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[Touch GSM General] tally114:
I personal think it has been overheated, buy/get/try a new battery and it will work again. turn it off and get a cooler or something like that and cool the phone and let it for 1 day on your table or somewhere and hard-reset the next day.
[TG01 General] TONYKENT:
Some of the 6.5.5 roms have the convential top bar with drop down icons and the start button at the bottom, others have new icons on the top bar and the drop down icons...any idea why the variation?
[TG01 General] (InsertNameHere):
Yes, whatever you think, 6.5.3 and 6.5.5 have the start button at the bottom, this is the big change compared to 6.5.

As for the icons at the top, i gather you mean the battery and signal, some have coloured icons, other roms have the plain white icons. There is a colour icon pack that you can install, this is mainly to fix the problem with the battery always showing 100%.
[TG01 General] TONYKENT:
Some of the new Roms show the old 6.1/6.5 icon style at the top right and others the coloured new style, why?
[TG01 General] (InsertNameHere):
Top right, yes, white icons are the standard on 6.5.3 and 6.5.5, the problem with the standard battery icon is that it always indicated 100%, this hasn't been fixed yet, so..... many people include the coloured icon pack that enabled you too see the capacity of the battery a bit more accurately.

The reason why, the coloured icon pack allows you to get a more accurate battery reading, instead of it saying 100% when its actually about to run out!
[TG01 General] Nokser:
This is a simple, you must modifi one library....
[TG01 General] nekicowek:
i miss old 6.5 style taskbar in noksers 6.5.5 Build 23569_SPBMS (great, fast rom, lots of free memory). is there any way to make it look as on 6.5 and to get startbutton on the top and to disable pop up taskbar bar with magnifier? (not sure if it is wm6.5.x default or it is added by nokser)?

it makes me wanna get back to 6.5 debranded rom.
[TG01 General] (InsertNameHere):
I think the easiest way to get what you want, is to use a 6.5 rom
[G1 General] TJ Gonz:
Can someone port this ROM to our phones? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=675957 Thanks
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] gemini002:
im going to switch to a htc legend today can i use my titanium backup on my sd card(from htc hero) to restore apps after i root my new legend?
[XPERIA X10 General] mspl:
I feel that the volume/ speaker is not dat much loud as compare to other phone

also the earphone too;

while taking in phone facing difficulty to hear even in full vol!

whats the problem ?

is there any patch ?
[XPERIA X10 General] Mobzter:
i couldnt agree more with you there mate.. exact same situation!

im sure ive seen some audio hack thing which im guessing will help bt i fink we need root permissions which x10 doesnt have at moment :confused:
[XPERIA X10 General] Inferis:
Im sure this is really OT, but for users that are new to Android, can someone explain what root permission is? Is it something that needs to be cracked? Isnt Android an open system?

When root is accessed, is it then programmers can make own ROMS?
[XPERIA X10 General] Evostance:
Get reading ;)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superuser
[Desire General] leoon:
Hello,

I was so close to buy the Desire until I saw the ad of the Galaxy S..

Amazing screen (normal under sunlight), more powerful cpu/gpu.. but its Samsung! and after reading lots of comments they said that Samsung is crap! is it right? Why?

If its only the UI that is crap can I root it and install another room?

So, Should I wait for the Galaxy S or get the Desire?

Thanks.
[Desire General] mancuk29:
DESIRE without doubt
[Desire General] redrazr7791:
It all depends on what you want. I have had Samsung phones in the past and they were pretty good. Those types of responses remind me of students in college who say "Yea...that professor is hard and rude...don't take him!'

IMHO the best thing to do is get some hands-on time with both of them if possible. Even try them out for a couple of days. That is the only way you will actually know which one is right for you.
[Desire General] leoon:
What do u mean by that?

They are the same super phones but with some advantages to the Galaxy, right?

I will use my phone for apps, games, multimedia, browsing etc. (not for business..) so I think both those phones are the top for these kind of stuff..

I just dont understand why everyone hates so much Samsung..
[Desire General] redrazr7791:
In other words...use your buyers-remorse, return/exchange period to try out both phones. Do research when the Samsung Galaxy S comes out and see what others have to say on the forums.

The worst thing you can do is be biased towards one or the other. If you believe what others say about Samsung and how sh*tty they are, then once you actually do see the phone...you will try to find some sort of discrepancy with it (its simple psychology ;))

Yes, the Galaxy has a bigger screen and a "rumored" faster processor. However, until the final product is made and released...the hardware and software can still change.
[Desire General] abc27:
Samsung are fully behind their new Bada OS. They've stated that only 20% or less of their devices from now on will run Android and I only expect that to go down. That and HTC are the de facto hardware standard for all Android devices.
[Desire General] shaundalglish:
Haha you have no clue. :D

Actually, 50% of Samsung phones will be Android and another 33% will be Bada. The rest is for Windows Phones and other crap. :D

In response to the thread question: I chose the Desire, because the Galaxy S doesn't have a flash for the camera.

One (and the only!) annoyance with the Desire is the limited internal storage for applications. It's only 140MB. You can install applications to the SD card, but it will still go down. According to Google, the option to install to the SD card will come to Android 'soon'.

The Galaxy S will also have the better screen I think. That's because the Desire's screen is not full 800x480, because it uses a pixel layout with only two sub-pixels instead of three, which makes it seem a little bit blurry (but really just a little bit).

And last, but not least, I think HTC's software is probably better than Samsung's. Sense (even if you don't like the launcher) is a very useful add-on (e.g. the much better dialer) and I am not sure about whether Samsung is able to compete in that regard.
[Desire General] leoon:
It seems that you choose the Desire just because the galaxys doesnt have flash! even though the screen+cpu+720p video recording and still only for the lack of flash you dont choose the galaxys!?

What im gonna do is to wait till its released and read the indepth review about the phone.

Thanks for the replies goys.. i choose to wait.
[Desire General] Quist:
I feel compelled to point out a few things in this discussion.

First, assuming that "buyer's remorse" is a global standard is a mistake. In many countries, including Sweden where I'm based, you can return products for up to 30 days after a purchase with the caveat that the package/seal is unbroken. This applies to electronics. This means that everybody needs to check up on their local regulations and that of the retailer before you go out and buy something, expecting to be able to fiddle with it and then just return it.

Secondly, calling Bada an OS is a misnomer. It's a platform. A platform that can be placed on many different OS's. To me, it sounds like Samsung will be releasing several phones with Bada on top of their own proprietary operating system until they can either see a clear winner of the OS market share battle or until the OS's catch up with what they want and know they can offer the market in terms of functionality. Of course, where the boundary between the platform and the OS goes is kind of an unknown, but I would be surprised if the Galaxy S didn't have an Android version of Bada placed on top of it - think of it as Samsung's Sense.

Thirdly and lastly, I think there is a lot of displeasure with Samsung among smartphone users because they have a tendency to both promise more than they can deliver and after the first few months of a new smartphone release quit updating the software. I own an Omnia i900 and an Omnia HD i8910 and speak from experience on this front. Mind you, the devices they put out are generally top-notch, but Samsung has a problem managing expectations.

My Desire is currently my main phone, but I'm still interested in the Galaxy S and will be waiting to see what the consumer verdict on it is once it comes out. As others have said, HTC offers a very useful overlay in Sense, the Desire is already rooted (you should never assume a phone will ever be rooted when you buy it, but it's more likely that HTC will, and in the case of the Desire it's already a fact) and, more than anything, the Desire development community is huge, active and dedicated. So at the end of the day, opting to wait several more months just to get a larger screen and a promise of 720p video recording does have its downsides.
[Desire General] NZtechfreak:
I'm pretty interested in the Galaxy S, will almost certainly get one soon after release and see how I like it, so I can give a users comparison of both nearer the time. As per usual I'll keep whichever suits my use best.

Regards the pros for the Galaxy S, these are the main things as I see them, a few mentioned earlier and a few not yet mentioned:

- screen will be considerably better, more battery efficient, better sunlight legibility, larger, won't have the subpixels issue

- better battery capacity

- 8 or 16GB internal memory in addition to card slot

- the stills camera in all situations not requiring a flash is likely to be considerably better than the Desire's

- 720P video capture

- divx/xvid/mkv support out of the box, with certification for 720P avi playback

Worth noting that the last two there may yet come to the Desire, since they have been rumoured to be coming via firmware update for some time.

The main positives for the Desire is Root, more active Dev community, better HTC support in terms of FW upgrades/hotfixes etc.
[Desire General] leoon:
Lets say it gets rooted, Will I be able to install into the Galaxy S the ROM of the Desire, so I can take advantage of the active dev community?

Thanks.
[Desire General] shaundalglish:
In theory, yes, you can. But there will be issues, which means it may not be worth it.
[Desire General] benko286:
I think not, maybe, but different drivers..it would take time for sure!
[Desire General] shaundalglish:
Yes, just because of the flash. I absolutely need it, that's why I chose the Desire.

Other than the missing flash, the Galaxy looks quite good.

@NZtechfreak

Your points are right, except for the part about the camera. The Desire uses a camera module made by Samsung. The Galaxy will very likely use the exact same camera module. And of course, at night, it will be useless without the flash.
[Desire General] stingerpl:
Galaxy S may be better hardware-wise, but..

It's possible that Galaxy S won't have flash (but there are some rumors it will), so that is a dealbreaker for me (the reason why I switched from the Hero).

The other (more important) reason is that previous Android phones from Samsung had almost no scene development going on. Just compare the Dream/Hero scene to the Galaxy i7500.

Last but not least Samsungs support and bugfixing is worse that HTCs (yes, it is possible ;)).

That is why I decided to go with the Desire. If you don't mind waiting I would suggest to wait for the Nexus Two.
[Desire General] redrazr7791:
Or you can wait until the Google I/O Conference...;)
[Desire General] ferraridave:
Hi all, been reading the Desire threads with interest as I'm able to upgrade in July, currently have a Blackstone, and at the mo it's most definately looking like the Desire will be my new phone, looks like a superb piece of kit, but, I need to use tethering on whatever handset I have, and up until now thought I would have to do this on a Desire via USB, because you can't do it wirelessly unless you root first.

Everything I have read here and anywhere else up until I read the above post says the Desire needs rooting to do this.

So, is it already rooted out of the box or not ? I'm puzzled !
[Desire General] vasra:
Comments from a tester of RC1 firmware Galaxy S in an Australian forum:

- much faster in use than Desire

- much better screen (brightness, vividness & outdoors visibility)

- better battery life time than Desire with stock ROM (no hacks)

- camera is only ok

- very responsive touch

Just FYI. I think both phones are great.
[Desire General] r47z:
two phones are great and the galaxy s does have super amoled, altho desire have amoled, super amoled is better under the sun. but somehow i don't like how the galaxy looks. it looks - plain, boring..

hopefully htc will release the update when froyo is out together with some fixes and 720p recording.
[Desire General] -A-P-M-:
The only Android phone I would buy is Google branded or HTC. Because they have much more experience with Android than others, and they are more connected together. Also updates will be much more regular for Desire, since it is almost N1 clone. And community for HTC Android phones is much bigger than for Samsung.
[Desire General] mcgon1979:
yes it needs rooting to do this on 2.1. but.... android 2.2 supports wireless tethering. So the question is, how soon will 2.2 be released as an OTA update to the Desire. Hero fans say 'never' based on their wait for an update in the past, others are of the opinion that the Desire being the flagship phone means it will receive the update ASAP. 2.2 is due out in the next month or two on nexus one. no idea when desire will get it.
[Desire General] abc27:
The Hero WAS their flagship Android phone for a pitiful three months. I am pretty sure the Desire will be no different. HTC release new phones almost monthly.
[Droid Incredible General] Hooya:
I'm using Ubuntu, but I'm guessing that isn't as much of a limitation as what Android gives us.

Probably the answer is "no" but it never hurts to ask. There doesn't seem to be an option in the PC Connection type that would even allow any software on a computer to access the hardware of the device aside from accessing files.
[Droid Incredible General] k.electron:
while i dont know of such an app, i dont think its impossible or even hard to write such an app. there are video recording apps, so all u gotta do is send that data over the usb, maybe using debugging mode.

that being said, i am too overworked to write an app like that and i have a webcam, but its an idea for any budding android developer.
[Droid Incredible General] qmartman711:
have you tried the app ustream?
[Droid Incredible General] elbebo:
The app called QIK is not really a webcam but allows you to stream videos live from your device where you can have anyone you choose watch them online. Search for it in the Market it's free. Just a thought.
[Droid Incredible General] constellanation:
found this, but i can't get it to work on my nexus.

http://vikram.eggwall.com/computers/watchtower.html

http://vikram.eggwall.com/computers/watchtower-devel.html

but it is fully open sourced if anyone wanted to dig into it and see what's going on with it.

I'd think it would be pretty awesome if someone got this working.
[Droid Incredible General] jaewon223:
Ustream.tv has an app to broadcast and another app to watch broadcasted streams. The best part about ustream is that it is also viewable within your Internet browser on incredible. Also for the app that broadcasts it has option to also record what you've broadcasted. I recommend checking it out.
[XPERIA X10 General] pepouwek:
Hallo everybody,

I have already gone through many advices, but none worked. Every solution was assuming my device is rooted, and as I found out this forum, root hack is not ready yet.

Does anybody knows?

:confused:
[HD2 General] jpleveille:
Hello everyone,

It's been 4 weeks now since I own the HD2. It's quite a beast, I love it. Except there seems to be an issue with my device when it comes to sound (anything: mp3, youtube, ringtones, alarms, even the sound played when you take a photo): it crashes. No matter what I do, no matter when (idle or in use), it makes it crash.

I did the test and couldn't have the phone being used with sound in the same session for more than 4 hours in a row, or it would crash. Sometimes, after a fresh reboot, the first incoming message, leading the phone to play a ringtone to tell me I got a new message, would make the phone crash. Instantly (sound wouldn't play at time, or just the first half-second would play and then nothing or infinite replay of the first 0.5 sec of the sound - quite annoying btw).

So I move to vibration only. And tada! No more crashes. The phone has been up for more than 160 hours now and it never crashed. I used 20MB of my data connection, sent 55 SMS, received tons of emails (like over 200), used the phone functionality for about 150 minutes and everything works fine. Took countless amount of photos and everything just works.

BUT! I miss the sound! I want it. I can't use the phone as an alarm when I'm on a business trip! I can't hear a ringtone when the phone is left on the kitchen table and I'm in the living room (vibrate does the work when the phone is in my pocket or when I'm in a meeting, which doesn't happen a lot).

How can I know if the issue is hardware or software related? Is there something I could install to trace a crash and see what is going wrong? Sometimes, I can use the phone with sound for a couple of hours and other times the very first sound would make it crash. How can I fix this without have to return my phone (bought it in China, wish I could get a replacement but now I'm back in Montreal/Canada).
[HD2 General] Shifty512:
is your phone branded? where did you buy it?

LG
[HD2 General] petazaan:
Similar problem

I have a similar problem. My HTC HD2 crashes when i turn the volume to max.

I have tried uninstalling the SRS WOW application but i does not help.

When booting into Froyo Android v2.2 it doesn't crash but the sound is distant somehow. I can listen to mp3 songs but the vocals will often disappear.

I bought the phone with 3 in Sweden.

Flashed with Kumars custom rom.

Please help!
[HD2 General] showman_00:
Solution for sound problem in Android

Guys

Here is the solution. In Windows Phone before pressing ClrCad & Haret disable 2 options.

Start Menu---> Setting--->Sound&Notifications-----> Disable last 2 options [Screen Tap and Hardware button.

Now press Clrcad+Haret or boot Android by any shortcut/App -

Check sound it will be never crash-

Enjoy

Reply if positive results
[Touch HD General] JamesMcL13:
I have been using my htc hd for about a year to listen to music, and half way through a song today it just cut out. I went to try and play another song, and error 0x80070649 popped up, and now my phone doesn't read my card. I then plugged my phone into the pc to see if it was the card, and my pc reads and plays all the files fine.

Any suggestions?

Thanks James
[Touch HD General] JamesMcL13:
anyone? :confused:
[Touch HD General] willcor:
if you can't get a answer ...

then i would suggest following ...

if you type in something like ...

"error 0x80070649 ? " or something similar ....?

........into ...GOOGLE SEARCH ..

you might get some results..or some clues ,as what is means ?

good luck

willcor
[Touch HD General] JamesMcL13:
Thanks for replying,

searching in google was the first thing I tried. No luck. I searched these forums aswell, with no results, so thought i would post.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] cocaman1234:
Hey,

Sry my english isnt very good :-( i'm trying to develop a 2dgame for windows mobile 6.5 but i don't know how to handle the graphic. i tested gapidraw but i'm not sure if it's still up to date. Any tipps how to create a 2droleplaying game? I'm using Visual Studio 2008 and windows mobile 6 sdk. I have some knowledge in C++ and C#.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] jug6ernaut:
Depends on what you build, if u want to do a role playing game u would need some of the more advance graphics systems like gapi. But like u said it is rather out of date. I would recommend doing it in open gl. If its simpler you could always use gdi,directdraw3d/2d.
[Windows Mobile Software Development] cocaman1234:
do you mean opengl es? you maybe have a tutorial?
[Windows Mobile Software Development] noname81:
If you really want to learn OpenGL start with the "Red Book" (The Official Guide to Learning OpenGL) as the basis and then jump into OpenGL ES 2.0 programming with the "Gold Book" (OpenGL ES 2.0 Programming Guide) to see the difference between fixed function pipeline and the "new" shader concept and to learn how to use OpenGL on embedded systems.

But I don't now, if OpenGL is really necessary for a 2D game. It is not so easy to learn... :D
[Windows Mobile Software Development] cocaman1234:
So what would you advise to do? What engine, what guide?
[Legend Android Development] gemini002:
is the legend better than the droid?droid use armcore 7 process and legend uses armcore 11 big diff?do games play the higher versions exp ashphalt 3 plays on low end devices where as asphalt 5 plays on high end devices.can i use my titanium backup of apps that was made on hero and then use it for legend to rstore apps thanks pls answer soon off to the store and its downt to milestone and legend
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] JamesGemini:
I was surprised to find no handwriting recognition in WM 6.5 on my HD2 as I have used this on my previous smartphone for years to write email and SMS messages, so I did a little research and came up with Calligrapher 8.6 which works very well for me. Handy app and works well with just a finger to write with. Cheers.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] tobiascrystal:
Go to device\window\transcriber and I think that is what you were looking for. It works pretty decent but it takes up a lot of space on the scteen and I have no clue how to make it one of the options when you go to select a different keyboard.
[Desire General] anvieira:
I´m new on this forum and need a information.

HTC Desire accepts 32 Gb ? I´ve read on some sites that it only accepts 16 Gb.

Thanks !
[Desire General] b0yce:
Yes the Desire supports 32GB Micro SDHC cards - though haven't got one myself.

A quick search on the HTC Website would have told you that! :p
[Desire General] trackie:
a quick search would tell you that, however for my case I have an HTC incredible which the website says it supports 32gb. Verizon's website says only 16. I have a 32gb mini sd card and the HTC Incredible DOESNT support it even though its website says it does.
[Desire General] dazdaz:
There are different types of MicroSDHC cards, i'm not sure which class or category is appropriate for the HTC Desire.

Hope that saves you from purchasing the wrong one when it comes out.

I think that the 32GB MicroSD from SANDisk will be ok, but it'd be nice to get a confirmation on that or a link...
[Desire General] ephumuris:
Search and ye shall find.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=665140
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] someoneee:
I have a problem with my device.I thought maybe someone could help me.

The problem is that the device stuck at the boot screen (shown in screen) and I can't install windows or something,because when i turn the bootloader mode it's shows that it's connected to the pc,but it's actually not,PC not even shows that the device is connected.

I have second battery,but that doesn't changes anything..

Could someone please help me?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] aphexZero:
More info please!

What Operation System is running your PC?

Is it connected to a "powered" USB (like on the back of your PC)

As far as i can see you have a G4 phone, patched with an .Olip.

You should _only_ flash it with G4-aware ROMs!!!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] someoneee:
Windows 7

I think i tried on xp to..

tried to the front ant back to.