz snapdragon it is designed to be used on smartbooks. It would be an overkill for smartphone at least for now.
[General Topics] joplayer:
Thanks that's all I wanted to know
[General Topics] Rudegar:
also a Mhz is not just a Mhz

first of all a qualcomm mhz could mean more or less performance boots then a OMAP mhz

not to mention it don't really matter if the cpu is super fast if the ram and storage and other IO of a device can't keep up
[General Topics] orelsi:
OP, therw isn't much to add after all that expert info, but I can make it easy for you. SD = raw power, Tegra = fancy graphics. I prefer power, because of the better overall performance.
[General Topics] Ganondolf:
as i see it the tegra chip has 2 600mhz cores + 6 other cores to do video, audio etc.

so a 1ghz snapdragon would have to split it mhz to deal with any audio, video etc whilst the tegra chip would have separate cores dealing with this stuff leaving 2 600mhz cores free.

this would make tegra a lot faster than snapdragon.
[General Topics] Rudegar:
one thing which would be interesting would be batt life

in various situations

and excluding the atom as it's not really a phone cpu
[General Topics] Ganondolf:
one thing of note is that every snapdragon phone, although seems fast still has the standard wm lag at times (probably more wm that the cpu).

whilst the zune hd looks super smooth and very fast.

we will have to wait for the first tegra wm phone to see if it has the wm lag as its hard to tell by comparing a mp3/4 player (which has a os which was probably made from the ground up to run on the chip) to a phone.
[General Topics] Wishmaster89:
You're completely wrong! As I said both are multi core SoC's. Both snapdragon and tegra have separate cores for video and audio! The only difference is that tegra can shut off unneeded module where snapdragon can't. Besides they know that their CPU is slow so they have to give people something that will make them forget about CPU so they decided that talking about 8 cores on something as small as their SoC would be a good choice.

As I said before raw CPU power of snapdragon is at least 3x greater than tegra and zune HD is smoother because all the work is done on the GPU(besides the whole Zune OS 4.0 was probably designed on tegra so don't expect it to lag) where WM is only CPU driven. Besides wait for HTC Leo to see almost lag free device(show me device that never lags).

For the last time. For know tegra has slow CPU where Snapdragon has a beast for CPU. Things should change with tegra2 and snapdragon2.
[General Topics] agitprop:
Simply put:

As of July, 2009 or Oct 2009 for that matter:

Snapdragon mobile phones = shipping.

Tegra mobile phones = vapourware. (not even any firm rumours)
[General Topics] Ganondolf:
the lag i was talking about was on the toshiba tg01 which i have played with. there is no point saying look at videos of the htc hd2 as i saw vids of the tg01 which looked like it was lag free, till the hd2 comes out and i have a play i (we) wont be able to tell if its lag free or not. as i can see u are making your argument about lag on a phone that has not been released which i think is a rubbish argument, as someone could say a tegra phone could teleport you across the world (there is no proof).

Also im not on the tegra bandwagon as i like snapdragon just as much, i was going by what i had heard on the net. maybe like you said information has been made to look like the tegra chip is super powerful compared to all the other phone cpu's, what is not true but till i see a phone with a tegra chip in it how would we know?
[General Topics] mr_Ray:
By far the most important point.

Far more important than the MHz number which may or may not even indicate greater or lesser performance or battery life than a competitor with an entirely different architecture.
[General Topics] orelsi:
There is one piece of info that I haven't been able to find. Which one of the two has better performance when it comes to battery power usage?

Anyone?
[General Topics] Scribe:
Tegra is right on the ball.

Yes, the ARM11 cpu is theoretically 1/3 the speed of the Cortex but don't forget there's an ARM7 offloading network traffic, 2D acceleration separate from the CPU and GPU, dedicated HD encoding hardware (decoding is common on both) and sound acceleration. Many of the processing bottlenecks in a mobile device are successfully offloaded in the tegra, ultimately giving the ARM11 less tasks to cope with in the first place, and no need for thread balancing which, fingers crossed, leads to more stable os performance. Another thing to note is that nVidia's official specs say ARM11 MPCore, which means that various tegra chips could have anywhere from 1 to 4 ARM11 cores (the tegra chipset used in the Microsoft Zune player was a duel-core ARM11).

The main point though I think is the power. You don't need a massive CPU in a mobile device, what you need is battery life, which although we haven't received final figures, the tegra is looking infinitely more impressive than anything else on the market. If my iPhone 3GS is anything to go off even x2 the battery life would be welcome, this thing dies in no time at all be it browsing the web, playing video or music; reviews show snapdragon phones to be even worse than this. The nVidia specs regarding battery in earlier posts are mostly accurate but based on a netbook battery. The Zune HD running the tegra has 33hours of audio, 8.5 hours of video, however uses only a 660mAh battery; this is half the size of the battery on the iPhone 3GS and HTC Touch HD2 for example.

The tegra GPU is a powerful CUDA based design and will allow for GPGPU acceleration of the only major computationally intensive task that phones are likely to do in the future which is image processing for augmented reality.

They've provided on-chip support for most modern input/output devices.

nVidia have covered all the bases, I'm seriously looking forward to tegra phones.
[General Topics] ducklord:
Yes, but as I've learned (the hard way) from my Touch Pro, all the features in the world mean nothing if they're not used. Touch Pro was supposed to have video acceleration and double the speed of my old Tytn. Where are those? Nowhere. Why? Some say "there aren't any drivers for the GPU", others say that TPs processor may be 500MHz, but its design is worse than the one in my older Tytn...

I don't care. As a customer, user and buyer, I know that my older phone was faster than my new one. If in the near future we have a Snapdragon 1GHz phone that does everything in its CPU and a Tegra phone that ballances cpu-gpu-physics-whatever in different parts of its design, history says that the Snapdragon will be the better choice. You see, WM Solitaire, Word Mobile, RSS Readers, Twitter clients and all existing software, at least for WM, is written to run on a single processor. I've yet to see a good program/game that will actually take advantage of any devices GPU - and that won't happen while the market is split, for a developer would need to create his program for a specific device (meaning less profit) or simply forego any acceleration and create something "that runs anywhere". We can thank Microsoft for going the Linux way and advocating device makers doing whatever they want, whichever way they want, without some standard way of using different hardware parts (like, say, DirectX in Windows).
[General Topics] JLowe:
very interesting informations.

Battery life is really important, that's at the moment the only advantage of the Tegra vs SN.

I am really keen to know if Manila works also fast with less CPU-Power of the Tegra-Chip as the Leo.

There must be some driver or software problem I would say - because there's no PDA out with the Tegra.

Also no announcement... otherwhise it could be also a strategy from HTC that they didn't get a problem in selling the Leo and oncoming Android-device.

So we must w8...
[General Topics] Haobo:
I think you guys should see PGR on the Zune HD.

Stunning graphics.
[General Topics] justinmg:
For me the processor speed will come 2nd place to functionality. I have recently started to use the remote desktop on my HD, but wish it had a TV out like my Touch Pro.

I was thinking about upgrading to a Leo but that has no TV also.

Discussing advanced graphics for a Snapdragon is not helpful if you are restricted to 4 inches.

Hopefully HTC will put HDMI or at least video out on all future devices. The resolution of the devices is upto it, so why not.
[General Topics] zayatsv:
wtf?!?! it is mistake, it Acer S200 :)
[General Topics] curiousGeorge:
Old hat.

Most applications rely on the CPU you say? Look. The x50v has been able to benchmark that very same video (the famous HQ matrix test trailer for betaplayer/tcpmp/coreplayer) at well over 260fps since 2004. All the emulators I know of are optimized for the 2700g GPU, too--PSX (FPSECE 0.10), GBA (PocketGBA), SNES (PocketSNES?). They run at full speed. Yes, even the PSX. Especially the PSX. What people don't seem to understand is that the x50v can play all of these games (and run WM6.5.3) at full, playable speed on its brilliant VGA display; sure, it's not WVGA, but it still beats the likes of the iPod and a great chunk of modern smartphones. And what really sets it apart for the gamer is that the games can actually be played--it has a directional pad and a host of real buttons. Not that goofy, silly on-screen "button pad!!111!11" nonsense.

Don't diss old tech, man. ;)
[General Topics] sprinttouch666:
http://wmpoweruser.com/?tag=nvidia

tegra II could be a winner. 4 Cortex A9 cores. If speed is almost equal i will take 5 or 10X battery life any day :D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kane159:
ok.....I'm trying to make a Dialer plugin for Titanium

here's the preview

and it use holl screen so I lock the slide function in this tab

when you want to use another plugin, use your hard key up and down to jump to another plugin, then the slide function will come back ;)

for now, this is just for fun, only can do is type the number and delete the number, the call and cancel button didn't work yet

if you have a good idea to make the call and cancel button work, please tell me

I think this plugin is very useful, is easy to skin, you can change the layout

and if any one can help me to make call and cancel button work, I can add the Video call function in it :D

developers help me please :o

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[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] magicalan:
nice hopefully we can c it working sometime this week =D
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] svprm:
My Idea:

Using JMLPanex call and cancel number.

Example:

In PNX file

"CallPNG(Call button Image)=%WINDOWS%\HTCPhonecanvas.exe?number"

don't known what app to call the number so i put sample "HTCPhonecanvas.exe?number".

What you think?