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[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] squirreleater:
Exactly.

I will be looking at the X3 when it is out, I was so keen on it I thought about waiting.

The hero is a great phone, bugs have been fixed and the Rom cookers are just getting going with it. Get the hero, enjoy it for a few months, suff it on ebay if you want a change and get something new in the spring- thats what I'm doing.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] suisen:
have it since it came out and the only thing i would change is the color, black or brown instead of white. nothing on the market beats it so yes, if i was buying now, i would buy Hero. HD2 brings great promises for future phones, but it's WinMo, so it's just a promise of Android to come with that hardware.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] badantii:
Why are you dissapointed with the white phone? Doesent it have some "extra" function that the brown and black doesent have? In my opinion it looks good..
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kendong2:
would buy it again. the hardware is very decent, performancewise, featurewise & haptic-wise (a.k.a. it performs well, has all the nice sensors you could need and the look&feel is great also). the software has already been modded extensivly, and since the kernel sources are out since last week the real good stuff is still to come... if you wait then you will have to wait until the new device is released, then till it is rooted, then till someone cooks a decent rom, then for the kernel sources, then for someone to actually use the kernelsources... if you're not into doing this as the first person in the world then get an "old" (as in 'a few months on the market') device.

and just get the fact, you will never be up-to-date in the it business...
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chopper45:
if you must go android, go hero.

if i had my time again, i'd go iphone...it's too 'early days' for android....
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] choccy31:
Buy the phone, it's really nice and it's always developing cos of the apps. I am happy with my phoen had it 3 weeks now and it will last well.

Hero 2 will be a while yet and that will be worth getting if HTC improve on this one and not stay still.

Get it, you won't be regretting it.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheBrit:
I would definitely buy it again.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheBrit:
Nooooooooooooooo!!! :eek:

:D
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RetroFlux:
I totally agree.

I came from winmo on a HD and now I won't touch winmo, although if M$ ever get their arse into gear and bring out winmo7 I will take look but it would have to have some killer features to lure me away from android.

Put simply Android is awesome, took me a few days to get out of my corrupt winmo mentality and get used to Android. The Hero is real nice :cool:, personally I could do with a bigger screen but if you don't need a bigger screen get that Hero bought now!
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] suisen:
i'm not disappointed, i just think black and brown look a lot better. When i bought it i didn't have a choice, now there is. Also, i like the soft rubbery feel of the black one, teflon is nice but nothing really special. The soft black one is great. :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaredakelly:
iphone is good if you like apple choosing what apps you can and cannot have and at&t coverage is far from stelar...

not trying to start a war but those are a couple of the many reasons why i like my i wouldn't buy an iphone and bought the hero
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] martint235:
Hi,

I agree with other posters, that if you wait, you'll always be waiting. The HTC Dragon looks like it may be interesting but by the time it's in your hand there'll be a 1.5Mhz phone out.

After years with UIQ and WinMo, the Hero is the best phone I've had. Sure the screen is smaller than on the HD but it's a proper, capacitive touch screen. Also no stylus.

Also the Hero feels more "connected". Even with the power and functionality of the HD, I never felt truly mobile with it. With the Hero I feel much more able to update my blog, my facebook, twitter etc. This may be due to the lack of a stylus but it also seems far quicker connected to t'internet.

Just my half shilling.

M
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] earthbellybutton:
I buy my Hero, 2 weeks after it was released. I'm still new with android, ut i like'it i love'it. Usualy i get verry fast boored by a phone, i must say that i have'it for 3 months allready and it will last long for sure. In the place where i work i got wi fi, and i make a chalenge with my husband( He has a blackstone) wich one is faster. :D. I won!( Then our colegs start to cal us the htc family :)) Besides allways u got something on the market for your phone, and think about, is an open source for development :). So go for it!Just do it!
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DanPratt:
Go on buy it!!!

I would buy it again and again...

I was going to wait to see what is going to be coming out soon... but then I thought... why? If something new comes out - it's only a matter of time (usually 2-3 months) before something newer will be released.

You can't get better than the Hero right now. I've had HTC phones for a few years now and they have all been good.

Android is awesome!

:)
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tembares:
I had a very good working HTC Kaiser with WM6.1. I used the ported Android which ran slow. But the experience I had with the ported Android, made me decide to buy the Hero.

You are Dutch, as I am, so why don't you have a look at Marktplaats? I bought mine there, too. Just ask them for their receipt they received when they bought it.

When you want more info, send me a private message.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] manager2a:
as for a question: would I buy it again... YES.

as for a question: is it too early for android... YES

To be honest, I love it. WM is crap and we all know it. And for some people who don't want an I-phone, this is an alternative.

I have some weird principles... I haven't bought Nokia since 1994 - i know everybody had one, but I loved my Ericsson, i have never bought a BMW - I know it handles great and sometimes when I want to have some fun I borrow one from my friends, but generally i don't like it, I drive Audi, I will never buy a shirt that says D&G in your chest because it's just plain stupid, I prefer my clothes to be quality products but not to show off to everybody... and then again I have an I-pod because there is just no alternative...

And when it comes to phones I like to try something else than I-phone and Hero is the one to try... Gadget of the Year by "T3", Gadget of the Year by "Stuff"... I think we have a good phone in our hands.

And the fact that it is too early for Android... yes it is, but is it not wonderful to be a part of an evolution??? I think it is just amazing.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dazbert:
:eek:

I had an iPhone and after 15 minutes messing with a Hero I switched.

I never thought I'd drop the iPhone so quickly, but Android blew me away. And it doesn't need a stylus like all the other HTC phones I've had up to now.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rdgut:
Hey another small question.

How is the SMS speed?

I mean, how fast does it load a threaded conversation?

Currently on my Blackstone it takes ages to load up a conversation because HTC Messaging tries to load everything (and since it was meant for a 1Ghz phone it's really slow)

Are there any options to it?

IE: Only load the last 20 messages or something?

Thanks.

I'm pretty close to ordering this phone, but since SMS is important to me I do need to know this bit :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drspikes:
Doesn't seem to be a problem. I'm using Handsent SMS app for my texts. Just because you asked I clicked on my longest Text thread (51 messages) loaded in about the same time it took me to blink showing the most recent 3 texts. Does pause for about .1 of a second every 6 messages or so scrolling through the conversation. Perfectly acceptable to me.

There is an option to delete messages when a thread reaches more than a certain number of messages but this is to save phone storage memory I think.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] suisen:
pretty instant loading of 115 sms thread, like 2sec or so max :/
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tembares:
With Android you have live SMS sync with your GMAIL account. Really great!
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rdgut:
Since yesterday I am now the proud owner of an HTC Hero Urban Brown :)

It works great :)

Thanks for all the replies.
[G1 General] Wisefire:
I remember a few post for porting Android 2.0. Any word on the development or if it is being continued? I can't seem to find the post anywhere. Just people randomly mentioning 2.0 in topics, search feature doesn't work to well. I wouldn't mind following the development of one of these.
[G1 General] jaboswell:
Im sure you will know if/when someone is truely working on it...
[G1 General] evilkorn:
How did search "not work too well"?

http://www.google.com/cse?cx=000825..."2.0"&sa=Search&cof=FORID:0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
[G1 General] Wisefire:
I'm not stupid, I know how to use the search function. I said it didn't work to well because it didn't provide me with what I was looking for. I found Maxima's Ecliar dump, but never a thread with developer progress.
[G1 General] evilkorn:
I never said you were stupid... I just pointed out all the threads I found when I searched. You could narrow down your results to just the dev section if that's what you wanted. But you seemed to have answered your own question.
[G1 General] Wisefire:
Your first post implied that I was ignorant for saying, "search did not work to well" and I don't believe I did answer my own question, I stated what I found. Again, I know how to use the search function, I have narrowed down the search to just the Dream Development Section.

As I was saying, I remember seeing a topic on the development process of 2.0, but I could not find it with search, that's why I am asking if anyone knows of a topic or if someone is working on a port.
[G1 General] kusotare:
the eclair dump might be worked on by some devs, but I believe a lot of them are waiting until the official AOSP 2.0 release to start toying around with it so they can avoid legal troubles.
[G1 General] Wisefire:
Oh alright, makes since I suppose. hopefully the AOSP will be released soon. I wouldn't mind checking it out. Thanks.
[General Questions and Answers] mtbmtbmtb:
Hi,

I just had a question about trying to get threaded sms working after doing a Microsoft myphone sync.

Usually I will backup all my text messages using myphone update my Touch HD to a new ROM and restore all my messages.

However, whenever I do this my messages are never threaded properly.

At the moment for each conversation, all the received messages come first and then all my sent messages.

They also seem to be sorted with the most recent messages at the start, not at the end as they should be.

All new messages get threaded fine.

I've tried to change the settings to unthreaded and then threaded but this doesn't help.

Any help on how to fix this would be great.

Thanks
[Touch Pro, Fuze Accessories] claude9039u:
If I am not permitted to make a For Sale Post MOderator please delete.

I have Seido Extended Battery with Rear cover and hard clip on protective case along with holder for sale. If anyone is interested send a PM looking for $40.00 plus shipping.

They are for the Sprint Touch Pro
[Touch Pro, Fuze Accessories] silentP:
You should've posted this in the Marketplace...
[Mogul, XV6800 Accessories] claude9039u:
If I am not permitted to make a For Sale Post MOderator please delete.

I have Seido Extended Battery with Rear cover and hard clip on protective case along with holder for sale. If anyone is interested send a PM looking for $40.00 plus shipping.

They are for the Sprint Mogal.
[General Topics] claude9039u:
I am not able to find a Touch Pro2 section? Could someone direct me to the section?
[General Topics] DaveTheTytnIIGuy:
It's the Rhodium section, found here. On the XDA-Developers index, it's about 3/4 down the page.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] KingJaffe:
i have a rooted htc magic. i want to change wallpapers. how do i access the wallpaper library on the device
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Super Jamie:
It's inside an APK file, you'd need to compile and sign an APK every time you wanted to change something.

If you press the Menu key on your home screen you can choose Wallpaper and select any image from your Gallery.

Android saves this image to /data with JPEG compression, which can look crap for some pictures. If you want to set an image directly as wallpaper get the "Wallpaper Set & Save" app from Market, make a folder on your SD card called wallpapers and put 640x480 pixel images in there.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Red14:
I am looking my ass-off for a white wm6.5 theme including a white top taskbar background.

and that is without manila, i am running Mirri v28 prem witout manila on my HD.

links, post,pm, all are welcome!

thanks brothers in phones!:D
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] cc62:
wit?

maybe you can use the cab in post #2 of this thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=566286

If you just want a plain white bar use the cab and then copy the attached file to \windows on your pda
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Red14:
OK i will do, thanks for your time!

will look great with a snow theme.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] cc62:
extraatje

So if you really in to this, maybe you can expand the idea a bit more :)

WM6.5 can skin the top bar and the bottom bar.

If you copy and rename the white MyTaskBar.png to MySoftKeyBar.png

You can use it in a similar way with the attached cab.

In fact, you can make any image you like with the dimension 480x52 pixels with the extention png and (after installing both cab's) use them for the bar's

For the top bar name it MyTaskBar.png

For the bottom bar name it MySoftKeyBar.png

Copy both to \Windows and do a soft reset.

have fun :D
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] silentP:
Ok my XDA ninjas and ninjettes, I have two files for you today. As you may know, I have AT&T as a provider. I looked at the theme from the Tilt2 for AT&T and wondered how it would look on my Raph. I'm sure some of you may have wondered too. Well wonder no more! I found the Rhodium dump in a post http://www.mobilitydigest.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1965 posted by herg62123. They say curiosity killed the cat, but would it kill my Fuze? No! By sheer talent and a whole lot of luck (look at the "thanks" below) I was able to take the visual elements and tranfer them to my 1.5 Manilla by yozgatg. The result is what you see before you.

​

Now, you all are probably saying, "ok silentP, but how can I make my device look like that?"

Well, you're in luck. For the low, low one time price $0.00 dollars (incudes download) you can have this for your device.

But Wait! If you act now, you can also get the 2nd file. Yes, 2 for the price of 1. You get the cab file, which is for those of you who are comfortable in how your TP/Fuze is set up. Just install it and enjoy the look. I don't know if it works on Diamond or not. If you try it, please let me know. You also get the raw manila files, for putting into your kitchen and cooking them in your ROM. Yes ninjas and ninjettes, 2 for the price of 1. Just click on the download links below.

Good luck guys, it works perfect for me. Hopefully it'll work for you too. NOTE: cab file will take a while to install. It's rather large. cab file should also uninstall with no problems

Link for Files: http://www.4shared.com/file/143379633/89293fcb/silentP_Warhawk_files.html

Link for Cab: http://www.4shared.com/file/143416863/34e633ca/silentP_Warhawk.html

Link for Additional package mods (thanks jsm032): here (see post #12 also)

NOTE: The files are zipped with 7zip.

BUT HOLD EVERYTHING, THERE'S MORE! Included in both versions will also be the AT&T theme by shadowline, edited slightly by me (registry and a couple of files) to use in the newer 230xxx builds. (NOTE: The build in the picture is 21870)

Thanks to: chainfire for the CFC Manila editor, herg62123 for the dump, shadowline for the theme, and yozgatg for the manila. God bless you all.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] XERO_Racer:
finally i can get the wallpaper :D nice post!

also its possible if u can make a cab just for the clock itself? would be great, thnx
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] silentP:
you just want the clock files? I can do that for you. Wait a tick and I'll attach it to the post

EDIT: @XERO_Racer, cab attached to first post
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] XERO_Racer:
thanks bro appreciate it ;)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] silentP:
No problem, anytime....sort of. I might be asleep and won't be able to help. But when I'm awake...usually :D
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] LordSmack:
I tried the cab on my fuze that I just flashed to the latest firnware on HTC's website for at&t. I got the blue slider bar but that is all that shows up. nothing changes when I turn on the att theme. Any ideas?
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] silentP:
The problem you have is the manila version. AT&T stock ROM runs version 1.2. As stated in the first post, I extracted and replaced them in manila 2.1 (R1.5) from yozgatg. Find a ROM with 2.1 and it'll work for you.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] jsm0372:
Notification bubbles and other elements

Awesome work SilentP and everyone else that helped!! I love having the 'refreshed' Manila to mimic the Tilt2. I installed / cooked successfully using the files provided, however, I did notice a couple of cosmetic things I'm hoping you can resolve. First, the notification bubbles...the numerals inside the bubbles are hard to read given that they are white. I looked at Manila using CFC GUI and found the elements to change, but being a newbie to modding Manila, I'm not sure of the best way to address the issue. Second issue I have is that some of the sliders and checkboxes in other HTC applications are still green (CommManager is an example). Now, I know I can use one of the blue highlight fixes that Shadowline did, but I don't like the way that them changes the Internet icon and the colors for the stocks tab (notably green stock indicators become blue as well). The final cosmetic thing is with the ATT WM65 them. It appears that gray is used instead of white for backgrounds, not a huge deal until a notifciation pop up appears where the background for the text element is white, so you end up with a mismatch. Not sure if you or anyone else has observed these things, and granted they are minor and not meant to take away from the great work thus far, but if someone can either fix, or guide me on how to fix, I think I'd have a very cool updated Fuze!!

Thanks!!
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] silentP:
Appreciate the compliments and I'll check in on the notifications. The commanager is an external component not associated with manila. I'll look in the packages and see what I can come up with. As I said, the theme belongs to shadowline, but I'll try and replicate the issue and see if I can come up with a fix.

NOTE: Updated post 1 with transparent bubble fix, see pic1...
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] jsm0372:
Thanks a bunch!! I knew the theme was shadowlines....I haven't had a chance to actually compare it with the actual WM65 ATT theme, I know it's very close, just not sure about the gray areas. As for commanager, yep, it's an external, and I'm using the AssasinsLament version, which is cool. I've tried using blue highlight cabs scattered about, but none seem to acurately match the ATT theme (I'm a little OCD about that kind of thing ;-) ). As far as the notifications bubble, the transparent is a cool workaround, but I'm trying to get it to look like the attached image, which is off the actual ATT build of Manila. It's almost a font color thing, just not sure where they set it.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] silentP:
I'll have to research the notification number font. I'll check out the Rhodium AT&T theme to see what I can find also for the gray part.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] jsm0372:
I managed to get the CommManager colors worked out using Photoshop, as well as modifying the Album, HTC Email Setup Wizard, New Contact Card, Notifcation Enhancement, and the Tachi Phone Canvas. Attached are the EXT files that can be copied into their respective areas (.png, etc.). Now my theme is pretty darn close, all I need is the proper font color for the message notification. I think this is modified in an XML file somewhere, or perhaps the registry.

Oh, and sorry about zipping up the rar files....I realized that I could only attach zip files, and of course there's a limit to how many you can upload in a post, so there was some rational behind the method :-)
[Touch Pro, Fuze Themes and Apps] silentP:
Those look pretty good. I posted a link to the download and gave you credit in the 1st post. Thanks for the help!
[Hero, G2 Touch Themes and Apps] WhiteiceDMSTech:
I am not sure what is going on here.

Firstly, I use GMAIL as my email account.

I have on my home screen the icon for my mail. However, in the top left hand corner of my home screen is the @ symbol and it tells me I have 100+ email messages, but when I look at my actual email icon on the home screen, there is no notification of any new emails.

When I drag down the @ symbol from the top left hand corner of my screen to look at the 100+ emails, it shows me my inbox, but there are no new messages, just the messages I have already checked and read.

Is their a way to eliminate the @ symbol notification system and only use the widget on the home screen to inform me of new incoming messages real time?

Thank you,

Whiteice
[Hero, G2 Touch Themes and Apps] luminus:
The notification with @ is from Gmail app. the shortcut on your homescreen is from HTCmail.

So if you get a notification like @ then open Gmail app. then you will see your mails.
[Hero, G2 Touch Themes and Apps] jh71:
you can disable this notification in the settings for Gmail.

Also try to manually synchronize your gmail application : use the menu button to refresh or go to the setup to disable the notifications.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] MaziarAmiri:
Hi all :)

I just upgraded my TP2 to WM 6.5 WWE version and the problem i have is that when i was in WM 6.1 my RAM usage was 59-61% but now its 71-72%, i asked in the "Official WM 6.5 thread" and it seems there are other users with the same situation.

Is there a way to make it better ?

thanks :)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] judicious:
u might try to use ClearRam to clear some items up..that might help...
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] csteel20:
Do a quick search. I know in 6.1 you can turn off a few things like the Push to Internet feature, along with the dynamic resource tweak can bring you down to 45% free easily. For awhile I had TF3D off and was booting into 6.1 with 28% used. As far as I know, these will work in 6.5.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] MaziarAmiri:
Thx i will try the ClearRam.

Well when i disable TF3D the usage falls to 54% which is good but with TF3D its still high,will try those tweaks and report back :)

thanks
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] MaziarAmiri:
Wow i disabled the Push internet feature from a guide in Pocketnow.com and it helped alot now my usage is 49-50% in TF3D which is good and like it was in WM 6.1,however when i did this the folder of my wallpapers in the device memory is deleted,which is odd

thanks alot :)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] ksmm:
Try this : http://www.sskusers.net/support/showthread.php?t=149

I applied some of the tricks they recommend and now my baby is booting with 125MB of free RAM (I do not use TF).

Concerning Clear Ram - it works but it is not able to fix all the bugs HTC guys have left ... so amount of RAM will continue decreasing anyway.

The only efficient way to recover is simply cycle power of your phone every few days.