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[Droid Incredible General] seanhassars:
you're not alone. I made the switch to VZW too. I had average 3g with T-Mo everywhere in my city, except at my work where I had absolutely no signal at all, and having no signal at all 9 hours a day, 5 days a week, is just not gonna fly with me. Add to that the fact that we get 15% off service through my work with Verizon and switching was a no brainer. I couldn't be happier either. I've yet to drop out of 3g coverage, my signal strength is always in the -75 to -85 range, and I have a pretty constant speed of 1200-1500kbps which is better than I was getting with T-Mo around here. Of course I miss my N1, and it's gonna be rough when that 2.2 update comes out, but being able to use my Incredible the way it was intended is, well...incredible
[Droid Incredible General] Gimpeh:
I made the switch as well. We've been promised 3G out here for the past two years and still nothing. We even have a fairly large Tmobile Call Center and still nothing. Of course every other carrier has had 3G here for as long as I can remember. I got tired of Tmobile piddling around and I must say having 3G everywhere I got is amazing.
[Droid Incredible General] Lino.:
I left Tmo for the same reasons the 3G service sucked and they were working hard on increasing the 3G service to 4G, but not doing much of anything to increase the areas that were on Edge unless is was a large city.

Too bad, their prices were good, I don't think you will regret the change, I have a week verizon signal where I live compared to the Tmo signal I use to have, but I have 3G with Verizon and I did not with Tmo.

I was up in Manchester, Ca. KOA browsing the internet on my Incredible while no one else had cell service, Manchester in in the middle of nowhere, thats Verizon good service.
[Droid Incredible General] gospeed.racer:
after being fed up with Tmobile's horrid coverage, I too switched. I was a G1 early adopter, and recently bought a Nexus. With the Nexus 3g issues coupled with the already crap coverage, and add to the mix that my employer is set up to get a 20% discount on monthly fee's and I am playing the same as I was with Tmo, it was a no-brainer!

Now if only Sense could be removed....CityID removed....and make the battery last I would be fully happy. LOL
[Droid Incredible General] seanhassars:
you can kind of get rid of sense if you download another home app.
[Droid Incredible General] MadM3rlin:
The N1 is using the G1's multitouch sensor. The incredible is using a far superior multitouch sensor. The buttons on the incredible are better too. You did the right thing. The only cool feature the N1 really had was the noise cancellation, but you can get that from a decent bluetooth headset.
[Droid Incredible General] mixpix405:
Thanks for the info folks. I ordered my Incredible Friday (5/14) and with all the latest news about the back orders, it looks like I'll be waiting a while before I can make the switch...

My biggest concern is the SenseUI. I just haven't liked it in the past. It seems like functionality and flow both drop for me (having used plain vanilla Android since day 1 on the G1) when using Sense.

I'm hoping for root access on the Incredible so that I can, if nothing else, get rid of Sense... It's not horrible (or I wouldn't have gone with the Incredible), but I just prefer vanilla.

Anyway, thanks for your info on switching from the N1 to the Incredible. I'm looking forward to actually being able to use my glorious Android device the way it was intended, with the help of "the network".
[Droid Incredible General] seanhassars:
You can always download a home replacement like zeam or helix and then use a task manager to shut off sense
[Droid Incredible General] cat2115:
hi, hope i not hijack the forum. lot of t-mob to vzw. any from att to vzw?
[Droid Incredible General] rushless:
I was on Tmo for eight years and also used a G1 since it was released. Tmo coverage is weak in KY and 3G is only in part of main city near where I live. I like the Inc a lot, but still wish it had a physical KB for game emulators and Flash game content. Had a Droid, but the keyboard was weak and did not like the microsd behind the battery.

Anyways, I went from about 5% 3G, 80% 2g, 10% Edge and 5% no signal, to 95% 3G and 5% 1X. I have yet to find a place with no signal, which was not hard at all to find with Tmo.

BTW, Sprint coverage is not much better than Tmo, so if coverage is a factor, same boat. Sprint only uses Verizon towers for calls and 2G level data. No 1X or 3G for non-Verizon customer tower users.
[Droid Incredible General] rushless:
Incred also has a few other advantages over the N1:

1. Microsd is hot swappable and not stuck behind the battery

2. Over three times the app storage space and no need to mess with apps2sd for a long time. Also, since the Inc uses the 512mb rom only for the OS and stock apps, no worries about losing app space due to rom upgrades.

3. 6.6gb free for media- not counting microsd space. The Inc would have had more built in storage space, but this is why there is 748mb free for third party apps- the Inc was allocated 748mb of flash for apps.

4. FM radio
[Droid Incredible General] coolfrooddude:
I'm going from a first-day G1 adopter to Incredible. I've been a GSM user for 9 years (Voicestream to Cingular to T-Mobile), but T-Mobile has been kind of sucky. I live in the NY metro area and even here the 3G service is patchy, and even if I get 3G, it's quite slow. I'm not happy that I won't be able to use my phone internationally, but it's something that I realised was a smaller requirement as compared to the 95% of the time I spend in the US.

I held off on upgrading to the N1 mostly because I was bound by a two-year T-Mobile contract and the full price for N1 was too much to digest. I complained to T-Mobile about this, and they made me eligible for a fully subsidised price at their end, but Google refused to budge. Also, Verizon offers a 1 year contract which nobody else does, so that's a plus.

I still don't have the Incredible in my hands, so I don't know how I'll feel with Sense, but looking at the videos, I think the apps look pretty nice. It's only the home screen that I might need to replace. I really hope that Incredible gets rooted soon. :-)
[HD2 General] bugmenever:
Just got the latest Bing app update and it now features turn by turn directions a la Google navigation on the Android platform. I am yet to try it but figured I woul

d atleast get the word out.
[HD2 General] iconrider:
its about time!

I switched to android about 2 years ago and now I'm back to windows mobile and badly missing my Google navigation. Hopefully this is at least half the app that was, Ill be testing it over the next few days.
[HD2 General] hawc1506:
Do you know if there's any way to download the map files onto the phone? I don't have a data plan.
[HD2 General] roblh82:
I have downloaded it and tried it and it works great... I am really impressed with this free app.
[HD2 General] littlebigkid:
+1+++++++++++++
[HD2 General] jakobdroid:
just finished installing this, and playing around for a little bit. i have to say this is pretty good so far
[HD2 General] tricsio:
This is a great alternative to the commercial GPS software in preparation for WP7. Works well.
[HD2 General] rudydb:
I was very surprised on the options availble in this app. Turn by turn navigation read outloud and voice activated searches.
[HD2 General] famewolf:
This was announced in windows mobile apps a while back....the voice search (you speak) and the turn by turn navigation where it speaks is great but I regularly had issues on a recent trip to florida with the app just exiting with no warning...possibly due to not having access to data....seems to me they could at least buffer the whole trip using data at the BEGINNING so you can continue to navigate through deadspots but failing that have your program CONTINUE from where it left off when you restart it.

If it's not crashing for you then it's a very well done app and highly recommended.
[HD2 General] 10507:
Can we use this app without the data plan and can the map be downloaded to sd card?

Thank for the info
[HD2 General] 1quickturbosix:
I actually find that Bing app kind of worthless. Upon start up, it just sits at Searching for location. So I exit out of that, go into maps, or directions, go to "locate me" and it just sits there and says locating, never doesn anything else. Maybe im missing something on the settings side of things???
[HD2 General] jdwrrzmm:
Are you using GPS for it? Mine gets a lock about 5 seconds. Inside, it still seems to know my general location so I can at least do local searches.
[HD2 General] addicus:
I downloaded it about 5 days ago and it gives me the same crappy, incorrect directions that Google Maps does except the phone talks to me so it's definitely a keeper! Works with my bluetooth stereo headsets also.
[HD2 General] jdwrrzmm:
And it absolutely refuses to reroute you the way you want to go. Do a U-turn, do a U-turn, do a U-turn. Just reroute me on this street, dammit!
[HD2 General] famewolf:
Interesting...I had the opposite problem....mine would yell out "Rerouting" as I'm pulling into the parking lot of the destination. ;)

They need to:

1) Give a beep when the program is exiting so you know it died.

2) Offer to resume from where you were when app is restarted

3) Cache entire trip at beginning so that area's of poor coverage would continue to work. Update this cache when rerouting.

4) Change "Prepare to turn Left/Right" to "Prepare to turn Left/right at XXX Street"
[HD2 General] daemonfly:
Not entirely impressed with it. For a free app, I think Waze is better, but Waze's performance depends heavily on whether there's other active Wazers in your area, and good area managers, so results may vary. Being an area manager for my local city does help a bit though ;)
[HD2 General] addicus:
I used it yesterday in LA. It did a great job of not only getting me where I wanted to but rerouting me immediately at the 2 detours and 1 stop I made on the way. I'm warming up to it!
[HD2 General] Phantoms:
I found it very slow to update my position as I drove. Finally just deleted it. Google maps works much better, faster and stays locked to my position whereas bing would update slowly making the cursor jump constantly.

I do wish Google maps would add rerouting.
[HD2 General] Phantoms:
BTW, I see that Google Maps supports voice turn by turn with Android phones. My guess is it will eventually be available to WM phones too.
[HD2 General] 420soljah808:
bing worked for me im in hawaii maybe it depends where you live? not sure but its a keeper for me better than copilot and telenav i miss google maps on my g1 but this is good for now and you cant beat the price
[HD2 General] refuse2bstopped:
If this is at least as good as google maps with turn by turn it should be nice. Will try it out
[HD2 General] addicus:
Will never happen. Bing will do it for WM phones and GM will do it for Android phones since each program is owned by the OS creator. The great thing is Apple is left out in the cold!!!
[HD2 General] Phantoms:
I don't know. Google could care less that Bing is Microsoft and WM is Microsoft. All they see is market share they could be losing by letting Bing have the WM maps market.
[HD2 General] joeram:
works well for me in houston, it is the closest thing to poynt that i used on black berry, it sometimes cant locate me but if i tell it to track me with gps it finds me and i can search from there. the voice search command works near flawlessly as i call out business' that i am seaching for.
[HD2 General] addicus:
I must say the more I use it the more I like it.

Also Phantom I disagree. Google having voice command features on Google Maps for Android only is a great selling point for them. I don't see this feature coming to Apple, Palm, Blackberry or Windows Phones without a large sum of money going Googles way.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rpierce:
I tried doing the 1.56 ruu downgrade after rooting. It erased my rom and started flashing. It made to 90 something percent then said the files were missing or corrupt. What do I do to finish the install because i cant boot it. Its stuck on htc screen and i have downloaded the ruu multiple times and it keeps saying the same thing. please help
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dfbonney:
Here...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=654119
[Touch Cruise Android Development] kamol.s:
Is it possible to install a2sd on polaris.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] aitsch:
apps2sd is not necessary. when you flash android (to sd or nand) you can decide to put all data on an sd partition.

aitsch
[Touch Cruise Android Development] kamol.s:
at the Android Installer. i choose Sys on NAND and Data on SDCard Partition prompt will display Invalid argrument.

How to install Data on SDCard?

(Sorry if i write in english but now very well)
[Touch Cruise Android Development] l1q1d:
How do you format sd card?
[Touch Cruise Android Development] kamol.s:
Format 1 Partition FAT32 in sdcard root path have /andboot
[Touch Cruise Android Development] kamol.s:
I explained how to install the following.

1. FLASH THE ANDROID OS LOADER TO NAND.

2. Copy this androidinstall.tar under a folder named andboot at the top level of your SD Card.

3. When you're done flashing, your device will boot.

4. to start the Android Installer.

5. I selected System on NAND, Data on SDCard.

prompt displayed "unmounted invalid data argrument"
[Touch Cruise Android Development] l1q1d:
you must create a ext3 data partition on your sd card so ad this to your how-to

0. create 2 partition on sd:

1 -> Fat32

2-> ext3

and then continue with your list...
[Touch Cruise Android Development] kamol.s:
Thanks a lot for your reply to me.
[Touch Cruise Android Development] chourmovs:
Are you sure of that ?

this method doesn't work for me with last dzo kernel and incubus RLS5

doest ext3 has to be logical or primary ?
[Touch Cruise Android Development] l1q1d:
Yes, i'm sure, format your sd card with 2 primary partition. The former will contain the installation files (Fat32) the latter will br you data partition (ext3)
[Touch Cruise Android Development] kamol.s:
3 Partition on SD Card (All primary)

1. FAT32

2. ext2 (system)

3. ext2 (data)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] edmi:
hey all

im still not that familiar with the htc hd2 , and i would like to ask a question regarding the next thread :

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=589305

"when trying to run the program , im getting the next error msg :

MissingMethodException

this application requires a mewer version of microsoft Net compact framework than the version installed on this device . "

i was trying to get some answers from google , but couldnt also passed on ~30 comment pages of the original thread.

i havent changed anything - manila , rom - all "original" from the shop.

can u help me ?

thnak you.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] sniper-wolf:
Just install this .cab first mate.

Hope this helps. :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] edmi:
yes it did sniper

thank u very much :)

have a great day.
[Android Software Development] AndyCr15:
I want to be able to set up a series of menu's, at the end of selections it then links to an image, like a jpg or pdf perhaps.

Let me put it in a context. Maybe as a playbook viewer (American Football). I start with 'Offence' and 'Defence' as my options, which ever I choose takes me to a list of formations, then to 'Pass' or 'Run' then a list of plays. When I select a play if shows an image of the play.

Another might be job descriptions. I select the level 'manager', 'assistant' etc, then the section and then it shows a job description as an image or I guess text.

I think there are probably quite a few uses for this. I know I could set this up with basically web pages stored locally on my phone, but it would be kinda cool to have some smooth swooshing animations and such.

I'm wondering if it should initially be a desktop application so you can link up the menu's and images and it then compiles an apk for you?

Is this possible?
[Android Software Development] tonycoyle:
More generically...

What you're describing is a hierarchical database.

You need a tree manager app - where all your 'menu items' and subordinates are simply nodes and leaves of the tree.

A generic app would allow nodes/leaves to be 'textual', iconified, or pictures.

I haven't done any searches... but given that iconified list views, and cursored SQL queries are part of the standard package.... I'd think this would be relatively straightforward to both develop (app to add nodes/subnodes, builf the tree, enter/import the content) ship (app to serialize the database config+data, as a psuedo-app) and deploy (load a serialized db, execute it)

I'm a noob at android & at Java - but I might take a crack at something if I ever find time (my job & family don't leave a lot of time for anything else)
[HD2 General] jusD:
I have been trying for a while to do this but no solution, I want to load all my music files into one big playlist and play randomly, random i can do but i dont seem to be able to add all my files, is there a search function in mortplayer, can you add a folder or just individual files ???????

D.
[HD2 General] ephestione:
quite easy, as long as you have all your music under one big folder, let's say \Storage Card\Music, like me.

Make your favourite that folder, byt going to Open>Manage Favourites, and you're done, after that you just need to select your Music folder that will automatically appear on the Open menu, and press Select right after that. Be sure to activate Shuffle in the play dialogue.

If it helps I use the Steel skin (or a name like that) which in my opinion is the cleanest one.
[HD2 General] jusD:
cheers !

you the man !
[HD2 General] miffy93:
Yesterday my phone locked me out, after charging it wouldn't accept my password & I had to do a hard reset.

Most of my utils/progs etc were installed to my memory card & I can use file manager to locate them & run them by running the exe file.

Is there any way of getting them onto the main screen without having to delete & then reinstall them - it looks like it's just the program shortcuts which haved been deleted.

Is it possibe to make new shortcuts & place them on the 'start' screen?

I read in a similar post that pocket mechanic might do something like this - would it, or is there another way?

Thanks.
[HD2 General] damnshah:
just use resco file explorer...go into your memory card directory and copy the exe, then go to my device>windows>start menu>programs...then press right soft key menu>edit>paste shortcut
[HD2 General] bRkiX:
future tip:

get spb backup application, and back everything up every week or so.
[HD2 General] miffy93:
Nice one, thanks for the help both of you.
[HD2 General] da_prophit:
Search the net for a free program called shortcutcreator i think i got it from one of the pocket pc freeware sites. It does what your looking for scans your card for applications then creates shortcuts in your program folder.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fryguy88:
Just wondering if anyone has anything (good/bad) to report about the OTA update. Figure this would be a good place to post those issues for the people who are still hesitant about updating. I have the 2.1 v3 non-root and have yet to update. Thanks.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jester369:
Having issues with 2.1 I can't find ANY HTC widgets. Tried to reload the digital clock with the weather app at the bottom and realized the phone doesn't have any HTC widgets, only shows the android native widgets. Anybody else having this problem, got any advice how to solve this?
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gehrc:
I just manually updated to 2.1 (Official) and now my weather app doesn't work. Widgets are ok, just opening the app causes a force close. Any way to fix this? Might call customer support tomorrow and tell them the OTA got to me and it won't work now.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] y3ahright:
From what I've seen around a reboot might fix that if you haven't tried that already

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[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gehrc:
Haha thanks, but I've tried it several times. Also, the recovery doesn't work with the official update.zip. I'm assuming that it's because the versions are the same, but if it says RECOVERY then I'm wondering why it won't RECOVER like I'm trying to do now. Any other ways to reinstall the OTA?
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] semmtexx:
I manually updated my wife's around 10 am today and about 3 hours ago, she started havin no sound issues. couldnt hear through the earpiece, phone vibrates instead of rings, speaker will not play volume. I have tried everything. Making sure all settings are in place like volume TTY. Reboot fixes it for about five minutes then right back to the same thing. Hard resetting now. If it still does it I'll probably take it in and demand a new one i guess...lol

EDIT: Should I have to reprogram on a hard reset after this update? Hmm somethings not right about that...
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mentorkyrom:
Ive had no problems with the OTA. I went from stock 1.5 to OTA 2.1
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] orkillakilla:
It seems that people with leaked 2.1 v3 won't get the ota. My friend has an Eris with 1.5 and just got

it but I didn't.

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[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lifyre:
I don't think anyone who is running any leaked version is getting an update right now. There is an issue with the hboot versions it seems.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DigitalMD:
Don't worry, two things have been confirmed.

First the OTA will not work with the leaked ROMs installed.

Second, the OTA is exactly the same as the 2.1 leak v3.

This was confirmed on Android forum by someone that took the time to compare every single file and CRC the binaries. The only difference was that the leaked ROMs use a different bootloader to install as they did and the actual OS and apps are exactly the same so if you got leak v3 you got the OTA.

The OTA won't install because you are already running it.

:eek:
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gsnowiii:
if you have rooted 2.1 (test keys) and you downgrade to back to 1.5 any one if this will allow you to get the OTA update? i installed the rooted 2.1 (test keys) but never installed a custom ROM (the second half of the directions on XDA forum) and I still haven't received the update. but I was thinking of downgrading to 1.5 to see if i can get the update.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jrbourque:
anyone having problems with live wallpapers on 2.1? or was this not included with the 2.1 for eris?
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] turboguy:
Unfortunately it wasn't included.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kingofyo1:
just found out about 2.1 this morning...

I'm a verizon rep for an authorized premium retailer, and one of my customers came up to me today with her eris complaining about all her contacts being gone and her album not being there... her exact words: "What happened??? I clicked the update thingy and now half my ****'s gone!" Personally I laughed slightly, then checked the software version, found it updated to 2.1 and figured the deal. Her sound is working fine, she now has a couple more widgets she wont know how to operate, and albums is now "photos", and contacts is now "People". also required a resync to get her contacts back, but now she's golden.

-vzw rep in MS
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jrbourque:
thanks for the info
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jester369:
Quick question about TaskBar (process killer) widget. Anybody know how to program it to ignore certain processes? Like sense... I tried using it but it killed sense every time. Along with mail and the weather process, which I don't care so much about, waiting for sense to reboot every time is a serious pita though...