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[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] TheDeadCPU:
Ouch, this thread will be locked since Warez is against the rules.

But no. Rooting just opens the phone so you can do just about everything.
[Touch Pro, Fuze ROM Development] mostyle:
Rooting....

Just as a final thought.. Rooting has nothing to do piracy.. It usually implies, as previously mentioned, unlocking, or allowing 'root' user access privilege.

:)
[myTouch 3G, Magic Apps and Games] hyrdylsaab:
Which is the best player to watch movies with lots of codecs?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Apps and Games] mbk.2k3:
unfortunately we are out of luck...

i have yet to find a player that will play divx .avi files right off the bat.

the work around (that probably works 100% of the time) is converting your video to another format...

never tried it though.
[myTouch 3G, Magic Apps and Games] hyrdylsaab:
So maybe u can recommend player which u use?
[myTouch 3G, Magic Apps and Games] Brantyr:
There's an app called xyflash or something similar which will play DivX files but not particularly well yet, still needs optimization.

I'd strongly recommend converting on your PC using DoubleTwist or Handbrake and use the inbuilt video player or Meridian which is an mp3 player which also plays videos but keep in mind that almost every video player available on android at the moment just sits ontop of the inbuilt video player.
[Nexus One General] gamefan231:
--im on a family right now and the line that i want to uprade is due for one on feb 28...i called tmobile and they said that to get the nexus one u have to be on a single line (which i knew)...i asked if i can take the line due for an upgrade out but they said that it wouldnt work because switchin that line into a single line would reset my upgrade (with would unable me to get the nexus one)....i only talked to one representative but if this is true does anybody know a way around this?
[Nexus One General] Red MacGregor:
i was in same situation..

over the next 2 years, you'll pay less if you just buy the phone outright.
[Nexus One General] SiNJiN76:
Are you due for an upgrade because you're not on contract anymore? If so, why not just cancel that line and get a new number? Then get a GVoice number...that way you can always give out the same number.
[General Topics] maxh:
Let's please not turn this into a discussion on the legality of changing IMEI numbers. It is illegal in the EU. Changing ESNs is illegal in the United States, but IMEIs may or may not be; I haven't been able to find supporting documentation either way but haven't looked that hard. I will say that here in the US we don't blacklist IMEIs of stolen phones, so there's NO reason for thieves to wish to change them.

I am very much displeased with the way service providers are dictating data plan requirements by device types. I use a smartphone, but use very little data. I don't want to pay twice as much as a dumbphone user using 100x the data. I also don't want to be forced to purchase a data plan regardless of whether or not I need or want it, just because I want to use a particular phone. For this reason I and millions of other people in the US have a very compelling motive for changing the IMEI #s of our smartphones to those of our old dumbphones.

Moderators will not allow discussion of changing IMEIs, but I'd like to suggest another possibility. I found a patent that suggests it may be possible to change the IMEI # reported to the service provider with a SIM card app while leaving alone the # stored in the phone.

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2009/0069001.html

This patent was filed on 11/07/2008 by AT&T. Those two facts jive well with my experience. AT&T has just recently been implementing changes in their system which allow them to automatically change your data plan upon detection of your SIM being in a new device.

The patent suggests that they are utilizing a program actually stored on the SIM card to do the reporting. So would you please read through the patent and comment on the possibility of altering the program on the SIM card to report an IMEI # of our choosing instead of the IMEI stored on the phone?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] mike390:
Today it opened my phone and it shows my sd card as damaged and all the apps are crashing all over the place, so i reverted to a backup and same deal, i installed the stock htc hero rom and it worked fine, i did a wipe and installed modacos 3.1 again and it finished but all the apps started crashing again and it had all the apps that i had installed previously, how do i restore my phone to a clean stock version of modaco 3.1 without keeping all my apps installed!?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] sinnadyr:
Sounded weird, can agree with that. Are you using apps2sd? Try do a backup of your sd-card, format it, wipe and install ROM. Dont restore a backup or something.

Now copy ur files back to the sd-card and see if it makes any difference
[Hero, G2 Touch General] craig0r:
Yeah, it sounds like your ext2 (or ext3/ext4) partition for apps2sd is corrupt. It may even be an issue with your SD card. SD cards are not optimized for ext2/3/4 partitions, and as I learned through running android on my Vogue, it's rare, but your SD card can become permanently damaged by using this filesystem on it.

If formatting your SD card like sinnadyr suggested doesn't work, I would re-partition the entire card, making your FAT32 partition smaller by maybe 512MB and have everything else the same size. This will obviously result in 512MB less usable space on the card, but at that point I don't think you'd have another option anyway.

(I may be off about the size of 512MB... I'm tired and drunk and can't be bothered to look up the actual size of the swap/ext2 partitions.)

If all else fails, try a new SD card.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] hotvico:
Your Hero can be saved

Ok... I've had this... and this is how I solved it:

-save what you have to from sd to pc

-format sd

-partition from scratch

-reboot

-put what you saved previously back on

-done

sounds easy, but it actually took me AGES in between finding out and doing it.

In my case it was due to a combination of using a program to move the cache to SD AND mounting the SD card WHILE some app was doing something (APP2SD was enabled). All I know is I never used the cache to SD program again and 3.1 is now running smooth on my hero.

Good luck

Ciao

p.s. If the steps above do not seem to work just do all the Wipes, load another rom, play with it for 2 mins, then re-do all the wipes and start off. I know I'm being a bit confusing but trust me, problem will be solved eventually. Just make sure u have plenty of time when u start the whole process :-)

V.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] seshmaru:
There's a guide somewhere how to repartition your SD card through ADB, this is what I did when the same thing happened to me and the partitions were corrupted.
[Hero CDMA General] VinceOB:
Ok, so I need to know where the heck the HTC Sync icon is. I need to make it transparent to go with my new taskbar im creating. Anybody? Also, where is the *New Text* icon and the *New* Gmail icon?
[Hero CDMA General] bronxknight28:
u need to go into the apk of the apps for that, thats what i did
[Hero CDMA General] VinceOB:
Thanks. I found it after I posted. Lol. I'm still trying to find the stupid sync icon. The one I think it is, is already transparent. Driving me nuts!!
[Hero CDMA General] gbhil:
PM ratcom or emerica6541 or change the thread title so they know to look in. They have already done it, so they will know which pngs need edited.
[Hero CDMA General] justinisyoung:
ok i found where it is.

do an adb pull of /system/framework/framework-res.apk

then open it up with a file manager like winRAR, etc.

navigate to framework-res.apk/res/drawable, scroll down, and look for the following:

stat_notify_sync.png

stat_notify_sync_anim0.png

stat_notify_sync_error.png

those are it. i believe you can find all the others in there too.
[Hero CDMA General] VinceOB:
LOL Dang it. Right in front of my face. I couldnt find them because they were changed. LOL Thanks man!!
[Hero CDMA General] VinceOB:
Dang it! Its gotta be somewhere else too. I grabbed them from another ROM and made them transparent, but it didnt work. :mad:
[Hero CDMA General] gbhil:
is it this one?

/system/framework/com.htc.resources.apk --->

/res/drawable/progress_icon.png
[Hero CDMA General] VinceOB:
Im gonna try it. It looks exactly like the other one in framework-res.apk
[Hero CDMA General] VinceOB:
Didnt work....dang.
[Hero CDMA General] chubbzlou:
The sync icon is in pcscll.apk or something like that.
[Hero CDMA General] VinceOB:
Son of a *****, it is...LOL That is the LAST place I wouldve looked. ROFL Thanks chubbz!!
[Hero CDMA General] chubbzlou:
No prob I was stumped also at first.
[HD2 General] ephestione:
Thank you, that is one useful chunk of comprehensive information :D

Could you please explain the exact measuring method for these tests?

40% backlight at night is a tough example tho, Lumos on my device is set to 10% for 0 sensor value, and only because I can't set it to lower than 10%... nice to know battery drain goes up twice from 10% to 60%!

Also, 100% is usually really necessary under direct sunlight, in a normal lit room probably 40% backlight is more than enough to watch a video... all in all, with your superinteresting info, the battery doesn't look like lasting "too short" now, but more or less "the right amount considering the battery capacity".

My iPaq 210 has a 2200mAh battery, just to make a comparison... that's why I could go for 8 hrs during some bus trips while watching tv series, and I just needed to swap battery and used a little of the second one.
[HD2 General] Shasarak:
What's your estimate of the drain caused by activating push email? I've recently been doing some rather crude experiments myself, and one provisional conclusion is that push email on a hotmail account uses a lot more battery than push email on an Exchange server.
[HD2 General] pa49:
Excellent stuff, you are to be congratulated.

I have a long held theory and I wonder if you are in a position to to test it?

I believe that battery consumption is greatly increased when an app is run from mem card and would be intrigued to see a comparison between an install to this as opposed to phone mem.

Any chance?
[HD2 General] thedarkcave:
Battery levels

I found that power consumption of the battery got even worse after I went to Rom 1.66.707.1. However, after a few days, I let it run all the way out, switched back on, it ran out after a few minutes. Then after an overnight charge I found the battery (on standby) only went down by about 10 -12 % in 24hrs. I'm hoping this performance will continue.
[HD2 General] Spike15:
What did you use for the testing?
[HD2 General] ephestione:
That would be reasonable as reading from an external media will need energy to access its contents... still, once the app files have been loaded into the device's RAM, it shouldn't matter much ;)

You could also test by comparing:

1) copy say 30mb from one location to another of the internal mem

2) copy from microsd to microsd

3) copy from mem to microsd

4) copy from microsd to mem
[HD2 General] kilrah:
Simply using the built-in current sensor, getting the reads from AEBPlus battery information screen, and methodically turning things on/off once the others are evaluated and can be subtracted from the total reading.

Really? You should force the backlight off then ;)

I love bright images myself, so even in my bed in total darkness if I watch a video or photos I'll force 100% backlight :D I have Lumos set to force 100% for Coreplayer, Resco Photo manager and HTC album :p

Of course not for browsing or just messing around, in that case it's 20% for me ;)

That's one thing I'd have no idea about... I've never used push email at all. And that's "standby usage", so hard to evaluate, as you never know when it kicks in.

Measuring that would need to be done on a long time. I'd say to leave your phone one night with push email off, one night with Exchange only, and one night with hotmail only, and then check the difference, preferably with a battery at about 80% charge at the start (mine seems to fall from 100% to 90% in a few minutes before becoming more regular, so I'd say the top of the scale isn't that reliable).

And I should really try push email once, that would be nice, but I *think* I have no provider that can do it for me... well I have a gmail account I never use, I should try to see if I can have it check my usual 3 mail accounts, aggregate and push... never really looked into that stuff.

Thanks :)

Well I'd tend to refute that theory, because when I tested the BT and Wifi in use I tried read from internal memory, write to internal, read from card and write to card, and all 4 were identical. I should have mentioned it indeed, but I was mostly interested to seeing if reads (wifi/BT "sending") and writes (wifi/BT "receiving") would have an influence on consumption, which wasn't the case, as well as whether the throughput was different, which wasn't the case either.

But I've done a few more tests, see the updated first post :)

One intersting thing is firstly that when the HD2 is connected to USB, the current draw grows significantly, so I've made a new "base consumption".

Next, the card is actually faster than the internal memory both in reads and in writes, tested both through activesync for consistency. Writing to the internal memory eats a LOT more than writing to the card. Reading from the card eats a little more than reading from internal memory, probably evens out as the reads are shorter due to faster transfer rate.

I've added some charging tests as well. Apparently, even if the phone "disconnects" from USB when turned off, the processor still runs and uses about the "USB connected" base current.
[HD2 General] ephestione:
d'oh aebplus has a battery information screen, checking it right away :p In that case you'd have to take into consideration aebplus' current absorption anyway... which is not measurable as you cannot check the current intake of aebplus without aebplus being running :D

I have the cab on the sd already, but didn't install if after noticing that didn't work for button assignments with later versions of the rom... does it work for you on that side? I used the program all the time on my previous ipaq because it was oh so useful but never got around to notice it had a battery info subsection.

Wouldn't have much sense doing it in the dark would it :D (admitting it's possible altogether on the HD2!)

But I actually used my oooold casio cassiopeia, about 7 years ago, with backlight turned off, while reading ebooks with speed reader plus during train trips, as the neon lights created a reflection good enough on the display so that I didn't need backlight...

in the end, the backlight died altogether and until I bought a new device, I managed to use it with light turned off :)
[HD2 General] djet:
A flashing LED (incoming SMS warning, e.g.) seems to add consumption of 1-3mA.

Running FlexMail in background with a push service (IMAP IDLE) adds up to 30mA.
[HD2 General] kilrah:
AEBPlus works fine for me yes... but I don't have a "latest version" ROM AFAIK. I don't like WM6.5.x new softkey arrangement, so I'm staying with 6.5.

Anyway more about Push, I configured that through gmail yesterday, and it works just fine. I left it on during the night, and this morning I had lost 8% battery. So it's pretty much negligible. I received 2 e-mails during the night and was on 3G network.
[HD2 General] jamieeeee:
this is a nice topic! i am interested in how much extra it uses when you are playing a MP3 with the build in HTC app?

maybe it would be a nice idea to make a program that outputs results like you pasted fast and easy (something like a benchmark app) so we can test different rom's fast? too bad i cant write anything otherwise i would try..
[HD2 General] kilrah:
OK, seems MP3 uses 120mA screen off, both with Sense player and Coreplayer, so:

Processor running idle, screen off base + 65mA

But it seems to make some pretty big "jumps" once in a while. Maybe they both decode ior fetch from memory by "batches"...
[HD2 General] qazokm123:
my test,

HD2 rom 1.66

with BT on and BT off (configured but no connection to headset) difference in consumption is 60mA .!

BT is draining my HD2 .!
[HD2 General] kilrah:
OK, I can't confirm the BT issue. Did you observe over a long period of time? The "quiet" current for MP3 I seem to get is 185mA with screen on and backlight at 10%, but sometimes it will climb to 280-320mA for a moment and go down again, both with BT on and off. With screen off for a while it seems to stabilise at the "quiet" level.

BTW, it seems that Advanced task manager isn't reporting CPU usage levels properly. Does someone know of a CPU monitor that works correclty on the HD2?
[HD2 General] qazokm123:
Yup. review over multiple 6 mins. all baseline(3g/brightness) setting the same. resetting each time for off on BT.
[HD2 General] kilrah:
Another consideration:

Data connection sucks power when used actively. Badly. As mentioned in the OP I haven't made comprehensive tests due to low monthly allowance, but I've had a look during normal use.

I'm pretty regularly doing 1hr train rides, during which I will be listnening to music , and browse the net at the same time. It's usually bright, so backlight will probably be at 70%. Signal is relatively low most of the time, on EDGE, inbetween small towns. When I'm on a "static" page (reading an already loaded page), current drain varies between 250 and 350mA.

But while loading a page, it will easily soar to 800mA+. Considering it takes 30-60 seconds to read a page, 20 to load a new one, and repeat... you can quickly see that this kind of usage leads to serious drain... in less than 2 hours the battery would be dead.

So be aware of how much power data connection will use. It's directly proportional to the amount of transferred data, and the worse the reception the more power it uses.

I should try using opera mini again, like I was always doing on my Kaiser. I never noticed excessive drain with it, but opera mini easily divides traffic by a factor of 10...
[HD2 General] ephestione:
Just wanted to report that the new version of the superuseful BattClock has now a builtin battery current output, even if it's not really update once per second... seems more like one every 10 seconds.

I get ~240mA playing fullscreen stretched Frasier in lowest backlight (but that's with the keypad leds turned on all the time, I don't know why they don't go off, and I don't have keypadledcontrol installed... so that's a problem), and I get a total 630mA with HTC flashlight at maximum.
[HD2 General] kilrah:
Good news! Bye bye Batti :D

Normal about the refresh time, the sensor only updates every 20 secs or so.

Some new considerations I posted somewhere else but should have put here.

After some time the HD2 seems to have better battery life, but usually it's not your battery lasting longer, it's just you not spending your day playing with the thing anymore.

It's always the same thing, the more a device can do, the more you do with it. On my first 1h train journeys after getting my HD2, I was able to kill 50% battery in 1hr. My first thought was "wow, with my Kaiser I would only use like 15%!!"

But then I took a second thought. I used 50%, but I was browsing the web, in bad reception areas, while listening to music the whole time. With my Kaiser, I'd put music on, check 3 webpages, then put it on the tray with just MSN connected and just pick it up to read/type a message once in a while.

On a next trip, I "forced myself" to do the same with the HD2. Just checked the news for 5 mins, then only listened to music and picked up msn once in a while, plus an unexpected 10min phone call. Guess what? I've only used 20% battery during the trip this time

The "problem" is that browsing with the Kaiser was just painful, so I'd just check the news and put it away. On the HD2 it's so comfortable I forget it and just spend my whole trip browsing heavy pages, which obviously kills battery in no time...
[HD2 General] ephestione:
exactly my thoughts and findings ;)
[General Questions and Answers] Jiharu Ikumiya:
Hi there, I'm in a bit of a dilemma. I was messing with some UI tweaks in SKTools. After I was done, everything was fine; but I wanted to see how everything looked with the large start menu option in system settings. After enabling it, I clicked to look at it. The entire menu was blacked out and I now have no way (that I know of) to get back to the settings to change the menu size. When you press on it, the phone will freeze.

So really what I'm asking is, anybody know a way to change that setting through the registry or something? .o.

Help would be greatly appreciated, thanks guys, really.:eek:
[General Questions and Answers] orb3000:
Welcome to forums

First and more important to know is what HTC device you have:eek:

Second, try to uninstall any new app recently added or in worst case do a hard reset.

Good luck,
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] dakkie:
Is there a cab file that a just can install for Sense reader?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] xavierdemon:
There have been quite a few requests for this now and I fear it's not going to happen anytime soon :(. The only option is to Flash to one the ROMs based on 2.0+
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] dakkie:
i dont know nothing about making youre own rom, only know how to flash ^^

but can the sense reader be extracted? and then make a installation cab?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] vodanhdaisu:
i would like to know what is the best app to convert prc to epub in order to be read in HTC Reader? I'm using 2epub.com to convert my prc to epub but some are failed :(

And how can i update library for HTC Reader? I have many ebook .epub in storage but in Manila, it shows only the 10 default books.
[General Accessories] JRM.joaquin:
Please I need major help....im getting scratches everywhere on my TILT 2! I couldn't find anything from the stores. I went online but I don't know if they are compatible with HTC TILT 2 since they're made primarily for touch or other htc slider phone (based on the reviews I have read).

I would appreciate any type of information. Thanks in advance!
[General Accessories] orb3000:
Welcome to forums

have a look here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=524059

Searching is the key;)

Good luck,
[General Accessories] thepindoctor:
I got one of those and they work great. Just a pain when you have to do a soft reset tho. But I like it. They will send it out fast to you.
[General Accessories] galaxys:
Welcome to XDA...take a look over in the Kaiser section!
[General Accessories] orb3000:
He´s looking for Touch Pro 2 buddy:D

Til2 = Rhodium

Tilt = Kaiser
[General Accessories] galaxys:
Ooops! Too many Tilts on my mind :o
[General Accessories] Leooooooo:
Have you search for this online shop:

http://www.pdair.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=10100000_900000_11000796

This is the shop on my favourite list, I hope I can help
[General Questions and Answers] fielmann:
Hi,

is there an app to save opening hours for stores?
[General Questions and Answers] stylez:
Moved as not software release.

Don't know if there is an app for exactly that but Excel would do the job.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Krisiacik:
Hi,

I am unable to understand the naming conventions for various ROMs here..

I am searching for a stock 6,5 rom + minimal if any 3rd party aps +with the latest Sense build.

Is it here somewhere?

Thanks, Krisiacik
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] cjm1979:
See HERE for 6.5 with sense 2.1

See HERE for 6.5 with sense 2.5 Eur wwe
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] kimtyson:
Naming conventions???:confused:
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] sirphunkee:
THIS Thread gives a pretty good description of the differences between 6.5 and 6.5.3