yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Legend General] yellowchilli:
hong kong's has multitouch

i like Android's browser over iphone's but my favourite is still the N900's.
[Legend General] davidwong:
Hi yellowchilli,

wat would be the diff between the Legend browser and the iphone browser as i surf alone this is impt criteria.

thanks
[Legend General] yellowchilli:
hi david

first of all, here's what i've been using: the ipod touch 2g (532mhz) for almost a year now; and the Legend (600mhz) for a little under a month.

differences I've noticed so far:

mobile safari:

+UI feels sublime

+handles portrait<->landscape modes better

+more intuitive

-page reflow takes time

-strange crashes e.g. even on a regular google search page

-NO FLASH

Android browser:

+hasnt yet crashed once

+page seemingly never reflows

+text reflow is pretty amazing

+Flash (lite??)

+faster browsing

-limited to only only 3 windows (hard coded or dependent on RAM?)

-UI not quite as smooth

seems to me its a form vs function kinda thing here..
[Legend General] ohyeahar:
Just to add to yellowchilli's comments...

I think the Android browser is clearly superior to Mobile Safari. Here's why:

1. Full screen browsing. Safari always displays the top and bottom bars which wastes a bunch of space, especially in landscape.

2. Text-reflow is an essential feature, not just a gimmick. You know longer have to scroll horizontally as well as vertically to read zoomed-in text. Once you've experienced this, you will never go back to Mobile Safari.

3. You never (ever!) see the checkerboard pattern on the Legend (or Desire) if you flick scroll really fast on a site. Even on the iPhone3GS, you will see the checkerboard pattern as the screen tries to refresh the content.

4. Tabs start loading in the background as soon as you instruct it to. This saves a lot of time. In Mobile Safari, only the currently active tab gets loaded. The other tabs starts loading after you switch to them. Btw, the maximum number of tabs in Android is actually 4.

5. Since Android has a file system, you can download files from the browser. Other than photos, this is impossible on Mobile Safari.
[Legend General] myglowinghalo:
Hi david,

Just got the legend not too long, and I'm from Singapore. Browser and picture gallery supports pinch-to-zoom. Very well, i must add. Really love the function. But note, not in google maps though.
[Legend General] davidwong:
THanks Bro yellowchilli,

good to hear as this was one of my stumbling block in deciding, ok i will be getting the legend this weekend yea!!
[Legend General] davidwong:
Dear Ohyeahar,

ya i love the reflow of my opera in my diamond, just that the screen too small.

thanks for the in depth addition :)
[Legend General] davidwong:
hehe... i seldom use googles maps as i am using a dedicated car gps as sometimes the connection is too slow for the phone to load the map as i am driving and its don have the turn by turn voice guidance (though the beta version i heard now has it)
[Legend General] r47z:
if u really need multi touch in the maps. download this mod, works in legend with multitouch.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=630887
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] rishishah:
The current FM Radio App is really bad on the HD2 and it does not help that the FM hardware within the HD2 is so bad also.

In my case for some bizzare reason the FM Radio randomly when i am listening to the radio will start to dial the last dialed number.

However does anybody know of any other FM Radio software for the HD2? PowerRadio does not work with HD2.

Thanks,

Rishi
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] SMS92:
Hey, the 'randomly dials last number' bug is posted here on the forums and is known. What model earphones are you using when this happens? From what I gather from another thread this is due to 'bad' contact on the 3.5mm plug which has said to happen especially with certain brands of earphones.

I, however, had this bug when I had the HD2 plugged into my car's stereo via a simple 3.5 to 3.5mm aux cable. I haven't had this since upgrading my rom from stock, though.

(this happens with any audio btw, in my case Sense Music player, not FM radio)

Would you be able to state which ROM and earphones/headset you're using? :)

EDIT: Here's the thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=637502&highlight=HD25 .
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] rishishah:
I am using the 24th April 2010 219XX EnergyROM. It has also happened in all other Energy ROMs

However the headfones are very cheap quality and this could be the problem. Will change them across for another set of headfones and get back. Thanks for your help.

Any other good FM Radio Apps for the HD2?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] rishishah:
From what i see on other threads, different ROMs and different headfones does not seem to make the problem go away 100%... its a bit of a hit and miss.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] rishishah:
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I spoke to an HTC UK Escalations Manager (Mike B) today who claims that HTC UK have never head of this and as he was the escalation's manager he would be the first to know.

Its clear that many people have reported this to HTC UK via the website but HTC simply chooses to ignore it.

I have forwarded this Thread's link to him so that he understands that there are a lot of people with this problem and hence simply claiming not to know about it is not the answer.

I have this problem on the Stock Rom too.

If you have reported this to HTC, can you kindly paste your Ticket Number here. This way the Escalation manager will know that there are a number of calls into HTC that he as the escalations manager has somehow missed. And that his statement of HTC has not had any such reports is incorrect.
[Desire General] Cleargrey:
This is one of those problems that was always there but wasn't big enough for me to remember to comment about. Now it became big enough.

I was at a wedding over the weekend. Priest comes in before the service starts, remind people of a few ground rules and remembering to turn off mobiles. I had my phone on a meeting profile (basically something from my Nokia days - a very quiet beep for notifications and no vibrate) but I thought, what the hell, let me just turn it off completely.

So I did. Phone off. To the inside jacket pocket it went.

Wedding service starts. Bride comes in. Everyone sits. To my embarassment, on sitting I hear the Quietly Brilliant intro jingle. I'm think a combination of WTF and "Oh for **** sake!"

The Desire is waaaay too easy to turn on! It should definitely be a long press to turn it on not a regular tap which can happen at any time. I ended up putting it back on my meeting profile as that was a safer way to keep it quiet. This shouldn't have to happen.
[Desire General] Bandare:
I've thought that too. Fortunately not had any issues like that but do agree. I think this will be fixed when silicon cases get here in abundance!
[Desire General] Raul Duke:
It annoys the hell out of me too.

If you turn the phone off in silent mode then you don't get it when you turn back on but you need to remember to do that,

I think there is an app that does this automatically - sure someone will post the name of it...
[Desire General] Karolis:
Silent Boot is the answer to your problem.
[Desire General] CerB:
please stop, this got to be the most stupid post i ever seen on any forums....

a phone thats to easy to start, ROOOOOOOOOOOOOFL
[Desire General] EddyOS:
would've been easier to leave it on silent than turn it off...
[Desire General] zzleezz:
Hhmmm. Deliberately misunderstanding the point of the OP topic? I read this and sympathised, have had a few instances myself when phones have turned on in awkward situations myself.

Appreciated the answer. Have installed Silent Boot and am less worried I might get caught out in future.

As to the last posters comments - why waste your time and ours if you are not interested in the thread? maybe you just like reviewing form threads... if that's the case allow me to rebirth your post.

"sucks"
[Desire General] Cleargrey:
I was tempted to simply diss this individual but let me just politely respond.

1. If this is the most stupid post you have ever seen, then feel happy you only read post written by like-minded people.

2. It would also seem that like-minded people to CerB would believe that design concerns like turning on and off a device are non-concerns. In the current market, let's be honest, there is a huge amount of overlap in smartphone function. And Apple have shown that even selling a sub-par phone can be successfull when you do things like make a "tiny" thing like how the phone transitions from screen to screen a pleasure.

I'm guessing if you CerB were a boss, and someone came to you to spend time making screen transitions really slick, you would have sacked them.

3. What exactly is "ROOOOOOOOOOOOOFL"? I understand ROFL, but not what you put.

As zzleezz indicated, there was really no need for your post, or the tone. But, like I seek to get on these forums, maybe you can get educated.
[Desire General] EddyOS:
Maybe ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOFL was him falling down the stairs?? lol!! :D
[Desire General] dreamdealer:
download the mute app off the market.. mutes everything.. in one touch, also if its activated and you turn your phone off when it reboots it does not make the startup sound. not perfect but an easy workaround.
[Desire General] ritdaw:
Excellent find!
[Desire General] lambrospower:
guys i installed silent boot too but i HAVEN'T activated itand it does the job. when i turn the phone off it gets muted and when it turns on it does not make the startup sound...is this a bug or this is how it sould work ?
[Desire General] franklinvv:
That's how it should work.

However, I don't think that this solves the topic starter's problem completely. Silent Boot will mute the bootup sound but, since your phone is on, you will get notifications of other events such as text messages, as Silent Boot will turn up the volume again after boot (although that might happen only if the volume was turned up before shutting down). So, you might still disturb wedding ceremonies with those notifications. ;)
[Desire General] zaphyr:
I had a Hero beore Desire, and find it quite annoying that they decided to place the powerbutton on top of the phone. When I put the phone in my jeans pocket, or when I take it out, it turns on the screen and I have found it to starting apps and all kinds. On the Hero the powerbutton was much better placed, imo. Not quite the same thing as OP, but related to the powerbutton, and how easy it is to accidentaly push it.
[Desire General] The Professor:
Only issue with SilentBoot is that it restores your previous settings after boot, so your phone can turn on silently without you knowing, then your awesome ringtone can steal the show instead of the boot music. :D
[Desire General] gingercat:
That works around the sound, but not the issue of the phone being very easy to turn on. The button placement is pretty bad to start with, and isn't recessed, so is very easy to press accidentally. I had mine turn on on a plane - cue lots of "there's always one" glances from nearby passengers... I wonder if this is something that could be tweaked somehow if there is some flash setting for a dwell time on the power button.
[Desire General] Joshhudsy:
I hav had the almost esact same problem! quite embarising at times :o
[Desire General] Quist:
I use the HTC email client for Exchange email and want to try to set the font to the same I use on my regular computer. I use Arial 10 for emails on my laptop, but this client keeps setting emails/replies to Times New Roman 12.

Can't understand why manufacturers can't understand that this is important to many business users, especially since it would be relatively easy to implement in the software. (Another owner and I modified the Roadsync software that came with our Samsung Omnia HDs to change the font with a hack and it turns out the phone doesn't need the actual font installed, it's just a specification line in the html header for the email that gets adjusted.)

Still, hoping against hope that there's already a solution out there.

Does anybody know of a way to change the font of new emails and replies to emails in the HTC email client?
[Desire General] Quist:
I want to bump this one now that we'll be able to get root access to our Desires.

Unless somebody comes up with an easier solution, I'm hoping that we'll be able to find some kind of resource file related to the HTC email app stating:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

That we could mod to something like this:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252"

Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
[Desire General] Quist:
Since getting the phone, I've been using the regular Sense Exchange email client and have been very happy with it with this one exception.

While most of my clients use the Outlook 2007 font standard of Calibri 11pt and some use the old standard of Arial 10pt, NONE use Times New Roman unless their using plain text rather than HTML emails.

An important part of freeing oneself from the desk or office is being able to seemlessly move around without shouting to the world "I'm not in my office", which many interpret as "I'm not at work". Responding to emails in a clearly mobile format, plain text or something that looks like plain text is not consistent with that, so why on earth have HTC chosen to use a font in HTML email responses or new emails that looks like plain text? Without the option of changing it?

I got tired of waiting for something to happen with the HTC app, so I reviewed the user manuals of Moxier Mail, RoadSync and Touchdown. I discovered that Touchdown allows you to adjust the font however you want in the settings. While the header of the last email sent is still in Times New Roman (if you include the email history), the body of your email from the Desire (or other Android phone) is adjusted to what you want. The rest of the app takes a little getting used to, but while different is at least as good as the built-in Sense client.

So now I'm happy to say that I'm able to send and respond to emails from my Desire using Calibri 11pt, the same as my office computer.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] KIBLA:
is there an default (original) win. mob. 6.5 HTC Touch hd?

Thanx.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] xeonedbody:
No...Blackstone was not offered an official WM 6.5 upgrade...a bigger reason to thank all the chefs who made it possible to run WM 6.5 on our HD phone!
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] Fallen Spartan:
Please use the search option before creating a new thread. This has been asked many times before
[Desire Themes and Apps] Cleargrey:
Is there a better calendar app than the stock one? And I don't mean just a widget like Pure Calendar, I mean an end-to-end solution like Hancent and Chompsms are to the messaging client.

In particular, on my old Palm and Nokia devices, I had calendar clients that allowed me to do something that I wanted to yesterday - make an event that reoccurs on the same day every other week.

The applications I had actually allowed further customisation where you could set a reoccuring event to occur with a user defined number of day/weeks/years between the even reoccuring again.

Are there any apps that give this level of control?
[Desire Themes and Apps] Bandare:
Here's what I do............ google calender is extremely customisable. When you are creating the event, look for the Repeats link; change that to Weekly, then - in the new info which appears, 2. I do this on the website calender, not in the phone.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] vinann1902:
Hello,

I know there are lot of similar topics been discussed here but i couldn't find anything similar to my problem. I apologize if i missed out.

I got Blackberry Connect 4.0.0.106 installed in my HTC Touch Diamond running on WM6.1 and ROM 2.03.707.2 WWE. Upon installation, it automatically create a folder called 'system' in the messaging. I am not installing Blackberry Connect Desktop in my PC.

My mobile operator already activated the Blackberry Internet Service and the Blackberry Connect work fine by successful push emails to my Touch Diamond. Every emails are push automatically into the 'system' folder.

The problem is, I can only view the email in the 'system' folder but unable to reply. Once open the pushed email, i can read the email like normal but the reply button on the bottom left is greyed out and not functioning. Hence, i can only received emails but not replying. This is not right.

Does anyone here successfully using Blackberry Connect without any problem in Touch Diamond? If so, can you please provide me some tips on how to make it able to reply emails. I sincerely appreciate all reply to my threads.

Thank you and looking forward for some tips.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV Themes and Apps] nomyar:
You may try to uninstall the BlackBerry Connect again. I am using BBC on windows mobile 6.5 and it is working fine
[Android Software Development] quicksite:
Is there some kind of technical limitation of Android that prevents this most rudimentary of features of a computing device with a screen?

I'm on my second Android phone (from Hero --> to new Desire) and after 5 years with Windows Mobile I not only have zero regrets, I just pity anyone still stuck on WM... but enough of that ... at least there are screen shot apps! I just don't get it at all. It can't be that nobody has asked for one. So, what is the limitation of Android that prevents something so simple as a screenshot to be generated?

Sign me,

Frustrated in San Francisco

Oh what the hell, while I am at it, I might as well show off svetius's newly available YOUTUBE embed code here at XDA -- which -- shhhhh!!!! --- it's a big secret, only I alone am supposed to know about it.

[youtube]xxxxxxxxxx[/youtube]

where xxxxxxxxxx = the video file name in the URL after watch?v=

[youtube]MMfQIzwebzU[/youtube]
[Android Software Development] Brut.all:
I don't think there is any technical problem, I think it just wasn't added to official API yet. Yes, I know it should.

And if you are in urgent need of doing some screenshots, then you could take quite awkward, but working for non-rooters, approach: take screenshots on your PC using Android SDK.
[Android Software Development] DBBGBA:
I agree it should be much easier to just take a simple screenshot. Where can we ask google to add this function?
[Android Software Development] Brut.all:
You could star this issue:

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=6547
[Android Software Development] MrMooh:
I don't know, wouldn't that be a pretty big security issue?

A screenshot app is good for nothing if you can only take screenshots of the app itself. So it has to have access to screen captures of any app.

Now I'd just write some service running in the background waiting for key presses and taking a picture every time. When you type in passwords, the default option is showing the letter for a small time.

That should be sufficient to get user passwords. I would not want software that can do this on my phone.
[Android Software Development] erronr:
I know open home has a screenshot feature you enable by the camera button. Maybe someone can rip the code from there and make a separate app?
[Android Software Development] marvin02:
The home replacement apps only take screenshots of the home screen (OpenHome, dxTop).

You can easily use Droid Explorer on a Windows PC to do screenshots.
[HD2 General] hhy:
Hi,

I am using HTC HD2. I can't send and receive email via outlook. I can receive email to my yahoo, gmail and hotmail accounts. But I can't receive and send via outlook. My email address on outlook are nameatmydomaindotcom but all use gmail servers. I have canceled email sync when synchronising, then chose again to refresh the settings, it made worse.

I would like to send email, receive email via outlook and also I would like to choose email I want send from via outlook. I could send email before canceling email sync. But it was going only from default account.

Can anyone help me please? Thanks.
[HD2 General] MalekoUK:
As far as im aware you cant even edit the outlook accoutn settings, which is annoying as this used to work for me on older phones.

I have to send/receive via individually setup accounts, and then re-receive them to outlook on my PC and sync then over.

I have about 4 differen temail accounts, so this is the only way it works for me.
[HD2 General] hhy:
Thanks for reply. Sorry but, I am not good at using technology. Would you please tell me step by step? And at the end of this, will I be able to send receive via outlook on my phone? Or I will need to sync always. Thanks
[HD2 General] MalekoUK:
no, as far as i'm aware you cant add an account for outlook on the phone, you will still have to sync
[HD2 General] Tomen:
im syncing my phone outlook with gmail just calendar and emails with this settings. All emails from different adresses a coming to gmail then to phone when it arriv.

http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=138636
[HD2 General] hhy:
But I also use outlook on my pc. Does this affect my outlook on pc to divert outlook emails to gmail? If it is just for phone, it is okay. Otherwise it will be confusing for me. :(
[HD2 General] Tomen:
correct they both a using same settings.
[HD2 General] hhy:
Thanks.

I have tried to do it. But on the screen of my phone, "active sync" screen, i cant see any "edit server settings". there are just "sync" and "menu" on the bottom. and everything in "menu" is closed, i can't choose any of them. What shall i do now?
[Android Apps and Games] bonznumber1:
I have an idea for an app it would be an app that communicates with Wordpress and a few other sites... that is about all i can say without giving anything away it would need to work on Droid 1.6 and up with possible conversions to Iphone and BlackBerry there would be both free and paid versions with full profit sharing or source code purchases let me know if your interested by posting here or PMing me your e-mail address so i can get in contact with you... thanks

Bonz
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] HaggleLad:
Hi all,

I would absolutely love to be able to toggle my Android wi-fi connection with a long press of the search soft key. This would be ideal when launching some app that would benefit from a faster connection and would save me returning to the home screen, activating the wi-fi and then returning back to the app.

I've searched everywhere to find an app, or combination of apps (Button Shortcut + something else) that could achieve this but have hit a dead end.

Anyone know of an app that could achieve this?

Alternativily I do have the Android IDE set-up at home, does anyone know how I can hook the long button press (from within all app's) and toggle the wi-fi connection?

Thanks in advance,

Nexus One user (I'm not rooted)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] HaggleLad:
Ok, so I've come to the conclusion there's no apps out there at the moment that will do this so I have started writing my own.

I have successfully hooked the search button and can get a basic activity launched with a long press of the search key from the home screen and within other apps.

All I need now to is to find the code that allows me to enabled/disable wi-fi. Can anyone point me in the direction of a good example?

Thanks, will share my app once its finished!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] HaggleLad:
I now have this working on my Nexus One, needs a couple of tweaks but it's nearly ready to release to the Android Market.

Would anyone care to do a bit of beta testing for me? If so I can PM the apk once it's ready.

Also, if appropriate can a mod please move this into the "Android Apps and Games" forum.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] HaggleLad:
I have now released this to the Market as "In-App Wifi Toggle".
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] raviff:
awesome app, thanks for sharing!