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[Off-topic] Finlay76:
I all,

I have a problem on my Windows Vista that began afetr the purchase of an external Hard Disk Freecom.

A few days afetr the purchase I disconnected it while it was writing and, since that moment, every time I connect and disconnect it, the PC go to freeze mode for 5 minutes.

The same thing happen even if the hard disk is disconnected: every time I start windows it go to freeze a little after the password, and every time I connect and disconnect a usb device.

I have looked for the solution everywhere, updated windows, unistalled and installed the hard disk from the device manager but I solved the problem only when I restored a recent backup.

Yesterday the Hard disk was writing a backup while Vista was installing the updates; at the end of the proceure windows restarted automatically and the problem began again!!!

The Pc go to freeze when it starts, every time I connect or disconnect the hard disk, an usb earphone that has always worked switch on but there is no audio and I don't know how many others usb devices will have problems.

Has anyone an idea to solve this problem before I throw out of the window Vista or the the hard disk?

Thank you

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[HD2 General] Karlos G:
EDIT: After having no luck getting it to auto update like it is suposed to i'm thinking maybe if we can change the interval that it updates (default is 2hours) then it might kick start it into working?? Bit of a stretch I know but have nothing else to try! lol :D

How do you set the update interval for contacts linked with facebook?

When I look at a contacts facebook tab their status is always at least a day old!

Thanks!
[HD2 General] Neville.Holland:
Slide along to manila settings click on data services..

Click on facebook logo or line, not the icon on the right..

No option to increase download interval only to allow automatic downloads.
[HD2 General] Karlos G:
Yeah that is already on but clearly it's not updating every 2 hours or my contacts status' would not be over a day old!! :confused:
[HD2 General] qweac:
Definetly not updating as often as it should on my phone either. Can go a whole day without automatic updates of facebook...
[HD2 General] Karlos G:
Yeah I only got round to linking my contatcs to the FB profiles the other day and I may as well of not bothered!! lol :rolleyes:
[HD2 General] Karlos G:
In fact it appears that there is no regularity to the updates, mine has now not updated since I manually did it on the 7th!! :mad:
[HD2 General] Karlos G:
Ok a few days on and I can confirm that it does not update at all unless I do it manually! :mad:
[HD2 General] emigrating:
This seems to work fine on my phone. I haven't actually made sure it's up to date every two hours or not, but checking my contacts their status always seems to be within a few hours.
[HD2 General] murks_muell:
Dumb question: How do you link contacts with facebook? And do the contact photos get updated if the person changes its photo in FB?
[HD2 General] NeilM:
Are you using any sort of auto disconnect on your data connection?
[HD2 General] Karlos G:
open up a contact and press the tab that looks like a person with a clock, then click link! ;)

Yes i'm using Bandswitch it disconnects 3G Data if idle for 30 secs, this has not effected any of my other updates though like Twitter, Email, Weather, etc... it's just Facebook that does not update at all :confused:
[HD2 General] Karlos G:
Just found out why I think it is!!!

FB doesnt remember my login details, each time I open the app it asks me to login! :mad:

Like this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=5353521#post5353521

EDIT: Although that doesnt explain why it works if I press update?! Hmmm.....
[Hero, G2 Touch Themes and Apps] bryanchapman9999:
Hi,

Anyone got the apk for this?

http://www.slacker.com/everywhere/mobile/android/

Can't find it in the market
[Hero, G2 Touch Themes and Apps] bryanchapman9999:
Managed to get hold of version 1, but it doesnt seem to work in the UK
[Hero, G2 Touch Themes and Apps] humz1m0t0:
Slacker radio apk

Would you post the slacker apk? I've been searching high and low. Can't find it.

I'm in the US it should work just fine.

Thanks!
[Hero, G2 Touch Themes and Apps] DanRo80:
http://www.mediafire.com/?5u9yzj7nedd4dlz
[General Questions and Answers] kelvicious:
i downloaded warfare incorporated and installed it on my omnia 2 i8000 wm 6.5..

i could run the game but when it starts the screen is so small and i couldnt press any of the buttons as well then i couldnt exit too so i have to force restart my phone..

Anyone have any idea on how to fix this so i could play? i really want to play this game T_T thanks in advance for any info.
[General Questions and Answers] orb3000:
Welcome to forums

Have a look here:

http://cellphoneforums.net/samsung/

Good luck,
[General Questions and Answers] kelvicious:
cant find anything there too >.<.. I guess WVGA version hasnt been release yet.. Thanks for your help anyway

cheers,
[General Questions and Answers] repa95:
Kelvicious,

I am playing warfare incorporated on my i8000 successfully after patching the executable with "gxpatcher" (found via google). It does not display in full 800 x 480 screen and leaves black bands top and bottom. But I can still play as I did on my ancient eten glofiish x500.

Check gxpatcher for viruses though. The readme.txt was all in russian!
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cokbok:
We have waited for a long time so far and the day we get 2.0, it will be an old version already.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] benlc:
MCR 3.1 > Android 2.x :p

It clearly sux but sense adds a lot to android, so the difference between 2.0 and 2.1 is way smaller than the difference between 2.1 and 2.0 + sense.

We just have to hope that 2.0 won't be the last update for the Hero...
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] craig0r:
It takes time to develop these things.

As for the quotes from HTC, those are your standard "I'm just a CSR and I'm not allowed to say anything whether I actually know it or not" response. And we really haven't waited that long. A couple months? For HTC to overhaul their UI to a completely new API? Be patient, it's coming. I'd be willing to bet that the update is 2.1, since we already have a ROM based on an HTC leak. Why would there be a leaked 2.1 ROM if they weren't going to put one out?

@kouray: The phone's been out for less than a year. This won't be the last update.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] foxmeister:
HTC have already tweeted last month that the Sprint Hero will be getting 2.1 instead of 2.0. There's no reason to believe that this isn't also true of the GSM Hero!

Regards,

Dave
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cokbok:
I also would like to believe in that we will get 2.1 instead of 2.0. But I pasted the response from HTC Support without touching a comma.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] foxmeister:
HTC CSRs are notoriously ill-informed most of the time.

2.1 is still Eclair - it's just got some bug fixes in it. Lox-Dev and Benhaams ROM is based on a leaked HTC build of 2.1, so it is clear that HTC are working on 2.1 for the Hero.

Regards,

Dave
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cokbok:
I hope you are right.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kendong2:
even if they don't release it, i am optimistic that the great devs here & on xda will make the advantages of 2.1 available for a hero rom... whatever they are exactly, somebody has a changelog of android at hand? :rolleyes:
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] benlc:
Hope so, I used to be on samsung phones so I don't know anything about updates :P

But I still think HTC will stop updates on hero someday soon to sell their 2nd generation android phones..
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] craig0r:
You're probably right... but hopefully that won't happen till Android out-grows the Hero hardware.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raskall:
I sent a support request asking about the release of 2.x. They answered me that it was coming "in the middle of the year".

In the mean time I am really enjoing LoxDev's KaguDroid. I like it so much that I don't think I will ever go back to Sense. KaguDroid is the only Custom ROM that has stayed on my Hero for more than two days.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dying4004:
calm down bro. nothing to get personal in internet forums.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raskall:
Please don't feed trolls.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] felikz:
However, I expect from any company producing so called "up-to-date" products, like smartphones, that they update their products for some time (at least one year) quickly, because their customers bought those products, to have a modern, state of the art thing. In the case of the Hero that's not the case, since we are waiting for an update since two or three months.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dilema:
dude, you really don't know bout technology :P stuff like this is obsolete when it's released, and they start developing again. it's not easy to re-write software to suit something different... be patient ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deeren:
http://www.itechnews.net/2009/12/08/htc-2010-android-lineup-leaked/

with all the htc devices coming up in 2010, especially the bravo and the htc legend ( supposedly the succesor to hero) i dont think the htc hero will get any updates after the promised eclair one.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zombiefly:
I bought the Hero when it was released in the UK. people said "ooh, watch out, HTC won't support that". I laughed, "HTC are fantastic" etc etc.

Unfortunately it turns out they were actually right as I'm still stuck at 1.5 officially. Options are there thanks to devs here but it's still garbage that the hero has been left in favour of pushing out the new phones instead. I've had a few tweets at HTC on twitter, they've announced updates twice so far which have subsequently been canned. Meanwhile i'm stuck with the old marketplace and unable to use any apps that require 1.6.... bollocks is what it is.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zombiefly:
what's so good about it? anything missing/broken? edit: researched, looks to be incomplete and full of issues. guess i'll be waiting until someone gets a stable 2.+ for the HERO out :/
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] benlc:
You're not really stuck, if you can get rid of sense you already can install some 2.0 roms (like kagudroid). The patience is required only for espresso..
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] felikz:
i guess i know more than you, dude. whether it's - in your words - "easy" to update or not, that's not the point. the problem on their site is, that they do not invest enough resources into updating the phone.

of course it's only my expectation, but as you can see on these and many other forums, blog et cetera, many people are unsatisfied with the current situation. and all these people's are customers and when customers are unsatisfied with a company and/or their products/support they may change the company in future. that is what really matters.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unknown_world:
It's you who don't know the technology. They release HTC Smart, Google Nexus One, Expresso ROM. But they did't got time to upgrade a small Home Screen Interface and some apps?

HTC Don't Care About Devices Ones They Sold IT. HTC Is not Run by Steve Jobs to provide you updates with new features every few months and care about your devices. HTC is Run by some Taiwan Guy who is interested in short term success and money than long term.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] raskall:
Well.. I have no issues. I do not experience the battery drain some people report. I guess there are some applications people use that drains the battery.

The only thing that actually doesn't work for me is retrieving my position from applications. Everything else works perfectly.

I have already gotten used/addicted to several apps that won't run on 1.5, and KaguDroid is the only 2.x ROM I have kept on my device for more than a couple of days.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zombiefly:
haha. like steve jobs "cares". he's the closest thing in the buisness world to Hitler, with his people's phone.

I'd hoped for better from HTC.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unknown_world:
I too hope HTC to do better my friend.

Yes steve jobs is like a hitler in tech world but his each every product is just great.

To understand my point just take a small example..

Who is playing Nice 3D games Apple Users or HTC Users?

Who is Enjoying Music and Video Entertainment at Max Level Apple Users or HTC Users?

Who is getting Software Updates regularly Apple Users or HTC Users?

Who is Releasing more phone and leaving all it's users ones they finish selling Apple Users or HTC Users?

Any Answers or Questions?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sergio PC:
So many things are wrong in your statement...
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FormelLMS:
My English is not best, but I hope with "Hitler" you don't mean the Austrian guy who killed so much people in the world.

I hope! If you are meaning this guy I think you don't know of what you're speaking.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zombiefly:
a communist regime has its benefits. It doesn't make it better than freedom of choice ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zombiefly:
its a parallel. Apple is a communist dictatorship. Hitler had the beetle as the people's car (one car for the whole population). The iPhone is the apple beetle.

...i don't mean steve jobs is busy with ethnic cleansing!... :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ahmadmz3:
I do agree HTC didn't give us ( hero users ) what we deserve , for me this phone may probably be my last HTC phone !! , I had an iPhone and I liked apple's support they didn't even leave the first gen out !! , for me as soon as the next iPhone comes I'm gonna get it , and hopefully the next iPhone will have multitasking <-- thats why I sold it ! , anyway I hope that they release the new update fast because most of the apps I use now aren't available in the 1.5 market .
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kendong2:
you really have issues, don't you? thought about seeing a shrink?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] benlc:
Who's open source ?

Who's gonna just wait a bit for 3D games (like iPhone did) ?

Who can chose a music/video player ? (even if FOR NOW iphone music player is kinda the best)

Who is listening the most to his customers ? (definitly android)

And finally.... Who is giving users.... choice ? :)

Even if for now you can say iphone might be the best, I really think android is gonna kick iphone's ass soon, the only thing really missing for now is a real multi touch.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] woolmonkey:
I would hope HTC would release a couple updates to the phone. I mean Apple still supports the first gen Iphone. Most "regular" people have sign a two year deal so two years or hell even a year of support would be nice. I mean the one big problem HTC and other phone manufactures might face is that Apple has changed the game, people might expect a company to support their products longer then release it and forget about it like they are used to. Who really knows but I know if they don't support the phone reasonably well I'll be looking and hoping that there is a android phone from another manufacture that does.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Waza_Be:
What a good joke!

Source: Have a look here

June 29, 2007	iPhone OS 1.0

September 14, 2007 iPhone OS 1.1

July 11, 2008	iPhone OS 2.0

September 9-12,2008 iPhone OS 2.1

November 20, 2008	iPhone OS 2.2

January 27, 2009	iPhone OS 2.2.1

June 17, 2009	iPhone OS 3.0 Final

September 9, 2009	iPhone OS 3.1 Final

Source: Here

February 2009 Android 1.1

April 2009 Android 1.5

December 2009 Android 1.6

October 2009 Android 2.0

December 2009 Android 2.0.1

Januari 2010 Android 2.1

Any Answers or Questions?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zombiefly:
no. thanks for the advice, i'll give it a try! :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jeppfi:
Where are the official Android update for 2.1? :p :eek:
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deeren:
what he meant was not compairing the release of updates by the companies but the release of updates for a particular phone. yourr quotes are right . but if you compare, the iphone 1st generation has received updates from 0s 1.0 till 3.0 regularly. (for more than 2 years) and as you stated android 1.6,2.0,2.0.1,2.1 are already made public, but the HTC hero is still stuck on the cupcake 1.5 ( officially speaking). so i guess you cannot really compare product support here.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ichirumama:
haha, that's HTC, "Leaving old phone behind". Waiting for 2.0....
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marcovit:
Canadian mobile phone carrier Rogers is reportedly getting ready to deliver its users the possibility to enjoy the newly unveiled Android 2.1 operating system on some of their already existing mobile phones. More precisely, the operator has confirmed that it will offer Android 2.1 for the HTC Magic handset, but also stated that it wouldn't make the same move for the older HTC Dream.

“By mid-year, HTC will issue an upgrade to Android 2.1, including the highly acclaimed HTC Sense experience for the HTC Magic. However, due to certain limitations on the HTC Dream, the software path for the HTC Dream will not be developed beyond the next Android 1.5 update. While we regret not being able to offer the same updates to both devices, by bringing this upgrade to the HTC Magic, we are delivering the best solution possible given the situation at hand,” Rogers said in an official statement, according to Android Central.

HTC Dream owners on Rogers' airwaves should also note that the company plans on delivering a new software solution for them too, namely Android 1.5. This update is expected to arrive within a matter of weeks for both Dream and Magic, but only the latter is expected to make the step to the next stage, it seems. However, this does not come as too good news for HTC Dream users out there, as Rogers has reportedly stated that none of the units currently available on the market around the world will taste Android 2.1 (though it seems T-Mobile G1 might have another fate).

http://news.softpedia.com/news/HTC-Magic-to-Receive-Android-2-1-from-Rogers-131285.shtml

Well, that sucks..

HTC dream (t-mobile version) = HTC hero?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] foxmeister:
The Dream is the G1. Rogers don't offer the Hero, hence it isn't listed.

Regards,

Dave
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] foxmeister:
Let's be fair here.

Q. How many phones has Apple released?

A. 3 - the original iPhone, the 3G and the 3GS.

Q. How many OSes do Apple support on their phones?

A. 1 - iPhone OS, and Apple are also the developers of said OS.

The original iPhone was released in June 2007, so in 2.5

years, they've release 3 phones.

So, what you should really be asking is:

Q. How many phones has HTC released since June 2007?

Q. How many OSes do HTC support on their phones?

For extra credit:

Q. How many updates has HTC provided for all the phones in their product lines since June 2007?

That's a *much* fairer comparison IMHO.

Regards,

Dave
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] del_toro:
@foxmeister

and then your being extremely generous by calling the iPhone, iPhone 3G and the iPhone 3GS three diffrent phones, when it basically is just smaller upgrades of the orginal. ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tweedie:
To be honest, I think HTC will eventually issue an updated Rom (2.0 or 2.1), but it probably be the last one for the hero. Coming from using a HTC touch diamond which is reasonably new, they only released an update once (I think it was WM6 nearly 2 years ago) and then brushed aside to the dustbin once a new device has come out.

I suppose it what makes the world go round - they need to earn some dosh by making people buy the latest phones, but its not fair to make the hero obsolete so quickly!

I am tempted to buy that nexus one, but since its made by HTC I am not sure since I have been bitten twice already. Who will do the updates for nexus? htc? google?

Thankfully, we got some great ROM cookers to make the hero last a bit longer, but HTC should look after their users a bit better.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unknown_world:
It's still not clear who will provide updates for Nexus One.

If you want to buy Nexus One then wait for a month or two so everything will be cleared.

My personal suggestion is never buy Qualcomm based phones there multimedia capabilities are very very low compared to Samsung or TI Omap.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cokbok:
It is a Google Phone, is not it? So it should get updates directly from OTA.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unknown_world:
May be as we can see clearly that except selling phones google is not handling any thing. Sales, Shipping, Support every thing is done by HTC Only. So untill a update hit nexus one we can't say who will be providing updates.

OTA is not supported by lots of Network Operators outside of USA so they need to provide manual download.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] munkimatt:
Godwin's Law.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chrisjasper:
Only took 5 pages, I'm impressed
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] del_toro:
Thanks for the intresting reading (i had to google Godwin' Law) :) However, i have to say I'm quite surprised there's actually people who overreact to a humurous hyperbole. And I can totally get the comparison... Whatever Hitler did, the people blindly followed. And to be honest steve jobs can paint his s**t shiny white and his people will run to the stores thinking its the best thing to happen to the world since ever. :D

btw since this thread isn't closed, does that mean this is a Quirks Exception? ;)
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chrisjasper:
I would say so.

Its a shame people get so rabid about their phone of choice. I'm an ex apple certified engineer and a big fan of Apple, personally I think the iPhone is an awful phone but the iPod Touch is a great PMP. I much prefer the Hero as a phone.

Still, I had a Hermes as my main phone for years, I still have it as a spare.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zombiefly:
Ah the good old hermes. I sold mine on ebay! That poor thing had more roms pushed through it than I can remember :)
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cokbok:
Why would someone close this thread?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] foxmeister:
You need to google Godwin's Law! ;)

Regards,

Dave
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] del_toro:
I personally very much enjoyed the expression 'reductio ad hitlerum'. very lol :D
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] IonCloud:
I've just got a Touch Diamond, so I'm pretty much noobie at this. So I don't have any internet data plan from my wireless provider(att), and I don't really want 1 at the moment. With that said, here's my question(s) - When I first turned on the phone, the data connection option was on, so I turn it off. Now that option is greyed-out, or disabled. I read in the manual that you can't turn it back on if you disable it, why is this?

Even though that option is disabled, an "H", or sometimes "3G", still appears on the upper-right of the screen. Apparently the internet still works because I saw the charge on my online att account(I thought I was using Wi-Fi). Can someone who is knowledgeable in these things tell me why?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] aidenhtc:
do a hard reset to fix this :)