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[General Questions and Answers] TP2DH1:
A friend just switched to Straight Talk & is very happy. His bill with Cricket was about 80.00 a month with roaming, he now pays 45.00 a month with better coverage. Cricket contracts with Verizon for roaming but omits some areas. Straight Talk appears to work in all Verizon areas.

Findout in about a week the scoop on flashing a Verizon phone to Straight Talk, if it works then its time for me to switch and look for an Incredible.
[General Questions and Answers] kratt:
I have had an htc eris on the verizon version of straight talk (there is a gsm version of straight talk). I was only able to use sms and voice, no data or mms. It was difficult. Involved a donor MEID/ESN from a true straight talk phone :)
[General Questions and Answers] abethebomb:
straight talk

here you can get your apn settings it works awesome.

unlockit.co.nz/mobilesettings/settings.php?id=242
[General Questions and Answers] Kristinald:
Straight Talk is Really not that Great!! Trust me

Ok so I had Straight Talk for almost two years, and they were just fine, if you didn't have to call customer service. Recently I bought the Samsung T528G touchscreen phone-not quite the android, but worked pretty similar, you did not need the $45 plan-I got it anyway thinking I would be using it alot. I had the phone for 3 months and one morning I woke up and tried to use my phone to find out that it had been permantly disconnected by the company due to over use of the internet and improperly shutting down the internet, which it totally false. They refused to turn it back on and said I could buy another phone and start over again, but why would I want to stay somewhere that could do that to me again? Anyways I not really sure how long these android phones will last because I would think that those would use to much data and they would shut everyone that got them off permantly!!
[General Questions and Answers] ladiomi:
Straight Talk - Android Phone

I have been using the straight talk phone as a backup when I travel to my dad's house in the country. It works great and there is no contract with the $45 unlimited plan it works great for me. I do have the android phone from straight talk I have had the Samsung precedent (which i dropped in the ocean, ugh) and now the Huawei M865C which is much better than the Samsung I previously had from them. The problem I see from the android phone's is that they are severely limited on space some only have about 384MB. That is ridiculous after you activate it and it updates the stock programs that's all of your space you can't download anything else to the phone. This is a real problem!

I want to root the phone, but I don't think it would be a good idea since the space is so limited. They do, however, now offer Sim cards for a one-time fee of $14.99 (This is in addition to the $45 unlimited plan), which you can use in any T-mobile or AT&T phone on the straight talk network. I know someone who has an AT&T Iphone working on the Straight Talk network it's pretty cool it works like normal. The only thing is you have to get the $45 unlimited plan, which i have no qualms with. I think that is what I will do do in the next couple of weeks. I am a techie and I can't live with this limited phone even if it is android. It's a good idea and a good plan though I'll have to say I am seriously contemplating leaving Sprint for good behind this idea.

I'll write back if I find an AT&T or T-Mobile phone to switch to so everyone will know how it works.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sachinrocks:
Mods,

Please spare, if I missed the thread for the problem I'm mentioning here.

Guys,

My USB or say PC is not recognizing ma phone. Also whenever my phone battery dies out i.e totally drained or phone turned off (say in 24 or 48 hrs), next time I put it on charging & boot it up, it goes into tri color screen & only boots up normally when I attached it to USB cable on pc.

if this problem has already been mentioned, someone please direct me there.

I'd really appreciate that.

Thanks

A fan from India
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] foxcheng:
same here from malaysia!

I cannot charge when the phone is on, boot stuck on tri-color screen if no usb cable plugged, can't flash other rom and can't hard reset by normal method!

mine is w37 what about yours?
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sachinrocks:
I'm sorry I dint recognize W37. What are you referring to ?
[Android Themes] xillius200:
Scrapped as not enough comments so im guessing it wasn't liked :(
[Android Themes] Ace42:
Haha it looks just like Pac-Man.
[Android Themes] xillius200:
XD guess it does :)
[Android Themes] AndroidFiend:
i think it should be named quesoo lol

queso is cheese in spanish
[HD2 General] donalgodon:
I cannot pick up even ONE station in my location by scanning, or manual input. Just static. Is it really that bad?

My previous Symbian phone's FM radio pulled in at least 14 stations automatically.

Is it that bad, or am I doing something wrong?

Using stock headset, btw.
[HD2 General] kaospiloten:
I just tryed the fm radio for the first time, i live in a area with bad reception and i get 4 stations with my hd2, the same as I get in my VW T5. So it works ok for me.
[HD2 General] samsamuel:
as standard it doesn't pick up many for me and if I stand too far away from the windows I lose half of them. verdict 3/10

with the de emphasis tweak in bsb tweaks I get a little better.maybe 5/10
[HD2 General] vizier:
Compared to my old HD, my HD2 FM receiver performance is also really bad. I can listen to only a few stations with HD2 where I was easily having more than 20 with the HD. Any improvement suggestion is more than welcome.
[HD2 General] rexboy:
Agreed, its quite bad. Especially as it requires the earphones to act as an antenna.

Wifes Iphone radio is great quality sad to say lol.

Pity they couldnt have improved on this as with other HTC models
[HD2 General] ikovac:
i get the same number (13) in the same place inside house. bsb tweak on. hd2 earphones. reception quality is actually better than my hd (less static noise - cleaner sound).

edit: changing stations over earphone's remote is much better than actual buttons in the radio app. there is no clicking noise that way! try it. :)
[HD2 General] m_g:
There must be something wrong that is more general than just living in an area with weak fm radio coverage. I used an FM transmitter together with my mp3 player to transmit some music to my HD2 and it wasn't able to pickup even a little bit of it, despite having a 1mW radio transmitter only 20 cm away. I tried both, the stock headset and another one.

Also, the static sounds exactly the same, no matter what frequency the tunes is set to. That's unusual, cause there tend to be different kinds of disturbance in different parts of the FM band, so you would expect the static to change as well as you change the frequency, wouldn't you? It's almost like the HD2 tuner is not changing it's frequency at all!

Those of you who can't receive anything at all: Could you please repeat my experiment with the FM transmitter an post your results here? Thanks!
[HD2 General] gianton:
have you tried power radio http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=531600 a lot better app. edit currently not supporting hd2.
[HD2 General] DAMIEN123_666:
yes i struggle to pick up any station at all with any headphones plugged in even large hd595's or sure se410
[HD2 General] warnold007:
Iphone FM radio? Does that exist?

Isn't she just using a streaming radio via 3g connection or wifi?

In which case, there are a lot of streaming radio programs for windows mobile as well. Better music than what the radio stations play here, haha.

Going back, the HD2 radio seem to have weak reception for me as well.
[HD2 General] regi7:
1.) on my HD2 i have a brilliant FM-Radio quality

the position of the cable of the earphones is not

important. Currently I have the artemis rom 3.0.

The best radio quality i had with the 1.66 leo stock rom!

2.) a real FM-Radio need a 0,7m long antenna dependent on the wavelenght. It is not possible to include this in a mobile phone. Its just physics. An iphone has no FM radio. It's just using the internet connection for a radio stream.

So install the newest Leo Stock Rom 1.66 and you will have a lot of fun with your real FM radio
[HD2 General] sg10:
I use 1.66 stock, and compare to my old touch pro. HD2 FM reception = very2 bad.
[HD2 General] dgtel2:
Don't bother the built-in FM radio. It's battery drainer. In order to get best reception, you need to be at higher ground level (5-story and above...?)
[HD2 General] donalgodon:
All that's great, but pretty embarrassing that a $150 Symbian smartphone performed multiple times better with literally any kind of headphones.

As much as I hated the OS, it had a good radio. :)
[HD2 General] regi7:
hmm i dont know the quality of TP but compared to my old HD its a bit better radio signal. some additional infos i forgot:

i am using the german 1.66 and turned on the tweak in bsb tweaks.

in austria the ukw band is between 88Mhz and 108mhz.

i think the problem is the fm radio driver. on the old stockrom (1.48 as i remember) i had a very bad reception.
[HD2 General] zeroSIXzero:
Hæ?

iPhone do not have a FM radio.

So of course, web radio is better if you have internet.
[HD2 General] OliveUK:
I am quite lucky. Mine only detects 6 radios and my favourite one is one of them ;-)

FMRadio with G-Alarm. Best thing ever ;-)

edit. Ah actually I tried to find some more manually and did!

No FM radio on the Iphone really?? ahah take that Apple! ;-)
[HD2 General] Mastiff:
I've had maybe ten phones with FM radio since I went smartphone about five years ago, and none of them were even close to my 20 year old Sony pocket radio. For some reason phone makers can't create a radio that works well outside of the large cities. Waste of time for me. The HD and the HD2 weren't any better...
[HD2 General] samsamuel:
so true. my n95 had the best fm radio i ever had on a phone.

it was THE ONLY thing better than on my hd2, , but still....
[HD2 General] uli68:
so, are there any alternatives to the stock FMRadio for the HD2?
[HD2 General] vailrider:
Just tried mine.. with latest rom version. Works great ! Excellent sound quality and in the basement no less :)
[HD2 General] Marct77:
No problems with picking up multiple stations here in NW England

and no static issues ~ stock 1.66 ROM
[HD2 General] Mihkel.ee:
I have the exact same ROM as you, where other radios have no trouble picking up 20 stations I get NONE!

maybe its the Radio version, mine is 2.06.51.07

I will try to update if I find out how to.:confused:
[HD2 General] highforest:
Try it

What I find out (not planed); I change the Band from Europe to Japan and my radio works great; before, I had no chance to have any station; I change it back to Europe and it still works fine; I don't no, if it works with all "not really working" FM radios

Go to:

HKLM\Software\HTC\FMRadio\FMPlayer

Band (1 for Europe, 2 for Japan)
[HD2 General] nebulax:
What's the point if it's not working on the HD2?!
[HD2 General] morpheus1982:
An option to change the Band doesnt exist for me...
[HD2 General] uli68:
so has anyone managed to find the reason and, most of all, a cure for the poor FM Radio performance on the HD2? it seems to me very much a random issue at the moment - maybe a hardware or antenna problem? i have the latest ROM 1.66 but i don't get a single station in an area crowded with senders.
[HD2 General] gstew:
Different Wired Headsets are part of the problem...

I have a US T-Mobile HD2 and several compatible wired headsets and found they cause the FM radio to perform differently. Best for FM was a cheapy mono Palm headset. Worse was the stock headset that came with the phone.

But I think that is only part of the problem as the HD2's FM radio does not provide nearly as good of reception as my TP2.

So I hope someone discovers the trick to make it work better for all phones!

I love the phone mostly otherwise, but the poor FM radio, the poor speaker, and the stupid sense scrolling that doesn't work well with large lists, like a Registry editor or EReader software and over 800 books. Anyone know how to revert to the stock WinMo 6.5 scrolling?

Greg in Mississippi
[HD2 General] Mihkel.ee:
I updated my RADIO and now I get most if not all FM radios that are brodcasted, but I must say - audio quality on stereo is disappointing

seriously, 2$ sets from the market work better?!! its not acceptable, but the place I bought it from doesn't help me at all with this :(

i need to to some more testing.
[HD2 General] teddmf:
Has anyone tried the new 2.14.50 radio ROM? I have heard reports that it improves the FM radio reception greatly.
[HD2 General] apallohadas:
Yes it does. Much better than before, but still worse than my old Nokia 5800.
[HD2 General] Mihkel.ee:
I use ROM 3.14, radio UI has changed, and reception is much better but I would say still not on bar with 5$ FM radios from a market,

at least now it usable, I'm, happy :)
[HD2 General] matejdro:
Yeah, X1 had much better reception. Audio was clear most of the time, while is quite common to hear noise on the HD2.
[HD2 General] sveinove:
Got it working by changing registry

By using SKtools registry editor, going to the registry key listed above and changing the band to 3, I finally got good reception on the HD2, on major channels in Norway. Changing the key to 1 or 2 didn't work as good, don't know why. By changing to 1, the FM band was changed to other wavelengths, I believe it was 72-87 Mhz.
[Nexus One General] esmith:
Ok, I've always run custom roms when I can and I hope to be getting the Nexus One soon and will be using it on Rogers in Canada...

Should I run it with the stock rom (root of course!!) and flash a custom rom? :rolleyes:
[Nexus One General] galaxys:
I would run it stock for a while just to see what it's capable of and how it performs. Then U can flash away if U want to ;)
[Nexus One General] bofslime:
I would try and hold out for the ATT band equipped N1 if at all possible so you can use the 3g on rogers.
[Click General] 2Charly5:
Hi,

Im new in the forum and I havent found any info about unlocking the Tattoo for free, in theory the best way to do it is with the IMEI code, however I havent found any software for doing it for free, I found some for most of the HTC phones but not for Tattoo.

Can anyone help me with this? Is there any other way to unlock it? For free.

Thanks,

Carlos.
[Click General] 01alek:
I wonder that too. Today I payed HTCGate.com for unlock code and didn't got any response from them, except payment approval :)
[Click General] Neo1607:
I would also like to know this as i just purchased a tattoo today and it is locked to orange.
[Click General] LeeGath:
I have the same Scenario. I've got an Orange locked Tattoo and everything I've tried so far has been in vain.

What I have managed to do is remove the Orange ROM and flash it with a generic ROM, gets rid of all that orange guff. Unfortunately, doing that alone doesn't unlock the device.

I've also bought one of these iSim super sims. That hasn't arrived yet, but I'm hoping that it will in the next couple of days. I'll let you know how I get on with that.

Again, this is all a bit new to me, not being in this space before. From what I gather the problem is the Radio element of the ROM. So it's possible to flash the other elements, but there's some additional security around the Radio and that's where the CID check occurs. You may have noticed they've been able to root the tattoo recently and that should in the near future give us the ability to build our own custom ROM and flash the device with that.....I'm really hoping that process will properly unlock the device.......but its not been done yet as far as I can tell.

I think if I had my time again, I'd tell our lass to not buy the tattoo off Ebay and pay £180 from Play.com for an unlocked one. But we are where we are. :D
[Click General] yash08:
1. CID lock and SIM lock are 2 different stuffs

2. Even if you pay for the sim lock it might not work, like for most of us here

3. ISmart Sim 2008 works like a charm to bypass the SIM lock. Here is a link from where i got mine:

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.12167

4. Lets hope that root allows us to permanently remove the sim lock
[Click General] markyd85:
I also purchased a SIM unlock 2008 and works great on a Orange Tattoo for now. Apart from the other week pissed up dropped my phone and lost the sim unlock and had to buy another!
[Click General] blanksa:
any news about free sim unlocking of tattoo? I'm becoming mad cause of this...
[Click General] activecop:
Hi have found this link

Encontrei este link:

http://www.jtagbox.com/jtag-news/ri...k-1100-unlock-unbrick-imei-repair-cid-update/
[Click General] ferrytymone:
For a fee, some service providers will even give you the unlock code for your phone. There are also third party companies that provide cell phone unlock codes for a fee that ranges from $5 to about $25, depending on the model of phone you have. i will suggest the website TheUnlockSpot.com which is doing good service .....you can approach this website.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Braakie:
There is a new version of Marketplace published. It is now possible to download applications from all countries.

Windows Marketplace World View 1.2.1417.0001

Here the download: http://mp.windowsphone.com/
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] donalgodon:
So far... not very stable for me. It does include a Memory Card storage option, which is nice.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] MascoNL:
I can't seem to connect to the marketplace, gives me a timeout and that I should check my data connection :(

*info: I have Vodafone and live in The Netherlands...*
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] flunkyou2:
same here but im voda uk
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Isadora:
And me, Voda UK as well.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Redmen:
I'm on Vodafone aswell but i think i fixed the problem. (seems ok till now)

* Go to Phone Settings

* Menu

* Network selection

* Set Networks

I added Vodafone NL and moved it to the top. (VF NL wasnt selected)

Hope this helps for you guys!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] FrankCastle:
when will windows marketplace update itself automatically? im on 1.1 and it doesnt prompt me to install new version when i load it up
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] firaX:
uninstall marketplace, rerun the "bootstrap" it will ask you to download marketplace, it will dl the latest version.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] BlueLux:
Yeah, the new version seems buggy for the time being. Even though I change to US/ENG, not all apps are being displayed. If I use MarketplaceRegionSwitch, I can see all the hundreds of he apps.

Although, using the new version, I can now buy the apps in other regions, in my local currency (at least those that are being displayed). Maybe that's why I can't see all the apps yet, that they are working on making the apps on the other markets available for sale in local currencies.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] de Wolfe:
For me it works perfectly and I got the update via prompt when I started MarketPlace (actually it didn't prompt me - it just did the update...). What I find good is the new possibility to choose where to install the apps - either in internal memory or on SD. Seems as if MS learned from OpnMarket... :D
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] MascoNL:
It seems that marketplace only connects via data-connection and not via my Wireless :(
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] djet:
Yup, region selection works only with MarketplaceRegionSwitch.

Buying apps still unavailable.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Akademist101:
ive updated to the new one but on pocketnow video the US had many more apps than what it shows when i select from UK to US. UK games is about 128 and US only showed like 24. However the pocketnowvideo had like 300 + games. i dont know what it isnt showing all...i want to download GAME OF LIFE frmo the US Marketplace! :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] astrodemoniac:
Same here :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Chainfire:
People complaining about world-view: give it a week or so.

The thing is, for world-view, us devs first need to go into the developer portal of Marketplace and manually allow all our applications to be available to non-US viewers of the US marketplace (or non-German viewers of the German marketplace, etc).

First, keep in mind this is quite a cumbersome operation, as the developer portal isn't exactly easy - or fast - to use.

Furthermore, the previous different markets our applications are visible for are all treated as a seperate application by the developer portal, so we have to do the same cumbersome operational multiple times.

Combine that with that we have to manually convert the $ prices to prices in your currency, and be lucky enough to pick a number that is actually allowed by marketplace, lest we have to do the whole cumbersome operation over again. I'm not kidding, we get - for each different geographical origin of the user - an free-form entry field, but the price you input has to match a certain formula. This formula is not public, only Microsoft knows, so there's a lot of trial and error (and gnashing of teeth) involved here.

Second, keep in mind the new developer portal features have only been made available when for most people the work-week already ended, so there's a good chance most developers will look at this by Monday at the earliest.

Third, as the sales reports Marketplace generates only include a different app-id for each market but no price, this new way of making apps available - combined with the price-setting requirements above - makes it impossible for developers to track sales income until the money is actually transferred into our accounts (several months after the sales take place). So there may also be developers who will currently not enable world-view for their apps as they will lose the ability to track how much they are earning.

Fourth, there seems to be a bug regarding enabling world-view for the US market which will remove the application from Marketplace users _actually_ from the US. It seems to happen sometimes, but not always, so some developers may not enable world-view until that matter is either cleared up or resolved.

All in all, I would say it may take at least a week for most apps to become available in world-view due to all of the above. And with that I would say that in this week probably the EUR countries will see the apps first, and non-USD non-EUR users may have to wait a bit longer still.
[HD2 General] vladimir2989:
Ruining official HTC ROM 1.66 although my device is HSPL, i found that i occasional get glitch with Windows Live services like E-mails will not get send/received and Messenger wont sign in unless i do soft reset after winch everything is fine..

do u think its ROM specifice issue, or due to HSPL (unlikely) or any other ideas ....

(PS, this post may be need moving to General discussion section)
[Windows Mobile Software Development] keithdupont:
What do you guys use to uninstall programs the won't uninstall thru rmove programs - it says unable to uninstall completely and it asks if you want to remove it from the list. I answered yes but it is still there. I tries installing the program again and then uninstall - same result. Is there a reg edit to get rid of it?
[Windows Mobile Software Development] choppyboy:
i had this same problem a few times. what worked for me was doing the uninstall option and when it says ..."remove from list" i hit no. I go bak into file explorer and install the same cab that you just tried to delete and you will get the same message and it will ask "delete previous version" it will then say "failed to uninstall would you like to install anyways" select yes for both of these options and then soft reset.

~hope this helps
[Windows Mobile Software Development] acc49ers:
This works for me sometimes. I also use SKTools which has a remove installed programs option and it works to if you have that.