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[Hero CDMA General] tkirton:
There's a good number of phones like that. Treo 700p, 755p, 800w, Samsung Rant, Sanyo SCP-3100 just to name a few. Actually, the Blackberry that I have for work is the only phone that I have used recently that has a separate power button.

I think I had a Nokia that had a separate power button.
[Hero CDMA General] tkirton:
Actually, I like having to hit End twice. When I had my Treo phones (700p, 755p and 800w), I would always hit the red end button to turn on the screen. The problem is, if the screen goes off while you are on a call, I accidentally hang up on the person because I was trying to turn my screen back on.

I guess it is more of a preference.
[Hero CDMA General] defaria:
So many things to say... First off wtphoto, I was not really given an opportunity to check out the phone at the time. Here's the deal: My last phone just broke - the screen would not turn on. Now for a long time I've been wanted to switch to Android but honestly I was waiting for the HD2 and Android to be put on it. I was unemployed at the time but just got a job up in Seattle. I was flying out to look for a place to live and I needed to keep in touch with head hunters, the contracting agency, etc. when, as I said, my phone died. So I bought the HTC Hero on a whim rather then going with another WinMo phone. OK. So stop assuming things and ask questions first.

Being rude?!? Hardly. You ain't seen rude yet. I was merely voicing my opinion. As for the "devs" as you say, we're not talking about HTC developers here - we're talking about ROM cookers and yes they work hard. But I don't think they are re-writing drivers or anything like that.

As for hitting menu first or whatever, listen, it's a legitimate complaint. It's foolish to make the button that turns the screen blank and locks it the same button that will hang up on the current call. Pick any other button!

As for the proximity sensor thing - actually the 2.1 ROM has that. However I rarely, if ever, put the phone up to my ear. I use a bluetooth headset - actually a stereo headset. Besides, the proximity sensor app simply and always blanked the screen and locked it. Let me repeat. I use my bluetooth headset. So I take out my phone and I dial the number. I don't even move the phone anywhere close to my face. The proximity sensor blanks and locks the phone. And often I'm about to talk to a menuing system where I'll have to hit 1 for English etc. To me the proximity sensor serves no purpose because often the first thing I need to do it disable it.

Perhaps unlike you wtphoto, I have ears which are capable of hearing both music (or spoken text) AND an alert at the same time! Point is this should be an option - you choose your way and I'll choose mine - OK?

But ajaholic is right - I was not dissing developers I was stating the problems I was having with the phone - much like the OP. You don't like my "tone". Tough ****! Get used to it.

Indeed if I'm gonna pay hundreds of dollars for a phone that I'll have to live with for years you bet your sweet ass I'm gonna be picky. Do your homework and remember Rule #1 - THE CUSTOMER I ALWAYS RIGHT. Further - Rule #2 - See Rule #1.
[Hero CDMA General] theresthatguy:
not where i work.
[Hero CDMA General] R2D2-AKU2:
Who is the customer of xda-dev? Dude needs to get a life.
[Hero CDMA General] Kcarpenter:
HAHA Me Either, I get off on proving them wrong. :D
[Hero CDMA General] wtphoto:
in rebut,

if you are unemployed why did you buy a $580 phone "on a whim" to begin with, I know for myself if I am spending more than $100 on something I am going to know as much as I can about the product BEFORE I purchase. second if you want to *****, ***** to HTC they are the ones that designed the phone, the devs here can only do so much. And yes if you actually read through the 2.1 thread toast and lox did have to re-write A LOT of code to get it working with the hacked up kernel that is on the CDMA hero.

I will agree that it would be NICE to be able to set the lock button like you can on the blackberry's, but it really isnt that big of a deal it took all of about 5 phone calls to get used to hitting menu then end. instead of just complaining why not try to get used to the way the phone works.

addressing the notification issue again, HTC built a phone that a MAJORITY of people liked. They can not design a phone just for you. deal with it or sell the phone and buy a winmo.

as far as your tone. untill you start compiling the kernel and cooking up ROMs, why not just be thankful that there are people out there willing to put in as much time and work as flipz, toast, lox, chuck, TTG, MoDaCo, GBhil and the rest and then release their work at no charge AND support the work that they do so that we as a community can enjoy our phones just a little more. Not to mention people like godzon, Noj, and Emerica who are putting out themes and add on's.

and the truth of the matter is that the customer is normally WRONG. most of the customers that I deal with are like you, they just want to find something to ***** about and try and get something that they feel they deserve but in actuality they dont.

as far as being picky, once again I point to the fact that you say you bought a $580 phone "on a whim" you cant be too picky when you do something like that.
[Hero CDMA General] Kcarpenter:
Just an FYI on the Notifications and the sounds pausing - I think it is because our audio buffer is too small. Should be able to do something with it now that we have a kernel. I haven't touched the source much since it came out, but I'll see if I can at least track it down.
[Hero CDMA General] defaria:
I'm very much gainfully employed. I was between contracts and actually I already had a contract and was flying to Seattle to look for an apt to move to. It was no so much "on a whim" rather I didn't want to go back to a WinMo phone, which would have locked me into another contract and I needed a working phone for the journey to conduct business - apparently something you know little about...

That's because $100 represents a lot more of your disposable income than mine.

Dude, I'm complaining about *software* problems. If the devs here are devs then what do they develop but software?

Wonderful.

Conform or else eh? Whatever you do do not mention that you don't like the way it works because lord knows somebody might fix it! Let me ask you this, why does it bother you so that somebody may wish to have it work in an more intelligent fashion instead of having to get used to an asinine way of doing things? And yes it is a big deal when you hang up on important people - perhaps you've never met any...

Wonderful attitude there bud "Well everybody else likes it (because anybody who complains we call an idiot) so why don't you just shut up and get used to it". Regardless if HTC built the phone or not, surely the software could be taught to be flexible and - I'd say - reasonably intelligent (unlike some posters here).

Did I ever say I wasn't thankful? If there's any doubt - thanks. However surely you're not saying that everything is 100% perfect and you allow people to have an opinion that differs from yours... Then again, perhaps not.

And this son is why you'll never be that successful and $100 will always represent a lot of money to you - *YOUR* attitude.

Ditto here too. Let's take the interruption when an alarm goes off. Surely some people like and perhaps favor that. But as assuredly others might prefer it not to. Who is right? Answer is both are right because they have different desires and neither is more right than the other. But you brand this as "a customer who just likes to ***** and get something they don't deserve".

Well it was not $580 - it was used thus around $250 and I also got out of my contract. As I said I had the option of getting another WinMo phone and a 2 year contract or HTC Hero used with no contract. I took the later as I wanted Android and I figured I could update to other hardware (Nexus, HTC HD2 or whatever) and perhaps the provider down the road.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] CaliLove310:
Since my G1 days, I've always been searching for a simple way of finding gas prices. I've tried gasbot but would prefer something that uses a Google maps approach (Although not a deal-breaker), and honestly don't think gasbot is worth it.

The gasbuddy overlay for Google maps doesn't seem to work anymore.

Is there any other Apps out there that I might've missed? Doesn't have to be free, but i would prefer it in $ to be able to charge to my T-Mobile bill.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] seanhassars:
Where has a gas prices gatherer
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] CaliLove310:
Where doesn't work for me. Around where I live, Where always tells me there is no gas prices available for your area.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] seanhassars:
it tells me the same if i choose 85, but choose 87 or higher and it should work
[HD2 General] donalgodon:
I accidentally added an error in my TX9 customized user suggestion. Is there any way to remove it, or check the list of suggestions?
[Touch Pro CDMA] carlmpv:
First of all you guys rock! This forum is the best. Now to the point. I have a Touch pro from Alltel. I flush it to Metro but never call metro to activate. I installed the Mighty Rom and when I call Verizon (which bought Alltel) and activated the phone. Everything worked good but the texting. I called verizon and they did whatever but nothing. Master reset and nothing. I tried to flush back the factory rom, but showed error. Any Ideas?...
[Touch Pro CDMA] Vxixz:
It may be rom specific for instance on NFSF's 1.04 6.5 rom i have the same issue, but because your moving from one carrier to another defanitly check your nam settings and carrier specfic settings. ##778 or using qpst/cdma workshop. Thats my suggestion. By calling providers and "activating" the phone all there doing is locking in your MEID and ESN to have service routed to that specific phone. So if your calling and such is working it may not be related to the carrier, unless your txt's are being delayed due to there network which is highly unprobable.
[Touch Pro CDMA] carlmpv:
Thanks for the answer, I checked but I don't know what should go in the nam for Alltel. Can anyone give the info to do it. Thank you.
[Touch CDMA General] skipdb:
What suggestions would you guys give for accessing my sdcard from linux. I have managed to get adb working however it seems pretty flaky for say loading a bunch of music.

I appreciate any suggestions you guys may be able to give.
[Touch CDMA General] skipdb:
OK I found what I was looking for more or less.

Running this command from terminal on phone or via ./adb shell mounts the sd card.

echo /dev/block/mmcblk0 > /sys/devices/platform/usb_mass_storage/lun0/file
[HTC Excalibur] nwbearcats98:
I can't get it to connect via activesync on xp or mobile device center on a Win 7 machine. I can get the screen that tells you to hit send button to reset, but that does nothing as it goes back to tmobile window. I can also run the oem rom update (get 226 error at 8%) and rom's from this site (get 270 error at 3%), even though my dash never shows up in the sync apps. Trying to run the auto.bat, app unlock, etc. don't work as my computer says to connect to the device, which I am, but again activesync doesn't see it.

any ideas on how to upgrade this phone?

thnx
[HTC Excalibur] 10507:
All your questions can be answered in the STICKY...
[HTC Excalibur] stylez:
As stated read the sticky before posting "just like it states"

On that note thread closed.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] fabio.patricio:
Hi,

Initially set up the GPS to be accessed on port COM4. I installed the application GPS Test and found that it is working.

After developing a Java code to connect via serial port in GPS (COM4). I tested the code using the IBM J9. After starting the application (30 seconds) and this returns the following message: Access denied COM 4.

This may be because my application is unsigned?

Tanks for help,

Best regards.

Fabio
[Nexus One General] XfrostX:
Any of you guys experiencing **** signal now? I sit in my room and i can't even get calls anymore. It show's it has service but i get no calls coming through. Sometimes i just get no service, whereas before the update I always got service here.. Also, after school where i barely get service inside, and i go outside i have to reboot the phone to get signal again.. wtf?

Any fixes?
[Nexus One General] kep0ne:
Unfortunately, I'm getting the same experience. Already filed a ticket with T-Mo...they're going to look into it. This is ridiculous.
[Nexus One General] mr_skot:
+1

Gotta agree with you here. I've noticed my phone spending more time with a big fat 'G' in the bar then the '3G'. Not very happy about it and wish I could just flash the original stock ROM back.
[Nexus One General] XfrostX:
Where do u file a ticket
[Nexus One General] kam187:
No problems here in the UK. Maybe its related to the 1700Mhz frequency. Is it the same in both 2g and 3g? compared to the same before in 2g and 3g of course.
[Nexus One General] pjcforpres:
My signal is just fine after the OTA... actually, get 1 more bar at my Dad's than I did before... his house is my true testing grounds since it is an old house with metal in the exterior walls at a low point on top of a hill... nobody gets coverage at his place minus 1-2 bars by the door, and 2-3 outside.

With my G1 I got 0-2 in the house, and my N1 gets 1-3 depending on where I am at. Better than any phone I have ever tested there, including BB's, WM's, and plain Janes.
[Nexus One General] XfrostX:
do you have any custom radio settings or anything?
[Nexus One General] awesomeindeed:
Same problem here. Really getting pissed off now.
[Nexus One General] the taxidermist:
Same here, posted about it earlier... I emailed google, no word yet!
[Nexus One General] lightforce:
since the update im always on 3g / H
[Nexus One General] the taxidermist:
one more note, I have never dropped a call on my BB's in the past and it happens all the time on my N1... if the damn screen wasnt so pretty I'd say f it!
[Nexus One General] aznninja:
I'm having the same issues but I am using AT&T. Even though I have full bars on Edge, I can't make nor receive calls or texts more often than before.
[Nexus One General] galaxys:
No issues after the ota, and still getting 3G/H 4bars most of the time. One wierd thing after the ota, is when I run speedtest, the nearest Server it locks on is 1,586 miles away :confused: It use to be in Las Vegas hood!
[Nexus One General] uansari1:
No decrease in network connectivity here... I'm actually seeing better 3G connectivity than before the update.
[Nexus One General] the taxidermist:
same here... and wouldnt you think full edge would mean 3g service? the radio in this phone is all f'd up
[Nexus One General] pjcforpres:
What method did you guys use to update? Did you remove the battery at all during the update, or did you let it go until it rebooted on its own?

Maybe try reflashing the update manually, really easy to do with or with out an unlocked boatloader and root. I am thinking you might have a bad flashing of the radio ROM or incomplete update. The radio ROM update has done wonders for so many, and was heavily tested for a couple weeks by Google, so I highly doubt it would be a step backwards... only way I could see the update itself being the 'root' of the problem is if it isn't compatiable with the broadcast radios being used in your area on the towers.
[Nexus One General] s15274n:
my nexus is MUCH better after the update. MUCH BETTER.
[Nexus One General] the taxidermist:
I did it manually step for step it went along with the directions and discription
[Nexus One General] XfrostX:
How do i Manually re apply the update ? My phone is NOT rooted and the bootloader is LOCKED. please advise
[Nexus One General] pjcforpres:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=627823

Does a better job than I could/would.
[Nexus One General] DarkLord7854:
I'm dropping almost every call I make/receive, 3G reception is even worse than before.
[Nexus One General] iVisionX01:
I had problems too so I just reverted to the old radio.
[Nexus One General] SBS_:
I've had no problems getting 3G signal and have never dropped a call or missed a text, but I had no problems before the OTA-update either.

Seems to be some trouble with the networks in the US, have barely heard of people outside US complaining about signal strength or dropped calls.
[Nexus One General] JanetPanic:
No dropped calls for me. I have been in a Edge only region since the update though so can't comment on 3G.
[Nexus One General] mgf909:
How did u revert to the old radio ? did u revert to original as shipped ROM, or do you have the OTA update, but flashes the original radio back on??

Im very disappointed by the radio performance since the update.

Can you try, whist in a location without any signal, setting the phone to "use 2G networks only". If i do this then about 5-10 secs later the phone reboots!!!
[Nexus One General] tamarian:
Both radios posted here by enom as update.zip

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=614427

I had to revert to old radio on cyanogenmod, otherwise no 3G.
[Nexus One General] jerrycycle:
I had a issue too after flashing the new radio but it seems to be better after I did this. Setting-wireless & networks- mobile networks- network operators then select automatically.
[Nexus One General] GlenH:
I seemed to get much worse battery life after the radio update, as well as slow switches between bands, so I reverted back to the original radio and all is well again :)
[Nexus One General] pjcforpres:
Seriously guys, if you are having such major bugs with your new radio that it reboots when you select 2G only, you have a bad update. Try doing it again, manually, using a clean and fresh download of the OTA update. Even try downloading it with your computer, then putting it on the SD card(thats what I did, personally).

But you shouldn't have reboots... and really, you should have better coverage considering so many of us have better coverage and it seems a very small minority have worse... the only way that might be a result of the new radio ROM is if your cell phone providers tower radios happen to be an odd duck, but I would be willing to bet out of all the people have good experiences, some in the same city as some of you, that isn't the case....

Try the fresh manual update...
[Nexus One General] markimar:
I flashed back to the original radio. The new one was slower
[Nexus One General] bofslime:
THIS!

...so spot on it deserved being said twice.
[Nexus One General] TailsNeon556:
so is everyone who flashed the old radio here rooted or not? i updated manually.. last week and the new radio sucks.. (worse than before) im not rooted and i dont want a $530usd brick
[Nexus One General] kep0ne:
Tried going back to completely stock images and radio. No luck with 3G. Then applied the update. Still stock rom. No luck. I've got 3 towers within 2-3 miles of my house, and even more 5-8 miles out. This shouldn't be happening.
[Nexus One General] KrazyBlonde:
I get my N1 tomorrow, I hope I dont have any of the issues yall are talking about.
[Nexus One General] foxchi:
did u root the phone? After I root the phone, signal always crash.try to recovery your system without root.
[Nexus One General] mgymnop:
Old radio was crap and new radio is crap too. Same problems with 3G/EDGE switching in 3G full coverage area. The only improvement with new radio: I get sometimes 1 signal bar more than before. The voice signal bars are still dropping down if you hold the N1 in your hand from 3 bars to 1 or 2.
[Nexus One General] kep0ne:
Went back to a stock, unrooted img, and still no luck.
[Nexus One General] pjcforpres:
The double was on accident, I hit post, walked away, came back and it was still on the write a post screen, and wasn't waiting anymore so I hit the button again.
[Nexus One General] the taxidermist:
I put a call into google and was on the phone with HTC at the same time, I have a call tag for a phone replacement. However, I am trying a few things before I give up. One is selecting networks automatically like sated earlier in this thread...

Prior to the update alot of people where saying to select Tmo as the network so thats what I had going on... Ill keep u posted
[Nexus One General] pakalrtb:
Is there a way to custom set (equalizer) the sound of the media player ?

The default sound settings are quite dull........

P_
[Nexus One General] Jak Crow:
The default sound via the 3.5 jack is quite bad, but so far no media player has an equalizer and until there's one that can access the hardware directly, which probably means a better built in media player first, we're out of luck.

I don't get how they could have overlooked this so blatantly. I've read the mytouch fender LE is even worse, and that's being plugged as a media phone.
[Nexus One General] pjcforpres:
It is a glaring whole in the Android OS and SDK that is being worked on; according to CorePlayer, they are working closely with Google to get the SDK and Android OS up to snuff, and it sounds like Froyo will make some major leaps and bounds in media department, both audio and video.
[Nexus One General] xManMythLegend:
Theres one pay app just look up EQ in the market.

But it sucks.

Super fantastic news about Coreplayer. Just readup a bit on twitter.
[Nexus One General] daikonv:
the milestone 2.0.1 update in europe included an audio equalizer which people are reporting to work quite well. anyone care to try and port it over?
[Nexus One General] pakalrtb:
That's a good news. We may finally have a serious media player on our N1.

P_
[Nexus One General] Jak Crow:
I'm changing my opinion of the sound quality of the headphone jack on the N1. I just discovered that my Westone earphones were in the process of failing and the lousy sound quality I thought was the fault of the N1 was really the earphones. With a new pair of Monster turbine earphones, I have to say the N1 sounds quite good now. There is still the need for an equalizer to tweek the highs, but I no longer consider the N1 a terrible music player.
[Networking] dicksonjoe:
At home and at public malls...when wifi is detected..I can connect to it with a very low signal. With 2-3 bars of signal, but when i launch a browser it does not connect. How to address this problem?
[Networking] Rudegar:
settings->connection->connection->advanced->select network

choose my home network or whatever it's called on your device in the dropdownbox's
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bijanian:
Just a few simple questions. I know when switching from rom to rom we need to do a wipe, but what about upgradeing the same rom to a higher version? So we still ned to do a full wipe? Also, how can I tell if my sd card is partitioned and what does this mean "Fat 32--EXT 1/2/3/4--Linux-Swap"
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Macrophage001:
Depends on what ROM.

with Cyanogen you dont have to wipe but with others you do.

I always wipe and re flash an updated version though just to be sure with any rom.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bijanian:
Ahh, ok thanks =)
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] evilkorn:
Load up parted from recovery and use the command print, that will show you the partition layout.

The second part means the partition order. That is important because roms use numbers to write to the partition, if they are miss-ordered the scripts tend to error out.
[General Questions and Answers] johng75:
ive seen the eBanner and Banner Deluxe for the iphone, but does anyone know of something comparable for with windows mobile platform?
[General Questions and Answers] chris1486:
Don't think anything of that sort is created for winmo as of yet...........
[General Questions and Answers] johng75:
i did stumble across LED Banner 1.4 over on htcspain.com, but its a site totally in spanish and i speak very little

heres the vid of it working

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aOlAZVMXkQ

does anyone want to be the translator and see if it can be used?
[General Questions and Answers] Jokes On You:
is this similar to a status ticker? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=4781595

EDIT: I now see what your looking for. Don't know if any such thing on WiMo