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[Nexus One General] rydr1:
The custom ROM that is in alpha by Modaco made me want to switch to it already. It has some bugs that I could not handle so I had to reflash my nandroid back up.

But that ROM is going to be awesome.:D
[Nexus One General] rj3005:
I tried the Desire Rom but franky I don´t like the sense interface. I flashed back after two hours
[Nexus One General] Highland3r:
Having used sense on WiMo and now having used and seen what can be achieved on Android (via widgets etc) have to say MUCH prefer the stock UI + a few widgets.
[Nexus One General] grainysand:
I'm digging the pinch-to-zoom for seven home screens feature, but not a big fan of the ^ Phone + tab at the bottom. Way too big, feels like a waste of screen real estate.

I must admit that HTC's widgets do eliminate the need for beautiful widgets/pure calendar/et al, though. And the browser is a great improvement over stock for the most part (barring the bookmarks, which is something of a clusterfuck). Gallery performs better and faster than stock 2.1 but, of course, lacks the 3D eyecandy.
[Nexus One General] RonnieFoxxx:
I'm not really a fan of sense.. Yea its nice, but its very serious and too luxurious.. like an Armani suit. Yea it looks good but like a nice but it just feels constricting to me. And i know its a beta but the scrolling it way way smoother on the nexus with the .32 highmem kernel. Once the rom has gone beta with a highmem kernel i guess I'll give it another shot.
[Nexus One General] Makaijin:
Sense UI isn't bad at all. Sense is a godsend for WinMo, whereas for andriod I do prefer stock over Sense.
[Nexus One General] GodDriven:
True Indeed.. This ROM has been very nice.. I have been with him since Alpha 0-1. So This is nice.. Now, Sense UI is for the intuitive individual.. If you dont like fancy things then stay away from even an Android Device.. Stock Is great, But remember, That's not it, 1.5 and 1.6 even 2.0.1 were very diff from what we posses on 2.1. Much of what was changed, was Devoted per say to an Evolution, not revolution...

From There we have seen it go from Crap to finesse. Now, Sense UI is much more capable than Stock which is why MODACO did what he did.. It was needed Dude, Freaking Needed.. Put it this way, if all you look at is the Stock version of 2.1 all day then that is what you will love... If your an individual like me who has had EVERY ANDROID PHONE MADE, EVERY ONE... you understand the differences.. and appreciate the Sense UI...

Jesus Cat... :p
[Nexus One General] 3Shirts:
I agree, Sense is like make-up. Sure, it hugely improves the dog that is WinMo but Android is pretty sexy without it and, actually, it makes her look a bit slaggy
[Nexus One General] jp_macaroni:
Sense icons are fugly.

It would be nice to have the Sense widgets though.
[Nexus One General] SiNJiN76:
Sense is nice. it just seems too cluttered. its a nice clean, slick clutter. stock UI would be great with a pinch of sense UI thrown in. like the home screen pinch. the browser was nice...the mag while dragging finger across text...etc.
[Nexus One General] Paul22000:
Aw man. I was so excited to get my Sense UI running. But after reading this thread, I got depressed :(

...

After a little while, I am now thinking about it and I can see it objectively:

+ Sense Widgets: Simply awesome

+ Browser: Amazing (I absolutely LOVE the 100% full-screen browser. The scroll bars even fade out, which Dolphin does not do)

+ Flash Lite: Nuff said

+ Pinch to zoom to see all home screens: I have fallen in love with this feature. I can't imagine how I lived without it!

- The bottom bar with the tray and phone is ridiculously ugly, large, and useless. I almost never use the phone (ironic eh? :D), so having such a HUGE shortcut on every damn screen is horrible. 100% absolute crap. I miss stock Android's simplicity with its single tiny grid box.

- Menus like contacts that are all white with black borders etc -- these screens make me want to PUKE they are so UGLY!!! I'd rather have stock Android's black menus than these.
​

Stock Android + Sense Widgets + Browser + Flash + Home Screen Pinch to Zoom and BAM, best ROM ever!

The question is... Can it be done??????
[Nexus One General] uansari1:
Agreed... these are the only advantages Sense has over stock. As long as we get flash, of course. ;)
[Nexus One General] iVisionX01:
Looks like the debate between Sense and Stock depend on personal taste. I think Sense UI looks great. Not to mention there are a lot of small tweaks that I like and wish were in the stock UI such as When you turn your ringer down all the way it goes to vibrate not silent also when you get notifications while playing music the notifications play with the music instead of stopping the music.
[Nexus One General] raza9:
For me sense –

Widgets (manly music player and calendar widget)

Smart dial pad

HTC keyboard

And the overall look of sense i think looks quite nice.
[Nexus One General] SiNJiN76:
Yeah..someone should make a Fusion ROM. then give use a kitchen.

seriously tho...the HTC keyboard that doesn't put a space after every correction...that's what I like and am running right now...how did Google f that up?
[Nexus One General] Talderon:
There isn't anything on the Sense UI that I can't do with stock and a few nice widgets.

I, personally, think the Sense UI for Android is overrated and carrys too much overhead.

Now, for WinMo, yeah, it was pretty much a given that it was needed, the default UI sucked pretty hard... :P
[Nexus One General] iVisionX01:
-Nice weather animation if you have the clock & weather widget

-Leap/Multitouch home screen

-Scrollable widgets

-Music Controls on lockscreen with cover art.
[Nexus One General] urfavoriteemo:
Oh man, this has been talked about since the day Sense was first out for the G1!

Sadly, Sense UI's widgets, Browser, and other stuff works only with Sense UI because of the way the apps are deeply embedded into the framework of the build, we can pull the apps and install them to stock, but they need Sense to actually run.

I missed Sense UI, so I'm glad it's been ported.
[Nexus One General] Paul22000:
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

http://picardvader.ytmnd.com
[Nexus One General] brentonwx:
Hmmm Sense UI won for me because of the widgets.

The clock+weather widget is great as it replaced two wigdets on stock.

Looks great too.

The friend stream widget for sense UI totally replaced my facebook widget and facebook shortcut on the home screen. It can read updates and post comments to facebook, twitter, flickr....

Calender widget that sync even facebook contacts' birthday....a bit redundant..but yeah, better than nothing.

people widget, i can get to stroll through my contacts in the home screens by their photos, divided into groups.

Oh not forgetting the pinch to zoom home screen that allow me to switch between the 7 home screens. Yup 7 screens compared to stock's 5....

IF stock has more home screens with widgets like htc sense ui, i would prefer the clean slick ui of stock...
[Nexus One General] ztm.000:
1+

all i really like sense for are the widgets, if only someone could rip them out of the desires ROM...

do you know how happy i (and probably 99% of other people) would be??
[Nexus One General] brentonwx:
The widgets just made things so much easier that i just switched over and wait for someone to port those widget over to stock UI
[Nexus One General] wolfman87:
Nevermind... My point was already made.
[Nexus One General] uansari1:
It's not that easy... we struggled with this on the G1/MT3G. While you CAN use the stock launcher on the Desire ROM by installing a home replacement, much of SenseUI is tied into the sense framework. The widgets are intertwined into that framework as well. It's not possible to just pull things out and push other things in...
[Nexus One General] Paul22000:
Wow, did not know that! I had to grab my phone and check! :D
[Hero CDMA General] tatonka_hero:
Anyone else have an issue where they can't select the entire nandroid backup?

I go into recovery, and try to select a backup, and it opens the folder instead of running it. In other words, I select the backup (i.e. "backup-1" or whatever I've got it named), and I get the option to select boot, cache, data, misc, recovery, and system.

I've never had that issue before, and it's just recently popped up. What's going on?
[Hero CDMA General] darchstar:
I have a theory you may have changes the name of the subdirectory before your nandroid backup should with your nandroid backup. if thats the case, mount your sdcard, the cd into nandroid on your sdcard, then mkdir nandroid-backup, then mv "backup-1" to nandroid-backup.

then try to restore your backup
[Hero CDMA General] tatonka_hero:
wow, sorry, that just confused the hell out of my tired brain. Mind elaborating? lol

EDIT: And please remember, I'm not terribly experienced with entering commands...but can do basic **** lol

EDIT EDIT: I'm a complete idiot. I was putting my backups directly into the nandroid folder instead of into the phone's name folder inside the nandroid folder. Probably what you were trying to tell me
[Hero CDMA General] tatonka_hero:
However, now the damn thing hangs on the HTC screen when I restore a backup like it did the last time I tried...wtf?
[Hero CDMA General] darchstar:
lol, thats exactly what i was trying to tell you. sorry i didn't respond earlier
[Hero CDMA General] tatonka_hero:
Any idea why a backup would hang at the first HTC screen?
[Hero CDMA General] tatonka_hero:
That's what I figured.

Now any idea why my backups hang at the HTC screen? I'd rather not have to go about re-customizing everything if I can help it :)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] ZombieJesus:
I understand that I should go to settings>all settings>device info.>software info.

however, I have no tab for software info. all i have is : version, hardware, identity, and call duration.

I thank you for your time and patience.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] sirphunkee:
If it's not listed as the last entry on your "settings" tab in TF3D/Sense, then you can find the Version entry in your registry at HKLM\Software\HTC\Manila
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] ZombieJesus:
i have total commander, but i cannot find this folder you speak of. "HKLM"
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] sirphunkee:
That's not a folder location (like you would find in Total Commander), it's the location of an entry in your phone's registry...which navigates in a similar way, but is a different thing altogether. You'll need a (free) registry editor to be able to see those entries, like PHM RegEdit
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] ZombieJesus:
Thank you so much sir.

That was such a pain in the ass...i appreciate your help.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] sirphunkee:
No problem my friend...if everything about these phones was easy, xda-dev wouldn't exist ;)

(and my pappy always used to say, "make sure you give Zombie Jesus a hand right before Easter!")
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] qwkynuf:
Total Commander has a very nice registry editor built in - It is just not in a very intuitive location.

When you start up Total Commander and go to your root folder "\", you will see that the top "folder" in the list is "\\Plugins". Opening that folder with present you with 3 subfolders - FTP, LAN, and Registry. Select Registry, and you will be able to navigate the registry keys just like a file system on your computer.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] sirphunkee:
Well how 'bout that! I had no idea! I just had PHM Regedit before I got Total Commander, so I just always defaulted to that for reg work. Good to know I can save a step whenever I've got TC already open...thanks for the tip!! :D
[HTC Vox] badr_ex:
first of all thnx very much for making this awesome and easy tutorial

http: // wiki. xda-developers .com/index.php?pagename=vox_sdcardflashing

but i wanna be sure that i don't make mistakes as been said and brick my phone

so... 1- if I am going to copy just the *.nbh file to my MicroSD-Card, why do I have to get all the files like flash.exe etc.???

2- that restarting process "Turn it off - Hold down the Camera button - Plug in the power cord" is that one after one or all together??? and the power cord would be the charger right???

3- I don't know a single tip about these stuff (flashing ROMs and etc.) so is there any thing else should I know before I follow that tutorial???

those could be silly questions but I'm so sorry I just got my phone and I don't wanna brick it :S

thanks alot for all of U guys and please excuse me for my bad English :)
[HTC Vox] frauhottelmann:
1) The Rest is for flashing from a PC, they are included, because most people don't flash from SD.

2) The power cord is the charger and it's one after the other...

3) You have to do USPL first (to unlock custom ROMS), there is a Wiki article about that too.
[HTC Vox] badr_ex:
thnx for replying.. but why most people don't flash from SD??? it seems very easy.. I just wanna know what could make them prefer other ways????

and isn't there a way to do USPL from SD too???
[HTC Vox] m32:
I'm flashing my vox by sd - allways, just because i'm on linux and other ways are inaccessible.

Bricking phone ? - i's possible, but very hard to get, when phone boots in tricolour then flashing is possible with any rom.

m32
[HTC Vox] frauhottelmann:
I also always flash from SD, it's a lot faster :D

BTW: I need Windows for cooking anyway, so that is not the problem :)
[HTC Vox] badr_ex:
what does that mean???
[Hero, G2 Touch Themes and Apps] kriEv:
I didnt make the art itself, just merged the Android text with the graphic and converted to rgb565

to install using fastboot

unzip into your androidsdk/tools directory

Power off your Hero and plug the usb in, then open it while holding down the back and end keys (this will activate fastboot)

in windows command prompt type:

fastboot flash splash1 mysplash.rgb565

done, just reboot the phone by pressing Menu

tested on 1.5 and 2.1

Preview:
[Hero, G2 Touch Themes and Apps] llvllaster:
it looks very cool. But even if i try to send this to my hero get this message;

C:\android\tools>fastboot flash splash1 mysplash.rgb565

sending 'splash1' (300KB)... FAILED (remote: not allow)

:confused:
[Hero, G2 Touch Themes and Apps] eyegor:
You need an engineering SPL first. (1.76.2007)
[Hero, G2 Touch Themes and Apps] llvllaster:
excellent ;) i have the new splash screen.

thx a lot.
[Hero, G2 Touch Themes and Apps] noremacyug:
removed, double posted
[Hero, G2 Touch Themes and Apps] noremacyug:
will this work on my n1 as well? i just tried it and got:

cobbs@Desktop:~/android sdk/tools$ ./fastboot flash splash1 mysplash.rgb565

sending 'splash1' (300 KB)... OKAY

writing 'splash1'... INFOsignature checking...

FAILED (remote: signature verify fail)

os is ubuntu 10.04, if that makes any difference. i'm a mega noob with this, just got my n1 a few hours ago, so please be gentle.

thanks
[Hero, G2 Touch Themes and Apps] Detol Loki:
Tacky, Android is above this kind of joke.
[Hero, G2 Touch Themes and Apps] Foka002:
Love it. Thank you
[Hero, G2 Touch Themes and Apps] cauli:
You think? Hmm, guess I better not post the Droid, WD40 & Apple pic then.
[Hero, G2 Touch Themes and Apps] Detol Loki:
I lol'd hard.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Accessories] qtipextra:
I'm trying to find a very compact A/V jack like this one here. This one is audio only, so it does not carry the video signal. Any suggestions?
[Touch Pro, Fuze Accessories] reverendkjr:
I have this. it works great for the fm tuner, but does not work for tv out.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Accessories] mare123:
wow i would like to have this adapter...but I live in germany and i didn't find this one anywhere!:mad:
[Touch Pro, Fuze Accessories] qtipextra:
I found it on eBay.

I am looking for an adapter that is LIKE this, but that does work for video too. After tons of searching I found that nothing is available.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Accessories] reverendkjr:
I spent months looking for one and never found it. I use the adapter that came with the phone and the $3 cable trick that is in another post on this forum. That works fine for me.
[Touch Pro, Fuze Accessories] qtipextra:
Would you happen to have a link to that thread?

Thanks,

Shaun
[Touch Pro, Fuze Accessories] reverendkjr:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=486916

I bought a cable which worked fine, but then I found out that my Zune TV out cable also worked.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] screwyluie:
I tried to search, so sorry if this is repeated, but on the last couple of roms I've tried, when I slide open to type a message in sms the will occasionally have an "e" in it from the slide (not there before, but there after sliding open)

right now I'm on stylez black v5 wm6.1 WWE, hard spl 3.29 (i believe that's the version) and radio 1.65.14.06

any more info needed?

any help would be appreciated, thanks
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] loserskater:
This doesn't belong in the rom section, but maybe its because when you slide the phone open you're pushing too hard and it's sliding on the E or maybe you're accidently pushing it when you slide it open.

I've had this happen with both the E and T keys.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] screwyluie:
I figured it was an issue with the rom or the SPL or something so I thought it appropriate in here, sorry

your theory is sound and I will experiment to see if I'm pressing the "e" key when opening in the future

thank you
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] stylez:
Moved as not ROM Development.

Not going to be a ROM issue if happens on several you have used, try a Hard-Reset if still experiencing flash stock Hard-Reset use the ROM for long enough to ascertain if happens then flash a custom if all is well.

Like loserskater says may just be user error.

b.t.w you using v.4 as v.5 isn't released ;)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] screwyluie:
it originally seemed like it was on some roms but not others, but I can see how I got to this conclusion if I'm pressing the screen half down hard enough to press a button on the keyboard.

and you're right, I meant v4, a typo on my part, great rom btw, thank you for it

thanks
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] yunstar88:
this version should support LEO better?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] kangu:
Number 1 rule (and arguably the most important rule) on XDA is to do a search before posting. There are plenty of roms out there with 6.5.3. I mean, you are more than half way...you are IN the right thread....its just a click away. I don't mean to be rude, but you should have read the rules.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] yunstar88:
I searched this forum and also installed many ROM s including 21892,23540,24601 and etc.. some of them are 6.5.5 or 6.5.X, but i dd not find which one is belong to 6.5.3 series.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] OrionBG:
If You had read the forum instead of asking first, you'd know that 23xxx builds are WM6.5.3, 21xxx builds are WM6.5 and 28xxx builds are WM6.5.5!!!

READ People!!!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] yunstar88:
yea,thanks, but i know 23xxx is 6.5.3 but it seems there is no big differene between the other branchs except the start manu.better support LEO or the capacitor screen?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM Development] skycamefalling:
Man, in WM6.5.x the whole windows system menus, settings, contacts and so on are much bigger and more fingerfriendly to press than with 6.5.

In addition, the start menu went from the top to the bottom and the buttons are bigger.

How much more fingerfriendlyness did you expect? :eek:
[Nexus One Android Development] Paul22000:
Reserved...
[Nexus One Android Development] ztmike:
Quick question..will CyanogenMod ever support the new Sense UI built in? I realize its in Alpha stages but when its actually stable enough/all features working.

Because from what I understand only the Modaco rom comes with it?
[Nexus One Android Development] duylong186:
What do you mean by "rooting" :confused:

As I understand, after you unlock bootloader and have Amon_Ra recovery you should be able to install any custom rom including both Modaco and CM

btw, if you are newbie, u should try out CM, Modaco or Enom stable first. Modaco Sense is in alpha state and still has many problems

Good guide btw:)
[Nexus One Android Development] mudrock1000:
Great guide! Just explain to me the recovery image though, I don't understand what that one does, since I haven't actually done anything yet. >.>
[Nexus One Android Development] duylong186:
Amon_Ra recovery is extremely helpful. It replaces the existing recovery and adds many features, including nandroid backup to back up and restore your phone in case you got screwed. It also applied zip custom roms from SD card(1 click) so you don't have to use command prompt -> more newbie friendly I guess.

btw, I don't think you need to flash Google apps in step E, correct me if I'm wrong though.

and take extra caution when flashing Radio, don't pull out the battery or do anything stupid because your phone might brick:p
[Nexus One Android Development] grainysand:
Cheerio, very helpful guide. I'll bookmark it to link to people in the future.
[Nexus One Android Development] Paul22000:
"Quick question..will CyanogenMod ever support the new Sense UI built in?"

I doubt it. I don't think he did any Sense roms for the G1. But that's ok: Cyanogen if you prefer stock Android, Modaco if you prefer Sense UI. It's good to have options. And isn't that the greatness of Android? :)

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"What do you mean by "rooting"?"

Rooting gives you superuser access. This is similar to using the Administrator account on Windows, but more so.

Many applications require root like Wifi Tethering, N1 Torch, and of course, installing some custom roms ;)

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"Great guide! Just explain to me the recovery image though, I don't understand what that one does, since I haven't actually done anything yet. >.>"

duylong186 had a good explanation. So I'll just post a picture ;)

Having a Nand Backup/Restore is downright AMAZING by the way. It's the ULTIMATE undo button!

This is also good info, just to stress this point again:

Be careful everyone!
[Nexus One Android Development] xoutlaw:
nice guide. i did everything except flash the radio. i would get the android out of the box error. everything is working fine here so far. anyways, i have all the google apps as well.
[Nexus One Android Development] gtrplr71:
sticky please! great work:D
[Nexus One Android Development] Bunk:
Thx for the great guide! Got Sense working on my N1 now!
[Nexus One Android Development] nmeofdst8:
about flashing the radio...

flashed the radio twice..once from stock to the OTA version, then to leaked (current) version.

both times, i applied the update, rebooted, android out of box appears, phone does its thing, get to a point where it says its updating index or something and hangs...reboot at that point...new radio with no issues both times.

point of my post - don't panic if you see the android out of the box...
[Nexus One Android Development] Paul22000:
To be honest, I'm not exactly sure what the android-out-of-the-box means.

Are you saying that it will always show that after flashing any radio, and it is normal?
[Nexus One Android Development] marmankites:
I cant even install the SDK :(

"Failed to fetch URL //dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/repository.xmll reason: HTTPS SSL error. You might want to force download through HTTP in the settings."

The program loads but i dont get a usb driver folder.... :mad:
[Nexus One Android Development] Paul22000:
Try changing the settings to force http?
[Nexus One Android Development] marmankites:
Awesome, got a bit further... next issue is down to stupid windows os...

When trying to do the recovery carebear img... as i hit enter windows launches "windows disc image burner" and It doesnt do anything to my phone, I hit cancel and go round in a loop.
[Nexus One Android Development] Paul22000:
Which letter / step #, and what are you typing?
[Nexus One Android Development] marmankites:
Got past this stage. was windows being stupid, on a different pc now