yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Desire General] SousukeUK:
But lets not forget iPhone 4 does 720p video recording which Desire doesn't.

HTC did promise with software update but we know how HTC is at delivering on their promises (Hero anyone)!

Also iPhone 4 games runs much more smoothly thanks to its separate GPU which is missing in Desire.

We will be lucky to get Froyo before the contract runs out on my phone lol

Should give Apple credit where its due. they delivered iOS4 to 3GS owners too. even if it does make the phone slower no one can say they are left out in os update (except for 3G owners).

This is the advantage of having a closed platform I guess where Android is so much fragmented google don't know what to do and HTC is not helping either.
[Desire General] SousukeUK:
Lets not forget that you can't even install many apps in your phone thanks to google deciding that SD card is unsecure and HTC deciding that people only need 128MB worth of app any given time.

So it really doesn't matter how many apps and how fast they are growing, when you spend most of the time micro managing the system to get more space in memory.

Also one of the reason why most of the app are quiet poor quality (visually and sometime functionally) because of drastic measure to cut the size of it installation footprint.

And lets not got to Froyo again (which will solve all our problem) as to it's still not out yet officially and when we do get it most us will be half way through our contract (mean starting to think about new phone).

Yes I know you can always install to App2SD by rooting the phone. but it carries the risk of getting it bricked and only people with technical know how can attempt/do. not something you expect an average phone customer to attempt.

And by rooting we end up with something like an iPhone which needed to jail broken to get extra function. when iPhone had to be jail broken to get extra functions we had a field day of booing.

this is something should have been sorted by google or HTC before they put their product out (before 2.1 was out). we can't expect more people to pick up android handset instead of iPhone if they have to deal with rooting and all that to have best experience.

So we can't just point finger at Apple for making mistakes and having issues.
[Desire General] Mac.uni:
Most of this discussion is about which philosophy you like. iOS/Apple and Android/Google are totally different ways. I don't make my decision because of the technical specs. But as long companys think we would it is a nice challenge.

Apple is not that great in inventing things as they make people believe. Main Business since the beginning is selling things, which they had put together. And ok the software. And in both they are very good. (Last one: you love it or not)

A screen with a higher resolution is not that surprising. The question is: what about battery life? Did they find a way to keep it up?

One answer seems to be the external antenna. And this one seems to be a failure.

We will see if it will work out. If they fix the reception problem, when it can be done by software (Actually I don't think so. looks like a hardware design fault).

video call: Not new. really. Problem was the high costs of a video call. If I call my girl friend it is in my flatrate. If I choose a video call it will be about 0,70 EUR per minute. But Apple really can sell things. So maybe people will really start massive video calling over wifi. So two things could happen: Providers will sell more mobile hotspot flatrates or the will make 3G Video Calling cheaper. When the last one will come true Apple could offer facetime over 3G/HSDPA. But I think T-Mobile could start to offer an extra hotspot flatrate with any iPhone.

But the main customers won't be people like my grandparents. Seems to be a good selling factor, but they will still prefer to meet me and my daughter in person ^^

After all lets wait for the answer. Who will bring the next hardware super phone? Will HTC give the answer with desire2, Samsung with ehm galaxy XXXL or SE with hmm X1000?
[Desire General] revthanki:
HTC never promised 720p recording, they didn't promise FroYo on 23.06 either. In each case wild rumours began to be taken as facts, and now people have the gall to criticise.
[Desire General] revthanki:
Android is not a finished product, I knew that when I was buying it. But it's fast evolving, it's come a huge way in less than 2 years.

For example, it's only with 2.2 that we now have a file uploading mechanism on the web, it's only with Gingerbread this Christmas that we'll get a revised media framework (gapless goodness!). I accepted these drawbacks when I bought the phone, because I know it will end up in a more open place eventually.

The next android phone I will get will have a micro HDMI port (which the EVO already has) and a dual core processor and then I can barely see myself needing a laptop :D
[Desire General] canonyau:
I think Apple are like the new drug dealers - their products are pushed onto their consumers, and their customers are hopelessly addicted like crackwhores. Just look at the Apple forums - they're full of comments like "I can't wait for the iPad 2, I will buy one straight away to go with my week-old iPad."
[Desire General] rars:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h3Ogt2L44Q

lol
[Desire General] well0549:
Come on..

Everybody knows that a my phone is better than yours is a kind of religious debate. And much of what people are saying is not based on facts but on 'gut feeling'.

I have a Desire, and I like Android very much althoug it's not capable of doing things I could do with my WM phones ages ago (like proxy for Wifi), like Syncing mail and have unread marks sync correct.

But I also feel Android gives me things that I really like. like a desktop that you can fully customize. Widgets are an absolute winner here !.

But that is not the main reason for my switch to android. If you buy an Iphone or WM that's basically it for the next two or three years... Maybe 200 MHZ more and more internal Ram a teeny weeny better camera etc. etc.

If you buy Android, you really don't know where you are within two years. Like other people said.. possibillities are...

- Dual core snapdragons

- Intel Atom (x86) Based smartphones

- Bigger (replacable) batteries

- bigger screens / more pixels

- 64 GB or even 128 GB memory cards (or even bigger)

- All the goodies Google can add in two years

- gyroscopes

- night vision goggles

- A revolutionary new display slashing OLED, AMOLED, LCD in quality

- Beamers

- various form factors (with or without keyboard, square sliders, candy bar sliders etc)

- and so on and on....

I Could go on with this list forever.

The point is....

With android you get it as soon as one of the phone producing companies incorperate it in their phones.....

And that makes android so exiting....
[Desire General] mancuk29:
I can definately confirm the iphone 4 is a pile of crap one of my colleagues last night at work was showing it off and she had the bumper case on... guess what the signal was up and down all night she must have had ni service come up 20 times... we had 4 staff members on o2 with full signals

Now i know the iphone wasn't faulty cos someone else has one in the unit and his signal played up all night as well... . He also had thus cover

One of the staff members pays £65 pm for a.dodgy signal don't think its worth it - she is tsking it back tiday she also said she made two calls during the day and both cut off

New fix idea required apple

Ill stick with the desire!
[Desire General] mancuk29:
Already on thread at beginning very funny!
[Desire General] AndroHero:
manc lmao thats the most av laffed in ages :D
[Android Apps and Games] rogershroed1991:
Sometimes when I'm with a friend and we're bored we'll play "2 Player Reactor" (http://www.androlib.com/android.application.coolcherrytrees-games-reactor-qjtE.aspx), it's really fun. Does anyone know of any other cool 2-player games like this (non-online games)?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Adel_2:
I searched everywhere for this but I don't seem to find any thing helpful. Is there an evo rom that support arabic fonts. Or a font pack that will do that for a rooted evo. Any help or thoughts will be appreciated, thanks
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DHracer:
Yes, I would like to know this as well. Would be nice if there was a ROM that had this all packaged up already.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mokash34:
please bring arabic support to the evo 4g
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Adel_2:
The closest Rom so far I found that support Arabic is the experimental one from CyanogenMod but you have to apply the arabic libs from

http://bit.ly/cIE01W

It becomeS fully supported after pushing that zip file but I noticed it interfer with the camera and the calendar, could be more but that is what I found out so far, will keep searching, maybe something will float by the time Froyo is officially released for EVO
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Adel_2:
Since my last testing above, I haven't found a complete solution or a ROM that fully support Arabic. I just want to ask here if anyone has any updated info about this.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alhail99:
Finally

Finally a full arabic support thanks to this website

ardoid .com /?p=129 (remove the spaces)

download the zip file from this website and flash it over your rom.

Only works on Froyo 2.2 roms with sense.

I am using AVA V7 custom rom and flashed this over and now everything is perfect with full arabic support, No problems or any FC's (camera and calendar are working fine)

I also recommend that you download Dr.Ben0x Keyboard from the market so you can type in arabic, there are three arabic keyboard softwares on the market and this one the best of them all.

this arabic support is for free, but if you want to get right-to left alignment you should buy Arabic Android app from the market to unlock that feature
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Adel_2:
All working good, I have downloaded the pack and also purchased the right to left alignment from the market (ardoid) but I have noticed that it works 90%, for example in the email I can read what comes in fine and type fine but when I send it, it displays the title in a weird format. ( pic attached).

ﻭ ﻫﺬﺍ ﻋﻠﻰ ﺳﺒﻴﻞ ﺍﻟﻤﺜﺎﻝ

Does anybody has this issue?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Adel_2:
Please post your feedback
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaypro:
... thank you so much alhail99 & Adel_2 for your input on bringing arabization to our beloved Evo phones... i just wanted to calrify this important point:

my Sprint's evo is rooted to froyo 2.2 but i have no rom installed, therefore, here is what i did to install the arabization file which alhail99 provided us:

1. After downloading the Arabization libs from the mediafire link

2. Drag to your Evo SD card

3. Power off your evo then Reboot to recovery

4. Once there, use "volume down" botton to select unzip file from SD card

5. Use "power" botton to select the downloaded file

6. Let your evo do the work, when finished reboot

7. Done!!

... a couple important notes:

1. I downloaded Dr.Ben0x Arabic Keyboard from the Market (free), and it's working

perfectly

2. You'll need to buy "Arabic Android" app ($6.99) from the market in order to get

the right-to-left alignment feature, which i haven't done but planning on doing

soon

Again.. thanks for evrything!!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mokash34:
i flashed this and didn't have to buy that app..... everything works after flashing
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ramasoft:
Hello there,

After doing an OTA software update to version 3.70 (from ver 3.30), Arabic on my EVO does not work anymore. I contacted Mr. Ayman (the developer), he never replied nor updated the Arabic.

I bought his $7 RTL and now I can not use Arabic. I wasted few dollars and that is no problem, but what is a shame is our Arabic developers just do half ass job and leave us users just up in the air.

This is just my opinion. I hope Ayman will read this post and do something about it since he did not care about several users that have the same problem over his web site. THANKS.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] netwiz08:
Arabic for Sprint HTC EVO Design 4G

I have a Sprint HTC EVO Design 4G rooted and would like to add arabic to it. This is the phone information.

Model: PH44100

Android Ver. 2.3.4

HTC Sense Ver. 3.0

Software# 2.12.651.5

Kernel Ver. 2.6.35.10

Recovery: Clockworkmod v5.0.2.7

Could you please help me add arabic to this phone?

Thank you.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] elektrik2001:
I figure I'm going to rile up quite a few people but I'm wondering if anyone has ever successfully used Windows Mobile on this device?

I'm asking because, believe it or nor-I actually like Windows Mobile and would like to use it if possible.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Spiaatie:
It's not possible.

As a user you can't get Windows Mobile on Android device.

And Samsung will never make WinMo for it.

:)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] heineken78:
you have now to keep gmail account forewer to login into andriod phone :)

ps: now is time that any search engine can make own OS (why not altavista crack os?=).

But just hold on for real OS . WM7 comes closer.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] elektrik2001:
Well, that's too bad I spose....
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Adel_2:
Did anybody heard about a way to activate evo with verizon. Is it possible at all?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vboyz103:
Call Vzw and ask..I don't know why people like vzw (beside the coverage) because they charge an arm and a leg for everything. Not to mentioned their phone is all crippled.

Sprint's coverage in Bay Area, CA is very great never had a dropped call.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrono:
Short answer: no

Long answer: Other then breaking the law, no.

verizon, just like sprint, has an ESN database and only phones in that database can be activated on the verizon network, regardless of if they would work or not. You can bribe someone to put you in there(they can/will get fired) or change the ESN on your phone to a verizon phone(illegal, don't even think about it).
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Adel_2:
Thanks vboyz103 and mrono, that explains it, I have called VZ and they took my ESN and said it wasn't able to be activated, only older sprint phones can be switched.

I have very poor coverage in my area with sprint but I like the phone so much. Oh well, I just have to deal with it, thanks again
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrono:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=696073&highlight=PRL

Wouldn't hurt to try that.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Adel_2:
Thanks mrono, tested and works like a charm. I keeping my fingers crossed about the roaming charges although I have read mixed review whither it is considered roaming or not. I got better signal now though. Thanks again :D:D:D
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oOflyeyesOo:
It is not considered roaming with that little hack, and even if it charged you, sprint has unlimited roaming with the plan we have, am I correct guys?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] willfck4beer:
Sprint told me that roaming eats your minutes...

and they told me that after 300mb of roaming data... they disconnect you and no data will flow...

Could be that they didn't know what they were talking about.
[Android Apps and Games] AndyCr15:
Obviously, this is just to poke fun at Apple users. Who could write an app that either detects when in left hand, to left ear (so maybe volume button side is pointing down slightly) or just pretends to detect when your holding your phone left handed.

Then you need to be able to simulate the signal bars dropping down 2 or 3 :)

Possible?
[Android Apps and Games] free_programmer:
there is an app for that :) :

see :

apps.doubletwist.com/iPhone-4-Service-Emulator/4903231386011124569
[Android Apps and Games] Tomaco:
It just freeze and then i have to rewrite my PIN so it doesn't work

Or does it?
[HD2 General] hlpdt10:
please help me...i up a lot of "rom ship" but my HD2 still stuck at " stick together screen" although all process of uploading rom is ok. I've used Task 29 but cant help me...:(

i dont know why...please help me :(

thank you all.

here is my bootloader and my sitiuation:
[HD2 General] Demon_man:
cant really see what you're boot-loader says picture to small, what have you done to get to this?
[HD2 General] hlpdt10:
U can see big picture in here :

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_nKBDPu7hzaw/TCYtMkhVVEI/AAAAAAAAA_w/UUa7iKqnI-4/s128/IMG_0018.JPG

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_nKBDPu7hzaw/TCYtMwhZ9tI/AAAAAAAAA_0/qOC5MIT3pkw/s128/IMG_0019.JPG

i do nothing...

first my brother have this...and used it nomally....( when i check the recieved call time and outgoing call time about 10 hours....) but after my brother did somthing with my hd2 ( he didnt remember what he did..:()

when i recieved hd2...it sometime can boot into OS...but sometime automatic reset and stuck at logo "HTC" screen...after that i up rom ship...but nothing better....now it stuck at "stick together" screen.. :(( .
[HD2 General] Demon_man:
what does that mean?? do you mean you tried to update the shipped ROM?? if so then please write this because it makes more sense for people to understand

and the pictures are still small on them links, just to let you no

have you tried a hard reset ?
[HD2 General] hlpdt10:
Yes...i try update a lot of shipped rom( asia WWE shipped rom, tmous........ and try to hard reset alot of time) but nothing better..:(

Sorry..i 've updated a big screen about my bootloader
[HD2 General] Demon_man:
I see you have hspl have you tried to flash a custom ROM
[HD2 General] hlpdt10:
yes i tryied PQ 's rom....but nothing better...

Now...it can boot into the OS again but i'm afraid that it can happen again( sometime OK sometime NG :()

i captured my information for u :
[HD2 General] hlpdt10:
Now it auto restart after some minutes and stuck again...:((
[HD2 General] Demon_man:
this is very strange, ill be honest im not the best person to speak to really, you couple ask in the rom section, or advance edit your first post and ask for it to be moved to the rom section, you might get a little more help mate, sorry i cant help though hope you find a solution
[HD2 General] sherlockpwnz:
sounds like the wrong hspl was used. go to mskips tutorial on flashing a custom rom for the leo. is yours the 1024 leo hd2 or the 512 leo hd2.
[HD2 General] hlpdt10:
512 LEO HD2 is mine..:(..
[HD2 General] samsamuel:
run task29 to clear your rom space from all the flashing, reflash your chosen rom using usb, and check your battery connections, some possibility of a bent pin maybe.
[HD2 General] hlpdt10:
i tried Task 29 before , and i replace my battery with good one from my friend ( he 's using his LEO nomal) but nothing better...:(
[HD2 General] Demon_man:
samsamuel said check the pins mate, the battery can be fine if the contacts re at all bent on the phone it wont boot double check ??
[HD2 General] hlpdt10:
here my picture about my pin and battery:
[HD2 General] Demon_man:
hhmm looks all ok to me, I'm sorry this doesn't help you in anyway at all but there seems to be a few people this is happening to of late.
[HD2 General] hlpdt10:
now my LEO cant turn on..poor me...:(
[HD2 General] xarejay28x:
hey man,

i just had the same problem and i was freaking out for a bit. i was stuck on the screen forever.... but i knew i was in a okay situation because i was still able to go into bootloader mode. anyways, i tried to format my sd card from my tools>>format sd card>> after that i restarted and my phone would hang on the tmobile splash screen.

i then tried to flash miri rom and it was still hang. i reflashed the last known working rom which was energy rom and it booted up perfectly.

im curious how your phone wont turn on? sorry to hear that man.
[HD2 General] james617:
same problem with my hd2

i bought this phone on ebay and have the same exact problem it is stuck on "stick together" screen some times its boot and work normaly but after 3-5 minutes it reset again back to "stick together screen" this is frustaiting please help
[HD2 General] FerretSD:
I find this happening to me afew times a day actually, it gets rather annoying but I find taking the battery out for about a min or two and then trying again helps usually. It's a pain when you have to pull the battery 5+ times just to get your phone to start back up.
[HD2 General] yolsef:
This happened to me (caught in boot sequence) , and I spent ages trying to reflash the radio and the ROM before I finally took out my battery and gently adjusted the battery pins. I can't believe how easy it is to bent those things. Anyway, pins straighted the the phone booted perfectly again, New ROM and all.
[HD2 General] chocolatet:
there is a fix i had this happen to my tmohd2 this morning and was worried about sending it in since i have changed my radio and rom in order to use android but i called them anyway to see what to do they had me hard reboot it:

this will delete everything but as long as you are using microsoft myphone youll be ok

1. you have to take the battery out and then put in back in

2. hold down the volume up and volumedown using you index and middle finger

3.next hold down the power button with your other hand until the phone asks if you want to reboot to factory settings then follow the on screen instructions

After that you should be able to get the the home screen where you follow the normal steps to bring the phone back to stock rom if needed or just the a new one hope that works for you guys as it worked for mine
[Touch Viva, MDA Basic ROM Development] rchav:
Hi guys, sorry if my question has been asked a zillion times, I can't seem to find the right pointers.

I want to know how do you develop or create your ROMS so that I can create my own and share them with you. I have no real experience yet with WM, but I do have a lot with Linux embedded systems.

I recently ported an embedded Android OS on a micro-controller card for an industrial application (yes Android is getting popular as a good solution for embedded/mobile devices besides phones). I want to start a personal project on my Touch Viva with Android.

So any links or pointers to existing tools or documentation will be appreciated.

I share your enthusiasm with the Touch Viva so anything I learn and develop for it I will share it here.

Thanks.
[Touch Viva, MDA Basic ROM Development] Shreyas Jani:
use any of these links to get ur kitchen and go ahead.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=452064

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=554858&highlight=kitchen

i cant guarantee nor assure that these work good....still,these are the KITCHENS used....u can HUNT thru the forum.....ASK some senior members if u are still at large from ur dream to create a ROM.
[Touch Viva, MDA Basic ROM Development] karthiksk:
Oh goody.

Somebody is working on android for Opal. :)
[Touch Viva, MDA Basic ROM Development] jagan2:
Hi,

If you want to continue the work of porting Android to Touch viva left by musikmonk (Lost his device :( ) then i don't think you need to learn rom cooking and stuffs. Rom cooking will only help when you want to make a rom (dual booting) with windows mobile and android. But there is no point to make such rom as of now because Android is not yet ready for daily use.

So i beleive that if you want to continue the project head over to : http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/wing-linux/wiki there you will get all the resource etc. Even you will get support there. And for testing purpose you can always depend on xda. :)

Hope that helps you.
[Touch Viva, MDA Basic ROM Development] gp.triple:
as just jegan have said

could help the wing linux project

many people will be grateful

and on xda you can recive help with the testing phase

look here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=628917

regards

gp