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[HD2 General] morpheus1982:
Thanks for the confirmation. My instinct told me to go back and check the "Leo Hints and Tips" thread to change it back from the Touch HD settings. So I was right. Funnily enough, the status box on the full FB website now works again!

Thanks.
[HD2 General] M3PH:
Mine is actually set to make my phone look like it's running IE8 on windows 7. Works for me.
[HD2 General] Spacechimp:
Aye, +1 for touch.facebook.com

Far, far better than the standard app. Just like the Android version I'm used to.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] BuddyLee:
Led Notifications

Iphone style menu

Launchers

Bluetooth headset

Video Playback

Ram - unanswered

[YOUTUBE]ArGfDb_KCus[/YOUTUBE]
[Galaxy S I9000 General] msedhom:
I dont think the ram question was answered haha
[Galaxy S I9000 General] BuddyLee:
mentioned couldnt find it in the video ... but forgot to say it here.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] msedhom:
Good video. Any comment on any noticeable lag throughout the phone, whether it be opening/closing application, scrolling through menu?

And any comments on GPS use? People have been complaining it doesn't pickup signal very well, and the cursor hops.

Cheers :)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] BuddyLee:
ill make a video with those questions, but i can tell you now. the samsung widgets like the feeds one which has twitter facebook myspace causes lag. the friends one causes lag, the rest is ok.

I disabled those that caused the lag and everything was fine.

The GPS i have had no problems as of yet.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] msedhom:
Thank you!

I have never used an android phone, so I just had a few more questions.

Is there a way to sync 3 email accounts (hotmail, gmail, outlook) into the one inbox? So from the home screen I can click on my mail account and it will display one inbox for all my emails, or do I have to click on each inbox seperately? Also, is there a widget, or a way to preview email from the home screen?

Im not liking samsungs overlay and im concerned by the lag its causing.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] BuddyLee:
The gmail how i have it setup is with the gmail client stock to android.

But if you use the other email client for exchange, hotmail, yahoo etc. All those could be in one inbox. Meaning you click the email app and you see all the emails from all three account there. You would be able to distinguish them if u look on the left u see colors showing blue for hotmail, green for yahoo etc.

And yes there are widgets to show a preview of an email on desktop.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Knobibrot:
Fringe ringtone... NICE!! :)

I've got another question:

Is it possible to use a Nexus One-style Lockscreen?

Anyway, thanks for this great video!
[Galaxy S I9000 General] BuddyLee:
the nexus one lock screen, that i am not sure of.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] oxylos:
Please look at end 8:28. The guy pressed Homescreen button and it took 6 seconds till homescreen appeared ??!!!

What ist that? Desire and Nexus need not more than 1 second for that from video player.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] bigbuffalo:
How do you disable them?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] OrionTC:
is there any way of getting the SMS/Phone notification in lock screen to tell you who has called without opening the phone to see? ie my Iphone will tell me i have a new SMS but also that it was from "chris" or whoever...

im also concerned about 8.28 and the 6 second delay to return back to home screen, the whole phone seemed a little laggy which im hoping is due to just launching the LauncherPro app and the phone readjusting ?

i have asked this in another thread but if anyone could test the game emulators and see if they actually work that would be awesome....
[Galaxy S I9000 General] BuddyLee:
basically, remove them from the home screen. and to make sure use a task manager like advanced task manager and check to see if its not there. if it is there have it set to autokill
[EVO 4G General] VSack:
Over the past 24 hours, I've been playing with a multitude of different ROMs and apps to try dialing in that "perfect" setup. I think I have narrowed it down, but it seems like I am forced to make a tradeoff and I'd like some advice.

The Sense UI seems to be considered a pig. Not the tasty, goes-great-with-everything bacon variety, but the Unicron planet consuming memory type. Based on what I have read, it seems that using a less invasive launcher increases performance and improves the battery life.

Unfortunately, Sense has a REALLY nice feature that I can't seem to replicate on the EVO when using AOSP. On the Evo 4G, Sense has elegant toggle switches for:

4G

Mobile Internet

Wi-FI

GPS

Mobile Hotspot

Bluetooth

Airplane

Slap a Brightness and Ringer control from the MP in there, and you have yourself a one stop shot of virtual dip switches to control everything about your phone that sucks down juice.

Unless I am missing something, there doesn't seem to be any solutions in the Marketplace that can duplicate this functionality. There are some apps that provide shortcuts to certain toggles, but nothing that gives you an "at a glance" feature like the Sense UI provides.

So my question is this: what do you all do? I love love LOVE that idea of controlling my connections easily to save on battery, but at the same time feel a lot more comfortable using LauncherPro and boycotting the closed-sourceness that is HTC's custom interface of bloat.

Either way I still end up with the best phone on the market, I just feel like its forcing me to make a compromise when I am so close to perfection.

Thanks in advance!
[EVO 4G General] Zardos66:
The SwitchPro widget from the market has everything but 4g. I use it all the time.

http://www.appbrain.com/app/alei.switchpro
[EVO 4G General] VSack:
The only thing about switchpro that threw me for a loop is that when placed side by side with the Sense widgets (and power options) is that even though the Mobile dip for Sense can "turn on" the Mobile connection in Switchpro, the Switchpro widget does not do the same for the Sense one.

This could simply be a misreport, but I was concerned that it simply was not disabling the service.

Then again...I can't really do anything with the phone web-wise... :)
[EVO 4G General] icantdrawanime:
double post...
[EVO 4G General] icantdrawanime:
If you search the market place of "onoff" or "toggle" you should find widgets that replace the switch functionality of the sense UI. Combine that with this for 4g and you can have your cake and eat it too:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=695056
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] piyush123:
Hello,

hello all,

I can't perform a HARD RESET though I am doing what is said on this procedure.

Nothing happens!

I can only perfom a SOFT RESET.

Can anyone please shed any light on this issue?

Thanks

piyush
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Huckleberry88:
Why you wouldn't check existing post on this issues before?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=410424
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] greeklegend:
Hey everybody. I'm on windows and adb's shell just keeps on pissing me off. Mainly, how pressing tab actually inserts a tab rather than tab completion :mad: . I'd really like to do something about this.

Here's a list of the things i've tried to get rid of this super-annoying behaviour.

-rolled a cross-compiler toolchain (glibc-based) for my phone (HTC Magic) and cross-compiled bash (in a vm). I actually made this work even with dynamic linking, and can start bash from within an instance of "adb shell". Unfortunatly, this doesn't change the tab behaviour, which appears to be baked into adb rather than a problem with the default shell.

-I thought i'd try something fancy by doing...

adb shell mkfifo /fifo

adb shell "bash > /fifo < fifo 2> /fifo"

adb forward tcp:9001 dev:/fifo

and starting putty in raw mode, connecting to localhost:9001. Unfortunatly, all is what happens is i get an echo of what i type and if i press enter a few times putty spits out ": command not found". I can't see why this shouldn't work but I suspect i'm Doing It Wrong.

-Searching the forum revealed puttycyg, which is actually really handy but unfortunatly suffers from the same tab completion problem as using adb shell in cmd.exe

How do you guys do it? Am I onto something with the adb forward thing? If so, how do I make that work?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Fulkerson:
I have also compiled bash but I have tab completion though adb. I do however use Linux as my desktop OS and am connecting through Konsole. So you could just try to install KDE for Windows. I know that I've looked for good terminal applications for windows but found none. They're all **** compared to what's available on nix.

This is my simple bashrc:

# If interactive do nothing.
[ -z "$PS1" ] && return

export HOME="/sdcard/"

PS1='android@\h:\w\$ '

Also it's full of aliases for busybox. By replacing built in ls and similar you even get nice colors :) But still no line editing for some reason. I figure I might just need a proper libreadline or similar for that.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] greeklegend:
If anybody's interested in how I got this working, i cross-compiled socat for the droid. Required configuring with --disable-termios and manually editing config.h to set the #define for CRDLY_SHIFT and a couple other *_SHIFT macros to some values i found in Config/linux-2.6.24.h (or something similar, posting from memory here)

Once socat is on the phone, I made it pipe data from a bash shell to a unix socket it is listening on:

socat unix-listen:/dev/adbsock,fork exec:"/bin/bash -li",pty,stderr,setsid,sigint

(command shamelessly copied from http://superuser.com/questions/123790/socat-and-rich-terminals-with-ctrlc-ctrlz-ctrld-propagation ).

Then, on the pc i run adb forward tcp:9001 localfilesystem:/tmp/adbsock

And if i connect putty to localhost:9001 in raw mode (disabling line editing and local echo) I get a fairly complete bash shell that you can not only use tab completion on but even vi works :)

Again, posting from memory here so if anyone wants to try this and is running into problems i can dig it up from my ~/.bash_history.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Zacpod:
Any chance you can post your socat port?

The tab completion thing is driving me insane! I don't understand why the ADB shell in *nix is proper, but the windows version sucks so much hairy donkey balls.

I've been using Ansicon so I at least get color in my shell, but ADB still mangles tab, and I don't even want to talk about what it does to Nano. Ugh!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] greeklegend:
Oh wow, this takes me back. I don't even have my android phone anymore (cancelled the contract due to terribly crap network service, and (unfortunately) the iPhone was the best phone in its price range from my new carrier).

So I don't have any files to give to you...

But, from what I can remember, to make it work, I built a cross binutils and gcc loosely following the instructions from the LFS book, compiled glibc + a few other libs socat wanted with it, and then socat itself, and then bash. I then copied the cross libc.so.6, ld-linux.so.2 (or whatever it's called on ARM) and all the libs socat wanted to /lib on the phone, and the socat and bash binaries to /bin. It's convenient that android keeps its important stuff in /system because it means you can avoid screwing around with your toolchain to make it look for a dynamic linker in some location other than /lib.

From memory socat was the only thing I had problems compiling, and thankfully I've already posted roughly what i had to do to it to make it build (because there's no way I remember lol)

Sorry I can't be more helpful!
[EVO 4G General] ScrapMaker:
When I first recieved the Evo, everything synchronized just fine. Contacts both ways, emails, and calendar, but after about 5 hours, I started getting a notification that there were Exchange sync issues.

Whenever I would open up the accounts page under settings, I would see the sync symbol next to Contacts, repeatedly trying, over and over again. Finally, after a while, it stops, and a sync symbol with an exclamation point appears in the notification bar, as well as next to Contacts, and at the bottom of the accounts page, the same symbol with "An I/O error has occurred," explanation.

I don't understand what is going on here... as the original sync worked great. I can remove my Exchange account and re-add, and it works great for a few hours. Same thing if I wipe the phone completely, (factory reset.) The only solution I have had so far is to un-tick the Contact sync, and it seems to work okay, but obviously I need this service to work properly.

I have tried searching for a few days now and couldn't find anything really related to this. Some have had issues with reboots, and I had it BAD two days ago, and I finally wiped my phone. I do believe that there are some serious core Exchange integration problems on the Evo..

Does anyone have any insight on the matter, or should I just email HTC? Would a cooked ROM perhaps be any better?

Thanks guys
[EVO 4G General] theadlee:
Same issue here. Very frustrating.
[EVO 4G General] ScrapMaker:
Also, this DESTROYS my battery. If I actually let it attempt to keep syncing, it's completely dead within an hour.
[EVO 4G General] njward75:
Also have the same issues and was searching for answers to no avail. Another problem I have is that sometimes random emails just stop showing up on the phone. I can open once and view but later they are gone even though they haven't been deleted. I obviously see them on my outlook on my computer but never see them again on the phone. I hoping an update in the future will fix these issues as I never had a problem with my Touch Pro so I'm thinking it's not the server at work.
[EVO 4G General] ScrapMaker:
No problem on my Pre either, and I really don't want to have to buy 3rd-party software to fix something that is supposedly integrated into the phone...
[EVO 4G General] khov07:
Fellas, talk to your IT dept and have them check the Exchange logs. Different versions of Exchange have different levels of administration over mobile synchronization.

I have an EAS on my EVO with no issue whatsoever.

Bear in mind, Exchange 2003 doesn't seem to like Android synching with a mailbox that was previously synched with another device. I have seen synchs crash consistently until the synch relationship is deleted on the server side.
[EVO 4G General] marctronixx:
i have zero issues with exchange on the android.

you guy can try touchdown form the market. its the best exchange app out. dataviz has road sync which is another idea. i have not used road sync but have used touchdown on the hero. it works well.. bullet proof.

i would check with your respective IT Admins and make sure they allow Android handsets to access the server. some companies do not OR recommend you use a 3rd party app (such as touchdown)
[EVO 4G General] ScrapMaker:
Strange, I had my phone replaced yesterday, and it worked from about 5pm to 9:45am today, perfectly... then out of nowhere, it failed, and is now in an infinite loop to sync contacts.
[EVO 4G General] theadlee:
Something to do with Facebook

I think it has something to do with contacts that are linked to Facebook. Very Very frustrating.
[EVO 4G General] ScrapMaker:
I just created a ticket with my IT department to investigate the logs to see what is going on. Something tells me it's related to Sense, and not my Exchange server at all... considering that multiple Windows Mobile phones, and my Palm Pre have all worked fine... even some of my old Sprint dumbphones worked okay, when I used Sprint Email.

I would root my phone and try a standard version of Android, but isn't it Sense that does the Exchange sync? or is that built into Android at this point?
[EVO 4G General] njward75:
I've tried touchdown and can't even get it to create an account. I think it maybe something with my work server that these programs don't like. I know that my employer was too cheap to get an exchange server so they use some sort of activesync client that runs on the standard server. Not an IT guy so I don't know how this affects things but I do know that I had no issues like this with the windows mobile email. On top of my contacts not syncing, I still have emails that randomly disappear or no longer have a body to the email after viewing once. Very strange and very frustrating that I have no work around.
[EVO 4G General] ScrapMaker:
Well we are definitely using Exchange 2007, and I had to bypass our whole "ticketing system," and contact our Exchange/Outlook department secretly. I am hoping for a response in the next day or so. I bet you anything it has to do with the policy-push that happens once or twice a day... basically re-affirms your device is compliant. IE, if you went through and manually disabled your password protection, this is SUPPOSED to push out the requirement again.

One thing I should probably try, is re-wiping my phone and NEVER installing lockpicker... even though the phone is nearly non-functional without that handy utility, perhaps that can be causing issues?
[EVO 4G General] lrdiaz:
Been running HTC Sense, and Exchange on my EVO without any issues for three weeks.

I have not made any changes to the original setup, other than adding about ten apps from Market Place.
[EVO 4G General] ScrapMaker:
Holy crap, I just got a call from two highest-level managers (with attitude, I might add,) that no one from the company is _ALLOWED_ to help me get this to work. It's an unsupported device. So are iPhones and all WM phones... so this is bizarre.

Basically, this ActiveSync service is a back-door offering, with zero support, and everyone is real hush-hush about it. My asking to investigate the logs seems to have REALLY irritated people in my company, and this is a big place. I hope I didn't create waves... damnit Android, you are ruining my life!! :)
[EVO 4G General] GumboChief:
What assholes. I hate these arrogant ass IT guys. They need to recognize that they are a cost center which only exist to make you a more effecient employee. If your effeciency is enhanced by using android vs a crappy blackberry, they need to make reasonable efforts to accomodate you.

I would send an email to THEIR boss, and ask him what the mission of an IT organization should be. And if he gives you crap, ask the CIO.
[EVO 4G General] ScrapMaker:
You don't understand... the top-dogs just made their call... the next higher up is the VP of our IT group... basically, if I bring it up again, I can consider myself terminated. I didn't realize this was such a sore subject, but apparently it is.

Apparently it has a lot to do with export control, policies, all sorts of random BS that I don't really know about. The ActiveSync service is mainly provided as a back-door 'friendly' service to help those who don't get corporate blackberries.

So it's totally unsupported, and I don't know anyone I can buy a few drinks for in order to get this fixed. I guess I'll have to work the other angle with HTC, but damnit, I already know nothing will help there. Even if they were to offer to help, my IT department would be less than willing to lend a helping hand.

Also, most of our stuff is out-sourced... but I know there are DEFINITELY people in my own building that can help me---I just don't know who, and I also don't want them getting in trouble.

It just bothers me that when the iPhone came out, there were enough 'important' people around, so that even though it's "not supported," our environment was definitely modified to work with the phone...

Le Sigh.
[EVO 4G General] ScrapMaker:
Man, this problem is killing me... I have delete my exchange account twice a day.
[EVO 4G General] ScrapMaker:
man, I wish there was a solution to this... no one else is having this issue?
[EVO 4G General] fragchild:
You could root and get Cyans new Froyo build, it has native exchange support. There is definitely differences between HTC sense exchange and Android exchange.
[EVO 4G General] ScrapMaker:
Does this build support Camera and 4G? I keep hearing about these new ROMs and all their problems.

I just installed TouchDown and figured I'd give it a whirl. If the new Froyo build works on all aspects, I'd obviously rather have that. I like the integration of the stock solution. I don't like that I will have to use TouchDown for everything... calendar alerts, and everything, but we'll see. I also hate that I might have to pay $20 for something that should work out of the box...
[EVO 4G General] fragchild:
His does currently support both cameras. No 4g yet but its coming. Just use touchdown until the trial period ends. By then cyan's ROM will be perfect.
[EVO 4G General] ScrapMaker:
Well I found a solution for now... I flashed the latest Fresh ROM (2.1,) and now it seems Exchange is working much better. I did get one error this morning about not being able to connect to Exchange, specifically flagging contacts, like on the stock ROM, but then a few seconds later, it went away, and everything is golden... I'm very surprised, considering there shouldn't be any changes to the EAS support in this ROM... but I'm not about to look a gift-horse in the mouth here...

I'm also knocking on wood, and crossing my fingers, of course.
[EVO 4G General] ScrapMaker:
damn, stopped working... can't wait for a decent solution. I don't like the way TouchDown interfaces with things... yeah, it has some awesome features, but feels so disconnected from the OS
[EVO 4G General] webs05:
Seems like a dead thread, but if anyone is still having issues I think you just need your mobile account (maybe its called profile) deleted and recreated. It seemed to help someone in an official Google thread I found awhile back.
[EVO 4G General] DraginMagik:
sadly the Android and iPhone OS's are not quite as secure as we IT Support Nerds would like them to be. we are not doing it to be an ass...we do that kinda thing 1) to maintain a baseline level support 2) to keep cost down since, as someone noted, we are 'a cost center'

Any of the main 2.1 ROM's should be able to provide you with access to your Exchange server.

however, if you're organization has some extra security in place you may find the v2.2 ROMs can play better with Exchange. but be aware CM6 is still missing 4G and FMradio...and i think some folks are not thrilled with BT performance. i have no issues with CM6.

if you like (you do NOT need) HTC Sense then Avalaunch has a v2.2 w/ Sense ROM

by they way...this is why you always make sure to invite (or at least make welcome) some nerds for doughnuts or pizza. not only are we easy...we can be amazingly cheap. besides, we love talkn tech and most of us won't walk away with a slice of pizza in our hands. ;)
[EVO 4G General] ScrapMaker:
Sweet, the 2.2 ROMs don't solve this issue. Looks like I'm stuck with TouchDown...
[EVO 4G General] hoffreaper:
I don't have Evo 4G but the company I work has been having this issue. The IT department found a solution. If you go into the Calendar App, hit menu button, select more when the options appear on the bottom of the screen go to More. Then select Calendars and in there uncheck all other calendars, PC Sync, GMAIL, Facebook, etc. This resolves the issue even if it is contacts or email that won't sync. You may need to delete exchange account first or afterwards but once this is done the sync issue goes away.
[EVO 4G General] ScrapMaker:
hrm, I might have to try this some day... I bought Touchdown and it supports so much I don't think I can ever go back...