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[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] constructorx:
Another damning indictment of Microsoft, there will be no Firefox for WP7S.

Will other software companies follow?

Will Microsoft face another court battle for effectively locking out software developers and forcing them into a managed code playground?

The Vole announced the Windows Phone 7 Series at last month's World Mobile Congress and it represents the last chance for Microsoft to make an impact on the mobile phone market. Microsoft took a clean slate approach to the operating system that resulted in thousands of pre-existing applications becoming incompatible. To hinder matters further, its development policies aren't all that conducive for would-be developers.

This has led Stuart Parmenter, head honcho of mobile software development at Mozilla to announce that the developer of the popular open source browser Firefox has stopped working on porting the browser to all Windows Mobile operating systems, including the upcoming Windows Phone 7 Series.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1597631/no-firefox-windows-mobile
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] vangrieg:
Mozilla Foundatioin (or is it Corporation now?) has been unable to make a decent mobile browser for years despite all attempts. So while it is true that MS is efficiently banning 3rd party browsers by not allowing native coding, MoFo is the last organization to complain about it.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] ramdroid77:
That's exactly what I thought as well. If only then Opera can complain about anything.... I guess they had put quite some efforts into their release for WM!
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Logicalstep:
LOL, I was was reading 3 years ago that They were releasing a WM browser. Nothing has come of that, so why would people care.

The bigger picture is if MS start to loose Other large developers such as Opera, they have already lost Skype. If MS don;t reach a decent number of end users, these big companies won't bother developing anything for WinPhoS.

logicalstep
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] vangrieg:
Opera isn't a large company by any measure, and most of its revenues come from mobile devices (although I suspect that it's mostly Mini). So WP7 will hit their income rather seriously unless the situation with native APIs changes. Opera Mobile on the iPhone isn't possible due to Appstore rules (no code interpretation for apps), so Android and Symbian are the only platforms where they can be present ATM (yeah, there's this Maemo and stuff, but it doesn't count).
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] krjcook:
I think it's funny when everyone types M$. Do you guys think it's cool or something? What are you trying to prove?
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] vangrieg:
You probably meant "silly".
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] elyl:
I doubt "M$" will face a court battle for monopolising the browser on mobile phones. Apple has not faced any charges, and they are much closer to a monopoly on smartphones that WP7S will ever be for the near future.

Microsoft faced anti-competition laws because they had the monopoly on desktop operating systems, and were bundling their own browser with it. They have nowhere near a monopoly on smartphones, and it's likely they never will.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] mazzarin:
LOL @ damning indictment because no FF on a phone.

Get real! FF is not the be-all end-all, ESPECIALLY on mobile phones.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Cipher:
Opera won't have any problems developing a browser for WP7S. Since their technology of downloading screenshots from their servers (they call it Turbo) is nothing that needs direct API calls - they showed it already by using Java earlier.

Now, they just ported it to native code with Opera Mini 5 - but it will also be possible to port it to Silverlight if it worked in Java.

So, Firefox isn't big of a loss, but the reasons in fact are. Not everything will be possible with Silverlight/XNA. And sooner or later some big business client will come up to MS and ask for a NDK....
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] dcarr622:
I personally think this is more related to Mozilla's lack of dedication and experience in mobile devices which is why they stopped developing for 6.5. Obviously nothing was hard about it since Opera's been doing a great job for years, as has Skyfire. Their alpha of Fennec for WinMo was crap so it's better off that they leave that scene. Maybe they will have better luck on Android. Don't know much about WP7S development so I can't speculate there.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] C:Sharp!:
You're confusing Opera Mobile with Opera Mini.

Opera Mini was entirely programmed in Java and runs on all sorts of handsets (that feature Java).

Opera Mobile is a full browser. It's arguably the best browser for Windows Mobile to date.

We most certainly won't see Opera Mobile on Windows Phone, for the same reason that we won't see Firefox on Windows Phone: The lack of native APIs.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] C:Sharp!:
LOL @ you. You don't understand the situation. We won't see ANY alternative browsers on WP7.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] vangrieg:
You are describing Opera Mini, not Opera Mobile. Opera Turbo is also not Opera Mini, it's just a proxy that compresses images, but the browser engine is still working with standard web pages.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Cipher:
Sorry for not speaking clearly.

I am not confusing Opera Mobile with Opera Mini. I've been talking about Opera Mini. And the latest Opera Mini 5 Beta runs natively on Windows Mobile (not Java anymore).

The Turbo Feature is also implemented in Opera Mobile which makes it render pages similar to the way that Opera Mini does.

Though, I am assuming that development of Opera Mobile will be discontinued in long terms in favor of Opera Mini - especially regarding WP7S.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] C:Sharp!:
Still, you don't get the point.

We're not talking about something like the Opera Mini here, we're talking about real browsers.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Barguast:
Didn't you know?! Microsoft actually charge money for software! Actual money, in exchange in for goods and services! The cheek!
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] mazzarin:
Whatever you say! :rolleyes:
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] trinest:
Why do people care? Its a horrible browser and Mircosofts mobile browsers are alright- also Opera will prob come out with one, and they do awesome work.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Kloc:
The browser on the ZuneHD is pretty good and WP7 will be using a similar version with a bit more to it so I don't see a problem with just using their's. As long as the native browser is good there isn't any need to load other ones in the first place.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Lyian:
SanDisk ships 32GB microSDHC card for $200

Just curious what the actual limit is of our Touch Pro 2's SD card slot. Currently i have an 8gig in it, but want a bigger one. Thought about 16gig's but would like to put all my music on it.

Also, how fast can the sd slot go? Does it support class 6+ cards?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Fin9ers:
I believe the Rhodium can handle class 6 cards. but im not 100% sure.

Its max is 32gb.

I was gonna purchase one. But way back when i got my phone 32gb cards didn't exist lol

I've got a Sandisk Class 2 16GB at the moment and its absolutely fine

Pack full of music :P
[Nexus One General] johnnie93:
((IF THIS IS AGAINST THE XDA THREAD POLICIES PLEASE CLOSE THIS THREAD.))

Hello,

I'm going to start using buzz/Twitter a lot just to update my personal opinion on the latest movie,games,android related Applications and games if you like to follow me on buzz my gmail is johnnieares93@gmail.com for Twitter my username is johnnie93

Thank you .
[Nexus One General] SiNJiN76:
Using Enom's or Cy's ROM...(with the Nextheme and Goodies)...the alarm doesn't go off at 530am!

Anybody know if it's the ROM itself or the Theme+Goodies? Or do I need to experiment myself? (I've experimented with setting the alarm to go off an hour after I set it....it worked...but not sure if it worked because I was playing with the phone at the time)

All I get when I wake up is the trackball blinking. I've read somewhere that the alarm turns itself off after an hour...but I wake up around 5 minutes after the alarm was supposed to have gone on.

Good thing I used a backup alarm...otherwise I'd be in deep Sh------------it!
[Nexus One General] Markdental:
My alarm didn't go off today, but did yesterday. I have the clock as ignore in my task killer.

What I have found is that my ringtones somehow get lost on the SD card and not played. I am not sure what is happening!!!

Not cool though.
[Nexus One General] Daswolven:
If you use any sort of task killing application and do not ignore or exclude the clock, it will kill it, and your alarm along with it.
[Nexus One General] Markdental:
Problem is that I ignore the Clock.

But when I go to check the Alarm Ringtone, and press play, it doesn't play anything, just a VERY LOW beep. Worked yesterday, nothing today.

Very odd!!
[Nexus One General] Daswolven:
Very. Have you tried re-flashing your ROM¿
[Nexus One General] SiNJiN76:
I like to push the audio files to the system and into it's corresponding folder. Maybe you can try that.

For me...I totally forgot about task manager! I never thought of it because the Alarm Icon is always displayed on the notification bar next to the time...whether the clock is killed or not. I guess I'll find out tomorrow morning after I exclude the clock app from being killed.

Kind of makes me wish the Android 'stole' some stuff from the Blackberry.
[Nexus One General] Markdental:
Can you explain that a bit more? How would I do that?

Will Astro work?

I honestly think it is an SD issue and yes, I never had that problem with my blackberry. They keep the ringtones on the system memory and you never have to worry about it.
[Nexus One General] SiNJiN76:
I'm guessing that it will only work with a rooted phone. (Mine is) This is what I use. Root Explorer. I take the files from the SD card and move it into the system/media/audio/alarms directory.

Not sure if Astro is able to access the root of the phone. Otherwise I guess you can use

adb push alarmfilename.mp3 /system/media/audio/alarms

Either way you do it...reboot the phone.
[Nexus One General] Markdental:
Got it, and done, thanks.

Will see if this works.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ai6908:
Thanks, I will give this baby a test ride...:)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mkucuksari:
Second Post from me :)

Many Thanks man :) I will try tonight and share my results.

Congratulations:)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] rlatarche:
Works on the NRG MM MAR 20 23548(9) - followed instructions to the letter (although you haven't explained when to transfer over the modified manila tab control file!)

Will keep you posted on any issues!

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] meltwater:
Ok, zip and install post updated.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jneilliii:
This is a great idea, don't know why HTC decided to do their facebook integration the way they did and not treat Twitter the same way (using the people tab). Couldn't you hook into the data and functions of the facebook tab from HTC's interface and not require mortscript/external exe?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] meltwater:
It's a limitation of what is in manila, you can only read from "HKCU\Software\HTC\Manila", unless you are only after a int value.

All the script does (or exe), is the following:

RegReadString("HKLM", "Software\HTC\FacebookSDK","Status",myStoredStatus)
RegWriteString("HKCU","Software\HTC\Manila","Facebook.MyStatus",myStoredStatus)

Not all the facebook function is within the manila files, some appears to be within ContactEditor.exe which only takes two different arguments from the scripts to get to new/specific Contact Detail Pages, then its internal to the ContactEditor.exe from there (that appears to also include "Update My Status"! :eek:).

Not saying it can't be done, but it's a simple workaround to release it today.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ai6908:
Hmmmm for some reason, I cannot make this to work with my manila2.5_20121324 version...still playing with this...so we will see..thanks for your effort.:)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] MalekoUK:
Got it installed all ok, but when I go onto the tab it crashes and freezes sense, have to restrat to get control back, but if i go onto the tab again, does the same.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] meltwater:
Ok, let me know what happens, I'm only 2.5.2012.1224, don't know what changes are in the people tab since then.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] meltwater:
Ok will try to remember if/why it occurred for me during development, 1st thought is error in your tab control file. Perhaps post your ManilaFull.xml file after sense has loaded/generated it.

What version of sense are you running?

EDIT:Are reg settings imported?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] MalekoUK:
manila 2.5.1920
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mkucuksari:
Working with "Manila 2.5 20121225.0_VGA_Amarullz :D

I have just started to play now. I will post more picture for other users within one hour, for sharing :)

But somehow, I can not able to see any items at the tab, just like you have at first picture. "Update now" Button seems to be not working properly.

Many Many Thanks Again :):)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] meltwater:
Have you got any people linked? You've got lots of status icons, I think the hand one is to link people.

Have a look in your people tab -> updates & events tab at the end (this is the source page!), if you don't have people in there you won't anywhere.

The "update now" button is just moved, from menu in the source page, so check it there.

EDIT: Thanks for the screen, appears to be ok for VGA devices too!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] toyjeep:
Working perfect!

Thanks for your effort mate
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] MalekoUK:
Gonna start again later on, start from fresh and see what happens.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] meltwater:
No worries, should be ok if you disable the tab via settings for now.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] ADeadlySpoon:
I have been thinking for a while that I like the look of this phone. Mainly the hardware keyboard, I've not tried the phone at all yet so I thought I would ask here what everyone thinks of it?

At the moment I have a TD2 (Topaz) and as far as I can tell the 2 phones are very similar but I want to know from the people who know the phone best (you lot :p) would it be worth switching?

Thanks loads,

Luke.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] stevedebi:
I like mine. It is a heavy phone, but the keyboard is great. I wrote a review on Amazon (got mine from the wireless store there). My review is entitle "Good Phone But Needs Customization", and there are several good reviews there.

http://wireless.amazon.com/HTC-Touch-Windows-Phone-T-Mobile/dp/B002LITRMQ/ref=sh_br_ph_1

I think you might do well with an Google search for the specific carrier you will be using, and another for the basic phone itself.

Note that I'm on the US T-Mobile network.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] ADeadlySpoon:
Thanks for the reply,

I looked at the link you showed and something that puts me off the phone (sadly, the only thing) is the 3.2 mp camera, which, to me, is too low as I'm now used to the 5mp on my Topaz. But I do think the keyboard could swing me on that xD

I would buy it unlocked and put my vdafone sim in it as I did with my topaz (pricey but no ties anywhere)

Thanks again :)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] wearefree:
I don't know much about touch diamond 2 but from this link:

http://www.wmexperts.com/touch-diamond-2-touch-pro-2-vs-touch-hd

Besides getting a bigger phone you're also looking at a slightly downgraded camera by moving to touch pro2.
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 Software Upgrading] Eduardo Valero:
Hi,

My old Dopod 818 originally showed the following when booting:

IPL 1.00

SPL 2.15.0000

GSM 02.19.21

OS 2.15.13.27

I used "Prophet Upgrade 2.6 - bikertibi" to upgrade it to WM6.1. I selected HardSPL in that program, and flashed it. This worked fine (scary moment :)

However, when I boot it now, it STILL shows the exact same IPL, SPL and GSM versions. Only the OS version has changed.

My question: is this normal? I thought the hardspl would change the IPL or SPL versions on the phone?

Is it possible or usefull to upgrade IPL/SPL also?

Second question: if I want to re-flash it again to another 6.5 ROM, can I just use this utility again, without hardspl selected, and without first downgrading back to WM5?

Thanks a lot...
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 Software Upgrading] aze2learn:
Yup, it's normal because cooked roms don't include ipl/spl (prophet has 2 version : G3 and G4) and radio ... you wouldn't want to brick your device if flashing wrong ipl/spl would you?

However, it is recommended to install HardSPL so that if anything happen during flashing, you can recover the device via entering bootloader mode and only select your device version (G3 or G4) without selecting HardSPL.

ps : your device is G3 because it ends with 0000 .. read the wiki. TQ :)
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 Software Upgrading] Eduardo Valero:
Thanks for your reply. So I guess there is no need for me to upgrade IPL, SPL or radio.

How do I know if hardspl is installed?

And if I want to re-flash it again to another 6.5 ROM, can I just use this utility again, without hardspl selected, and without first downgrading back to WM5?

PS. I know my device is a G3, since I already flashed it (see above)

Thanks again.
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 Software Upgrading] aze2learn:
HardSPL have number like this 2.G3.4PDA (for G3) or 2.G4.4PDA (for G4)... if you haven't HardSPL your device, you need to have HardSPL ticked before flashing. And if anything happen during flashing, your hope is to flash NVID flash.

If your device already HardSPL, you can just redo the flashing. No need to flash NVID unless HardSPL gets overwritten by stock ROM.

Hope this helps.

ps : lucky you .. G3 has more storage memory than G4 :) ... mine is G4 ...
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 Software Upgrading] Eduardo Valero:
So if hardspl is present, I should see something like SPL = 2.G3.4PDA at the bootscreen? This is not the case, I still see SPL 2.15.0000 like it did before the flashing. So I guess I don't have hardspl? But how can that be? I click on hardspl in the upgrade tool, and it didn't give an error message... Or do I need to add extra SPL files for this?

It's still unclear to me if I have hardspl installed or not :-( If it's "no", how could I have installed a cooked rom??? If it's "yes", how come I still see SPL 2.15.0000 at the boot screen?

Any help is appreciated!
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 Software Upgrading] aze2learn:
From what I understand, bikertibi upgrade tools suppose to hardSPL the device but sometimes it seems to just load SoftSPL to the device so that it would temporarily make the device SuperCID? (will experimenting on this) Only SuperCID device can accept any rom. That's why if anything happen during the flashing, your device can only be recovered either by flashing specific CID (t-mobile/cingular/etc) rom or NVID (no specific vendor) rom if it doesn't HardSPLed. It will either reject the flashing process and the device will stuck in bootloader mode.

Since your device still shows SPL 2.15.0000 the answer is no, your device is not HardSPL. Cooked rom was flash successfully because SoftSPL in bikertibi 'tricked' the RUU to be SuperCID temporarily during flashing so it can finish writing a custom rom.

HardSPL for G3 can be download here : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=353547

To flash a HardSPL, the device needs activesync/wmdc connection to load a special SoftSPL into the device before it can overwrite the stock SPL.

ps : I recommend you learn how to create SDcard dump if you don't want to HardSPL your device. This is because other than flashing stock ROM/NVID, your device can still be recovered using SDcard backup :) (it will overwrite everything including ipl/spl/os)

EDIT : Flashed my device to IPL/SPL 2.20.0001. bikertibi HardSPL ticked during flashing only send SoftSPL. Flashing was successful. Still need to flash HardSPL 2.G4.4PDA again after phone boots up normally to make it 'immune' from bricking :)
[JAMin, XDA Neo, S200 Software Upgrading] Eduardo Valero:
aze2learn,

Thank you very much for your help.

Indeed, after using the Prophet upgrade tools and activating "hardspl", hardspl was still not on the phone (so it must have used softspl). I installed it manually via the link you provided, and the SPL value changed! After that, I upgraded it to bikertibi's rom.

Very happy with the result.

Thanks again, I will also try the SDcard dump later.
[Nexus One General] 3Shirts:
I have a weird issue. I took a picture of a car from a bit of a distance (about 20metres).

When I look at it from the camera app and zoom in, it's clear enough that you can read the number plate (license plate for you Americans), but if I zoom the same using the gallery app, it is blurry and you cannot make out the characters.

I don't know why the gallery zoom is worse! Odd
[Nexus One General] faraz1992:
Thats odd...maybe some dev here sheds some light on this...
[Nexus One General] diversificationied:
The stock gallery resizes the original image for display, and zooms in on the resized one.

I assume this was done for performance sake. (I'm aware there are other gallery viewers that don't do this and are just as fast.)
[Nexus One General] 3Shirts:
Any idea of an alternative I can try?
[Nexus One General] Paul22000:
Gallery app compresses pictures

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=625100

See post #7 for a much better app for viewing pictures
[Nexus One General] x986123:
Maybe because you took it at 20 Metres, (20 nanometeres?) and its blurry?

/s, I'm American, haha. METERS!
[Nexus One General] NexusDro:
B&B gallery is a good alternative.
[Nexus One General] manderson8898:
Any one else try to use the AmazeGPS app on their Nexus One?

My Thoughts:

I installed and imediately lost the slide to unlock feature (was replaced with the pattern unlock that had not been set up so I only had to hit one button?). When the app ran It went full screen and hid the status bar at the top of the screen (no big deal) When I switched to another app (look at email or change music) I had to hit the home button then do whatever and hit the icon to AmazeGPS which restored back to where it was. Also the menus were not set up to work with the standard UI controls of the device. The menu for settings was not set to the standard button. If the slide to unlock had stayed I would continue to use the app since it does give a better driving view than Google Maps (3d and heads up while driving not while using Navigation mode).

Are there any other GPS/Navigation apps that compare (free with 3D view)?

thanks,

marka

(yes a bit of a ramble).
[Droid Eris Android Development] binny1007:
Just saw this and I was wondering how much work it would take to get this working.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=637419
[Droid Eris Android Development] nindoja:
Based on what I've seen on blogs and in various other cooked rom projects, it's a lot of work for something that is very unstable.
[Droid Eris Android Development] ivanmmj:
I already have a working patch for 0.3 but it does cause some instability.
[Droid Eris Android Development] GrdLock:
We've already got JIT's running. ;) They're not in any of the public roms/updates yet though. I've been running them, and so has jcase I think. Myself, I haven't had any issues really.

They definitely make the phone a little snappier, and I haven't had any stability issues so far.

Here's some benchmarks I ran with Linpack:

No JIT's MFLOPS: 2.239

JIT's MFLOPS: 3.453

(average of 3 tests each)
[Droid Eris Android Development] binny1007:
Can I get a copy of the patch just to play with?
[Droid Eris Android Development] GrdLock:
PM sent

..
[Droid Eris Android Development] jcase:
Binny,

Come hit me on irc. I have been wrong it for a while now, with what ivan gave me.

-jcase