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[Hero CDMA General] Kcarpenter:
My thought on the sprint released one:

Hopefully it will run a little smoother than ours does now because things are done "Appropriately" and not hacked together(Kerenel and driver versions are appropriate). I could only imagine this would make things a little better. Then we can have our way with a new one.

My current impression of the 2.1 Roms I have loaded:

They are really good considering all that has to be done to make one work. It seems they are a little slow when you start switching between apps and somethings just act a little funny. Like my browser randomly closes back to the home screen after I click on a link. If I run one game and then move to another its laggy. But all of this stuff is still really great and the devs have done a great job with what is at their disposal. I have run a 2.1 daliy for about the last 2 weeks, and the benefits far out weigh going back to a 1.5. I wish I could get the latest PRL with out going through all the work.

DISCALIMER:

IMHO
[Hero CDMA General] HERNANDEZ4LIFE:
Im sure an official 2.1 release will result in a 2.1 kitchen as well... thats something to look forward to!
[Hero CDMA General] 5tr4t4:
The official Sprint/HTC 2.1 will just give the community more stuff to build upon and incorporate into current ROM's. Whether starting from source or hacking on a prebuilt or leaked ROM (or some combination of these), something tells me most of the folks on this list won't view ANY Android release as a finished product.

Honestly, if Sprint/HTC they were smart the fixes and extensions to Android found on this forum and elsewhere (example, the kernel optimizations, Cyanogen's updater, the "kitchen" model, themes and skins, etc) would be going the other way and finding themselves in the official releases. But I'm not holding my breath ;)
[Hero CDMA General] gthing:
I don't think anyone thinks it is the holy grail. People just want things like live wallpapers, accurate location, working bluetooth, working MMS/SMS/etc., working google voice, stability, and other admittedly minor issues that plague the 2.1 roms. It's not going to change anyone's life, but suddenly my latitude might stop showing I'm 30 miles away and I can finally have that cool spinning galaxy wallpaper.

We're glad that everything that you want works for you. But you must have realized at some point by now that we're not all you, and some of us care about those things that don't work.

Why you would whine and argue that we should just settle for a rom that has less things working and not look forward to a rom that has more things working is beyond me.
[Hero CDMA General] obelisk79:
I am thinking that, the items that are still not working only affect a small percentage of us out there, and if a feature is broken, but you never use it, then why worry?

He has a point, not everyone is insanely OCD about all features working. Being OCD about isn't a bad thing either. XDA and Android itself is all about choices. He has made his, you have made yours. I don't even understand why there is so much discussion about this.
[Hero CDMA General] Street_Knowledge:
If sprint were smart they would sell this device unlocked with the ability to download customizations from their store (roms, taskbars, lockscreens, icons, customized rosies, bootscreens etc) for a few bucks a pop, and let everyone customize the phone to their liking. Would prob be tens of thousands of additional income for them from the people who are too lazy to root and do it themselves.
[Hero CDMA General] gthing:
So you'd have to be "insanely OCD" to want all the features on your phone working? Why did they bother to creating the features in the first place?

I would also point out that I haven't seen anyone who is "insanely OCD" about the official 2.1 rom coming out either.
[Hero CDMA General] obelisk79:
It would seem to me that you are very particular about having all features work on your phone. I can understand this, I even stated that in my post. Perhaps OCD was a bad way to put it. Rather lets call it Nitpicky. In either case, I think you've missed the point I was getting at in my post. That point was that we all have the freedom to choose how to use our phones. 2.1 will come from sprint in due course. Sprint has made no promises on a date for it yet people continue to act overly anxious regardless.

Out of curiosity, what feature(s) is missing from the current 2.1 builds that has you waiting for the official sprint release?
[Hero CDMA General] pipskicks:
1. No more "beta" ROMs (i.e. all ROMs with some minor issues, each with different ones, less messing with wiping).

2. Less ROMs and just a few really good ones (like with 1.5) which would lead to many more custom themes, and not themes that will be outdated with the new beta releases.

P.S. After the month of 2.1, when people are on their "x 2.1 official ROM" and they've done their themes, the boards will slow down like hell and people will just work on themes. In fact if Sprint has their way, by the time you get "official" 2.1 with the theme you want, you will be moving on to the 4g phones. I really don't see these boards having so much action after all the final ROM releases are out and the major themes are out for them.
[Hero CDMA General] mrinehart93:
The only reason I want the official 2.1 to come is because currently the "hacked together (if you will)" 2.1 ROM's get horrible signal on my phone. If I run 1.5 in the same area, I usually always have about 10-15 less dBa (less is better) than a 2.1 ROM. So hopefully the Sprint 2.1-based ROM's will have this corrected... otherwise I might stick to 1.5 forever :(
[Hero CDMA General] YoungAceAtlanta:
Well for one everything would be working 100%. With no setbacks like the devs make taking out keyboards, sounds, etc etc just to make the rom faster and more stable

You would have all your sprint apps, all google apps along with htcs more widgets and Market will show (as u see in ads) the 30,000+ apps

But i dont think its worth the unroot and root again tho. ill just wait two days or maybe 15hours before a dev make they own version of the rom.
[Hero CDMA General] fixxxer2008:
visual voicemail for starters, not some 3rd party app that only works half the time.
[Hero CDMA General] mbell75:
Well lets see...Visual voicemail and navigation do not work. Those are 2 things I use quite often. Not to mention you run the risk of bricking your phone. No thanks, I'll wait.
[Hero CDMA General] obelisk79:
navigation works for me...
[Hero CDMA General] mbell75:
It does? I lose count of how many people come into the other Android foruls crying something went wrong while trying to root and/or flash a new ROM. Lost contacts, lost apps, certain apps not responding, force quits in programs etc...seems like ALOT of trouble, especially with the officially update only a few weeks away.
[Hero CDMA General] obelisk79:
it's only been a couple of weeks away for the last 2 months. just saying. I'm also not implying that flashing these custom roms are without risk. Less tech-saavy people are more inclined to run into problems, and that isn't to say that some of the more advanced tech geeks are impervious to running into hiccups either.
[Hero CDMA General] mbell75:
Only if you listen to those God awful tech sites and some supposed Sprint employees here that are full of nothing but RUMORS :rolleyes: Months ago, Sprint said "1H2010" and then later got more specific and said "early Q2". Q2 doesnt even start until next month, so they are still right on track. Its the stupid people posting RUMORS that others take as official word which confuses some.
[Hero CDMA General] obelisk79:
I agee, and like I said, at this point it is all a matter of choice what to run on yourphone. people get all worked up about nothing imo.
[Hero CDMA General] coldsweat:
Hrm weird, I've had Fresh's 2.0b installed since it came out.

Live wallpapers work fine for me, Navigation works great, MMS send/receive ok. I've forgotten that I have Google Voice installed, it works just as the stock one does. The only problem I've had thus far is that pictures do not appear in emails in the stock email application.
[Hero CDMA General] nbroneobi:
wierd ive never had a problem with location and my apps never fc on me im runnin darchlegend 4.2.2.2.2.2.2 lol but ya everything works fine i get great signal even when i drive out to the boonies in illinois like sandwich and what not and lemme tell ya driving 10 + hours a day slacker radio and pandora have saved me from wanting to swerve into oncoming traffic out of boredom many times lol.i know the roms will get better once the real 2.1 is out but until then all i am saying is i'm happy with what i have and everything works just fine even sprint nav and sprint tv (just push it with the kitchen)
[Hero CDMA General] thatguythatdid:
true enough but what about the guys that make threads that have nothing to do with development in the development section? :D As for the whole 2.1 problems i'm running darchlegend and have less problems than with the stock sprint rom, and if anyone believes someone who says they are sprint employee is not the brightest cuz even if they are they dont know much more about this than we do I look for reasons to go to the sprint store and talk to the ones that know stuff and they don't know nada.
[Hero CDMA General] darchstar:
I honestly could care less about an official sprint hero release. I just want the source to the leaked .29 kernel we have :D , and maybe a lead on getting the trackball light to work on 2.1. the phone kinda feels incomplete without it, but definitely bearable.
[Hero CDMA General] nebenezer:
No reason to wait, go ahead and get familiar with it
[Hero CDMA General] d12bn:
Its all good

Well just do what you want to, patiently waiting
[Hero CDMA General] tejasrichard:
Funny thing...I have NO IDEA why, but my intermittent trackball has been working more often lately. Still not 100%, but prolly more like 80% of the time, subjguestimatingly speaking of course. And to the OP, I didn't wait for official 2.1, and am not holding my breath. I do eagerly anticipate it's release, but that is from the point of view of someone who is trying to create themes and doesn't want to have to mess with SO MANY different frameworks.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] arvi007:
Does anyone know where can I find the Visual Voicemail App from TMobile US HD2 stock ROM ?

I installed a custom firmware so its gone as its in the ROM and not on SD card.

Can anyone extract it as a cab or provide instructions on how to extract as cab so I can try on my wife's HD2?

It would be great if someone can provide the extracted apps as cabs for various apps from the TMOUS HD2 stock ROM.

Thanks in advance.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] kimcng:
It is inside here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=653563
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ThunderVolt:
Hi everyone xD

I have like three months with my g1 and would like to use a custom ROM but i have some doubts that would like to clear:

Wich is the most stable and fluid firmware for the g1 now?

Could i finally be able to send and receive files on bluetooth(i currently can just SEND, and only to some devices D:)?

Do i have to root it in order to install the ROM?

Do i loose my unlock if i do it?

Thanks xD
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] evilkorn:
1. Search, try and find out which you like best based on the features you want.

2. Yes

3. Yes

4. http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=5992286&postcount=2
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ThunderVolt:
So, whatever ROM i decide to install(for example: Cyanogen´s) requires to root the phone?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] evilkorn:
Wasn't that question 3? No reason to ask twice. :p
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ThunderVolt:
hahah my bad!

Wich ROM are you using rite nao?

are you happy with it?
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JAguirre1231:
The rom I'm using right now includes auto-correct for spelling, I suggest you try it ;)

I have no idea what he is using, but right now I am using OpenEclair, and I am very happy with it.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tehseano:
1. CyanogenMod / SuperD are probably your best bets.

2. Yes, you can send AND receive with Bluetooth.

3. Yes, you need root.

4. Again, I will refer you to this post:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=5992286&postcount=2

Oh, and if you look at the top of your screen, under the "Welcome, YOURNAME", there is a button that says "search". If you click it, and type in words, it will give you answers.

Or if that doesn't work, there is always Google.....I know, this must be way out in left field for you, and I'm probably the first person ever in your life to tell you to Google something.
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ThunderVolt:
Thanks pplz

not cool man :/ i'm just relatively new here
[G1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tehseano:
Are you relatively new to the world? Every question you asked here, you could have punched in google and found the answers just as easily, but quicker.
[EVO 4G General] qu1nn:
Does anyone know what the SAR is for EVO will be, I havent seen anything in the specs.
[Desire General] shawon007:
Anyone confirm if the receiver is built into the phone, as opposed to being built into the wired stereo headphones?
[Desire General] lukaswat:
It's in the headphones, as usual.
[Desire General] n-j-f:
Don't think that's right. Usually, the radio is built into the phone but you need headphones connected - not necessarily the supplied headphones - for the radio to work. That's certainly how it was with my HD2. Otherwise, it means you could not use your own headset.

The headset cable usually acts as the antenna.
[Desire General] harroguk:
Usually these type of devices (phones/mp3 players etc...) have the receiver in the device but they use the headphones as the antenna so if you want to get any signal you need some (Any) headphones connected.
[Desire General] irkan:
I have read it somewhere, .. I confirm that the radio receiver is IN the headset, not inside the phone!
[Desire General] shawon007:
How ...?

can ANY headphone be used as an antenna?? even ones I bought from ebay??
[Desire General] rdgut:
Maybe you should really think before writing though ;)

-

Ofcourse the reciever is in the phone and yes you can use any headset.

The headset purely acts as an antenna.
[Desire General] 400ixl:
There are reports that non OEM headsets are a bit hit and miss. Some work, some don't.

Not a feature I will get to use as I have bluetooth headphones :(
[Desire General] dougiebee:
shawon007,

Question - have you tried siwtching your phone off & back on? Your thread made me realise I hadn't tried out the radio on my desire, or the headphone jack for that matter....

Imagine my surprise when I tried the radio with normal headphones and the radio didn't work ... so I tried the official headphones, and they didn't work either, whether for radio or even playing music .... so I grumped about it and figured the jack was faulty. Then I tried powering the phone off & back on (early firmware) and bingo, the radio works.

Oh and standard headphones work just fine too.

Dougie
[Desire General] MoxFulder_CH:
RDS is missing.. too bad because it was working well on the Tattoo
[Desire General] bewA:
I'm sure some clever person might be able add it!

What i'd like to know is if it would be possible to add a radio record button :)

a bit like the ipod nano's :)
[Desire General] Jaffe76:
Hi.

This is my first post on this forum. I'm happy to find so many skilled guys on smartphones and android, specifically (though I've never had smartphone development experiences yet :o).

I'm very seriously thinking about buying a HTC Desire (I think it's gorgeous) but the missing RDS feature is quite annoying to me.

Maybe someone of you could tell me if the radio chipset is capable of handling RDS, and so a rooted firmware will fix the problem?

Thanks.
[Desire General] mhewitson:
My iPod ones work fine...
[Desire General] Cronnie:
My Sennheiser earphones do work with the FM Radio, but the reception is quite poor unfortunately :(

The HTC ones supplied work perfectly, reception is great, shame about the quality of the earphones themselves though.
[Desire General] Kiiv:
Maybe armored cable on good earphones don't make a good antenna :/

PS : don't know if "armored" is the correct word in english :p I want to say "a cable with much protection over electric fields".
[Desire General] Cronnie:
No worries, I know what you mean ;)

I rarely use the radio anyway (got around 10GB of music and videos to keep me occupied), so I guess I will be sticking to my Sennheiser earphones.
[Desire General] EroThraX:
Has anyone else had any issues with the radio? When I was using it the other day it completely freaked out and locked up my phone.

Oh and when I was first setting it up and went to set presets it knew the names for some of the stations already, how is it doing that without RDS?
[Desire General] pascanu:
Does it also have FM transmitter?
[Desire General] Cr4zyB4st4rd:
Are you sure? After i tuned to several stations, it's picked up the names fine. BBC Radio 1 is displayed as Radio 1, BBC Radio 2 is shown as BBC R2

No it can't transmit.
[Desire General] MoxFulder_CH:
No I'm not sure because I don't own the device yet. My comment was based on the reviews available.

Maybe your device knows the names of the stations for these frequencies based on a webservice and your geographical location, I don't know. Maybe the tunner is RDS.
[Desire General] silv3r4sh:
the word is..

hi kiiv, the word you're looking for is 'shielded' cable ;)

cheers..

btw, if anyone can recommend a good set of earphones for better fm reception, please let me know! the reception is so bad with my the ones i'm currently using..
[Desire General] meo:
Info

It will be great to have something like this for Android:

Power Radio (WM):

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=531600

http://powerradio.radioypsilon.at/misc.html
[Desire General] miczk:
Hi,

when I was buying HTC Desire I thought that FM is in great level, but is isn't true :( . I used SonyEricsson W610i (3 years old mobile !!!) where were reception in other way. Reception was 2x - 3x better. So, I've bought 3,5 jack hub. Now I am using HTC headphones and SonyEricsson headphones (long +/- 0,8m). I listen by HTC headphones and my SonyEricsson headphones are catching the signal :)

I think that headphones by SonyEricsson or Sony would be great. It would be nice if somebody could try listen radio only with SE headphones (4 ex. from SE Xperia X10(mini), X8,...)

Is there anybody, who can try this :p 4 me ? :)

(sorry 4 bad english I am only begginer ;) )
[Desire General] stickyasglue:
A recent article by Android and me commented on the new chips set in the galaxy S and its supposed 90 million triangles a second compared to the nexus ones 20 million,

making the galaxy a superior gaming device,

will desire have the same power as the nexus as they share basically the same chip set?

Love to hear your thoughts !
[Desire General] gogol:
Yes. It is using same Snapdragon chipset.
[Desire General] gizz68erz:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/samsungs-galaxy-s-has-four-times-the-polygon-power-of-snapdrago/

!!!
[Desire General] The-Nazgul:
Yes, I already have read this article... Would love to get the Samsung, but Samsung Update policy is seriously bad!

Got the I7500 and I swore not to buy another Samsung device.
[Desire General] gizz68erz:
and here is a comparison of the gpus:

http://androidandme.com/2010/03/new...bird-chip-to-have-3x-gpu-power-of-snapdragon/
[Desire General] stickyasglue:
I know the fact the desire is htc makes it appealing,

but that chip set is too good to miss,

the UI sucks on the samsung as well,

but still that chipset nags
[Desire General] stickyasglue:
I guess we need to wait and see when both are out and running games, i mean the droid has lower specs according to this and can run a few games better than the nexus,

I just dont want to buy a desire then realise that the chipset is outdated with a few months
[Desire General] Jabbypants:
Sadly that statement will always be the same, no matter what phone you get now there will be something better not to far down the line, you can end up waiting forever if you want the best.

I never really got into gaming on mobiles i can't see the point they look rubbish.
[Desire General] stickyasglue:
ye but i mean the galaxy is out now as well i meant as games develop and the desire would fall to the galaxy s
[Desire General] kirilliz:
the galaxy is out now?! Oo.. i don´t think so, it´s due in july i think..
[Desire General] leoni1980:
Pretty irrelevant unfortunately as Samsung offer terrible hardware support so all that power will only be to the detriment of battery life.

I don't care if it has a quad core NASA processor in it; Samsung won't develop any means of utilising it and the Galaxy S will prove to be a powerful letdown just like the Omnia HD. I will never buy a Samsung phone again. They can suck my fat one.
[Desire General] pr0orz1337:
Galaxy S is a "with google" android phone. I expect this means better Google support :)

S5PC110 1Ghz (is the latest Intrinsity ARM Cortex-A8 based processor, A.K.A "Hummingbird", 45 nm with Fast14 tech and ARM NEON extensions) + PowerVR SGX540 (better GPU that iphone's 3GS previous PowerVR SGX535) + 4 inchs Super AMOLED screen= winner
[Desire General] The-Nazgul:
But they have there own interface. So direct updates by google arent possible.
[Desire General] pr0orz1337:
No touchWiz UI inside Galaxy S. If you are talking about APIs then I don't know.
[Desire General] gogol:
Samsung Galaxy is indeed more powerful compare to HTC Desire, but I personally would wait HTC product to top that :)

At this moment, HTC Desire is much more than enough, at least for me and it is sexier ... While the Samsung Galaxy is more like iPhone which I dont like at all. I dont want to be associated with any Apple product! :D
[Desire General] pr0orz1337:
I'm an H.T.C. fan too!. HTC build the thinnest phones and this is sexy but now the concept thin implies superAMOLED. If HTC build superAMOLED devices I'll be their first customer. ;)

PD: I can assure you that Apple will never release an Android phone. :D
[Desire General] leoni1980:
Does 'with google' really mean anything or do people just assume it means constant updates? I don't see Android 2.1 on the Magic or G1....I'm sure that they're perfectly capable of running it with perhaps the exclusion of live wallpapers.

Fact that It's Samsung is enough to turn me off, their phones have been nothing but letdowns for me, and that shiny plasticy Samsung 'look' is wearing a bit thin now.

HTC have proven that a device can be better than its competitors just because of the software. compare the Hero with, say the Motorola Dext: the Dext has everything the hero has, a nice build quality and a pretty nice hardware keyboard BUT the MOTOblur software is ugly, confusing crap and as a result the user experience is pretty crap. If HTC had made the Dext I'd be using it now as I love the build quality
[Desire General] pr0orz1337:
dupped, Sorry!
[Desire General] pr0orz1337:
'with google' can't fight against lack of RAM. :rolleyes:
[Desire General] leoni1980:
So basically 'with Google' is a bit of a cludge.

I assumed that the core of 2.1 was transferable across all spec and that the Nexus One's embelllishments we exclusive to that phone. If not then there's going to be nothing to set the Nexus one apart from everything else once more 'with Google' devices start rolling out.
[Desire General] cooksterni:
Anyone managed to find an official date that the desire will be available via O2? I have phoned and so far all I have been told is "Yes we are getting it, but not sure when. Hopefully next couple weeks"
[Desire General] InspectorFrost:
I called them today for my PAC (going with t mobitle)

I asked the woman in retentions dept for o2s release date, she told me 29th April
[Desire General] cooksterni:
cheers for the info, seems like a lifetime away tho :(
[Desire General] The-Nazgul:
S*** I hoped to get it first week in April
[Desire General] niraveg:
latest o2 magazine says towards end of april.