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[EVO 4G Accessories] chandlerw88:
My back is solid. Its actually real hard to take off
[EVO 4G Accessories] rdzlyz:
I charged it on the Seidios wall charger before I used the battery and yes I know that EVO can't charge it to 100% unlike people on this forum, I can read
[EVO 4G Accessories] MSmith1:
Kudos. Then your battery is crap, sorry.
[EVO 4G Accessories] rdzlyz:
My thoughts exactly :(
[EVO 4G Accessories] pongoface:
Quick review. Chinese batteries are only 600 mah more than stock. Buy a 3500 seidio and do not look back. I own both. The seidio blows them away. Msmith buy an external charger already.
[EVO 4G Accessories] goodelyfe:
yea seidio are the truth!
[HD2 General] finehood:
Hello,

YES!, YES!, I know I'm noob....my first post yeah...OK to the question, when I take pictures using my HD2, and send them to my computer, the pictures don't like as neat and high def as the samples on the phone. I was just wondering if there is way to make it at least a bit more crisp and decent looking than the poor quality and blurness that i get now. The resolution is set to the highest..contrast normal, etc..ANY TIPS...Thank you...:D
[HD2 General] jimbonics:
get your hands on BsB Tweaks. Simple .cab install. It has a few options for 'hidden' settings for the camera and camcorder.
[HD2 General] finehood:
I'll do thanks...will that me it sharper??
[HD2 General] jimbonics:
Honestly I've not done a lot of comparisons, but it does add a SUPERFINE option to the camera, so that has to be worth something!
[HD2 General] sirphunkee:
Finehood, what's the highest resolution setting you see in your camera menu? There should be a 5MP (2592x1552) setting available on there...it's on the second page of resolution options so make sure you didn't miss that.

If you don't see it there, then the BsB option jimbonics mentioned will add that in addition to the "superfine" mode. It also adds a couple of other modes you might like, so it's worth checking out. If you can't or won't use BsB, then they're available as just a regular cab too.
[HD2 General] finehood:
thanks...guys..

thank you guys....and yes I do have it in 5mp, but still the quality looks awful, but I'll be getting the bsb tweak...that sounds like it might fix my problems..any other suggestion is welcome!!!!THANK YOU
[HD2 General] sirphunkee:
Check out these other tips too:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=7229727&postcount=2

(the last one on that list is what we've already suggested above)
[HD2 General] finehood:
thanks again...

good tips...I'll keep you guys post it if it gets better!!
[HD2 General] calc:
Are you having a lot of noise problems ? Unfortunately that's not going to go away. If you're expecting some quality pictures like what a real camera would take you'll be quite disappointed . I've tried tweaking it myself left and right and every which way possible. I've seen some sample pictures from the EVO and even with it's 8MP cam it does not look a whole lot better.
[HD2 General] finehood:
good to know..

actually, u know what..i kind of knew that it would never be close to a regular picture cam, but with the high megapixels at least i was expecting something decent...but thank you...I did the bsb tweaks and got a bit better...the hidden tricks are all right...thanks everyone..
[HD2 General] DTNT:
the fact is HD2 cam is poorer than HD's. I have both devices, HD in default (auto) settings takes very well pix, and HD2 (even after tweaks) takes puctures "ugly". The overall temperature of the shot is in grey tones domination, while HD take very realistic, closer to simple digicams. If anybody has an answers, please comment. Would be great if we will be able to take pix even just HD does.
[HD2 General] ddgarcia05:
When you take a picture and look at it from your computer is the size of the picture the same as the HD2's screen?

I'll usually just right click on the picture and send it to paint, click on image, then stretch/skew function. I'll reduce it to at least 50% / 50% and work my way down from there. That usually increases the image quality for me. I don't need a picture the size of three of my computer screens. Hope it helps.
[HD2 General] FerretSD:
When in doubt my friend photoshop is your friend ;)
[HD2 General] finehood:
right...

photoshop will do the fixing for us....jiji...but like i said before i was just wondering if there was a way to make it better...like a tweak or a .cab, etc. bsb is not bad, but it doen't make the image any better in quality...but good tweak really good tweaks..
[HD2 General] calc:
What we have here folks is a hardware problem not a software problem. Well actually a little bit of both ;). All the software tweaks out there does help a bit compared to the stock camera but that's as far as your going to get. Software can only do so much and there isn't a magical software solution when you are coupled with a lousy quality camera lens. The fact is HTC has probably cheapened out the quality of the camera lens compared to earlier phones but regardless the HD2 is a phone first not a camera. Short of replacing the whole lens there's very little software can do when the hardware isn't up to par.
[HD2 General] squire366:
I've had my HD2 since June 30th and believe me this thing takes MUCH BETTER pics than my Blackberry Bold 9700 did at 3.2MP and that phone took some really nice pictures.

I think it depends on the environment your in at the time. I took a few close up pics of my Wife and kids and those images came out beautiful. I also took some scenery shots in landscape and those images came out awsome as well. I took some pics inside the Tennessee Aquarium and had mixed results. As long as the lighting was good the images came out great. In darker settings the images were not as sharp.

I do use BsB Tweeks and I also have my resolution set to 5MP. I'm not sure why your camera is producing such awful images but I'm very pleased with mine.
[HD2 General] calc:
Is it awful? He never posted any samples of his pictures. Are you really pleased because I'm not. How good the pictures actually look to an individual are highly subjective. I would hardly consider the pictures I've taken pleasing but I'm just going to have to settle.

I think the problem here is that finehood is really picky and had high expectations. I'm assuming what he had in mind were quality pictures closer to that of a real camera.
[HD2 General] P0PACHERRY:
Sounds like user error to me. Try wiping your lens before taking pics. :rolleyes: . My HD2 takes great pics.
[HD2 General] jimbonics:
Pop...

Take a picture at max resolution. Then copy that picture over to your pc. View that picture at 100%. You'll see it looks like ass.
[HD2 General] finehood:
hey guys...

i was reading some of the posts, and it makes sense, believe me I never got the wild idea of a phone cam being equal or better quality than a normal cam... but even with the 5 mp and the tweaks and considering light issues or environment surrounding your pics is not even close to a decent quality that's all I'm saying, the pictures look BEAUTIFUL on your phone, really neat and crisp, once you transfer your pics to a computer and see it in full scale you'll know what I'm talking about...blurriness, blur edges, sometimes pixelete images mainly in the face, I'm happy with the phone....and all it does, but I WAS JUST WONDERING if there was a way to make it a bit better...BSB Tweaks did some adjustments...thanks for the feedback guys, I'll be posting some pics shortly..so you guys get the idea....
[HD2 General] nsheaffer:
Here are a few Examples of the Pics I have taken with my HD2 while on Vacation recently. Granted, they are not full Digital Cam quality but they are a far cry better then most phones can take.

I guess these were not taken with 5MP resolution, thought they were at first, Sorry. Quality set to fine.

I do find that alot of times I have to adjust the Briteness a bit for indoor settings. Overall I am pleased though. I will likely never be printing these out at full size so when they are printed at the printing place it will come out the standard size which looks good to me.

The butteryfly shots were taken in doors in a suedo rainforest type environment, the Frog shot was shot in a dark room with a lighted glass enclosure. Our House was of course outside just before dusk.
[HD2 General] jimbonics:
Nice Shots man! Really nice!
[HD2 General] finehood:
after seeing nfheffner pics...i went wow...then probably my cam is corrupt it or something, those pics look really good...nice shots...
[HD2 General] sirphunkee:
findhood, if you could post an example pic or two, we might be able to help you pinpoint the cause of poor quality shots
[HD2 General] nsheaffer:
I was reading through the thread and was thinking to myself, really? I thought the Cam was rather good so I thought I might as well upload a couple shots. Overall, I feel that the shots are acceptable. Just my opinion.

Of course, not every single shot looks good but I would say that about 90% of the time the shot comes out good the first try. Especially outside shots!! They turn out great about 99% of the time for me.

I have another shot that ended up looking pretty good given the condition of the shot. We were in a dark Mirror Maze that I could hardly see anything in. I took out the trusty HD2 and took a shot of my daughter. Looks kind of cool. It had to use the flash and my daughter was dancing and singing to the other Naomi's in the pic. LOL it was awesome! But the shot looks pretty good considering the lighting and whatnot.
[HD2 General] juggs:
Here's a quick shot with mine. BsB tweak installed. I thought it took good pics. Better than carrying a camera around in my other pocket...
[HD2 General] toreone:
Here are some of my shots..I love this camera...it is tops compared to anything I have seen as far a cell phone camers check em out...some of them are tweeked with resco photo manager. Keep in mind that these where pulled off my facebook..which I am sure compresses them a little
[HD2 General] nsheaffer:
I think those shots are good. I still say that the HD2 is plenty good at taking pics.

Really sorry for those with Camera issues because I love mine so far.
[HD2 General] jimbonics:
What I gather from this thread, and my experience, is that using the MAXIMUM resolution is not a great idea. Starting to see why they hid some of these options that BsB allows you to re-enable.

Looks to me like the 1200's x 700's is a good range for this camera.
[HD2 General] ddgarcia05:
Hurricane Alex hit Mexico. What some don't know is that so it rained so much in Mexico that the flood gates were open on the US side to relieve Mexico's flooding. In some parts the river expaneded from being about 1/4 wide to becoming 1 1/2 to 3 miles wide. Many homes were washed away. Here's a pic of someones backyard which was once nothing but dirt and trees for about 2 miles.
[HD2 General] finehood:
nice shots...

I've seen some pretty good shots...well my phone had a problem with the len and all they had to do was adjust it, but i don't know it migh be the darkness of the place but still look funny. here is a sample...with pic was taken with no bsb tweak...
[HD2 General] nsheaffer:
That could be true. I found that with some of my other cell cams too.
[HD2 General] nsheaffer:
YEah, that court looks a little off to me.
[HD2 General] sirphunkee:
Yeah I think the biggest problem with the CMOS (camera sensor) in the HD2 is that it doesn't handle artifical lighting well at all, and different light and bulb types can give either a washed out effect, or a brown tint to the whole picture. I never see that in outdoors shots with even just a little sunlight.

Flourescent lights seem to give the best indoor results, but even those can be less than optimal.
[HD2 General] d0ug:
Very nice pictures that some of you have posted. I have to agree that this is probably one of the better cell phone cams out there, and it is by far the best cell phone cam I've ever used.

In outdoors daylight i would almost say it almost rivals the old sony t33 5mpixel point and shoot i used to carry around. The only issues i have with the HD2 cam is occasionally having that pink hue in the center of some pics, and it's not very sensitive/noisy in low light.

The low light sensitivity is all in the sensor size and lens size on the cam. Small lens = less light getting to the sensor, smaller sensor = more noise. Isn't much that can be done about those 2 problems while still fitting the cam into the slim profile of the phone. Seems HTC already had to compromise a bit, with the way that the camera sticks out on the HD2

One problem I notice often, and this is also going to affect ANY camera. Check the glass over the lens for finger prints/smudges. This has caused poor focus and other problems in pics ive taken in the past. wipe the glass off and it makes a pretty good improvement
[HD2 General] justwonder:
I thought HD2 has CMOS not CCD.
[HD2 General] sirphunkee:
you are correct...I wasn't paying close enough attention to what I wrote, obviously :o

corrected, thanks ;)
[HD2 General] finehood:
I agree

by far this camara takes better pictures than any other phone(maybe)...but i think it can do better...i just read an article on the home page about this guy creating this lens for his cam...impressive...
[HD2 General] toreone:
Yeah but that was for the Nexus one...and actual lense looked ugly as ****..it worked ok but I can get similar quality shots with just the stock cam.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] sapiro:
Hello,

My MT3G phone stopped working so Tmo replaced it for another MT3G (same, not 1.2 or anything) which is of course not rooted and has 1.6 firmware so it is harder to root.

I do have a Nandroid backup of the old rooted MT3G. Can I just restore that to the new phone to get it rooted (and get all the apps back) or would that brick it and I have to root the new phone from scratch?

TIA!
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Binary100100:
After you root the new device and flash the exact same recovery then all you need to do is copy the old devices nandroid directory to your desktop. Open the Nandroid folder on your desktop and you should see a folder that starts with H******.

Do a nandroid backup of your CURRENT settings on the new phone.

You should do this for two reasons.

1) So that you have a backup in cashis doesn't work for you... but it should.

2) So you can get your new device name. (H*******) You can also obtain this by fastboot devices or adb shell devices

Rename the old devices H****** folder with the new one and do your restore.

It would be wise to backup both nandroid backups to your computer just in case. Make sure not to confuse either of them. :p

Rename the nandroid
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] sapiro:
so that means that I have to root the new phone before restoring the nandroid backup from the old phone?

Restoring the nandroid backup from the old phone will not root the new phone?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Binary100100:
How else can you nandroid restore?

You MUST have root already.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] sapiro:
silly me :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] ngkkv:
that has weather, schedule and to-do list, preferably occupying one page in idle mode, like the samsung widgets.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] AllGamer:
you want something like this for the build in TweaUI ?

http://www.xda-developers.com/android/transparent-lock-screen-hack-for-droid-eris-and-hero-cdma/
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] vijay08:
I think you are talking about the "Daily Briefing". It's a good app, I specially like the Acuweather. You can remove the app from your idle screen if you don't like it by tapping and holding the icon and then draging it the bin which appears on the bottom of the screen.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] ngkkv:
yea.. but I don't think accuweather is very informative. Furthermore, can I add my own personal add-ons for daily briefing? I don't want Y! Finance. :X And for daily briefing, I can only add events instead of 'to do's, and ya, I would like it to be like HTC's Sense interface.
[HD2 General] kertenkele:
Hi,

We can install new programs to storage card. that's ok.

How can we move build in programs to storage card like Google earth, facebook, microsoft office, youtube and messenger.

I have Sktools but which folders shall we chose to move?

Thanks in advance
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] KurskS:
I dont like the boring grey-ish design UI of the Dialer of ADWLauncher, therefore can I ask if there is any way that I can change it back to the default blue dialer of Sony Ericsson and still using ADWLauncher. Any help would be great, thank you very much for any help:D
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] FateZero:
Yes just open app drawer, long press on the dialer and drag it down to the ADW Launcher where the phone is and it will replace it as the default dialer.
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] KurskS:
Oh yeah ur a genius, thank you so much:x
[EVO 4G General] thenags:
Been working on my phone trying to get Simpleroot running. Had some issues and threw in the towel. Did a Nand restore and got back to where I was.. Everything was running good. Then I was having a problem with 'Accounts and Sync' force closing so I followed the instructions here; http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=7159566#post7159566 Which have worked before. Now after a reboot.. Immediatley after the phone starting up LauncherPro is causing a FC and I can't get past it. It just happens over and over. I was trying to get to ROM manager to do another nand restore but just can not get past the LauncherPro FC. Does anyone have any ideas what to do?

Forgot to mention. I was unlocked with Unrevoked before this
[EVO 4G General] thenags:
After trying to install Simpleroot I can't boot directly into Clockwork to try and do a nand restore that way either. I can only do it through ROM Manager which I can't get to because of the FC's
[EVO 4G General] thenags:
Trying to just follow the manual unlock methods now to see if that will get me back into the hboot menu so I can get to recovery.

I was able to get PC36IMG.zip onto the sdcard and reboot. But I'm still getting the 'No image or wrong image!' error
[EVO 4G General] ifly4vamerica:
Did you try this?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=715915

I actually used the greyed out portion to help a friend revert back and get rooted again, i haven't tried the beginning part yet.

I'm not sure which methods you have tried so if you have tried this sorry for the redundancy.
[EVO 4G General] thenags:
I actually just finished fixing. I tried EVERYTHING.

Finally following the steps on how to Unlock NAND fixed everything!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=701835
[EVO 4G General] ifly4vamerica:
Nice congrats!
[EVO 4G General] thenags:
Yep yep. Not sure why or how it fixed the problem. I guess by doing that I manually replaced all the files that Simpleroot used. And that seemed to do it. Getting my phone back to normal with Baked Snack now. Then now that I have NAND unlocked I'm going to try DC or something soon.
[EVO 4G General] thenags:
Actually... Booting into HBOOT still gives me the 'No Image File or wrong image' error. And then loads and asks if I want to start an update. But then if I cancel the update and tell it to boot to recovery... I still make it to recovery.

Damnit to hell.
[EVO 4G General] ifly4vamerica:
which software version are you on again?
[EVO 4G General] thenags:
And now trying to create a nandroid +ext backup. It goes through the process then at the end says

'Error : Run 'nandroid-mobile.sh' via adb!'
[EVO 4G General] thenags:
1.47.651.1
[EVO 4G General] ifly4vamerica:
hell i don't, maybe try an exorcism??? were you using unrevoked 3, then you ran simpleroot?
[EVO 4G General] DomSim:
that option is if you have you sdcard partitioned with apps2sd. if you do not, run the nandroid without ext
[EVO 4G General] thenags:
Ah.. Ok. I was on Google for 20 minutes trying to figure out what the difference is and couldn't figure it out.

Now I just need to figure out these other hboot problems.

Maybe installing Clockwork recovery back will fix the probs
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] megabeater:
How to save text messages on internal memory?

I have done this before, but after resetting my phone I cant seem to remember how to do it again... I want to set up my phone so that when I receive a text message its saved on my internal storage instead of main memory.
[Android Themes] Knobibrot:
Hey,

I made a Sense-like wallpaperpack and like to share it with you.

Please tell me what you think...

Download here

or

YOU ARE ALLOWED

"""""""""""""""

* use the Wallpapers

* change them in any way as you like

YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED

"""""""""""""""""""

* redistribute without permission

* tell somebody that they are yours
[Android Themes] KnightMAREcrow:
Very Nice

Great wallpapers, much appreciated
[Android Themes] SpeeDemon:
I think you have found what most geeks/hackers fail to include in their roms. A simple style that looks fantastic, but doesnt distract from widgets or the user experience.

There are way to many backgrounds that should be foregrounds.

Awesome, dude. I'll be usin these!
[Android Themes] Knobibrot:
wow, thanks SpeeDemon!

Getting comments like this makes it lot of fun creating such wallpapers.

Tell me if you need more ;)
[Android Themes] chancellorr:
This is 100% the truth. So many busy, ugly walls out there.

These are really nice. Keep it up. :]
[Android Themes] Houka420:
Wow! I know where I'm getting my wallpapers from now on. ;) Well thought out, eye catching but not so much so. Brilliant! Keep up the good work!
[Android Themes] SLX69:
Beautiful! Thanks!
[Vibrant General] dublued:
I changed the user agent on the default browser to Desktop.

Now everytime I start the browser, it force closes before even loading up anything.

Method used:

Go in browser, type in about:debug in address bar and press go

Menu > More > Settings > UAString > Desktop

I rebooted and I still have the same problem.

Is there anyway to fix this without having to delete the apk and reinstalling the browser? If that is the wya to do it, what all do i have to delete and reinstall.

Thanks
[Vibrant General] gravis86:
If you'd looked like 6 threads below yours, you'd have found this:
[Vibrant General] aliensite:
Happened to my Vibrant as well.

Solution is in thread mentioned above

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=732925
[XPERIA X10 General] sofir786:
hey there guys, i upgraded from Telenor WWE_R2BA02 to Generic_HK R2BA024, just wondering what the differences are, ive noticed there is now a dedicated app installation application, system seems more responsive. Has anybody else flashed this firmware and what are your thoughts on it, Thanks people
[XPERIA X10 General] MarylandCookie:
^I just realised your from Birmingham too... lol.!! Neighbour!!

Anyhow.. i just flashed the baseband from 24 to my rooted 23 and to be honest, ive not noticed much difference.. but that could be me as im always tampering with the phone one way or another so ive never really gave it a chance to show any differences.
[XPERIA X10 General] sofir786:
wow cool lol, i havent gone and rooted mine yet, but 23 bought slight improvements nyway so i think il just with what ive got. Thanks for your help mate
[XPERIA X10 General] jerrytea:
I've asked about this in the themes and apps section, but I'll just ask again here since no one was able to help. Could anyone share the Youku app that is bundled with the new HK firmware? I uninstalled it by mistake. An apk would be much appreciated!