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[About XDA developers] Livven:
All those things you both said - greater exposure and accessibility for users - can be accomplished with even better results the way I suggested, in my opinion, especially with categorization, tags and ability to sort by views/updates/rating etc. implemented. After all, this just takes the concept a step further.

There could also be a showcase somewhere on the front-page, with the description automatically taken from the original, for featured, latest etc. items. There are so many possibilities...
[About XDA developers] SeanFromSoCal:
I'm glad to see that the ideas are flowing and there could be some significant changes and improvements to XDA. I haven't been thru this entire thread...15 pages to read just before I give my 2cents is too long.

Just one question for the admins: Would you guys be open to and interested in the idea of having an outside developer create new sections for XDA to help organize and improve problem areas if I can seamless integrate it with vBulletin?

I have many many ideas on how to handle and organize all these XDA community contributions and ROMs. As well as the technical support and questions of each. Many of it will have to be very customized code since there are more facets to what we have here than many of the typical forum plug-ins do. (Plus most plugins are poorly coded and very inefficient anyways and would really slow down this site).

I

was

going to create and launch a new Windows Mobile software site that would do this. I'm just too busy. Besides the time to build it, beyond that I don't have the time to moderate it, add the content/contributions and build the community. You guys already have the content and community so it would be much better to team up with you guys than to compete. If you can't beat them, join 'em mentality.

The extensions will be build upon the vBulletin API and schema, so it'll be seamless to the users. I don't build bloated code. It'll be lean and mean PHP and the DB queries will take full advantage of the query cache and other performance capabilities of MySQL. I'm a stickler for performance.

I'm just putting the question out there. If you guys are any bit interested feel free to PM me and we can discuss further.
[About XDA developers] SeanFromSoCal:
Simple Performance Tweaks

Here's some quick and easy performance tweaks you guys can make to speed up the site.

If you set the DocType as XHTML make sure you close those <BR /> and <IMG /> tags.

Way too much whitespace in the HTML. View Source and you can see. You can probably go thru the template manually and remove a bunch of it and save many KB per page. The forum homepage uncompressed is 500KB just of HTML. That's horrible!

There is a big inline CSS in the head. That should definitely be moved to a seperate minified external stylesheet. That way it is cached and doesn't have to be re-downloaded with every page. 2% savings on the forum homepage download size and 7% on the About XDA forum display page...might seem small but with many of us doing dozens of page views a day...it'll save a lot of bandwidth.

Some of the common icons and device items should have a cache expired date like a month out or even more. No need to have browsers keep downloading these items if they don't change. Even if it is cached without the expiration date its still going to ping the server to make sure the files are the same. That's unnecessary...set the cache expiration date and save some bandwidth and latency time.

A lot of the external JavaScript files aren't gzipped. Adjust your .htaccess files to compress them on the fly or make them all gzipped with the original filenames. I can't think of any popular browser that doesn't handle gzip.

Try moving some of the external JavaScript files to the bottom just before the </body> on a test server. If you don't get JavaScript errors then it should be fine to leave them. Most of them don't needed to be loaded early. If you have them at the end...if JavaScript is downloaded in the beginning or middle of the HTML code it'll slow down the page rendering since the browser has to process the Javascript code.

Talking about Javascript....11 separate js files per page?? Serious? All those hosted on XDA should be combined into a single file, minimized and gzipped.

Not sure on your guys server setup on whether it is multiple servers. But if not, I would suggest you guys throw the images/icons/avatars Amazon's S3 servers or another similar service provider. In my math it was pretty cheap compared to leasing an equivalent server.

That's it for now. I'm sure there is a lot more I can help suggest but that would entail looking into Apache/PHP/MySQL settings. If you want me to help with that too. Just have the appropriate person PM me and we can discuss further together.
[About XDA developers] SeanFromSoCal:
I saw some earlier posts on here that there is too many devices and subforums for each device. And it'll only get worse with more devices added. But you need them for new people to see all the phones XDA community supports and also for search engines.

So here is a nice way to let people hide everything they don't care about:

On each Forum Display Parent Group (General Discussion, Wallaby, Blue Angel, etc.) right aligned on the gray bar have a [-] to show you can collapse it. When someone clicks on the [-] with javascript it'll hide that HTML block, set a cookie to remember what you closed, and change the [-] to a [+]. Anytime you come back to the page as long as you have the cookie set, javascript will close them on page load.

To reduce cookie size so it doesn't increase the request header you can set it in a CSV string using the Forum_ID

forumHide = '240,242,244'

Then the javascript can just do a loop through those DIV/Table IDs in the DOM and style.display="none" them.

You can also do this with PHP when it produces the page depending on a logged in user's setting, but that's too much server overhead to properly cache all the combinations. Hopefully *crossing fingers* the forum homepage is being cached and refreshed every couple minutes or so.
[About XDA developers] svetius:
The template we use on XDA has some custom modifications to allow for the device images. Because of this, the collapse function doesn't work. We're working on a very new theme for the XDA forums that should allow this function.

We've made a lot of changes to make the site faster. I'm sure you'll agree that most page loads in under three seconds. In the future, we'll consider making further changes and this list you have is a good reference. Thanks!
[About XDA developers] svetius:
We're always open to ideas. Feel free to PM me or email xda.svetius@gmail.com.
[About XDA developers] SeanFromSoCal:
Yes, please consider those easy suggestions. Just some simple changes to your .htaccess files and merging some files together and tweaking your template. All this (except for offloading some static file handling to S3) can be done in a couple hours by any decently skilled developer.

Simple things like these can probably reduce your bandwidth by 5% and besides increasing page download speed by 5% there would be less latency by having less HTTP requests on cached items. This clears up the pipe, reduces CPU cycles, and lowers memory consumption.

Yahoo has a detailed post on it: http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html
[Nexus One General] legolas.w:
Hello everyone.

Can you please let me know how nexus one integrate with Facebook? does it fetch my all of friend list from facebook and add them to my contact list or it let me specify which group of friend I want to integrate into my contact list.

Thanks.
[Nexus One General] Blueman101:
Yes it pulls all the known contacts you have from Facebook and add it to your phone contacts, it even pulls there picture, it will also combine contacts if you have duplicates, ie a Bob h from phone is combined with Bob h of Facebook to make one contact onyour phone with all the data of both.
[Nexus One General] SpyderMS:
Unfortunately it's not perfect. It combined my Danny and Daniel contacts (both on my phone previous to FB sync) into a single Danny Lopez contact :mad:
[Nexus One General] saffad:
What about if you only want the google contacts to be synced with facebook? Will it do that? and if you already have pictures for the contacts, will the sync replace the pictures with their Facebook profile pic?
[Nexus One General] SpyderMS:
You have to manually turn Facebook Sync on, so if you don't want it to sync your facebook contacts, simply don't enable that function. That's the only thing the facebook sync does that I can see. It gives you some options when you add the account on how you want it to sync, but I can't remember what those options are, and can't figure out how to change them after I already added my account :confused:
[Nexus One General] niiiick:
you can choose to sync only those contacts that are already in your contacts list.

i think it works like this:

for all contacts in your list, find facebook friends with that email address. if no google contact image, then pull facebook image.

for all contacts in your list without email addresses, find facebook friends with that name. pull email addresses, adn if no google contact image, then pull facebook image.
[Nexus One General] SpyderMS:
Here are the options Facebook gives you:

Sync All (Sync data about all friends to Contacts)

Sync with existing contacts (Sync data only about friends already in Contacts)

Don't Sync (Use information about friends only in Facebook)
[Nexus One General] Uejji:
If the Nexus One incorrectly combines two different people together into the same contact, just edit the contact and select Separate in the menu. Then you can manually rejoin if you want.

For example, I have a couple of friends who have the same name as their fathers (except of course name suffix) and so I ended up with two contacts instead of four. I just went into those two, separated them, and then did the rejoining manually. I wish there were better options for this (for example, if there's only one contact you want to separate out, you have to separate the whole contact instead of only being able to separate one out) but it's not particularly difficult to do.
[Nexus One General] XfrostX:
Do you guys know how to unsync it? I synced it to see what it was and now I do not want all their pictures on the phone.
[Nexus One General] Over Achiever:
Does anyone know how to manually connect facebook accounts? Not all of my friends have their full names (or have alternate names) on facebook, it would be nice to link them.
[Nexus One General] Uejji:
Re: XfrostX in Settings, go to Accounts & Sync and just remove the Facebook account.

Re: Over Achiever in Contacts, long-press on the contact you want to connect a Facebook account to, select Edit contact, push menu and Join. It'll show a list of suggested contacts, or you can push Show all contacts and just select the one you want.
[Nexus One General] xManMythLegend:
Not without a 3rd party.

Asurion works great but never goes away and is a resource hog.
[Nexus One General] Uejji:
I must be misunderstanding the question or we're thinking of different things. You can very easily connect a facebook friend to a contact through the method I posted above.
[Nexus One General] oligon:
Has anyone else found the photos from facebook sync are stupidly small? Mine have come through so small that when someone calls they're just a mess of pixels, and even when they appear as a little thumbnail in quicksearch they're just a tiny square. Seems like they're 20x20 or something.
[Nexus One General] kozm0naut:
Does anyone know of a way of uninstalling the Facebook app? I can't find it in the app list and I'd really rather not have it.
[Nexus One General] trickinit:
I'm able to join the Facebook contacts with my Google contacts, but no matter what I do, it always seems to change my contact's name to display what they have on their Facebook. For example, my mom and dad both have Facebook accounts, and after joining thier profiles, it doesn't show them as "Mom" and "Dad", but as their names. It's kind of annoying, because now whenever I try to find them, I have to look under their names. Has anybody else figured out a way around this?
[Nexus One General] nanu*1:
Same for me BUT!!! my girlfriends nickname has remained and I cannot figure out how or why, I would like to have everybody else's nicknames showing rather than their full names!
[Nexus One General] XZQ't:
:(

i also need work around on this .. anyone ?
[Nexus One General] MMartins:
in my xRom (still without facebook integration) the phone have joined some contacts into one too! (both from google contacts)

I didn't know that split option I will try to find it when I found another contact joined
[Nexus One General] uansari1:
Is her name on Facebook the same as that in your Google contacts? The only names that stayed the same when my contacts integrated were my sisters, and parents. In my Google contacts list, I have the words "Sister", "Mother", and "Father" written after their first name (so that if I get into a bad accident or something, emergency personnel can quickly notify the right people). I figured the phone recognizes those as keywords and doesn't change them.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] zpdy:
Hi,

I would like to know if there is way to install just android without install Windows Mobile rom ?

I mean that the Android boot without using WM ...
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] zenity:
At the moment no, I think we lack a bootloader to start booting the rom, also Android is not yet stable enough to use as a stand-alone OS for our phones, I'm certain it will all come together in time, much as the Familiar Linux Project did on the Ipaq series of PDA's.

Until then we have the best compromise, useable android, with the comfort of having WM still available for when we really need it.

:)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] stylez:
Moved as not ROM Development....
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] bandur:
take a look at

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=614275

to understand the state-of-art of flashing Kaiser to nand ....
[General Questions and Answers] azreal1983:
Hi,

I have searched on the forum and could find my answer. I have an HD2 and a gmail account.

I have setup to download the emails however it only downloads the headers.

On previous versions of WM there was a final option on emails with said

Choose to download either the entire message or just the message header from the dropdown menu.

If downloading message headers, specify an amount of the message body to also download (in KB).

This version doesn't have this that I can find.

Any way around this as it is very annoying having to click each time.

Also is there any way to allow it to download internet pictures on emails?

Cheers
[HD2 General] vuedesprit:
hello all, today it was the first time i leave my hd2 screen off for more than 3 hours, and when i want to turn on the screen after that, it wont and it stay black, no touch and no hardkey will turn on the screen, any solution for that?
[HD2 General] Archer:
It's a known issue. Sometimes a long press of the end-call button will bring up the display, but that's rare. It normally needs a soft-reset/battery out to reboot the phone.

It's obviously a software issue as the buttons light up when you press them, then turn off when they time-out, and then light up when pressed again, so the OS is still running happily in the background.
[HD2 General] vuedesprit:
during my search and tries for applications and tweaks for the device, i remember i saw something that assign a display wake up on the long end press, and something that wake up on shaking the device, is there any confirmation if these tools solve this issue?
[HD2 General] Archer:
Nope - try them. You could be the hero that confirms it ;)
[HD2 General] cybermo:
Today was my turn to have that issue. Unfortunately :-(

I 've been looking for an answer, but there is no solution. Just a thread that talk about that the issue is caused by SD-card, corrupt files, formatting issue...

Please, do we have any solution for that issue? it started this morning and I have it 4 times today.
[HD2 General] Athar Mansoor:
hmm. happened to me today. don't know what caused it.
[HD2 General] CHIP STAXMAN:
I had this problem today as well for the first time. I thought it was to do with having the animated weather wallpaper and having rain. Today for the first time I had it predicting rain and my Leo kept saying "Loading touch sense" when coming out of lock. It's never done that before.

Then after an hour of lock it refused to wake, despite the physical keys lighting up.
[HD2 General] htc12345:
I had this problem also today as well for the first time! But twice, so basically the first time and second time :o

First time phone wouldn't go on, touching the screen, hitting the spot where the lockslider was (in the dark), pressing short or pressing long on hard-buttons. The phone didn't respond at all.

Second time the hard-keys would light up, but phone refused to wake.
[HD2 General] chrisonfire:
I had this problem.

Solution: Download an app called MemMaid and use the settings in post #75:

xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=596484&highlight=settings&page=8
[HD2 General] sbirsen:
For me it was the Disable Auto Device Lock.cab (in combination with windows exchange server) that caused the frequent HD2-doesn't-wake-up problem.

I uninstalled it and it is working fine again.

Have a look here, the exact same problem was discussed :

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=5386344#post5386344
[HD2 General] CHIP STAXMAN:
Aaargh. Just happened to me again. So that's twice today.Locked it with Opera open. Went to toilet. Came back and Leo wouldn't come back. Again the physical keys were lighting, but the screen stayed dark.

I'm running standard ROM that came with phone, 1.48.405.2 and then official hot fixes on top. Only using apps that came with the phone too.

Not done any tweaking besides cosmetic through the standard phone options.
[HD2 General] cybermo:
guys let's try to focus here, we all have/had this issue. So let's try to remember what's the last things we dis so we can find the common cause so we can identify it.

Well I said in my post above, I read (don't remember where! ) that the problem is related to the microSD card.

Was logical for me, because I kept copying, deleting, copying tow large files large files in parallel, I mean I stressed my microSD. By the way it's the one provided by HD2 with the copilot in it.

What I've done, is that removed the microSD for a while and there were no freeing again for like 4 hours, and it was with screen off for like 1 hour and half, come back from the fitness, and it's ok.

Once back home, I backed up all my MicroSD to my computer, then formatted it with HD2. After that I copied back all my data to my micrSD. So far so good.

hint: what's the official SD Card Storage Cards hotfix from HTC for?
[General Questions and Answers] x5x_tim:
Hi,

I'm trying to go the geotagging way on twitter. I found an old bluetooth GPS thing from TomTom and I hooked it up to my phone. I created a COM port for it (first COM0, but then I found out some programms don't scan that one, so I went with COM1). When I launch Goolge Maps and I enter COM1 and baud rate 4800 manually, it all works like a charm. But when I let Windows manage it, it doesn't work. Why let Windows do the trick then? My twitter app, PockeTwit doesn't let me configure port and baud rate...

I read about the non-configuratable (for smartphone) hardware/software port that's been added since WM5, but since I got a smartphone, I can't set my hardware port.

Does anyone here know the default hardware port that windows uses, so I can set my receiver to that port?

Or is there any way to configure that manually through the register or some tool?

x5x_tim

(Sorry for the repo, but I thought this thread would fit in better here)
[G1 General] techbeck:
About a week ago I dropped my myTouch in to a sink of water and the 1/2 was soaked. After drying it out the best I could, the whole left side of the touch would not work and the speaker was very low and I could hardly hear anyone. Looking online I read that if you leave the phone in a bag of uncooked rice for several hours, the rice will remove the remaining moisture. Surprisingly, this worked and my phone is fully functional.

There was one other things I had to do tho....

The phone was acting sluggish and when I received a call, it would take several seconds for the android image/persons name to show up. Also, the dial pad took a while to load as well as Handcent. So, I did a wipe of the phone and redownloaded everything as well as reformatting my SD card. The phone is now quick again and working as it should. Dont know if the water damage messed up the phones software...but I am just happy it is working.

FYI for those who get their phone soaked. It does work. Which I am glad because the insurance was dicking me around. I called to report my phone damaged and they were asking me questions to verify my ID. Like what my address was 13 years ago. So of course I answered the questions wrong since who the hell remembers that? So I was going to have to go through more hassle...glad its working.
[G1 General] domenukk:
nice that your phone is working again.

ive also read that it helps to certain instant to put your motherboard in alcohol for a day or so.

yet the whole phone into a bag of rice sounds better :P
[G1 General] techbeck:
alcohol is only for phones with contaminated with sugar/salt. My phone was just plane water...thankfully.
[G1 General] gospeed.racer:
the most important thing is to get it into the rice quickly, dont waste any time. Corrosion happens quickly.

I had a blackberry that I saved just a week ago, they went in a hot tub with it, had the foresight to take the battery out immediately and called me. I told her to put it in rice and get it to me. That evening I received it, took it apart, and rinsed with a bit of alcohol. Because of how the keyboard membrane is I couldn't really soak it for fear of hurting it. I took a vacuum cleaner to it, sucked out all the moisture I could (never blow, it forces water/liquid in deeper) and then let it dry in some rice. The next day it was perfect. Little bleach to the test strips and good as new ;)
[Android Software Development] reb8:
Hi, I am new to android dev, but know java and other languages fairly well from before.

I have a simple question: is it possible to capture the audio from not only the mic or voice calls as defined in MediaRecorder.AudioSource, but instead from another app?
[Android Software Development] supremeteam256:
Like what kind of sounds. You could unpack the app and look for the audio files.
[Android Software Development] reb8:
Suppose I want to build an application that broadcasts my telephone conversations on the net in real time. The infrastructure of such an app seems like a fairly straight-forward thing: use MediaRecorder to record the voice, throw it onto the net (ok, this is the opposite of simple, but you get the idea).

Now, suppose I'd like to broadcast the sound from an mp3 application instead. As I'd like to do it in real time, looking for it on disk is not the solution.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] dhiral.v:
Hi,

Just wanted to ask if there was an app like red laser on the iphone for the hd2 or windows mobile, where you can scan barcodes from any product like a book and get the cheapest price from online results. :)

Thanks in advance
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] HerrVorragend:
Have a look at Marketplace in the next weeks... we've build an app like that (Personal Shopping Assist)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] ToddeSwe:
Nice to hear, can you explain to me why all market place software is installed on the device and not have an option to install to Storage Card?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] sicknick:
Try barcodezilla, does exactly what you want!

http://www.barcodezilla.net/Mobile.aspx
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] d3l1:
or http://www.woabi.de/ for germany (uses german shops, prices, ...)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] madmarf:
or barcoo http://www.barcoo.de/ , but also only german i think..