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[Windows Phone 7 General] chiks19018:
Few years ago, I swore I would never wear ready-to-wear clothes because I could never get to trust the fitting that they provided, esp because I thought I have a different requirement than what what they provided.

Now, I don't even go to my tailor. In fact I don't even know if he is still in business or not.
[Windows Phone 7 General] C:Sharp!:
There's no need for finding out.

Copy&paste can not replace "smart highlighting" and "smart highlighting can not replace copy&paste.

Those are two different things. Anyone who thinks one could replace the other just doesn't get it.

And copy&paste is needed. "People don't do that" is bull****. I do it every day on my phone, despite that my phone also has that "smart highlighting" feature. I'm not going to buy anything that lacks such a simple, yet important, feature. At least not unless they commit to implementing in within "xx" days after launch, instead of using moronic excuses like "people don't do that". We've heard those excuses from Apple fanboys for years, and in the end, all of them were glad when Apple added copy&paste.
[Windows Phone 7 General] chiks19018:
I definitely agree with you that both have their own uses.

I am hoping (as show in the Bing app) that you can copy+paste the whole text (not selective) in the message or the text on the screen for editing in an editor or messaging application OR use the smart highlight to perform obvious actions.
[Windows Phone 7 General] vangrieg:
Which editor? How about a browser? Messaging, you say? Text or email? Which email account? What if a site has two textareas? Where would this smart thing insert it? What if I want to post this text to Facebook via a client? Will the smart action menu have an item for each possible scenario?
[Windows Phone 7 General] C:Sharp!:
Good that we agree there. I'm not saying that smart highlighting is bad. In some cases, it's definitely more useful than copy&paste.

I think they should just admit they didn't have the time to implement it, and promise an update that includes it. I'd be fine with that, but I hate lame excuses.

Granted, some MS employees did admit it, but the official answers were mostly lame excuses.

P.S.: I like the smart highlightimg feature, even if it doesn't work all the time. It's no replacement for copy&paste, but it's a good additional feature that can come in very handy at times.
[Windows Phone 7 General] chiks19018:
I don't think that was the case....they are playing the odds and hoping to win big.
[Windows Phone 7 General] vangrieg:
And they are doing it by removing C&P?
[Windows Phone 7 General] Spike15:
But what if you don't want to be made to look like a lazy idiot?
[Windows Phone 7 General] vangrieg:
Just post, "XDA, not DDA, and I'm not a lazy idiot, I have this WP7S thing that doesn't have copy paste". Or better yet, put some statement in your profile that apologizes for all such corrections in advance. Give them @wp7dev or whatever twitter thing MS has to complain. :p
[Windows Phone 7 General] chiks19018:
eh? the fact that you sent an update right away will show them you are not a lazy idiot.

anyways, facebook is not where you discuss matters with your CEO that you are worried so much :p
[Windows Phone 7 General] Spike15:
So, in your opinion, presenting an image of intelligence amongst your friends and acquaintances is not important?

Besides, your opinion is not my opinion, and you're just making excuses for Microsoft's idiocy.

I'm a Microsoft fan, but I won't sink so low as to excuse their failures -- I'm a fan because of the things they do right, and I'm not afraid to relentlessly call them out when they don't [do things right].
[Windows Phone 7 General] chikoo:
Of course, opinions are like a-holes. everybody has one :)
[Nexus One General] arkavat:
First of all...let me first make it clear that I liked Vista. So in case you haven't yet figured it out... I like Nexus one and have no complaints.

But, like Vista, Nexus One is being continuously targeted on internet and therefore even minor issues have been blown out of proportion. XDA is perhaps at the core of it. We have two sub-forums... General and Q&A.. which have turned into whining grounds. Everyone (including me) have been whining about issues and reducing our satisfaction level with our new phone. I certainly regret reading a few threads...I wasn't even aware of these issues..they were not bothering me... but now that i have read them... they haunt me. Are they serious? nope.. just like most of the other issues here. I am sure I am not alone who has this experience.

So...enough of my rant.. what do we do?

1) I would propose that we merge Q&A and General. General is enough. We have similar whining topics in both the forums as people are confused about which question goes where and have started redundant threads.

2) Any useless rant or repeat posts should be locked and deleted ASAP. We perhaps need more moderators here.

3) Action against impolite posters. This forum has got nasty and personal. I have not seen such behavior in other sub-forums

4) This forum will get even busier once sprint, Verizon and European devices come out... We need some stickies to avoid repetition of questions.

If you guys have constructive comments..additions.. please post.
[Nexus One General] cheetah2k:
A phone is a phone and none of them are perfect. Most of the Nexus converts are ex iphone fanboys. Lest we forget it took essentially 2 years before the iphone could do what the Nexus can do straight out of the box on day one.

I'm a tried and tested gadget freak, and I've also used pretty much every high end phone in existance (except for Vertu and Porsche branded phones) and to be honest, if I wanted a plain old perfect "phone", I'd buy a Nokia 1600 series handset and be done with it :D.

It makes calls, it receives calls, it doesnt crash, and it bounces when I drop it, and keeps on ticking after a damn good licking (my 1650 actually went thru a clothes wash, dried it out, and kept on going!).

My advice to you - if you're over the whining, just dont visit the General and Q&A sections...
[Nexus One General] david1171:
Honestly, there still needs to be a Q&A section and a general section. The Q&A section (should be) used more for questions about using the phone, or a good place to put how to's, or for questions that could be seem as borderline developmental but development hasn't started, or for general trouble shooting where a post in the ROM thread just doesn't do it, or if it is an issue with all ROMs or most ROMs of the same nature (Vanilla Android/Sense).

I do tremendously agree you though on all the BS threads about the same issue or people whining about issues that they find annoying but aren't major. Yes, there should be threads to alert people to these issues, but there doesn't need to be a new thread every single time a user has that problem and wants to cry about it.

Honestly, the moderators are doing a much better job over here then the g1 area was for a while, pointless threads get locked at a much higher rate in the dev section, people are being reprimanded for breaking the rules numerous times, appropriate threads are being merged, threads are being moved to the correct sub-forum when needed instead of just locked to keep the information in those threads alive.

I entirely agree with you about peoples attitudes, while most people are respectful of others, many aren't, and should be warned at the least. Yeah there are times I wish I could reach through my screen and slap people, but in the end, you're just going to end up arguing with people over the internet which isn't going to get you anywhere, and in general is just going to make other people on here think less of you and be less willing to help you out in the future (or use your work if you feel like contributing, I know there are a few people whose work I refuse to use based on their past actions, or what I think about their character).

Again, I agree with you that this forum will only get busier as the nexus is released on more networks/providers/3g bands/whatever, and as users, we need to try and keep down the pointless threads, and flaming of people that post in the wrong section, so that new people won't feel so inclined to do the same (think about it, you see the guy supposedly "senior" member flaming the "junior" member for posting in the wrong section, is that any different than the junior member posting in the wrong section. It's not going to "teach" the member to post in the correct section).

Oh well, there is my pseudo-rant for the night. On most of your points, I do agree with you, so take my post how you want.

Just had to..... Win7 > Vista
[Nexus One General] britoso:
I find it offensive that you compare android 2.1 to vista.

yes this forum needs stickies.

I vote no to merging the two forums. Maybe a description saying: "post in this q&a forum if you have a question you think this community can answer"
[Nexus One General] C.Slater:
I've not had no issues with my Nexus One. No dust under the screen, no lag, no touch-screen anomalies.......nothing. I think that a lot of the whining is due to the fact that people expect much more from a phone these days. When the iPhone was first introduced there were lots of things it couldn't do, and had many flaws. But, it did things other phones didn't and it revolutionised the market. It was so unlike every other phone that people didn't concentrate on the bad things.

With the Nexus it has many competitors to compare it to. With that comes more differences and reasons to complain.

I'm with you, though, in that the whining posts need to be filtered out somehow. Maybe a 'complaints/problems forum' would be more useful?
[General Topics] ajpettit:
ok so my sister is getting married later today and the bridegroom's father has just been admitted to hospital so im wondering whats the best way to go about livecasting the wedding?

hes got an iphone and i (at the wedding) have access to a fairly reliable 3g connection and htc hero along with a canon ixus could possibly take the laptop with me at a stretch.

it would be really nice if he could see the wedding!

whats the best way to go about it

dont have much time a few hours to get it set up not a luddite but no code writer either??

any help much appreciated

anthony
[General Topics] AthenaLod:
i have done this before... if u want to use the laptop by placing it in a secure position, use justin.tv very easy to shoot and watch, u can use internet sharing to have internet on the laptop.

u can also use ur phone camera through qik.com.

the only thing is that i don't know if he can watch on the iphone with all the limitations the browser there has (regards to flash)
[General Topics] dcarr622:
I was thinking about something like UStream that would be easy to set up and use, but again, watching it on the iPhone would be the limitations. Ideal setup would have a laptop at both ends.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sweetpunkined:
all i want is to change my battery icon in cynaogen 4.2.15.1..i dont want 2 flash a whole theme...how do i go about this..the want battery icon from this theme--->>> http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=599687
[Touch Viva, MDA Basic ROM Development] dark_borja:
I need help, i have ready the first beta of my rom for HTC Opal to test, but i don´t know to pack it:

I have a BIN file and i need to convert it into a two files (00_OS.nb.extra and 00_OS.nb.payload) and convert it to (00_OS.nb) and finally make the NBH file (ruu_signed.nbh) to flash with the OpalCustomRUU.exe

The packet i made is corrupt and it fails at 99% of flashing with "Flash error"

Help Plz!!

Sorry for my English level, i´m from spain
[Touch Viva, MDA Basic ROM Development] mehulkarate:
do hard reset

first u have to change your SPL ( 1.35.00.00 to 2.00.cmon ) then download nbh file and use OpalCustomRUU.exe
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
**and this one**
[Windows Mobile Themes] acidbath5546:
just downloaded and will give it a go, anything you make is always worth while :)

Kinda confused though? Changelog says January 20th? Is this new or you just been working on it for awhile?

Anyways, thanks as always for sharing.
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
OOPS haha good catch I copied the changelog across from one of my other themes and forgot to change it :D

All changed now ;)

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] acidbath5546:
LOL...was gonna say...you held out on us for months! lol

I gotta tell ya...I am loving it.

Smooth scrolling, very clean.

Bravo man, you come through stellar as always :)
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
Thanks :)

I will make some more skins for the analogue clock and other panels and if anyone has any requests program skins such as the ones I made for TomTom and GoogleMaps then I will make them up and add them.

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] dosari666:
Thank you for your great skins Mark, people like you make Windows mobile 6 last forever.. :)

I'm loving this one, smooth slide, fast navigating.. As usual you make the best a bestest! :D

I really Appreciate your effort..
[Windows Mobile Themes] Nkola:
Qvga please!!!:cool:
[Windows Mobile Themes] GuestK0081:
hey, great work looks nice!

why not a people hub? a lifestyle screen with the appropriate background and slots for contacts like the "recent" page on wp7..

cannot say more as i have an omnia and cannot test..

keep it up man!
[Windows Mobile Themes] sarseaforyou:
wonder!i waitting for the VGA,you are the best,man.
[Windows Mobile Themes] yluestc:
really a nice work .it makes me want to drop the sense2.5 and get the spb back:D,thank you very much!
[Windows Mobile Themes] ali1010:
Hi mskip!

very cool theme.

will wait for wqvga

thanks!
[Windows Mobile Themes] jagan2:
Wow, looking great and as people are reporting its smooth. Will be waiting for qvga.

Thanks for your hardwork in this project.

Btw mskip any plan of inlcluding wallpaper?
[Windows Mobile Themes] Vostradamus:
Way to go, mate! :)

This thread's gonna grow even larger then your other ones quite soon, I bet! :D

Grats! ;)
[Windows Mobile Themes] maxmig:
Thank's a lot for your great work,very smooth!!! as soon as i get back my credit card, i will offer you a beer!!!

Max
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
Thanks again for your help with the install/uninstall scripts to fix those bugs mate :D

Now I can get around to adding them to the other themes to fix all those too.. when I have the time lol :p

Mark.
[Windows Mobile Themes] Zimaia:
Good work :)

I searched a lottt!!! to find a way to hide the taskbar, this would like so muth better without it :( But didn't find any info about how to do it.

Apparently the hide taskbar in spb options don't work.

Please anyone know an working process to actually really hide taskbar??

Thank you
[Windows Mobile Themes] mskip:
The theme is all done for QVGA and WQVGA I just have to resize all the graphics which I will try to do tonight.

I need someone with a landscape capable WQVGA device and someone with a landscape capable VGA device who can move the panels and widgets to make the layout look right in landscape mode and then export the appropriate registry entrys and send them to me before I can make the cab and post it. Any takers?

I will post screenshots of landscape mode in the first post today so its just a case of following that layout.

I have a QVGA device so I dont need anyone for that.
[Windows Mobile Themes] maxmig:
Even if i select 5 pages in both the models, i can't have them...How can i make another page?

Thanks
[Mogul, XV6800 General] telegraph0000:
I have a friend who has a Verizon Titan with a stock wm 6.0 ROM...I have no idea what to do to this phone in order to upgrade it to 6.1 with touchflo, or even 6.5...

I'm very familiar with GSM phones (all have been HTCs...I have unlocked, Hard spl'ed, flashed reflashed and flashed again) However, no matter how many times I have read the Wiki, I'm still very confused as to which HSPL to use...and then comes the radio....and easiest the ROM...

I would like this to be an easy transition, and I don't want to brick her phone (or make it non functioning)

So, if someone could be so kind to this senior Titan noobie,

I need the HSPL for a stock Verizon rom

whatever the recommended radio is...

Just point me to the link and...is it via Activesync or through the mem. card?

And, am I reading this right...that it has GPS? I loaded igo8 on it some time ago, and Igo never found any hardware (port)...how does this get to work.

Thanks again.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] helipilotx:
Hi! I am unlocked my nexus one and now tried to root it.

I tried with Win XP and Win 7 with the same result.

I can see the device. If i go to the command promt and enter

"adb devices" it shows me the serial - So, usb is not the problem.

I also successfully unlocked it the same way.

Dev. Mode USB is also activated.

As soon I try to root it i.e. with superboot, Android SDK etc. I get the message

"waiting for device" (stays there for ever)

also when I want to lock the device again - same result.

Something must have happened preventing me to access the phone.

Also did a hard reset - without success.

Bottemline I am STUCK. The phone works, but no root .

Versions: ERE27 with 2.1update1

Someone an idea?

Thanks
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MatMew:
Try a different USB Port. You can't relock the device.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] helipilotx:
Well I tried already on different PC's.

FYI - It's not majorly important here, but yes you can re-lock it - The same way you unlocked it.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Paul22000:
Oh really?

Can you provide link proof on how to re-lock the bootloader?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eclair~:
Lol - he thinks you can "re-lock" it.. hahaha..
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cpimpjuice2060:
did u debug ur usb....?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pjcforpres:
I think this may qualify for post of the year!

Anyways, why are you even trying to root the stock ROM? Flash a custom ROM, already rooted, with the high memory kernel. As great as the stock ROM is, rooting really doesn't do anything unless you want to mess with the stock ROM... but that is like buying a V8 conversion for a Fiat, then only running 4 of the 8 cylinders.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] helipilotx:
Well, how ever - I'll might be wrong, just saw someone do it on you tube (might was fake)

Anyway, well it does not matter whether I want to root the stock rom or flash a custom rom - my point is it always shows me

"waiting for device"
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TFJ4:
You have to install the correct adb drivers

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=613217
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] helipilotx:
:) glad ur soooooooo much smarter :p

congrats ! A+
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chronzz:
can you post the video link
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Eclair~:
Out of all the people that basically implied, or thought, what I said you - had to have a 'comeback' to me.. guess its because I said "hahaha," and "lol". If we really could re-lock the bootloader though... i'd be all over that..
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] helipilotx:
Have to look for it again. I saw it on my research to solve this problem I am having. When I find it again i will let you know for sure.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] helipilotx:
Anymore ideas anyone?

Thanks! :rolleyes:
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] peadarog:
I had this problem yesterday (my first ever ROM flash!). I'm sure you didn't make this mistake, but my phone had to be on the boot (white) screen before it was recognized. When the phone was turned on normally, or off normally, I got the "Waiting for device" message.

FYI: I'm using Linux Fedora Core 12 on my PC.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chobie:
Just had this problem. Jade this stupid mistake of not doing it while on the bootloader screen. :p
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faraz1992:
That is THE best post i've ever read... just see the confidence :D
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rusty!:
Perhaps the video he saw was of a holiday phone, in which case

fastboot oem lock

does work.

No good on our retail ones (yet) though.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] martin0285:
Love this post!!! +1 for post of the year!!!!
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] temperbad:
I've flashed windows a million times, but for the life if me can't get my nexus one to show in cmd trying to unlock the bootloader...... definitely not as easy as winmo.....

I give up...
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] liam.lah:
Did you have to edit the bashsrc to get it to recognise your device? i have just switched from fedora 12 to ubuntu 10.04, one of the reasons among others was that i couldnt get the damn adb and fastboot to work.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] peadarog:
No, it worked just fine "out of the box".
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] delquattro:
Solved

I was here, last night, looking for a solution to this for my new Nexus One 2.3.6. I tried SuperOneClick, and it revealed that Android 1.0 was the issue. Googled that and found this solution:

Okay, I'm too new to post outside links. So, google: Android 1.0 driver problem

Downloaded 3.02 version of PDAnet for XP, I followed his instructions, rebooted my computer, and voila,

I am now unlocked.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darren12:
Hi guys!

I thought it's a topic about rooting,so I wrote. My problem is,the usb panel has brooken,so I can't root my phone. I really want it. So the question: Is there any way to root and get recovery without my pc?

Nexus One
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rusty!:
Only if you're on an old version of Android (Froyo still) so you can use one of the old rooting apps.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darren12:
I'm using 2.3.6. Is it possible with. Can you give me some app name for that?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tharindunw:
Fun history
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ultra99:
I'm on 2.3.7 and win 8.1 pro and can't seem get the drivers working. when i try to install blackrose, my computer seems not to recoginze the phone. I've tried installing drivers but only i get warning sign on HTC Bootloader in Device Manager. What can I do now?
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] Silent Shark:
Hi there.

I've just changed to a ROM with Sense 2.5 installed, and while exploring the options, I've ended up setting the wallpaper on the home tab. I want to go back to the original grey one, but can't seem to find an option for it. Using google and searching the forums has turned up nothing :( .

Can anyone help?

Thanks.
[Off-topic] ClementNg23:
oooh nice :)

so did they reply back and what did the email say?

anyway nice letter :)
[Off-topic] therealdrunk:
no replies yet, but I just sent it last night.
[Off-topic] AdrianK:
Mad props for Team America reference =P
[Off-topic] Rudegar:
the whole my idea is just a commercial not a real deal imho

http://gizmodo.com/5477384/windows-7-was-my-idea-but-to-be-fair-i-dont-know-what-im-talking-about

;)
[Off-topic] therealdrunk:
I don't doubt that it is just a big marketing gimick, but I wanted to explain that it looks like they are listening to people's ideas - just the wrong ones.
[Off-topic] xaccers:
I'm waiting for them to show the ads on TV which make the claim that W7 has fewer clicks so I can report it to the ASA.

Starting a program like solitaire with the mouse is either the same number (if you don't mind a 2 second wait) or one more click than XP/Vista.

As for getting to the network card properties that's a heck of a lot more clicks than Vista or XP.

W7 has some very well thought out features, but unfortunately it's got more that just aren't.

I hate MS for putting me in a position where I have to say I prefer Vista! Damn them! Damn them to Hades!

WM7 looks awful, and the restrictions they're putting on it make no user or business sense.

Office 2007 is appauling, what were they thinking? Why make an application which users have to refer to google in order to complete simple common tasks?