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[Nexus One General] seanowns:
Caveats. I love my nexus one, and have never owned any form of Apple product.

I am more or less trying to see what other people's opinions are regarding the evolution of cellphones.

In my opinion these are more or less the large evolutions.

Skipping the Bag phone, and Night at the roxx bury model:)

1) Nokia - Who didn't have that wonderful brick!

2) Razr - Never had one, but certainly made size crucial -

3) Blackberry - They discovered there was money in smart phones.

4) Iphone - Will stay unbiased, they certainly moved the smartphone concept.

Where would I put the nexus one? I would say it's the pinnacle of #4. Personally, i think we are stuck in #4 for awhile, and much like computer's dont need to be upgraded as say 5 years ago, phones may be there as well(for now).

I highly doubt the next Iphone makes any huge leaps. The front camera may evolutionize phone sex, but that's about it.

How do we get to #5? In my opinion, this will be stuck on the borrrrrring battery technology. What does everyone else see?
[Nexus One General] melterx12:
Nexus One is 4.5. It shares many features of the iPhone and adds on top iof it with the concept of developer freedom, which I beleive is crucial for moving smartphone software forward.
[Nexus One General] seanowns:
Just to clarify. I definitely think the Nexus one is a massive improvement, and 4.5 is certainly accurate. You could be right in that we may never see a 5 by my metrics. Or not a clean jump at least. Continual small improvement could be the ongoing future.

Eitherway, I feel good that I wont be itching to "upgrade" this time next year(which says alot for the Nexus One)
[Nexus One General] kozm0naut:
Much as the MP3 player is being obsolesced by cell phones, I think "phones" in the traditional sense will eventually be obsolesced by the all-around computer that smartphones are becoming.
[Nexus One General] melterx12:
but its still called a smartphone lol
[Nexus One General] Raymond77:
I don't think the Nexus One itself is that great of an evolution, it's just another Android phone.

I'd say the platform itself is much more important.

I love my Nexus One, it's far and away the most advanced phone I've ever owned, however it's not without faults, and ultimately it's just a high end Android handset, just like the Motorola Droid/Milestone.

As for the next "big" step/evolution, I don't know if there will be anything "big" per say. As has been touched on in this thread, smartphones as we know them are metamorphosing into mobile computers, so I don't really see the scope for anything more than incremental increases in processing power and operating systems.
[Nexus One General] JHaste:
video calls will be a big step... however the networks will have to mature before something as data intenisve as that steps up to the plate

another thing i think would be interesting as far as the future goes is developing a phone that truely functions as a portable computer where i can ditch my desktop (granted not my gaming pc) but hook the phone up to a dock of some sort which will give me access to a monitor, mouse, keyboard, speakers, ect... the phone sort of goes into "pc mode" and functions as a regular computer
[Nexus One General] K69:
Video calls will be a big step?

Video calling was big advertised years ago.

And now, almost nobody really uses it.
[Nexus One General] JHaste:
when? i dont remember anything...

my thing is phones dont have a camera on the side that the screen is on... therefore its really not possible... not to mention its incredibly data intensive side so i really doubt what you are talking about is true... I would love to be able to video chat on my phone in a quality manner

sadly though, batteries are going to hinder mobile progress, li-ion batteries are nice but lets face it, its not very hard to run your nexus dry in about 5 hours if you wanted to... battery technology itself is getting old and some other source of power really needs to emerge to really stir the mobile market up
[Nexus One General] SANTilt:
Look at many phones in Asia, they've had video calling for years now. The US is just far behind when it comes to certain technologies. Japan has had international 3G video calling since August 2005 (3G was invented in Japan). And has been running a 3G network since late 2001.

Video calling is way old.

As for the battery issue, nuclear batteries are the answer: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/07/tiny-nuclear-battery.html
[Nexus One General] SPAS79:
Video calls are not going to b next. We had those since 2004 in europe and nobody really uses them. They are expensive and a good old phone call gets the job done anyway. I concur with batteries and increemental steps in OSs and computing power, allghough nuclear batteries are still far to come. (Too bad, i had my proton pack almost ready...). This said the N1 is probably the best phone i had ever. Nothing it cannot do. Nothing I have to think"it's just a phone" for. I just love it
[Nexus One General] melterx12:
I can't see video calls on mobile phones becoming practical. The whole point of making phones calls on a mobile phone is because its MOBILE! For a video call, you have to be looking at the screen. This presents a few issues: First off, walking down the street while talking and looking at the screen is not a good idea for obvious reasons. Second, both the earpiece and microphone will be far away from you, forcing you to use either the speaker and yell into the phone, destroying any concept of privacy, or wearing a headset every time you want to talk on the phone. Having a wired headset will be a bit uncomfortable becasue the phone will be in your hand at a good length from your face, leaving the most ideal option to be a bluetooth headset.

There is also the problem of battery life. Talking on the phone AND streaming a video feed will no doubt put a lot of strain on the battery, especially if the video stream must be high quality and play back smoothly. In addition, bluetooth may be used for your wireless headset. Current batteries in smartphones will be able to pull this off for ~3 hours MAX, not including battery drain while on standby, and not taking into account how good your signal is (the lower the signal the more drain on the battery).
[Nexus One General] K69:
Austria was one of the first countries where video calling was available (may 2003).

Many phones with front cams where sold and in the first months you even could video call for free.

Now almost seven years later nobody talks about it. :D
[HD2 General] Basti1986:
Hello everybody!

I`ve got a problem to get TMC Information with Navigon (v 7.4.2 an 7.4.3) and the GNS TrafficBox FM9BT-C.

The Connection between my Leo and the TMC Receiver is no problem.

But when I start Navigon, I'm getting no data with TMC Information and the special TMC icon/symbol is missing too.

I think that the Problem is perhaps the wrong configuration in the "UserSettings.xml".

So here is my configuration:

Can anybody help and tell me the wrong Configuration? Or is there an other(general) problem with TMC and the Leo (i.e. Hypergps)?

I'll be happy about every hint!
[HD2 General] Masterslice:
Hi,

at the moment i have no Navi installed on my device, but i was in contact with the GNS Support.

I had an older Version of GNS GPRS Device and i asked me how to connect the device with my HD2!

After sending an Email to the support i received this german Email:

Maybe its helpful for you.

;)
[HD2 General] Basti1986:
Thanks for this hint, but I'am sorry to say that this is not the solution for my problem :-(
[HD2 General] krischan#2:
Hi Basti,

First of all, MN 7.4.2 & 7.4.3 are no PDA versions ;)

The FM9BT-C works with MN 7.4.0 or 7.3.x PDA on the HD2. One minor flaw: The Widcomm Bluetooth Stack wants to reconnect the FM9BT after launching MN|7 (see attachment). This is a common glitch with almost every PDA/Smartphone using Widcomm/Broadcom BT Stack 1.9.x

If you insist on using 7.4.2 or 7.4.3 enter

<GPS>

<Type>2</Type>

in your usersettings.xml; explanation:

0 = GPS only, no TMC receiver

1 = combined GPS/TMC receiver

2 = GPS + external TMC

<TMCPort>2</TMCPort> looks O.K. if that is the port that the Widcomm BT stack picked for your FM9BT. If not, choose the proper COM port (I have the FM9BT-C on COM2 on my HD2 too).

Try to change <DRVPrefix>COM</DRVPrefix> to <DRVPrefix>RDS</DRVPrefix> in <TMC> section (not <GPS>!)

If everything fails use a port splitter like Franson GpsGate to remap your COM port. But afaik GpsGate fails on devices with Widcomm BT Stack. Nevertheless you should give it a try.

Please report back if anything helped.
[HD2 General] mr-magoo:
Hy,

i don't get any Connection with my HD2 und the FM9BT-C...

Can U told me what i must change? (i have tested COM and RDS)

The message in your Picture i don't receive.

Greets
[HD2 General] krischan#2:
My settings for HTC HD2 + FM9BT-C in MN 7.3.6 PDA (should be the same for 7.4.0 PDA):

<TMC>
<RadioStationScan>0</RadioStationScan>
<AutoRecalculation>1</AutoRecalculation>
<PreferPay>0</PreferPay>
<TMCPort>2</TMCPort>
<TMCBaudrate>38400</TMCBaudrate>
<DRVPrefix>COM</DRVPrefix>
</TMC>
<GPS>
<Type>2</Type>
<GPSPort>4</GPSPort>
<TMCPort />
<Baudrate>4800</Baudrate>
<DRVPrefix>COM</DRVPrefix>
<BluetoothDevice>
<Name />
<Address></Address>
</BluetoothDevice>
</GPS>
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] 100thMonkey:
Could someone please post a screenshot of the Pure's band selection menu...It'd like the see the frequencies for GSM+UMTS, GSM, and UMTS, please
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] Tom Lenferink:
Screenshot from a TD2

Is a screenshot from a TD2 okay?

TD2: GSM900, GSM1800, GSM1900, UMTS900, UMTS2100

Pure: GSM900, GSM1800, GSM1900, UMTS850, UMTS1900

Look here: http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=pdacomparer&id1=1912&id2=1750
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] 100thMonkey:
Thanks, but was really needing the Pure since it has a different radio. I wanted to see what I need to change my registgry values for on custom ROM's. Thanks though
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] cmstackar:
Screenshots from my pure
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] 100thMonkey:
gratzi, I wonder if it really works on 2100, 900, and 800 UMTS, I guess that would cover Europe and I think S. Korea uses 800 if I recall right
[General Questions and Answers] kais79:
I have an HTC Tilt 8925 with Windows Mobile 6.1. I recently purchased a plantronics voyager pro bluetooth headset. It will pair with the phone and I can hear beeps when I use the phone and the volume control on the headset changes the volume on the phone, but there is no sound from the phone call. Also, once connected to the headset the connection will not cease, I can get no sound out of the phone again until I turn it off and back on or do a soft reset.

I confirmed the headset works as it is also paired to my computer and has no problems. This also happened with a previous bluetooth headset I tried to use with this phone but I figured that might have been the headset. Any ideas?

ROM Version 3.52.502.2 WWE

ROM Date 7/17/08

Radio Version 1.65.21.18

Protocol Version 25.88.40.0SH

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!
[HD2 General] Timax_50:
:mad:I made a big big mistake, just before Christmas...... I moved providers from o2to T- Mobile UK.

In my haste to be one of the first to own the HD2 I abandoned o2 because they were not getting thier stock til later on.....what a mistake!!!

T-Mobile customer service is pants....they have an automated service that takes about 10 minutes to get to where you want to be and then you get some bird who hasn't actually got a clue about the problem that you are enquiring about and then says she has to ask someone in tech support (when she is supposed to be tech support) she goes away for 10 minutes and then comes back and says that she can't help.

Now if you XDA chaps can assist

T-Mobile tech support say that they are currently testing a ROM update is this true or False?

T-Mobile instant messeging doesn't work....Why?

Sound is very crackly during calls... Why?

Cannot stream video....Adobe flash player for mobiles doesn't work and everytime I try to run a youtube video it says that it isn't available...should I be able to play streaming media on this phone?

Keyboard is hyper sensitive and often double taps...any way to prevent this?

I have an HTC leather flip case for this phone but whenever i turn off the power (required for my job) and slide the phone into my inside jacket pocket...it always turns itself back on....I am worried that it will ring....it could cost me my job.

Hotmail account won't configure

Takes ages to connect to a contact....Why?

I read the post that Vodaphone are not issuing an update for this phone.... are T-Mobile? and if not, is it legal?

The staff at T-Mobile were very unhelpful and quite brusque...as far as they are concerned they have got me locked into an 18mth contract and thats all they care about
[HD2 General] northernneil:
Sounds like your a train driver, and my windows live has a problem too! Poxy thing!
[HD2 General] samsamuel:
MOst of these issues have LOADS of threads about them, so i'll be brief,

1 - many people have reported sms problems, read the LOTS of threads about it. I dont have this problem so cant offer any help, though tere is an update on the HTC website which could be your first stop.

2 - As above with sound, , read the threads

3 - TMobile set the hd2 up with a proxy server set. Go to the settings tab, click menu, all settings, connections, set up my proxy server and untick this connection uses a proxy. (again, dozens of threads about this)

4 - Lots of threads about the sensitivity, have a look at, for example, BSBtweaks, it can reduce the sensitivity, amongst other handy things.

5 - Sounds like the case is pressing against the power button, have a look and see if this is the case, maybe adjust the positioning of the hd2 in the case?

6 - Again, loads of threads about this.

7 - Not sure what you mean about 'connect to contact'

Sorry if i'm not answering very well, just wanted you to know there are loads of threads about most of your issues.

Happy reading!
[HD2 General] Archer:
Obvious answer, but set the phone to silent before you turn it off. That way, even if it does power on and ring, you just won't know.
[HD2 General] TonyJ999:
It also sounds like you have a crap phone! I would be screaming the house down and quoting the sale of goods act etc to initially either get a replacement or if that doesn't please you cancel the contract. Saying that I have been with them for my 3rd 18 month contract now - I upgraded in late December - and everything worked fine and I have none of your issues. I also recently upgraded the ROM to one on here because to be honest the "official" ones are crap anyway!

I will admit their customer serice is shockingly ****e, although I had similar experiance with O2 and Vodaphone. You would not believe the conversations I had when I was enquiring about upgrading to the HD2! Eventually I got hold of someone who could not have been more helpful and I had the device within 24 hours. No regrets since...
[HD2 General] deadmetal:
3 - TMobile set the hd2 up with a proxy server set. Go to the settings tab, click menu, all settings, connections, set up my proxy server and untick this connection uses a proxy. (again, dozens of threads about this)

I use T-mobile UK as my provider and, after checking the connections -> proxy tab the connection settings already installed does not have the use proxy server box ticked.

Old versions of the HTC connections setup utility used to install the wrong settings the stock uk T-mobile rom (version 1.43) doesnt have this problem.

If you have connection problems I would put them down to poor signal strength or the radio rom used.
[HD2 General] chri55tof:
Did you apply the protection screen on ?

In my case it reduced the screen sensitivity

You can find sth with good quality for 3 pounds (set of 3). Check in HD2 Accessories section on forum, I`ve seen about 3 topics about protective screens (films).

Kris
[HD2 General] Timax_50:
So Tony, I guess you Gold carded your phone to be able to use an XDA ROM?

I am a little worried about doing this as it would invalidate my warranty if It screwed up.
[HD2 General] compact_bijou:
T-Mobile tech support say that they are currently testing a ROM update is this true or False?

No idea.

T-Mobile instant messeging doesn't work....Why?

No idea, I don't use it, sorry. There are workarounds tho, there always are.

Sound is very crackly during calls... Why?

Turn the volume down.

Cannot stream video....Adobe flash player for mobiles doesn't work and everytime I try to run a youtube video it says that it isn't available...should I be able to play streaming media on this phone?

I can, install the youtube youtubewvga.cab for full access.

Keyboard is hyper sensitive and often double taps...any way to prevent this?

Practice !

I have an HTC leather flip case for this phone but whenever i turn off the power (required for my job) and slide the phone into my inside jacket pocket...it always turns itself back on....I am worried that it will ring....it could cost me my job.

As advised, switch phone to silent or put it into flight mode before going to work !

Hotmail account won't configure

It will if you follow the instructions given here abouts.

Takes ages to connect to a contact....Why?

Signal issues ?

I read the post that Vodaphone are not issuing an update for this phone.... are T-Mobile? and if not, is it legal?

Quite legal.

The staff at T-Mobile were very unhelpful and quite brusque...as far as they are concerned they have got me locked into an 18mth contract and thats all they care about

Quite reasonable given the erratic nature of your questions here ! Imagine you on the phone :(

Calm down, get into the phone, use the forums, read them a lot, section by section and you'll see that most of the issues with the phone are in fact user error !
[HD2 General] samsamuel:
no need to gold card. install hspl through pc, this then lets you install any rom, official or cooked. should you then need to revert back to stock rom just copy the nbh file to sd card (no need to be gold) and it will not only flash back to stock rom but overwright hspl to default too, thus restoring the warranty.

the important part is making sure there is a stock rom available for your phone + network as backup.(go read the "official roms"thread to see... i don't think theres a t mob stock rom up there yet, but im sure there will be before long, or you could be the hero who dumps a stock tmob rom and be hailed as a god by all the tmo users!)

also since there isn't a t mob up there, gold card still wouldn't help because there is no official one to flash back to for warranty purposes.
[HD2 General] firstandlast:
With regards to the youtube issue, you may find you have to phone up customer services to get content lock turned off.

They put this on to stop children etc watching inappropriate content.

It took me a few mins on the phone to get this done.

I have found the T-mobile Customer support to be very good. If ever you've been with Three you will have nothing but praise for T-mobile staff.
[HD2 General] Timax_50:
Thanks for the info Sam

I am still only 50% the wiser...you say that hspl would enable me to use an Stock or cooked Rom but you say I have to use a stock Rom but there isn't one so what benefit is there to me if I can't install one because there isn't one? I might have some of the terminology wrong so please don't be too hard on me
[HD2 General] Timax_50:
Thanks for the feedback Compact, you are right I do tend to lose it a bit on the phone because the staff are obviously not trained on this phone and as they say time is money and I don't have hours to while away on the phone getting nowhere.
[HD2 General] Shasarak:
Installing a HardSPL will unlock your phone so that you can install any ROM onto it - that includes stock HTC ROMs, cooked ROMs, or anything else.

Using HardSPL and/or installing a ROM other than the type was designed for (e.g. from your carrier if it's a carrier-branded phone) will void your warranty.

However, if your phone does develop a fault, then (assuming it is still functioning well enough that you can still flash it) you can use a stock ROM of the appropriate type to put both a legal ROM and a legal SPL back onto it, and leave your phone in a state where they can't tell it was ever flashed with anything naughty, and will thus have to honour your warranty after all.
[HD2 General] samsamuel:
hehe, its a minefield of confusion.

you can run any rom you like if you instal hspl (I'm) currently running a cooked rom on my o2 locked phone.... BUT ...should I need to send it back I have a copy off the official o2 rom as backup.

if I flash the o2 rom from the pc, it doesn't remove hspl, but if I flash it from the sd card it DOES remove hspl.

your problem is that there currently isn't a tmob rom for you to keep for backup to remove hspl (flashing from sd card the phone does id checks on the rom, hspl it doesn't)

with a gold card it lets you flash any official rom BUTT of course that doesn't help either because there still isn't a tmob for if you need to send it back.

hope that explains it better !do ask again if still confused.
[HD2 General] josep54:
I believe there are two official t-mobile roms to download - links can be found in the ROM forum.

I downloaded

RUU_Leo_TMO_UK_1.43.110.2_Radio_Signed_15.26.50.07U_2.04.50.22_2_Ship

as a backup before flashing. I think the other version is 1.43.<something else>

I've not actually tried it but i'm pretty sure you can trust it is what the uploader says it is.
[HD2 General] samsamuel:
Ahhh I didnt look that hard, my o2 one is in the first link, never had to, , hehe.

@Timax_50 - there you go, to see if it works, download that, extract the exe file to a folder (dont run it) find the RUU_signed.nbh file (about 200 meg size) copy it to your sd card (fat 32 recommended) rename it leoimg.nbh, reset your phone to boot mode (vol down + tap power) and IF its the correct one, it will let you flash back to factory default. If it fails, its not the correct stock rom and it will stop.

If its good, you can hspl and if you ever need to remove the hspl, just do that sd card flash with that file.

If you run the update from the pc, even though it is a stock rom, it will NOT remove hspl, only if you do it sd card.
[HD2 General] MidnightDraven:
My O2 HD2, setup with t-mobile UK has the proxy setting ticked and works fine....

strange.
[HD2 General] busterdan:
Yeah as someone else said... stick with the phone... as you get into it you'll find ways to do things. I still have the 1.43 ROM on my T-Mobile HD2 but I now have the phone doing most of what I want.
[HD2 General] northernneil:
everytime i try to update a contact info from facebook or something, i get a nag screen coming up saying saying something along the lines of 'windows live could not connect problem' and then i have to press dismiss, for it to come up again repeatedly.

Any idea on why, or a fix?
[HD2 General] northernneil:
ok, i'm getting somewhere, albeit, slowly!

Downloaded the latest version of live from microsoft as posted on the massive thread about windows live messenger and can now download the contact photos and info from facebook, however I'm still getting the screen that says theres been a problem, and they option to dismiss it. It then still appears again straight away!

Any help?
[HD2 General] samsamuel:
Well, it's not a fix, but if you turn off error reporting, the nag screen will stop interrupting you......
[HD2 General] northernneil:
Cheers sam,

It's that screen thats annoying me more than anything. I'll have a look for error reporting now, i'll find it eventually! Lol

Any idea what causes it anyway?
[HD2 General] northernneil:
if it's the one under settings>updates & Feedback>Error Reporting then it don't do anything!

I've had it turned off all the time mate! Any more suggestions?