yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] DD9200:
'Tis a great shame. I know the Android porting hasn't exactly worked yet but would it be easier to port this once it's released?
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] chrism_scotland:
Well was kinda to be expected, think I might head over to Android now, the HTC Desire looks very nice, that said I wouldn't expect the WP7 specs to be much if any higher than the HD2 has, save the 3 button thing, I would imagine it should be fairly easier to port,
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] DD9200:
The HTC Desire does look brilliant but I'm on an 18 month contract for my HD2 which started in January. That being said, it's still a brilliant device, I'm running the Touch-X-Treme ROM atm and it's blazingly fast. And yeah you're probably right, the buttons was probably a factor. I think another big thing was the internal storage or lack of it.

It would make sense for a port to be easier, it's still a CE core I think, still would've been nice to see an official update for what is, at the moment, the king of Windows Mobile.
[HD2 General] nessqn:
Hi all

Uploading songs to HTC was a messy affair initially.Following are the lessons i learned the hard way.Hope these may come handy for a new user of this amazing phone:

Mistake 1:First i created a folder in Storage Card-->Music-->English and uploaded around 500 songs into it.The result was that the music player took ages to load and was extremely sluggish.:mad:

Lesson learned:Never upload more than few(20-25) songs in a single folder.:)

Mistake 2:Next i used Windows Media Player to sync the music with HD2.The syncing was super fast with songs automatically organized into artist folders.Neat.But wait,when i opened my music player,the albums were blank.The songs where there all in the storage card but some how the music player was unable to read them.:confused:

After many unsuccessful tips gathered from net,i finally solved this by copying all files from HD2 back to my PC and pasting them back to Storage Card-->Music-->English (of course after deleting all files from there first):eek:

Lesson learned:Never sync with Windows Media Player(this also leads to few other problems)

Mistake 3:Use ID3v2.4 UTF-8 in Mp3tag.When i did this,HD2 was unable to show the album/file cover art.

Lesson learned:Use ID3v2.4 UTF-16 to tag the files if you want the album art displayed.

Why not use Automatic album art update?:The Automatic album art update in HD2 works like a charm but it always go for the lowest quality image.

Finally:

This is how i upload music files to get the album art display correctly:

Tag files with Mp3tag using ID3v2.3 UTF-16 (Tools-->Tags-->Mpeg.Check ID3v2.3 UTF-16 in "Write".Leave other options unchanged).

Active Sync HD2.

Explore-->My Windows mobile based device-->Storage Card-->Music.

Create a artist named folder in Storage Card-->Music-->English (or any other name of your choice).

Just copy and paste the song/songs of your choice into this.

It works just fine for me ;)

Hope u too will find this useful !!!:cool:
[HD2 General] cgrec92:
very useful post thanks for sharing :)

should be made a sticky because it is actually a very common problem

thanks again
[HD2 General] Demon_man:
right no offence here but surley my method is easier, if your tracks are tagged properly which most peoples are create folder on storage card called music, i have mine like this

storage card >band name>album

pop them on the card.

album art rename the picture in the album to folder.jpg

works simple :)
[HD2 General] cMMY69:
I must be lucky. Never had a problem using Windows media Player to sync music to my HD2. Works flawlessly syncing to my MicroSD card. No extra steps required. Album art transfers fine for me too but I have noticed that the Update Album Art feature does sometimes provide better quality features.
[HD2 General] nessqn:
Isnt this exactly the same as what i said :confused::confused::confused:(minus the last step of renaming the picture)
[HD2 General] donwhann:
over 60gig's worth of music is album art tagged (mp3 tag) and levelled out (mp3 gain) on my pc and using sync is sweet for me. after uploading an album to my phone i always refresh the sync button though as i once bricked my phone after putting 20 albums on all at once...
[HD2 General] nessqn:
How much memory r u usin?

Also,an album may contain few singles with a diff cover art.But once we upload,the album art over writes it.U kno anyway 2 avoid this without putting singles into individual folders?
[HD2 General] ephestione:
I have to completely dissent :)

The only sane way is trashing the builtin eye-candy media player and disable its tab, install mortplayer and copy your music over, wherever and however you prefer, then simply add it and press play :p

It's not like you're watching the animation of albums and songs passing by when you listen to your MP3s, you're most likely keeping it in your pocket with the display off.

If that's only for the sake of impressing friends, you may just keep the music tab and use it with 10 songs to show off the graphics :D
[HD2 General] nessqn:
well,using a 3rd party software is the easiest way out....but i want to use the default player with full features on.

Also I want to see the album art while selecting a song and it completes the experience....nothin 2 do with impressing friends.:)

In btwn,Mortplayer indeed is a good player.....:D I liked GSplayer too...
[HD2 General] wiggindude:
So if I'm reading your instructions right, I have to create a folder of each artist then transfer the music over? Even if I do that which takes a lot of time, when you transfer the music over using activesync it tries to reformat the songs and that could take forever. Am I doing something wrong? Thanks, I'm brand new to WinMo.
[HD2 General] ~~Tito~~:
I think to make the transfer of the files faster, use a card reader, load all the songs on the memory card, pop it back in, and off you go.
[HD2 General] ephestione:
ok then, I stand corrected ;) you alone can decide what you want your phone to be doing :D Me, I tried using manila player, but gave up after couple minutes, realizing that it just picked up the mp3s at its own leisure without me being able to control it in any way. Another manila tab off the hook :D
[HD2 General] ProjektFuze:
so i simply cannot put all my music into storage card>Music? i have to make new folders within music folder of each band name and album?? i guess my question is.. whats changed?? from touchflo 3d to sense??

because i uploaded my music just like that... on ym fuze.. and everything worked perfectly... and it was all under the music folder. no individual band names necessary... so did they change up something or what??
[HD2 General] wiggindude:
How is removing the SD card, load the songs then pop it back in different from connecting the phone to the computer and selecting the Disk Drive option instead of ActiveSync? Also, do you have to remove the back cover of the phone, not the batter cover, to remove the SD card? I had a hard time trying to pull that sucker out. Thanks.
[HD2 General] nessqn:
ActiveSync-->Tools-->Options:see whether box for Media is unchecked.
[HD2 General] nessqn:
I think its the same...
[HD2 General] wiggindude:
I checked the the Media box is checked. It got stuck at 89% transferring so disconnect the phone, connect using Disk Drive, delete everything under the Music folder and I am going to retry again. I have also put a movie under the Video folder but I couldn't locate it anywhere. I tried Pictures & Video, I tried looking at the document folder, nada...sigh.
[HD2 General] nessqn:
keep the media box unchecked.otherwise the folder will be formatted each time u active sync with pc.

if u find it hard to create artist named folders on your own,sync using media player;it will do the job for you.But then sense music player may not detect the songs.If that's the case,try opening a single song with file explorer or phone media player.then soft reset.the songs may appear.for me it dint work as i mentioned in the first post.so i copied all folders in "music" to pc and deleted the folders in "music" and re pasted the folders to "music" from pc.
[HD2 General] wiggindude:
Thanks. I will give this a try and report back.
[HD2 General] wiggindude:
OK. I followed nessqn's instruction and all the songs are there along with the album arts. But it freezes everytime I go to Music. I have to take out the battery or do a soft reset. Is it because it's trying to compile the library therefor it's slow?
[HD2 General] rat_2665:
Sorry, the newest Mp3tag does have only the options ID3v2.4 UTF-8 or ID3v2.3 UTF-16
[HD2 General] nessqn:
My bad....It's indeed ID3v2.3 UTF-16.:o

Shall edit my post.

Thanks !!!:)
[HD2 General] nessqn:
Pls chek whether U have any particular folder with a large number(>20-30) of songs.

Also whether u have uploaded any playlists created in PC.
[HD2 General] wiggindude:
I don't have any folder with a large number of songs, most is 10-15. I did what you said and under Storage Card - Music are folders of the names of the bands, under that are albums and under that are the songs. I think it's just my phone.

I can go the Music - All Songs and it lists all the songs but it freezes off and on trying to load all the song and it slows down the whole phone when I tried to use other applications.
[HD2 General] nessqn:
Hmmnnn....we have to make a chek list of possible bottlenecks and clear them one by one and hopefully solve your problem.

Which memory card r u using?Especially its class?

Also pls chek this: settings-->menu-->all settings-->system-->encryption:whether the box is unchecked.

also how much G's of music have u uploaded?have u tried waiting for some time when the phone freezes?
[HD2 General] wiggindude:
I'm using the memory card that came with the phone, not sure what speed it has.

I don't have the encryption box check

My music are about 6 gig. I'll exchange it for another phone and see how that goes. Thanks for your help.
[HD2 General] nessqn:
let us know wen u get the new one....:D
[HD2 General] wills7802:
Guys,

Not sure if it helps, but i was having big problems with the music issue on my HD2, but have done a few things and it seems to work fine....This is what i did:

1. Format SD card

2. Use mp3tag on your computer, and make sure your music library is completely tagged properly, as i found some of my files were not tagged, which seemed to be causing the problems...

3. Load music to sd card, using Media sync

4. All good....

It does take a while for the music player to scan through your music files (i have around 10gb of music on sd card), but you can speed this up by adding the music tab to the startup folder, and your phone will then start loading the music files as soon as you turn the HD2 on..So when you do finally press the music tab, it displays all your music perfectly...

Woo hoo... finally works perfectly...

Hope it helps someone out there..:D
[HD2 General] M3PH:
I have a suggestion to help solve this one but it's a little bit off the wall. Grab a copy of pocketmusic. Then you don't have to worry about album art, how many songs you put where or what tag format you use because it just works. Ok the UI isn't the best but it's far better than media player and, fair enough, the media control buttons on the headset don't work with it either but It has a configurable EQ, so sounds better than media player. It will lock the screen for you so you can put it in your pocket and not have to worry about the phone acting wierd (media player won't do that) and if you don't like sense there is a today item included so you can control it from the today screen.

I personally choose this method because i hate media player and the htc music app in sense, to be honest, isn't much better either imho (it's just a rip off of the iPod touch interface and not a good one at that).

As i said it's a bit out of the box but it works for me and may do for you. Try it if you like.
[HD2 General] enyaj:
Strange. I've always used Media Player to Sync my MP3's from PC to my HD2 without problems.
[HD2 General] Antboy:
Question: Why the "English" sub-folder? Could that be the root of the problem? Maybe the way the built in player works is that it is expecting the sub-folders of music to be artist names, and it's getting confused with this extra layer you've added to it?

Just a suggestion, because like others in this thread, I've had zero problems, even with the initial transfer with WMP when I got the T-Mo HD2 when it launched. I just picked the Storage Card as the location in WMP, and it automatically did everything. My initial transfer included was about 40 albums, including one that has 80 tracks I compiled myself, re-tagged with a new album called "Mix Tape Alpha".

Might be worth testing again without the "English" sub-folder and seeing how it works...
[HD2 General] runningdap:
nice guide u made there m8, but i have some questions :P

i have checked/unchecked everything you say in the 1st post (from the mp3tag tools-> Options -> tags-> mpeg thing). I download the pic of the cover of some album, and use the mp3tag to save the pic into the song and throw it in a /Music/Artist Name/ folder in the phone. For some reason, when i got the phone on portrait "mode" the cover will look just perfect, but when i strafe it into landscape "mode" the cover will the that grey icon thing that it displays when u havent added a cover :<

also, i can see some songs being in the library twice O.o

i checked the music folder but theres only 1 copy of the song
[HD2 General] Tunay:
Best way is to insert your card to a card reader, then copy the music/folders you want in to a folder named "Music". Insert your SD card to your Leo, update your music folder with WMP you're good to go!

I have always done it this way, and I have 1400+ (1474 if I remember correctly) and never seen your "Mistake 1 - bug"

Ah, also I forgot to say I have 8 full lenght movies (Largest file:1,48GB -Smalest: 449MB), in a folder named "Movies" it has a size of 6,97GB, bit lower then my Music folder (7,06GB)

You sure that this compleatly not is ROM related?
[HD2 General] runningdap:
what do you mean with "update your music folder with WMP"? i thought windows media player isnt needed at all with the way nessqn said in his 1st post.

i dont know if its ROM related problem. i havent done anything with the phone's ROM since i got it. maybe i should update it or something i guess :rolleyes:
[HD2 General] Tunay:
WM Library -> Right Softkey-Menu -> Update Library...
[HD2 General] epos85:
Works for me :-)
[HD2 General] JonnieLasVegas:
I've tried everything & nothing works for me! Originally I plugged my sd card into my old laptop running vista. Had no problems it synced and played my music beautifully, even dling album covers.

That laptop died & now my other laptop running xp says it's syncing but all music files are corrupted when on my hd2. I have no idea how to solve this, any ideas other than what's been posted? Tried them all & none have worked for me, so far.
[HD2 General] JonnieLasVegas:
Bumping for help, lol!
[HD2 General] nessqn:
I dont have an exact solution for ur problem but i had problems with my contacts syncng as it alternated between my home pc xp and ofice laptop vista.

Finally i stopped syncing with my vista and all's fine now.

May b xp and vista dont like each other...:D

u say ur music files are corrupted and i guess u dont have a backup !Also that u tried copyin the files from hd2 to xp and back after formatting the card.

lets wait 4 help then...
[HD2 General] JonnieLasVegas:
Thanks, for trying! I did a hard reset last night & am going to give it a go now. I'll let you know if that helped.
[HD2 General] JonnieLasVegas:
Ok, found the problem. I'm such a noob I didn't even make sure the files were in mp3 format! Lmao! They were wma, so once I switched them over.....no problems.

Thanks again for the help guys!
[HD2 General] donwhann:
same here, active sync to windows media player, all albums in one folder on my card and everythings sweet. no worries about album art as i personally tag all my albums anyway........
[HD2 General] xaccers:
On the rip tab in WMP make sure you've set the format to mp3 if you're ripping from CDs to your library.

I then connect the phone as a hard drive rather than activesync, and sync the music via the sync tab in WMP, never had a problem.
[HD2 General] krzyzag:
Nessqn

Thank you. After many useful tips from this forum I've finally got my music player sorted. All tracks can be played, all have nice covers associated with them. Now there is only one small glitch left, spoiling icing on the cake - I've lost that nice transition effect when moving between tracks. Instead album cover will just move slightly up and down, and that's it. I've got about 12 folders each containing different album on my 16gb memory card. Only one album when selected shows nice 'cue' of all tracks covers in folder. Rest of them will show only one picture. Using Mp3tag I've made sure they all have same tags, every track has its own album art in resolution 373x373 pixels. Yet only one shows currently played song's cover and behind it 3 or 4 more pictures of remaining tracks.

Any ideas what may be causing this issue? Solution will be much appreciated.

Many thanks & best regards
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] hexto:
Hi,

I've been trying to get past the Google Activation screen on a MyTouch that has no service but have been unsuccessful. I tried this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=588017 method but it didn't work though I didn't think it would since it shows it being done in two different patterns.

Anyone know how I can access this phone? Can I root this phone even though I've been unable to access it? If so, what method do I use.

Sorry to start a new thread for this but I posted in two other threads without luck.

Thanks.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Lelus:
Most of custom roms give you option to skip activation , When it comes to method , check out cyanogenmod wiki
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] hexto:
my phone says this:

Sapphire PVT 32B Ship SonG

HBOOT-633.0006 (Sapp3000)

CPLD-10

Radio-2.22.23.02

May 27 2009, 19:0641

Which version is it?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] KAwAtA:
What kind of HBOOT is that, never seen that in my life. Do you mean 1.33.0006?

What do you mean which version is it? Which version of what, it's a 32B, that's all I can tell you from looking at that
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Lelus:
I assume it's a typo and you have 1.33.0006 , if so --> xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=570659
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] l2tp:
let's start it

http://rapidshare.com/files/363836613/dump.rar

this thread is for discussion of wp7 emulator dump only, at this point wp7 will not run on ANY device...please refrain from posting questions asking for it to be ported to your device.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] af974:
Amazing:eek:...thanks for sharing :)
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Kloc:
Nice let's tear this thing to peices.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Seg2009:
Can this be uploaded to the HD2?
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Kloc:
It's only x86 build. This won't run on anything but a PC.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] SiemensLover:
it is a DPI 262 ?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WBR

Siemens Lover
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Chainfire:
Where did that come from? :D

Kudos!
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] l2tp:
probably we cannot port this thing to anything else. so this is mainly for academic purposes :)
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] l2tp:
Chainfire, from ms device emulator image
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Seg2009:
How do we go about running this thing then?
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] OndraSter:
so since it is x86 you say, it looks like I was right - "emulator" for develping will be running natively on your PC (ok, I was guessing just the app itself), because testing Silverlight games in emulator in 2FPS is not good way;)
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] nikoan89:
would be interesting to get also the full emulator :D

however thanks for share! ;)
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] l2tp:
nikoan89, full emulator with tools is here

extracted device emulator image is here
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] ND4SPD:
wow - how did you dump it? I converted it to a .nb0, but that was as far as I got with it
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] nikoan89:
thank you :D

good question, I've tried with Romdonalds that has the compatibility with the old emulator, but it doesn't work :(
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] JAmerican:
This is why I love this place! First day and we got a dump! :)
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Win_XP:
A couple of days and we got a ROM :p:p:p lol
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] MR.liang:
Unbelievable!!!:eek:
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] et_eye:
.....................for hd2:D
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] young blade:
I can already imagine a sense-wp7 theme..:D
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] acidbath5546:
Awesome!!!!!!
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] SonicFlare:
Why we see Internet Explorer ONLY in ROM!

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