yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[HD2 General] 10332007:
We've grown used to complex phone OS's, and I like the simplicity of the new one. I dont care about social networking. The most I do is instant messaging once in a while. However the integration of everything into the simple hubs is nice. No more digging through menus or staring a pages of icons.

The simplicity of it is what makes it work, they are going for different and functionality and I think they will succeed. It will take some time but I think its going to be great.

Multitasking will be there. I just hope they are a little less restricting of it than the iPhone. We dont need to run everything at once in the background, and some of the things we do only need to get updates in the background, not the whole program running. I do want to run a few things at once, but as long as the majority of things can be background processes I think it will work out. Only time will tell....
[HD2 General] XDA mark:
It also has a nice new lockscreen, where you slide vertical. Almost like in Winmo7. Awesome imo! Chech pocketnow, they have a vid of it.
[HD2 General] dwizzy130:
That's where I got that pic.lol

Can't wait till we get a ROM dump.

dwizzy130
[HD2 General] pedroxxx:
My first impression was “It is so ugly!”. But later I saw a longer video with comments of the real usage of this device, and I like how the content of the different submenus is generated with “hubs”, and fully integration of the GPS to show the right content.

It raises a question how the new services can be included, basically the customization itself. One default color for large icons on the first page is a weird idea, but I can live with that. Soon or later people will find the way how to fully customize it, especially here at XDA :)

So I hope the rest of OS will not be a disappointment.
[HD2 General] freedirk:
i think wp7 looks very flat, which seems backwards. But if it gives me fast easy access to all information I need then I will love it. my concern is that a some simple indicators are missing from the screen. such as battery& signal.
[HD2 General] Spike15:
http://ow.ly/17DbC

You can see in this video that there is -- at the very least -- a battery indicator.
[HD2 General] stoolzo:
Not sure "Ugly" is how to describe it, different would be more useful. For me, I was not too enamored with it as there wasnt enough info in screen which woudl suggest to me lots more finger work required to get to the info you want. There also seems to be a lot of visual pointless crap, if I tape on something I want to see if as soon as possible, I dont want pointless animations slowing it down, this is subjective though I suppose, howerver I think poeple will get bored of these very quickly and if they cannot be turned off the will start to annoy..

regardless of how it looks it is a good thing MS have decided to rebuild from scratch I think as even if it doesnt quite hit the mark it shows there are committed to winmo.

They got windows 7 spot on, lets give winmo7 a chance.
[HD2 General] oscar2010:
I totally agree with u. Especially the design on the home screen didnt meet my expectations. I dont like the abstract-blue-boxes at all. Of course its easy to handle and at the moment smthg new and innovative but i hope there is a way to change this. :confused:
[HD2 General] dogbreath:
Some videos of Windows 7 on Engadget.

looks basic but could show promise
[HD2 General] harsaphes:
I like it a lot. Very excited to have it in my hands. I love my ZuneHD interface and I will be right at home here....looks amazing to me.
[HD2 General] pack21:
WM7 It's a peace of art, beautiful and clean.

who are trying blinding the people that have HD2 with 6.5, that claims do not like WM7.
[HD2 General] XTREEM|RAGE:
The zoom interface is much better then the ipod, imo. But the home interface of WM7 suxx imo!
[HD2 General] commodore65:
i think a biggest issue with winphone7 is it all style over substance. This seems to be a purely consumer offering with even less to offer business users than wm6.5. Does the pretty new calendar synch with your outlook calendar at work, are exchange mail accounts supported. i cant believe microsoft would abandon its existing business mobile users, i think they must have something else up their sleeve
[HD2 General] A|ex:
i think what they have done is just skinned it like what HTC have done, under the bonnet it is still WM and i bet majority of the code or features are still there
[HD2 General] lepszy:
I think its really fugly. Cant believe some of you actually like it. All I can see is big blue boxes followed by more blue boxes. No multitasking is just a joke IMO. And dont tell me it does multitask cause then so does iphone.
[HD2 General] XDA mark:
First of all, I keep reminding myself that this is probably a beta version, with a lot of months till the final release.

At this point, I don't really like the homescreen/startscreen. With a wallpaper (like the pictures of the HD2 + WM7 from WinMo.nl) it looks a little bit better, but still..

IMO it is not a smart homescreen. You can put everything you use most on top, but even in the square that refreshes all the time, you see limited information. So in the end, it is almost the same as an simple icon? To me it means simple small icon > big icon with a little bit of info. You are going to push it almost directly anyway, so I do not really need these refreshing icons.

So then, the whole idea of the homescreen does not make sense. Only if you have MANY facebook contacts, or are a very important/populair person which gets a LOT of info all the day, this homescreen would be usefull.

I would really like something that is more similair to the Android w/Sense homescreen. Then off course the 'hubs' idea is good. If they do not waste space with HUGE LETTERS THAT DO NOT SEEM USEFULL TO ME.

But, we will see. I hope MicroSoft understands they still have a lot of work to do. If this is what we get at launch, it would probably fail.
[HD2 General] band27:
Guys, please keep in mind that HTC is working closely with Microsoft so my prediction is that by the time the final version in the next 10 months is ready, HTC (a Co. making waves in the phone world) will be putting there stamp all over it, just like they have with WM6 series devices.

My friends, this is far from over and if worse case is doesn't change above and beyond the 2D squares, then lets hope it's functionality blows us away.

....anyway, most people believe that what is simple is best!

Just trying to keep positive and place a little bit of trust that Microsoft knows they are standing on it's last legs market share wise. They have to pull out all the stops.
[HD2 General] Dr.Sid:
It is about functionality .. but I can't see how Microsoft would suddenly come with something good. It actually will have to by VERY VERY good to bridge the gap iPhone and Android gained.

Without old apps, without (partial) win32 compatibility, I really see who they plan to sell this new OS to.

On the other hand I would not miss full multitasking. I never needed it on many Palms I owned, I rarely use it today.
[HD2 General] x-mann:
What can i say about new windows7 phone, its most UGLYEST UGLYEST UI what i have saw till today lol, even 8bit commodore ( 30 years old pc have bether ) ... they didnt have learned that we are in 2011 ... i just tryed win7 on my HD2, worked 2 days, and imidietly revert back to android 2.3 ( best OS for me till now ), i mean, its silly they even prohobited to have HTC Sense UI on it, i cant understand why they limeted 1 of the most good things (UI costumusation) of OS , ill say microsoft bye bye for now...
[HD2 General] nishanthabgw:
100% true, i flashed it allso & changed back to Android.
[HD2 Accessories] xjangoonx:
other than the extended battery which adds a huge amount of bulk to the hd2.

i would like to know are there any legit batterys that are what they say they are.
[HD2 Accessories] dicksonjoe:
I believe it has been mentioned many times...u should check out the 1500 mah battery forum listed. So far people have been testing out the ANDIDA battery..still waiting for people to make a review.
[HD2 Accessories] smorg12:
im actually running the andida battery this moment.. its a 1500mAH battery over the standerd 1230mAH.. which makes the capacity 22% more.. which is about right for the performance... its very good and i do recomend them as i have had no problems with mine.. i will say tho they take a while to arrive and you might want to get a charging dock that charges an extra battery at the same time as the phone... so then you can carry an extra about if needs be..

hope this helped

Sam Morgan
[HD2 Accessories] lude219:
don't spread bull**** to the readers here, Sam.

At this moment, there's no legit higher capacity batteries other than the official extended one and I believe one other from mugen batteries (1300mAh). The rest, even the 1500mAh andida one, is around stock battery capacity (~1200mAh).

Check out the 1500 standard battery thread..
[HD2 Accessories] Mextor:
just found this while looking for bigger battery, 2300mAh but it sticks out the back, web site is htcdirect.co.uk

just asked the question about cases that will owrk with it as well, will keep you posted
[HD2 Accessories] Shum97:
HTC HD2's extended battery with kickstand looks really good, think i might get 1:) Not badly priced at £37.59
[HD2 Accessories] chrism_scotland:
The HTC 1500mah battery isn't that expensive.
[HD2 Accessories] ez2remember:
That's the difference between marketing shots and the real thing.

Not so beautiful anymore.
[HD2 Accessories] ekacz24:
sam morgan is not spreading bad news as i also have the andida battery,... says 1600mAh, which may not be true, but it does have a longer live than the OEM, and andida, are very pleasant to deal with,...
[HD2 Accessories] madbird:
wow thanks for the picture, i like some extra power but that thing is way too big. it has nothing to do with the promo picture.

mad
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] steve111:
Hi Guys,

My Touch Diamond has recently died. It has been totally unexpected as I have had it for 18 months and it has worked fine for pretty much all of that time. It gave the 'Microp' error, screen backlight went and became basically unusable after a I powered it off/on.

MicropERROR

Microp Version Mismatch 0

Please update Microp firmware

After subsequent restarts the screen doesn't even come on anymore.

From looking around here I have found that it is a hardware failure error. I found some information saying that it can be fixed by reseating the mainboard inside to its connectors and tried that, but it has made no difference.

I am due an upgrade phone anyway, so I am not too bothered about the phone not working anymore.

I do have some important information on the phone though (notes, messages etc.), and there are some photo's I don't want to lose.

Does anyone know any ways I might be able to access the memory on the phone?

When I connect the phone to my PC via the USB cable the PC recognises that something is connected, but it is not possible to 'explore' through the phone memory.

Any info / suggestions would be much appreciated!

Thanks

Regards

Steve.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] wkchee:
Hi, I got the exact same experience, and I had sent to HTC Service Center. Fortunately I was being told that none of hardware failure, what needs to be done is refresh the ROM. And my mobile is working very fine now!
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Idhor Naergon:
First of all excuse me about thise title, i didn't know which name I would give to this thread.

I have a problem with this incoming call slide. In my stock ROM, it was very smooth when answered or rejected a call. Since I flashed a new ROM, this slide became very slow, even flashing with stock ROM from htc.com.

Could you plesase tell me if you have the same problem?

And I would be very thankfull if someone tell me how can I fix this.

(sorry for my english ;) )
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] ASK768:
In my experiences, the slide has never been smooth. Would be interested to see if theres a fix.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Idhor Naergon:
So it's the same in all Blackstone devices? I thought it was only happening to me...

Would be nice if someone could fix this...
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] tsalta:
I Use my Blackstone from around 2 years and the slider is just Eye Candy i never use it i preffer to press the hardware call button, because often the slider is slow or laggy and this is how it is in many rooms i use around 50 ROM`s and i can tell you Better use the Button the slider is not good at all

Anyway if you want to pick up call with slider you can use S2U2 its free and have Full Screen Caller Image with more sensetive slider and alot other things :)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Idhor Naergon:
Thank you for the information :) I like this htc slider, but i can't stand its lag... I will try S2U2 ;)
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] skata738:
Improving the on-screen slider feature

This post is one year old, but maybe the link below will help someone who has the same problem and is trying to solve it.

So I suggest downloading the hotfix from HTC ‘s home page:

Title: Hot fix for improving the on-screen slider feature for answering calls

P.S. This is my first post so please forgive me for not posting the link straight away. It is forbidden for security reasons from the forum rules. Respect.
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Chef_Tony:
thanks for sharing.

let me just add more information:

the link you provided leads to a direct hotfix (an exe file to be executed on the blackstone directly). it works without entering a serial number (important for everyone with a carrier branded device, that are not able to download roms from htc directly).

and most important: that fix only works for roms 1.22 or older (assuming that the fix is built into newer stock roms).

and for everyone to lazy to copy and paste and mod the url you gave, here is an active link:

http://www.htc.com/europe/SupportDownload.aspx?p_id=179&cat=0&dl_id=474
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Simon_WM:
Will this affect my device, tho? Last hotfix i applied, crashed my graphics, and gave the distored look, and had to HRS !! not good

but ill try n let you not
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Idhor Naergon:
If you did flash a non-stock ROM and tryed to apply the hotfix, probabily it will happen again.... If your ROM is a a stock one, it might not happen, but you can try.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] swamp2:
I have been looking for a nice today screen weather app for some time. I don't use the TF3D interface and did not like the built in app anyway. It had that really pesky problem of limited city selections. Anyway this is not intended to be a full comparison but just some comments I hope you will find useful in selecting a solid today weather app.

Tools I looked at:

-HTC TF3D app

-MSN Weather app

-Elocent Weather: http://www.elecont.com/weather-for-pocket-pc.aspx

-Weather to go: http://tonaya.com/products/wtg/index.php

-PocketWeather: http://www.sbsh.net/products/windows_mobile_pocket_pc/pocketweather

Indirectly looked at:

-Fizz Weather

-SPB Weather

Through this nice "shoot out": http://www.mytodayscreen.com/shootout-weather-applications/ (also included PocketWeather)

MSN Weather: Way too simple only the basics, not a today screen app.

Elocent: Looks like a solid contender, nice time history graphs, full featured, $10.

Weather To Go: Nice basic today screen, FREE, not maintained. Had some issues with memorization of the default city.

PocketWeather: Pricier at $15 but nice free eval period. Is both a nice light today app and provides more details than most will ever need. The winner for me.

PocketWeather provides current conditions, forecast, descriptive icons, customizeable icons, customizeable today details, sunrise/sunset, wind, humidity, direct METAR reports from nearby airfields, radar pictures, world daylight map, earthquake data and auto updates, strong control over data sources and download frequencies. UV index would be a nice feature that is missing.

In short an amazing little app. Do note I have no affiliation, stake nor conflict of interest with any of the products nor companies mentioned here.

I hope you found this useful in selecting a weather app. Feel free to add reviews, links or comparisons, whatever.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] InRBigness:
Have you tried WeatherPanel. I think its the best one out there and its free.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] swamp2:
^ Looks very solid. I think you have the price wrong. Perhaps you can download for free or perhaps payment is optional but the site ( http://www.marsware.net/WeatherPanel/purchase.htm ) says $13. Moon phase info by any chance - it did not look like it. Lastly it does not appear to be maintained (not since 2005). Thanks.

Edit, update. I DL-ed this but no matter how I choose the two uddate options I can not even get a single data update to populate the today page. Bummer.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] lostmenoggin:
Ive been trying to find a good weather app as well. I also have TF3D disabled.. Ive been looking for something that will add in to my zune-ish today screen and has nifty animations. I've been checking out this one which allows to find location by GPS. Not free but has a really nice layout and functionality. Might go with this one..

edit: have new user restrictions and cant post a link. Google GWeather Ageye
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] slimslim:
I use WeatherBug (free):

http://weather.weatherbug.com/mobile/weatherbug-windows-mobile.html

and SPB's weather plugins.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] InRBigness:
It was discontinued by the writers but was picked up and supported by PPCGeeks and Storyr in particlular.

This is a great thread on it at PPC Geeks although the same info in here on XDA. http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=7357&highlight=weatherpanel

Try this cab. Weatherpanel 2010 with moon phase fixed until end of 2012.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] madindehead:
Does anyone know exactly which version of bg4all to use with Manila version 2011.3626.

The background on my phone looks very bad quality, and I can't find a good bg4all to use.

I have one that works, but there are so many versions, it is getting very hard to keep track of them.

Anyone got any news if bg4all will be updated for 2011.3626, or which old one to use?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] madindehead:
Sorry to bump this, but which one is best to use guys?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] SNL:
I am using "grzegorz10 B4all Leo 2.02" on Sense 2011 and it does work. Though the background isn't of great quality...

Grab the cab in this topic.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] madindehead:
Ok. Thanks mate. Yeah, that's my problem. I like the backgrounds to be the same quality as stock, and they just aren't. It's a real shame :(

As most chefs remove the wallpapers, it means we need bg4all, which, although it's great, leaves us with an extra program installed, AND lower quality wallpapers. Defeats the purpose I think.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Peter Deijnum:
Dont work for me :(

When in u are in landscape there is a piece of black, i tried 800x800 but this doesnt work

I use this one http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=629714 but then i cant use my clock no more...
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Steve0007:
Use this one for Portrait and Landscape: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=615072&page=11 or HDwall

I think it should work
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Peter Deijnum:
I use the 2.07.531.6 test rom im only in landscape with Music and Photos&Videos tab. I tried 20 different cabs but no luck so far :(

The problem is always i get a piece of black, even when using larger size pics...
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] madindehead:
The black bar must have something to do with the newest version of Manila. As I never had this problem before.

I doubt it's anything to do with the size of the wallpaper either. As that should just automatically rotate based on the background.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] SNL:
Is the same on my device. As i don't use landscape often i am not really bothered by it. Though i hope there will be a solution one day...
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] airycanon:
The same trouble…
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] dXsL:
had the same problem. solution is easy...

search for BG4all_Manilla.2.5.19222911.cab, install it, tada!

I didn't use it at first for obvious reason (the name :)), but it works perfectly!!

enjoy!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Peter Deijnum:
I tried http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=5499189&postcount=47 but still not working for me in landscape at the Music tab. The piece of black is smaller but still there :(
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scurtis2125:
Stuck on T Mobile G! screen. Does that mean Im bricked, just installed Eclair.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] evilkorn:
For the millionth time, if you can not get into recovery or boot-loader, there is no way to recover your phone.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scurtis2125:
i can dude. after i flashed eclair it to me reboot and now its just sitting at the g1 screen. does it take long to load?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AroundTheWorld:
if you can get into recovery, then just try to wipe and re-flash.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] evilkorn:
Well why didn't you say so...

No, because you can boot into recovery or boot-loader.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] finiwini:
Hi! I need some help to put back the original software on my X1. Last week i put a cooked ROM and made and Hard SPL on my X1 and now i want to turn back to the original software, can anyone help me please? Thanks!
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hemant0285:
I am also planning to upgrade my ROM.. so can pls anyone tell me If i upgrade to a new ROM.. how can I come bak to the factory default...
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rudegar:
flashing is flashing

get the rom you want flash it

be it a newer or org rom you flash

but to go back you need to flash back there is no shadow org rom after you flash you can go back to you need to flash back to the org rom like you did when you changed to the rom you are using
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] blogsie:
Like Wise

I flashed my x1 with the energy rom. i decided to back to original fw, that failed. X1 wouldnt load it at all. so i thought to go back to energy rom. When i attempted to flash it back to energy but i get in bootloader it finds the image goes to a grey screen and says "loading......" and wont budge from this.

Any help please?

Or steer me in the right direction?...

P.S. ive tried hard reset
[G1 Android Development] bodyman6666:
im looking for a free downloadable firm ware for my g1 to intercept text messages from another phone can anyone help
[G1 Android Development] thenameismax:
tsk tsk tsk.....thats so illegal.
[G1 Android Development] G1ForFun:
your my hero :rolleyes:
[G1 Android Development] ultma75:
not possible :p
[G1 Android Development] CrazyEye:
funny question. It was funny because I told my gf I had an app like that and I was reading her texts and she was pissed but it was funny. I had her going for about a week until I told her it was fake.

Its not possible dude
[G1 Android Development] nicknowsky:
what the hell do you need a app like that for, by the way NO such app, im sure there is some cracker some where has something like that, but never available for piblic consumption!!

but come one, jsut be man and read the TXTs like everyone else, I think he is thinking theres an app kinda like airsnort or aircrack ya know to pull wep keys outta the air to crack WiFi networks