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[HD2 General] Lukasss:
My 10+1:

1. It's just a stunning device, I like the design and the feel, it feels robust, up to anything.

2. The screen ofcourse... It's magic, looks good even turned off and makes iPhone look like a dwarf. Resolution and picture quality is stunning.

3. Capacitive technology, touch responsiveness.

4. Storage (music, pictures, video, documents (I even have a copy of my drivers licence and ID on it, just in case I lose my wallet).

5. Ability to play dvd quality video's. I've been on a roadtrip to the US in march and made some full HD movies, after conversion to DVD quality I can dream away about my vacation on the go.

6. Snapdragon. 'Nuff said.

7. Everybody knows the iPhone. In comparison not many people know HTC. When I pull it out of my pocket it's getting a lot of attention... =)

8. It's not one of many, I made it mine (this sounds stupid, because of the HTC slogan, but it's true.) I bet I can find hundreds if not thousands iPhones (out of the +/-21.000.000 units sold by apple) which are exactly the same, but I bet there isn't another HTC HD2 that looks exactly as mine.

9. Youtube videos in IE, RSS and youtube app. News on the go.

10. Functional eye-candy home screen NOT filled with in-your-face-icons.

11. Freedom to install, change or use anything on the device. Because it's MINE, not HTC's anymore.

I don't need much else... :)

I'm a very proud and satisfied owner of HTC HD2. Money well spent. :D Even my 63 year old mother likes it. She's been playing Teeter yesterday, and having tons of fun. :)

Grtz

Lukas
[HD2 General] blackheart2925:
OP - not to indulge in flame bait...but most of the other phones/platforms out there have all of the points you listed and do some of them better...

for me reason for buying HD2 and WinMo 6.5

No. 1. - Biggest screen in the market...am a sucker for mobile devices with HUGE screens...prefer a netbook over a laptop...10" eeePC...this is cause am a hardcore ebook reader (prefer mobile devices for on-the-go...and though Stanza on iPhone is fantastic, lets see how Freda hols up and whether it will go for closer relationship with Calibre)

No. 7. - XDA and the fact that WinMo is fantastically customizable and you can poke and prod it to one's heart's content...
[HD2 General] mskip:
Everyone will have different aspects of the HTC HD2 that they love :)

The main thing is that as long as you do love your HD2 then its doing its job well and will try to make you happy for as long as you own it ;)
[HD2 General] terrytpot:
I can't believe none of you have mentioned the sheer pleasure you must get everytime you pick it up and drag a finger across the screen...this phone is so tactile I just cant leave it sitting anywhere without wanting to pick it up and play with it. :D

Winmo was an absolute must for me having been crippled in the past by other types of os that wouldn't perform the simplest of functions to my liking. So far not one of the issues from other os's have bothered me with my leo and I've found many of the problems that other seem to have dont afflict me at all e.g. I love the volume levels of the phone when using its speaker and when using bluetooth. Connections of all types work just as they should and the amount of tweaks and help on xda-dev have helped me get any of the issues I had resolved to my satisfaction.

and of course,lets not forget that screen!!!

:)
[HD2 General] wacky.banana:
Tut tut! :rolleyes: :)

WB
[HD2 General] Xaddict:
What I love

1. IS Windows Mobile, so; can be customised with registry, and a world of APPS that have been around for 10+ years, user is not locked out of controlling the device, compatible with most technologies hardware & soft.

2. IS NOT just a handbag accessory with pretty gelato colours as the only choice possible.

3. IS an excellent phone.

4. IS the state of the art in screen technology.

5. AND peformance, 1Ghz cpu, 448M ram

6. AND Multitasks.

7. IS very well integrated, contacts, calendar, 3P apps like facebook etc.

8. IS extemely well designed with Sense for navigation and use.

9. HAS swappable memory and battery

10. HAS haptic feedback, state of the art touch technology

11. HAS XDA-DEV community where the possibilities are endless.
[HD2 General] Xaddict:
Icing on the cake

Ye! What he said!
[HD2 General] Moandal:
Very true! :) It really does make the iPhone look dated.

I'm very pleased with mine. No screen, SMS or any other problems I'm glad to say. I had reservations about losing the ability to use a stylus, but it's not been an issue of any significance.

As well as all the things already mentioned (big screen, fast processor etc), I particularly like:

1) HTC Sense with all its eye-candy and finger friendliness.

2) Overall form factor. Even switched off it looks lovely.

As new ROMs come out, and maybe even WM7, things can only get better.
[HD2 General] djngal:
from now on when some noob asks me again if this is better than the Applephone I'll just point them to this thread coz I'm bored to say the same things again and again...lol
[HD2 General] seed_al:
Seriously, Windows Mobile 6.5 is already the best phone OS, but who doesn't want something even better?

This is what I just found on Twitter:

And we will be the first to get it :D
[HD2 General] DMAND:
Now that would be the icing on the cake :D
[HD2 General] TheOnly1:
I'm still waiting for my Leo, but from playing a bit with it and coming from the Blackstone I can already enjoy the new experience. And well...it's WinMobile. I lost enough nerves trying to open a simple rtf file on my wife's Hero:eek: Other OS's may be fast and look cool but it's the fuctionality that matters at the end of the day. I don't want to install 10 obscure office VIEWERS just in order to be able to view a certain file type and pay for the abbility to create a simple word document on my phone. WinMo is simply perfect in this matter and it's tweakable like no other. And I love tweaking my things. The Blackstone got a completely new device ater cooked ROMS came around this forum :)
[HD2 General] Jim Chapman:
Actually I'm working on that at the moment - the problem is that Calibre doesn't really work well with ActiveSync, and that's not something I can fix in code in Freda; it needs adaptations on the Calibre side.

So if you (or any other readers) think that integration with Calibre would be a useful feature for Freda (or any other Windows Mobile phone readers), please can you pass that message on to Calibre.

Thanks,

Jim (Freda Developer)
[HD2 General] blackheart2925:
Hi Jim,

nice of you to reply back...i did not know that Calibre doesnt sync well with ActiveSync...i will certainly request Kovid Goyal for the same...:)

btw i have been using Freda on the HD2 and wanted to say thank you for coming up with it...

Do you know, before i decided to move to WinMo and HD2, the first thing i googled for "is there a epub reader for WinMo?" only after i got to know of Freda, did i decide to look more into the HD2...so your Freda was a deciding factor for me to buy the HD2...!:D I will also be publicizing your app and the HD2 in the various ebook forums i visit...did the same for Stanza and iPod touch :)

btw - if you are taking in feature requests, would it be possible to implement something like a zoom bar which can allow easily to move forward and backward within the ebook?

Thanks once again Jim...i will let you knows if i come across any bugs...
[HD2 General] Jim Chapman:
Excellent ... another satisfied customer :)

As for the 'zoom bar' - as a general design decision I have resisted covering the screen with widgets, because I want to keep the GUI simple. I find it confusing if I tap on the screen and suddenly a bunch of twiddly little icons shows up. I prefer a menu, with options spelled out explicitly. I also prefer to use standard Windows Mobile controls because, though they are ugly and clunky, they are at least familiar.

Via the menu, you can get to something quite similar to the 'zoom bar' by going Go ... -> Go To Page.

That said, I could easily enough implement special behaviour for when the user taps on the 'page number' area of the screen. It would mean that 'tap at bottom of screen' could have two different meanings: either (1) next page; or (2) 'bring up the Go To Page screen'.

I will try building it, and see how it works in practice.

Cheers,

Jim
[HD2 General] djngal:
me thinks this is going of topic... :cool:

:p
[HD2 General] nessqn:
Its been over a month now and i am so much in love with my HD2....Its the best mob i've used 2 date.

I love the "out of this universe" display,the visually stunning album selection in music player,super fast applications and the high quality fotos by the camera.

All the add on applications make this phone a true giant...i have installed soft reset,wifi toggle,resco registry,torch,clean RAM,crypto wallet,BsB tweaks,Miasto Muzyki etc to name a few and above all cookies home tab:D

The things i wish had been diff are,contact manager(with option 2 add multiple mobile numbers,label editing etc),better alarm and a couple of non-important things...

Rock on HD2....:D
[HD2 General] Filipek88:
Nice to see this thread back again :).

My opinion is still the same about the HTC HD2, I am so happy I bought this phone, especially after the ROM update I have installed yesterday, it feels like it's much faster and the battery is much better!
[HD2 General] neil_swann80:
Loving my HD2 also. It's virtually perfect, in my opinion! :)

Just waiting for a capacitive stylus which is reliable, so I can play some old games that require point accuracy. Tried pogo and dagi, neither of which were impressive.

On my break, halfway through my evening class at college the other night; whilst listening to a couple of guys bragging about their iPhones apps, I quietly whipped out my BGP100 controller and started playing 'Driver' via FpseCE. The looks looks of jealousy I received from these iPhone users increased my love for my HD2 ten fold. :D
[HD2 General] eshd:
No, "Touch" is really bad.

Fingertyping on the screen is even on my little OrbitI

(with very little Buttons) much better.

On the Orbit I can type very correct with my fingernails.

On the HD2 I constantly produce errors.

1) The big screen: ...

But half of the screen we need for the keyboard.

In an editfield for text it is almost unimpossible to place the

cursor at the exact position. On my OrbitI it is no problem

(without a stylus, only with a fingernail).

And with a stylus working on the Orbit is more than

10-times better.

eshd
[HD2 General] lonelykatana:
The one and only thing I dont like about my phone is that its truly a pain in the arse to text the g/f when your pissed. (or pissed off - for that matter)

But is that really the phones fault?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] dzr:
I have an old dictionary program, meant for older QVGA screens and it's tiny on the WVGA of the Tilt-2. Is there any generic way to make a SIP screen larger, or is that the whole design of the keyboard?

Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] Maxxd01:
Hello there!

There's any way to Vito SMS chat instead default WM app for SMS managemment ?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amack10:
i used to go there to find dev's twitters and stuff so i can get updates since i dont want to make a twitter and follow people. and it was easier to go there and find their twitter and get updates rather than search for a thread on here with a link in their sig. now with their new site im pracitcally tearin out my hair tryin to find the developers home page or even a list with links. can someone guide me thru it to find dev's home page

edit: i cant even find the rom section to download roms. the update has made this site very comnfusing
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s15274n:
Why are you posting on this site, about another site? I mean, did that even seem like something you should do?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mgorman:
its not that hard. There is a developer forum and each developer has their own section so you just go to the one your using and see if there is an update
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ace42:
You see common sense is not with everyone...It seems to have departed with this feeble mind may i add..
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mgorman:
they just re-did the home page and now all the devs twitter updates are along the right side of the page. very easy to see. so don't diss our site.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] numaverick:
who can create an application to change the style of windows mobile messages as messages android

like this...
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] snsone:
hell yeah,i'm looking for it too,looks pretty handy
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] AvRS:
Hi, I've been looking around the forum and playing with my HD2 and was wondering if anyone knows how to change the "HTC Quietly Brilliant" screen that comes up everytime you start a new browser session. I've seen how to change the main startup screen (but I never turn my phone off so don't need to) but is it as easy to do this screen too as I'd prefer to use a custom picture if possible.

I have tried a search but using terms such as splashscreen doesn't bring much up that relates to this.

Thanks

*EDIT*: I've actually solved it now after looking through all the folders I found the file "Opera_loading_POR_16bit_default.png" has to be changed and it comes up with your picture. Sorry should've played for longer before posting.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] precsmo:
yeah!! get rid of it! Damn it HTC! We all have already known we are holding and using a HTC, argghhhh!:mad::mad: I takes like few seconds before the Opera can start working.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] sunking101:
Just set the Opera splashscreen registry setting to zero in the HKLM...

HKLM/Software/Opera/Info and change 'showsplashscreen' from 1 to 0
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] precsmo:
that is great! Thanks a lot!
[HD2 General] lelinolino:
hi, there is a method in order to improve audio quality of the device?

Thanks to all!!
[HD2 General] Archer:
There's plenty threads about improving audio quality, but what in specific do you mean? Call quality, headset quality, speakerphone quality?
[HD2 General] lelinolino:
speakerphone!
[HD2 General] Archer:
Is it too loud or too quiet, or do you just not like the sound of it?
[HD2 General] lelinolino:
i think that it is to loud...
[HD2 General] Archer:
I've had a search and found 1 guy saying the same thing as you, but he didn't get any advice.

For now, I'd recommend just waiting to see if you get any answers in here. I personally don't have this problem (it's one of the issues that varies from phone to phone and user to user), so I've got no answer for you, but at least people looking at this thread will know exactly what your problem is and you may get some help.

I would recommend that you edit your original post (in advanced mode) and change the title so that it lets people know you're talking in particular about the speakerphone. It helps people that want to help you, and also helps future users that are searching for help.

Sorry I can't be of more help. Good luck mate - I hope you get an answer.
[HD2 General] lelinolino:
thank you very much...

you have been very kind!!!
[HD2 General] Archer:
No problem mate - just hope you get a satisfactory answer to your issue. The title's much better now though ;)

Good luck.
[HD2 General] mskip:
Apart from turning the sound down with the rocker when in speakerphone I dont think theres any tweaks around to make it quieter. At normal levels the speakerphone is a bit loud but turning the volume down makes it quite acceptable for me. To be honest I would rather it was too loud and be able to turn it down than to be too quiet and not be able to do anything about it.

Sorry I couldnt be more help.
[HD2 General] sunking101:
Yeah but we can't turn it down mate, that's the problem. I can't use my speakerphone, it is deafening. The lowest volume is what you would expect from the highest volume! It is a horrible, tinnitus-inducing & distorted mess. Hopefully HTC will sort the volume out on this device, it seems to have been manufactured for the hard of hearing who work in a noisy environment! What about those who sit quietly in a quiet room and want to make a nice, relaxing phonecall?? We don't want to use a megaphone! :mad:
[HD2 General] dick turpin:
i`m pretty sure theres a registry tweak to reduce the volume. the problem is am not sure were the thread is lol:D
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus ROM Development] DynaMight:
Hello

I've just purchased the phone and sorry for the noob question but searching can be a little hard since theres so much info.

I'm after a clean, fast and stable rom, something that's not too bloated, vanilla but none of the carrier branded crap. Not fussed if its 6.1 or 6.5 (although I'm not 100% sure the program I will be using works on 6.5...)

Any suggestions would be awesome!

Thanks
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus ROM Development] keenan316:
This one here...

http://www.4shared.com/file/66509786/fd755949/RUU_NIKI_Lite_V21_2D.html

Based on 6.1, about 60mb of free memory and no bells or whistles

Works like a charm ;)
[Touch Dual, MDA Touch Plus ROM Development] youngsien:
try this, works well on me http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=591274
[HD2 General] mojohio:
I have not been able to access youtube videos. When I select the youtube icon, the program open up. When I select a video to play, I get the continuos loading wheel and nothing ever happens. I have setup to run only on GSM band, as we can not receive 3G here in the US. I am currently on a wifi network. Is the above step for deleting the wap.cingular proxy necessary to have youtube work? If so, can you identify it's location for a regedit? Thanks.
[HD2 General] nv00021:
I am.having the exact same problem. I have had this problem before but only in cooked ROM's.

I would appreciate some help as well.

NJV
[HD2 General] mojohio:
I believe this edit performed by mike91t may solve this issue. I am going to try in the near future. If anyone else trys the below edit, and that solves the problem of accessing youtube on wifi, please post results to validate. thanks.

"I removed the value "wireless.cingular.com:80" from the Proxy setting under the key HKLM\Comm\ConnMgr\Providers\{EF097F4C-DC4B-4c98-8FF6-AEF805DC0E8E}\HTTP-{436eF144-B4FB-4863-A041-8F905A62C572}. next, i fired up the YouTube app and it connected almost instantly. i waited for 3 minutes, soft reset and tried again to make sure the settings are not reset automatically: the settings survived and YouTube connected almost instantly."
[Mogul, XV6800 General] cloves:
Hey everyone,

Anyone install Midomi on there mogul (Similar to Shazaam)? When I run the application it never finds the song. Even when using songs that I have seen demonstrated.
[Mogul, XV6800 General] kmanuel74:
same here, never found a song for me. I'll stick with shazam
[HD2 General] damird:
Hi,

I have a strange problem with HD2 that appeared with no reason. When I tap on e-mail message from HTC Sense - nothing happens. Previously, when I tap on message, the message opens. It works on text messages, but not on e-mails. I did a hard reset, and it worked for several minutes, and then stopped again. I did not install anything.

Any ideas? Thanks!
[HD2 General] Archer:
Unless I'm mistaken, this is a known problem that (strangely) ties in to the lock screen not working properly. Go figure!

Open the windows start menu and select lock (bottom left softkey). Then unlock the phone. Once you've done that, you should be able to open email messages by tapping on them in the Sense UI.

There's a tweak in BsB Tweaks that is supposed to fix the lock screen issue, but it hasn't 100% fixed it for me. I just get it less. When I do, I do what I just suggested to you and it's okay again.

I'm sure that HTC will want to fix this at some point. Wait for the 4.01 ROM for that. (That was a joke - don't actually wait for the 4.01 ROM)
[HD2 General] damird:
Thanks man, I just tried and it works! Yes, I have noticed that HD2 does not lock every time, but I didn't know that it has anything to do with this problem. Thanks again!
[HD2 General] Archer:
Like I said - go figure! I've been developing software for a loooooong time, and I can't fathom why these 2 things are connected, but they obviously are!

Glad you sorted it mate :)
[HD2 General] valos:
According to a post from "Appelsap" we can make some progress to the A2DP connection.

I had a lot of trouble with connecting to my car radio (JVC KD-ADV49 or AVX44)

I can make a handsfree connection without any problem but when connecting also the Stereo mode (A2DP) I got serious problems.

It disconnects and never came up again. Sometimes it was able to produce some sound but then disconnects after one second.

I tried all tweaks without any result. Only the next tweak helped me out untill know;

Make a new DWORD entrance into HKLM/Drivers/BuiltIn/BtA2dpSnd with a decimal value of "149" The name is "Priority256" Now I have good sounds and it connects ok.

I will test it further and keep you posted.

The value has to do with the altering of the priority of A2DP

Also the track information is diplayed into the JVC head unit and I also can use the remote for skipping to the next or previous number.

I use windows mediaplayer, and when playing music the voice commands of Copilot or Navigon are spoken with little muted music, perfect!

Also I use Cyberon voice command which can be activated by the radio display.
[HD2 General] alanbradshaw:
What is the name of the Dword?? I have this same issue with my JVC.
[HD2 General] valos:
"Priority256"

Oh sorry, the name is "Priority256"
[HD2 General] alanbradshaw:
Thank you, I will give this a try and report back. My system is a JVC KD-AVX77
[HD2 General] valos:
JVC car radio's

Ok that's a newer system so in my opinion it's a HTC/Widcomm issue.

I think HTC has to bring a good solution for these problems
[HD2 General] valos:
Don't forget to make a soft reset
[HD2 General] alanbradshaw:
I agree, I never had a problem with Microsoft stack. But I have never been able to use A2DP with my JVC on any HTC using the Widcomm stack. (HD2, TP2, or TD2)
[HD2 General] alanbradshaw:
No go on my JVC. Same problem. Disconnects as soon as I press play.
[HD2 General] Appelsap:
Glad to see it works for some, sorry to see it doesn't work for all.

Alan, you may want to try to alter the device code, so it connects as a regular phone rather than a PDA, I've seen some people have success with that.

I haven't yet fully tested the priority setting on my own car stereo (from parrot), preliminary results were good though, will report back as soon as I have done extensive tests.
[HD2 General] alanbradshaw:
I made the following change:

Change Registry setting:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Bluetooth\Sys

Add the DWORD setting COD=5374476

This makes devices see the HD2 as a 'Normal' phone.

Still no go on the A2DP. Using the the Handsfree profile works very well, just no Stero Bluetooth.
[HD2 General] valos:
It's very strange that you don't get a connection.

Today I had to make a soft reset and it's still working.

You can try to change the value of the registry key between 60 and 256.

As "Appelsap" already mentioned; with "60"you get connection problems..

In my case before this tweak I get handsfree connection and A2DP connection aswell but also disconnects when I press play onto my JVC set.

Then it will reconnect but with no sound at all (Handsfree and A2DP).

When I connected only the handsfree option everything went well.

With this tweak I have really a good connection also the sound is good only the voice from navigation software is cracking when I'm playing music.
[HD2 General] valos:
Preferable is also to make a new connection to your headunit by deleting the old one.
[HD2 General] valos:
I found an other issue with the music player from HTC.

When I use this player the connection will break and reconnect without sound.

When I use Windows Mediaplayer everything goes ok including skipping to next number and so on. How can you explain this.
[HD2 General] batesweb:
I have exactly the same problem ... flaky connection to my JVC KVX44 adn cannot use the HTC player - only Windows Media Player.

Since this post anyone found a solution please?

Thanks