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[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jUsT2eXy:
Hi there. I too am annoyed at the lack of development for games for Android. It is the fault of Google and Android handset manufacturers.

However it mostly comes down to this:-

1. Very limited internal memory to install apps on (512mb etc)

Some of the games on the iPhone are quite big. A couple of 100mbs. 1-3 games at that size will mean you have no room for other apps on Android and you will see 'low memory' all day long.

At the moment most people use Apps2SD but as this is an unofficial way no 'big' games developer is going to see this as a base for creating a game.

However new phones coming out have a few gigabytes of internal memory so hopefully we can get things moving.

2. GPU's or lack of one. (Proper)

Hopefully with Android taking off as it is, we won't have to wait long to more Android devices with a GPU (e.g. PowerVR SGX .. .Like the iPhone has) thus enabling proper OpenGL ES 2.0 support. The Milestone has one. Nice !

I want proper 3D games like the iPhone has. So until we get proper GPU's in our Android devices we are still lagging behind in some ways to the iPhone.

Kind of sums my thoughts up really... We need at least 8GB internal memory as standard (My N95 had this 4 years back). So 32GB should be the norm. That is why we don't have iPhone type games & as apps2sd is unofficial people won't make games like the iPhone for Android.

Also the Milestone is relatively new compared to the iPhone 3GS yet the 3GS has a PowerVR SGX535 GPU whereas the Milestone has an older PowerVR SGX530 GPU. oMg !!!11!!!1

That's pretty poor too.

As much as I hate to say it there are some features of the iPhone that would not go a miss on an Android device.

Also we need a music equaliser !!1!1 Argghhh

Otherwise I love my Android phone. Hero ftw.
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] foxmeister:
The MSM7200 processor in the Hero is based on the earlier ARM11 architecture whilst the processor in the 3GS is a Samsung SoC based on the ARM Cortex A8 architecture. Clock for clock, the Cortex A8 architecture is a fair bit faster than the ARM11 architecture.

Both chips have GPUs for 3D acceleration, but again the 3GS's chip is a more capable unit. In the Qualcomm range, the Snapdragon is closer to the 3GS's chip, as it is also a Cortex A8 core, and has a better GPU.

Also, another reason why iPhone games are "better" than Android games is because all iPhone games are native applications, whereas all Android games are interpreted Java - although the NDK allows certain parts of an Android application to be written in native code, and in the latest NDK this includes the OpenGL ES subsystem.

Regards,

Dave
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gr3m1in:
the N95 8Gb's internal storage is different than main storage, that was pretty much equal to having an SD card inside the phone you couldn't change

the external storage was slow and the internal storage was fast enough not to lag but there was very little of it but you could store things on the 8gb memory chip it'd just be slow as all hell

I know because I currently still run that phone along with my Hero
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] riyadhuae:
THX all

SO now my question is : What is the evolution part for Android to concurrence Iphone in the future?

Which base Android is "fighting" on VS android with?

Happy to be french but my English might me incorrect, sorry!
[Droid Eris General] ashertheplague:
Is there a way to edit the name of the backup files in amons recovery. and is there a way to delete the backups. any help appreciated thanks
[Droid Eris General] burdenedreflect:
The backups are all located in the nandroid folder on your sdcard. the first folder inside nandroid is your device's serial number or something, the ones inside that are the backups, named by date and time. im pretty sure you can renaame these folders with no harm done to nandroids restore abilities and deleting them does absolutely no harm

if you want to edit the internals, you need to unyaffs it
[Droid Eris General] TopazAaron:
When i rename the back up it will never let me back up so i wouldnt do that.... i lost my backup because of this :/
[Droid Eris General] ashertheplague:
that sucks
[Droid Eris General] ashertheplague:
He is right.. i went into the sd card went to nandroid and tried changing the names of the backups to keep them organized and it wouldnt restore.. then i renamed them to what they were before i changed them and they restored succesfully.. so can anyone shed some light if it is even possible to rename these nandroid backups?
[Droid Eris General] xllxjustinxllx:
Im sure it is an issue with Amon-ra's program.

Go find the guy and ask him.
[Droid Eris General] Philosophre:
There is a way to edit the name and still have the backups work.

The original name is BSD-20100330-0745. You apparently need the last part for the date and such. I changed the name to EvilEris1.1 and it failed, but if it is changed to EvilEris1.1-20100330-0745 it works. You just need the "-20100330-0745". So "(name)-20100330-0745" will work.
[Droid Eris General] gohamstergo:
i didnt link the thread he posted that in because i told him about this thread and dont want posts in two places. though you could find it easily im sure....
[Droid Eris General] Philosophre:
Excellent, that is better than what I had to do.
[Droid Eris General] ashertheplague:
Problem solved!!!!!!!

I was just messing around with it for an hour or so and I resolved my own question.... You can name the backups what ever you want.. you dont have to have the dates or anything just no spaces in the name... so if you wanted to name it "Evil Eris 1.1" it would have to be something like this... "Evil-Eris-1.1" No Spaces...
[Droid Eris General] CPCookieMan:
You could also (from a computer with your phone in recovery) do:

adb shell

nandroid-mobile.sh -b

It will ask you what to name it, and then it will automatically add the suffix.
[Droid Eris General] vantagejuan:
you get the "run mobile.sh" error if you rename the folder directly under the "nandroid" folder on your sd card directory. you will also get this error if your battery is low or you have no storage left. the folder directly under the "nandroid" folder it is your serial number. if you're having issues, just go to the "other" menu and select "send recovery.log to SD card." then go in and search the recovery.log file on your sdcard for "serialno=" right after that there will be a 12 character string of capital letters and numbers directly followed by lower case letters that are useless for this purpose. Create a folder with the same name as that string (capital letters and numbers only, no lower case) and place your previously renamed backups into that folder and voila! you'll be able to restore them.
[Droid Eris General] thegsxr1000kid:
thank you, it worked for me:D
[Droid Eris General] roirraW "edor" ehT:
Hi! You're in the HTC Droid Eris section of the forum, and the latest version of CWM for the Eris is much older (v2.x).

Without direct experience with the newer versions, all I can wonder is that doesn't CWM have any way built-in to delete old backups?

On the Eris, the easiest and most reliable way of using CWM is through installing the "ROM Manager" app, in which you can then manage your backups from the Android interface. In the future, you might want to consider trying that for your device as well as it may make it easier for you to manage your own backups.

I have no idea if under your configuration if installing ROM Manager now would help you delete your old backups, and I realize that even then you would probably only be able to delete them one by one, which is how it works for me in ROM Manager, and that being able to delete them en mass via Windows might be tempting. I keep four backups of my currently running ROM, and number them. I keep the very first one which is usually after I configure the ROM to my liking without really installing or restoring any apps.

Maybe you should ask wherever CWM-specific support is, but definitely at least in the section for your phone might attract better answers.

Good luck.
[General Topics] nurps:
Hey,

how can i change the format of the date and time in the threaded sms view?

Mine is displayed as 28/3 but i have seen screenshots with day,month, year and the time. How can i do that?

In the sms_thread.htm there is the line "<Inbox:content ID="COMPOSEBODYCOUNT" format="%1!d!/%2!d!%4 (%3!d! messages)" title /> " is that the one responsibile?
[General Topics] nurps:
I want it to look like here:

http://www.reinout.info/xda/

Mine looks like the one on the lower right, but i want the full date and timestamp as in the others.
[General Topics] UnholyGod:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=622520

did you check out this thread?

try contacting the person who posted it
[General Topics] nurps:
This person is not answering me...and i tried the 2 themes from that site..the date format doenst change..so its setup elsewhere...but how do i adjust it?
[Desire General] khyasad:
Hello. Received my HTC Desire today (typing this post on this lovely device) :)

Unfortunately, I'm noticing a subtle pinkish display instead of white and wondering if anyone else is experiencing this?

This is my first AMOLED display and wondering if this is normal or have I got a faulty display and should get it replaced?
[Desire General] cez10:
sounds like a faulty display, as you can see on many videos on youtube none of them are pinkish
[Desire General] irkan:
if you have another camera (or phone with cam) try to take a pic of it and post it. ... it does sound strange never heard anyone complain about the display
[Desire General] Karolis:
The only pinkish thing on my phone is background in Google Mail app. But that's how it's supposed to be I guess.
[Desire General] weirdwilli:
If the screen brightness is turned to a minimum, there is a certainly visible pinkish tint to the screen. This isn't bothering me though as I don't ever plan to reduce the backlight to that level!
[Desire General] Karolis:
I think that pinkishness (now that's a word!) comes from overall theme colors. If you turn it down to the minimum and visit a while page on your browser it won't look pinkish. At least it doesn't to me.
[Desire General] khyasad:
Thanks everyone. Tried the suggestions and here's what happened.

If I turn down the brightness, the subtle pinkish display becomes very pinkish, definitely exaggerates the pink hue effect ...

If I turn up the brightness to full, the pinkish display disappears.

Here's the funny thing ... Google Mail definitely has a slight pink hue, regardless of what the brightness level is but in all other apps, it doesn't ...

So, fellow xda'ers ... should I replace it or not ...? I wish I could say the subtle pink hue doesn't bother me, but I can't help notice it in Google Mail (which also happens to be my number one, most used application).

Really, I need to know whether this is a fault (or the start of this display becoming 'more' faulty) or just something that AMOLED displays generally exhibit ...

Your thoughts are much appreciated, as always ... :-)
[Desire General] irkan:
I would still recommend you take a pic of the screen in "normal" brightness and post it, .. that way every one can see and compare it to their own device (preferably use stock wallpaper).
[Desire General] coolbho3000:
This happens on the Nexus One too. There is nothing to be concerned about.
[Desire General] khyasad:
Hi, will try to take a photo ... I'm out and about at the mo, but will be home later tonight ... Will use my HTC HD2 :D to take the photo and post it up ...
[Desire General] Jaa-Yoo:
Think hue you see is probably due to a characteristic of the amoled used in the Desire (and Nexus One). Have a read here.
[Desire General] brummiesteven:
I get this too I just assumed it was due to the AMOLED screen.
[Desire General] amarko5:
well that will introduce a pink blob then :D the HTC camera problem:D
[Desire General] irkan:
No i think his issue is something different, .. as he is noticing it on the pictures also not only text, ... (text is mostly effected because usually the black and white intersects, thast where the problem appears). however in the pictures, there should not be a problem (unless if this picture is black/white ofcourse)
[Desire General] XDAgeek:
I have this too, and I have two Desires - it only appears on one of them, so not all machines are the same. See my post new post from this morning.
[Desire General] irkan:
can anyone of you please post a pic, ... i would really like to know how serious it is
[Desire General] XDAgeek:
It's NOT serious. In fact you could say the pinkish one is slightly warmer (which many people prefer), leaving the other machine looking slightly blue and colder.

Unless the machines are side by side, you'd never notice. There is probably more difference between your desktop computer and your laptop.
[Desire General] lumpaywk:
i have a zune hd and that is amoled and there is not even a slight hint of pink, so this is not something to do with amoled as a technology in general.
[Desire General] niklz:
Figured I'd post this, clearly pink hue in comparison to the iphone. However this is one of the only videos I've noticed it in

Hmm, cant post links as I'm new,

youtube.com/watch?v=Tbb1b3AXOGs
[Desire General] hrcro:
Yes, just wanted to post that one. I found another one.

Funny thing is that some devices have that effect, some of them hoesn 't (or effect is not visibile on video).
[Desire General] irkan:
check the sticky,

you have to bare in mind that the Desire and Legend have different Displays, different pixel rendering technology and different resolution, if you have found the cure for the Legend good for you, but that doesnt solve the problem on the Desire :)
[Desire General] zorbakun:
yes, may be you are right, but i'm posting my findings for others to try it out, and may be help to identify where the real problem might be, anyways i'd like people to try this out with their desire and post their results to confirm or deny the pink is still in the gallery too or just the browser.
[Desire General] irkan:
check the sticky
[Desire General] chiefmcbeef:
Still pink on the desire, in the photos app :)
[Desire General] pr0orz1337:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oZLxsKji6I

I watch this video on youtube with my Desire and I didn't notice anything. :p
[Desire General] foyrtcw:
:D I just get a greyscale video...
[Desire General] khyasad:
Dear all,

I am *very* happy to confirm I found a Desire that did NOT exhibit any pink tint on Gmail, the HTC page, the test grey shots!

While I am still waiting for my replacement to come through, I have been spending some time, locating any stores in nearby towns to compare my Desire to another.

Earlier today, I happen to come across a CarPhoneWarehouse store here in the UK that had a demo one. I humbly asked if I could compare mine to theirs and sure enough (and witnessed by many) their Desire did not exhibit any pink tint. As soon as we started the comparison, everyone thought I had a faulty device and wondered why I hadn't replaced it already! Ha!

Anyway, I was so caught up in being overjoyed of finding a Desire displaying perfect grey, I didn't get a chance to check the software / firmware levels as one of his colleagues took it away to show to a prospective customer. Damn! And since I was way late for a meeting, I had to leave.

So, my dear friends, what does his mean? Do we all return our Desires for new ones? If we do, will we receive new ones, 'fixed' ones or do we receive previously returned ones exacerbating the issue.?

Needless to say, deep down I thought my Desire *was* faulty having seen other AMOLED screens (Cowon S9, Sony X-series Walkmans etc) and they have all been faultless in reproducing colours accurately (albeit vibrantly).

I am now, even more than before, looking forward to receiving my replacement and hoping that this pink issue truly is fixed, especially now that I have seen one that is perfectly fine.

I will, of course, update you on how I get on (especially considering I started this thread in the first place!).

Cheers and good luck to us all.
[Desire General] khyasad:
I think I'd like to revisit an old theory ...

I feel that perhaps 80%-90% of us all have received our Desires from T-Mobile. Now, it seems like an awful coincidence that this pink tint occurs on T-Mobile handsets and that one of T-Mobile's brand colours are Pink.

So, could it be that T-Mobile has asked HTC to deliver handsets with intentional 'subtle pink' branding? I don't know ... It would explain why when those of us who have received replacements, they are getting the same result ...

Considering the handset I saw at CarPhoneWarehouse yesterdy and that it's highly likely it was an unlocked handset, this might prove the point that it's T-mobile branding we are seeing in our smartphones.

I did ask T-Mobile about this when I logged my support case a couple of weeks ago, but at that time, they didn't know.

So, I will later today give them a call and ask them about this specifically. I'll also try HTC.

Consider this folks ... I have come across a number of websites and applications where true greys have been rendered faithfully. Now, whether this is down to correct code usage (I imply web safe colours in that too), or not, I don't know.

Will update all as soon as I hear back from T-mobile and HTC ... I'd love to see a handset from Orange ... I wonder if they will have orange tints heh heh heh ... Now, that'd be awful! (unless you like viewing the world through orange-tinted specs
[Desire General] christonge:
I have a SIM free version with the same problem.... I've compared it to the Nexus and Liquid and it's definitely showing pink hues. Not happy :(

Definitely going to send it back for replacement.... lets hope I have better luck with the next one.
[Desire General] ItsYerDa!:
I can confirm this is the same with my unbranded desire from handtec, when i download the banner and view it in the photos app there is no pink hue whatsoever!
[Desire General] :
same here. you might want to also test t-mobile.co.uk site...it`s well pink :)
[Desire General] pr0orz1337:
me too!, SIM free version with the same problem.
[Desire General] sikodemon:
I agree, when i turn the display to minimum brightness everything gray has a pinky tint to it.
[Desire General] sikodemon:
Yea, the desire in this video looks pink(er), but only in comparison to the greeny/blue tint on the iphone.

Maybe we're all just so used to the cooler colouration of typical backlit lcd screens that this new technology just looks strange in comparison to what we're all accustomed with.

It's all to do with colour temperature, white light like from the sun has a temperature rating of around 5500k, a burning candle around 3500k which appears yellowy white and xenon headlights are about 6500k and appear to have a blue tint to them. Sunlight is the most natural looking white light to us humans because we are all used to it through evolution, but in fact it is not true white. It is actually slightly warmer than true white which to us may actually look quite unpleasant and appear to have a blue tint to it.

Now, white background on an iPhone (depending which version but varies little) is actually around 7000k which is very cool (cold cool, not good cool) compared to most lcd screens, which gives the screen a blueish greeny tint. White background on a Desire is slightly warmer and therefore things will appear warmer, in this case slightly more red or pink.

Roll in the fact that the amoled screen uses an rgbg layout instead of the conventional rgb means that the phone has to translate rgb colours from programs and webpages into a new rgbg profile which may in some cases distort colours as it tries to match them to what it thinks the colour should look like.

Having said all that, I think that my Desire is the best phone I've ever bought, and the screen never fails to impress coleagues with it's super vivid colours.
[Desire General] ll_l_x_l_ll:
sorry to raise this thread up again but this is really pissing me off.

i have imported 2 nexus one and one of them when you view htc.com has perfect gray " my brothers nexus one " and mine has pink htc.com " only in facebook comments, htc.com "

and since this phone is not yet available in KSA under warrenty. i am either stuck with it or going to sell it used and lose around 100$ on it at least.

its really annoying. for me at least. i cant swallow it and say oh its AMOLED screen in general. my brother has perfect one. so its just whatever ur lucky or not. :/
[Desire General] AndyChecker:
Also agree that when the banners are downloaded I don't experience the pink issue - weird!

Btw my Desire is a SIM free UK one that is 10 days old.
[Desire General] elmoono:
I really wished i had seen this thread before buying a desire!

Mine - Orange black supplied two weeks ago, same issue! pink sites, pink gmail - and more annoying for me i notice a pink hue to the default contact pictures in people - bottom half of the face pictures. So i have the greyscale issue - however when i download the banner from HTC site, and view via pictures it is still pink! Mine varies depending upon brightness set and in what type of lighting i am viewing in (office being especially bad) – i also notice when i tilt the phone at an angle the pink becomes more grey.

Hot happy, never seen such a colour **** up on such an expensive bit of kit. Luckily still got my hero, so despite the desire being faster, i think i will ebay mine, keep the hero.

Having read this thread there seems to be a level of acceptance about the issue - amazed - however some posts here talk of desires without the issue?

So where is it all at now - did you all get replacement handsets, was the issue resolved on the replacements?

How do we explain some people not having the issue at all?
[Desire General] PhysX:
same here

left -> my girlfrieds desire

right -> mine
[Desire General] th3:
Direct PNG screenshots from my default browser on htc.com:

http://db.tt/iR1zyp

http://db.tt/62r80I

http://db.tt/dGxYyb

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- Sent via my HTC Desire -
[Desire General] thejoker-2008:
when i set the brightness to minimum level my screen does have the pinkish hue as well like in the image in the post above
[Desire General] khyasad:
Hello again.

Okay, since I started the post, I should be the one to at least post up a pic.

Before I do, here are my observations since receiving my HTC Desire on Monday:

1. If you put the brightness on full/100%, the pinkish tint doesn't seem to be visible.

2. If you set it to automatic brightness, you can pick it up on occasion, regardless of what app you see

3. if you set it low, then definitely visible.

Now, here's the interesting thing. I first noticed this when checking my Google Mail (my phone was on full brightness). Since I'm always on top of email, I hardly have any new emails to click on. Except today, I very clearly noticed that difference. You'll see what I mean.

I'm now going to wait until at least two local T-mobile stores have HTC Desires in and then compare mine to theirs. I really don't want to get a replacement since I've loaded up mine exactly how I want it.

Anyways, here's the pic.
[Desire General] khyasad:
As you can see, the first email (which I haven't opened yet, has a distinct white background, but the read emails are pink.

Problem for me is that I do notice this pinkish tint in other apps if I DON'T whack the brightness up to full, which of course reduces battery life.

Just have to wait to find another couple of Desires to compare and see how much of a problem this is ....

Is it worth putting in a call to HTC?
[Desire General] brummiesteven:
They're supposed to be grey but I also get a light pinky grey.

I think this is just one of the downsides to AMOLED, it can't handle greys properly.
[Desire General] irkan:
wow, this is pretty serious, i thought its not that noticeable

is yours as bad as whats in the pic?
[Desire General] Imperium:
Legend seems to have the same problem?