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[EVO 4G Accessories] brownmc77:
Id be happy with the prototype...count me in for a couple. Some awesome work your doing here, I (we) appreciate you going out of your way to do this. That cover is going to be sick. Should of came from the factory clear, but that's just my opinion. Anyways THANKS, I'm sure you'll be greatly rewarded. If you need help spreading the word to make a little extra cash just pm me, will be glad to help.
[EVO 4G Accessories] Ruki_Uki:
^I totally agree^

Can't wait for the final build :) :)

Sent from my Supersonic EVO 4G
[EVO 4G Accessories] barnacles10:
awesome! I'm interested! Nice work so far. Subscribed.
[EVO 4G Accessories] Alex210:
Glad I found this, and it's nice to see I'm not the only one who wants a clear door.
[EVO 4G Accessories] joey3002:
Just got into the office and cleaned up the 2 sample parts.. the clips work PERFECT.. the fit against the edges is better than the oem imo..

here is a pic.. this was created on a quick material so i could see the snaps.. obviously this is not the color it will be (white)

this is just a section cut out of the entire door that you saw earlier..

EDIT - the material is just a cheaper material to test with.. the final will be clear like previously shown and maybe a few choice colors.. Its cheaper to do it in this material than the clear.. and faster to get the part for testing.
[EVO 4G Accessories] notfuzzi:
Man I have lurked these boards a long time, and I have seen a lot of guys talk about doing something like this and it never comes to fruition. Not only are you doing it, but you are actually thinking it through and it looks great. I voted "No" at first because I thought it'd never turn out and if it did, it would be expensive, but I'll change my vote to yes if it comes out as good as it seems to be.
[EVO 4G Accessories] joey3002:
thank you. After all is said and done, I will prolly have spent more time than htc on doing the door...
[EVO 4G Accessories] wrxlvr:
Looks like it's coming along nicely and will be a quality part. I sent you a PM.
[EVO 4G Accessories] nebenezer:
fakin awesome dood

This is so exciting watching this come together :)

I'm very much looking forward to the finished product
[EVO 4G Accessories] Registerforwhat:
So um, you can count me

In
[EVO 4G Accessories] SeauxCrazy:
Signed up just to say how awesome of a job you are doing on this

[thumbsup]
[EVO 4G Accessories] joey3002:
thanks, responded :)
[EVO 4G Accessories] EVO_Android:
I'm from the androidforums.com forums and I must say, I am so impressed by your committment and quality I made an account here. Hopefully you'll have room for just one more :). I'd love one of these cases, and have been waiting for a clear one to come around since the first day I got my EVO and the Best Buy rep took the back cover off.

I'll be sending you a PM. Thanks again, you're doing a stellar job!
[EVO 4G Accessories] Ruki_Uki:
Every time you post an update on the statues and I read it i feel all tingley inside from the excitement! I can't wait for the final release :) You defiantly deserve a lot of credit for this.

Sent from my Supersonic EVO 4G
[EVO 4G Accessories] Meatbyproducts:
I am totally on board for one! I signed up to deal after reading this thread.
[EVO 4G Accessories] uniquenameevo:
Now that is what I need. A clear cover to show off the induction charging coil.
[EVO 4G Accessories] mrvirginia:
Joey, this is amazing d00d! i'd be interested in a red cover for sure :)

subscribing to this thread.
[EVO 4G Accessories] Tanquen:
I really like the idea of the clear with a color or two swirled in. Is this something that must be added to the clear or is the color drizzled over the mold and then the clear injected in? Would the color have a gradient fade or blur into the clear or would it be clean runs or globs of color trapped in the clear?

Black and or yeliow swirl over the red innards might be cool.

Thanks for the hard work.
[EVO 4G Accessories] OneStepAhead:
he was being sarcastic dude.. are you for real? your people skills are overwhelming.
[EVO 4G Accessories] OneStepAhead:
I dont know about the rest of you, but I plan to use the clear battery cover with a clear TPU case, so im not too worried about the battery door scratching. Sure I could roll with no battery door, but i think thats a bit dangerous, as dirt and water would have a much easier time entering the phone.
[EVO 4G Accessories] OneStepAhead:
im actually rolling with a black battery right now and no battery door with a clear TPU case and it still looks awesome. i might like it even better then solid red...
[EVO 4G Accessories] speedycake:
It's looking like I will be getting something to make into a white battery door for my evo than waiting for white oem parts to pop up haha.

Great job!
[EVO 4G Accessories] OneStepAhead:
my white battery door (almost said "white back door" but retracted, lol) is super pliable. i can bend it all around, would be very hard to snap it. whatever material it is, its perfect IMO.
[EVO 4G Accessories] OneStepAhead:
awesome, that's how!

or click here for jumbo size: http://imgur.com/UXchP.jpg

damn i have nice hands, i should start hand modeling like that Seinfeld episode, lol. i mean honestly, don't you just want to buy that phone now? :p

that is an Argyle TPU case for those interested.. this one to be exact: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330445780499 if you think you want one wait a week, i've got a hundered of them on order from China that i need to resell :) (the ones I ordered dont have the large opening around the camera, its 3 seperate holes like the Amzer)
[EVO 4G Accessories] thorpe24:
I can't wait. "bounces up and down"
[EVO 4G Accessories] kellybrf:
definitely looking forward to getting one of these at this point. do we need to pm you for preorder?
[EVO 4G Accessories] joey3002:
No.. I have a site.. Just waiting on pics to post.

Tapatalk on evo
[EVO 4G Accessories] graham53:
i am in for the clear battery door
[EVO 4G Accessories] GamerMYJ:
Dude. I would buy one. The swirls sound interesting, but clear would rock :)

Sent from my brand new EVO :)
[EVO 4G Accessories] utb:
Your going to make so much bank ;)

ETA til youll be selling these on the market?
[EVO 4G Accessories] flam253:
217 votes times 16.95 = 3678.15

that is if everyone buys one, damn
[EVO 4G Accessories] joey3002:
Keep in mind I have molding costs and order min to take into account. I'm doing this more for the community and to learn something new. I'm hoping to break even honestly..

4 to 5 weeks before they are ready due to mold work. Will do preorders in a week. I am hoping everyone can see I will keep them updated.

Should have another pic shortly. Hopefully it will be final prototype.

Tapatalk on evo
[EVO 4G Accessories] nowhere2010:
Can't wait to see the latest pictures. Still waiting for get your thoughts on laser etching of logos, etc :)
[HD2 General] ian_uk1975:
A few days ago, I managed to drop my HD2. This would normally be a bad situation at the best of times, but this was from the top of my stairs at home. The phone fell through a gap in the bannisters and fell SCREEN DOWN on a stack of CAST IRON weights that were stacked on the floor below! I would've bet a lot of money that the phone would've been very badly damaged and was FULLY expecting to find the screen totally smashed with tiny splinters of glass everywhere. I trudged downstairs and, fearing the worst, picked the phone up and turned it over........ the screen wasn't smashed... it wasn't even cracked. I put the battery back in (which had been fired across the room from the impact) and turned it on... PERFECT. The case wasn't even marked or scratched.

Don't get me wrong, I count myself freakishly lucky, but I was truly staggered the phone survived that fall in the WORST of circumstances and didn't even get a scratch.

Just thought I'd share!
[HD2 General] ilordvader:
did u have any case on it ?

show a Pic of ur phone with its case

thanks
[HD2 General] ian_uk1975:
No case. Phone was naked.
[HD2 General] dan138zig:
astonishing..
[HD2 General] dwarvenmilitia:
I am amazed as well at the durability of the hd2. Dropped a 3 month old iphone about 15cm off the ground and shattered the screen. Annoying cause of the $ but was an iphone so didn't really concern me greatly. Someone got a used ipod as the phone part died. Anyway so when i was putting stuff in a cupboard with the hd2 in hand inside the stock leather pouch, i tipped the phone upside down by accident trying to keep the pile of junk in the cupboard from crashing down and out of the pouch she slid. This dropped almost 2 metres onto concrete tiled flooring on the top right corner of the phone in what i can describe as an almost vertical fall. I was thinking that the screen was long gone too but to my amazement she was still running fine with only a very slight warping of the hard plastic shell in the corner from where it hit. You have to be looking for it to see the warp that is how minute the damage is but i think i tempted fate once too much also. But hey... a really good phone that has survived a bit already. The only downfall so far is it turns on easily when in your pocket on the plane. :p
[HD2 General] davidgk:
it is tough. accidentally dropped mine from the dressing table to the hard woord floor. did not find a scratch
[HD2 General] bates_1974:
you guys are lucky, back in february when I'd only had mine for 5 days I dropped it taking it from my pocket, just over a metre, shattered the whole screen to pieces, still used it for a week or so before the touchscreen failed to, god bless insurance!
[HD2 General] Sichroteph:
i felt it 4 or 5 times on the floor witbout one scratch, to be honest only few ones barely visible on the battery cover like 1 or 2 mm long. probably lucky too.

now ... i use my fixed on my motorcycle (gps), went for a 7 days trip with you can guess, a lot of vibrations and sun heat. nothing :-)
[HD2 General] conantroutman:
I read on here somewhere that the screens most likely to break if the first contact between the phone and the floor is the bottom corner near the hardware buttons because of the gap for the buttons which makes sense........

I would have just sat at the top of my stairs crying if I was the OP.....

Lucky lucky lucky.....:D
[HD2 General] Kalavere:
The center of the screen is the place for it to be hit. It's the strongest part of the display, the further out from the center you go, i.e. the edges, the weaker the display gets.

Try smashing a window hitting it in the center with a bat, it will just bounce right back at you with considerable force, hit the corners and you'll get a lot less recoil and you have a much higher chance of shattering the glass. Of course this is just a very crude example of what I mean. :p
[HD2 General] c_legaspi:
id say you just got lucky
[HD2 General] Beefheart:
I wish the crap LCD panels HTC use for the HD2 were tough. I have had to return mine twice since I got the phone in November due to developing white patches on the display.

Strange that my 3 year old 2G iPhone doesn't have the same issue.....
[HD2 General] Kalavere:
And I am sure that someone with an iPhone is saying the same about HTC phones. It swings in roundabouts, no manufacturing process is perfect.
[HD2 General] sniper-wolf:
You owe me a new kitchen window. :mad::eek::eek::mad:

;)
[HD2 General] Beefheart:
I must know about twenty people with iPhones and can't think of one who has had a single hardware issues with them. A couple of them dropped their's which resulted in cracked screens but that applies to any device with capacitive displays. I'm not an iPhone fanboy here, I love my HD2. But despite Crapple being **** when it comes to their obsessive control of what the end user can do (which renders their phones unusable without a jailbreak in my view), they are renowned for the quality of their hardware and for good reason.

I just find it annoying that I have had to return my Leo twice for exactly the same issue without treating it any different to my numerous other phones, and I have no doubt the same thing will happen again within 3-5 months. This points to shoddy materials.
[HD2 General] NathanRandom:
Wish I could say the same for my HD2. Slipped out of my hand the other night and onto concrete from about 4 and a half foot up. Screen is cracked all over, gutted. I've dropped it before but its just scuffed the rubberised edges, made a right meal of it this time.
[HD2 General] bronx:
sorry for possible hijack, but were those patches that bad? I have some, but I am not bothered bout them as I can only see them browsing xda developers. :D (whiteish background :) )
[HD2 General] Mega Maniac:
Good to know even the common house thief has knowledge to share with the community ;)
[HD2 General] Beefheart:
It doesn't stop the phone being usable, but why should I put up with a defective screen on a phone that costs this much?
[General Topics] SWBgHz:
I know this may seem a stupid question, but as I just do not know anyone using Google Voice for much of anything but a fancy voicemail I am not sure and I want to be clear before I decide on a new phone.

When I go to Google Voice form my computer and make a call the system is using VOIP, but how does it work on Android phones - whether using the Google Voice App or the Google Voice mobile webpage? Can you avoid using your voice minutes by using Google Voice (either the web version or app version) on an Android device (specially thinking of Sprint Hero phone).

Hope this is in right section - it didn't seem to fit in any of the Android sections as they all seemed development focused. Thanks in advance.
[General Topics] SWBgHz:
I should add the following for clarification. I get that if you have people call your GV number that GV (if set to do so) will forward to your mobile and in that case you would be receiving an incoming phone call and use minutes (though if the carrier has a fav type thing I believe you can setup things to put your GV number in favs and that would mean no minutes used in that case). My question is more on outgoing calls. If I am prone to letting voicemail pick up and calling people back - which I am - then can I call folks back using Google Voice (again, app or web) using data and not my carrier phone minutes?
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] konstantinosmis:
Does anybody know how to enable image refine when I press zoom in/out in the picture gallery? This was enabled in XXJF3 but on the new firmwares didn;t do anything. Anybody know how to fix this problem?
[Galaxy S I9000 Android Development] sunwee:
none...it's how the default gallery works :(

for now, you have to install 3rd party app. try b&b gallery
[Android Apps and Games] TT1986:
I've been playing around my newly bought Nexus One and one thing I've found is that while graphics and colours when doing most things in general are so vibrant and beautiful to look at, games look decidedly 2nd rate.

Why is that? Is that something to do with the hardware or the APIs provided by Google? It would be nice to see something like Plants vs Zombies on the iPhone. From my limited use I find the graphics on my Nexus One slightly better than the 3GS on everything except when it comes to games, where it is left far behind. I found that really weird.

On a related note, I'm no developer myself, but I'm of the opinion that the success of the platform will depend a lot on 3rd party development, which means a lot of support given by Google to developers. What's the situation like now? How easy/hard is to develop for Android phones and what are the scopes for improvement?
[Android Apps and Games] TT1986:
Bump.

Any opinions from Android developers on here? :)
[Android Apps and Games] alienwolf426:
its because pre nexus one/desire there was only one android phone which could even play good graphics and that was the moto droid .

give the developers some time ... now that more powerful android phones are coming out, we'll see more and more better looking games ... as an example look at raging thunder 2 ... you might not like racing games but that game has exceptional graphics

nothing as good as the iphone yet, because iphone always had a very powerful gpu from the get go so all of iphone game developers have had that much time to play around with them ... android just started getting powerful gpus

hope that answers ... and anyone with more knowledge, feel free to correct me if i'm wrong :)
[Android Apps and Games] TT1986:
Thanks for the explanation, makes sense. Which new Android phones have good GPUs on board?
[Android Apps and Games] jhnstn00:
Watch out here comes the "Droids"
[Android Apps and Games] renzuokun:
its mostly due to the fact that a lot of older phones (eg. the htc hero) dont have gpus whatsoever. the moto droid had a gpu, therefore could run good graphics in a 3d game. the samsung galaxy S has a great gpu on the cpu die and will run some really impressive games on it, in fact, it could run much better looking games than on the iphone.
[Android Apps and Games] deanwray:
for a art developers view

Ok well I'm a 14+ year vet of games industry on console games, in technical art production, but my view would be the same as a programmer I would suspect. Just like when doing a multi-platform release back in the ps, saturn, n64, dreamcast etc... days, you dont really want to do lots of work for all platforms. Neither do you want to cut your biggest market chunk out by them not getting the experience others get with better hardware. This takes me back to PC days when we have powerVR primary GPU's, or ATI, or Nvidia, or matrox, well the list got big. The graphics capabilities sometimes had to be addressed almost as if they were different platforms (this is b4 HAL abstraction sweetness and todays DX domination). I suppose at the end of the day, I would not choose to dev only on android for the SGS, that cuts some 99% of the market out. What apple has done is have fixed hardware and Development LIBs for that hardware. This makes it very easy to give all iPhone users the same experience. With android, too many variances in hardware and capability, also maybe hits taken from phone operator system additions and services.

So in my opinion, you cant have such and open system that can have lots of variations and get games in numbers and quality that we see on iphone. Not cause android phones cant do it. Cause not all of them can etc, and it's too varied.

Just my opinion :)
[Android Apps and Games] TT1986:
I see what you mean. It's a lot like Console vs PC isn't it? I'm a PC gamer but i can understand why publishers/developers prefer console because they don't have to deal with a large variety of hardware. In other words, optimizing gaming experiences on Android phones could be harder than on iPhones because of the same reason.

Lets hope the difference isn't too big though.
[Android Apps and Games] theineffablebob:
Porting from PC to console and vice-versa is probably easier than iPhone to Android, though.

I remember Valve saying that porting The Orange Box over to the Xbox 360 was very easy. They said something like they put the PC code -- with a few changes like control configuration -- through a 360 compiler and the game was up and running.

Also, with the PC, you have just two major processor brands (Intel and AMD) and two major graphics card brands (NVIDIA and ATI). The APIs and stuff are also far more mature.
[Android Apps and Games] bommel0815:
google could do what Palm did.

Palms PDK allows porting of iPhone games to the Pre in a matter of hours.
[Android Apps and Games] Geniusdog254:
That's probably because it's made in XNA or some other cross platform code. That's one of the things pulling me toward WP7 (that and Zune Pass :D).

Devs can write one code base, and in a matter of days have it ported to all major Microsoft software. As an Android dev myself, that would be amazingly useful did I also produce desktop software. I mean think about it, write an app for PC, then also target XBOX360, ZuneHD, normal Zunes, and WP7 all with essentially one codebase with very few small changes between them. That's some amazing stuff.

I toyed with XNA before and it is a beautiful way to code. Not to mention that the C# it uses is essentially Java with a few modifications.
[Desire General] albert_htc:
Hi

Unrooted desire.

Is it possible to add an icon to my notification bar, that when pressed will work like the menu button ??

Thanks :)
[Desire General] Bouncer5:
Curiosity has me wondering why?
[Desire General] albert_htc:
To save me having to press the physical menu button !! Just tap the icon...
[Desire General] DanTehManUK:
Not that i can think of,,,

curiosity has me saying, menu button on notification bar,,,, Win Mobile Judas!!! :D:D:D:D:D
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kenpoman:
ok so here goes

running dd2.7 i am missing music files they are in /sdcard/media/music

running any other rom ( including froyo ) they all appear and play fine.

also why are the music players in the roms different. the player from one of the froyo builds was different. I like that on but cant use it on 2.7
[Windows Phone 7 General] TAMHAN:
Can you smell Microsoft getting smarter:

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Q

Microsoft originally intended to keep WM6 alive as Windows Phone Classic. Will this still be done now that WME has been announced? If yes, for how long?

A: Windows Phone 7 and Windows Mobile 6.5 will coexist in the market for some time. Windows Mobile provides many advanced enterprise features that large customers rely on in managed environments.

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More here:

http://tamsppc.tamoggemon.com/2010/07/07/microsofts-frank-prengel-on-windows-mobile/
[Windows Phone 7 General] lordcanti86:
Old news is old
[Windows Phone 7 General] Windcape:
Why would Microsoft say anything else. If they said they would ditch Windows Mobile entirely to October, people might go out and buy iPhones instead. Can't have that!
[Windows Phone 7 General] RustyGrom:
Did you know that support for Windows 2000 ends on Tuesday? Microsoft isn't one to leave their enterprise customers hanging. No reason to believe that they aren't being sincere with that promise.
[Windows Phone 7 General] efjay:
Notice he specifically referenced enterprise, nothing about supporting WM in the consumer space. Seems to me they are now trying to position WM as purely an enterprise OS and are ignoring the (still) millions of non-enterprise owners of WM phones.

Lets not kid ourselves, after WP7 launches you wont see any new consumer WM devices or support, only devices geared for enterprise use like rugged WM devices. Right now they are just marking time, as Windcape said if MS came out and said they are ditching WM in October their sales would plummet even faster than its currently doing.
[Windows Phone 7 General] RustyGrom:
WM has never been positioned as a consumer OS. It's always driven me insane as I'm a "consumer" user but that's the truth. Enterprises have need for more than just ruggedized devices, some use them for general purpose email, etc. Also, WP7 doesn't support chinese, etc so they will continue to launch new devices in those markets. Of course what really matters is the OEMs. You will probably only see a few new devices launched and they will be enterprise focused (stuff like the TP2) since they won't make any money selling consumer WM6 devices with WP7 sitting right there next to it.

The fact is, we non-enterprise WM users are a pretty small minority.
[Windows Phone 7 General] efjay:
In all the years I have owned a WM device I have never seen it promoted as solely an enterprise OS and NOT being suitable for consumer use, in fact wasnt 6.5 promoted as being suitable for work AND consumer use? Its also hard to believe that the bulk of WM sales are to the enterprise, I doubt very much enterprises put in large orders for devices like the HD2, Diamond, Omnia. And if that really is the case they should stop direct sales of WM devices to consumers, why sell a phone which is advertised with entertainment features like the HD2 was?