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[Nexus One Accessories] veehexx:
i went about this differently;

normal 12v usb car charger (a flush belkin one actually). it claimed 1amp charge, but in reality it only gave 400mA in it's standard design.

instead of untidy cable hacking, the belkin charger pin2&3 were slightly sprung so i was able to remove one of the strands from an old mains cable, thread the strand around pin 2&3, twist together and trim length to ensure it wont touch the pin 1,4 or the metal surround.

any standard USB can then be fitted (albeit a bit tighter than normal), and can be removed and used as a data cable should you need it.
[Nexus One Accessories] hgmichna:
Mains charger modification

Yesterday I did a similar thing with a new dual-USB mains charger. I removed the three screws that hold the case together and found a printed circuit board (PCB) with the two USB sockets soldered onto it.

With the help of an Ohmmeter I found the contacts for the two data lines (pin 2 and 3) for each of the two USB sockets on the PCB and shorted each pair with the help of a soldering iron and a little bit of extra solder.

Closed the case, tested, works perfectly with HTC smartphones.

I keep being surprised about the advertising. The manufacturer claims 2 A for each port, despite the sure knowledge that no normal USB device will pull more than 0.5 A without special signalling and that this charger does not do any signalling whatsoever. It borders on fraud. I also keep being surprised that none of the cable manufacturers makes special charging cables for HTC or other devices, even though that is a pretty easy thing to do.
[Nexus One Accessories] hgmichna:
For three times the price

Sure, if you pay enough …
[Nexus One Accessories] fl_Indigo:
simply shorting both data pins should do the trick (no grounding neccessary) - tried that on many non-HTC chargers and works everytime - phone recognizes that as AC charging...
[Nexus One Accessories] -Phazenine-:
The Official Desktop dock is the fastest way to charge a nexus one because it charges through the gold contacts on the bottom not the usb port

Sent from my Nexus One
[Nexus One Accessories] hgmichna:
Unfortunately it won't work well in the car.
[Nexus One Accessories] -Phazenine-:
That is very true lol
[Nexus One Accessories] Starwarrior1981:
I'm using cheap charger off ebay, bought it for £2 with free delivery... It's made by FX(never heard about that company...) and according to the label its pushing out 600mA(max 750mA)

After reading about car/home chargers I become curious and did little test... When plugged in charger registered on the phone as AC adaptor which supprised me...

I'm using my phone as sat nav every day+bluetooth conection with my car stereo and never notice any problems with lack of charge with this charger, and its only cheap one... After all that reading about problems with finding charger which will be powerfull enough to charge the phone under heavy draw I had bigger supprise after another test.

Jumped to the car with 10% battery left, connected to blutooth stereo and start sat nav, brightness at auto level. Plugged charger in and set off for my ~5hrs trip.

My phone hit 100% charge just after 2hrs...

I'm glad I did those tests, saves me buying new charger, which I was going to do after reading this thread...
[HD2 General] aceo07:
I'm just curious what details you guys (in US) are being told when you visit the store and ask about HD2.

I dropped in today and I was today there was no demo unit in the store and probably none in the other (5) stores in the area. The guy said it would show up next week and then he checked his BB and said it would be on the 20th/Saturday. I didn't mention to him about the 24th since they seemed busy and I didn't want to take up his time.
[HD2 General] np231:
wait until tomorrow.... they are gonna have some sort of an announcement on the 16th...and apparently all the media ppl are invited so .... definitely tomorrow they will have a working demo of the phone....
[HD2 General] aceo07:
? :confused: ?

I was referring to the release date for sale at T-Mobile of the HD2. Not about WP7s.
[HD2 General] aceo07:
http://www.tmonews.com/ has the picture of the actual T-Mobile sign for pricing. So that's pretty official now.

$449.99 or $199.99 with 2yr contract.
[HD2 General] rickyoon.vegas:
He's talkinh about super-secretive, super-selective pre-launch announcement T-Mobile is hosting for selected press on 16th.

This is HD2 announcement and could be anything from the device's future or release date and blah blag blah.
[HD2 General] aceo07:
I guess I'll have to call all the stores in my area and see if any store is going to sell it tomorrow or the 17th or the 18th.. and everyday until it's out. :D
[HD2 General] rickyoon.vegas:
Good luck! Tmo reps have the final training seminar done by now. That means devices are rrady to go. Just need a release date.
[HD2 General] atlp99:
The launch event in metro atlanta was last week.

HTC had a launch event last week for the HD2 and everyone that attended got an HD2. I covered my manager's shift because he was going, I was a little jealous when he came in with one. If you are lucky there are a few employees who have the phone now, but the stores did not have working demo units. My store just got our dummy display model. Usually live demo phones show up about a week before launch. The 24th release date looks to be official but they have not updated the systems yet (still showing TBA) but there is a big media event 3/16.
[HD2 General] bokechukwu1:
damn really?? where was this in atlanta?
[HD2 General] pablo1215:
Our store got two demo phones thursday or friday of last week. Completely insane phone and I love my nexus one but this phone definitely performs and just looks better with that screen. I still wont give up my nexus just yet........I did say yet.
[HD2 General] chaoscentral:
My girlfriends store got them in a week ago, last Monday. It is a pretty slick device :) got to play with one :D
[HD2 General] aceo07:
March 24th is pretty official now with a screenshot.

http://www.tmonews.com/2010/03/the-magenta-mothership-confirms-hd2-launch-date/

I'll have to have a chat with that sales rep who told today me it was going to be the 20th.. :p
[HD2 General] rickyoon.vegas:
A rep I talked to today told me 22nd.

Jerks for jerking me around.
[HD2 General] mknewman:
It's up on their web site now http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/phones/Cell-Phone-Detail.aspx?cell-phone=HTC-HD2 Coming soon!
[HD2 General] hoss_n2:
keep your mony guys go for android or wait for the htc supersonic
[HD2 General] mrshimmy:
I stopped by a tmob store two weeks ago to ask about the hd2 and was suprized when two of the employees already had them. They told me they were not suppose to show anyone until the release date was set, but let me play around with one. It is the most solid phone I have ever held. Since I have been following this phone before it had the hd2 name, most things were not a suprize. It is big, sleek, runs smooth, and has a great screen. He told me 24th and 199 price with contract. Also he told me that there were MS employees at their meeting and that they had brought up wmp7s and MS said it was a no for the hd2 due to 3 button issue.

Another thing I saw, rumors of 23rd from a mobitv tweet, and then people saying that was the day it was going active. The rep showed me the mobitv on the phone and it was already working.

This is such a hardware powerhouse, I cannot pass it up, even though I have become a die hard android fan. I have faith in XDA for android and wmp7s roms/boots/ports and its not like the sense UI with wm 6.5 is that much of a slouch.
[HD2 General] MirasHD2:
It's been up since last week. I keep refreshing the page hoping the words "Coming Soon" change to "Add to Cart" LOL.
[HD2 General] Damitu:
Last Friday, the 12th.

We were in a store in Plano.....where Frito's are born.

Near Dallas. Paying our bill and I got to talking

to the rep about the phone and he opens up

the drawer and lo and behold! there it is!!

Got to handle it and, even though the screen is huge

it really fits in you hand well...Probably due to how

thin it is...Cannot get over how Transformers looked

on the screen...Blows even my iphone away!!

My fiance, who is stil using a BB curve wants one also now.

Good thing I got a good tax return...lol

I'm going to be waiting outside the store on the 24th.

It will feel to me like waiting for the toy store to open...!
[HD2 General] EddyOS:
Shame about the T-Mobile logo stamped on the phone...:(
[HD2 General] aceo07:
Yup and it makes it longer. :p
[HD2 General] atlp99:
It was at Atlantic Station
[HD2 General] aceo07:
http://www.examiner.com/x-11295-LA-...-HTC-HD2-arriving-at-TMobile-Stores-next-week

Seem like LA might get it sooner than official? Maybe the rep wasn't lying to me. I guess only time will tell.
[HD2 General] rickyoon.vegas:
It's not that some stores get it early, but It seems to me that T-Mobile hasn't give out exact release date to the corporate stores.

Because I got 3 different dates today throughout Las Vegas Stores.

Some said 22nd, some said 23rd, some said 24, and most said they still don't have the release date, but it's sometime next week.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] crisvillani:
Alright so i was on the market and all of a sudden i started to see paid apps which is wierd because i havent used anything like MarketEnabler and paid apps arent available in Canada?

So has anyone else seen this??

P.S- I only see paid apps in Featured section, and in Just In section.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] mbk.2k3:
agreed. i see paid apps too.

will try buying one later and see if its legit or if its a glitch on rogers/google's end.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] daeshawn:
yup i see em to..when i goto to app/all apps

edit. they're actually everywhere, uk,usa..may be a glitch..hope not
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] mbk.2k3:
yeah i just noticed the UK prices and US prices....

probably a glitch.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] crisvillani:
No its official :D
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] negawolf:
I've been wondering about the size of wallpaper for topaz. When we download a wallpaper with 480x800 px in size then we view it on topaz, the wallpaper seems very sharp...but once we set it into wallpaper turn into kinda blur..

Maybe because it compressed to fit the space between the top and down bar?

Anybody know about it?
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] Bruce Inman:
Its a common issue, newer manila builds allow you to set your landscape wallpaper separate from portrait.
[XPERIA X2 General] mathiosn:
hi to everyone, i recently got a new x2 (upgraded from my x1) i'm not a newbie around this forum but i've searched the whole forum and can't find an answer to my little problem.

i've installed cyberon voice dialer and btjetfix (so that i can use voicedialing on my x2) but but my problem is that i press the button on my bt headset and it activates voicedialing but the sound is not routed to my bt hesdset microphone, but to my phone microphone, if i call the name that i want it uses the phone's microfone and the sound is heard on my phone's speaker but the call is routed to my bt headset. that makes it impossible for me to call using my bt headset when my phone is in my pocket. all the above worked very sucsesfully on my x1 but now it's driving me crazy, is there any registry key that i can activate or deactivate to make it work properly?

other than that the phone is quite good i've had no other problems with it so far. thanks to everyone in advance.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] vangrieg:
Here's the official list of supported audio/video formats.

It has .avi DivX included out of the box, so we can finally expect hardware accelerated playback without conversion!

Xvid, on the other hand, is not listed. Don't really know if it means no xvid (my DVD player doesn't officially support Xvid either, but plays them fine).
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Wishmaster89:
That's great news!

According to this WP7 supports h264 at both main profile and high profile which means that we could easily watch 720p videos downloaded from youtube. So it means that even mkv files will just need to be remuxed which takes only few minutes. Great!

For perfect support it needs mkv support with subtitles.

And remember that all this is hardware accelerated!
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] vangrieg:
Yeah, but 99.99% of my video files are xvid avis, don't know if I can watch these.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] havox22:
yeah lets hope that coreplayer or somebody makes a player that supports all media file types
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] vangrieg:
They can't do it in managed code. Period. Even if they could, there' no freakin' way to copy files to a WP7 device.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] havox22:
well i guess we will just see when it comes out, who knows what they will add with updates & what kind of hacks they come up with here
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Wishmaster89:
This is subject to change so they can still add support for xvid, if not you'll have to change fourCC from xvid to divx and you're good to go(unless your xvid's have some exotic features that don't exist in divx).
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] vangrieg:
OK, sounds good, so it could be really usable in terms of video playback (not to mention that so far it's the best out-of-the-box format support in the market). Still no AC3 sound though. :)
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Wishmaster89:
AC3 would be nice but overkill. Who needs 6 channel stream on a mobile device :p

It would be useful only when connected to HDTV through HDMI cable :p

Next thing they must add is MKV support with subtitles :D
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] vangrieg:
I don't need 6 channels on a mobile device of course (in fact, I don't even care for 6 channels at home). I just don't want to convert the damned things.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Wishmaster89:
Conversion of the audio track itself shouldn't last longer than 10 minutes so I wouldn't call that long. But I agree having AC3 support on the device would be very consumer friendly so maybe in future release.

I would love to have FLAC support too :D
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] havox22:
what kind of program would u recommend to convert these files mine always takes 4ever, but then again my laptop is pretty darn slow, but what do u use?
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] NoWorthWhile:
As of today, Zune software recognizes Xvid files and plays them fine on the software. For the Zune HD player, it converts it into wmv prior to syncing it. But in the following months, the device will get Native Xvid support. So, my guess is WP7S will have Zune HD-like playback abilities, so, Xvid is definitively a go.

MKV thought are not played in the software.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Wishmaster89:
MeGUI not the easiest tool but the most powerful.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] havox22:
ok thanks, im sure ill have it figured out bout time wp7 hits
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Kloc:
MeGUI is a great tool. I use it all the time. It real easy to you after you figure it out for the first time.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] JediFonger:
megui is for kiddies.

x264 cmd line is where it's @ ;)
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Wishmaster89:
Try converting ac3 using x264 cmd :p
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Kloc:
Well I guess I'm to lazy to use the command line.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Shasarak:
Me. Coupled with form of decent headphone virtualisation system, naturally.

Dolby Headphone would do at a pinch, but something based on Smyth Virtual Surround would be even better. :)
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Wishmaster89:
If this is your plan why do you need 5.1 channel sound? If you're going to virtualise the sound you could easily go with good quality 2channel audio...

Multichannel is pointless on mobile devices unless we can stream or output it to HDTV with multichannel speakers.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] JediFonger:
x264 is a frame-served VIDEO encoding program for H.264

audio transcoding/muxing is done w/eac3to:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=125966
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Wishmaster89:
I know... I was joking... :rolleyes:
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] gogol:
How is this on iPhone?

Is there any alternative media player there? I think thats not allowed.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] vangrieg:
Much worse. It doesn't support any real life formats at all, there's no CorePlayer (yet), there are some crappy players you don't want to use. And I think they all need jailbreak (although I'm not sure). JB isn't really available for latest 3GS (it is, but it's a pain in the neck because if your battery dies or you need to reset your phone for some reason you won't be able to boot without a PC connection).
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Shasarak:
How exactly were you proposing to listen to an accurate reproduction of 5.1 sound without a 5.1-channel audio track in the recording?

With all due respect, I don't think you understand what I'm talking about, here. :) What systems like Dolby Headphone and Smyth Virtual Surround do is to reproduce 5.1 or 7.1 sound using headphones. They achieve this with varying degrees of success, but the Smyth system is good enough that you literally can't tell the difference between speakers and headphones (other than by the feeling of the headphones on your head). I wasn't being serious when I suggested incorporating the Smyth system into a phone - it's not designed for portable devices; it uses head-tracking and would probably require more processing power than the phone could deliver. But something like Dolby Headphone would certainly be possible. In fact I think some Samsung phones already incoporate a virtualisation system.

It would be kick-arse for gaming as well as movies.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Jiyuu:
shouldn't it be possible to build a silverlight app that will playMKV files?

i mean we know silverlight can playback H264 and there already is an MKV lib built in C#, and i doubt it will be too cpu intensive to just split the MKV to an audio+video stream to playback using the built in API and display the subtitles by that application or maybe if there already is an existing subtitles API just convert the subtitles into that format.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Wishmaster89:
You don't even get multichannel audio on PSP or any other portable console and yet you want it on something that is meant for casual gaming? Videos with dolby surround sound?

Don't you think it is too much? I understand the urge to use is as a PMP but don't you think its and overkill?

5.1 channel support would be needed only when the device can be connected to HDTV as I said before everything else IMO is an overkill on mobile device.

Maybe CoreCodec could try to write their coreplayer as an UI only shell with support for different containers than standard one but accessing native video processing part with full hardware acceleration. That's just an idea...
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Shasarak:
Not at all. :) I want to use it as a portable media player and get the best possible viewing experience. If I'm watching an older episode of Stargate SG-1, I want to be able to hear the replicators scuttling up the walls behind me! Some TV shows and films are designed to be experienced in surround sound.

There are existing smartphones which have sound virtualisation systems. A number of Samsung models do. I'm clearly not the only person who thinks such a feature is a selling point.

It rather eliminates the point of a portable media player if you have to attach it to something the size of an HDTV to use it correctly. ;)
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Wishmaster89:
I'm still not convinced but it is an option and I'm not against it so if they decide to include it - great, if not - I won't cry :p

Tell that to zuneHD :p If it weren't to the cradle with HD output I wouldn't even look at it. The same goes to archos 5 android tablet ;)

Both are great as PMP's but with cradles they become great multimedia devices. Especially archos 5 - this is what true PMP should be.

PMP's without video output should be banned and destroyed, they are worthless if I can watch movie only on small screen and not on my HDTV(cause I don't want to always connect my PC to watch something on the big screen). This is what I mean by correct usage ;)
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Shasarak:
I'm not suggesting PMP's shouldn't contain any features suitable for attaching to external sound and video devices, I'm simply saying that if they can only function properly when connected in that way, why bother making them portable? The ability to produce good images and sound when connected to an HDTV is indeed an important characteristic of a media player; but if one considers specifically the subset of portable media players, the ability to produce a satisfactory audiovisual experience on the move is also rather important to them.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] vangrieg:
Shasarak, I truly admire your ability to care for the strangest things in the world, things most people haven't even heard about. :)
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Shasarak:
(laugh)

Well, I'm partially deaf, so I do a lot of headphone listening to try and avoid annoying people with the sound turned up loud!

I am actually also something of an audio purist - once something is loud enough for me to hear, my ears handle it very well. I've always been impressed by how staggeringly much better the sound quality is from headphones than from an amp and speaker system that is similarly priced - or at least in terms of clarity, lack of distortion, etc. It's only the imaging that's the problem. A system like Smyth Virtual Surround in theory allows headphones to sound just as good as a speaker system costing about ten times the price. Granted they probably won't if it's a phone driving them and definitely won't if the source is an mp3; but my familiarity with the likes of Smyth Virtual Surround stems from my interest in hifi rather than smartphones. :)

Even with a poor-quality audio source like a phone, a good surround-headphone system can make a surprisingly big difference to viewing and gaming pleasure.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] vangrieg:
Fair enough. But I recall there was something else strange you recently cared about - was it out of browser Flash player on WM?
[Nexus One General] Legaleye3000:
What is the latest radio version (including unreleased)? Thanks.
[Nexus One General] uansari1:
There're threads about the latest radio in Development... no need to create a new thread for this man.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=644742
[Nexus One General] Legaleye3000:
I know the latest rom out ends in 54b, but I'm not sure if there is a new radio since 36b...?
[Nexus One General] St.Jimmy!:
NO. ERE36B is the last one.
[Nexus One General] rockky:
and way better than its predecessor
[Nexus One Accessories] manfly9884:
Hi all. Have a simple question. I was given a USB car charger that has the following characteristics:

INPUT:12-24VDC

OUTPUT: 5.0 700mA

Can I use this to charge my N1 without any trouble?

Thanks in advance
[Nexus One Accessories] efenili:
I would say there is a decent chance.

I use this USB Charger for my Nexus One: http://www.amazon.com/Powerjolt-Dua...1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1268699958&sr=8-1

And it works great! I had my N1 plugged in for an entire 5 hour trip as I was using the Navigation :) I have also used converters with the default plug that worked ok but did notice my phone getting pretty warm after 3-4 hours of use with that.
[Nexus One Accessories] manfly9884:
Thanks for the reply. I was concern that this charger might damage my beloved phone :-) if I used it.
[Nexus One Accessories] rori~:
I thought about the same charger this morning :) as I can charge my tomtom too....

Please, what´s the mA output of this charger?
[Nexus One Accessories] SiNJiN76:
What the...:eek: Your phone doesn't get hot after using it for 5 minutes with the GPS? My phone gets up to 104 Degrees in about 5 minutes with the GPS on!