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[HD2 General] dvigue:
i was wondering who in here has come over to this phone from a blackberry.

likes? dislikes?

i have been reading some on here about the "lag" with the HTC HD2. is this true? all the reviews i read say nothing about it. and i do not like a laggy phone. and disabling Sense makes no "sense" to me...

also, is there alot of customizations that can be done? how about updates? are they common like on a blackberry? will win7 mobile be able to be run on this? hows the battery life compared to the iphone? (that is why i dont have an iphone any more, i cant stand the battery life)

i LOVe the looks of that phone...

Thanks all!
[HD2 General] wolfee:
I jummped the Blackberry ship for the HD2 last week.

I wont be able to answer ALL your questions 100%, but I will be able to help. :)

Lag, If you use your task manager and close the unused programs, then you *shouldnt* have any lag. I am still using the stock phone settings from T-Mo. and I am not seeing any lag at all just by closing the app/programs this way.

Customizing, The phone is still new, and the devs here are working hard to push out new stuff all the time. But the phone is VERY customisable. If your comfy working with DLL and CAB files you can change the layout/colors/buttons/exctra of the dif screanes and apps.

WP7, As of right now.. No. But the devs here are working on it, as well as the Droid os.

While Blackberry has updates offten, it still upto the provider to push em out to the end users, and T-Mo, is the worst at doing so. But you can get all the updates/mods/apps from the devs here. :)

Batterie life can be awesome, or it can be the bane of your phone. lol. If you keep task manager clean, the batterie will last for wat feels like for ever. I ran both of the Transformer movies from start to credits, played on the internet a bit, and made a few calls, and still had a lot of bat strength left. but if you run a lot of apps in the back ground, and dont keep your task manager clean, you will charge your phone 2x a days.

Over all im loving this phone. I have a ton to learn about it still, but it is a great phone.

My $.02

Wolfee
[HD2 General] dvigue:
Thank you so much for your reply. that helped alot.

i just sold 2 of my BB's, so i am looking now at buying one :) i cant wait
[HD2 General] d0ug:
I have to say with my blackberry experience with the one I carry around for work, a Nextel 8350i. being the network admin for the company I work for, and I also work with the BES server software. they can get pretty laggy as well at times. especially when there is alot of background data transfer going on to the BES server.

In the end i prefer my HD2 to blackberry. I consider the BB a good platform for someone who wants something that just works, and arent very technically minded like the people I work with. I can already imagine the issues Id run into trying to introduce the WinMo platform there.

WinMo is good for technical users that like to tweak and customize and can live with or work around the occasional bug, and are able to figure things out for themselves or with the help of a support forum like this

I would never recommend WinMo for someone that requires hand holding with anything technical/computer related. it just becomes too much of a hassle and waste of time for me having to support them.
[HD2 General] dvigue:
great post...that makes me feel better to. i feel the same way, i have owned alot of blackberrys and they do lag alot more.

and i am one who LOVES to tinker with things..so i am thinking i might like this better...are there ways to recover if you play TO much and brick your phone?

also i cant seem to find any screen shots of what the sms inbox looks like? was wondering. is it threaded messages?
[HD2 General] donalgodon:
IF you successfully install HSPL, the chances of really "bricking" your HD2 are pretty low. The worst thing you can do "brick" a TMOUS HD2 is to flash an incompatible Radio (one with ...51... in the identifier string). As long as you stay with T-Mobile compatible Radios/ROMs, you should be fine.
[HD2 General] zarathustrax:
Yeah, it has threaded sms messages. And there are almost always ways to recover your phone from bricking it, unless you flash the wrong radio, like he said in the post above. Just don't flash ones with .51 in them and your fine. Odds are you won't even need to flash your radio, so it's nothing to worry about. Good luck with your new HD2. Its the most versatile, powerful phone when you learn to use it well.
[HD2 General] Reignzone:
Yeah, I was a fellow BlackBerry user. I've had 2 in past... and my most recent device was the BlackBerry 9700.

I certainly miss the days where I'd manage to squeeze 70 hours out of a single charge cycle.

But nevertheless, I am absolutely in love with the HD2. Plus, I've owned countless HTC products, and I'm always left satisfied and smiling...

THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID! ;)

(I couldn't help myself...)
[HD2 General] dvigue:
i JUST got it! walmart had one left and i had a gift certificate. omg i love it alreay, and i have not even started to play with it. Guys i need your help...

what do i do first? updates? how do i know what updates to do? are there any tutorials in here i can read about noobs? i want to make sure mine is up to date for sure...but so far i love it. what a nice screen and feel...

LOVE IT!
[HD2 General] mjaweeka:
I just upgraded from a Blackberry curve, and from an IT professional's standpoint, I love this phone. The ability to tinker, the software community here, multimedia capabilities, and the tools built in (wifi access point, slacker, etc.) are a welcome breath of fresh air to having a smart phone.
[HD2 General] dvigue:
i have been looking and reading, but im getting a little confused. where do i go to find any updates for my phone? i cant seem to find any on the HTC website?
[HD2 General] chvvkumar:
Try this:

http://www.htc.com/europe/supportdownloadlist.aspx?p_id=297&act=sd&cat=all

But, I am not sure whether they are for EU or US versions.

EDIT: Just realized the link is for the EU version...here is the link for the US version....no updates ATM but keep an eye out

http://www.htc.com/us/support/t-mobile-hd2/downloads/
[HD2 General] dvigue:
oh ok, that is what i wondered...so there are NO updates for the tmobile version? is that becasue i already have a newer ROM with all those updates on it? my rom is Dated 2/22/10 and is version 2.10.531.1 (82076) WWe

is this because the tmobile version just came out?
[HD2 General] addicus:
For this to be a smooth transition you must realize this is a completely different experience. There will not be a lot, if any, official updates. What there will be is unofficial/leaked updates that are implemented in custom (cooked) roms. Some of these will be leaked from Microsoft and some will be released from HTC but TMobile USA will most likely not leak any. Don't panic though, because this is why we love XDA Devs so much.

You will need to read MSkips tutorial on flashing HardSPL. HSPL will allow you to flash these custom roms and a few other things. These custom roms will often be cutting edge so read which ones you really want because some will simply be going for speed, others looks and others stability. There are some great cooks around here who actually combine all three.

I write this because you are already panicking on a lack of updates. That's just not how it works here so you have to let it go. You don't find the same OS version on every model like in BlackBerry or Iphone over here. Older models are having roms cooked for them that include what only the new ones have out the box because many of the older phones here don't have the memory or are simply out of the loop for the carrier and HTC. My 8525 was like that. I'm just explaining so you understand the landscape better.

The best way to succeed here is to search and ask questions once you can't find the answers. Most of the stuff you have questions about has been asked and answered before (most but not all). Make sure to read in this forum and the other HD2 forum because the phones aren't that different. If you have a question or concern about a specific program or rom make sure you ask the question in that thread and not create a new thread.

Welcome to WinMo and XDA Devs. Also our TMo USA HD2's do have the latest official updates.
[HD2 General] jain75:
Hope your htc hd2 blows up! The starter of this thread is a joke! He bothers me for two days texting me as early as 5am saying he wants the phone please dont sell, as he's waiting for the money. We make a deal after going back and fourth on text messages. He tells me a few hours later he's not buying because he bought it locally at walmart. WHAT A PATHETIC JERK!! I ^&%^ wasted my time taking pix to send him just for him to take this whole thing as a JOKE! I lost out on another potential deal because this idiot agreed on buying it. BE AWARE of this LOSER!!!
[HD2 General] dvigue:
Great info....i really enjoyed your post...I cant wait to strart learning more and more about this phone. I really lucked out. My local walmart had only 1 left, and i had a gift card so i got it at a good price. I have had the iphone and this is so much better....i cant wait to start to customize it...

Thanks gang!
[HD2 General] dvigue:
I really don't know what to say about this. Did I talk with him about buying his phone yes, did we talk back and fourth all day about it? yes. Isn't that what craigslist is all about? bartering, making deals etc? it was at the last moment when i found out a local walmart had one HD2 left at the same price he was selling it at, and i had a gift card so it was even cheaper, and it was 5 min from my house (for returns etc) so that is why i backed out. I am in no way a "scammer" because of this. sorry, im not.

I apologized multiple times, and he wont accept, so there is no more that I can do. I even tried a few contacts to see if they would buy it from him. I cant do any more...

on a positive, Jain75 was Very good with communication, and answered all my questions i had about the sale. he did take multiple pictures for me like i had asked. I had asked for all of that, because i was sending someone 450 dollars whom i did not know, so i wanted all the proof that the phone was legit that i could get. and he did give that all to me.

again, i feel really bad, but what else can i do? i have had MANY MANY people say "yeah ill buy that, let me get back to you" and i never hear back. at least i told him the truth,....
[HD2 General] dukins:
I just recently came over from a blackberry storm 2 to hd2 April 1. Let me say that the HD2 is a totally different experience from blackberry. I loved how the blackberry managed my business OTOH it sucked for pleasure. With the HD2 you get both business and pleasure.

HTC blows blackberry out of the water to me, at least this hd2 does. By that I mean large screen, plenty of themes, apps, etc. Not the same old tired interface as blackberry. It has NO LAG WHATSOEVER. This phone has all my needs met and more.

Only thing about windows is you have to find roms,apps, etc instead of it being in a central location.

I will be using this phone for awhile, t-mobile is crappy in my area so I unlocked to at&t.
[HD2 General] HotShotAzn:
I carry a BB Tour and a HD2 right now.

The only two things I like about the BB over the HD2 are the battery life of the BB and the keyboard. I HATE the HD2 on screen keyboard. Even swipe blows.

But if you are anything like me, it's all about the Apps (quality Apps, that is). The HD2 is my media phone, hands down (better than my iPhone). The BB is the work horse and back up music player.
[HD2 General] dukins:
I hate the onscreen keyboard too lol. I have been trying to find another input keyboard that somewhat resembles blackberry.

Actually this HD2 can do it all. Give it a try. I use it for my business and media. I plug my phone up to my car everyday for media and it charges it as well.
[HD2 General] tbassiouny:
Dear All

I have HD2 and I need to enlarge the dialer pad so the dialer button can be square like the I phone and keep everything else as it is
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hkfriends:
I brought mine the N1 from a mobile shop in HK.

Unfortunately i don't have their original invoice about my new phone from Google. Is there any way i can check the serial number and find out the actual warranty coverage date?
[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam Software Upgradin] satmaster:
Hi,

Do I have to flash the stripped AT&T ROM before each new cooked rom flashing? Or it´s enough to flash it once,and than flash only the new ROM? :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] baorui6688:
Expert advice

My HD2 is the T Mobile (UK),Error using hspl2 unlock tips,ceitical error

Flow:0000003

Error code:0000004

Description: Bad model ID

Please good people trying to help,

Thank you:confused::confused:
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djchubbs:
as far as im aware that bad model id error means the device you are using is not support but HSPL2.

May be worth trying HSPL.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ClydeB1:
In bootloader mode, what info is shown? The model id is stated as PBxxxxx

Some users have also had luck by running hspl without the sd card in.
[Desire General] quicksite:
Here's my first video shot on my HTC DESIRE: not bad re auto-focus in low-light, being able to shift from objects far away to focusing closely.

[youtube]_SjI-P_I9vA[/youtube]

**** NOTE ****

Now that I have the Desire, I see the problems many of you have had -- which were just not clear to me til I shot video on the DESIRE, vs on my HERO. Makes perfect sense that the file sizes for video on Desire are much larger than on Hero... not sure if there are any Video Output settings for Desire.

But I also got to see that the Camera Mode is very different on DESIRE vs HERO, with a new "selector tab" on the Desire (left side of screen)

As well, the ALBUM interface is totally different, better.

But no wonder all my instructions made no sense at all. I knew Android 2.1 would be a lot different from 1.5 (Hero), but i didn't think it through that it would be fundamentally different for the camera/video/upload interfaces. But it is very different (better on 2.1 as we would expect!)

So much of my original posting here just gets thrown out the window... so I'm sorry for false expectations or any misleading comments. I now understand what some of you were pointing out:

(1) Video file sizes on DESIRE are too big for MMS (and would be too costly as well)

(2) But it also turns out that the filesizes are too big for "upload via email" as well. So there goes that idea.

(3) Thus, the only way to upload DESIRE video to YouTube is either thru the regular "mobile" YouTube browser interface, or through the full-web interface, OR thru a new upload option on the DESIRE (as part of Android 2.1)

If you are in album mode, where you can view your video files, you can do this:

Tap & hold a video, and menu appears... including options like facebook, email, etc.... But the bottom option is "YOUTUBE", and that's the option you want.

For this, though, you will need your own YouTube account because it wants your Account name and password. You enter that once... and subsequent video uploads are "click Youtube and send" .

You then get a tiny thumbnail of your video on the left side of screen, and a progress bar on right side of screen -- standard kind of thing telling you percentage completion of upload.

===== The idea here was to create an "Open" YouTube account that XDA people could use, whereby we could have open access to the password. But that got abused within 1 day of the channel launching. So does anyone have a suggestion for how to salvage some aspect of a shared channel, or is the idea dead?

===== Separate but related: When I created this channel, I also created a YouTube "Group" -- which is rarely used at YouTube, but for those who do use it it's great. It helps collect videos posted by individual YouTube channel owners (account holders) into a central viewing interface.

===== I look forward to any suggestions, even if they include "this idea is now dead". thanks for your patience, those who did post here.

/quicksite

XDAdesire YouTube Video Channel | mobile link

youtube.com/XDAdesire
[Desire General] inkredi:
that was quick after the reply ;) loool
[Desire General] quicksite:
TEST of new VIDEO EMBED feature just added to XDA forums!

Thanks to the genius of XDA-developers.com's new User Experience Director, svetius, YOUTUBE embedded videos are now possible at XDA-developers. A major dream come true for total media integration.

Let's try it. This is a video from the HTC Desire Group set up at YOUTUBE.

[youtube]n0qYjWxvp0s[/youtube]

crossing my fingers....
[Desire General] quicksite:
PLAYLIST of videos -- constantly updated

I am experimenting with the XDA-developers formatting for embedded youtube videos, trying now to see if i can embed a playlist.... vs one video... so that a bunch of videos can be queued into one playback window. So far I cannot get it to work, because the parameters are very different.

The way for you/anyone here to embed a youtube video is with a new "youtube" tag

[youtube]xxxxxxxxxxx[/youtube]

where "xxxxxxxxx" = just the part of the standard YouTube video URL following "watch?v= "

For example: The standard YouTube URL for the video I embedded in Post # 1 is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SjI-P_I9vA

So just the string that is in blue gets bracketed by the new [ youtube ] tag-set.
[Desire General] quicksite:
MOBILE ADDRESS TO WATCH VIDEOS on the XDAdesire YouTube Channel

http://bit.ly/XDAdesire

.
[Desire General] albert_htc:
Any chance someone could record a sample of sounds to show the speaker and ringing volumes ??

Thanks :)
[Desire General] quicksite:
(deleted post)
[Desire General] slaming:
NEW! &#149;YOUTUBE VIDEO CHANNEL&#149; for all Desire users! SHOOT, send MMS, it's posted live.

just been to upload a file but it it too big to email from my device and gone to bed now so won't be uploading one today unless I can compress on device but I'm guessing you want unimpressed so you can see full quality
[Desire General] slaming:
NEW! &#149;YOUTUBE VIDEO CHANNEL&#149; for all Desire users! SHOOT, send MMS, it's posted live.

just done one none of me talking but radio in background might not be able to hear. please follow me on Twitter and sub on YouTube
[Desire General] Wekkel:
http://m.youtube.com/my_videos_upload brings me to the standard start page of youtube when using the Webkit browser on my Desire.
[Desire General] quicksite:
(Alternate upload method deleted due to abuse)

It's easy to upload a video you've already shot:

1. Click the app "ALBUM"

2. Locate your video

3. Click SHARE

4. Select GMAIL. The video is auto-attached as .3gp . You don't have to do a thing.

5. Insert the special upload email address found in post #1

Try to supply some shooting info, subject matter, username if you choose to, etc.

6. SEND.

7. It's uploaded to the channel.
[Desire General] Wekkel:
Upload of videos is disabled. I have no such option under 'mobile' (upload via e-mail not an option), 'touch' or 'desktop' (message that video upload is disabled).
[Desire General] quicksite:
My experience testing an upload:

1. I launched "camcorder" app and shot a video.

2. Then clicked onto the "ALBUMS" icon onscreen: The video/camera icon is at bottom RIGHT. And across the other side of screen, at bottom LEFT is the icon that represents ALBUMS.

3. Click on Albums view, and your most recent video or still shot should be there for playback. Underneath this thumbnail video are menu options, one of which is "SHARE". (Icon looks like a dot at the baseline, with two arrows extending upwards.. imagine if on a watch or clock, they would be at 10am and 2pm (14:00) )

4. I clicked SHARE and got a menu of choices. My first attempt was to select MESSAGES ... to try the MMS method. But immediately it said "file is too big to send via MMS"... bizarre because it's only a 11 second video, so not sure what YouTube believes is an acceptable minimal file size.

5. I hit BACK button and selected this time SHARE > Gmail ... This worked beautifully and so simple! As soon as I clicked GMAIL, it did not launch a Gmail app or browser, it launched a simple page within "ALBUMS", which has the video file already attached (filename.3gp). The prompt was to enter an address in TO: field.

6. I was going to start typing the specially-assigned-to-us email address beginning with "myfam ..." hoping it would detect a partial name and suggest the full address. BUT, when I had added this email address to my contacts beforehand, I gave it a name "upload video" ... So I started typing "upload video" and sure enough after "upload..." it displayed the full address, which I then selected. Then I put something into subject line but not sure you have to. Then hit SEND.

7. By this time I was back inside my house -- it was so simple I had gone out just to shoot a video to test... So I noticed on GMAIL I already had a new email from YOUTUBE with the title: Confirmation of Mobile Video Upload:.. And inside the email was a link to the video. (I also use Gmail's LABS feature of placing Youtube videos inside emails, and it was already there and playable)

8. I clicked the link and came to the XDAdesire YOUTUBE CHANNEL Homepage and my video was there ...
[Desire General] twopumpchump:
whenever i try to go to the youtube page on my pc, i get "This account is closed"...am i the only one?

http://www.youtube.com/XDAdesire
[Desire General] keekje:
got the same:(
[Desire General] alex101uk:
nah it's not just you, i get the same. But thats always going to happen if you freely distribute a username and password isnt it. Someone's going to abuse it.
[Desire General] matejdro:
Idea was good, but it was already aboused. I think for next channel you should give passwords on PM request and only to trustworthy people.
[Desire General] quicksite:
Channel has been restored. Someone abused the "open-channel" concept, and the channel was temporarily shut down by YouTube. It's back up, but the original videos could not be restored. Please post some new videos. See post #1 for details.
[Desire General] quicksite:
(a post with no content)
[Desire General] oursoul:
Doesn't sending video via MMS cos a small fortune?
[Desire General] quicksite:
Yes. And we have discovered that even a short video file is too large for MMS -- therefore, the EMAIL method works.

See post #11

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=6153373&postcount=11

or Post #1 for how. thank you.
[Desire General] quicksite:
Hey, do me a favor -- shoot another one please. The original one got deleted, as did the other few videos on the channel, due to some abuse which is being IP traced... But since you did one before, how bout a replacement?

muchas gracias
[Desire General] quicksite:
Holy smokes, Batman, YOUTUBE EMBEDDED VIDEOS are now enabled at XDA-developers!

Thanks to XDA's new User Experience Director, svetius, who has already made many many people happy by adding new forums to XDA's site, he has now upped the ante by a quantum leap. After all these years, XDA-developers now has EMBEDDED YOUTUBE VIDEOS! .... frikkin awesome!

Do me and this site a favor -- make a donation to XDA-developers to demonstrate appreciation for these new features that are taking XDA-developers to a whole new level!

And now, here goes:

[youtube]QlLaH0xoqL8[/youtube]

Yeahhh!
[Desire General] choccy31:
Darn been walking all around London today I should have recorded stuff.
[Desire General] Wekkel:
Re: RESTORED! &#149;&#149;Desire YOUTUBE VIDEO CHANNEL&#149; Shoot Video

50 mb is too much for gmail.
[Desire General] slaming:
will re create later tonight ;)
[Desire General] slaming:
desire YOUTUBE VIDEO CHANNEL&#149; Shoot Video &#149;Email from phone &#149;Posted live!

just considered you are probably going to need someone to moderate and add info to the videos being uploaded. so I was thinking if people sent the page a message with the description of the video they have uploaded then maybe if we had a few mods for the page one of the mods can change the info on the vid I'm up for doing some mod work if you want. I'll give you my email address if you pm me and we can discuss more ;)