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[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] vegelith:
ahahhaha lol :D you resolved me 2 big problems. this is fantastic :D
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] ClydeB1:
My pleasure. That's the general idea of this forum - to help others and share knowledge. You wouldn't always think so though reading some of the posts ;)
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] Fallen Spartan:
Solution found, thread closed. In future try searching before posting as ClydeB1 suggested..........oh, and you 2, get a room!!!;)
[About XDA developers] siemensfun1:
hello

i love this site

and all his members

there are everything

here are many good users

they helped me many times

sometimes i want to daonate this site and other users

but i can not

because in my country is no PAYPAL

can i donate with other way?

for examplle using VISA Electron?

sorry for my bad english.
[About XDA developers] orb3000:
I think you can

have a look here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=221503
[About XDA developers] galaxys:
HI,

Once you donate, then you get a nice yellow star ;)
[HD2 General] eyeofthetiger:
I am finding clicking links which are quite small a bit hit and miss and the lighter the touch the easier it is to register a click Also registry tweaks on things like total commander are very difficult and I miss a stylus for things like this. I beleive a capacitive stylus should have been provided and left to the user to use or not. What do you think?
[HD2 General] Toss3:
Nope - capacitive screens don't need styli. What they should have done is made all of the wm 6.5 menus finger friendly and maybe added a safari-type magnifying glass for clicking links in Opera.
[HD2 General] Isadora:
While I was waiting for my phone to arrive, I had ordered a cheapo Pogo stylus "just in case". I've used it a few times when I first got the phone and started changing stuff in the registy, but got confident enough with my "finger poking" very quickly. Haven't used it in nearly 2 weeks now.
[HD2 General] jakem:
I think the HD2 is perfectly finger friendly. However, if HTC could have produced a stylus for the capacitive screen that was the same size as a normal stylus and managed to find room in the current case for a silo to hold it then I wouldn't have objected. Regardless of what the finger nazis would have you believe, you can still get more done faster with a stylus and ruling it out is as silly as ruling fingers out.
[HD2 General] compact_bijou:
I agree. The transition from stylus to finger may be ok for people with slim fingers but my fingers are not slim, I have bloke hands so a stylus for me is essential for some operations like editing the registry.

The possibility of screwing something up with a large fingered prod after using that slider thing to navigate to the right registry key doesn't bear thinking about. That alone stopped me in my tracks mid regedit and made me go to the bay and buy a pogo.

Koreans and snake hipped ladyboys might find styluses obsolete but some actual men use these devices, some of us have been doing so since they were invented and some of us are over 40

HTC ought to have included a stylus, whether the user chose to use it or not.
[HD2 General] tictac0566:
I am well over 40, neither Korean nor a ladyboy... but quite tall with quite big hands and not so small fingers... :D

And I got used to the touch screen after some practicing... after having some experience from Apple devices.

"Problem" is maybe that HD2 is really fast with everything. One has to get used to the sensibility of the screen and the sheer speed.
[HD2 General] Shasarak:
Yes.

Next question?
[HD2 General] spajdr:
Im also using pogo stylus, works great and regarding registry editing on mobile i use CeRegEditor which basically connects from PC to mobile registry and on PC you can fast and easily edit it.
[HD2 General] Isadora:
Erm finger size not quite an excuse :p... I've got slim fingers, true (I'm a girl), but instead I have long nails to contend with (and I mean long - they "stick out" by about half an inch) so I had to find the right angle to poke at. Agree with you that it would have been nice of them to include a stylus anyway and let the user decide.
[HD2 General] mdalacu:
i really need a slim stylus...i use VNC/RDP alot and with this phone it's quite impossible.
[HD2 General] compact_bijou:
I'm getting there with the sensitivity of the screen vs the insensitivity of my digit (it's only been 6 hours) but I have to say that I'm delighted to have

finally

found a hand held device which fast enough to work my way.
[HD2 General] hammers4life:
is the today tab under the start menu supposed to do anything, all it seems to do is go back to the home screen.:confused:
[HD2 General] tictac0566:
That is indeed the very simple purpose of that button.
[HD2 General] hammers4life:
ah ok i just wondered cause it seemed pretty pointless when you can just press home :D
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] QC1:
Hi all

I have just bought a used MDA Vario 3(HTC tytn2?). This is by way of an upgrade from my Vario 2. I would like to keep my text messages and thought I would try Myphone. It will work with WM6 and says it may work with some WM5 devices. Unfortunately I can't get it to work on the Vario 2 so I can't backup messages before moving to the new phone. Does anyone have any suggestions of how to salvage my text messages? Anyway to get Myphone to work on the Vario 2?

Thanks

Q
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ASCIIker:
myphone is convenient...but "pimbackup" is a MUST HAVE that has never failed for most of us and it doesn't require an internet connection either.

just BACKUP your contacts and text messages with pimbackup, save the backup file to your storage card (or pull the backup file off your device with activesync on to your desktop/laptop) and then transfer the file to your new device. run pimbackup on your new device and RESTORE the file...and you're done!

search the forum for more tutorials on using pimbackup, especially if you want to correctly restore to a device that supports threaded messaging.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] QC1:
Brilliant! Thanks very much that is just what i was looking for. All backed up and transferred to new phone.

Thanks again

Quentin
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kizer:
I installed a few apps a while back and for some odd reason I backed them up and installed them from my SdCard using Astro. Dont worry people at the time they where free. Now one of the apps has gone paid and the other has started adding bloat that I don't want because its way more than I want.

Now all of the sudden those two apps are showing up in the market as updates available. Its not a life and death thing, but I know some how I'm going to end up clicking on them when I don't want to. For the longest time they did not and I was happy as heck. Playing around and finally getting the "G1" version of the Facebook 1.1.2 app installed they now are showing up. One is asking for money for a newer version and the other is offering a ton of bloat that I simply do not want.

Is there any way around this?

I'm guessing I could delete the market database, but what cracks me up is I didn't install them via the market database anyways so why would it show up now all of the sudden?
[HD2 General] snerkler:
Well after ages trying to hunt one down I finally tracked down a HD2 to try. I only spent like 5 minutes on it, I just wanted to get a 'feel' for it, see how responsive the touchscreen was etc. I have to say I was pretty impressed, it worked just how I hoped it would. Maybe a touch too responsive, but that's being very picky, and besides I've seen on here that it can be desensitised.

My only noticeable gripes were that the edges of the camera lens were a bit sharp, and the edges of the phone could do with rounding off a bit to fit more comfortably in the hand. I did think it felt pretty big in the hand (which obviously it is) but could still hold it and operate it with one hand. I remember the iphone felt big at first but now it just feels normal. Does the same happen with the HD2, you just get used to the size and so it starts to feel normal?

So like I said they were my only gripes. Overall I very much liked the phone, liked the touchscreen, liked the interface, and think I'll get used to the size given time, and so was prepared to upgrade from my iphone, but then annoyingly ran into a snag. I am soon eligible for an upgrade, and was told that I could buy out my existing contract if I wanted, which isn't alot so was prepared to do it. However, they're making it very awkward to port my exisitng number over which is very irritating.

If you're due an upgrade they can port your number over with immediate effect. IF you want to end the contract early and upgrade you have to take a new number, change your existing contract onto pay as you go for up to 48 hours, and then transfer the existing number across. In other words to keep the existing number without a break you have to put old SIM in the new phone, which will then change to pay as you go for up to 2 days, and then it will cut off, at which point you can put your new SIM in which will then have your existing number. Some will say why not just use the new SIM during the pay as you go period of the old one? The trouble is with that is I also use my phone for business, and this means informing all my business contacts that I have a different number for 2 days, and then reverting back to my old one. That just ain't gonna work.

I couldn't get a straight answer out of them as to why it has to be so bloody complicated. I told them it was barmy to go on a pay as you go for 2 days as would cost me an arm and a leg :-/

So I either wait till my contract is up for renewal, which for someone as impatient as me isn't a thought I like, or take out a new contract and just change my number permanently, which I don't really want to do. I guess it's going to depend on what breaks first, my impatience or the inconvenience :-/
[HD2 General] jakem:
Are you changing phone companies? If not, why do you need to port your number?

As for the size, etc. you'll get used to the size and feel of the phone pretty quickly and you'll also get used to the sensitivity of the touch screen pretty quickly. For example, I used to find the top edge of the phone a little too sharp against my ear but I must have developed an HD2 shaped callous because it's perfectly comfortable now :D

It's a great phone and you won't be dissapointed (sorry if that makes you even more impatient).
[HD2 General] craigpyro:
Yeah, you do start to get used to the size. Had mine for about 5 days now. However I do get paranoid that I'm going to drop it using it single handed or taking it out of my pocket.
[HD2 General] snerkler:
Because in order to get a new phone I have to buy out the exisiting one which is in effect cancelling the contract. You then have to take on a new contract and port the number over to the new contract. Why you can't just pay off the existing contract but keep it running so you can upgrade early and keep your number without having to port it across I don't know. Surely I'm not the only one who wants to upgrade early, especially since 12 month contracts are a thing of the past?

Sorry if I'm sounding a bit bitter, I was well excited about getting a new phone/gadget, and I'm a bit deflated now :o
[HD2 General] MidnightDraven:
You cant port a number within the same company.

By cancelling, you cancel that number.

The only way is to port the number out to another company (payg) and then after their 2 days, port it back.
[HD2 General] jakem:
Ah, I had no idea it worked like that. What a pain. I don't blame you for sounding a bit bitter.
[HD2 General] nicelad_uk:
You can ask for a PAC code and the minute you use that to transfer the number, the contract ends after that. But you will have to pay the term thats left if you do it before your contract expires.
[HD2 General] meegulthwarp:
You get used to the size until you pick up something like an iPhone or Hero and then you ask yourself, "This is tiny, how did I ever manage to use this?". I now have to squint when looking at any other phone.

You also get used to the screen responsiveness, for the first week I couldn't really use the keyboard but after 3 weeks I can write out an email without any major pain.

The soft touch plastic makes it really easy to hold and I've only dropped it once whereas I drop my metal iPod all the time.

I'd suggest you wait till your contract is up and then upgrade as that will also give HTC a chance to iron out the couple bugs that the HD2 has.
[HD2 General] MidnightDraven:
Yeh, but I had this conversation with t-mobile when I was considering cancelling.

You can't port your number within the company.

You have to port out, and port back in.
[HD2 General] kivine:
Initially I thought this device is too big, but after much constant using, smaller phones doesnt feel right anymore

just like the leap from 17" to 24" for example
[HD2 General] Archer:
I had a conversation with O2 about this, as I was on a monthly contract and was asking about getting the HD2 on a long-term contract. They initially told me I'd have to get payg, port the number to that, get the new contract, and then port the number to that (that was all within O2, and I would have the same number for all that time). They put me through to retentions because I had a couple of other questions that they couldn't answer in CS, and the girl I spoke to there basically said that that's a load of bollocks and that she could port my number immediately from one contract to another, within the same company.

I ended up buying the phone SIM free, so I'm still on the original monthly contract, obviously with the same number, but it goes to show that the advice you get depends purely upon who you get when you ring up.
[HD2 General] Karlos G:
+1!!

lol :D
[HD2 General] MidnightDraven:
Very true.

I was speaking to retentions (t-mobile call it the loyalty department [ironic]) who told me what I've said.

perhaps O2 are different.

Im going to be moving to them once my t-mobile contracts up.
[HD2 General] vikino:
Does anybody know how to improve sound quality for playing music over A2DP profile with Parrot handsfree? On Rhodium i applied some tweaks for quality improve and it was clear and nice to listen, but Leo is not so nice to hear :(

Thx a lot
[HD2 General] loomx:
I had to tweak my diamond too, looked for tweaks on the HD2 but couldnt find them, but the sound quality is way better on my HD2. I dont think it needs the tweeks tbh.
[HD2 General] vikino:
If i take both, TP2 and HD2 to my car, let play the same song and im switching between HTC's then has got TP2 much more clear and brilliant sound, without any quiet cracklings from tweeter speaker like it is on HD2 :-(
[HD2 General] Appelsap:
Same problem here, sound quality for a2dp is not what it should be. I tried adding the LineSpeed registry setting, it did improve the overall quality, but did not remove the cracking noise - and in my case I still have frequent skipping and gaps in the audio playback. Have not yet had a reply for Tech Support, and if/when I do, I don't think it'll be a very intelligable one... :(
[HD2 General] vikino:
Yop, i think too, that the answer will be unusable, or maybe they tell you that u should do a Hard rst :-D

First time i connected it to HF and let music play i thought that is a bad quality song, but it isn't :-(

Anyone idea?
[HD2 General] GreenFrog:
I know there are some settings to definately improve the sound of A2DP. I've added them on my previous HD, and worked perfectly after that! I just found some things you might try (I just applied them myself as well, but havent tested them yet; I'm almost sure they'll work):

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=308752&highlight=A2DP+settings+bitpool

If I'll find the previost post which I applied in the past on my HD, I'll let you know. If the one I just posted will work, I'll let you know as well of course, because the litteral and figural crappy sound of A2DP is something I hate as well... ;)

Edit:

Take a look at those settings as well from J-A-J-O at page 6:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=1677577#post1677577

Again, I don't know exactly if it were those settings, but they sound familiar to me. I'm also busy trying to get the best sound quality via bluetooth out of my HD2 :)

More info about the settings:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=310438

Kind regards,

GreenFrog
[HD2 General] purnelld:
The XDA tweaks are rubbish and do not work. I currently have a call out with HTC.

I have removed all reg tweaks from my HTC and now can get A2DP working on my parrot ONLY in the following situation:-

(1) Reboot HD2 (hold end key and select off. then switch on)

(2) Allow to connect to Parrott (will connect handsfree first)

(3) Open bluetooth from settings and select stereo audio and select connect.

(4) select handsfree and select disconnect.

(5) Press PLAY on the parrott kit

By doing this I get no skipping at all and the quality is good. I have no tweaks running.

This is obv crap and is why I have been speaking to HTC all week.

Steps 1-5 have to be strictly followed for this to work.

The BT tweaks mentioned on this forum do not work. They only appear to work as you have rebooted. After using the HD2 for a while and then connecting A2DP, skipping will occur again.

Try steps above and it will work.
[HD2 General] jonboyuk:
Interesting! I'll try that on mine. Greenfrog all of those links and bitpool settings relate to the Microsoft Bluetooth stack. However the HD2 uses the Widcomm stack so those registry settings can't be made.

I too am fed up of the bluetooth sound quality. How can they assume we'll be happy with this mediocre sound?! I can't see why with a 1Ghz processor it skips.

Have you guys tried the A2DP with the latest 1.61 ROM? I'm still on 1.43....

When I find my 'goldcard' that I made I'll try it on 1.61 and let you know :)

We'll get there in the end....this is really my only bugbear with the HD2, so it would be good to get it fixed!!!
[HD2 General] rzasharp:
There got to be a way!

I, too, am really p***ed off by the bad audio quality i get using stereo blutooth. It's really an issue with the HTC HD2 and apparently no pro reviews pointed it out!!! I use it with the sony DR-50 which are one the best A2DP headphones out there, but the sound is horrible :mad: Please help...
[HD2 General] Moses580:
I'm too suffering from the A2DP situation...

The Linespeed registry hack helps me on some devices ( HKML\Software\Widcomm\Plugins\AV add DWORD Linespeed with value between 64 and 512, the higher the better sound but higher probabilty for skipping).

With Linespeed = 320 sound is great and I have no skipping with a Sony DR-BT160AS. But: My Motorola S9 badly skips unless I have it very close to the HD2. Linespeed = 256 is working ok with both devices...

BUT:

I also have a blueLino A2DP Receiver which has a bad quality on both settings, at least on some songs. That's really disturbing.
[HD2 General] jonboyuk:
Just a quick update, I've just flashed to 1.61 and it makes no difference. Default A2DP sound quality is unacceptable. Grr
[HD2 General] GreenFrog:
-----------------------------------------------------

Well, first I have to say I don't have the 'skipping' issue at all. I have my HD2 connected via bluetooth to my Pioneer DEH-P7100BT car radio. I have a clear connection when calling, but when playing music via bluetooth, I have the 'hissing' issue.

Next is that I have to admit that when I changed the settings according to my previous solution, did work a little, but not as it supposed to. When I had my previous Touch HD if found a link which worked perferctly for me! When I changed to those settings, the hissing were gone completely and the sound quality improved to CD level. Although, I'm still searching those ones again for my HD2 at the moment....

So, conclusion this far is that it totally depends on the hardware which you are connected to as well.

Regards,

GreenFrog
[HD2 General] Appelsap:
@Greenfrog:

I guess the bitpool settings which worked well on my HD as well, only work when using the MS Bluetooth stack. The HD2 uses the WIDCOMM Bluetooth stack, I haven't found a noticable difference.

The LineSpeed registry setting does improve overall audio quality, but I still have skipping and playback gaps. Very poor performance for the performance beast the HD2 is. I urge everyone to report this to HTC (I did) - this is really unacceptable.
[HD2 General] jonboyuk:
I will also report this to HTC. I am so frustrated by it tbh
[HD2 General] vikino:
As Moses posted...I had linespeed set up on my TP2 and the sound was great, but now i have no time to test it now, can someone other test regitry key?

Bluetooth settings

Can be found here HKLM\Software\WIDCOMM\

A2DP Tweak Provided by R_phAn (Please note this will not work with all devices)

As we know from the past, each device has it's own preferences and capabilities (So you'll have to play around)

Managed to improve soundquality by adding DWORD 'LineSpeed' to HKLM\Software\WIDCOMM\Plugin\AV\ with a value of 320.

it is posted here for TouchPro2: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=524655

Edit: I tryied it tomorrow morning and it is still the horrible quality, poor music quality and during the call skipping :-/
[HD2 General] GreenFrog:
Okay, thanks a lot for this update! I was really unaware about the different stack, so I don't have to look further for the the previous links anymore... I'll try to add linespeed as well to see if it works with my Pioneer car radio. I hope it will...

There should be an answer for sure for this issue. I also cannot understand why it have to be this difficult. The previous solution did work very well. Why have they changed to the other stack anyway? Does someone know that?

I'm running the 1.48 ROM btw.

GreenFrog
[HD2 General] vikino:
I found one thing, i'm using SPB Radio for online streaming, when im listening in my car streamed radio then the sound quality is excelent...? How is that possible?
[HD2 General] Moses580:
That's a very good question.

I experimented a bit with different quality settings during mp3 encoding. I found out that there indeed is a connection between the quality settings of the mp3 file and the badness of the sound quality, at least to a specific degree.

The most important setting seemed to be the stereo setting. If I set a song to "Joint Stereo" its by far better than normal stereo, although not perfect, yet. That's very confusing.

Do you know the settings of the radio channels you can stream with good quality? Maybe that would be worth a test.
[HD2 General] jonboyuk:
--Update--

So I had a predictably useless response from HTC. Namely 'have you tried unpairing and repairing' and 'your device may not be fully compatible, please check our website for a list of compatible devices'.

Useless indeed. Their compatible devices amount to 3 items! The phone is either A2DP or it isn't. There are no compatibility options - it's happening to us all.

So, I haven't mustered up the energy to continue onto the next pointless exchange of basic trial and error possibilities. No doubt their next reply will be "have you tried rebooting the phone"...

Anyway, I digress. I noticed something today. I put on a new album to my SD card and out of nowhere the skipping was worse than ever. Audiomanager is always on the lookout for new songs as you may have realised. When you have music playing, a small circle rotates to show the player is searching. During searches whether or not you've introduced new mp3's to your device, it always makes the skipping far worse. When my circle had come to a stop, then the audio was fine....with very rare pauses and skips.

Still there but much less obvious.

Well that's my latest update and I will continue my investigation. I wonder if this skipping occurs in other music programs? ie wmp or pocket player? Has anyone tried?