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[Desire General] deprecate:
All hardware aside, you have to approach this as a standard customer. Said customer buys into what marketing sells; buys into all the hype generated around the fanboys spread across the internet; buys what they are told to buy.

Because of the market saturation, apps developed for the iphonepods will be more cared for and mature a lot faster. Facebook is a prime example of this. If you don't use facebook then this example is lost on you :) The iphone has a fantastic fbook app that keeps you in the app and offers almost all the same functionality as you would find in a desktop browser; almost. Fbook on android however...not even close. This is a deal breaker for those who live and die with fbook.

So you have a bajillion apps being sold every second in apple's app store generating a ****ton of revenue for all involved giving people reason to create solid apps. There is some pretty solid DRM involved (though not unbreakable :)) preventing app piracy which leaves the devs with a peace of mind.

Now take the android world. While android is found on more devices now than I could possibly think of, the average user would never know it. There is no advertising (well nothing compared to the viral campaigning apple has successfully pulled off), no customer draw...android is, for the most part, word of mouth.

So with the above in mind, the numbers just are not there for developers to devote a ton of time into making apps comparable to what you will find on the iphone...not yet anyways.

App protection is another biggie. So with both platforms you require the device to be unlocked/rooted in order to get around this. With the android platform it's a bit easier; once you have root, you have free apps. With the iphone it's a bit trickier but still very doable; one layer beyond simply rooting (jailbreaking). Don't kid yourself if you think devs are not aware of this.

Thankfully, the majority of users on both platforms don't use their powers for evil or we would see a serious drop in apps I bet.

So why would anyone choose an iphone? Apps and itunes.

Apps are a big deal; they are a means to keep in touch with friends and family, they are a means to get unlost, to get lost, to waste time, to save time...the better the app, the more efficient you can do all of these tasks.

People want to carry their music with them. Love it or hate it, itunes is here to stay and a ton of people have fully entrusted their music to itunes. an iphone means everything in itunes is easily synced.

Personally, I went from dumbphones to winmo (moto Q on verizon) to the g1 (t-mobile) and never returned to winmo. I switched to att from tmo and without really thinking about it, I gave my g1 to a friend in favour of an iphone3g. I should have just kept my g1 on edge on att...now while still on att, I am happily back to android with my nexus one. For me, everything stated above carries zero weight in value compared to the freedom I have with my n1.

...thursday rants are fun :)
[Desire General] s161008:
Simply because Average Joe (or Jane for my part) doesn't read XDA :rolleyes:
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
I think the more appropriate question is "Why would anyone choose the iPhone?".

Consider this scenario:

You're playing a casual game and listening to your music at the same time. You want to change to another playlist. You can't even do that without completely exiting your game.

I can't fathom using a supposedly smart device that can't even handle that simple of a multi-task.
[Desire General] fantasytozi:
I think the reason why iphone is still a big winner is only because of the apps and games.

Do u guys think good apps make a good OS?

Why Windows is still now the most popular OS?:)
[Desire General] Brajin:
I have had a variety of smartphones from Blackberrys, to Android. My android phones are by far the best ones. I have up my iphone and ordered the G1 for the original release date. Even though at that time it was not on the same level as the Iphone it opened the door for us to have phones like the Nexus One, Desire, Legend, Moto Droid...ect.....tons of phones that give us choices. My Nexus one out the box was amazing, rooting the thing made it even more ridiculous.
[Desire General] aziko:
As many of you have said previously, the only thing that I can see is better on iPhone than on Desire / Nexus is the Games, so I do not understand yet why you pay so much more if you buy this just for games? why not buy an iPod if you want the games/mp3.
[Desire General] stu-k:
Because its the trendy thing to buy.

I brought an ipod touch when they first came out. I was sick of it within a day. The apps are pretty well junk or gimmicks, I brought a ton of them never use them.

Games yeah right, maybe sitting in the car waiting for someone but really there crap and you are better off just getting on the net and reading XDA :D

There also to big to put in your pocket and use as an mp3 player.

But good on apple for marketing to the sheep so well and there about to do it again with the ipad!
[Desire General] idandush:
Hi ,

I had HTC HD , and now i am on my way to buy a new Phone.

I wont buy 3GS , because in 3 months we will have a new Iphone , so that will be sucky sucky. on the other hand - if i pay so much for a phone i want to be able to play on it , and i saw some tests , showing Iphone has much more FPS in games.

is it a GPU thing ? if so , why would i buy the Desire.

currently this is the only thing -

if Desire had good games with good quality 3D and nice FPS . no reason to even consider 3GS or any iPhone .
[Desire General] Batas:
Hardware (processor speed) comparisons are simply "wrong". Numbers on paper mean nothing because the OS software are not the same. Don't know why people don't get this...

That video that idandush referred is a good example.
[Hero CDMA General] stylz3:
Sorry if this was asked already, but was wondering if anyone knows how to put the nexus one sounds and notifications on the sprint hero. I'm looking to put notifications, alarms and ringtones from the nexus 1 on to the hero as I got acustom to them on the darchstar 2.1 ROM. Unfortunately I had to flash to a 1.5 custom ROM as I had a hard time dealing with the bugs in the 2.1 ROM.

If anyone could up load these files and post a tutorial on how and were to push them onto the phone would be greatly appreciated.
[Hero CDMA General] 4redstars:
http://forum.androidcentral.com/htc-hero-roms-hacks/4382-hero-rom-nexus-one-media-additions.html
[Hero CDMA General] Darkshneider:
The sound files are inside the ROM zip itself. On you PC open the ROM > system > media > audio. In there you'll find notifications and ringtones folders, just unzip the ones you want and copy them to your phone.
[Hero CDMA General] stylz3:
Thanks this is exactly what I was looking for.
[neoTouch S200 General] louisney:
Hi all, I am a Acer F1 user, I found that when I changed F1 to landscape mode. there is lagging screen, which seems a computer display card without driver in windows. My current rom version is Hong Kong officical rom 2.004! any rom can solve it?
[neoTouch S200 General] pongothemagnificent:
Look for the yamato_panel.txt thats in your windows directory, open it and delete all text thats in it save it, and restart your device and try landscape mode again, this will enable 2d accelaration in landscape mode.

btw:this was found by tsmasmolotof.
[neoTouch S200 General] louisney:
It works. Thank you very much!
[neoTouch S200 General] pongothemagnificent:
Enjoy, glad i could help.
[neoTouch S200 General] gmbhneo:
hey, i got the same problem (but with official rom) and i cant change the file (no permission) ...

is there any way to fix that? (or to replace it an other way)
[neoTouch S200 General] pongothemagnificent:
Download resco explorer or Total commander, and edited it using any of these file managers and you will be able to edit the yamato_panel.txt
[neoTouch S200 General] gmbhneo:
ive downloaded both and still cant change it ... do i need a custome rom? can you tell me step by step what i need to do please
[neoTouch S200 General] gmbhneo:
ok, i tryed so many ways now and i cant change it ...

do i need to do that when im in recovery mode (the one for flashing rom)

or

do i need to open the file with an special program (not word or resco)???
[neoTouch S200 General] clio94:
thank you it works fine

@gmbhneo

make to your pc an empty txt file named it yamato_panel.txt and copy it with resco explorer in windows folder
[neoTouch S200 General] sergism:
First download yamato_panel.txt from Xda. then copy the file to sdcard. Execute Resco Explorer, go to your sdcard directory an select the file "move to" My device (Resco can do it, Windows mobile cant do it).
[neoTouch S200 General] helihui:
I don't see the yamato file at all, I am on 3.000b, any pointers?
[neoTouch S200 General] helihui:
Solved, the file is located at the root "\" and not under the \Windows directory. However, I am wondering if this has any side-effects??
[neoTouch S200 General] Crommy:
Great!, i deleted the line in it and now my acer in landscape is better than before :D
[Windows Mobile Themes] liugwl:
Have Fun!

APP link:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=544016&highlight=xdaShutdown
[Windows Mobile Themes] orlandojumpoff:
nice skin! perhaps you should post in the themes/skins forum?
[Windows Mobile Themes] stylez:
Moved as not software release.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] stoolzo:
Windows bottom menu tabs.

I would be grateful if COOKS could put a little more though into what tabs are placed at the bottom as I dont think these can be changed.

For instance, why put a phone button on there?, why a WIFI button, contacts, etc when these are already duplicated in other screen menus.

Of course this can be subjective but a little more thought could make a good ROM a great one.

For me the most useful tabs are, task manager, programs and menu.

Please note that I do appreicate all the hard work that is done on these ROMS, all of which done free of charge, I hope this thread doesnt sound ungrateful, it isnt meant to.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] xmsnx:
It is very easy to change if you don't like the one that is there...
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] stoolzo:
really, I have never found an "easy" way without hacking the ROM, it there setting somewhere that doesnt require reg hacks?
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] KayK:
in his topix ROM, kwbr has included Softkey Manager to change the button setting...

P/S: not sure if this works for those WM 6.5.x ROMs (just in case you are) but i been using this to change the softkeys...
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] smartmm:
did you use our dear search function? of course they can be modified, tell me any tweak program that CANNOT do this - as well as editing it on your own isn't too hard ...

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\HTC\Manila, there HomeLSKPath, Text, same for RSK
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] Fallen Spartan:
Search is your answer. These can be changed easily....see posts above

Thread closed
[Android Software Development] kub11:
According to this video: http://www.pdahog.com/google-android/google-android-on-o2-xda-flame-6574/ it's already been achieved. Can you provide me with some solution how to do it? I installed some time ago Titchy Linux (Debian-based distro) on my XDA Exec, but I guess Titchy won't work here, since it was Universal-only.
[Android Themes] icegad:
Extracted most of the usable icons from the Desire Rom

excluded Google apps(Gmail,Youtube,Market,Maps) cuz theyre the same as eclair

extract put on folder of sd and use w/ Bettercut

http://www.mediafire.com/file/wz1ykwtwzwm/desireiconset.zip

good luck:cool:
[Android Themes] Pfeffernuss:
I like it a lot, great work, thanks! ;)

Tweaking my homescreen as we speak :cool:
[Android Themes] tmobilewinguser:
just what ive been looking for thanks
[Android Themes] jkinnison90:
links not working.
[Android Themes] inzane1:
looks like mediafire is down, can someone reupp it?

rapidshare, freakshare, megaupload or whatever ;)
[Android Themes] joshuas_79:
thanks!, for me it worked
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] housert:
On my Touch Pro I always used KixAss Bluepower, which is a small tool that activates bluetooth when the device is connected to a USB port. This would enable me to just put in the phone in the usb cradle in my car, switch on the radio and I'd have a connection immediately. As soon as I leave the car, thus disconnecting the phone from the cradle, bluetooth disables automatically.

Now the problem is, this tool doesn't seem to work on my HD2.. Does anyone know a similiar tool?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] stefou78:
Yes, you can use G-watch for free.

Steph
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] housert:
Ehm.. Thanks for the reply, but are we talking about this app here? :confused:
[Touch HD General] targett:
I was wondering if there was any way of making a 'missed calls' icon/link so that I could use it on my home screen? :confused:

Any ideas?
[Touch HD General] MasDroid:
Hi there,

yes, there are various ways to do this. You could install either Dafunk's or DJCedric's graphic notifications mods to achieve this.

Regards.
[Touch HD General] Svegetto:
MaxManila will work (heavy, but a lot of customization possible). Cookie's Home Tab can also do it (and it's much lighter)
[Touch HD General] simplistian:
Aren't those for MaxManila and Sense 2.5 only?
[Touch HD General] MasDroid:
Yes, that's correct. You will need to have the relevant Max Manilla version installed to use Dafunk2's mod, and MaxTTM to use DJCedric's with sense 2.5.
[Touch HD General] targett:
Cookie HomeTab here I come...

Thanks :D
[Touch Pro2 CDMA] wbchristmas:
...Windows 6.5.x - Sense 2.5.x based rom that will work well with Sprint TP2... Any suggestions?
[Touch Pro2 CDMA] burtonsnow8:
Juicy and NRG roms are some of the most favorite sense 2.5 roms.

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/forumdisplay.php?f=98&daysprune=30&order=desc&sort=views
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Ripperjack75:
hi there

is any ap out now for the HD2, who can show the actual currents like the "Shares App" on the HD2

For example like: 1 Euro = 1,5012 US Dollar

thank you ;)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] volkansa:
You can use Trendox Mobile utility. It's free and very useful! You just need to fill a little registration form for getting username and password.

I cannot addd the link.:( But you can use any search engine to find this utility.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Ripperjack75:
ty, i will try this out ;)

PS: cant find it with google ;( can u send me the URL per PM?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] DMAND:
You can add currency to the stocks tab easily

Type GBPUSD=X when adding a stock to give you £ to $ rate etc

or GBPEUR=X for euros
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Soween:
I was about to answer :

In the stocks tab you add :

- eurusd=x

- usdeur=x

I use this which is really good to know.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Ripperjack75:
ty, that works ;)

very nice
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] neoculture:
GBPEUR=X

GBPUSD=X

GBPSGD=X

GBPLKR=X

i tried this on my stocks tab and it comes up as invalid company.

I used to use it on my HD1 and it was ok, but for some reason it does not work on the HD2, i am using official rom 1.66
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Bjoern3003:
Hi,

I have a problem after flashing my MDA.

After any restarts, the telephone don't want to boot into OS.

Hard Reset, Soft reset, Take out battery all nothing happend.

I only see the "windows phone" picture and in the right bottom corner any numbers in 3 rows.

Can I boot the fon with SD Card and reflash it?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] stylez:
Try removing the SD and booting "corrupt SD can stop boot" if not then:

Get into bootloader flash stock ROM.

Hold in camera keep hold and press stylus in reset whole hold.

Can be via USB or SD but i always use SD to flash.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Bjoern3003:
Yes thanks,

5minutes ago, I found a thread like your answer.

It function. Thanks a lot :)
[HD2 General] shu8i:
recently i saw this video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSv-tQzX7wE and some article on wmpoweruser that the wm7 photon is indeed available. So my question is if we will see any HD2 Photon based ROM soon? just for testing and see how it will perform on our devices.

greetz shu8i
[HD2 General] kilrah:
Please check the million threads on the subject.
[HD2 General] shu8i:
yeah... i searched and only found this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=634790 which is a general discussion about photon and that's it. can you show me some of the million threads based on my question plz? :rolleyes:
[HD2 General] kilrah:
Photon was a development codename, and has been abandoned. The new OS was released last week and is called Windows Phone 7 Series.

But that was mentioned in the article you linked.

Here's some about availablilty on the HD2, which nobody has reliable info about.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=588109
[HD2 General] shu8i:
i know that all... i guess you didn't get my question... i wanted to know if we will see any PHOTON based ROMs, not wp7s roms...
[HD2 General] kilrah:
The link you gave says there have been photon builds available on XDA but they were unuseable.
[HD2 General] starchildx:
do you really think, if there were a rom for hd2, it wouldn't bin in the rom section ?
[HD2 General] NeoGreendawg:
Hi,

About a week ago I got my new HD2. It's taken me quite a while to set it up just how I like it so I don't really want to have to hard reset unless I really have to... but the problem is that people can't hear me during phone calls. I've tested it myself and when speaking on the phone the volume from my end is ridiculously quiet. I can still record my voice at regular volume and everybody tells me the sound was fine earlier on in the week so it's got to be something that I installed or a registry tweak I made but I don't know which one...

That's why I'm here asking for help. Has anyone else had a similar problem?

In my opinion it might be something to do with WOW SRS but I haven't tested that theory yet...
[HD2 General] NeoGreendawg:
Well it wasn't WOW SRS. I've tried uninstalling it and it made no difference... Any suggestions would be welcome.

.. I really don't want to have to hard reset.:(
[HD2 General] NeoGreendawg:
I've tried uninstalling a few more programs... Still no luck. Unless anyone's got any suggestions I think I'll have to hard reset and start over.
[HD2 General] NeoGreendawg:
Well I finally decided to hard reset my phone... I did it expecting the problem to be solved but sadly it wasn't so it looks like I might have to send my phone back :'(
[HD2 General] Neville.Holland:
Not that it's much help to you now (sorry!) I've had similar experiences with my HD2 but a soft reset cured it for a while. I ended up hard resetting and reinstalling. The only advise I would have is to have a serial of backups to fall back on if you suddenly find a problem. I've learnt this over the years of winmo use.....
[HD2 General] NeoGreendawg:
The hard reset hasn't helped. I've been reading about microphone AGC settings that can be deactivated but I can't find them in system settings where they should be so I haven't been able to try that yet...
[HD2 General] NeoGreendawg:
Quick update.

If anyone seems to have the same problem you can probably save yourselves some time and just send the phone back... I've bee told that it's almost certainly hardware failure so it's been sent back for repairs/replacement.

And on a side note SFR are bastards. Don't expect a standard exchange (for a phone less than 7 days old) from a shop whatever the customer service hotline people tell you...
[Touch2 Themes and Apps] mirost1:
Can someone find me G-Weather cracked or version with serial? Please i need it cause i can not put my town in Touch Flo Tab so i can use this one...
[Touch2 Themes and Apps] mpatate:
Do you test SPB Weather instead ?

More easy to find ;)
[Touch2 Themes and Apps] mirost1:
I tried, but G-Weather has some nice animations. Now i use Touch Weather, i registered it and now have the full version, its great too.
[Touch2 Themes and Apps] chaos_jungle:
g-weather

who knoe where i find g-weather serial?thanks
[Touch2 Themes and Apps] glaucos:
HERE you can find it ;)
[HD2 General] vaskito85:
Hi guys! Im new! thats its the first time that i bought and HTC. I bought 1 HTC HD2.

The problem is, now im living in france so when i bougth this phone, it come whith WM 6.5 French Version. I want to put my phone in english version.

I bougth in orange so i have a few questions.

1) i need to find a ROM in French with the gadget Orange, Like TV orange, Orange maps, etc, because if a i want to restar my telephone i need that room, where i can find it???

2) what loose and what win installing another ROM NO Oficial?

3) whith another ROM, can i get back my gadget like Orange TV or Orange map? or i loose it all???

Ok...that all for now!

I hope you can Help me!!!

See you soon!!

Vaskito!
[HD2 General] NeoGreendawg:
Hi,

if you don't mind about having Windows Mobile itself still in French you can probably get Sense in English simply by changing "Manila language" with BSB Tweaks. It worked on my French SFR ROM.

Otherwise you could always HSPL your phone and then flash a WWE ROM but then you'd have to find the Orange programs you need. I know I've seen an Orange TV cab recently s you should be able to find everything you need either way...
[HD2 General] vaskito85:
Hi, thank you!

now i show you my HTC HD2 information logic:

Version:

Version System: 5.2.21864 (21864.5.0.81)

Manila Version: 1.0.19202528.1

ROM version: 1.43.73.1 (70315) FRE

ROM Date: 10/28/2009

Radio Version: 2.04.50.22.2

Protocol Version: 15.26.50.07U

--------------------------

Ok, now, how can i change the languaje of manila??

second...can i upgrade de manila whithout flashing de phone???

Thank you!!!

Vaskito!
[HD2 General] NeoGreendawg:
I've uninstalled BSBTweaks (looking for the cause of my problem) so I can't tell you exactly what to do but if you install it and press the right soft key you should see an option about changing Manila language. Choose English and soft reset when you're told to...

It was that easy with SFR's ROM. I can't say if it'll be the same with Orange's ROM but I doubt that it will be any different. As long as they didn't remove the language files it should work just the same.
[Touch Diamond CDMA] jmreyesiii:
Can anyone explain to me how something like this may have happened and what I can do to correct it? I experienced it before when I was trying some registry tweaks, however this time it seems to have happened on its own. :confused:
[Touch Diamond CDMA] maury1234:
flash another rom
[Touch Diamond CDMA] jmreyesiii:
No success - at least with all of the sense 2.5 wm6.5 ROMs. Problem keeps reoccurring.
[Touch Diamond CDMA] maury1234:
i had the same problem but it was because of a missing file and the menu was getting all laggy....i just flashed omj's rom over at ppcgeeks and it worked again...
[Touch Diamond CDMA] jmreyesiii:
Yeah, tried OMJ's ROM too, and at first things looked fine, but then it happens again. I've even tried installing software one at a time and in different orders to see if it's a software conflict, but nothing confirmed yet. Oh well, I have the quicklinks with Cookie's Home Tab, so I'll at least have access my most common apps. The "techie-wanna be" inside me, and being a man, I still feel the need to solve this. If I ever do I'll advise the cause and solution.

Update: Well I used XTask to close what I believe was a mail app running in the background (I only use my Diamond as a PDA), and then I removed XTask from Windows/Start, so it doesn't automatically start. Now there is no lag, even after said apps were restarted. Can't say for sure now why I had the problem in the first place.
[General Topics] boma23:
fun little taster of Win mobile 7 for anyone interested (I know there's a lot out there already):

http://issue.igizmo.co.uk/1O4b59921560e98606.cde/page/4

does "no manufacturer specific interfaces" mean no custom ROMs though? :eek:
[General Topics] Shasarak:
It means no Sense UI / TouchFLO / TouchWiz, etc.