yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mhmobile:
53 yrs. Bought a real IBM PS2 for my kids, still remember the computer nerds laughing at me for how much I paid for that proprietatry POS. All I wanted was to install an 8 bit Sound Blaster card so I could hear the music on Space Quest! Was that too much to ask? Then it was off to the Monthly comupter swap meet and holly crap, it's 25 yrs later...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SkelmecH:
How was i expecting this? 14=/=Stupid

most of the time anyway, if it does, then im an exception! I promise!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shadow591:
You said you were expecting it, Duhhhhhhhh *Drools*

If you need any help some people can sound out words for you bro, Lol:D
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 6ixtynin9:
29.... Remember those non-graphical brick-sized cell phones and/or 3-4 pagers that you had strapped around your waist? Yeah those were the good 'ol days. 8-tracks!!!! LOL. CD's were such a luxury back then. I remember receiving my first $300 Olympus walkman (the one's that uses micro cassette) as a Christmas gift. And I know some (or most) of you older guys have seen at least one episode of "In Living Colors".
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krypto1300:
I'm 38 and my first computer was a Tandy TRS 80 Coco 2 back in '82 or '83. It had 16KB of memory, ran MS extended Basic and had a cassette drive for storage.

Anyone remember bulletin boards? Dial-up @ 2,400 baud direct to a board and surf the vast array of software. Lol!

sent from Tapatalk using my HTC EVO 4G!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redrazr7791:
I remember when the pagers came out. Everyone and their dog had one. Couldn't for the life of me, understand why the attached them to their hats?

Okay what about the first "text-back" pager that was invented. It was like a clamshell looking device that you could type out and send pages to people with? Speaking of Walkman, anyone remember when the first mainstream removable memory card mp3 player was introduced? The commercial had a blue alien that would pimp it around and impress girls with it. Sort of came out around the time that Napster was around.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spencelk:
I think that was the mp3 player I owned??? that was years ago but it had 16mb and I got bout 7 songs and thought it was great I could take the bus to school and not have to worry about my walkman skipping from the bumps in the road... 24/f (aim for a/s/l) I remember building and playing dos games when I was like 10 with my pops

Ps. Pagers were the ish but sadly never owned one got my 1st phone in 2000 some analog Motorola I think thru prime-co (sp?)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jd9900:
Aw snap...liquid tv is the ****! Plus one. first game console was the 2600 and first computer was atari 400. a week later My second computer was an atari 800. My dad couldn't stand that fake ass touch keyboard.I learned basic on that thing...

Props to Ava...He beat HTC to their own FroYo release party!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nebenezer:
I'll never forget the day (in the mid '90's) I went in to Circuit City to buy a cassette tape and a sales guy told me they no longer sold cassettes!! I couldn't believe it!

CD's hadn't been around THAT long yet, I didn't even have a cd player in my car at that point.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jd9900:
Got my first car cd player back in 1992...before they had snap_on wiring harnesses.damn install took like 6 hours and because it was winter I couldn't get a good solder to save my life. And after all that, the ****er skipped ALL THE TIME...

Props to Ava...He beat HTC to their own FroYo release party!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pecosROB:
That's why I only put on a headset when in a party with friends - friends with voices that don't crack.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bobby_C:
SkyTel PageWriter 2000

I was issued all those SkyTel pagers and 2way communicators when they were new. I had one of the first blackberries with 4 txt lines, black and white.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] papadunit:
34 Years og age as of today :)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hibby50:
14.... first android phone coming from a few yrs of wm development
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ViViDboarder:
Happy birthday!

I'm in my 20's. I remember upgrading my dads IBM PC to a 486 processor too as well as b0osting the ram a couple megs and installing the SoundBlaster16! Those were the days... FreakinFunkyFuzzBalls and Wolfenstein 3D.

Also, never had AOL. My parents got Prodigy back in the day after using Juno for email. When I got my first computer and my parents were still on Prodigy I got a Juno internet disk. Free ad supported internet!!!

The memories...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nebenezer:
Happy Burfday!! :D

I ALMOST bought a Motorola StarTac (with charger) for $20 at a flea market a couple weeks ago. I might go back and get it just for the heck of it..
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] myndwire:
30.5

First internet experience: 2400bps dial-up shell on Digital Unix (DEC Alpha) - talk about a fun way to learn to do stuff online... PC was too sluggish for PPP... so Telix it was. A cool new world compared to the plethora of local BBS's.

First computer: 'Adam home computer' - A Colecovision cartridge + dual data tape (same size as audio tapes) clone. Loved that thing... Zaxxon and Buck Rogers FTW. At least my next one was a 486SX-20Mhz, not counting the 286/386 garbage boxes I had.

First phone: Eh.. the amazing green-screened Samsung SCH-8500. I loved it for one reason -- Free 1x data (Sprint promo, ~1999), and it actually had a text-only AIM client built in that stayed logged on as long a the phone was powered on.

Ah, it was a fun time to be young, (Sheesh I feel old now), but at least it put me on track for my career, hehe.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] barbiedollish:
I'm 20. My first phone was an i1000+ cherry wood. I was a cool kid.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] natefuhr:
Oh god... I remember my ol' trash 80... and hooking up the cassette recorder to save files... I found an old cassette once that had no label.. popped it in the old tape deck and you can imagine my surprise when it played back the screeching noises of one of my saved files...

Still remember my old Atari pc with the BASIC cartridge... the old intellivision, colecovision, c64.... and the rare Apple III.... the Apple 3 had a 500MB ext. Hdd that took near 5 minutes to initialize.... oh the good ol days...

35 btw and ahead of the curve for my age
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mgraham361:
49. Had an intellivision too. First computer was the TI 99/4a. Played lots of Tunnels of Doom. Took about 3 minutes to load game data off the cassette if I remember correctly. Graduated to the IBM pc Jr. Lol, good times!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OneStepAhead:
Remember them? I use USENET everyday. It's far an away the best way to download files. I get everything from there....
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sovs:
20 years young here. First phone was a Sony Ericsson T220. I thought it was the most high tech thing EVER.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SkelmecH:
oh derp.

It was late at night, im sorry :P
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yznhmr:
41 here.... rem using a Apple IIe in HS, mom was a programmer with punch cards.... I was Free Tech support for AOL 1.x, on my moms 3.1 win pc with the 8mb hd..lol, thats how i met my wife..lol she had AOL problems... ( i met her on AOL in a chat room)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] texasez:
What a bunch of kids. My first cell phone had the transmitter in the trunk that weighed 30 pounds. You had to call the operator in most locations to get connected to a land line. If you were out of your area, you had to look up the tower access numbers and then dial the land line. Sometimes it was easier to drive to town and go to the pay phone. It seems that the cost was in the $30-50 range in 1975. Service was basically 2-way walkie talkie service but it was worth the money sometimes.

As I said, I am older than dirt.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jackpearce:
41 here. I had my share of computers and video games but what did I use the most? WebTv. Lol. All my friends had our own chat room at talk city. All most 20 years later, the room has been passed down to a new generation like a family heirloom.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] domiiniicano:
age 22... first computer ran Mac System 7... didn't get a Windows PC until I installed XP on my Mac Pro in '06
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vballboarder:
Grew up with an apple IIe...that thing was sweet! We'd get a new Uptime floppy game disk in the mail every couple months or so...it's was like heaven on earth when that thing would show up. We'd have another game to wear out for the next while.

Then along came prodigy...oh sweet prodigy!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jim M:
I'm 55, and have been messing with computers since 1977. Hacked every smart phone I owned.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pbarrett:
Ah, IMTS radiotelephone service...I was hacking that back around 1975, using a marine VHF radio with custom crystals to get it on the phone frequencies. 30 Watt transmitter because there were only a couple of towers in the whole of Dallas. I still have an old Pulsar phone setup in my closet.

I can say this now because the statute of limitations has run out...:)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acme64:
25, first smart phone I hacked was the touch pro.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nxtech3:
im 25, just turned in June. My first computer was a Commodore 64, Montezumas Revenge anyone???
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] peblair:
I have you beat

Built my first computer from a kit I bought through an ad I found in the back of a magazine. When I was in college, I wrote my computer progams on punch cards and had to scan them into the system via a punch card reader. Hehe, all us geeks back then carried our programs around in boxes wrapped tightly with rubber bands because you were totally screwed if you dropped the box and the cards scattered and got out of order! Remember the old bursted printouts that you got from the sys-admin after a 20 minute turnaround? Frankly, the good old days weren't that good...

Now don't go and tell me you helped program UNAVAC!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rosario1187:
23 - I used to be a PC, but now im a mac since 09 lol...first Device that i hacked was the old ass nextels lol - mostly cosmetic hacking though

Nextel > ipod touch > iphones > palm treo > Palm Pre > EVO
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donopolyblocks:
My first pc was the apple computer or IBM running win95 maybe? I but it used the used the 4"floppy disks that if in contact with a magnet erased everything and the screen resolution was only 8bit in black nd white and I'm just turning 23

Sent from the Dammerung running Ava-FroyoV7
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thadirty:
32 and I can still beat you all in a 40 yard dash
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DeMiNe0:
I'm 8 and a half.
[Captivate General] kayilam:
I usually used wifi at home/ company, rarely use 3G, so I used to turn it off by using APNdroid.

Today I needed to search something online so I turned my 3G on by using APNdroid. The 3G icon didn't show up. It didn't work even I switched on the "data roaming" in setting, reboot, switch to airplane mode then switch back.....

Anybody can give me some advice?
[Captivate General] capndoody:
I'll second this for the battery savings
[Captivate General] Ben74:
With APNDroid in the "on" mode, check your APN settings in Wireless Settings > Moblie Networks > Access Point Names. If there is nothing there, try Menu > Restore Defaults.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ibnabatoot:
hi there.

ive bought a refurbed hero from "3" uk, however it doesn't boot. it wont go into recovery either (home+pwr).

it will go into the fastboot though (pwr+back).

the phone connects to the pc, and the pc finds the phone using "fastboot devices" and "adb devices".

i tried flashing a custom RA recovery, however i received the message "failed remote not allow".

googling it, i found out it is because of the hboot being 1.76....... which needs flashrec to install a custom recovery. problem is i cant boot the phone to use flashrec.

basically is the phone screwed?

ive called 3 and they are sending a replacement on monday. i will then have to send the old one back to them myself, meaning ive got a few days to make sure the new one works etc, check condition.

thing is the one i have now is perfect and new looking. i could receive a slightly damaged working one on monday, so i want to see if there is anything i can do to fix it.

thanks for any help
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ddotpatel:
What happens when you try to boot up normally? ... Anything?

How about without the SD in?... Does it make a difference?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ibnabatoot:
when i boot up normally, it displays a thin "hero" logo, then after a while displays a htc logo with a green alien popping out.

a minute after that, it starts all over again until the battery is pulled.

tried with and without an sdcard, and no difference.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] btdag:
Flash a new official rru from HTC. If you can't do that you should be able to create a goldcard and flash a the rru that way. Check out parts of my guide and make up the rest.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] ibnabatoot:
i just got it sorted.

i downloaded the ruu, tried it while in fastboot mode. it didnt work, so i looked through your goldcard thread, and realised i hadnt got adb setup 100% (device manager had it down as android device or something, so did as instructed in the thread).

connected it up to the pc while in fastboot mode, then ran the ruu. it worked this time!

thanks alot for the help. its saved me alot of hassle sending the phone back.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rahul_sharma1982:
Guys i flashed cruzer rom from then this screen has stuck to my phone i flashed og rom by card and pc both but this screen is not going . I want orignal htc screen

pls some suggetions
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samsamuel:
google and read up on splashscreens

link in my sig, too.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bludragon742:
I'm one of the idiots who decided to flash the 2.2 pre-release before even looking for a rooted version. I'm a dumbass, I know. Being new to the whole ROM thing, I figured I would just revert my last nandroid when I was down playing with it not realizing thinking that without root it's impossible. I want to return my phone to store where I got it from a week ago. Is their a credible reason that I can get them to exchange it for? Thanks!

* hangs head in shame *
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] waxedstrong:
Tell them it keeps turning off. Tell them you have had multiple drop calls and that it freezes.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nebenezer:
+1, they're gonna get a good refurb out of it anyways
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bludragon742:
Sounds like a plan, thanks. Now I just have to explain how I am running FroYo. (It updated itself?)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Casshern:
Are they actually going to check that? *shrugs* Think of a backup just in case perhaps, but idk.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheBiles:
You can always just tell them that you downloaded it from HTC's website. There's nothing illicit about that.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] craigbailey1986:
Sprint sent out the update to some ppl Fri which is how the development teams here got it some how... so just say you checked for updates and it downloaded.. plus your phone is not rooted so you will be ok.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bludragon742:
Thank y'all for your tips!

I took it back to where I bought it today and explained to them that "I got this update the other day and ever since I have been having random issues with calls dropping out and haven't been able to maintain a stable 4g connection." The guy, who had sold the phone to me initially, took it to the back for five minutes and then came up and said he couldn't find anything wrong and that I would just have to "live with it" until the next update is released. I tried the whole I'm switching carriers threat but that did not work. He actually suggested I do that if I wasn't satisfied! :mad: Now, I understand that he was trying to do his job and reduce churn (I worked for another Sprint store and that was how we were trained), but to suggest leaving is just plain ridiculous (we would get fired for that)!

Having already been shot down and knowing the answer was still probably going to be no, I went to another store ~20 miles away. The guy there told me the same thing about not being able to return it if they couldn't find anything wrong. To my surprise, however, he said that with the last update they had a lot of returns and for that reason he would take it back.

I am now sitting here staring at a brand-new 2.1/1.47 EVO! I am getting ready to root and see if I can restore my last nandroid. Having learned my lesson, I think I will wait until someone comes out with a new rooted version of the final OTA.
[Captivate General] K2340:
Hello,

Is there a way to view HTML emails in the stock email app? I'm hoping that there is some simple setting that I am missing.
[HD2 General] razvan_real_one:
In Manila, when I go to pictures and videos tab and try to play a video file, the player shows only: Loading and the screen remains black but when I touch the screen, the timer shows that the video is playing but with no image.

What can I do?
[HD2 General] jkolner:
Is the videos stored on your SD card?

If so, i had the same problem. But after i formated my SD card and copyed the files back, it all worked again.
[Droid Eris General] KingNemesis:
how do I set Gallery as default program to open pictures on Eris running fresh Rom 3.0 I went to Manage applications but dont' see anything that I can clear Default
[Droid Eris General] MMcCoy1127:
im also running Fresh 3.0 and im almost positive gallery isnt included.....i may be (probably) am wrong
[Droid Eris General] Captainkrtek:
Go to settings, applications, locate and click the app that currently opens pics, click clear defaults. open a pic, select gallery, then click the make default checkbox.

If you need any help pm me
[Vibrant General] daweedk1991:
I was looking around and saw that the video player does not display the subtitles for .mkv files...does anyone know if it would be possible to somehow enable the video player to be able to display them?
[Vibrant General] Spartoi:
Bumping.

I've got the same question. If the default player doesn't play mkvs with subtitles, is there another player that does so (already tried Rock Player).
[Vibrant General] cashless:
I think we're outta luck. I asked this question a while back and got nothing but crickets.
[Vibrant General] danpaganelli:
If you absolutely need the subtitles, you could always hard encode them, but it is probably only worth the time if you absolutely cannot do without subtitles.
[Vibrant General] }{Alienz}{:
Nothing on the market right now which will get the subtitles. It sucks I know. There is a player in development that will support it but its not too close to release.
[Vibrant General] bchalk:
Have you guys tried mVideoPlayer?

It has pretty decent support for subtitles. Not sure if it plays embedded ones in mkv's, but it definitely does support subtitles.
[Vibrant General] Spartoi:
Strange, I recall seeing a thread on Xda that had the same question but there was a guy who posted a picture/screencap of mkv and subtitles playing on a video player. I should have bookmarked that thread. :(

I've tried this but it didn't work. I extract the subs in .ass format and tried to load it but mVideoPlayer couldn't find the file even after I change the directory.
[Vibrant General] smashups:
Try searching for meridian player in the market.
[Vibrant General] karmasore:
Did you make sure to rename the .ass file to match the .mkv you extracted it from? Make sure the file names match and put them both in the same directory on your phone. mVideoPlayer will load the subs automatically after you open the .mkv. It works flawlessly for me on my Galaxy S.
[Vibrant General] Tlfcx6:
To view MKV files with subtitles, I've been using MKVtoolnix with MKVextractGUI to extract the subtitles from the MKV container. After the extraction, make sure the subtitle file(.ass, .srt, etc.) has the same name as the MKV file and place it in the same folder as the video. When that's done, use mVideoPlayer to play your file.

Hope this works for you!

I would include links for you guys, but there's a restriction for new users. A quick Google search should help you find the programs you'll need.
[Vibrant General] masterotaku:
the problem with supporting subtitles in .mkv containers...is just that....mkv is JUST a container format, which can contain a myriad of video, audio, and subtitle file formats. And there are several subtitle file formats...

mVideoplayer supports external .SRT subs, so what one can do is use a tool like virtualdubmod or mkvtoolnix to demux subs out of the mkv container and assuming they are SRT, just extract them and name them to the exact name of the MKV file. it's also possible to download SRT subs fairly easily for common videos, but there's the possibility that text timing can be off....

...apparently mVideoPlayer supports .ass as well....
[Vibrant General] Spartoi:
Oh, I just had to place the subs in the same folder as the Video. That worked for me.
[Vibrant General] cashless:
Breaking: mVideoPlayer 2.20 updates states that it now supports subs in MKV's. I haven't tried it yet, I'm just now dling it.

Peep here.

edit: more info
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] sirsaechao:
My Tilt 2 crapped out and I had to do a hard reset but now I cannot get rid of the annoying BT warning notification. I tried the cab and tried changing the registry w/ Total Commander...any help would be appreciated. Before the hard reset it worked with just the cab.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] sirsaechao:
Anyone can help me?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] StaticMatt:
Could you be more specific? You don't describe the warning at all so how do you expect any help? :p
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] redpoint73:
Yeah, what does the warning say? Saying "BT warning" is kinda vague.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] sirsaechao:
Fixed it with hAndyUtils cause it has the option to disable the Disconnection Message & Device Volume Message.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] redpoint73:
You still aren't provided much information. Please tell us what the BT warning message was. Giving more information on what your problem was will help other readers that experience the same problems.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] sirsaechao:
"The connected Bluetooth headset does not support volume adjustment on the device. Adjust the volume on the headset itself".
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] redpoint73:
Interesting, is the phone paired with any BT devices? If so, what are they?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] sirsaechao:
Just my Eclipse AVN726E in my truck. The problem is solved. It's just an annoying notification that you can't disable w/o a registry tweak. And that tweak did it.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] redpoint73:
Its the head unit in your truck that is causing that error message, its a known issue that some BT enabled car stereos trigger this error message. So the tweak you used seems appropriate.

If anyone else is looking for hAndyUtils, its here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=553784
[Captivate Accessories] ewingr:
It appears that there is no search functionality in the calendar. Anyone found a good calendar where you can search and filter?
[Captivate Accessories] alphadog00:
I have not found any replacement calendars. All the app store has are widgets, that take you to the built in calendar. I want to be able to click links (URL and phone) that are in the calendar body, but this calendar treats the entire entry as un-selectable.

I know the data is there in the database, but I don't know anyone that makes a replacement calendar.