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[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rchatburn:
Rooting gives you the ability to flash custom roms, these are generally built ontop of released or customized version of stock roms, this means you don't have to wait for a feature to be sent to your phone over the over the air upgrades, it also means you can customize your phone fully,I.e. custom icons down to the base level stuff like fonts and batery icons you can also use apps that require escalated permissions such as the terminal app and things like screenshots, cache cleaning.

Reasons not to root, warranty you loose it.

Bricking if you mess up you can potentially have a nice peice of plastic that does nothing.

Reliability the quality of custom roms has come along dramatically since the first rom but you are after all flashing some one else's project these roms are very well done and coded to a professional level but they simple do not nave the quality testing and reliability of the stock roms as these are often personal projects.

And guides on how to are frequent on here as are the reason to and not to root, look above.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UreshiiTora:
so if i want to install a custom Android ROM (2.2 Froyo) with Sense i must root my phone...

and the other thing is, to remove some apps i don't need.... like stocks

but if i'm happy as it is there is no need?

well thx for the info

think I'll get to know my cell phone first then a little

almost have it for 3 weeks now =)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 267841:
just to be able to load a rom without the sense and worth it!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rchatburn:
Try launcher pro in the market and betterbut and I think you will be happy unless you want wireless tether and the other benefits, most sense users don't like the UI that's all.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Deleted member 267841:
the launcher of sense is not very bad.

the really bad are the internal apps: calendar, contacts...

i root and koad a non sense rom, and i have a nexus but without the hardware nexus bugs ;)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aalviedo:
Hi guys I'm new to android... coming from an iPhone. I just want to know why some people hate sense UI? I just had my Desire for 1 week so I don't have an idea why some people prefer stock android instead of the sense UI. For me I think the sense UI is nice. Can you guys enlighten me. TIA!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] foxmeister:
I think you will find that most Desire users like Sense, but in a "technical" community such as this you will find a reasonable proportion of people who prefer stock and/or other launchers.

Personally, I think Sense improves the Android user experience and that's a good thing. I had stock on my G1 (obviously), and got a Hero (which has Sense). If I'd wanted a stock experience, I would've bought a Nexus One over the Desire, but I think Sense is great and I prefer the Desires hardware anyway.

Regards,

Dave
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DrHRH:
Welcome to Android. Nice to see you've broken the shackles of Apple.

I'm not sure why to be honest. Sense, in my opinion, makes the Android experience very smooth and feels nicely polished. There are more widgets, home screens etc...

I can only speculate that people like to be different and maybe feel that Sense somehow "weighs down" the phone with unnecessary baggage. At least on the older slower devices maybe.

Given that you can set the phone to launch the stock Android experience without Sense anyway, I'd say it's a mystery why anyone would be anti-Sense.

Those people do prefer life without it, I too would love to know your rationale.

Cheers,

HRH
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aalviedo:
Thanks for the welcome. I changed my phone to android cause the last three previous phone I had was iPhone 2G, 3G, and 3Gs and I just had it with Apple and their iTree :p. With all the limitation, the jailbreaking, the iTunes crap... and add all that to the new iPhone 4 antennagate problem and you feel like you just wanna kick the crap out Steve Jobs face. hehehehe

Anyway, I think maybe you guys are right... maybe It's because of some older HTC phones that are not quite on par with the Desire specs that makes their sense UI experience a little bit problematic. I've been playing with my Desire since I got it non-stop (except when I'm at work of course) and I like the sense UI very much with all those additional widget and additional option from HTC. I don't see any lagging or any problematic situation caused by the UI itself... and it's because of the powerful specs of the Desire itself.

Well, if anybody else has a better idea on why... based on their experience and all. Give us some feedback.

Cheers guys!

Oh and by the way, I'm loving my new HTC Desire... I just wish the rumored HTC Desire HD is available already cause I wanted to get a bigger screen for browsing. But the Desire now is amazing... what more when the new Desire HD is available. But what the heck... as Steve Jobs said "No one is going to buy those big screen" right? (sarcasm). hehehehe
[Windows Mobile] shafizal:
hello to all

i have cooked a rom with cookie hometab in 23673 build for my xperia and i use 24mb pagepool with manila core 2015 almost the rom is speed but the weathear animation are too slow when there are clouds it moves step by step....

i use already some tweaks like disable push and i use Neo drivers 2010 so i looking for some more tweaks ...

thanks to all
[Windows Mobile] starbase64:
Hi,

i use Chainfire Driver Patch and Toshiba 3D Driver.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=592663

Activate Storage Manager Cache and the system is also faster:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\StorageManager\Profiles\SDMemory\FATFS]
"EnableCache"=dword:00000001

with friendly greet

starbase64
[Windows Mobile] shafizal:
thank u very much bro so can i disable neo drivers if i use this one....
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] twilk73:
I will update this post later tonight with screen shots of my favorit widgets. I want this post to include peoples favorit widgets, a description on that or those widgets(sometimes pictures arnt self explanitory). Also what launcher you are using may or may not be neccessary.

Thanks, Thomas

P.S. I will update this in a few hours with my favorit widgets and descriptions on them widgets. Just trying to get the ball rolling already because its mid day here and widgets are a hot topic for people not using sense. Also mods if there is already a post like this you can delet this post.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] simplyphp:
I'm using the paid version LauncherPro Plus, and heres the widgets I like:

The People widget that LPP includes

Fancy Widget (identical to the htc time/weather widget)

Pandora Widget (pandora radio)

Pure Grid Calendar

Switch Pro (has about everything you could want to see and/or toggle on/off, including 4G, vibrate, battery % remaining, brightness, flashlight, wifi, gps, etc.)

Twidroid

Androidlet Photo Widget (lets you show photos from a variety of sources (think photo.net, pbase, webshots, flickr, picasa, sdcard, etc.) , rotates them based on set time you specify)

Also heres a cool little read:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38331124/ns/technology_and_science-wireless/

I like what they wrote here:
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] davebu:
You mean Twidroyd? lol anyways, can i get a screenshot of LPP and fancy widget, also where i can find them as i didnt see them in the market.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] tonyh703:
widgets

I like the moreicons widget, so dope keeps any necessary icons on the home page. Running launcher pro w/ 3D, so I have no need for more than 1 screen!

Also have Divi Clock
[Desire General] BelgianAtheist:
"Luckily" only the camera doesn't work anymore, I get a black screen when the camera app is started everything else seems fine.

Will have to count in HTC's excellent customer service again when I get home, my 3rd HTC, I dropped each one they got fixed for free let's see what happens with this one...
[Desire General] simonsteele:
Are you honest when you send them for repair? Or is it a case of "this just stopped working Mr HTC!"?

Be useful to know when I suffer butterfingers...
[Desire General] .Hodgy.:
How high did you drop it from?!

ive dropped mine twice now, once was from only my hand when i was pissed, and the second as i came out of my house and it flew out of its pouch and flipped along the drive it some speed, and it still works perfectly albeit with some nasty dints in the casing.
[Desire General] dneill2006:
Dropped mine tonight on bedroom floor from about 5 feet and all is fine :)
[Desire General] chasepack:
6 feet drop onto smooth concrete... one pokemark on one corner and a line on one side.

still works great~

haha
[Desire General] BelgianAtheist:
I'm completely honest, with my Touch HD I dropped it in the shower, they first said it would be €75 but when I got it back there was a €0 invoice with it.

I dropped my desire from my hand, I dropped it before on wood floors but this was on the pavement, I'm gonna ask for a replacement backside too as the camera lens is all scratched up.
[Desire General] BelgianAtheist:
Just got back and contacted HTC, they're picking up the phone tomorrow.

In the mean time I upgraded to FroYo (really liking it), also did a hard reset and the camera started working again :confused: but the flash is still kaput (even through the adb shell) I also asked for a new back cover as the lens is scratched.

Will post an update when my precious is fixed :)
[Desire General] heartwork:
dropped mine last week when driving at ~35km/h on my bike. it fell on its screen, skidded 10 metres on asphalt...and still everything works. it now has some heavy scratches on the casing though. luckily i had a screen protection applied, so the screen is still looking flawless.

built like a tank :)
[Desire General] porsch1909:
How do you go about contacting HTC? Phone or email? Do you just say, I dropped my phone and x isn't working?

How long do they take to get back to you?
[Desire General] BelgianAtheist:
I called them, just selected the language and had to stay on hold for about 2min (without music :eek: ) before speaking to someone:

http://www.htc.com/www/CA_Hotline.aspx

And yes, just told them I dropped it and the flash is not working, the guy asked if I tried resetting and then started a repair ticket. Via my phone number he saw that I had called before and verified my address etc.

I have now received a confirmation from the courier of the address and pickup time tomorrow and a form from HTC to add to the package.

The guy said the damage was not covered by warranty (duh) but that's what they said last time too, I (my company :p ) doesn't mind paying.
[Desire General] mcgon1979:
LOL. you had your phone in the shower?
[Desire General] BelgianAtheist:
it's fun to watch youtube clips, listen to music, etc. but those car windscreen holders don't work well on wall tiles :p
[Desire General] hyukei:
lmao the things we do to keep our phone in view 24/7

luckily i haven't dropped my phone. my heart broke every time i dropped my G1 ><

Nice and still flawless... Loving my Desire
[Desire General] BelgianAtheist:
I may have been wrong in my opinion of HTC service, I was lucky a few times but ...

This time the pickup went wrong, the driver came 2 hours before the arranged time (he said he waited 1 hour and thought that would make it right or something, if he waited 2 hours I'd have been there!)

So that delayed things.

The day after pickup I noticed HTC's repair tracker displayed "repair complete" which seemed strange, a call to HTC was very confusing, due to a mixup my original ticket was closed, a new one was opened but I could not get it or check it, I would be getting an email with updates ...

After a few days I contacted them again and was told to contact the repair centre, they gave me a number I could check and when I saw that it had nothing about the flash or camera not working only that the housing was damaged!!! Strange 'cause I never said anything about the housing.

When I called back they didn't know anything about the camera but a price for changing the casing was on it's way VIA POST, huh? they apparently did not have my email (very bad communication for an information tech company!) but after giving my email they said they would make a new offer to fix the camera/flash and send it by email.

And that is where I am at now, did not get the email yet and more than a week has passed already, I'm using my Touch HD again, I now know why I didn't miss WiMo ...
[Desire General] mcgon1979:
Interesting update. I guess they would have to run some sort of a basic diagnostic test on all phones in for repair. Evebn if the repair was just a cosmetic fix like a new glass or something. Hopefully it will be fine. Let us know when you get it back and how much if any it costs and if the fix was good.

Cheers!
[Desire General] titus1:
You didn't put any protection for your Desire?
[Desire General] BelgianAtheist:
No, I used to but screen protectors and cases always bug me, I change phones often enough not to need them :)
[Desire General] BelgianAtheist:
After a few more exchanges to get the repair of the camera/flash approved (by mail and paper post) it was finally sent back to me last Friday, obviously I was not notified of a deliver today and the need to pay the repair in cash (€130) so that delivery did not take place.

The courier service apparently can only give "between 9am and 6pm" delivery time so I'll probably get my phone back on Friday, exactly 3 weeks and 2 days since it was picked up for a repair that took less than 3 hours:

Repair at repair center - Started	18-8-2010 13:39:45

Repair at repair center - Finished	18-8-2010 16:15:53

All this is not HTC's fault obviously they only make the arrangements for pickup and repair by the respective companies.

The repair was done by Dynafix and pickup and delivery is done by Dynalogics, 2 companies that are part of the same group but do not communicate well with each other.

But HTC does choose the companies that can do their repairs and I think they should take a closer look at their partners.

To their credit HTC did personally contact me because I indicated a "Very Dissatisfied" on their customer survey and assured me they'd look into my case.
[Desire General] BelgianAtheist:
Phew finally got my Desire back, time to start forgetting this sordid episode. :-)
[Desire General] aalviedo:
I dropped mine from the night table to the carpet, bumped the table while I was asleep and the next day I had a chipped on the top left corner. I email HTC and complained about how easily mine got chipped and scratched. This is what they said.

Dear ****,

Dear Mr. ****, Thank you for contacting our Customer Support Center. With regards to your inquiry, please note that your device HTC Desire was made from the finest materials, and no device can be scratched without external effects. you may dropped your device. however you can visit the nearest service center to check the device for you. We invite you to visit the support area at our Web site. Please go to: http://www.htc.com/www/support.aspx Or you can go to: http://www.htc.com/mea-en/selectcountry.aspx Select your country and then click on the Support tab. Thank you once again for your continued patronage. Best regards, Ahmed El-Nouby HTC MEA Technical Support Team

To send a reply to this message or let me know I have successfully answered your question log in to our ContactUs site using your email address and your ticket number 10SACW33ENA000032.

Sincerely,

Ahmed

And you know where's the nearest HTC Care Center? It's on the next state! So they are useless and just keep giving some BS about high quality material.
[Desire General] BelgianAtheist:
I thought this was over, I paid the driver and got my phone back but nooooooooo

The driver was at my door again today with a story that I paid €10 too little and that he has to pay it out of his own pocket !!!!

What kind of a scam is that, am I gonna get burgled next?

I'm currently on the phone with them to check this out.
[Captivate General] cowballz69:
I don't know if anyone knows this but here are the steps on how I fixed live wallpaper lag

1.install pro launcher beta

2.remove all icons from touch wiz and all pages *hit menu,edit ,delete all pages leaving just one*

3,make prolauncher your default home screen* after u install Pl hit home button to do this*

4.while at the Pl home screen hit menu , preferences,appearance,disable wallpaper scrolling

5. Enjoy lag free iphone like scrolling with live wallpaper
[Captivate General] dressanderc:
Wow, thats awesome. Thanks!
[Captivate General] AJerman:
I'm still new to Android, so help me out with this here. I'm using LauncherPro myself, but from what it seems, when I set it as default, TouchWiz should never even be open, so why would it's configuration make a difference when I'm using LauncherPro? Does TouchWiz still load somehow?

I actually think I did delete most everything out of TouchWiz, but if it would make things faster I'll dump all the extra pages I have too. I'm not using a live wallpaper, but anything that will help speed I'm down for!
[Captivate General] cowballz69:
Well I just remove every thing for insurance just incase it does run in the background, but don't forget to remove the pages in touch wiz as well, if you don't use live wallpapers it obviously run smoother but the live wallpapers put iphone to shame, only if it runs smoothly of course
[Captivate General] D@rekills4:
Thanks for this but what I actually wanted to fix was the app drawer.....

The app drawer lags terribly when I am using a Live Wallpaper with LauncherPro....

Anyone know how to fix the app drawer lag?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] xarvox:
I cant program, simply to dumb to learn it, but i had a idea that i think is worth spreading :)

Use the audio output jack, connected to a IR diode and write a app that uses audio bursts to control a ir reciever (tv, stereo and so on).

I dont know enough about the ir diodes to be able to tell how it should be wired together, but i figure a simple stereo plug, a resistor or two and a diode on top should suffice, and make the ir pulse by the audio signal pulses.

the audio output should be fast enough to transmit directly to the diode, if the voltage and signal strength is within ir specs.

So what do you (more tech skilled) guys think?

is it possible?

my android phone (htc hero) can do everything exept brew a decent cup of coffe and remote control my home media center, exept my xbox media center over wlan.

So a ir remote solution is the single most wanted feature that i dont have..

i figure my coffe maker is good enough for the time being.. ;)

edit..

i found a proof of concept, someone actually made this and got it to work on old nokia phones using a wav sound file, that he sampled using audio input on his computer.

http://jumpjack.wordpress.com/2008/06/10/turn-your-phone-into-an-universal-remote-control/

i would suggest that a ir sensor should be involved in the hardware, so the end user can program the buttons himself in the app.
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rickmasta:
Ok guys, I'm having a problem with install this rom.

I'm trying to install: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=715180

I believe my device is rooted, I followed this guide: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=702973

After following it, I did get superuser, and I did the terminal test, it worked. Even have root only applications working.

So, When I'm trying to install the rom, I followed this tutorial: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=704865 The download link to the update.zip is down, so I used the one from when I did the"How to root" guide. Not sure if it's the same or not.

So I put both zips on the sdcard (slideme.zip, and update.zip). I go into recovery mode, when I click apply update.zip, the green bar goes like 30%, then I get:

Anyone might be able to describe what's going wrong, and able to help me?
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] falken98:
You need to either install the engineering rom (which will allow you to enter clockwork from now on the way you are trying) or get back in to clockwork using the same method you used when you rooted the device.
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rickmasta:
K, thanks. I'll check it out.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] derik123derik123:
Does Nandroid back up back up flashed radios/wimax ?

So if i were to flash the newest radio/wimax and something went wrong i could revert back via previous nandroid back up?

thanks
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nebenezer:
No, nandroid does not touch the radio or wimax partitions
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rafroehlich2:
Are you sure? When I flashed an old DC it gave me the older 1.32. When I restored using nandroid I got back to my rooted stock 1.47. Am I wrong in thinking that these represent radio and wimax? I'm new to android and lovin it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nebenezer:
Positive

Those are references to your software version, not your radio or wimax
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rafroehlich2:
So is the baseband reference to the radio?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nebenezer:
Yep

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[Vibrant General] SykesAT:
I know we have the auto setting, and can adjust the brightness through the notification bar. But at night, watching TV I find the screen far too bright. Is there an app or setting where I can make the screen dimmer than the low setting in the default range?
[Vibrant General] cashless:
Lower than the lowest setting in Settings > Sound & Display > brightness?

That's pretty low. hmmm?
[Vibrant General] SykesAT:
yeap. In a dark room with just the TV on the low setting is still pretty bright.
[Vibrant General] Pneumatic:
I have actually had this same thought. We were at the movies and I really wanted to play around with my phone but even on the lowest setting it was too bright.
[Vibrant General] Blueman101:
that must have been one boring movie
[Vibrant General] Pneumatic:
Nah I was just a geek with a new toy. :)
[Vibrant General] cashless:
Maybe editing the init.rc?
[Vibrant General] beesneazy:
Holy hell my first thought too. LOL
[Vibrant General] Pneumatic:
delete double post
[Vibrant General] SykesAT:
for me

new toy > all else.

Movies will be fun again in a few weeks ;)
[Vibrant General] bdjnk:
I was also wondering if there was a way to reduce the brightness more than the allotted minimum. I spend much of my time in a pretty dim environment and even the lowest brightness is slightly uncomfortable.

Magicked from my Vibrant by tube traversing XDA elves.
[Vibrant General] hpz937:
I agree the screen while it looks amazing is way too bright in the dark. I checked my messages in the morning before sun-up and was nearly blinded by the screen.
[Vibrant General] raycosm:
There has to be a way to make the screen less bright. I know the app "Dimmer" from the market can make the brightness go down to 10 (out of 255), but I've read that with a rooted phone you're able to get your brightness down to 2. I don't have my phone rooted personally, so would someone else care to check?

And yes, 10 is still too bright for my tastes. It's a lot brighter than my laptop screen at its lowest brightness, and makes it a pain to use at night.
[Vibrant General] Infos3c:
I have rooted mine and with Dimmer can take it down to 2. However, it doesn't change much - it is still VERY bright in a dark room.

Here's the deal: The screen is super AMOLED. That means that unlike 99% of the phones out there it is NOT back-lit. Every dot on the screen is a super organic LED. Think about those super-bright (annoying) blue LEDs on your PC that hurt your eyes at night. Now think 800 x 480....

Here's the fix: The only way I have been able to make the screen less bright is to use less active pixels - that means using a black wallpaper (all pixels off), less icons on the screen and a black background with light or gray text in apps. I haven't yet figured out how to make the default web background black - instead of white. If someone knows how, let me know.

To get a quick black wallpaper, take a picture of nothing in a dark room and set it as wallpaper.