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[Desire General] RaptorRVL:
I see your point, although the cost of a phone and used technology is to be considered.

Most of the Android devices started out with the Qualcomm 528mhz cpu. And it evolved from there. It was also a chipset/platform they were using for a long time already.

Some of the HTC Devices were only an aesthetic update, so exactly the same hardware but different look & feel. That's a bit how HTC works, keep the phones 'fresh', but don't invest too much on groundbreaking new hardware features.

But, look at my signature, I owned a lot of HTC Devices and I must say they finally hit the nail on the head with the Desire. Next to my first Qtek S100 experience, the Desire is right up there on top of the list!

But I do admit HTC made some strange choices. First the Qtek S100, which was for it's time quite a fast and small device. Then they release the S200, which looked a little bit more modern but suddenly had a slower cpu! Weird!

And then the HTC Touch, was -exactly- the same, but again a more modern look and feel and perhaps some better software (back then the Cube, first start of what we know as 'Sense' today). Still the slower CPU.

It was around the HTC Touch Cruise where they started using the Qualcomm MSM7200 (at 400mhz at first I think) chipset. And used that one ALLLL the way up to now! Ok, some minor improvements in the chipset, but not much has changed at all.

Biggest change so far has been the HD2 and the Desire, the Snapdragon cpu phones. In the meantime HTC mainly evolved on how the phone looked and their custom software. I think they are still really strong in that department.

But it all comes down to comprimise and certain design choices. Let's be honest, a Touch Pro 2 is a business phone. And HTC made a big deal out of conference calls, so that's why they invested so much on the speakers and speaker design.

The HTC Desire does not need that, it's not being marketed as a business phone as well. Where one of the major features of the Touch Pro 2 are the speakers for conference calling, for the Desire it's the screen, speed and better Sense interface.

Although the speaker of the Desire is extra bad, perhaps they bought from the wrong supplier or tried to save a few cents :p. The headphones on the other hand are quite good and the output is very good as well.

It's only the speaker that really stands out in a negative way.

I do fear however, that waiting for the perfect device will keep you waiting forever. There is always something better or a new feature that's better on the horizon. Or the 'next Desire' is only an aesthetic update again with nothing new. Maybe even the speaker is just as bad, who knows! :)
[Desire General] crankshaft:
Must say I'm confused. It's a tiny little speaker not a pair of 3 way 6x9s mounted in a box!

I regularly connect my phone to a very expensive marantz stack with bose speakers and its good. Not as good as a cd player but remember you are talking about mp3 which will loose lots of low end as part of the compression.

I really think people are expecting to much. Just remember its a phone not a hifi system.
[Desire General] sabbourh:
i know i am expecting too much because i am also paying too much :)

the price of an htc desire in Egypt is also equivilant to a good laptop , or food for a family of 3 for one month and i am not kidding here :)

but actually all of your comments made me realize something, this conversation will never end , htc will always make phones so they can sell them , and we will continue to ask for better phones cuz we want to, it's a ring that has no end.

i thank you all for your comments :)
[Desire General] wersing:
i'm using the desire now for 2 month and at first i thougt the speaker sounds like ****, but after i got some balls (:D) to root my phone, i flashed it with the newest radio and froyo (open desire htc sense bla) it sounds very good and my connection improved.

just my 2 cents
[Desire General] foxmeister:
I have a T-Mobile Pulse Mini as a backup phone. It's a vastly inferior device to the Desire in all regards except one, and that is the quality of the sound from the speaker which is vastly superior to the sound from the Desires speaker.

It can be done, and it can be done cheaply. Not that I'm really complaining about my Desire, but there's no way I'd ever listen to music via the internal speaker, whereas I can (and do) on my Pulse Mini.

Regards,

Dave
[Desire General] Rambo87:
My bad, I was overzealous in flaming the touchscreen. Its just sad I cant play emulators properly. The screen's only problem i guess is under the sun but i guess you can resolve it using your hand to cover a bit
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] [ L ]:
Could someone give me a simple ROM that I could download and install without having to wipe data that has a 1.1 GHZ kernel and a really good baseband? I am at a vacation house where I usually only get 1 or 2 bars out of four, and would like better signals and faster processers.

Thank you!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] infotechsailor:
is this a joke?

you didnt tell us your phone model or carrier, or even where you are on vacation.

much less, ROMs will have no effect on your signal. the kernel might affect processor speed, but thats all you need (no rom necessary) to overclock or underclock. try hydra OCUV kernel for overclocking if it supports your phone. google it.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] [ L ]:
Oh,sorry.

I am in Michigan (somewhere around Portage), I have a Droid on VZW, running CyaMod 6 (RC2), using the C(something or other)43 Baseband update from ROM Manager, on the ROM that metickulous posted, with a current kernel that can be overclocked to 800 GHZ.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] xerron:
hello xda

ive been reading these forums for a while checking out tweaks, software and other stuff, good stuff

but last night, when I wanted to check out my email, i turned on the wifi but after a few seconds, the wifi slider would go back to "off", i did a reboot and the problem persisted. meanwhile i noticed the "phone" was off too, so i tried enabling that too, no luck, same thing.

and something else too, after like 3-5mins of using it, the touchscreen crashes and i cant use it anymore, only buttons will work.

today i decided to do a hard reset, but that didnt fix anything. when i go to "communications" panel, everything is "off" except Bluetooth.

-if i turn that off, airplane mode goes on

-if i click phone on, it goes off after like 5 seconds, same with wifi

has anyone else experienced something like this ?

thanks in advance,

xerron
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] xerron:
bump .
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Darkstriker:
Well guys. I have been looking for weeks now (in fact, ever since I got my SGS about 1 month ago) for a decent facebook application with a usable widget but I seem to be completely out of luck. I have tried some 25 applications that all integrate facebook (I even tried the ones that come preinstalled on vodafone phones and LG phone) but (excuse my french): they all suck balls!

They all have major issues when it comes to updating info, or posting comments or like-ing feed items or something like that. every app has at least one VERY major issue which makes it unacceptable to me. I also bought apps (and got refunds obviously) but to no avil.

What facebook apps do you guys use on the SGS and what are your experiences?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Rawat:
http://touch.facebook.com/

Bookmark that.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Darkstriker:
That's what I'm using for lack of a better alternative. But I'm still looking for an app with homescreen widget that refreshes regularly (say every 15 minutes) and especially, refreshes when I enter the application so I don't have to do that manually.

Basically what is available from facebook for the iPhone. working notifications and automatic refreshes where needed without wasting enormous amounts of data usage.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Arkymedes:
er.. what about the official Facebook app? It has a widget...
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Darkstriker:
Which is ok BUT it doesn't refresh the comments on a post when you click it in order to post a comment yourself. Extremely stupid! The only refresh it ever does is when you ask it to or every half hour (which in my opinion is too infrequent. But that its of course open for discussion)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] moonrock:
You need "Bloo"

It is free :)

Only downfall it has (in my opinion) is that it does not do inbox messages, which is a limitation in the Facebook API, not the dev's fault.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] varunrai:
Bloo works for me! Really really well! Love the fact that I get my notifications just a minute later!
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] seby79:
For all these application presented what is the application which drains less the battery of our Samsung Galaxy S? Because the official application is killing my phone in regard with the battery life
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] cipiculla:
What about LPP. There is a good fb widget on paid LPP
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] dfX2k:
I use Friendcaster for Facebook App.

For me it's the best app.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] NeoXTC:
have you tried pure messenger widget?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] elita:
I use Friendcaster Pro for android.. its the best.. the official facebook for android is sooooo slow.. :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] darkworldz:
friendcaster or seesmic. Seesmic is v good it even supports twitter altogether!!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] kuzibri:
Is there an app or cab that switches the BT of the Rhodium automatically to on when connecting to the Parrot BT car kt?

thanks in advance,

regards, Kuzibri
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] pilik:
hmmm, how do you expect the app to know that you're going to connect to car kit, if the only connectivity is via bluetooth?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NashTnGuy:
I rooted using unrevoked3 and did the nand unlock. Did a nandroid backup and installed the latest cyanogenmod to play. I've done this before and gone back to my previous rom using nandroid restore. The only thing different is I looked at ROM manager this time and it asked me if I wanted to install clockwork recovery (which I thought I already had so I didn' think much about installing). Now when I try to do a nandroid restore I get errors, and I can no longer boot into cyanogenmod. I can get to the restore screen and it seems to find my nandroid backups, but when I attempt to apply them I get "Error while flashing boot image". Now when I do a full bootup it goes straight to bootloader. I don't seem to be able to do anything from recovery with my nandroid without errors.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NashTnGuy:
I was able to get back

I honestly don't know how I did it. Perhaps I wiped data and it was able to get back to a clockworkmod backup I had previously done. Regardless, I am back and can flash again. Kinda scary though. I am a computer guy, but new to android dev. My advice is to read, read, and read more. You need to understand the steps, not just do them.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] youngdhillon:
always wipe data & cache before flashing again, that's why its all over the forums...MAKE SURE TO WIPE PRIOR TO INSTALLING ANYTHING...glad it worked out for you tho:D
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xeren:
I'm also rooted via unrevoked3.1, but I haven't unlocked nand yet. I also tried restoring from a nandroid backup (after clearing data and cache), and, though it said it completed successfully, when I booted, it was just the stock setup that was on the phone the day I bought it.

I assume it's because I don't have nand unlocked-can I ask what method you used to unlock nand?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
use toast part 2 ...
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] OrionTC:
Hi, does anyone know how split roms work in emulators?

ie roms that have disc1/disc2 etc, once u select the rom what happens when it needs to access part 2?

ps, the emulator is lightning fast ;) i hear droid people having sluggish performances :P:P:P
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] AllGamer:
it will automatically ask you for the 2nd disk, when the game reaches that part, no need to worry about that.

works the same way as it does in the PC
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] INeedYourHelp:
I was about to start a thread asking if it actually works on the SGS. Now all we need is a N64 emulator and I will be one happy guy :)

It's programs like this one where I wish we had a physical keyboard :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] culturelol:
Whats the name of the emulator?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] OrionTC:
ahh thanks! i did wonder how it would find the other files:P

the emulator is called psx4droid :) n64 one coming soon and since psx4droid runs flawlessly on sgs i have high hopes!
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] NZtechfreak:
The author claims the N64 app is better written and running very smoothly!

Loving FF7 on my phone :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] OrionTC:
i did notice some graphic tearing in some games but didnt have a huge chance to play around with the settings yet.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] culturelol:
Recommend me some RPGs :-) Preferably not JRPGs (FF)..
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] JPHCCFC:
Anyone know how to disable the camera noises? I tried an app called silent snap but it didnt work? Also anyone got some advise on how to get the best out of the camera - settings that get us better images? For a 5mp camera ive been pretty disappointed with the camera results!
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] bluelne:
As I know, change your volume to silence , there will be no Camera sounds. Try that.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] fl4r3:
You can delete or rename the file /system/media/audio/ui/camera_click.ogg to get rid of the shutter sound...but you'll still get that beep sound when you focus.

So the best solution is probably to use the silent or vibrate profiles.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] cmstlist:
To silence the camera (including the focus beep!) I use Sound Manager from the Market. I set System Volume to the lowest. All other phone sounds that I care about work fine under this setting. I set it up to schedule zero system volume at 8AM every day. That way if the setting "falls off", it will fix itself regularly.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] harunjo:
I bought camera360 pro..and I am happy with it

Attached the sample.. it captured with lomo cyan effect directly from milestone using camera360pro app
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Davidozzo87:
I think he's not talking about sounds! He means the "noise" of the picture, like the red pixels in night photos....
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] JPHCCFC:
I was referring to the camera start and shutter sound. I was also hoping that people might post any settings they use to get the best out of their pictures
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] inaz4sun:
Worked for other things on my phone, but didn't not effect the focus beep at all. I have heard it is intentionally built to not be able to be disabled. It's quite loud too. Most be something in the OS or camera operating system that could disable it though.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] leobg:
Androidiani's open recovery has a hack to disable camera shutter sound.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] okorn_:
This!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Ok_Kaleidoscope5109:
Noise from high ISO shots are usually a problem with the sensor. You can use one of the alternative camera apps out there that might use less compression, but in the end noise from dark photos comes from the fact that this is:

a) a tiny sensor

b) a terrible sensor

c) the camera just isn't built for low light shots.

some software out there like Adobe Lightroom or Apple Aperture or even Noise Ninja are excellent at noise reduction. That's pretty much all you can do. As a dSLR shooter, I know I have to push ISOs sometimes and just hope for the best....
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] itlbok333:
So now Im all rooted up, backed up and have successfully loaded a rom and gone back to my original backup...ALL GOOD!

My question is what is the best rom out there? Im looking for a clean sprint app free experience thats fast and has all of the root stuff already built in like rom manager, wifi tether etc...

Thanks everyone! XDA rocks!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SilverZero:
Lots of threads like this already. I suggest the "What ROM are you using" thread with the poll. I'm using Fresh 1.0.1 and the netarchy 3.7.3c Fresh-compatible kernel. It's amazing.

Just flash a ROM and see if you like it. Make a Clockwork backup first so you can go back to your current setup. Data wipe and cache wipe before anything, every time. If you have all your ROMs, kernels, radios, etc. on your SD card you can do it at the coffee shop. :)

By the way, some other popular ROMs at the moment would be Damage Control, Baked Snack, CyanogenMod (Froyo-based), etc. Just browse the Development forum, you'll get lots of ideas.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sporkman:
This needs to be in the Q&A section. And the best rom is a personal choice imho. I have used baked snacks as my main its great. But i have

Cm6. And a few others nanoed as well

sent with my evo from a secret place
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] itlbok333:
Thank you very much, that is quite helpful...will be checking all that out....now!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kllian:
damange was good until they went to donate only which is shady in my book plus i hear its got issues, so for now, it's cyan mod 6
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] youngdhillon:
CM6 is great but its all personal prefrence.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] jaguaralani:
(25-7-2010)-★★★Jaguaralani New Slider Tab Icons (Default Tabs+Extra Tabs)★★★
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] snowblind2142:
Nice!

Thanks! Nice work as always!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] abumhmmd1:
GREAT ... .. . THANKs
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] allcal:
gone try this thnhxxx
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] izalcoman:
Thaks , very nice work
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] antoniomistretta:
Good job, my friend! :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] :
good work!

but i can see the extra tabs. this dont install new icons too?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] jaguaralani:
Thank you !

Welcome..

Hope you will ike it .

Welcome..

Thanx mate...

These are the icons only, you gotta have installed the extra tabs first...
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] kostasalfa:
wOW!Amazing icons! Thanks for sharing..

But i liked the whole look of yours and wanna have exactly tha same!! Can you share the cabs or links for everything??

(taskbar, bottombar, you have even taskmanager kinda skinned too!! i also liked the battery thing top left you have! tried one cab for this before, but i just ended having two stupid bars -ram and battery- but man was ugly!!)

thanks in advance!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] jaguaralani:
The theme is DUSK ( by grcegorz )

The Battery..etc from Batt Clock but you need to adjust it through the options

The task Manager is X2 Task manger for Leo

All are in the forum

:D
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] king23james:
very very nice ...... THX
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] kostasalfa:
Thanks..can u share your battclock settings??(thing i saw an import/export settings thing!you set it up so nice!);)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] malhznoi:
I love it man

Look very nice :)

Thank you mate .
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] cdub2499:
thanks, great work!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] HC4Life:
I love this slider.

But is there a way to put the message tab icon more in center between the people tab icon and the mail tab icon?

Thanx ;)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] jaguaralani:
That's a visual illusion, change the tab position and it will disappear :D
[Nexus One General] prodigiez:
Just wanna share. Try to record any 720p video with your nexus one and upload it to youtube. add this to your video tag "yt3d:enable=true" and watch it with your 3d glass.. cool..
[Android Software Development] FishVille:
i have just set up an exchange email on my hero, however my company policy requires pin setup compulsory on my set.

I used to have lockpicker on my 2.1 but seems like that doesnt work on vanilla, is there another software that you guys can recommend?

TIA!!!
[Android Software Development] rtimberman36:
All Androids that our company supports install Touchdown.

It is a paid app but once we started using it we have no more issues with PIN issues.

Sync's everything including tasks which the stock app does not do.
[Android Software Development] FishVille:
Thank you.

10char
[Android Software Development] nuke3ae:
Does anyone know if lockpicker will be updated to support 2.2 or if another app is out that has the same features? I tried emailing the dev for lockpicker but he has gotten back to me about supporting 2.2. HTC droid incredible on froyo w/sense.

figured no point in starting new thread to ask the same question (i dont want to use touchdown)

Thanks

NM found this post xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=7182615&postcount=88

I guess lockpicker or other same type of app won't be available for a little while
[Android Software Development] klaus27:
Check the thread in my signature. I have written an app which strips out the relevant parts of code in the stock email apk and the sense mail apk on froyo.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] BuddyLee:
[YOUTUBE]BoDHCJ0ZwQ8[/YOUTUBE]
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Pika007:
I can't understand a word the guy is saying. The phone has AT&T's service recording blabbering all along, and the dude's voice is too weak to hear anything.

That aside, the result is clear- even holding it in an extremely un-natural way in an attempt to obstruct reception, nothing drastic happens. Still jumps between 2-3 bars.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] BuddyLee:
Strange i can hear everything said.

Are you holding your computer properly?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Pika007:
......that was the best reply i got in ages. Almost worthy of a screencap.

Anyways, earphones on, i can now understand what he said.

Too bad this video won't get even 1/1000 the views of any video showing "problems".
[Galaxy S I9000 General] BuddyLee:
I think its partly due to the fact that the galaxy s doesnt have any issues like the iphone4 why it wont get any attention like it.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
we already have a topic for this, there is no need opening another topic for the same thing

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=728030&highlight=grip

please stop posting duplicates
[Galaxy S I9000 General] BuddyLee:
feel free to move it if you wish ...

oh thats right
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dom5079:
how do you code roms, what program, what language?

i kinda want to help out making roms and stuff

thanks!
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pulser_g2:
Android itself is java on top of the linux kernel, which is C.

Roms are often hacked using smali if they are htc sense roms.

Hth
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dom5079:
is there a way to make android applications without typing out all the code?

is there a simpler way?
[Hero, G2 Touch Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] btdag:
I believe there is a google beta which allows you to create an app within a template, but obviously this will be highly limiting. I can't remember what it's called either.

Though you are sort of dreaming a bit here aren't you... it's like saying - is there a way to make a linux / windows app without having to do any of the work. Of course there isn't. You can't just have an idea and suddenly it will work.
[HD2 General] Stu1973:
When I do I get the "active sync" or "internet sharing" on screen, I click active sync but nothing happens after that, can anyone help
[HD2 General] rp-x1:
What have you set up on your PC?

What version of Windows do you have?
[HD2 General] Stu1973:
Ive got XP home
[HD2 General] rp-x1:
What version of ActiveSync is installed on your PC?
[HD2 General] Stu1973:
Dont know but will check