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[HTC Aria General] faceless808:
I kind of agree.. I too had the Aria first and switched for the captivate. The Aria felt good and had a very quick HTC interface.

I was a little sad when I switched.

The captivate's interface is a little more sluggish and is kind of akward to hold.

However did you try and run good quality video on the Aria? Did you do anything that would require more of the phone? The interface is quick but when trying to do anything else the phone would crawl and studder on video.

I kept the captivate because although the interface is not as quick, try playing a 720P movie on it and some games (or slingbox if you have it) The screen is fantastic and the video is crystal clear.. seems to better than some TVs.

I quickly found out why I switched and would make the decision over and over again. I held an Aria again after owning the captivate for a week and the screen seems SOOO small.

I was and probably am a little sad still and wish the Aria was more screen and power. But I am completely happy with my decision. I think when we get the update to 2.2 and beyond, you will see the true potential.

Also the Aria sucked at like linking faceboook with your contacts.. there was no customization there, you would have to sync them ALL.

With the captivate you can also change keyboards when you want and the gallery/music player is great. Not to mention the capability of the HD video you can take... camera options rock with effects...

The aria just has a quick interface and the mail was better, captivate can be fixed with those using apps and beats it out hands down.

Just my 2 cents.. I do not think you made a mistake!
[HTC Aria General] tacdo:
face makes very valid points. The Captivate is a power house when it comes to those things. And everything can be fixed with different apps and such.

Froyo should change things for the better on both phones.

Don't even try playing a high quality mkv file on the Aria, last time I tried with the Rockplayer beta it wasn't pretty lol. Haven't tried since it was released on the Market though. avi files work fine on the Aria's small screen. lol

And you can always try LauncherPro and the other interfaces if TouchWiz (I think that's a horrible name for an UI... touch.... wiz.....) isn't cutting it for you.
[HTC Aria General] faceless808:
Yeah I'm not knocking either phone. If the captivate never existed outside of the screen I would have been perfectly fine with the Aria.

What made me know I made the right choice was playing music and video. Also pictures.

Get a 720 tralier if you dont have a movie and play it. OMG

I took video at a wedding in 720p with the video camera and it takes better video than my 80 gig standard def few hundred $ camcorder. I was amazed.

The music player on it is so much more functional (not to mention the speaker)

and the gallery app for pictures is very nice.

Search the market for samsung and get the home and car dock app and the office app. freebies for captivate owners and They rock!

I wish the captivate and the Aria would have a kid.

The design and body with HTC interface of the Aria with the screen and power of the captivate = perfect phone in my opinion!
[HTC Aria General] bwolmarans:
Offspring of Captivate and Aria, that's a perfect analogy. Sounds like a HTC HD with quad band so I can use it in Asia, Europe and North America!

I guess a lot of this will make sense (pardon the pun) to people that have owned both an Aria and Captivate.

I have a brand new pet peeve on my list of things that "sour" the captivate: The dialer.

The HTC Sense on the Aria dialer is so amazing it uses a nice deep Alphabetical First + Last + MRU algorithm ( Most Recently Used ) for the speed dial feature, so you pretty much always get the person you want, it's so fast it's actually easier than dialing by contact picture or other shortcuts.

Contrast that to the Touchwiz dialer which is just Alphabetical by first name, then by Last Name. They forgot the MRU. And that makes it clunky and take twice as long to find the person you are dialing.

EDIT: Installed from market "Dialer One" one and while nowhere near as elegant, as the Sense dialer at least it can do the search by call log. Oh and also installed the Keyboard from the Evo http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=624416&page=239 works very nicely, much happier. The droid x multitouch keyboard works nicely too but kind of gimicky.
[HTC Aria General] tacdo:
faceless that would be awesome.
[HTC Aria General] Call_er_Roxie:
Nice thoughts guys.

My aria is great for my needs. I don't like how phones keep getting bigger and bigger, although the captivate's slimness helps with that a lot. If they had a flash I probably would have traded on my aria. But you know what? My aria will do great day to day until compact dual core phones come out next year with led or xenon flash, froyo, and 1080 recording!

The aria was marketed as a mid range phone and they did a great job in regards to that. For general apps, text, internet, calls, games, outdoor camera shots, its great! And the google apps are awesome on it. I was even able to get the htc sync version that let you side load apps too!

By the way, I internet battled an iphone4 on the same wifi network and my aria loaded a content heavy Website faster! May have been luck but you never know.

You all def have me intrigued about the captivate though. Have no fear, bad a$$ android phones will be keep on coming. Excited for 2011!
[HTC Aria General] nate5683:
I absolutely love my Aria, I was going to switch top the captivate, but I just love the size..I'm running that new CM6 ROM right now and the phone is so fast, its not even funny, especially with streaming videos, it practically doubled the speed from a stock aria...
[HTC Aria General] Exador:
I'm gonna wait for small phone's with dual core processor's before I buy another high end smartphone. I dont like carrying a plastic brick in my pocket. People look silly pulling some of these new phone's out of their pocket. The Captivate isn't bad, but the Droid X and especially the Dell Streak are just ridiculous. The Aria is a refreshing alternative too these monsters.
[HTC Aria General] XBoomer:
I'm thinking about going from my Captivate TO the Aria. Touchwiz is total crap compared to any interface HTC has ever made (I've been using HTC on WinMo for years).

The dealbreker for me: My Exchange email account is set up properly as I'm sending and receiving emails from my Captivate. inbound calendar requests (from people in my Exchange server) have really silly properties, there's no accept button (there's a 'save to calendar' that still acts wonky), but the BIGGIE is that if I delete or add a meeting on the phone, it NEVER sends the notification to the attendees listed.

deal breaker. Debating between Aria and Iphone4.

How's exchange calendar functions on the Aria? Anyone using?

How's the batter life on the Aria?
[HTC Aria General] Call_er_Roxie:
I would put the Aria as a 3GS competitor with the Aria winning!
[HTC Aria General] faceless808:
try maildroid yet? thats what i switched too..I like the Aria mail better but I did not even like that
[HTC Aria General] jasonyump:
as far as the captivate goes, you have to realize it will be a while before a custom rom(CM6, AOSP) gets made fully working with it. It needs some tweaks that will be out sooner or later, for battery life and the occasional lag. and then it will be a fantastic phone. You have tv-out, 3d gaming, a bigger screen, and 720p recording.

now if you dont need or want any of that, then the aria would be a perfect choice.

The iphone 4 would be up for comparison with the Captivate to be fair. But if the captivates not for you and you want to stay with Android the aria's by far one of the best mid-range phones.

and For the arias battery life i would top off around 5-5 and a half hours of Full nonstop web browsing, gaming, live wallpapers, gps, etc. before i would have to charge.
[HTC Aria General] ryan92084:
Ya, fastest I've killed mine required 5-6 hours of robo defense.
[HTC Aria General] Furies:
In this world of bigger, better, faster, smarter smartphones, everyone wants more out of their devices. People saw the Captivate's stats and immediately wanted to trade in.

The Aria is weighted perfectly and the size is just right for my active lifestyle. I can't imagine switching even if the processor is slower than the future standard of a 1 GHz processor/512 MB RAM. It does what i want it to do efficiently, i couldn't imagine trading it in.
[HTC Aria General] wxjoe:
I agree- I didn't want a giant phone. HTC got the marketing spot on (for those of you who saw the TV ads).

I'd love to see the aria vs. backflip stats though- I wonder if at&t predicted the sales low?

One thing I don't like is how this device is ignored by just about everyone... the cases available at best buy are labeled wrong (as the intruder), the phone calls itself the liberty... it seems this baby was destined to be ignored from the start. But at least htc tech support is pretty responsive.
[HTC Aria General] sluzi26:
I tried the Captivate while I was at AT&T the other day and man, I just did not care for it. The thing was too big, too awkward to hold.
[HTC Aria General] tat2me2:
I had The Captivate for a week, hated Touchwiz, took it back and got another Aria.
[HTC Aria General] uberamd:
The phone has an 800x480 pixel display. 720p is 1280x720, well outside the bounds of what the captivate is capable of even displaying.
[HTC Aria General] Exador:
Every video I've seen of the Captivate the screen had a blue hue when displaying white backgrounds. I had a chance to play around with a display model at the local AT&T store and sure enough it had a blue tint to it. This was very noticeable when held side by side with just about any other phone.

It's a damn shame too because the Captivate has an excellent GPU. I was very impressed with the benchmarks I ran while at the AT&T store.
[HTC Aria General] stickbo:
The captivate in stock form is almost broken. It is so darn laggy. Buttt I have a friend who rooted and flashed the "memocan?memokan?" kernel and the thing is disgustingly fast. His benchmarks are far ahead of the n1 with 2.2 let alone mine with the cm6 rom. When he got his cap and I got the aria I was feeling good about the decision, but now I am kinda bummed. With just one little tweek his phone is a power house. I like the size of the aria,even though my big hands have trouble typing in portrait. But I also play with an evo everyday and the big phones just annoy me.
[HTC Aria General] Exador:
Take the Aria back if you can. That's the beuaty of Android, one size isn't meant to fit all. WE have choices.
[HTC Aria General] faceless808:
Just try it is all I am saying, I ripped UP and planet earth in 720p and it looks AMAZING. There is no way to deny that. So not showing in true 720p, looks better than any phone I have ever seen run it.. Also very very smooth.. It seriously looks fantastic..

and I have never noticed any blue tint or shade to it.. *EDIT* I re-read what you said.. I thought you said movies. The only blue hue I have seen on it was the AT&T bootup white screen that looks blue.. Using a white flashlight app OR looking at a pic of something white I dont see it ..

High quality movies look amazing.

I was suggesting to torrent a 720p trailer and watch it..

OR find someone with the Vibrant and watch avatar on it that comes with the phone.
[HTC Aria General] eortizr:
Movies do look great on the Captivate... but thats it... design wise and UI... the Aria still a winner... I mean if I want to see a movie I'll see it in my HD Led TV...
[HTC Aria General] jmgelba:
I'm about to order an Aria for the wife and a Captivate for myself. Played with both and like them both. I really like HTC's UI. I am replacing a well beaten up Tilt 1 with the Captivate and know I will miss the UI. Has anyone ported it to the Captivate yet?
[HTC Aria General] mwxiao:
I missed my Aria too. I had Aria for exactly a month and then switched to Captivate.

I absolutely loved that little phone. The problem I had with it was the back case being loose. Every time I hold the phone, it would have that "click" sound. It annoys me. Plus, I didn't like the physical home button. I've never used that button.

With Captivate, obviously the hardware is way better. But the software is crappy. It feels slow and laggy. It freezes a few seconds every time I install an app from the market. I tried LauncherPro and everything. Now I am only waiting for 2.2 updates.

The other day I was in AT&T store and I stopped by an Aria phone. I can't believe how SMAAAAAAALL it looks now. It doesn't feel that small when I used it....
[HTC Aria General] mwxiao:
Believe me, you don't want to watch any kind of movie with it. Just because the battery sucks.
[HTC Aria General] uberamd:
What I was saying is that you can encode the movie to 800x480 instead of 720p since the device can't display 720p videos. A movie at the 800x480 will look identical to a 720p video while being a fraction of the file size.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BigBoi87:
If i flashed a custom ROM and then Flashed The Aloysious theme over it, is there a way to remove the theme without re-flashing?:confused:
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sablesurfer:
NAND restore
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BigBoi87:
what if i didnt do a NAND backup??
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] seriousblack25:
W/O wipe just reflash your rom...i think this works heard from another;)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] BronzedDroid:
Tried using one of those charge-by-phone solutions where you write your number on a website and receive an SMS that you're supposed to reply to.

The problem is that when I try to reply, the status is stuck at "sending", and it never finishes.

I tried two different services and failed with both. Both of them had a name instead of a number that you're supposed to reply to. The first was named "FREE" and the second "FOR".

I tried to send an SMS to a normal number, which went fine.

Any thoughts on why I am experiencing these problems? On my old SE, using such services worked fine.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] BronzedDroid:
Hmm

Has anyone else tried this. Just want to know if it's just mine or all galaxy S.

(with the stock message application)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sablesurfer:
Ok...so still have a lingering issue from my root and unlock. I cannot boot into recovery. At all. I just hang at that red triangle of going no where.

Now...the work around has been to just use the USB cable and run Toast's .bat file. That gets me past this screen and into the one with the little version of the red triangle of going no where and then populates that green menu.

From there I can do the zip files and data wipes and stuff.

BUT....I shouldn't have to do that right?:confused:

I should just be booting to recovery from that hboot screen.

Where I am right now...

- Rooted per the unrevoked application

- Nand unlocked per the steps at unlocker.com

- Flashed rooted Stock 1.47

- Titanium backup and got all I had.

Now...I did clean up the sd card...so I deleted the pc36img file and that mtd-eng file from the card's root. From what I can tell those commands that I ran move them over into data folders.

BUT...I still do not get to recovery

What did I miss???:mad:
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sablesurfer:
Oh..and I ended up with Clockwork...although I had wanted amon-ra...not sure how to switch now.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ifly4vamerica:
Copied from toasts part 2, this will flash a slightly modified amon ra recovery for you. the recovery.img is in the popular thread section under toast part 2

once booted into Android put the recovery.img linked above on the root of you sdcard

- on your PC open a shell again and do:

Code:

adb shell

cat /sdcard/flash_image > /data/flash_image

chmod 755 /data/flash_image

/data/flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img

reboot recovery- you should now be in recovery mode

FYI, I think if you press the up volume and power button while in the triangle screen you may be able to get into recovery ... I had a recovery on my phone a while back that required that.

- do a wipe of data and dalvik cache

- navigate to nandroid restore and restore the previous rom setup

- come here to the forum, get and flash the latest radio

- enjoy... you can now reboot into recovery, write to system and other partitions while in Android. Also you now have a Engineering SPL so you can fastboot and much more.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sablesurfer:
Thanks for your time and response ifly4vamerica.

I had a typo. Damn it. I hate that. The instructions said recovery2.img but it downloaded as recovery.img. I was looking at the exact same thing and comparing Toast's to the one I used. Noticed that the 2 was only difference...(i should facepalm myself again).

Anyway, yes will be using the amon-ra one from toasts in a bit.
[HTC Aria General] pcruz:
I just wanted to know if anyone else on the forums has been having problems playing embedded YouTube videos. When I click on the video it launches the HTC player, the video fully loads but the video stops a few seconds in and restart, this goes on. Occasionally a video will actually play all the way through.

This video I had problems with:

http://www.onecoolthingaday.com/today/2010/7/28/mortal-kombat-fatalities-on-paper.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

I have no problems playing videos on the YouTube app, is there any way to just make these videos play using the app instead?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aaman137:
I had success with the unrevoked root, so I decided to give the 2.2 upgrade a shot. I successfully reverted to a fresh stock unrooted 2.1, using the PB31IMG.zip file. This also took away my Clockwork Mod. Next I moved to the step of loading the dinc_ota.zip. After the 3 cycles it went to the HTC incredible boot screen and didnt move. I waited 15 minutes and nothing changed. I decided to pull the battery but no luck, still hangs on the white screen when i turn the phone on. I can still get into HBoot, which shows my radio as the updated 2.05 and my hboot is .79.

I've tried the RUU but I cannot boot the phone past the white htc screen so it wont work. I've also tried to load the PB31IMG.zip file from the sdcard agian, which doesnt. I get an error saying its too old.

Is there a way to restore my phone from Hboot?

Do you have any suggestions of threads I could read for the answer?

Thanks
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdkoreclipse:
Try the image again, then try the ota.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k_flan:
i would not try the radio update again, that's pretty much a sure fire way to brick. I would wait for the opinions of others first.

PB31IMG.zip doesn't roll the radio back does it? It reverts to stock recovery and ROM, but does it roll the radio back too?

I thought you had to follows this to roll the radio back, http://androidforums.com/all-things...16-how-revert-back-earlier-version-hboot.html
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdkoreclipse:
Sorry, my bad. DONT APPLY THE UPDATE AGAIN!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scuccia:
Try a clear storage.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aaman137:
I tried the image again, same error, it reads:

Main Version is older!

Update Fail!

Do you want to reboot device?

vol up yes

vol down no

I tried the reboot and it still hangs at white screen.

As for the radio update, I agree that it would be a bad idea to try to reaplly it, especially since my HBoot shows it as the updated radio.

I also saw the thread you pointed out to me but that requires clockwork mod to be installed and that was removed when i reverted to stock.

Any helpful ideas are greatly appreciated.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdkoreclipse:
Does it show up on adb?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aaman137:
I did try to clear the storage, but it still hangs.

Also tried adb devices in hboot, at the htc incredible white screen, and in the fastboot menu, all with no luck. When I try to boot to recovery it hangs at the same white screen. Might just have to bring it to Verizon tomorrow, I'm beginning to think I may be holding a brick. :(
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ilinfinityil:
To revert your radio back to the original 1.x, you need to have access to adb and pushing to your data directory

Long story short, you dun goofed by pulling the battery

HTC Incredible, rooted w/ modified Sense 2.1
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdkoreclipse:
I think its a brick
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aaman137:
Once the radio update completed, the white htc inc screen came up and hung there for 15 minutes, I didnt think I had much of a choice.

In that situation what should I have done?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdkoreclipse:
When i did the ota, it took about 7-10 min total. Yours hung on that incredible boot screen for 15 min. You did the right thing.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aaman137:
I appreciate all the help, this is why I came to xda. As for my Incredible, I guess its going back to Verizon tomorrow to see what they can do for me. I'm sure I'll be waiting a good week or two until I have my Incredible back, DOH!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ruoh:
I wouldn't think it's bricked if you can still get into the bootloader. Bricked generally comes about when you can't even power the device on. While I have nothing to add in the way of help, I'd say don't give up on the phone yet. I'm betting one of the *real* devs may be able to help you.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jdkoreclipse:
It may be a soft brick.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zeke1988:
i brick it this morning, called around dinner time, and they dispatched a replacement to me. overnight free shipping!!!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HolyGrail:
Its not bricked. I had the same issue. You need to follow this guide. Basically you have to redo it to get it to work, and this is the only way that I could do it.

http://androidforums.com/all-things...16-how-revert-back-earlier-version-hboot.html

(This was the most important part of the guide for me. Solve that: error saying its too old. All glory to Adrynalyne)

Having troubles with the RUU giving connection errors? Do this.

Go to start, and in the search/run box, type

%temp%

Delete all that you can. Make sure the RUU is not running in the background.

Now run the RUU again. Once it starts to the first screen, it has extracted the files to the temp directory. You can then copy them to a safe place. It will be a long winded numbered folder, with a similar subfolder.

Once you have copied it to a safe place, you can then copy adb.exe, fastboot.exe, and adbwinapi.dll from the latest SDK into it, overwriting the older copies. Then start the RUU by executing ARUWizard.exe. This fixed the problem for me.

You can also rename the rom.zip contained within the extracted files to PB31IMG.zip and put it on your sd card. Booting to HBOOT will scan it and offer to install.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TNS201:
This only works if he can get to recovery.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HolyGrail:
Your point? He can get into stock recovery, which is all he needs to start over.