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[Desire General] quicksite:
Hi folks, I would like to ask that everyone go read Post #1... which is totally updated and re-written. Until today, I did not have my DESIRE charged up and ready to shoot video... So almost all information that I had posted, which applied to my former phone, the Hero, does not apply to the higher quality videos of the DESIRE.

Sorry bout that. But please take a look at Post #1 to see an example of the video quality.

Thank you.
[Desire General] slaming:
quicksite and i are currently trying to work out a way in which to keep the youtube channel safe and still have it open-ish, if anyone has any idea pm me and i will try and see if its possible ;)
[Desire General] mcgon1979:
my 800x480 video clips are showing up as 15fps or 16fps in GSPOT video analyzer. Should they not be closer to 30fps? anyone?
[Desire General] slaming:
me and quick site have begun talking and we have come up with some very very interesting ideas about certain things we could do to improve the user experience for htc desire users looking for help. don't expect any updates from quicksites so far the idea is that i run with this project because quicksites is under a very heavy schedule.

this is gonna be a very exciting few weeks for the desire community.
[Desire General] Zackarydoo:
I've just received my Desire, and have asked O2 for a new data plan (I used to be on Blackberry). That won't go through until midnight today, and they will charge me £3 mer MB with NO LIMIT until then! So, I need a way to turn data off (apart from WIFI) as soon as I turn the phone on (it's currently charging). I've read some reports of people turning it off, but certain apps turn it on again.

What's the simplest way to do this please, until tomorrow? Thanks! :)
[Desire General] EroThraX:
Hold down the power button until the menu comes up then turn off mobile network.
[Desire General] Zackarydoo:
Ok great, thanks. Yea now I've turned it on, it's pretty obvious. :)

Is there any chance of an app turning it on again without my knowledge? In some forums people say it can happen, but I THINK that may have been with WinMo.
[Desire General] EroThraX:
I've heard of it in the past but not on 2.1, a rogue application maybe but they shouldn't do. It would be pretty easy to notice if you were out of wifi range though as the data icon would appear in the notification bar, your best bet would be to just check on it if you install any app that mentions data in it's software permissions.
[Desire General] Zackarydoo:
Ok I'll do that. I'll also look for an app that'll show me data usage. I know there are some around.

Thanks for your help.
[Desire General] dpk:
I'm in the same position as you (but my data plan doesn't go live till the 26th! lol), so I set up the phone to WiFi only thanks to the option on the setting screen, and so far it has only connected when I switched on the data toggle. I'll post here if I come across any apps that will connect though.

Sent from my HTC Desire using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
[Desire General] Zackarydoo:
I've installed a program called NetCounter. It doesn't seem to count Wifi with the Desire (others have had the same problem), but for you and I that doesn't matter. I've got it set to alert me if 'somehow' the phone starts using data from O2. So it's just an extra safeguard. Sorry you have to put up with that until the 26!
[Desire General] Ghisy:
I have the same question and I was told APNDroid does it too. Is it better to use APNDroid or the bult-in option?
[Desire General] dpk:
I'm using data counter widget, seems to work pretty well, plus its a big help having it always on one of my homescreens. Yeah its gonna hurt lol, luckily for the first week I'm at home so I got WiFi, but not looking forward to the 2nd one lol

Sent from my HTC Desire using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
[Desire General] Bossc@:
Just add the widgets for network data, GPS, Wifi to the home screen (I've stuck mine under the clock) easy to turn on and off with single keys presses then rather than holding the power button down. I've also added the bluetooth shortcut but that takes a massive 2 key presses to turn on or off.:rolleyes: I've found it useful for saving battery life as well.
[Desire General] EroThraX:
He wanted the quickest way after turning it on, holding the power button is quicker than finding and adding those widgets for the first time.
[Touch HD General] t3rm3y:
i get very bad lag when sending texts longer then 1 sms (over 160 characters) can this be fixed? i have seen lag fixes around but seem to focus on people with large number of texts in inbox.
[Touch HD General] namwollem:
Interesting one....

I have had four WinMo devices over the years, and all of them suffered with this problem. I queried this with Orange (my service provider) when I had the first device (SPVM500 running WM2003) and they told me it was something to do with the SMS service only used to support 160 characters. It was then expanded to 479 characters, and the system splits it into three messages, and sends them individually. Orange then told me that for some reason WinMo devices don't like sending more than two messages at once, so a large one seems to hang as its sent to the network, and verified and checked before being sent onwards.

How true this is I cannot say, but it certainly seems to fit what happens.

After the SPVM500, I had an HTC TOUCH, then a TRINITY variant, and finally a TOUCH HD, and all have suffered from this.

On the Touch (Elf) I even tried flashing different ROMS, and the SMS "hang" still occurred.

I know it doesn't help you, but at least you know it's not a fault with your device.
[Desire General] Naughty_Ottsel:
Hey everyone, brought an iPhone 3G about 6 months ago off ebay thinking it was an amazing phone and in some respects it is, but the horrible internal specs have got to me and now reaching the end of my contract I am looking at the HTC Desire.

I have read that battery life can be bad but I am use to that with my 3G, not even a full charge can last me a full day where I am no where near a point i can charge my phone and when I am round friends I charge it overnight, so am use to the bad battery life, but is it better or worse than the 3G's

My biggest concern is also slow down, on paper the Desire should not face much slow down due to the high processor speed and high amounts of RAM but has anybody faced slow downs with the device and if so when and where e.g running 2,000 apps simultaneously or having the device on for days on end.

This last question may not be answerable but I'll give it a go. Mobile devices have lasted about 12 months maximum, due to my current financial problems I am looking at the T-Mobile £15 P/M contract which suits me perfectly but am not sure whether to go 18 or 24 month, is there anybody like me that cannot hold onto 1 phone longer than 12 months and how do you feel with the Desire, I know bigger and better phones will come out, but do you feel like you could last 2 years with this device?

Thanks in advance

Naughty_Ottsel
[Desire General] slaming:
I'm the same as you but if any phone is gonna last me 2 years this will be it
[Desire General] zMastaa:
2 Years this phone will still be top-range. Phone hardware is getting to that point where the hardware isnt the deciding factor no more, the speed of the 1Ghz snapdragon can already do 90% of the things you ever wanted to do with your phone, HD recording...HD Playback, quick smooth transitions (what am i missing?), with a good enough battery life. the speed of the 1ghz snapdragon is VERY fast so much that the new snapdragon that is proposed to be released 1.3Ghz single core and 1.5Ghz Dual Core (most likely a netbook CPU) just seem like overkill for phone uses.

So if in 12 months time HTC release ... HTC Unbelievable with a 3.8inch AMOLED Screen and 500mb RAM/ROM with a 1.3Ghz Snapdragon......I will feel no envy

And as you know, if its software thats the deciding factor...then seeing as you know about xda-devs.com your almost certainly gonna be on the latest updates. Heck i had my G1 since launch and it never felt a day old next to the Hero...I even had friends a HTC Hero looking at my G1 with a HTC Legend Rom..lol

Note: I will never get a 2 year contract personally tho lol
[Desire General] MasDroid:
The Desire's battery life will be more superior compared to the iphone 3GS, the Desire uses a 1400 mAH battery capacity, while the 3GS only has a 1219 mAH battery. Another advantage that the Desire has it that you can buy another battery and replace it.

One thing you need to note, which is the same as all unrooted android phones, is that currently you can't store apps on the memory card. It's something google apparently are looking to address. This is something that could potentially slow down your device. The Desire can also perform multi-tasking, something that the 3GS cannot do, but its in the pipeline for the new iphone 4G.

Hard to say at the moment until it can be rooted to unlock its full potential. Once it is rooted, many enhancements can be made and many of its current problems will hopefully be resolved.

Taken from another thread:

"Paul Apr 4 2010, 22:21

A quick update - I will have extremely limited Internet access for the next 2 weeks, so there won't be any further progress from me on rooting the Desire until I am fully back online on the 20th April.

The current Desire root status is that I DO have root access in a method that I believe can be replicated on other devices (I have a retail T-Mo device and i've had no issues), however HTC have implemented some rather sneaky protection methods that prevent writing of data to key partitions (boot, recovery, system etc.) which prevent us from enabling custom ROMs etc.

Aside from hoping an engineering SPL (and a way to flash it!) emerges, I do have a number of approaches I plan to try that I hope will unlock the last piece of the Desire puzzle, so don't give up hope just yet... progress IS being made.

P"
[P3300, MDA Compact III  upgrading etc.] b1uedra90n:
Hi,

I am using Windows XP 32 bit. I tried flashing as described in the tutorials and I don't know what went wrong, but it failed at 4%.

It gave me an Error 280. UPDATE ERROR

But below it was written that the ROM size is incorrect.

I don't know what I did wrong. I think I've done the CID unlock properly since it says SPL 1.11.0000

Kindly help me.

Thanks in advance :)

I tried to put up Ferfecir WM6.5-Lite-28005.5.3.0 on my Artemis.
[P3300, MDA Compact III  upgrading etc.] madan26:
I also facing the same problem
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] chansour:
Samsung i900

please help me after i re-flash to win 6.5 now phone off but pda is well
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Rhinoman66:
Bible Reader 4 Demo Link

Here is their Current WinMo reader version links:

Current WinMo Feature Info: www . olivetree . com / pocketpc

Videos:

Introduction - www . olivetree . com / learningcenter / videos / ppcintroduction.html

Verse Chooser - www . olivetree . com / learningcenter / videos / PPC_VerseChooser.html

Topical Bookmarks - www . olivetree . com / learningcenter / videos / PPC_Bookmarks.html

Personal Notes - www . olivetree . com / learningcenter / videos / PPC_Notes.html

Search - www . olivetree . com / learningcenter / videos / PPC_Searching.html

Library - www . olivetree . com / learningcenter / videos / PPC_Library.html

See, its a Fantastic Reader. All the functionality is already in there - just no (finger) Touch GUI.

(Sorry, I'm still not allowed to post links yet)
[Windows Mobile Software Development] ben_duder:
Is this the existing app you said you've seen? I know it's very early in development but it's already very nice to navigate, and the developer has said a lot of new features will come soon. Plus, it's free :)
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Rhinoman66:
Yes it is -I have it - and he is definitely on the right track. I just want it to have the existing features that I know and love (listed above) and access to OT's library.

Re-invention, IMHO, would take too long at this point. :)
[Windows Mobile Software Development] hector_huerta:
I would love to see Olive Tree Bible Reader for WinMo 6.5 optimized for Touch (like the iphone version) I would gladly pay for such an endeavour, count me in.

But on the other hand I don't think is quite possible to do this, the application doesn't support skins and I don't know if the "books" format of olive tree is a standard or if it is a special "unknown" (propietary) format in that case it would need an application done frome scratch and have the right "protocol" for the Olive Tree "books", hey but maybe I am wrong and there is a way, I would really love to have an upgraded Bilbe Reader..
[Windows Mobile Software Development] Rhinoman66:
Who knows - OliveTree may choose to help the developer with the right background since they are not doing anything for 6.x - It only make sense that they would. They have nothing to loose and everything to gain. They'd tap into a market without all the sweat equity.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roma00:
I was wondering if anyone had done this and already released where there is some cool animation around where you swipe your fingers to enter your secret code. Like electricity or maybe those blue swirls from the CM "X" boot animation.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] recklesslife:
Nevermind! Found what I needed
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] sir.ferdek:
To begin with, I'd like to say hello to everyone here, since it's my first post in this forum. :)

Two weeks ago I decided to mod my Acer's ROM. The main point was to free some of the space in memory (aka LIGHT ROM :D) I grabbed a Kitchen from 4pda.ru and after many many tries I managed to extract flash.dio from Football's ROM (WM6.1 build 19949) using the latest xidump. Finally, I edited the registry to make it run in 128 dpi mode, replaced 192 dpi files with 128 dpi ones, fixed some of the graphical bugs and deleted redundant (IMHO) apps like Office, WMPLayer, OneNote, BubbleBreaker :p, BackupRestore, etc.

Additionaly I cooked in CE Commander and WkTask.

That ate a lot of my free time and now I am really discouraged to develop it: recently I've noticed, that in some fullscreen apps like games (Worms World Part for instance) the touchscreen doesn't work properly. It seems to me that the image is scaled up to fill the screen, but there is still "unscaled" a small area where works the touchscreen. For example, when I want to close WWP I cant just hit the "X" button in the bottom left corner - I need to physicaly hit almost the centre of the screen to hit the "X" drawn.

I count on you guys and girls (if there are any :P) that you will help me to fix all of the bugs and make the rom working completly well.

In 4shared folder (url in txt file attached) two archives: one with the flash.dio file compiled by me, and in the other one there is a Kitchen which I used. To build the Rom, use the "auto_xip" bat file included.

List of known bugs:

Real VGA mode doesn't work properly in particular fullscreen apps

Bluetooth Manager - icons needs to be resized in dll files in order to be displayed properly

Backlight - app from Acer's original ROM to control backlight settings in control panel is not stretching to the screen

Apps deleted from Football's ROM:

Entertainment (windows games)

Windows Media Player

Office

OneNote

Transcriber

WelcomeCenter

Changes in ROM:

128dpi instead of 192dpi

added OEM_Tweaks package for registry tweaks to use in the future if needed

added RemoteDesktopMobile - just out of curiosity

modified sd_insert and sd_remove sounds (aren't they too quiet?)

resized some OEM images to fit the resolution

no "Welcome tutorial" procedure after flashing the ROM - only screen adjustment is left (how about hardcoding the adjustment data into ROM's registry?)

Please, contribute by posting new ideas and/or trying to fix some of the bugs. TIA!

To flash the rom, format sd card to fat16 filesystem, copy flash.dio and chain.lst to ACERN300 folder on the sd card (case sensitive!). To run the flashing procedure, hold Home and Messages buttons and push the reset button, then quickly release buttons and hold Power button for 5 seconds.

IMPORTANT! YOUR BOOTLOADER MUST BE IN VERSION 1.24 IN ORDER TO RUN THIS ROM! REQUIRED FILES AVAILABLE ON DEMAND.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Frolex:
I noticed that sometimes while I scroll through a webpage diagonally or in a circle-motion, the scrolling gets locked to only being able to go EITHER horizontally OR vertically. To get rid of this I simply have to remove my finger and then start scrolling again. Now, this only happens sometimes, and maybe it's related to the specific browser (I'm using stock), but I'm wondering if anyone else has noticed this? I've only noticed it in the browser, but thats maybe because that's one of the few apps where you actually scroll both up,down, and sideways.

It's not really a major problem, more like a tiny thorn in the otherwise amazing paradise :P

Oh, and I'm using .14 because despite searching for an update it says I'm fully updated.

Thanks!
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 424aca:
Solution

what is your firmware

solution: flash 2.1 onto device

http://androidforums.com/x10-all-things-root/272949-flashtool-guide-how-n00bies.html

great link
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] denenatse:
go into browse> settings> deselect auto fit pages

sent using my wicked awesome premium xda app
[About XDA developers] vistar:
Hi just a little thought, every year HTC bring out numerous devices, and also XDA's index gets a whole lot bigger, and models harder to find like the old way of just scrolling to the model.

Could xda not split the models?

eg. models pre xda diamond into a subforum like classic.xda-developers.com

as my fingers starting to hurt scrolling with the mouse, and its conflicting pain upon a human being :p

thanks :)
[About XDA developers] rcrawford611:
why not just use the search feature
[About XDA developers] vistar:
yes i know theres a search feature, but im trying to make things easier, all i want is to scroll to latest models (which happen to be at end of the list) i'm not gonna use search feature just to type in touch hd2 and a whole lotta topics/posts come up, i'd use that if i wanted to find something specific.

this is how it should be: click xda dev, scroll to phone, enter subforums. easy.

now its: click xda dev, scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll look scroll look scroll look scroll, find, enter subforums.
[About XDA developers] sh500:
Yep, there is a newly created search box on top right to go straight to the forums you wish.

Perhaps a 'favourites' would be a good idea though, so you only see the sections you've selected.
[About XDA developers] vistar:
i just would like to also say, the new search thing is ugly at top, looks like its been thrown together quite quickly. maybe like sh500 says favourites or even a couple of drop downs instead of teh new search.

drop down1:

Win mobile - activates [1]

Android - activates [2]

drop down 2:

[1]win mobile models

[2]android models

or even better, be able to hide any forums, and it will remember your hidden/shown settings through username.
[About XDA developers] sh500:
The first bit is what they already have? When you over your mouse of the 'Devices by OS or manufacturer'.
[About XDA developers] stylez:
It's really not that much of an issue when you use plugins to make your surfing easier...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4810

16 x 2 i have and everything is well easy to access ;)
[About XDA developers] Simon_WM:
Why dont you create a new xda-forum for Pre-Windows Mobile deivces?

So creata a domain of: prewm.xda-developers.com
[About XDA developers] pdukanac:
'jump to device' search box is working perfect, i dont feel need for any "improvements" , separating models to different pages/domains will make things worse and harder to navigate. maybe it is possible to make per user option in control panel to hide unwanted subforums from index page, but i am not sure how would it affect site server load.
[About XDA developers] slaming:
can't it just be changed so it goes new phones to old phones at the bottom instead of vice versa?
[About XDA developers] svetius:
The XDA forum redesign is launching soon. We'll have several ways to make it much more easy to navigate the forum index. This was a core focus of the redesign :D
[About XDA developers] flyboyovyick:
Is the vbulletin being upgraded as well?

flyboy
[About XDA developers] acidbath5546:
Should change the title of this thread to "I am getting lazier".

;)
[About XDA developers] DaveShaw:
It's planned :).

Dave
[About XDA developers] denco7:
Had to go to the Diamond II forum, went to the top of the page, typed " di " in the " Jump to your device " box and it took me right to a menu of all Diamond and Diamond II forums.

Boy am I exhausted........I need a drink ;)
[About XDA developers] acidbath5546:
Phewwwww I just went from Rhodium to Blackstone Threads....

Pass me that gatorade denco7 ;)
[About XDA developers] korl85:
dude...

just ctrl+f and put you phone model
[About XDA developers] svetius:
that's a good one for now! :p :D
[About XDA developers] matejdro:
Jump to device search on top is OK for PC, but it's not that easy at phone, especially if you have no-js opera mini.

And browsing xda with phone is nigthmare because index page is loading for ages.
[About XDA developers] pdukanac:
my hd2 loads it pretty fast :D
[About XDA developers] matejdro:
Not everyone have shiny 1GHz snapdragon :D

P.S.: just found that android app also takes forever to load forums tab

EDIT: ignore that last one, restarting xda app makes loading fast again :)
[About XDA developers] sbettencourt:
For God's sake ... this conversation is to fill sausages :rolleyes:

Use the side bar with the left mouse button, and fly over the forum...instead of making scrolling...
[About XDA developers] matejdro:
I don't have sidebar and left mouse button on my phone to fly over forum.
[About XDA developers] sbettencourt:
Use bookmarks on your phone :rolleyes: or don't you have that too?
[About XDA developers] stylez:
Bookmarks what are they? :D

Opera Mobile has 9 squares on the front page oh what shall i do with these? ROFL
[About XDA developers] sbettencourt:
Hope you understand now!

​

It's so hard to save the link's adress of favorites pages???? Why do you need to scroll?
[About XDA developers] ady:
A forum which is meant for hackers and tweakers. Ironic to see it requiring hacking and tweaking itself, and people who come here for the same reason, opposing it.

HAHA
[Desire General] hsinag:
Hey Guys.

Are there an Htc desire guide that explains how to put a desire rom on a Milestone?
[HD Mini General] Simlock2006:
i like to Flash Dutch in My English Mini

Any News for the Hard SPL
[HD Mini General] STR0NG:
Still waiting :confused:
[HD Mini General] jlho:
:mad::confused::eek::cool:Can somebody so kind and so good enough to help:confused:
[HD Mini General] sat1203:
ready to donate, have phone from HK, need to flash russian.

Anybody have hard spl?
[HD Mini General] stef78:
ready to donate too for the hard spl!!
[HD Mini General] alnajmi:
count me in for donation.
[HD Mini General] gonzodavos:
count me in for donation.:)
[HD Mini General] nickel911:
You guys should total up the donations ... and then offer a it up as a total BOUNTY to entice a programmer to develop a ROM, I have seen this used with great success on other forums.
[HD Mini General] kenshinz:
You can flash the" offical rom " to change the language different.

Of course.Do it with the "Gold Card".
[HD Mini General] chuinkee:
erm... may I know what is a Gold card?
[HD Mini General] NitroNitrous:
Why don't you guys try the ones in the thread "Photon FRA, GER, ITA, NLD, NOR, PTG, RUS, SPA WWE TW DAN Shipped ROMS"?
[HD Mini General] pierpa4:
because htc mobiles check the "vendor id" burned inside the rom
[HD Mini General] NitroNitrous:
Does it mean those ROMs are only for unlocked HTC Minis or what? I ordered mine today (unlocked) and my idea is to flash it with one of those to change the language (it's coming in Italian). Can I do that? :confused:
[HD Mini General] vulture-x:
NitroNitrous, I don't think so.