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[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] 03hdfatboy:
I've tried a few 6.5 roms and was about to go back to 6.1 (fone issues) when I ran across sakajati's HyperDragon IV Mega 6.5 CE OS 5.2.23081 Build 23081.5.3.0

It works fantastic!
[General Questions and Answers] gman3211:
Does anyone know of a windows mobile application that will dial any number you highlight. As an example I use Handbase database application - I have been after them to put in a field that will dial the phone - it's been over 2 years I have asked for this.... to no avail. When I was Palm based Hobbysoft had a multifaceted phone app (Phone Butler)... that included a feature that if I highlighted / selected numerics and then press dial - it would dial out the number. Thanks for any info
[HD2 General] xedahh:
Has anyone found out how to change the address book listing so that it displays 'Firstname Lastname'? I'd be happy to be proved wrong/stupid but I can't find the setting anywhere nor is it mentioned in the manual.
[HD2 General] Gunzta:
I couldn't find a way of doing it on the phone, but its easy to change in Outlook contacts and resync. :)

In fact Outlook lets you sort by any number of variations including user defined views. I have all my clan sorted by Clanname, Firstname, Surname, and eveyone else sorted by Firstname, Surname.
[HD2 General] uccoffee:
when edit contact, scroll to the bottom for the "other" option, and you should be able to find it somewhere there.

or you can find a freeware called "contactfix" , just google it~
[HD2 General] sunking101:
Do it from the contacts app rather than the phone app. Scroll down the options...
[HD2 General] greatcapp:
I used contactfix. worked well, though I had to run it again when i added more contacts.
[HD2 General] blackeby:
I had the same problem but found this little app to solve it.
[HD2 General] hippybassman:
There is an easier way where as stated before on here

edit contact and go to the bottom and click on more

you'll see the old winmo contacts editor and you can change the way its displayed in the

File as: field
[HD2 General] markda2000:
that contactfix does not work for me - I sync with google and then all the contacts are back to last name first name.
[HD2 General] hotrodbx:
This worked for me. Thanks
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] nizdiz:
Ok, I have done some major searching, my fingers hurt, and I don't care if I get flamed for starting a new thread on this, I could not find the information clearly anywhere else so here it is.

__________________________________________________________________

I have found on here that a number of people are having an issue with Android on the Kaiser and not being able to terminal to it via USB using the ADB. I have searched till I have been ready to feed my machine a nuckle sandwich because I still can not find the answer.

I have the AthineOS Naked Rom running, with a select added apps, i.e. Internet Sharing and TotalCommander. I have the Android 1.6 ION Donut installed and running flawlessly.

****** ISSUE *******

I have read for countless hours as to the correct way to communicate with the phone via the ADB. I have installed the HTC Sync, the Android Dev. SDK, the eclipse development tool with the Android SDK and AVD, etc. Yet, I can not communicate with the phone using the ADB.

I currently have tried this from a VM: XP SP3 1-Processor 1GB RAM and 30GB drive spaced dedicated to image. I have tried from my host machine: Vista 32-bit 2.3GHz Dual Core 3GB RAM. I have installed all of the above apps on both the host and the VM. The phone recognizes that it is connected to the computer, changes to development mode. The computer recognizes that the phone is connected, device manager displays the Android ADB Interface. I have used the drivers in the SDK directly, I have used the defaulted installed drivers in the HTC Sync app, and I have tried the drivers available by themselves.

I can see that the phone is recognized as an ADB Interface as far as the computer is concerned in both the Host and VM environment. BUT, when I run the "adb devices" command in the command line (ran as administrator) i see nothing. If I execute a virtual device and run the same command I see the emulated device and port. I have no problem connecting via ActiveSync in WinMo host mode. I don't recieve any error messages. HTC Sync does not see the phone in Android mode.

I read in one of the posts that you can FTP etc to push files to it or you can use the browser on the device to download linked files, etc., etc., etc.

Has anyone gotten the Tilt/Kaiser running Android 1.6 Donut to communicate with a computer via USB using the ADB?

If so PLEASE post some suggestions.

If anyone has seen this and even the simple answer of "use 2.1" or something REALLY is the answer I will try it, but I am attempting to stick with the 1.6 for development reasons.

ANY Help is extremely appreciated, if all works out I will make the completed beta project available to all.

(Unless I destroy the planet first trying to get the phone to talk to my computer. Where is Al Gore when you need a computer god, he created the internet after all, if he couldn't get to the bottom of this we are all lost LOL :) )
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Niscandia:
Ok, sounds like you have gone though hell...

First, when you plug in the phone to the computer do you get a nice popup saying "USB debugging connected", if not then goto "Settings->Applications->Development->USB Debugging".

Sounds like you do see that, but keeping bases covered...

Second, I've been using adb on Win7 x64. But in order to do that I had to change the default drivers. Going to the "Device Manager" and make sure it says your using the "Android ADB Interface" drivers (if unsure, might as well redo the driver installation...)

If all of that is correct, plug in the phone and try:

adb kill-server

adb shell

I've noticed that sometimes the adb server doesn't look at new devices, or hangs up. Unfortunately at this time those are the only three items I can think of checking.

And on a different note, if you are going to be shelling into the device, you might want to use Linux or a Mac virtual image in your VM client. Since if you don't you'll get something like "←[1;32minit.android←[0m" instead of "android" but in color when you do a ls.

Niscandia
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] nizdiz:
Thanks Niscandia I just tried it once again.

It does enter debugging mode.

It does register as Android ADB Interface.

Still no joy.

Is there a recommended or prefered flavor of linux to do dev with android on??
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] tyler51773:
Non-related

I'm with you on the whole start another thread mentality. Having one thread for everything android is g4y-t4rd3d. Android needs its own separate category away from windows rom development as well. I think there should be a thread count maximum, nothing like 10000 pages of android chronicling every time someone sneezed while using the platform from the time before they where using it to they time they where having problems in the market. Its not like two people who are running different roms (shifu v3, and hyperdragon IV) have to post to one thread for windows mobile woes, yet people who run ion/hero builds are flamed for not doing so. I think one of the lesser reasons that wifi got fixed was because someone started another thread.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Niscandia:
I've only tried adb on debian, but I've heard others have used Ubuntu. I will say right now my main development machine is a little mac mini, and I've found that nicer then fighting with some of the Linux distros.

And I did think of one last thing, do you have a firewall up? That might stop adb as well. I think I remember somewhere in that huge wall of posts something about firewalls... just don't quite remember.

Niscandia
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] nizdiz:
Ok, so just to update this post.

I have since installed a variant of Ubuntu, not running in a VM environment, and successfully connected to my Kaiser w/ Android running via the adb command line.

Just a heads up to anyone in the similar situation:

USE A LINUX MACHINE FOR DEV ON ANDROID

Windows (desktop/mobile/server) great for corporations, not good bed fellows when you want to dev on a linux based device or linux emulated device.

This forum can be closed as I have resolved the issue and will not be updating further.

THANKS Niscandia for all your assistance!!!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] jmhalder:
what a pain, using windows vista (32bit), the driver from DZO's repo, and the adb.exe from the newwest SDK... It works, but still reports some stuff kinda funky as shown above, works just gravy for shell though!
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] jasbulk:
This bluetooth gps receiver (canmore GT-750FL) is simple to use and satellite reception was always great, even during snowstorms, being indoors, or metro areas. In six months, I never experienced anything that disappointed me w/ it's performance with my Dell Axim X51. and Hermes.

Absolutely has exceeded my expectations right out of the box, so far. I should probably wait until I've really played around with this device a bit more but so far it's amazing. I test it up with my BlackBerry,x51 and hermes and right away it was on the ball. Using the Google Maps with it, it said it had located my position within 20 meters. I switched over to the satellite view in Google and zoomed in on my current location. Baloney! It was more like 20 inches! It showed my position to be not only in the correct parking lot but the exact parking space I was in!
[G1 General] Ethman:
Hello All.

I've had my UK, T-Mobile G1 for quite a while now. I have rooted it and it is running the latest CyanogenMod recovery image and ROM. I also have Apps2SD set up on my 8GB SD card, on a 512MB ext partition. This was all working fine until the problems below occurred...

I'm having some problems with several apps and ADB.

My PC runs Windows 7, 64 bit, and I can't seem to find a driver for the G1's ADB. I'm probably being incredibly stupid, but I just can't find one. I have used one before on Vista, where I had to set some boot options, but I'm not too sure / happy about doing that on my nicely functioning Windows 7. And as my friend once said; "You mess around with windows, then windows will mess around with you"...

But, anyway, I can't seem to get ADB working, if someone could either send me a link to the drivers or guide me through it, I'd be grateful...

Also, it may be due to me running CyanogenMod, but if I try to update the Facebook app, it downloads the app, and then when it tries to install, gives me the error "Installation Unsuccessful - Incompatible Update".

And with the Google Maps app, it says "Installation unsuccessful - Package file was not signed correctly". This may be due to me trying to get the hacked version of the app to get the Google Maps Navigation working in the UK, but I couldn't get that to work, so I uninstalled it and Nav Launcher, and now when I try to update from the Market it gives me that error.

I've seen a guide online with ADB commands, but as I have no access to ADB, I'm a tad screwed. I've tried runnign the commands in the Terminal Emulator in the phone, which does approximately nothing whatsoever.

So, can anyone give me any guidance on any of my Android problems?

Thanks in advance :) - Ethan
[G1 General] jamesrdorn:
To the best of my knowledge no one has successfully used ADB with Windows 7/64bit
[G1 General] Ethman:
Ah. Looks like I'll be reinstalling Ubuntu then for the ADB. Thank you for such a fast response.

- Ethan
[G1 General] chris4500uk:
Lies, I'm running windows 7 64bit and ADB works fine. :)
[G1 General] Ethman:
In that case, do you remember where you obtained the driver from? I would love a link, or a zip file or something...
[G1 General] aberrati0n:
I'm on Vista x64 SP2 and I can use ADB just fine. You just need to download the SDK and then get the USB driver through there. It used to come included, but now you need to use the ADV and SDK manager and download the drivers as an SDK Component through there.

After that, make sure your phone is set to USB Debugging mode and plug it in then point windows to the new drivers. If it doesn't want to install the new drivers, you might need to remove the old ones first. I had to use USB Deview (DL link at bottom of page) and removed all installed HTC drivers. After that I plugged my G1 back in, pointed it at the newly downloaded drivers and all was well.
[G1 General] sockpuppet4:
I'm running adb/fastboot/android sdk on win7 64b ultimate. The drivers are included in the sdk download. Once you download the sdk, make sure you have java installed. (I had to install JRE and JDK to get it to work properly, not sure if this was needed) Anyhow, when you have the sdk downloaded, run the sdk setup program. Go to settings and check the box for force update (unsure of the exact terminology used there) then go to available updates and your drivers are the last option on the list.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] FrenchGuy:
Hi,

I hope someone will be able to answer to my request because i tried without success..

Antomiomistretta make a really great job on manila 2.5 especially a beautiful sepia slider and original clock....

​

Is someone is able to convert the manila files used for manila 2.5 and convert them for sense 2.1?

http://rapidshare.com/files/313467340/Slider_seppia.rar

I Hope so..

There are a lot of slider and clock for manila 2.5 but few for sense 2.1.;so pity..

Thank's all by advance
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] conscept:
Currently i recieve lots of texts, i've noticed that I can not reply straight away when my text messages are set to show like a conversation because my htc hd 2 has to load all the texts. I was wondering if someone could make a tweak where it only showed the last 5 or 10 messages so i can reply instantly :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] theory_87:
Yes. 2nd that. That is the only problem with HD2 now for me
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Filipek88:
would appreciate this too
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] smuppy:
I've had a quick look at the registry, but couldnt find anything useful.

I dunno if its set in a manila-file or in the messagingapplication itself.

Would be nice to tweak this...
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] timodc:
+1 to this feature,

with my HTC P3600 I had sms routing and it only showed the 10 last messages,

if you wanna see older messages you could press, 'see history',
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Clone87:
+1 . will be great that tweak
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] conscept:
Awesome, glad to see some people agree! I have no idea how to do it so...
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] padlad:
One way to overcome the delay until a fix comes out, is as soon as you open the conversation, click 'send' and a warning window pops up asking if you want to send a blank text, select 'no' and there you have the whole conversation loaded instantly. Plus I noticed last night when I disabled the sense ui and installed Spbmobile shell 3.5.2, the Htc messaging app will still take a while to load the conversation but at least you can type out your reply while its doing it.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] conscept:
Oh i see, thanks! I will try the blank text thing for now :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Desktopflame:
I tend to read my sms from manila then click the "new sms" icon and basically write a new sms rather than clicking reply. Until a fix is found I have found this the quicker way to reply to sms.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] lancelot54:
Just as soon as you open the conversation, click 'tap here to compose' and you'll be able to compose. But be quick :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Xeon:
Why should we work on things that HTC is supposed to FIX ?!!!!@!$
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] [★]:
Because HTC fail
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] smuppy:
OR... you can click on "Send" and then cancel and its all done. Works like a charm.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] samarain:
I install the new update of SPB Mobile Shell and when i restart the right icon in taskbar disappear, how can resolve this?

This Icon ===>>>>

thanks..
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Themes and Apps] bl4ckb1rd:
hi samarain

you should ask this question in the spb forum and not here...

-bl4ckb1rd
[General Questions and Answers] usernut:
Hi,

how do I install mobilxpdf on my old orbit? i,ve downloaded it but its that long since i,ve put anything on it that i,ve forgotten how it,s done, anyone know?

I want to read a pdf file on the orbit.
[HTC Excalibur] GrayTea:
I have a Excalibur running Window Mobile 5,now I want upgrade to Window Mobile 6 . I don't know why but my USB connection doesn't work,ActiveSync can't recognize my phone. So, I want to upgrade the ROM from the SD-card or somewhere,is there anyway to do that ?

P/S : Sorry for my bad English,English isn't my main language,u know...
[HTC Excalibur] kj881:
Turn on the active sync, OR run the app unlock...which ROM are you trying to upgrade too?
[HTC Excalibur] GrayTea:
First,I need to solve the problem with my connection.What do you mean "Turn on the active sync" ???. I've already install MS ActiveSync 4.5,but when I plug my phone in,nothing happen...Only a pop-up appear,it's say "USB device not recognize" !

I'm a newcome,would you tell me which rom I should use ???
[HTC Excalibur] kj881:
Ohhh Sorry...well install Device center...it is the NEW version...try that...I wasn't trying to say you were not smart
[HTC Excalibur] kj881:
and I for sure reccomend 3VO... I am having a battery issue but other than that it is by far the smoothest and fastest
[HTC Excalibur] kj881:
Device center download http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/en-us/downloads/microsoft/device-center-download.mspx
[HTC Excalibur] Mr. Clown:
Yes, there is a way to flash from sd card. Please read here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=293387.

Hope that helps:)
[HTC Excalibur] GrayTea:
Well,do I need to run Excalibur USPL- CID BYPASS,SDA_ApplicationUnlock or something like that before flashing ? If I must run that,there's no way to comple because I can't connect my phone to PC..
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Binary100100:
Bad day today. Why? Because this morning I decided to try out one of the Eclair roms before leaving for work. I flashed it, tried it and then looked at the time. After noticing that I had only 15 minutes before having to be at work I decided that it was time to lock up my computer and take off... but first... I need to restore back to a stable rom. So I restarted my phone and using switchrom I recieved an error of some kind. Not a big deal because anytime I flash a new rom I do a switchrom -s, bart backup AND nandroid+ext backup. Then everyday I use a bat script to automatically mount my sdcard and back it up to my pc just in case I need to format my card and restore everything later. Which brings me to the point of this thread. I was able to restore CM-4.2.8.1 but it was booting VERY slowly (about 15 minutes) and I noticed that it still said "Checking for errors" in the status bar. I left my phone on the charger and checked it later and it said that my sdcard was damaged. I have absolutely NO computer access and my phone is running WAAAYYYY to sluggish to use. So I just turned it off and put my sim in my old Tilt phone and used that for the day.

So... throughout the ENTIRE day I was going through Android withdrawls. I needed my G1. It was killing me.

So my question/idea is, is there a way to do a chkdsk on the fat partition of from the recovery menu or from terminal? I did a little searching and came up with something called dosfsck. And I looked in the /system/bin/ directory and saw something called fsck_msdos. Can we use this to repair the errors that the system finds on the sdcard? If the OS can scan and detect errors, then why can't we have an option to fix them? Instead of having to use a computer at home or the office.

Any thoughts? Thanks.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ace42:
The thing is that is part of the windows OS, i know cause i use it to check for errors on my HDD or SD cards time-time. Im not sure if linux or distro or whatever its called has that feature avail.

Oh and i had that prob before where it was devastatingly sluggish.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Binary100100:
Uhhhh... is that a paraphrased version of what I said in the quote? LOL.

Here... I found this: http://linux.die.net/man/8/fsck.vfat

I don't see why it can't be implimented somehow into a recovery.img to avoid future problems. It'll basically be like e2fsck but for fat.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ace42:
Oops sorry about that, didnt think anyone would notice.

Maybe you should check that up with Amon_RA?

I usually use my SD reader to check for errors before i flash a rom.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Binary100100:
Yeah I guess I'll do just that.

I did find this too:

http://www.netmite.com/android/mydroid/donut/external/dosfstools/doc/README.dosfsck

So it looks like someone had the idea already. I wonder why it's never been implemented.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ace42:
The fat32 probably does get corrupted, sometimes i get the sd isnt inserted error.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Binary100100:
I never get that but whatever is wrong with my sdcard it must be major because my pc is still trying to recover it after an hour later.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ace42:
Copy the files to your pc, then erase the partition via console.Then do the error check again. I think its having trouble since you have a lot of files on your sd that must be zip or maybe you have a .img
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Binary100100:
I think it was Vista. I never should have used the error check option in the disk properties menu. I just tried it again using dos (chkdsk f: /R) so it actually tells me what it's doing. The error checking tool in vista is just like the defrag tool. You have absolutely no idea what's going on or how much longer it's going to take. Sucks.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ace42:
I upgraded to 7:p

But i did like vista because of the HW support and eye-candy. I do wonder what its checking while it does that though.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] BULL3TPR00F:
Hey guy's i've been trying to search for days now but haven't been able to come across anything solid (everything's so clutter and disorganized in most forums making finding information difficult).

I just wanted to know if there are any Hero roms out there (for the 32A HTC Magic), that are running on android 1.6 kernel with everything working (bluetooth, camera, leds, trackball, etc)?

I'm running the latest myhero right now which is running on 1.5, and ive tried the latest hero 2.1 (obviously no bluetooth and camera yet). But is there a stable one running 1.6?

any information is appreciated, thanks guys.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] themetatron:
htc skipped 1.6...so no official update, no dump, no rom
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] BULL3TPR00F:
yeah i was reading that too, but i thought someone might have made something.

but thanks for the info.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] hubo19890319:
have a try with [Rom] [32A ] Tattoo extreme Beta [Dec 2]

This Rom is not stable yet

Htc Tattoo being a Smaller Display Mobile

the icons in this rom are small

I shall Try to resize them

Dialer Was not working so >> use Easy Dial Pro

Instead of Normal SMS >> Handcent SMS

Sync Working Fine for all contacts as well as mail

Rom is fast

Click >> 32A First Tattoo Rom << Click

Music Player Removed Due to small icons >> Use RockOn

Wifi >> doesnot switch on

Bluetooth >> Switches on but voice & a2dp not working

and many more... i forgot

Many More things to do with the rom

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=593062
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] BULL3TPR00F:
yeah i was looking at that but i was going to wait until its more stable, i need my wifi/bluetooth/camera n whatnot
[myTouch 3G, Magic Android Development] oshizzle1991:
your going to be waiting for a LONG time then.