yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[EVO 4G General] wfhowell:
I have currently an iphone 3Gs and just got the Evo opening day. I am just now able to really install and get a feel for the EVO since we just got back from vacation. I am becoming more and more pleased with the EVO each time I use it. THere are many things that the EVO can do that iphone cant do even being Jailbroken, which my Iphone is. As i use it i will report more. Right now im having loads of fun with my EVO. Yes, I will get the iphone 4 when it comes out. I guess you can tell im a gadget kind of person. There are just a few things with the EVO that has to be fixed, and I feel like it will be much better with the Froyo.

One thing I really like about the EVO is its browsing. How it resizes the screen and paragraphs so you dont have to scroll right to left. Iphone doesnt have that. Yet. Maybe the new update. Will wait and see. But for now, Evo is in my pocket and iphone is on the bedroom nitestand.

:rolleyes:
[EVO 4G General] bobr0949:
To shut off the locksreen go to the matket and get no lock.

After it is installed just launch it and click on the lock.

After that you will just heve to hit the volume button to bring upi the home screen.
[EVO 4G General] cloudyphiz:
I had pretty bad light leakage on the bottom after the first couple days, now that part of the screen has lifted by about 0.5mm and it moves when I squeeze down. This thing has to go back :(. Just for the hell of it I tried browsing the web on my 3G... I can't imagine going back to such a tiny screen, but it looks like I have to. ugh.

Gary
[EVO 4G General] strung:
Cool good info here.
[EVO 4G General] ap3604:
LoL

You sir... have had an AWAKENING! ;)
[EVO 4G General] bradynapier:
I came from the iPhone and I can personally tell you this thing DESTROYS the iPhone..

1. CALENDAR SYNC via Exchange - Calendar use is WAY better on Android - one touch navigation of the "Where" clickable numbers(granted the iphone had this) and a beautiful widget to go on the front screen... another widget to show me my upcoming appointment and another to make a "Calendar folder" which makes it a bit easier

2. Notifications, Multi-tasking... Ahh the beauty of using Pandora while writing an e-mail or text message instead of going out of the song each time... being on Skype and Facebook Chat at all times and being that much easier to get ahold of (without the phone call to use my minutes)... LOVE IT

3. Screen Size, Screen Brightness - the screen destroys the iPhone and I have no problem with the touch at all..

4. Apps - I love the openness of the apps.. any major app I used (Pandora, Slacker, etc) are on both Android and iPhone (granted they are usually a bit more developed on the iPhone but I get things like MP3 Explorer that let me download songs when I want them.. something I would need to jailbreak my iPhone for...

5. Customized Home Screen - No need to talk about that... way better then iPhone... I don't feel like I'm the same as every other iPhone user

Okay Okay I coudl go on literally forever ... My iPhone feels like a dinosaur.. Facetime will probably be better video chat then QIK - because QIK SUCKS!!! But its only over WiFi and iPhone 4 to iPhone 4... so I'm not that envious..

One bad thing - battery... granted you get way more power and you can expect that the battery won't be as good... and I'm near a charger most of the time anyways... but I wish they woulda put a super super strong battery in this thing .. I'd be willing to deal with a thicker phone for a battery that's twice as capable!
[EVO 4G General] jtadeo:
I just don't get why android can't play all video types.. I'm very surprised that someone hasn't figured out a way to make this work.
[EVO 4G General] Dan330:
yeah.. but my guess.. soon there will be an app on the market that will be better and use more formats.

Like most things on android.. if you dont like it.. you can find an app for that! :P
[EVO 4G General] dwertz:
Mod. edit: Warez link removed. RockPlayer is a beta, the developer didn't consent it's distribution. Consider this 1st warning!http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=6805512#post6805512http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=6805512#post6805512http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=699824
[EVO 4G General] mconigs78:
Good comparison. One app you might wanna try for you music needs is btunes. It is basically like the iphone music player. It does cost money but so far its the best one I have used. I have the Hero so I do not know if it works on the EVO yet but you might wanna give it a try. Also when you buy a app if you havent figured it out yet you have 24hrs trial if you dont like it uninstall and you will be refunded. Hope that helps
[EVO 4G General] deekoi:
Is it a free program?
[EVO 4G General] procompmreman:
it is in beta right now so for this version yes
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] brent372:
Upon every reboot I get the following error message:

Your device is unable to boot because either you have turned off the device incorrectly or tried to install an application from untrusted source... ... ...

It goes on to say press the UP VOL button to hard reset or any other button to continue.

I press any other button and it proceeds to boot correctly.

Any way to disable the message?

VZW TP2 - Stock 6.5 ROM

EDIT / UPDATE: If don't touch anything when it is on this screen it will eventually continue to boot normally... so again I would just like to disable this message if at all possible.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] brent372:
Anybody???

Or maybe an idea of where to look for log files so I can tell what specifically is causing it?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] bnakid:
I've had the same message at least twice now. Almost had a heart attack the first time. Mine also rebooted fine after a minute or so. Not sure what caused this.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] brent372:
For me this happens everytime I reboot.

I did a hard reset and after installing and configuring everything, it is happening again.

It isn't affecting anything, just annoying.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] brent372:
Anybody?

Having this screen come up after every reboot is really annoying.

Surely somebody has had this happen before..
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Aaron McCarthy:
after you hard reset did you reinstall all your applications again... is that what you mean by configured it? If so it's likely one of your programs that's causing it. If you didn't install anything and it still pooched out like that then, well I'm stumped!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] brent372:
It started happening after I installed everything, but everything works on it.

There has to be some type of log file somewhere that will tell me what is causing it
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Aaron McCarthy:
You may just want to go and take the time to install a program and then see if it happens... when you get to the one that you know causes it.. uninstall it and see if the issue is still there. If not then carry on with installing all your other aps you have left doing the same thing to see if any of them cause the issue. It may take some time to do but it cant take along longer then waiting around for someone to chime in on some advice for you. Gotta do what you gotta do right?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] brent372:
I'd rather wait than do a hard reset
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] lufc:
I would do a task29 then reinstall:)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] brent372:
What is task29?
[Touch CDMA Windows Mobile ROM Development] NuAngel:
UPDATE: 6/21/2010

Sorry, all, I've looked in to what I was 'trying to do' - and while my overall goal worked, it had no benefits. Thus, there's no reason to do it. What I was doing: the goal of this 'custom build' was to combine the latest COM3 and COM5 benefits. The concensus out there was that build 28232 had an updated and faster Internet Explorer and build 23569 had an updated interface. My goal was to merge IE from 28232 into 23569.

Unfortunately, there was no real way to prove there was an updated Internet Explorer, and even a mobile browser test between several builds of WM6.5 all had the same results and showed the same version number.

There genuinely appeared to be no benefit to all of this work, even though I did get a succesfully working build with the Internet Explorer from 28232 into 23569, but I've decided to give up on this current project since there was absolutely zero detectable benefits.

Thanks for the interest, and the willing beta testers out there! See you around!

...

Original post:

I have a new ROM I'm cooking up - right now it's fairly barebones, I'm not planning on putting a lot of things in the build, since most people can download and install something they want later.

I don't want to go in to a lot of details as to what makes this ROM unique - I haven't even tried it myself, yet (and I'm NOT going to send it out to anyone else until I do so, just in case it's a cement-mixing brick maker!!). But if it works out for me, and I can get a few beta testers to give me feedback, I'd really like to go public with this ROM.

I plan on testing my concepts out tonight, will look in this thread the next few days for any volunteers.

If this thread belongs in the QA, I'm very sorry - feel free to lock it - and if it's locked, please just PM me for details about the build. This ROM won't change the world or anything, but if it works, it could be a fun experiment!

NuAngel
[Touch CDMA Windows Mobile ROM Development] NuAngel:
Over 50 thread views and no brave souls, so far? ;) I successfully flashed my first test ROM, but I'll consider this still quite in the "alpha" phase of the project... quite a few bugs to work out.

If I have time to work on it more tomorrow (err... today? it's 4 AM), I will, but might not get to this one until later in the week.

NuAngel
[Touch CDMA Windows Mobile ROM Development] p_star:
good luck with your ROM NuAngel.

I only have the one "working" vogue and it's my daily phone atm. so I'm not super keen on beta testing with it.

hope to hear some more on this ROM of yours.
[Touch CDMA Windows Mobile ROM Development] Does_It_Matter:
If I am not breaking something... I'm not having fun!

I'm in for the beta testing!

Sending a PM also!
[Touch CDMA Windows Mobile ROM Development] wrymslayer:
I'm down for testing also
[Touch CDMA Windows Mobile ROM Development] Lmiller1708:
Hook me up too!

I can't test data but I will give you some feedback! ;)

Also If you need anything let me know, I'm always willing to help out a fellow cook!

Happy Cooking! :eek:
[Touch CDMA Windows Mobile ROM Development] krwilson:
I sent you a PM too for beta testing earlier......
[Touch CDMA Windows Mobile ROM Development] 360discgolf:
Spare Vogue

I have a spare Vogue... I'm your huckleberry.
[Touch CDMA Windows Mobile ROM Development] egzthunder1:
I'll test as well. Although, I have no service in it (changed carriers to TMO), but will be glad to take it for a spin.
[Touch CDMA Windows Mobile ROM Development] NuAngel:
Wow!

i appreciate all of the interst, folks! :)

I've been extremely busy this week, with work, and some of my other obligations, not to mention I'm trying to finish reading a book!!

Still, I'm making progress, but my next two weekends are jam packed and who knows what else... plus, I'm trying to find a way to "prove" that what I'm doing is actually... doing something. Luckily, I haven't bricked my phone, yet, so I'm confident that there will be SOMETHING for ya'll to test in the future.

Thanks for your interst, everyone!

NuAngel
[Droid Incredible General] vapehooka:
Like my title says. Id like to meet you somewhere local in south bay preferable to have you root my inc. I would like the madness to end knowing its my drivers and or sd cards and help me get back to normal life... i got it..... did the pull the card and pray method one time at the white to black screen transition .
[Droid Incredible General] zeke1988:
why rushing to root ur dinc. i rooted and seem like nothing special. currently, i only can use LED flash, setcpu, titanium backup, superusers, wireless tether, adfree, and shootme. removed city id. thats all.
[Droid Incredible General] contagous:
lol thats all huh? thats quite a bit considering lol
[Droid Incredible General] SoCalMiles:
+ 1 San Diego area....PLEASE HELP!!!...LOL
[Droid Incredible General] zeke1988:
here are the steps i used and sdcard

Nokia 1GB class2

i installed htc sync/driver i found inside of the HTC Incredible internal storage.

complete guide: http://androidforums.com/all-things-root-incredible/98180-prs-complete-rooting-guide.html

Unplug the USB

Press and hold the optical Trackball and press power

Once in the menu press power again

Wait 20 seconds for it to do its bit

Plug USB in and wait another 10 seconds for your computer to detect the phone

press menu down to highlight "recovery"

set up the cmd for adb shell loop

Press power on the phone + hit enter on cmd at the same time.

the screen should change from "error: device not found" to "exec '/system/bin/sh' failed: No such file or directory (2) -"

ps: it worked for me.
[Droid Incredible General] kbnguy:
Ha! You can install adfree but you can't run it effectively. Adfree needs to write hosts file to /ect folder which still protected (see here)
[Droid Incredible General] E30kid:
You can write the hosts in recovery after a re-root. That's the only way right now.
[Droid Incredible General] kbnguy:
Re-rooted, at command prompt: adb remount

"Operation not permitted". Nope, not happened here...
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] killacammiami:
im trying to connect my usb and it doesnt work :( i want to update to the official 2.1 since the other roms arent helping.... i just had this usb problem since i used aloyhius L:( please help when it connects it just chargers i tryed on 2 cords ... i got ask me on and off and i used disk drive and charge only modes
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] killacammiami:
its still a problem ... its charging but doesnt read connection
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] one-of-four:
make sure you have usb debugging enabled if you're trying to load a rom.... go to:

Settings > Applications > Development > Check the usb debugging box.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] notasimpleway:
Try this widget. Put it on your homescreen then plug in your USB cord and hit it.

http://www.androlib.com/android.application.at-abraxas-mountusb-qqE.aspx
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] killacammiami:
http://community.sprint.com/baw/thread/32304?start=0&tstart=0&reqsorting=dec

i think its a problem with the 2.1 upgrade
[EVO 4G General] bradynapier:
Hey Guys,

So I have a HORRIBLE battery life on my EVO 4G - Granted, I have tons of apps, and even with the Task Manager, I feel I am doing it wrong. I think you need to root the phone to delete Friend Stream for Sense - which I have heard can save you TONS of battery.

As it stands, my phone lasts about 3-4 hours with light use. If I am playing a game I will lose 5-10 % per 10 minutes... Anyways, I was wondering if someone would be willing to draw up a step-by-step "Dummies Guide to Making your EVO 4G Battery Last Longer" including all the various things that can help quite a bit?

This is one "Trick" thread I have found - I will post any other I find here - as well as hopefully we will get a great step-by-step tutorial for Stock phones to extend their life to what I hear some people get ( a day and a half + ): http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=700601 - Changing GSM PRL to CDMA

Thanks!
[EVO 4G General] IceCreaMan:
good on you man, one more happy camper
[EVO 4G General] SilverStone641:
i dunno if i'm allowed to post other forum links on XDA, so i'm not going to risk it. but there's a fantastic tutorial on android forums that works perfectly for me.
[EVO 4G General] Jus10o:
I copy and pasted this from the other battery thread. I wrote this pretty quickly so ignore grammer mistakes, its late.

Just to add to all this. Bad battery isnt just a HTC Evo problem. Go read the forums of almost every android phone released and they all report the same things (in the beginning). Someone that has had a android phone in the past probably hasnt said much about battery. There are so many things you can do to increase battery.

1. manage your apps. Exit them instead of leaving them running (press back button until the app closes, or some apps you can Menu> exit) Pressing home doesnt close the app, it only takes you to the homescreen. Also change the sync times of all your apps. If you dont use gmail or google calendar, then uncheck the "sync" in Menu>accounts & sync> google. One last thing use a task manager (not recommended by some devs) I use it to end tasks of apps that use data, or ones that i use maybe once a day or once a week, i dont need them cached for quick returning, so i end the task all together. I ignore apps so they dont end that i use very frequently or ones that dont use data or run in the background.

2. Calibrate your battery once like so.. Charge your phone to 100% and then use your phone like normal until its so dead it shuts off by itself. Dont plug it into the computer or wall charger in that time. Then once it shuts off, plug the phone into a wall charger and charge it till its 100% again. After that, plug and play as much as you want.

3. Use less widgets that sync. If its really not that important, then just dont use it. If you do want them, like above, change the sync time. Also the weather app syncs, so if you dont check the weather every hour when its just hot and clear outside, change it to sync every 2, 3, or 4 hours.

4. Buy a car charger, usb cord for the comp, and maybe another wall charger. Buy an extra battery or extended battery (if available). Doing the above and adding these to them, youll have a huge increase in battery.

I have an htc hero and i can get well over 12 hours of use by just watching what syncs and what uses data. And i use my phone alot, and wake it up a ton to check for notifications.

I use a friends Evo so im not new to the device and I understand its a different phone.

Stock htc phones come with a lot of stuff preinstalled and widgets. When signing into them with your accounts the sync times are usually pretty high, some like every 15mins. Watch what you are doing with the phone and youll have normal battery life.
[EVO 4G General] GReddySetGO:
OP, I was in the same boat as you, needing to charge my phone several times a day, and if I was playing a game, I pretty much had to leave it plugged in.

1) I didn't delete friend stream, but I did change the update to once a day (default is every 2hrs), and I disabled sync live feed.

2) I also did the CDMA auto, battery trick thing that you linked.

3) I also did several of the steps posted on another android forum in a guide that someone created.

I would say doing steps 1 & 2, really made a HUGE improvement on my battery life. The phone will easily last an entire day while I play games, and browse the internet on it all day. The phone is still new so I play with it a lot. If I didn't play with it so much, I honestly feel the phone could last 1-2+ days without a charge now.
[EVO 4G General] setite:
My battery life is awesome. I didn't have to remove things like friendstream. I used some of the battery life suggestions like the WiFi always alive, as well as stopping all the auto syncs I don't need. It only takes seconds to sync up manually as it is.

Also, at the suggestion of Android Central I bought "autostarts", best purchase ever. You should all get it. Unlike a task manager, which I still believe in, it stops apps from starting when they shouldn't. It shows you all the apps that boot at events. A lot of normal apps boot at virtually every event the phone has, most of which seem to have no relation to the particular apps. Now, after pruning all the events, my phone only runs the apps I load and a task manager has become useless for anything buy ending apps easily.
[EVO 4G General] pocketables:
You can find 20 battery tips for the EVO here: http://www.goodandevo.net/2010/05/20-tips-to-improve-htc-evo-4g-battery-life.html
[EVO 4G General] timothydonohue:
light usage, with background data and auto syncing off, updates on widgets set at 4-6 hours, my location off. wifi on, with sleep set to never.

i had over 80% left after 16 hours.
[neoTouch S200 General] gerryjoson:
How would you rate the screen sensitivity compared to the HD, the HD and diamond 1 have the most insensitive screens I've used yet along with an acer F900, it seems to be something with flush screens, my older stuff with sunk in screens is far better.

Looking at the early videos of the F1 it looked like it was quite soft and sensitive, which is more to my preference than the harder HD/diamond/f900 ones.

Anybody?
[neoTouch S200 General] gerryjoson:
Ok, in case anybody else is wondering, the answer is yes the screen is a lot more sensitive, takes around half the pressure to register, especially in the corners.
[neoTouch S200 General] Axel85:
It s one of the best sensitive touch i ve ever tried.Maybe the iphone it s a little better
[neoTouch S200 General] woaloo:
I previously owned a Touch HD, actually, i have a S200 and a HD2.

The touch feeling is much more better on the S200, compare to the Touch HD.... Specially with fingers only. There is not so much difference with stylus.

But it"s far far away from HD2 capacitive screen....Despite of stylus sometime missing...
[neoTouch S200 General] iliasroub:
Indeed it is one of the most sensitive resistive screens i have ever used.

Tip : Make sure when calibrating the screen to use very little pressure,that makes it even more responsive.
[neoTouch S200 General] gerryjoson:
I mainly use the stylus, massive improvement over HD, as well as doing most things five times faster, excellent replacement for people who like the size and style of the HD with a decent cpu and responsive resistive screen.

Am using Kubino's clean 6.1 rom, even better for me
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kaeedo:
and THE ****ING WEATHER app.

The first one is called MTG Keeper, and it's an app designed for keeping track of your and your opponents life scores in the game Magic: The Gathering. It can also do coin flips and dice rolls. there is also a 50 minute timer included for those that play in tournaments. Funny story about the coin flip, it uses 2 Faces coin of unburned and burned sides, and there is a 1 in a million chance of it landing on its side.

The second app is called Ball Bounce. Its a simple game where you simply tap on the broken computer monitor and try to keep it from hitting the desk for as long as possible. The current and hih score is displayed at the top. My current highscore is 54.

The third app is called THE ****ING WEATHER. It's based off the website thefuckignweather, and makes a web request with the inputed zipcode and download the current weather from it, along with the description. This app does require a data connection, so additional charges may be applied depending on your carrier.

These are teh first apps i've ever made, and all three are designed for WVGA devices, although they should technically work on all CF 3.5 phones. The only reason the cab file for MTG Keeper is so big is because I used images for just about everything.

Any bugs or comments, feel free to post.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bugsykoosh:
not bad starts. it would be nice if fn weather kept last state. No complaints with Magic (but I've never played it:)). I did get a coin on the edge - what are the real odds of that?:) The broken screen app doesn't work on the HD2. It's nearly imossible to get thescreen to bounce even on direct hits. HD2 does weird things though. aesthetics are nice on the game though
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] beaner69:
Awesome! Keep it up.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kaeedo:
Do you mean it remembers the last location you entered when you exit the app?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] bugsykoosh:
yes so I don't need to type it each time
[HD2 General] 'ken:
Hey,

I've installed this value added installer and it changed my whole phone to arabic. How do I get it back to english?