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[General Topics] Frans Parnel:
Well, you really really helped me out here. I have been leaning towards android for awhile and have been using it on the touch pro, but that doesn't compare to the real thing.

I just needed to hear it from someone else who was more "business" orientated and wasn't just in it for the stupid beer can apps like iphone.

I got the Hero from sprint a few hours ago. I can honestly say that I have no regrets. I have yet to use the Google Maps, but i'm sure it will suffice. I will miss my Garmin XT app though. Along with all the customizations that SPB Mobile brought to the windows market. But it was pretty slow.
[General Topics] Brandizle:
"Stay Frosty"

That's good to hear! Yeah, I hear ya. I also had my doubts when I was operating it on my HTC Touch Pro2. But, once the Android phone I wanted so long came out I threw away any and all hesitation. I'm glad it was a no compromise situation for me and I hope it will be that way for you. :)
[General Topics] Frans Parnel:
After playing with it all day....I love this phone!!! It is everything I needed in a phone and everything I wanted in a phone. The virtual keyboard is one of the best I have used, in my mind the evo has the only better virtual keyboard.
[General Topics] orb3000:
I would go for Rhodium with no doubt!

And even more if you are coming from a device with REAL keyboard.
[HD Mini General] FidoDido78:
Hello,

I can not change the video resolution of the camcorder. It is stuck to S(128x96)".

when recording a video the quality is bad.

If I look at the settings, resolution is "S(128x96)" in light grey so I am not able to select and change it.

I had the same problem a few weeks ago and did a hard reset which solved the problem, but I had to set all parameters,mail, ... again, and I don't want to keep doing that.

I read the post "Video recording not working in 640x480" but the solutions there (changing bitrate, deleting the registerkey,...) are not working

Changing MPEG4 to H.263 or H.264 is not helping either.

Is there a way I can unlock or edit the register to record in a good quality?
[HD Mini General] Raz0rX:
can anyone upload the registry order from the camera ?

than can everybody with cam problems download it and fix the problem ;)

sry for my english ;)
[HD Mini General] Wackey:
did you install Bsb? on yor HD mini?
[HD Mini General] FidoDido78:
BsB was not installed.

I installed it now.

There are more options for the video format, but the resolutions still is "S(128x96)" in light grey... This is so for all video formats...
[HD Mini General] gpap2004:
Try to hard format the phone.
[HD Mini General] FidoDido78:
I did hard format the phone the first time I got this problem. It indeed solves the issue, but as I had to reinstall all extra programs and make all setting again, I would like to solve the issue this time without having to hard format (reset)...
[HD Mini General] zenwarlord:
how about try to restart your phone.
[HD Mini General] FidoDido78:
yes. restarted phone, even took out battery for some time. But it did not work.

I just noticed that MMS Video has the same problem. I can not change the resolution but here it is M(176x144)

I also stopped all running programs in the task manager, but it did notsolve the problem.

I presume some program is locking the resolution setting?
[Non-Touchscreen Windows Mobile Other] stefanm1:
Hi,

I'm searching for Windows Mobile 6.5 for Samsung C6625.

And i like to know if its GPS or A-gps and can i use Navigation ?

The phone is non-touch.

Greets Stefan
[Non-Touchscreen Windows Mobile Other] stefanm1:
Close !

I already found it !
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gqstatus0685:
Any idea how to pair my Mighty Keyboard to Evo?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thorpe24:
is this a bluetooth keyboard, htc sense devices have an outdated bluetooth stack or something or other, that doesn't allow BT keyboards and wiimotes to work with sense devices, from what i've read on here.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gqstatus0685:
Yeah it's BT. I was able to detect it but not pair.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] turboyo:
I just cant get over the fact how good the battery life is on this thing. I just took a pic since I cant screen shot. 16hrs and its at 64%. Ive used Pandora while at the gym, Music app while at the gym, music app in the car via aux cable, bt in the car, few emails, calls and text. I really hope the update doesn't kill it! or overclocking once rooted. And to think the TP2 battery works and its bigger.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] lanzemurdok:
I agree.

I see some people here complaining about the battery life, but for me it's fine. I commute to work about 45 minutes back and forth. I'm constantly listening to either pandora or my music playlists. At work i always play games/browsing web. It lasts me the whole day and the whole night without a charge.. at 75% brightness.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] zippa71385:
yeah I dont know...

I get less life from mine, I use wifi at home but I do have juicce defender so its not on all the time... at work im on HSPA and it just dies so quick...

My rooted nexus overclocked to 1.1ghz I get more than a day!!! with the same usage!
[myTouch 3G Slide General] khtims:
I used N1 for quite some time and with same usage I get easily twice the battery from the slide. I found that the first couple of days were not so great but now one week into it and I hardly have to charge at all when my N1 was dying about now each day. I am very surprized with the increase in battery life myself!
[myTouch 3G Slide General] turboyo:
18 and 1/2 hrs later finally under 50% . I don't use any of those battery apps, I just end all in task manager every so often, sync google, few widgets, brightness at 35, and set to 3G ONLY.

More info from spare parts app after 18+hrs:

time spent w/o sleep 3hrs 20 mins

time spent with phone on (talking) 40 mins

time spent with BT on 2hrs 40 mins (dnt think its right unless app in bg)

Handcent was my app with most ussage time 2729816ms used 45 times

Sense was second most use with 1494830ms used 110 times

Pandora 948546ms
[myTouch 3G Slide General] ratchetrizzo:
What do you guys do to get life like that?

After 4 hours mine is down to 66%.

I had one 5 minute phone call, installed one app from the market place and did a bunch of text messaging and it was down to 66% after 4 hours
[myTouch 3G Slide General] Etype R:
When you are texting, do you lock the screen after you send one and wait for a reply? Or are you leaving the screen awake? The display is the biggest battery killer. Either lock the display more often, or turn the screen brightness down.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] turboyo:
Always lock the phone after everything, learned that lesson with the g1 and pants dialing.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] Etype R:
I have to say, I do like the flat buttons on the slide. At first I thought it was a stupid design idea, can't feel them at all. But with the flat profile, I am not worried about unlocking the phone in my pocket either.

With the mytouch 3g I always had a unlock pattern, just to avoid unlocking it in my pocket. After installing Cyanogen, he did away with the home/menu unlock by default. So you had to slide the icon across the screen. I liked this, as it was simple and worked very well.

I've also quickly taken a liking to the power button being on top of the phone, rather then on the front. Very easy to take the phone out of my pocket, press the power once to check the time and notification bar, press it again to lock it.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] SoMuch2S@y:
How do you set this?
[myTouch 3G Slide General] turboyo:
either as a shortcut with anycut app, new shortcut, activity, phone info.. or go into your settings, wireless networks,scroll down to mobile networks, network mode- wcdma only
[myTouch 3G Slide General] turboyo:
Finally decided to pop it in the charge after a day and 12hrs .. had 18%. I probably could have stretched it 2 days but not on a Friday night and really whats the point haha
[myTouch 3G Slide General] slinky1914:
So you are using the TP2 battery?

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[myTouch 3G Slide General] turboyo:
Noo I am thinking of getting one but this battery seems to do the job very very well. I wouldn want to get it and it do more harm than good.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] slinky1914:
Ok I see. U really have good battery life. I'll try some of your tweak.

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[myTouch 3G Slide General] kusiman77:
help on battery life

can someone list all of there tweaks for there amazing battery life... im lucky to get 12 hours and i drained my batter each night.. please and thank you
[myTouch 3G Slide General] jhudak:
For some reason mine jumps back to the default setting after a few seconds. I've also noticed that if I mess with the data network settings, sometimes it won't reconnect to data until I reboot.

Is WCDMA specifically better for the battery?
[myTouch 3G Slide General] chrisinaz:
The two absolute best things I did for battery life on my phone were dropping down the screen brightness, and switching to 3g only.

I went from 100 to 40% on screen brightness, and it's easily doubled my battery life. Took a while to get used to, because I really love bright screens, but the battery life was just horrible with the brightness up.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] slinky1914:
I put my phone on wcdma only and the battery does pretty good. Usually my phone jumps between edge and 3g all day but it has stayed only on 3g. I assume the bouncing back and fourth can waste some power. I'll see what it will get tomorrow (Saturday). Thanks for the tips.

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[myTouch 3G Slide General] tinpanalley:
I'm in New York, I got the phone yesterday, I have yet to see "H". Do I maybe have a setting wrong? Weird.

Also, with casual use, the battery drops 20 per cent in about 6 hours. If I was running video or music, I'd be done by the evening. So, I don't get how you guys do it.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] fl_jeep:
When I'm at home, I leave it in wi-fi, but if you do this, you need to go to wifi settings-advanced-wifi sleep policy and set to 'never'. Otherwise when your phone goes to sleep it will switch back to 'mobile data' which sucks down much more juice.

I'm not getting what some others get, but after 17 hours, I still have like 40%. Now, I haven't done much today, only about 15 minutes of phone calls, a couple dozen texts with handcent, emails, some solitaire, and miscellaneous other apps for a short time. So far I am pleased.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] slinky1914:
I am pretty happy too. My phones lasted 12hrs yesterday on gsm only with about 40% brightness and I'm always on my phone checking stuff on Saturday and Sunday. Today I'm going to try wcdma only today to see how long it last. My g1would have never lasted that long.

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[myTouch 3G Slide General] chadmd23:
If you use Power Control widget, one button is dedicated for brightness, so you can switch quickly from bright to darker backlight.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] mylostlonelysoul:
Spent an hour watching a movie and battery didnt drop but maybe 6%, on the G1 it'd be 50%. So I must say this is an improvment, havnt done any messing around with the networks just brightness and task killer, but I must say for everyday use the bettery is doing well.

There does seem to be alot of random apps opening the in background tho, i find it strange.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] poetik517:
i have my display set to the lowest level & after roughly an hour spent on & 3hrs unplugged, battery's is done to 75%. am i doing something wrong?
[myTouch 3G Slide General] turboyo:
How much stuff do you have running in the background? Do you have a task manager to end applications that are running unnecessarily in the background? How many clients do you have syncing? As stated before I only have gmail, no facebook,twitter,tmobile,stocks, or non of that garbage. Go into settings, accounts and sync, and see what you have syncing. Are you noticing your 3G signal switch to edge or gsm a lot? If so try setting it to 3G only or EDGE only.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] poetik517:
i did do the 3g only switch. i am reporting this usage after disabling my task manager. i wanted to see how my phone would perform without it, plus i heard it was somewhat useless for the system. just about everything is set to sync (except stock) at the minimum rate. i just thought changing the display would increase the life, especially with the dramatic change from auto to the minimum. i also have 'Batteryminder' which displays my battery % in the status bar as well the estimated time left. i was discouraged to see it tick down 1-by-1 or sometimes more every 3 to 5 mins.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] slinky1914:
This time on 40% battery and wcdma only it lasted 16hrs. Might have found my perfect phone for a while.

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[myTouch 3G Slide General] kingofyo1:
try on gsm only, no 3g and see how long it lasts.. bet you'll get longer outta it :)
[myTouch 3G Slide General] chadmd23:
Task Managers are worthless. Android is based on linux which preloads holders into memory, its not Windows. Just google it to get a more complete description.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] turboyo:
I know all about it, its still useful to end things that stay running once you open them like AIM, Facebook, Music and other apps, once closed they dont open back up for the most part. Yes after "ending all" eventually apps start opening up and getting "preloaded" but it Ive never seen it go below 150mb, barely 200mb and thats with hours of not ending stuff. My gf's phone had no task manager for the first day or two, after installing one my mind was blown when I saw all she had in free memory was ~40 megs.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] chadmd23:
I just hate for new people (like me a while ago) to think it is a real solution. I guess its fair to say, selective app closing is ok.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] rnrstar:
my experience with battery so far:

1. charged battery friday for approx 3-4 hours past the time the batt light went green. left phone off until saturday.

2. turned it on sat afternoon but did not set up phone (so data connection type was set to stock setting of switching between edge and umts).

3. on sunday and monday, received a handful of texts and missed calls. answered two phone calls for about 10 min max.

4. set up phone (ring/vibrate settings, alarm, contacts and weather, faves, bar control app) tuesday night and downloaded about 17 apps in total.

5. phone lasted til midafternoon today, wednesday.

6. was able to restart the phone twice before finally dying and not responding to power key.

7. for whole time phone was on (mid sat to mid wed), i turned on and off the screen lighting too many times to count to check for light leaks, etc.

8. what are your thoughts on my batt life? thanks in advance.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] poetik517:
still average battery life, well poor, for me. but i'm testing out a couple of things. out-of-the-box, i could've sworn i was getting good life so one of my downloaded apps might be the root of the problem. i'm doing conditioning now. if that doesn't work, i'll reset to factory and condition again and see how that goes.

also, it only takes me approximately 2hrs for a full charge (completely dead to green light w/ phone off). is that normal? as to me, it seems it charges fast & dies fast as well.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] Fordude:
Before I conditioned my battery, it only took 1 hour to charge. Now it is about 2 hours for my slide. Yours sounds about right.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] poetik517:
well i did a factory reset. no luck. in somewhat setting my phone back up in 1hr30mins, battery went down from a full charge to under 70%.

i have yet to sync my facebook & twitter. i disabled news & stocks.

gps, wifi, bluetooth have not been configured and are off.

the only apps i installed were google's (voice, shopper, translate, etc.)

i even installed t-mobile's new device tune-up.

i wish i were getting the results most of you all are reporting. do you think a replacement battery is in order?
[myTouch 3G Slide General] AFP520:
how do you set the phone to 3G only??? I tried changing it to GSM only and it goes back to auto?

I love this phone, but the battery life SUCKS.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] turboyo:
setting, wireless and networks, mobile network settings, network mode wcdma only
[myTouch 3G Slide General] adambenjamin:
I ordered some OEM bateries for the Touch Pro II off of Ebay. Is anyone else using these? I am excited for the extra 15% or so.

The stock Battery is great though. Its been hard to find enough processes to kill the battery while conditioning.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] Sheldonjace:
Has anyone reported a random completely defective battery not taking a charge/powering on the phone?

The strangest thing happened as my phone was sitting on my desk with about 3/4 charge...I went to power on the screen and nothing happened. Now it won't boot/indicate charging at all.

I have access to TONS of other MTS's tomorrow so I'll test another battery but still.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] cswroe:
I took the battery out of my Dash 3G and put it in my slide, it is 1500mAh, will run it a couple days and see. I have a Mugen battery that fits better actually that is 1800mAh but have not seen any positive response. I think that battery may have problems if I remember right.

I have been a bit disappointed with the battery life. Coming from the Dash 3G where I could easily get a day an a half with some pretty heavy use at times, to barely making it a day with little use is rough. I have been through the G1, Nexus One, and now the slide, but this battery life is the biggest setback for me. I am trying to love the phone, but it just seems to want to be friends.....
[myTouch 3G Slide General] adambenjamin:
My battery lasts really long, especially coming from the nexus one. Have you tried going to your clockwork recovery screen-->advanced settings-->wipe battery stats

Then doing a few conditioning cycles. running the phone til it shuts it self off then charging with power off til the green light comes on +2 hours?

I did that the other day it seems to have helped. When the phone said it had 9%, it had way more than that.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] daewond3r:
Just got my TP2 battery in today and it fits in PERFECTLY. Ordered a TP2 cradle as well, just waiting for it to come in. Can't wait to have a spare battery ready to go all the time.

Also, I've cycled my stock battery 3 times now (full charge, ran until phone won't power on, charged 2 hours past green light) and I'm seeing progress every time I put it back in. Can't wait to see the life with a well conditioned TP2 battery.

Edit: So I was wrong, it doesn't fit PERFECTLY. When ppl commented on how the "top" needed to be shaved down, I thought they meant the length. I see now that it's the depth. Putting the TP2 battery in leaves a pretty lame gap between the battery door and the body. Wish I knew that before. Damn impulses hahah
[myTouch 3G Slide General] RED ZMAN:
I was woried about the battery on this, especially after my G1, but I'm frigging impressed. If I don't go to hard on the network access I can get 2 full days. Crazy.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] Henchmin:
Settings - wireless and networks - mobile networks - enable always on network data (set to disable)

I saw a noticable improvement I'm battery life when I disabled that setting. I still get push gmail, so I dunno what the point is. Also I disabled active sync with everything except my google account.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] rhonal89:
I been using my phone today for around 6 hours watching video also playing some 3d games and my battery is half way i also have my phone full bright 100%. If I had my g1 when I first got it the battery by now would have dead. The battery is incredible even tethering the battery is great.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] jaekidd1012:
My battery life is so-so. I disabled the always on data connection, set the brightness to automatically adjust and disabled auto sync which help me get a bit extra juice per day. I live in NYC which means I spend a good deal of time riding the subway so I put my phone into airplane mode when I'm underground which also helps. I wish the MyModes feature extended to settings (i.e. screen brightness, wi-fi/bluetooth/GSM radios on/off, etc) since it would make it easier to keep the battery lasting longer IMO.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] topper4004:
Mine WAS horrible... I would unplug it at 0700 and would be VERY lucky to make it to 1900. Went in and turned off the T-mobile contact sync and it now easily makes it through the day... and my phone usage (texting, browsing, general tinkering) is well above average. Very surprised that this made such a drastic difference. I have yet to see how long it will take for the battery to run completely dry since I don't have enough down time to charge it except during the night but I may try it this weekend... out of curiosity.
[myTouch 3G Slide General] kufudo:
To those having bad battery life, like seeing 1% drop every two or three minutes or so, can you check to see if you have the Google Talk Service running?

If you do, try killing it and see if the battery life increases dramatically. I had the same problem and killing the service helped immensely.
[Desire General] gyro11:
Hey,

I just updated to the 1.21... generic stock rom and since im on orange its network locked the phone. Ive looked around and it seems that flashing an older radio will sort this problem out. So i have the older radio but when i try to connect to the phone using the recovery-windows.bat file, it keeps saying "error: device not found"

I can confirm i HAVE installed the USB driver via the android sdk and rebooted my computer. The device is not rooted though

Is the lack of root the issue here or should it still be able to connect?

Thanks for your help
[Desire General] MasDroid:
Yep, you definately need root access to update your Radio version.
[Desire General] gyro11:
but will not having root stop the recovery-windows.bat file even recognising the phones attached to the pc?
[Desire General] MasDroid:
Yes but this is also happening because you have not yet created a Gold Card, which will unlock your CID and Device ID. Create the Gold Card first and then root your phone.

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[Desire General] MasDroid:
The Gold Card is needed because you have a branded phone.

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[Desire General] gyro11:
im pretty sure i already turned my sdcard into a gold card. ill try rooting first then have another look at the gold card
[Desire General] MasDroid:
Yes, that is precisely what you must do. Not only do you need to create a Gold Card because of your branded handset, but you also have to root it to have write access to the system partition. Once you do this, you will then be able to flash any compatible ROMs with problems.
[Desire General] gyro11:
argh, this is being a nightmare...i have redone the goldcard and am trying to do the root, but when i type the (linux) command cd /mnt/cdrom/root it says "cant cd to /mnt/cdrom/root

when i do a ls of the directory it says the folders there are boot and desire

please help, its unusable unless i can root this and get the new radio in there
[Desire General] MasDroid:
To root, try this guide instead, it's pretty straightforward:

http://nimbu.amorvi.com/2010/05/how-to-root-your-htc-desire/

You flash the Radio zip file via Recovery the same way you would do when flashing a ROM.
[Desire General] gyro11:
ok, it turns out the usb lead just wasnt being consistantly connected for some reason. Ive managed to sort this out and managed to flash the new rom. However, now i have a new problem but i will put this as a new post as its different to what ive written before in this thread