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[Hero CDMA General] bng06:
Google + Android + Hero + Dev Roms = AWESOME!

When my wife found out that Google, Android and my Hero could sync through Google contacts she was pissed that she didn't get a Hero. She has a pretty Lotus Elite that looks good for her. HA HA HA! What is so funny is that I paid $99 for my AWESOME HTC and she paid the same for her LG... Long story short I told her to get a Hero and she didn't want to listen. So everytime I flash my phone with one of the Devs kick ass ROMs I rub it in. :D
[Hero CDMA General] dcdave63:
It might be easier to ask who doesn't use Google and why to get a different perspective. I would think that just about anyone uses Android uses Google, unless they are trying to keep things secret or work related where sharing privacy is an issue, or people who rely on Exchange or another syncing method that doesn't support Google.
[Hero CDMA General] HeroMeng:
Google all the way. I flash too much to keep them on the phone.
[Hero CDMA General] energizer1389:
I use google too. But be aware. Initally, I never used google for contacts but there was a huge list of everybody I sent an email to in my google contacts. I synced my hero with outlook and exported to csv. Then clear all the data for the people app to clear the contacts from "phone" so I could do "google" . Next thing I know, every contact from my google account (web) was gone, lost for ever.

I then imported the csv file to Google and synced my phone and walla!. My contacts were now synced with my phone. But I did loose every email address that was not on my phone. So be careful.

Im still confused with the linking of contacts stuff on the 2.1 roms. And also I have duplicate groups. Can someone tell me how to fix this??? Im guessing the groups are left from the outlook sync and duplicated by the Google sync.
[Hero CDMA General] Lessthantito:
Giggty Giggity Goo-gle
[Hero CDMA General] RTessi:
+10...

exacly why i use google as well as the myriad of other reasons people have posted.

I do use exchange for my work Hero, but that one is self-explanatory if you have both exchange and google for work / personal as i do. I also sync my google info to my work hero, but thats just because i never know when i will have my work hero to call a personal contact.

Any way you can keep information off-hardware is a huge plus...

I want to vomit when I think I used to PAY Apple $99 a year for the craptastic MobileMe simply for native contact syncing support outside of exchange on my old iPhone. Oh how lucky I am to have moved on from that expensive and boring existence.

R
[Hero CDMA General] unCoRrUpTeD:
Same thing happened to me. NOOB. Good thing they were all on paper still. Now everything is linked with google. Actually set everyone up on my computer because it was easier and faster.
[Hero CDMA General] nebenezer:
Googlechars
[Hero CDMA General] ekim1:
Same for me!
[Hero CDMA General] Hippie459MN:
I keep all mine on Google. For as much as I flash roms and stuff just syncing up to google is so easy. Plus I use gmail, calendar, and all that stuff.
[Hero CDMA General] oohaylima:
I do both. Just in case. :D
[Hero CDMA General] laie1472:
Yup I keep both just in case. Also I make a backup and store it on my pc just to be on the safe side.

Root-Hack_Mod*Always=LTE
[Hero CDMA General] oohaylima:
Now that's ultra safe. Good thinking. :D
[Hero CDMA General] munirshah77:
I keep them on my phone and a backup on sd
[Hero CDMA General] SLOYAROLE:
Back when I first got my Hero, I wasn't savvy enough to store my contact info on my account. I used good ol' NOTEPAD to store my contacts. Now -of course- I use Google to store them and make .csv export a few times per month.
[Hero CDMA General] cytherian:
When I first started using GMail about 5+ years ago, I didn't realize that Google presets your account to automatically add all e-mail senders and recipients to your list. I just didn't pay much attention to the contacts part, as Chat wasn't available then. Well, as time went on and I started noticing it, I realized that Google added over 1,000 contacts! The interface was just too unwieldy to deal with it, so I ignored it. But then, when I synchronized my Android phone with my Google account... WHOA! It picked up ALL of those contacts. What a mess.

What I ended up doing was clearing out my contacts and then finally going back to Google to widdle down my contacts to just those I wanted. I did run into an issue though.

Some contacts you e-mail with but never communicate with by phone. You don't want those to appear in your phone list, because it's just unnecessary clutter. Unfortunately, Google doesn't have a provision to filter what contacts get synchronized to your phone, like "don't copy/update contacts that don't have a phone number". Google wants EVERYTHING integrated, whether you like it or not.

So, I defined another Google account specifically for dealing with my phone ("name.Sprint"). In it, I have just the contacts that I want to appear on my phone. I synchronize with that account for contacts only. Yeah, it's a little bit of a pain in that I have to manually sync, as I have my calendar on my primary Google account, but it's not that bad. I'd rather have a shorter and more manageable phone list. There is the possibility to use groups, but I already have 6 groups and don't want to make it any more complicated.

What's really missing is an inability to mark a Google contact as "do not sync". This would open up a greater degree of flexibility on what contacts get synchronized to your phone.
[Dash 3G, Snap General] DyMiC:
Ok. So I REALLY REALLY LIKE the Sense UI/Android Homescreens. I like that big clock with the flipping numbers and stuff.

Is there ANY WAY to get that on the Ozone?

Also, I've been reading everywhere that in WM6.5, if you go into the Settings menu, there's a thing for the Today Screen, and you can choose a Theme. I think it's only on PPC/Touchscreens. I don't have that. It just says Home Screen and then it lets you choose pics and color schemes and all that good ish.

I've been seeing this Throttle Launcher app, and wondering if that's what I need.... but I don't wanna do anything until I know for sure.

So... is getting the Sense UI/Android Homescreen on the Ozone a possibility? And if it hasn't been done already, who would love to tackle such a fun feat? Seeing as I know nothing about writing code or cooking ROMs or anything.

::EDIT:: I guess another name for the Homescreen I want is the HERO screen? I don't know. I'm REALLY new to HTC. Coming from Motorola Q... so I'm still learning new terms. But yeah. The big flippy clock with the weather in the middle. That thing. LOL!

::Another EDIT:: So, I've done more research, and I guess a lot of you are thinking that this is a stupid thread. As I've come to find, WM6.5 Standard DOES NOT HAVE TITANIUM or do the whole Theme thing. That's WM6.5 Pro which is for Touch Screens. I really wish I knew how to write code and stuff, because I'd be trying to figure out a way how to make the Sense UI theme non-touchscreen. I'm pretty sure there's some way to do it. It would be a fun experiment for whoever would like to take up the task.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] psychosinks:
i need a fast 6.5 Rom for HTC Diamond.

i've a question, is 6.5 contains Sense/ manila like 6.1?

looking for a WWE Version.

my Device INFO:

Rom version:1.34.831.1 WWE

Rom date : 05/25/08

Radio : 0.93.25NS16

Protocol version: 52.24.25.08H

which Rom would be better For this Device. plz let me know......................
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] sraaj:
this one is fast - only issue with the dialer so far....

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=644332
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] psychosinks:
Thank you brother. i'll try...
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] blackster:
Do not use !!!!!

Do not use the TAEL rom its fast and all but annoying and it neralu fked up my Diamond
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] psychosinks:
ok bro........
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybik:
I haz a simple question for those of you who posess the knowledge and/or could point me to the code I could mod to solve my problem. Here goes:

A Rogers Dream erroneously reports the phone being in Roaming mode when it's connected to the Bell Mobility (or Telus) network, when said network is actually the SIM's home network. If I use the SIM in a Rogers Magic... It doesn't report Roaming.

I know the error resides inside the Radio, but until someone hacks in HTC or Rogers' systems, I cannot for the life of me mod the radio, so i'm left with poking in the actual code (RIL or telephony layer).

So, where should I start poking to solve that?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lbcoder:
By definition, you are roaming when the SIM OPERATOR number and NETWORK OPERATOR numbers do not match.

Now there are a couple of things to note: There are ***TWO*** SIM operators running on that network -- the one corresponding to the "Bell" brand, and the one corresponding to the "Telus" brand. The network itself can have only ONE operator.

You will note that the same situation exists within the rogers sims/brands -- a "fido" branded simcard has a different operator number than a "rogers" branded simcard.

I suggest that you start your sourcecode investigation here: frameworks/base/telephony/

There's some neat stuff about roaming in

frameworks/base/telephony/java/com/android/internal/telephony/gsm/GsmServiceStateTracker.java
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asb123:
I know rogers and fido use the same network, i am using fido and dont get any roaming messages.

This is probably because rogers smart phones are ment to work with fido sim cards, no unlocking or anything. I even get customer support with these phones.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybik:
'prolly has to do with your radio firmware being different than mine. Something MUST have gotten miscoded...
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lbcoder:
Nothing to do with that.

Fido SIM on android 1.0 will show "roaming".

This was fixed in android 1.1.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lbcoder:
Has NOTHING to do with the radio firmware AT ALL.

Did you even bother reading my response? Or is it just a waste of my time to help you?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybik:
LbCoder: I read, understood, already started cracking, and am totally with you. (Dunno if i'll be able to actually manage to work something out though :P)

That said, I tried putting a Fido SIM in a 1.5-flashed Dream (with latest radio[3.22.26.17] recently), and it was roaming. Fluke or anything else, I don't know. If that's not a difference in the "radio.img" component, then I will say this: oopsie, my bad.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lbcoder:
3.22.26.17? Is that a robbers radio?

What network was it connected to?

If its a robbers dream, then it is conceivable that it is connecting to belus. Does belus allow fido customers to roam?

I also wouldn't want to speculate on what other kind of changes robbers may have made to the firmware....

In any case though, you should be able to just throw in a "if (cellmnc == whatever && networkmnc == whatever) set_not_roaming();" (or something like that).

Note: I may be mistaken about the android version that the fix was in... it might have come with 1.6. I don't think so though... I do believe that it was 1.1.

In any case though, the radio firmware doesn't give a rat's ass if you are roaming or not.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybik:
Yup. Robbers radio running on a (splash1-rebranded) Robbers Dream using the 850 and 1900 spectrum - compatible with Bell, Telus and AT&T's HSPA infrastructure. I love that little factoid :D I also love the fact that the phone boots to a Bell splash screen ^^ And to answer your question, it was originally running on Rogers' network.

Their track record indicates they'd do anything legally possible to keep their clients, lock them in, or other prick moves to lock anything and/or anyone to their network. Including, but not limited to, faking a "roaming" state because they could have hardcoded the "expected network CID" in some software layer in radio.img, and force an "I am Roaming" flag somewhere. Weirdly enough, that flag seems not to be active with the same use case on Robbers' Magic with their latest update.

Will try to implement (as soon as my server unfreezes...)

So, basically, my sister's Magic should have a "corrected" RIL or Telephony framework? I don't think Rogers would be nice enough to patch that bug :P
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] digitaljeff:
first off we should find out what ROM you are running? are you using the original rogers rom? and just have the phone unlocked??

also i really want to know how your rogers dream is now booting with a Bell splash screen

....something seems fishy..
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybik:
Stock "latest update" Rogers rom or CyanogenMod 1.6 4.2.15.1, no difference. But to answer your question, I'm using the latter.

damned right it seems fishy ^^

Flashed splash1 with a Bell bootlogo I made by myself from a high-res Bell logo I found with Google Image Search. Get it to black-and-white manually, convert it to the good format, flash the bootscreen and bam! No moar Rogers. I even bought a G1 black battery cover that says "With Google" so that my dream doesn't have -ANY- rogers branding!

@lbcoder: You'll be happy to know I isolated the bug, and it may be as you suspected: there's an ID discrepancy. SIM says 302610, Network actually reports 302880. Both are "good values" for the Bell Network, so basically it's bell's fault for not "harmonising" their network IDs... But it's probably not related to that:

equalsMcc = simNumeric.substring(0, 3).
equals(operatorNumeric.substring(0, 3));

That code takes only the three first characters in account. Those IDs seem okay :/.

I'm still debugging.

ed: found and "fixed".
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybik:
Is a patch with JARs for specific carriers considered a "fix"? 'cause I don't see any other way of fixing this on the Dream. It's probably something miscommunicated or otherwise not even able to be read from the radio when it's not rogers.

-in any case-

I just had to force a simpler check when the MCC is the same on the SIM and network sides. I basically force a "is the carrier name Bell" and a "is the carrier ID 302" checks if the MCC is the same, and if both return true, Boom. Roaming icon disabled.

Devs, your feedback would be appreciated. Keep in mind that:

- Even on Rogers' stock rom, it does that stuff

- I'll have to make packages for TELUS and Bell so that Telus and Bell users don't get roaming on their home network but get roaming on other networks

- It doesn't do the Roaming Screwup on the Magic+, so there must be some internal software I can't touch. Which sucks. And which also mean the "network check" must somehow be compensated for on the OS side.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lbcoder:
Yeah, it sure is! (considered a "fix", that is....)

Note that this situation is something that should be handled by the SIMCARD. Not the radio. Quit going back to the radio!!! Don't worry about the radio!

I believe that this is a trick that certain (canadian) carriers (robelus) uses to screw with you if you don't use "their" phone. By taking the roaming logic out of the simcard and overriding it in the phone firmware itself, they ensure that unlocked phones *ALWAYS* indicate that they are roaming, which makes it difficult for you to tell when you are *actually* roaming, which increases the chances of you actually roaming -- they get to a$$-rape you when you roam.

You can run into other weird things when you are comparing the carrier name.... the carrier name MAY be taken from the air, OR it MAY be taken from the simcard itself -- for example, when roaming on the ROGERS network, Wind Mobile simcards give back a carrier name of "Wind AWAY" rather than the expected "ROGERS".

In other words, though you may have fixed the problem in this instance, there is no guarantee that the fix will work later on, i.e., if you get a new simcard that makes the name look different. Ideally, you definitely want to compare the actual MNC values and not the carrier name.

*** So if the country code matches and the network codes are *compatible*, not roaming.

Expected for reasons outlined above (a previous post).

By simply injecting the extra conditions rather than screwing up the existing logic, this fix can be used for *ALL* roms.

Just means that there is some difference in the system image.

exactly.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybik:
What other software than the radio or an HTC-1.6-Base-Image+CyanogenLatest could -possibly- be responsible for this then?

Technically, 302610 and 302860 are Bell and Telus respectively, and they both use the 302880 network. I can't rely only on those codes, so I -must- compare the strings. Which are, if I read this correctly, from the Network:

String spn = SystemProperties.get(PROPERTY_ICC_OPERATOR_ALPHA, "empty");

String onsl = s.getOperatorAlphaLong();
String onss = s.getOperatorAlphaShort();

Log.i(LOG_TAG,"SPN " + spn +" OnStringLong " + onsl + " OnStringShort " + onss);

SPN should be read from the SIM card (as it gets populated in SimRecords.java)

OnSS and OnSS are extracted from ServiceState, which is, from what I can theorize, something coming from the network.

So the Sim card gets misread (nothing in the SPN) and OnSS doesn't exist. It's either bad software from Bell, or a c*ck-block move from Robbers.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] remikeaz:
Yesterday after I took out my touch pro from my pocket something happened. My touch screen didn't work. I don't know why.

I thought a flex/ribbon cable don't connect so I took apart it. Everything was right. I removed the Digitizer ( plastic over the T.screen) and tried out the screen it didn't work. I inserted the Digitizer back the phone feels my touch but isn't there where I touch.

So what can be wrong? Digitizer can cause this problem because of scratches?

I hope you understood my problem and you can help me. I am not an English man.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] SDreamer:
Uh, did you try screen alignment after replacing the digitizer? I can't imagine that it'll work still after taking off the digitizer and replacing it. I'd probably say best to just replace the entire display.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] remikeaz:
I tried screen alignment with a new rom. After that I had known

it is a hardware problem. But I don't know the touchscreen or the digitizer is wrong.
[Desire General] shure2:
In the interest of those getting their desire from mobilephonesdirect I thought it would be useful if someone can post a picture of the graphite model so we know what it looks like (the only sell the graphite option)

thanks
[Desire General] Staticsoul:
here are both colors:

front

back
[Desire General] SGTDavePwnage:
I spoke to mobilephonesdirect again today and they are saying that what they are classing as Graphite is the one shown on their website.

Which is what everyone else is calling brown.

While on the phone to them they said they had called HTC and they were told that they are NOT getting the silver one. (which is opposite to what they told me last week)

I think that they've just decided to call the brown one graphite to confuse everyone

The guy at customer support told me that if the phone I receive is not the same colour as the one shown on the website that I can return it.

TBH I don't think they even know
[Desire General] robertwebbe:
I'm the one who took the photos yesterday.

You're right about the color, I also think the color is more black then brown. If you watch it in daylight you can see a brown tint (the photos are taken under quite yellow fluorescent lamps).

By the way, the silver is not as shiny as it looks.
[Desire General] Status Flow:
How come this silver color seems to be enigmatic? How come I don't see it at the usual retailers that will be offering the Desire? HTC didn't even make an official mention of it. Is it some kind of exclusive/special edition or what?
[Desire General] magicdroid:
I thinks it's exclusive to some retailers, like PDAShop.be, they seem to offer the silver one exclusively.
[Desire General] mayfly:
On your photos, there are definitely docking pins on the bottom of the phones.

Do you know if the final version will have them?

HTC didn't even mention them... and i'm wondering about the different versions...
[Desire General] Prema:
robertwebbe wrote on flicker that the silver model will be BelCompany exclusive!

Where do i preorder that if i need shipping to germany?
[Desire General] robertwebbe:
The silver model will only be exclusive for the dutch retail.

I've taken two mores pictures:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertwebbe/4427484702/in/set-72157623606179040/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertwebbe/4426721923/in/set-72157623606179040/

About the docking pins; I've got different answers from HTC. One said the will be gone in the final model while another person says they wil stay. We will see.
[Desire General] Bl@ck:
nooooo :( i wanted the silver version, let's see if they take it to italy too.
[Desire General] ninjakettle:
Is graphite different to silver so?

mobilephonesdirect have told me they will be selling graphite sets and that the brown on their website is not the handset i would receive if i preordered.

I assumed by graphite they meant silver - but if robertwebbe is correct and silver is exclusive to another retailer, then graphite may be another colour we haven't seen yet?
[Desire General] clubbtraxx:
Is yellow different to purple so?
[Desire General] AudunXetrov:
There is another version that is clearly black, so calling the brown one black would be confusing, even though it does look more black than brown.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] taiowa72:
Does anyone know of a 2010 version of rooting a MyTouch 3G android phone? All the sites that I've read are all from mid to late 2009 and are for other G versions of the phone.

Please help! I really like to learn how to root my phone.:o

Thanks in advance!!
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] cincinnati09:
same...jus rooted my sisters g1 yesterday from itsandroidsworld walkthrough but nobody has current mytouch one woW!
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] ronni.rasmussen:
Please read the wiki and you might figure out there is no freaking reason to have a 2010 version of rooting your mobile cause the method for rooting it was already found in 2009.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] KAwAtA:
LOL, interesting post hahaha MAYBE, just maybe if you bothered doing some reading rather than looking at the year, you'd have a great start! And what's the G Version? You know, people don't look at that either. I'll give you a start, You look at 32A or 32B (You'd know this if you read the looked at ANY instructions), DO SOME READING OR DONT ROOT
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] pedrovki:
My phone dtarted yesterday losing band signal..

cant call or text...

Only when i manually secarch for operators , it founds but after 5 secs...looses again...

someone know wtf is this ??????

i havent done anything...he just startd this alone...:S

i only have it for 2 months....damm
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] pedrovki:
any help ?????????
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] joooe:
Backup/hard reset/see what happens/use your warranty.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] Dirk:
Have you customised your device in any way?

If you have already flashed a HSPL i would recommend trying different Radio ROMs to see if there is one that works better for you :)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=547276

Make sure you know what you are doing before attempting anything that requires flashing. You can always ask here for help.

Edit: Don't forget that the occasional problem may be with your carrier rather than with the phone itself!
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] rahmanm3:
any luck???
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bryant_16:
Hi there,

I have used the rom (cyan 4.2.14.1) for several weeks already, now then I realized that work email is force closing. Can I still go the fix_permissions now? Because other settings have already been set and working fine, I do not want to disrupt other aspects of the phone after I apply the fix_permissions.

Is it possible?