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[HD2 General] d0ug:
Has anyone else noticed the background blurring/dithering that HTC Sense seems to be doing? I didn't really notice this using the stock wallpapers, but when i loaded a custom somewhat detailed wallpaper I noticed this, and now notice it using the stock wallpapers as well.

If you have the HD2 at the lock screen the wallpaper looks nice and sharp. As soon as you unlock the device and are sitting at the Sense home screen, you will notice that the wallpaper looks slightly blurred. Looking closely it actually looks like some kind of dithering is going on. You can see the dithering clearer using some of the stock wallpapers with large sections of solid color.

I have attached 2 pics taken with my digicam showing the difference with the wallpaper I 1st noticed this problem with.

Edit:

A little more info. this is with the stock shipping ROM on the TMO HD2, I have not upgraded it because of some of the usability issues i've read about. I would be interested if the newer ROM does or does not do this as well. I've also included the particular wallpaper
[HD2 General] ryan562:
i notice the same exact thing on my hd2 with the latest/updated 2.13 rom.
[HD2 General] sirphunkee:
That's exactly the issue that HDWalls was built to work around. Find an HDWall cab that will work with your sense/WM version, (I'll make you one if you need), and you'll see the difference once you install it.
[HD2 General] ryan562:
thanks. do you happen to have a link or how-to in getting it to work? i actually tried the hdwalls a few months ago but i ended up messing up SENSE and had to do a hard reset. i didn't know where i went wrong in trying to install some custom wallpaper .cabs
[HD2 General] DECIM8:
I had some problems that seemed to be with earlier versions of Co0kies home tab (1.6?) and HDwalls that made me have to hard reset as well. HDwalls and 1.71 seem to play perfectly well together.
[HD2 General] sirphunkee:
Well the settings that HDW uses are specific to the exact WM and Sense versions you're running, so using a cab for the wrong versions can cause all kinds of weirdness.

I'll be happy to give you a hand getting used to making your own cabs with the app if you want....do you have an image you'd like to start with?

(and no, there's no real tutorial on it yet, other than the basics that are covered in the app's original thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=503511.)

Also some versions of sense require that you run the HQ patch in addition to the wallpaper cab itself, just fyi ;)
[HD2 General] ryan562:
i think that may have happened to me, thanks. i just updated to 1.71 this past month.
[HD2 General] ryan562:
Thanks for your help. Here are the two wallpapers that I was trying to work with:
[HD2 General] sirphunkee:
Hey Ryan, just wanted you to know I hadn't forgotten about you, I'll get these cabbed up for you and go over the steps for you sometime today...it's just been crazy busy at work so I haven't had a chance yet today.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jmattp:
A photo of a guy giving the peace sign suddenly appeared in the root directory of my wife's Droid Eris SD card. It's titled,"tmp-fsq" which leads me to believe it's a temporary file that was cached there, but we're not sure why.

The file shows that it was created on May 4th. That was weeks before we rooted it. Which means the ROM was completely flashed after that date, but the picture just recently showed up.

Could this be some sign of malicious software, or something else?
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fKngFtd:
Post the picture.

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[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cableguynoe:
:eek:

Bro... you need to be asking you wife about this guy...
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tazzpatriot:
haha i agree
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cableguynoe:
Something else... definately malicious and inappropiate :D

Sorry...couldn't resist
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] colinodell:
Does your wife use foursquare? This is a complete guess, but perhaps this was a temporary image it downloaded of another foursquare user? ("fsq" == "foursqaure"?)
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ap1285:
I know this is a old thread, just confirming the guess by colinodell. I have an img in root dir on my sgs tmp_fsq. I checked it after reading this thread, Its a profile img of one of my foursqaure friend.
[HD2 General] pilotdad:
Hi all

I've never tried the Twitter app in HD2 but now that I've got a Twitter account, I find that I can't log in. It keeps saying that I've entered an incorrect username or password, irregardless of whether I use email or username as my log-in ID.

It works fine if I use Opera but Twitter/Peep just won't work.

Any ideas?

:mad:

:confused:

:(
[HD2 General] campbell.0:
I found peep to be very temperamental. Same probs as yourself and when it DID log in, it took forever to update. Just sat there spinning...

You need to use Motweets. I've been using it since I had my old Orbit 2. It's the

best WM Twitter app.

Download the free version here

http://panoramicsoft.com/mobile/products.php
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] izmar:
When I insert my USB cable into my Nexus one, it is no longer holding in the phone snuggly. It slips out very easily... Is this a problem with the cord, or with the charging port?

It also isn't charging unless I have the cable in a certain way. I noticed two little latchies on the charger, could those have been bent down on accident?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ihearttreo:
That's how my wall charger is. My usb cable fits snuggly in though. I read about people calling HTC about warrantying it and getting a new cable/charger.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] izmar:
Ok, good to know it's the charger then.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jack_R1:
On the cable there are 2 small locking arms that should hold it tightly in place. If their springs are dead, it won't hold and could slip out easily.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cpt.Curry:
Planning to get the n1 since I can't stand the winmo interface anymore, its taking to much of my time to get everything working everday, planning to do my first switch to android and thinking about getting the n1 or the desire. Interested to know if theres anything I need to know about the n1 that is a put off. Stuff that annoys users on a day to day basis. I mean no offense to n1 users, just trying to get some info. :D

Thanks
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nexus5894:
watch for screen burn-in

that's all.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samuaz:
I have a nexus one, but I recommend that you buy a htc incredible

or wait until the htc incredible evo
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rjhay22:
Got my N1 since Jan and still lovin it to this day. Only thing I think you'd miss from the switch is the screen size of the HD2. Incredible probably would have a closer feel to the HD2 since it runs sense ui (stock). But you can also have sense on a rooted N1 and a lot more tweaks.

The Nexus is sexier than the Incredible, will get updates sooner than any android phones atm and has more dev support if you decide to root. Only reason why I would probably get the Incredible is coz of the carrier (Verizon) and not the device.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] timothydonohue:
i just talked the girl i've been hanging out with into getting the incredible, but only because she wanted to stay with verizon. i've played with it. i prefer the nexus, personally. i think the nexus one looks better, and it definitely has better dev support, if you wanted to tweak it (unlock the bootloader and root it, then put on custom ROMs).

however, if i was going to be with verizon, i'd take the incredible, for sure.

only thing i don't like about the N1 is the crap coverage i get, but that's a network issue with TMO, not any fault of the phone.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xSunny:
Well i think he has t-mobile since he has the htc hd2 well i switched over just about a week ago from the htc hd2 to the nexus the htc hd2 lags and to slow its beautiful in looks but thats about it.. Once u use it its horrible the nexus one does both it looks AMAZING and it's supER fastt.. Once hacked EVEN FASTER.. and froyo 2.2 is just amazingly fast mine is rooted and stuff already because ive used android before ive had it since the g1 android so yeahh but you should def do the switch =]
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rjhay22:
Yeah... Froyo with JIT and Flash, although its a work in progress. I couldn't ask for more, perfect phone for me at least.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Paul22000:
If you hold the phone at the bottom, the signal strength drops dramatically.

The multitouch sensor flips axes when your fingers get close. No problems for pinch/zoom but bad for games that rely on multitouch. Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieuB0VvkmwA

It's difficult to see the screen in bright daylight unless screen brightness is all the way up.

The soft buttons are difficult to hit until you get used to them (the touch points are higher than the labels).

I think that's all of the issues...

If any of these would be huge problems for you, get an Incredible or an EVO 4G. However, the N1 has the strongest developer/hacking following currently, and is sure to get any updates from Google first and long before any other phone (as has been the case with Android "FroYo" 2.2.) And of course, the look is personal preference; I think the N1 looks the best of any current Android phone with the Incredible/Evo being very plain and lacking style.

Anyway, Nexus One, Incredible, Evo 4G: the absolute best three Android phones across all four carriers in the US. You absolutely can't go wrong.

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[Edit]: Just saw you said N1 or Desire, so you must be in Europe.

In which case,

A) N1 trumps the Desire. Paul OBrien said it best:

B) Please search next time! There have been dozens of N1 vs Desire topics in the past week alone:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=690661

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=691467

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=6043779#post6043779
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maxawesome:
Get the EVO 4G instead unless you're outside the US, in which case get the Incredible.

No reason to buy the N1 now that it is no longer the top Android phone. With the EVO 4G you aren't losing anything, and only gaining.

EDIT: After reading a couple of the other posts, maybe the N1 would work out better due to faster updates and unlocked nature of phone at ship.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cpt.Curry:
No I dont have the T-mobile hd2 I have the normal one the T8585, and I live in Australia so incredible is out the question. Or else I would've seriously thought of it, it definitely looks incredible I mean 8.1mp and 4.3 inch screen damn thats good.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Amrosorma:
Is screen burn-in really an issue?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cpt.Curry:
Thanks a lot for all your input, but the problems thats you've listed are they a day to day issue for n1 customers. I mean would you be annoyed by it everyday. Does the desire have similar issues. I probably don't know where to get the incredible from and it would also probably be way over my price range.

Thanks a lot
[General Questions and Answers] ashiqu2008:
Hello Friends

I have some issues, if anybody know, please help me!!!

i have a HTC tytn 2,

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Rom Ver: 3.29.707.0 WWE

Rom Date: 08/20/08

Radio Ver: 1.58.25.17

Protocol Ver: 25.69.30.05W

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I am in india, Where some places doesnt have coverage,

when i travel in a car with my HTC TyTn 2,

i found that, there are some places in india doesnt having coverage, so if i lose the coverage, it showing that,"No service",

then i passed through a full coverage area,(where nokia, sony erricson(same Network) showing Full coverage) my TYTN 2 shows no coverage,says " No Service"

so i turned on airplane mode , and turned off , so i can see "denied, searching" instead of "No service" , within 5 second, it will get the network"

why this happened?, i think HTC Tytn2 doesnt search for network automatically, is there any fix available, please , or give me ur great advices

i need a fix which search for network full time if coverage is gone!!

** if Tytn2 got network, it is good reception, same as nokia, sony,

but getting network is the main problem to me*****

reply soon

Thanx

HELP
[XPERIA X10 General] khalu:
Why can't I find Helix launcher in the market??
[XPERIA X10 General] leegoon84:
because we have 1.6

helix is for 2.0+ device only.
[XPERIA X10 General] im_iceman:
You'll need to google it. Download the apk, put it on your sd card and install from there. Make sure you download the version for donut ( android 1.6)

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Sent from my X10i
[XPERIA X10 General] gulpreet:
Here, try this link.... Helix Launcher Donut 1.2

Put it on your sd card and then use astro to install it :)
[XPERIA X10 General] WaiShingLee:
Hello,

I have downloaded and installed Helix For Donut on my X10. However, it's now running in parallel with the original Home application.

Is there any way to stop Home from launching at startup (without uninstalling it) or killing the process? I am using Advanced Task Killer and Quick System Info to kill my processes but it doesn't appear on them as a process.

If I uninstall Home, is there any way to reinstall it if I want it again?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Wai Shing
[XPERIA X10 General] Tri3Dent:
I don't think you can uninstall Home. Basically, set the Helix as default and it should be good to go. When you click the home button, it will at first ask you which one you want to go to. Click HelixDonut and press the checkmark on the bottom to make it as default.
[XPERIA X10 General] WaiShingLee:
Oooh, I see. Thanks very much.
[Droid Incredible General] rkaplins:
I am finding that sometimes my DI will not connect to a headset it is already paired with even if the device. For example, my home phone has Bluetooth built into it so that my calling my cell phone makes my home phone ring. However I generally have to manually go into Settings -> Wireless & Network -> Bluetooth settings and then manually connect to that device.

Sometimes that doesn't even work and even when I click "Scan for devices" nothing happens. I have to power off my phone and then power it back on for it to work.

It is a big pain because I will be in my car and put on my Bluetooth headset and it won't work automatically. Not fun to have to restart the phone just to get Bluetooth to work.

Any thoughts?
[Droid Incredible General] Humpa:
I've used BT headsets since the Moto V710 came to VZW.

Some phones are better than others at connecting, and the Incredible seems slightly better than the Moto Droid - or maybe about the same.

Examples (and I use a few different headsets):

I answer the phone normally and decide to switch to a headset. I power on my headset and stick it on my ear. After a few seconds I hear the "connecting" noises thru the headset and the audio switches over from phone to the headset automatically.

This is what happens most of the time. Now sometimes I do this process but nothing happens. So I then press (usually long-press, depending on the particular headset) the button on the headset to "make" it connect. Sometimes, though not very often, even this doesn't work (after trying several times) - in that case I power off the headset (not the phone!) and power it back on again and repeat.

If I turn on the headset before making a call, I have close to 100% success rate for my headset connecting normally.

This is about par for the course as far as Bluetooth goes. Some phones are better than others - and the top of the line dumb phones I've used seemed to connect a little more consistently than the various smartphones I've used.

As to your issues, if your home phone BT thing doesn't have a button to help "force" the connection, then maybe just try powering off/on BT on your phone instead of powering the phone off.
[Droid Incredible General] live4spd:
Yes i have the same problems. Not unique to the Incredible though. Just about every smartphone I've had does the same BS.

The iPhone is the only phone that worked greater than 90% of the time. Wish the Incredible was better.
[Droid Incredible General] rkaplins:
Thanks for your input guys.

Coming from experiences as a long time Windows Mobile user, I never had any problems with this. I think with Windows Mobile it automatically connected to whatever Bluetooth device it had already been paired with something like 98% of the time. With this phone it is honestly 50% at the best.

I want to clarify here though that it is not just it being flakey. There is definitely something that happens with the software on the phone. How I know this is that when I have this happen and it is not connecting to any Bluetooth devices, I will go into Settings and when I press the scan for devices button, nothing at all happens. Normally it would appear to be searching.

Something is definitely happening (or not happening) and I haven't narrowed it down to figure out what it is.
[Droid Incredible General] krelvinaz:
I use BT headset in my truck all the time. I turn on BT before I get into the truck and turn on the headset after I am in the truck. Takes a few moments to connect.

Works every time. Only real issue is lack of hands free dialing, but if I know I will be calling someone while driving, I pre-dial the number and can with a long press on the headset redial after I am driving.

Answer the phone is not an issue.
[Droid Incredible General] KidJoe:
I have the same problem.

Xlink BT gateway at home, Moto H790 headset for use in the car.

My other phones auto connect (or I get a prompt on the phone asking if I want to connect based on BT Security settings on the phone).

My HTC Incredible will sometimes auto connect, but if I disconnect the H790, it doesn't auto connect to the Xlink. If I got into Settings on the INC, and select the Xlink to connect to, the INC will tell me it failed. Same if I try to reconnect the H790.

I have to power the INC off/on.

This is unlike my other phones and Blackberries. (NOTE: I didn't try my droid with the Xlink, but it seemed to connect/disconnect/reconnect fine with my H790, unlike my INC which doesn't).
[Droid Incredible General] rkaplins:
Yep, KidJoe, that does sound exactly the same. Glad to see I am not crazy. If you find a solution, post it to this thread please. I'll do the same.
[Droid Incredible General] dwmmlm:
Same problem here.....The MyTouch I had was 100% reliable when picking up the BT when in and out of range. I think I want a MyTouch with a 4.25 inch screen.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] A_Guy71:
Alright, I've been using Fresh Toast for about two weeks now and love every second of it..The phone is incredibly responsive and everything I could want in a Hero. But I've run into a few problems/questions.

1. What does the option "Fix apk UID mismatches" option do in recovery? I've searched and it seems the only explanation is "it does just that" but I don't know what that is or means..

2. More often I've noticed I've had the mobile network not responding and had to toggle the option off/on for things like internet to work, but after the toggle it works just fine. It hasn't really started to be annoying till recently. Is this a problem in 2.1? Or Fresh Toast?

3. Possibly in conjunction, my phone has restarted 3 times by itself today..just sitting on the table. What could be the reason for this? I haven't installed or changed anything for at least a week, and it just started happening. It can get to be annoying because it takes a few minutes to boot up and a little inconvenient..
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jerry43812:
From what I understand, the apps and stuff have ID's which the phone can confuse sometimes, causing force closes of stuff you think should work. Fixing the mismatches helps with the force close problem some have. This is based off of knowledge I have gained from using th search button, but I am not rude enough to tell you to do a search when I am already typng you a message.

The random rebooting sounds like a problem you might want to take to sprint...

and I personally have been having some issues with mobile network using regawMOD lately... I am not blaming it on the ROM, jsut letting you know that I am using a different 2.1 ROM than you... mobile network locks up, doesn't respond and I have to toggle airplane mode to make it work, or it's just murderously slow compared to other times, andall while in the same location: my computer.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] danaff37:
the random rebooting may be your phone unable to handle high frequencies... use overclock widget, and bring it down a notch to 710 or 691, and try that. The uid mismatches, I think, is a linux thing... the uid of a file is its permissions, aka read, write, execute, etc., but don't ask me how they get messed up and need that (you root your phone through adb? remember typing chmod 755 blah blah? the chmod command changes uid's, and the 755 is telling it what permissions to give it, but I don't remember the breakdown of the number, still learning linux myself)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] gtb5:
Is there any similar rotary dialer app for HD2? Kind of cool haven't used this kind of dial for at least 30 years!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anuZiwt_Bvg&feature=related
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] c604765:
Isn't it funny you buy the latest technology only to make it sound and look like an old phone.

Pretty cool!!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] M@rtyn04:
And another vote from me for this app. Would love to see it too :D
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] the dragonlord:
Of course! Sell the HD2 and buy iPhone! I will never understand why people keeps on buying a REAL SERIOUS device (HD2) and want it to work like a status-simbol-toy (iPhone)...
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] animelover:
There's already such an app for WinMo: Pocket Kai Old Phone.Net 1.2!

http://www.mobile2day.com/en/Kais-Old-Phone-Net/product_1082121_details.html

EDIT:

But it isn't so cool like this iPhone app, you can't rotate the rotary dialer by yourself!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] donwhann:
LOL......jeez, some people...........
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] dragonglance:
lol i back dragonlords comment want a toy get an iphone simple as!!!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Shum97:
Totally agree..
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] donwhann:
hd2 such a serious phone...?, maybe i bought the wrong phone then........is it not maybe some of the users who are too serious and not the phone.......?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] dragonglance:
i dont think it is that (and thank you for your kind dig) i think it is more that a serious users want a solid "serious" (in your terms) phone, if we wanted a toy we would of spoken to Tomy

..............mods maybe best to close this thread before feathers start to fly
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] donwhann:
so you want someones thread for a request closed because you and a few others think a certain app is not worthy of the great hd2......if this app doesnt interest you just move onto the next thread. some of us actually like fun/useless apps to mess about with now an again. really cant see the problem. thats all im gonna say, have a good day now.........:)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] JWang158:
I don't know why lots of people on XDA Devs are such downers. He just asked for an interesting app and everyone comes and flames him because he's not "serious" enough or whatever the flying heck that means.

I've seriously seen some people asking for some help on the HD2 and when no one can help him, he gets criticized for being an iPhone sympathizer and turned away.

If some people want a rotary app you just say if you can help or turn away, don't leave a jerk comment, and close the thread. No need to be rude, witty or worse.