yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] webpatrick:
Wouldn't hack it, you loose your warranty. First we have to get a Official ROM, so we can go back to that, for warranty issues.

After that, we can use HSPL so we can flash every ROM we want.

But first Vodafone has to release an Upgrade, of leak it's default (of the shelf) ROM.

Be patient...
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] hashmank:
I asked Vodafone to upload (on dutch vodafone site) a new firmware so the few problems would be "fixed" but they answered this:

Het is nog niet bekend of en wanneer er een update voor de HTC HD2 komt. Het enige wat ik u kan aanraden is om uw toestel ter reparatie aan te bieden.

So they don't know if their will be an update or when...
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] webpatrick:
I'm also corresponding with Vodafone NL, cause when I bought the device (by phone) they told me that they didn't do branding anymore.
[General Questions and Answers] Raptor-21:
As I am planning on changing my white Hero's housing to a black one, I will obviously be voiding the warranty as I have to remove the tamper evident label to get at one of the screws. But if my phone is under my home insurance will it still be covered for faults/damages ect, or does voiding the warranty also void the insurance for the phone?

Thank you for any help! :)
[General Questions and Answers] ElCondor:
Hi,

It is still your property, so I think it will stay insured.

If not, it would be pretty weird because if your warranty period expires your insurance would do so too. That seems a bit unnatural to me.

Cheers,

EC
[General Questions and Answers] Raptor-21:
Ah, thank you very much EC. That's what I was thinking, but really had no idea so wanted to make sure. :thumbs_up:
[General Questions and Answers] ElCondor:
Okay, but do not flame on me when I am wrong;)

Good luck with it, I didn't even know that was possible.

Cheers,

EC
[General Questions and Answers] Raptor-21:
Don't worry, I won't. :)

And yeah, after getting a hold of HTCs official dissassembly guides it looks a fairly simple job, only thing I'm a bit nervous about is putting the screen part in the oven for 25 minutes to get the digitizer off!

Thanks again for your help.
[General Questions and Answers] ElCondor:
:eek:That sounds pretty risky!

Good luck, maybe you can make some sort of guide with photo's of dissasembling the device, it might help others, but that's your call, it's just an idea.

EC
[General Questions and Answers] Raptor-21:
Yeah, going to be very cautious with that stage. But I have posted a link to where I found all the HTC dissasembly guides in the hero forum, although I imagine a specific step by step guide to changing the housing would be quite helpful. I'll make sure I take lots of pictures.

I still need to get hold of a black volume rocker as you may have seen from my other thread, unfortunatly not having much luck.
[Nexus One General] agentkalaw:
For those that have or are getting their N1's could you do a review of battery life compared to your previous phones. I haven't seen anyone report on battery life. I'm curious to see what kind of battery life N1 has due to the big screen and fast processor.
[Nexus One General] nelson8403:
http://www.billshrink.com/blog/wp-content/themes/shrinkage/images/graphics/nexus-one-total-cost.jpg

it has the best battery out of all of them (talk time on 3g) 7 hours

standby is pretty standard 250 hrs
[Nexus One General] rossiscatch:
I could be wrong here, but won't the big screen size be somewhat offset by the fact that it is an AMOLED screen? I am not sure what the difference in power draw is...

Nelson,

7 hours of talk time? Not bad!
[Android Software Development] anheuer:
I loveee the htcm keyboard for android.

and i used it all the time on my htc magic.

but on my milestone its not build for the resolution.

so its ugly and doesnt fill the screen in landscape.

is there a version that looks better for the droid/milestone?
[Android Software Development] Iridox:
Not at the moment... the keyboard for the Dragon would probably work in portrait mode, but not sure if the landscape version would show right on the Droid
[HD2 General] diegolaz:
Hello, I live in Argentina but can buy it in the US... but where can you get an unlocked LEO (HD2) and what are current prices?

Thanks!

diego
[HD2 General] ftr2k8:
I paid £475 from eXpansys for mine
[HD2 General] jakem:
I bought mine from Clove and was very happy with their service. They're currently charging £420 (excl. VAT): http://www.clove.co.uk/viewProduct.aspx?product=8BD3543E-20C2-425E-AE08-49CDE8188D62
[HD2 General] blanco360:
HTC store in Taipei. Most of the stores are charging the same though, came to about £410 when I bought it.
[HD2 General] diegolaz:
thanks for the responses!

Google says 420 British pounds = 2 559.28427 Argentine pesos

that like a elementary school teacher's salary here hehehe, I hope it goes down in price with googles nexus one in u$s 529.
[G1 General] sirocyl:
I didn't think it belonged in Dream Android Development, so I'm putting it here. If it needs to be moved, move it.

Is it possible to boot anything other than Android on the Dream?

I've seen the Nokia N900 and its Maemo 5 firmware, and I'm absolutely drawn to it, thanks to its debian-based OS (sudo apt-get install anything), it's X-based graphics system (REAL linux GUI programs), and all the apps it already has (Native Gizmo > Hacky Sipdroid).

I've also taken a look at other Linux-based open phone firmwares.

What is keeping us from doing this? If it's drivers, do they exist for another similar Linux-based firmware?

Could we dual-boot Android and this other OS using a third-stage bootloader which loads as a kernel from within the BOOT: partition?

I've seen the (albeit extremely hackish) method of getting Debian on the G1, chrooting into a loop-mounted FS and using a loopback VNC to spring into a KDE/Gnome/LXDE UI, but it's slow, still has Android and its apps loaded into memory, and very hackish and unstable.

I'm more than willing to test anything firmware-wise on my phone as long as it doesn't mess with my SPL.

The possibilities are nearly limitless - WINE under Linux means true "Windows Mobile" without the WinCE kernel.

Or perhaps WinMo/WinCE can be booted on the Dream?

It's more of a question of whether or not it's possible right now than a concept or implementation, but once that's answered, I'll either throw some time into testing and porting, or kick back and enjoy the Android as it is.

For starters:

- How does the SPL hand off to the BOOT: partition and its kernel/initrd?

- What devices need what drivers? What should be thrown into the kernel?

- Do things need reverse-engineering or is it all straightforward and documented?

- How can we use the space provided without messing with the SPL? (use cache partition for OS? Modified recovery that doesn't depend on cache partition?)

- Is dual-booting between Android possible? Can this be switched and launched before Dalvik and the Android stuff loads on the Android kernel?

- Can this be done with other Android-powered, rooted devices?
[G1 General] vaskas:
Have you seen wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/OpenMoko_on_HTC-Dream or lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2009-August/052529.html? (Crap, I can't post links) Looks promising since Angstrom is a very powerful embedded distro, but it's a one-man project now. I hope some people will join it or start a similar project.

G1 is a great device, however, I can see only a few people hacking on OS alternatives for it. You always got to have either an active community or a company in order to complete such a project.

The Android hackers community is very vibrant, however, people are not really interested in bringing a fully-featured Linux distro to G1 or other Android phones. Android is too trendy itself ;)

The Debian/Ubuntu opportunity that we have now is nice, but it looks like an addition to the Android which takes a lot of memory and CPU.

I have just set up a small Ubuntu environment booting on my G1 together with Android. I combined the userspace prepared by Paolo Sammicheli (xdatap1.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/jaunty-under-android/) with Bayle Shanks's instructions (bayleshanks.com/wiki.pl?tips-computer-android-g1_debian_cyanogenMod). I am going to use it for mutt, vim, some coding. X11/VNC experience has been frustrating so far.

I am pretty sure though that there will be more people wanting to use alternative OSes on their phones: Moto Droid and Nexus are powerful enough for a full desktop environment.
[G1 General] digitaljeff:
i really think it lies in what you want from your phone... i know you say you use your ubuntu env for things such as vim and mutt, but everything that vim and mutt can do, can already be done under android..

the biggest challenge is getting people to latch on to an alternate distro which offers MORE than android, which has yet to come to surface... ultimately this is a phone.. not a netbook...and for a phone android is pretty dam sweet...

although in terms of geek work, running ANY other os on non native hardware is cool....albeit not really worth it
[G1 General] scheich:
anybody were successful by using the internal-memory-image from the openmoko wiki?

I always get kernel panic, when booting it. I flashed it with flash_image boot/system, does this matter? In the wiki they use fastboot.
[G1 General] vaskas:
scheich, I only tried the SD-card way (see my post in http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=624392)

It shouldn't really matter whether you use fastboot or flash the image. The kernel panic could occur due to the inability to find the root filesystem. Try reflashing the yaffs2.

By the way, why did you choose to put OpenMoko in the internal memory? Are you going to use it exclusively or as the primary OS on the device?
[G1 General] lbcoder:
Some of what you suggest can be done, but not recommended.

1) Nokia/Maemo is a bad fit for a phone. It is a real HOG. It is also shoehorning (with a sledge hammer) a desktop OS into a phone. It just doesn't work right. Android exists because a totally new UI model was needed to work optimally with a phone's physical form.

2) WINE will NEVER work since the CPU in the phone is ARM and not x86. If you want to run windonkey programs (can't imagine why you would), you would have to run a PROCESSOR EMULATOR, and this will be REALLY REALLY REALLY slow and memory intense.
[G1 General] scheich:
Tried reflashing the system image. Also the older image on the ftpserver. The same. I will try the sdcard installation.

Two reasons:

1. Thought that would be the faster way to get it work. I used BART to backup my android installation.

2. Thougt, I would get a bit more perfomance in using the internal memory.

I really would like to use SHR(or other) as primary OS, because I had an GTA02, depends on what is(could) work(ing) on the dream.
[G1 General] zenstitution:
would it be possible to boot ubuntu netbook remix? it uses far less resources.
[G1 General] vaskas:
NBR is targeted at x86, but Ubuntu MID edition is installable. It's similar to the netbook remix. We'll have to wait before we have a proven/stable installation method though.
[G1 General] Che123:
I would really like to see another OS on my Dream as well - just in addition to android :)
[G1 General] vaskas:
Well, you can try the OpenMoko port (it's in the alpha stage now): http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=5521417 :)

The more people get interested in the alternative OS, the sooner we'll get one.
[G1 General] Che123:
Really hot stuff - but i don't want to loose my recovery :D

But i will definetly keep an eye on it! :)

edit: Adding a bootmngr like grub for selecting boot OS (android/openmoko/recovery) would be really nice ;) Or adding bootoptions to the current amon_ra Recovery would be a soloution too. But I'm no dev, so I don't even know if it is possible. :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] wonderstoat:
Hi

My Topaz died over the holidays (oil spot under the screen) and in a fit of half drunken exuberance I ordered a HD2 from devicewire. I now have a shiny HD2 and I think I'm in LOVE :eek:

I already had the Sense UI installed on my Topaz (Duty's excellent Holy Grail R6 ROM) so it's not so much the UI which appeals, but everything is LOVELY when rendered on that gorgeous screen. Sitting in bed connecting to guardian.co.uk thru wi-fi, I can read the text on the mainpage without any zoom and the pages render so fast, it's like a flipping laptop!

BUT ... I have a problem. A problem related to the Widcomm stack. I have previously used Jetware to access the BT interface in my Audi for a number of HTC phones over the years. Unfortunately jetware won't work at all with the Widcomm stack. It's ironic, because the phone will actually sync fine with the car, but it tries to sync the entire phonebook (in excess of 1100 numbers). In the past, I've used Jetware to only sync around 80 of these contacts to the car (I put them in an outlook category called "car" and told jetware to only sync those).

I realise this is a pretty specific requirement, but I either need a version of Jetware which plays with the Widcomm stack, or an app that will only allow the vanilla Bluetooth in the phone to send ONLY the "car" category contacts to the phone. Anyone have any ideas? Due to my job, the people I need to talk to regularly can change quite a bit.

Any help much appreciated!!!

Thanks

Stoatie
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] wonderstoat:
Really? no-one? I'd offer £50 paypal payment to anyone who can make Jetware run on the Widcomm stack ... surely someone like Duty could knock this out in an afternoon?? :cool:
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] DionL:
I was also trying to install the jetware extension on my hd2 to get rid of the bluetooth connection problems with my carkit (losing connection after some time). But unfortunately it is not available yet on the widcomm stack...

Please post this when available....

Thanks

Dion
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] bill340:
Another $50,- from me, if someone can make it...
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] ful babu:
I am having the same problem as well ... cant load the extensions in HD2
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] petexx:
Hi guys,

Today I have installed nimbuzz on my LEO. I'm experiencing weird issue, when I open nimbuzz, and then switch to my phones contacts the only contact I can see on my list is "Me". All other contacts are vanished. Then when I close the nimbuzz, contacts appear again but they are doubled (for some reason contacts from my sim are coppied to phone). It happens every time I launch this app.

Has anyone experienced the same problem?

Regards

Pete
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Jibreil:
Nimbuzz isn't yet compatible with Leo. I guess that's why your facing this problem.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] *justintime*:
Hi Guys,

It has been a while that i flashed my rom since Dutty has left us.

I am wondering wich cooker come closest to Dutty. I know that a Rom is a personal thing.

I am running sense 2.1 holy grail r01 now some improvements on new roms.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] ClydeB1:
Well before this thread gets quickly locked down ;)

There are plenty of good chefs here at least as good as Dutty ever was ;). Read the threads, see what bugs are being experienced, see what type of roms appeal to you and try a few out. As you rightly said they are personal things, so what appeals to one may not be to your liking.

Edit: The more experienced ones for Blackstone are miri, nrg with some newer chefs such as XannyTech, Flashmore, Hello Nasty amongst others (no offense intended to anyone I left out ;)) and they all do great jobs.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] black jack:
Xannytech roms are very...very good.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] band27:
Not a fair question to ask as all chefs put a lot of effort in there Roms and to start ranking chefs is really deminishing there work while highlighting only one. That's not the goal of this thread.

Suggestion: Flash a couple of Roms and be your own judge. Visit the chefs thread and do some reading helps as well.

Good luck in your voyage....;)
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] quale:
I have tried, and i recommend:

-Laurentius26: Really smooth and stable

-NRGZ28: Really good looking. Includes a lot of apps and good theme.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] telegraph0000:
A simple thing to do is:

1. Back up your current ROM (using Sprite and PIM Backup). That way, in case you don't like what you see with whatever you're trying, you can simply go back to the ROM and reload Sprite and PIM files.

2. Load up Sashimi with all the cabs you use (to device and storage card)

3. Download whatever ROM you're going to try out (don't forget to hard reset after loading)

4. Load up Sashimi to load all programs, restore your PIM file

and you're done.

That's what I do...it's all a matter of trial and preferences. Sure, some time is invested in finding the ROM you like, however, I'm sure that everyone would agree that once they find "IT", it's makes for a more enjoyable experience in using their phone.

There will be one or two things you don't like about a ROM, but isn't that a fact of life, that nothing is ever perfect???
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] Fallen Spartan:
As much as Dutty is a great chef, there are plenty of others chefs which are just as good, possibly better so its unfair to these chefs that put so much hard work in that you ask this question. Users also have loyalties so will obviously recommend there favourites. Everyone has different opinions and as such there is no real answer.

Best advice is to backup and flash some yourself to make your own conclusion

Thread closed
[Palm Treo Pro] guilledil:
Hi there,

I have been using Styletap for a while and everything was fine, the Styletap Launcher and the applications i used were really fast. But all of a sudden the Styletap Launcher started taking a long time to load, by long time I mean around 20 seconds to load, so as you can imagine, it really becomes unusable.

The initial screen appears as fas as always, the problem is that I can not select any of my programs for around that period of time. I noticed the battery indicator in the palm environment appears for less than a second and then it dissapears, as long as the battery indicator is not there, I can not select anything. When it appears again, I am able to begin working in the Palm OS environment. I have tried unchecking the "battery" indicator in the preferences screen but the problem remains.

If I use any application icon directly, I get a blank screen for about the same 20 seconds and after that I get my Palm Os application on the TP.

I thought about the amount of free memory and started moving my applications to the SD memory (microSD). I am running with 47.5MB of free storage memory and 55.55MB of free program memory. Sound like enought to me but the problem remains, I made a soft reset after that but nothing happens.

Any clues that might help me?

Regards,
[Palm Treo Pro] guilledil:
Looks like nobody else had this problem... just in case someone comes here from Google. My problem disappeared after flashing my Treo Pro to 6.5, do not know why but in stock 6.1 ROM Styletap and Garmin XT sometimes took longer than a minute to start!

Just update your ROM and you are done!
[HD2 General] XeniczZ:
hey, i got the leo just over two weeks ago, and swapped my orange sim for my o2 sim (my phone is unlocked) yesterday night. This morning the phone did not charge at all and i still cannot get it to charge, i have tried via the wall plug and plugging into my PC. At the top of the phone there is a green LED flash and then an orange one.

Any ideas as to why it wont charge, im still under guarentee so if its any problems with the battery etc. i am sure i can get it replaced, Thanks in advance.
[HD2 General] XeniczZ:
i've tried taking out the SIM then turned it on and off, that didn't work. I then tried the same but with the SanDisk card. Still no hope.
[HD2 General] GraileR1:
Hi, sorry to here about your troubles but it is nothing I haven't seen before. Hope this helps.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=610330
[HD2 General] lovebell:
Try to release all the energy of the battery, then plug the usb cable to computer, us your PC to charge it.If it dosen't work, congrats then, you are in the same situation as me,

-order a new battery replacement see if it's sloved, if not, send it to HTC for repair.
[HD2 General] lovebell:
btw, just curious, are you in Canada as well...?
[HD2 General] mmpl:
hi i have the same problem solution is simple you just bend middle pin that connect battery bend it down a little and it should works:D
[HD2 General] lovebell:
Thanks mmpl, I am gonna try that, I wish that may solve my battery drain problem as well.
[HD2 General] XeniczZ:
nah im not Canadian, from the UK. The place i bought it from said i could send it to them and they can check it, if they can't fix it they'll send a new one to me
[HD2 General] XeniczZ:
WOW! amazingly, i had no hope in it. But i did play around with the middle pin just a slight tap backwards and then *forced* the usb into my phone and computer, it switched on switched off i unplugged my phone is did a white screen flash, but it is now holding the solid orange LED of life! i can't understand what on earth was wrong, and it could still not charge but the LED seems to be correct!
[HD2 General] ahdai:
Unfortunately i am now experiencing this with a replacement battery from China. It flashes green and orange when plugged in and won't charge. Original battery works normal. Well... back to seller.
[HD2 General] G&C:
Problem Fixed!

Thanks mmpl. The middle prong on the HD2 that connects the battery was pointing slightly up from horizontal (and it looks different than the two prongs and seems a little limp/loose); I pushed it down a little so it's just slightly down from horizontal; put the battery in and that fixed it! Thank you for posting the solution!!!

My symptoms were that the battery indicator icon in the title bar would switch to full bars when plugged in (did not show the plug icon in the title bar as it should have), but when I click on the battery indicator icon the sub screen (showing the battery) would show the actual state of the battery, e.g., 30% with one bar.

I've been also having freeze-up problems when dialing out, thereby requiring a re-boot (take the battery out or push the reset pin) once or twice every day (I'm on the phone a lot however), and maybe the daily removal/re-install of the battery weakened the prong.
[HD2 General] stedyone:
Replacement battery from China...

Hi, I also have purchased a cheap replacement battery from China as a backup for my Samsung i500. I cannot charge this battery in the phone! I get a pop window when I connect my charging cable that states; "battery is not connected"! The stock original Samsung OEM battery charges in the phone just fine.

I wonder what the problem is?
[HD2 General] BluDRed:
Thanks mmpl, I had not even considered the pin until I read your post.

I know this is the wrong thread for xperia ray, but I just wanted to say that this is something that could happen to absolutely every phone. The middle pin on my ray was stuck in, so far in that it would not connect properly to the battery. By getting a sewing needle in and tinkering it back out it now connects and charges properly.

Also, I hear that if you have flashed your phone you may need to re-calibrate it. If your phone is rooted, you can do this with the aptly named app called BatteryCalibration. Worth considering I think.
[General Questions and Answers] max_3000:
Hey guys, first post on this forum.

Heard a lot of awesome stuff about this place and I hope some of you can help me decide between those two phones.

Basically I'm in the market for a new smartphone with a sizable screen and a qwerty keyboard.

I'd like to have a good browsing experience (flash support is a huge plus) and run some emulators too :D.

It will also replace my old PMP so a 3.5mm jack would be very useful.

So I really like these two phones. I was also considering a HTC TP2 but it doesn't have a headphone jack and it's kind of old and slow by now...

So I'd like to ask for some suggestions/recommendations/opinions or just your 2 cents :)