yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Desire Themes and Apps] AndroidNerd:
Hai Guise.

I'm in need of a media player for docked car use. I.E. One with massive control buttons that preferably take up the entire screen.

Is there such a thing on the market? If not, it's a gap that I think would attract some attention.
[Desire Themes and Apps] aljwatson69:
I think Double Twist had the biggest buttons of the ones I've seen. Nowhere near full screen though.
[Desire Themes and Apps] kevinsmbuk:
Try Zimli mate
[Desire Themes and Apps] mbeltoft:
I'm using Lithium Music player

it looks great is easy to use in the car
[Desire Themes and Apps] splinter82:
I find Music Mod to be the best - the buttons aren't huge, but it supports gesture control, so you can just swipe to prev / next track. Plus the interface is really nice ^^
[Desire Themes and Apps] dlm4849:
If Music Mod supported playing music from both SD and phone storage, Id be all over it.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] vampsandbats:
Hey everyone I can't seem to update Facebook on the market. It keeps telling me this app needs a manual install. I read somewhere to go into the apps folder that's on the SD card and delete the apk but the only apks that are in that folder is opengl and abduction. Any advice? Also can someone show me where the system.ext. file is that enables GPS on this build? Thanks everyone.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] mr_billionaire:
This has been talked about already and u need to search,

But, ill help anyway,

Open up your file browser, then go to the ROOT of the device > system > app

Then delete the "facebook.apk" and reboot your phone and install from the market.

As for the zImage, download it here:

http://cotulla.pp.ru/leo/Android/Cotulla_zImage_VOLUME_SR_AUD.rar

Then extract it and replace the one on your SD card with this one, it fixes the volume and adds gps.

Sent from my HTC HD2 running DarkStone HD2Froyo v1
[Vibrant Accessories] jackhuny:
How do you like it?

http://cgi.ebay.com/SPADE-SKULL-Har.../120604597045?pt=PDA_Accessories#ht_860wt_911
[Vibrant Accessories] }{Alienz}{:
Like:

It has a graphic design

It covers all the edges

The cutouts look very sharp and defined

It's cheap

Dislike:

The actual picture this one has.

It's a hard-shell case...dust/dirt magnet.

It is likely very bulky though I can't be sure of that yet.
[Vibrant Accessories] Janis:
I'm smiling becuase the design is so bold, but you're asking a bunch of folk you don't know if they like it or not. As much as you don't want it to be, it's absolutely charming.

Scary death stuff does scare kids. If you want to alienate yourself from some parents and young kids, or you don't give a rats ass, it's great. Or hey, if it matches your tatoo exactly (not that you should get a phone with this cover tatooed on your cheek), it would look totally matchy and might be cool if you could pull off the look every day. My take on it is "Why burn bridges you haven't built yet?" Stick with neutral and save your self-expression for things that will actually get people thinking. Although Halloween is coming. It's some holiday spirit, to be sure.
[Vibrant Accessories] kizer:
I don't like it because it makes the phone look HUGE and stand out like a Black Berry.
[Droid Incredible General] shoman24v:
Call me crazy... but I actually prefer the screen rotation from 2.1. With Froyo I feel like I'm fighting with it all the time. Is there anyway to bring it back to only one way rotation like before? I noticed if you disable it in the settings it disables it completely!
[Droid Incredible General] htc_woe_is_me:
I noticed that too when I was running Froyo. It flips more that a fish out of water. I found a temporary solution... run 2.1 (ha). I suppose its a glitch in the way the software was written and probably could be fixed by the developer. If enough people complain maybe they will amend it.

Personal, I like the 270 degree rotation and can deal with the hypersensitivity for now.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] Wagierek:
Hello. I have a problem with sound in my kaiser with Android. I tried 2 systems [Cynanogen mod 6 (Froyo) and Myn's Warm Donut], 4 radios (from 1.71 to 1.65) and 2 kernels. Sound never appeared. Why?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] hawks-SOAD:
what zimage or nbh you using if you are using a older one it might have problems
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] Wagierek:
Did you mean kernel? the newest from this page:

http://it029000.massey.ac.nz/vogue/files/?C=M;O=D
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] yaseen.habashi:
it may be that you have muted the media volume in settings.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] Wagierek:
No. I don't have any sound. Not only media. When someone calls to me, I cannot hear him too and this person cant hear me too.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] bonotheedge:
Audio issue

I have the same problem. I tried different builds and nothing helps. Any suggestions??
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] zenity:
Just a thought, but have you tried flashing a stock rom, then flashing to nand again? Flashing a stock rom clears the entire nand, leaving no possibility of stray bits of data left from custom roms.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] Mu_aawiyah:
I have to say, I get the same thing, but with a slight variation. Sound works for me up until i make at least one call (but could happen before that). Once I make that call, either during the call, or after, the sound is gone. I too had myn's donut, and then frayo, and both times, the exact same problem. I will try to flash the stock rom, and then back to android, but it is a problem that I also share.

This is my first post on xda, so please be nice! :)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] Wagierek:
<refresh>.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] Mu_aawiyah:
Yeah, flashed it back to a the most recent stock rom, and then back to andriod.. how works perfectly. Sorry i didnt tell you guys earlier.

I think it was to do with the radio thingy-ma-jig. I flashed it with winmo 6.1 from htc website, and then back again.

Now i'm runnying frayo.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] Wagierek:
I flashed the newest stock rom from htc site too, then 1.65 radio, but it didn't help :/
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] Mu_aawiyah:
That is most likely because you didnt flash it right. take the .nhb from it, plug it into your sd card and flash it from sd. try that.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] Wagierek:
I'm not stupid. I always flash anything like that-not via CustomRUU-because I have damaged my USB socket and now my Kaiser cannot be recognized by computer.

PS: Today when I booted my Kaiser, next to ANDROID word, I saw "handset status changed to 1". When I rebooted, it didn't show. What's this?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] Mu_aawiyah:
Well, with regards to how I got it fixed (the detailed explanation), i flashed it with a custom winmob rom initially, but surprisingly, the same problem i had with android was happening with the winmob. I could make a call after reboot, but after that call, the sound completely died, and the camera did not work. So i tried to flash with the latest stock rom. I've uploaded the actual roms i used on my public drop box folder here => "i tried posting the link, but because i'm new, it wouldnt allow me...pm me"

I am not a professional on flashing, rather i am a beginner. My tytn 2 is a european T-mobile version. I tried to flash it, it did it half way...then stopped! I tried to do it again, but then it just said "...loading..." and would not go past it. But when i booted to my custom rom, it was still there, but the problems had gone. I guessed that it flashed the radio, and nothing else.

When i then went to android, it worked perfectly.

That was my journey.

I hope that helped... maybe.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] Wagierek:
Unfortunately, it didn't help.

Any other ideas?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] bigingeek:
I solved mine by changing radio ROM,but i lost sound and camera in windows,any ROM that fit both android and windows???
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] Wagierek:
What version did you flash?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] bigingeek:
1.65.14.06
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] McGeezy:
Me too!

I flahsed froyo last night and didn't test after makng calls. I'm having the same issue (lose sound after a phone call). I followed the sticky guide and sim unlocked the radio before flashing (which I think I had already done before). I will try changing radios when I get home to see if this resolves the issue and post my results.

Update: I flashed 1.71.09.01 on my ATT Tilt and this fixed the issue. Now sound and camera work great. Phone runs faster also!
[Vibrant General] achild:
Got a Vibrant yesterday to "try out" the android world for the first time. Must say I'm impressed by the phones performance out of the box even with all the bloatware and crap on it. I've been a windows mobile guy for quite some time now, so the people that know both platforms well, know they are two completely different monsters. My two options were the hd2 (since i know the WM world pretty well) or learn a whole new platform with the vibrant.

I like it so far, but also miss some of the things from WM (or rather miss knowing my phone well). I guess i just have to start from zero and get acquainted with it first.

Any suggestions on getting the bare down scoop of the platform and such as far as learning it from the ground up? The sticky explains how to do these things, but I need something more basic...I just wanna become proficient in the android world as I am in the WM world starting from zero.
[Vibrant General] badaphooko01:
Its hard to say where to start, the best thing about android is the customization. Playing with phone is the only way you are gonna learn, I have been an android owner since day one and am still learning new things everyday. If there is something I don't know I simply come here since this is the best android community on the web. Hope you enjoy IMO the best android phone on the market.
[Vibrant General] s15274n:
Yeah, really not that much to help with...everything seems pretty intuitive to me. When in doubt, long press or press menu.
[Vibrant General] phragg:
My first questions were always like:

Sweet I have Avatar on here, what else Can I put on?

Oh damn, there's only a 2GB Card, and if I remove it, I lose Avatar.

WTF is amazon kindle for? I don't need this? How can I remove Bloats?

That's where I started off, you're most likely going to want to root it. Search the forums around. There's some great stickies to follow by and just go with that.

Can't wait for CM? Learn to make your own APP to have fun with ;p
[Vibrant General] darkknight49:
Well, kindle isn't that bad considering you can get a ton of free books for it.

Sent from my Galaxy S using the XDA App
[Vibrant General] krichek:
Well, you could always copy Avatar onto a larger card and then go wild! That's what I did, it will play lots of 720p mkv's that you might have laying around no problem! ;)
[Vibrant General] speoples20:
Long press and menu are your friends. Other than that look here on xda and use the search function. The stickies typically have the most current info.
[Vibrant General] achild:
what is CM?

I am a programmer by profession. Maybe I could look into the world of android programming too while im at it :D
[Vibrant General] achild:
I didn't have those questions. I mean the first thing i did was move avatar to my 16gb msdhc into it and go wild with my music, photo, and videos...which I'm amazed how good of sound/video quality i get on this.

I thought more of like where do how do I view flash websites, how do i stream live .pls live music streams, or smaller things like hiding apps from the notification area at the top left when they are running, or resizing certain widgets, removing some of the applications that came with the phone from t mobile, mapping buttons to do different things based on holding them down or tapping a certain amount of times, things like that that aren't explained in the user manual. Or even like right now, I'm trying to make a call and it says: "Call not sent"...well? whyyyyyyyyy? so many questions!

I don't know, I guess all this is just part of the familiarization process and will sooner or later find them out whether by experience or hunting down resources why certain behaviors and actions happen.
[Vibrant General] achild:
what is long press?
[Vibrant General] s15274n:
^ you should read the sticky. A lot of the things you mentioned, are addressed in the sticky.

Also, flash is only on Android 2.2, which we do not have yet.
[Vibrant General] SamsungGalaxySVibrant:
Congrats on your new phone. Let us know how your GPS works, since that seems to be a hot issue. you can test using google maps, google navigation and GPS Test downloadable from the Android Market.
[Vibrant General] achild:
haha that seems to be a problem with any gps enabled phone nowadays. Happened with the fuze and after months and months of tweaking and tweaking we got a hang of it. I tried the GPS yesterday on my way home from work yesterday and did not get a lock, i went ahead and downloaded gps test today to see if that will unlock it before using the gps software. We shall see! :D Thanks for the heads up tho!

edit: I guess gps test on android works differently than on WM. On WM it scans through your COM ports and gets a fix for you to then use your gps navigation software.
[Vibrant General] Berserk87:
please do! :D

we could always use more programmers.
[Vibrant General] speoples20:
Instead of tapping on something you hold your finger down for a few seconds. A menu will pop up giving you options like copy and paste.
[Vibrant General] fragimar:
If your phone won't play a video format, try RockPlayer
[Vibrant General] Droidicus:
I would recommend the market as the first place to go. Just start searching and downloading apps and play with your phone. You'll get accustomed to it very quickly!
[Vibrant General] achild:
Yeah thats what ive been doing. Thats another thing that amazes me about android, soooo many apps, and they are all centralized into one easy, convenient location. In wm you would find a few in the marketplace, and the rest u had to hunt down either on the forum or the web. This is slowly growing on me :D
[Vibrant General] achild:
Tested it. Google maps got no lock. However, gps test gave me 3 satellites, when I held it in front, under the windshiels it jumped to five satellites, but it wasn't enough for google maps to lock or get my location.
[Vibrant General] achild:
Wow...hats off to you my friend. Thanks for the wonderful, detailed comparison and explanation. Much appreciated!
[Vibrant General] achild:
So on my way I opened gps test, got 5 satellites opened navigator, spoke my address into it and instantly got a link and worked flawlessly all the way home.
[Vibrant General] Janis:
You're welcome. I'm so glad you found it useful. Other WinMo users who decide to take the jump are also welcome to it.

Since I posted, i've found I like Tasker much, much better than Locale. It's definitely an app for at-least-slightly-hacker-types though. It's a lot cheaper, especially considering the plug-ins for Locale can add up. Mostly I love it because it does so, so much more. More than PhoneAlarm, even. It does app-specific auto-rotation.

And this seeems to be a pretty adequate GPS fix if you still feel like you're having trouble.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] myersn024:
When I check my battery stats on my phone, it shows that my awake time and my up time are exactly the same, but my battery life isn't tanking so I'm guessing it's a glitch, but.......

Has anyone else noticed this?
[Hero CDMA General] grifforama:
So I unplugged at 7am this morning, and now 5 hours later, I have 29% left.

I took 1 picture, read about 7 emails.

WTF
[Hero CDMA General] jerry43812:
Not to be a ****, but you've been here almost 9 months and still dont know that if you're having a problem like this to let us know what ROM youre using and the rest of your setup? That deserves 0 help...

It could be a multitude of things, your autokiller is killing off too much stuff so the apps keep restarting, you're in a bad signal area, bad app, strange sync settings, high background data usage, god only knows what.
[Hero CDMA General] Rob_ec:
What Rom are u using? go back to stockruu!
[Hero CDMA General] c00ller:
Check Spare Parts battery usage? Look at partial wake usage
[Hero CDMA General] joehunni:
Probably the new Facebook update keeping it awake.
[Hero CDMA General] macvalentine:
ya dig!?

haha jk

cause ive had problems too with my battery but it would help knowin as much bout your settings
[Hero CDMA General] grifforama:
http://www.androidcentral.com/facebook-confirms-battery-drain-latest-android-update

I wasn't being a ****.

How the f**k could I have known it was this.

Calm down jk
[Hero CDMA General] chromiumleaf:
Preceding any sentence with "Not to be a ****, but..." automatically makes you one. Just saying...y'all know it's true. :D
[Hero CDMA General] gonzoangel:
hi i'm here to join in on the idiot thread

am i at the right spot?
[Hero CDMA General] DirtyShroomz:
Always!

10uglyforbiddenchars
[Hero CDMA General] bray424:
^This. If you're using the Facebook app, make sure it's not 1.3. They released a 1.3.1 bugfix today specifically to combat battery drain.
[Hero CDMA General] DirtyShroomz:
Hmm... the new facebook isnt draining anything for me
[Hero CDMA General] markus_del_marko:
make sure you calibrated your battery and also make sure your phone is going to sleep and doesn't have 100% wake time. the hero has much better battery life than the evo.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] weelala:
I'm on cricket currently, and I installed Incubus's super froyo, I have everything working, but mms. I can edit all the data apns and save without it disappearing, I can use the browser, the only thing that doesn't seem to work is the google account sync thingy, and mms. I've searched around, and I've done things like replaced my telephony, which just made me unable to have any apn settings, couldn't even add a new one, and replaced my keyboard.

Is there anything I can do? On howardforums there's a rom posted, but it talks about having to switch my phones modem to '1' or something, no idea if that one would work better, but I really like froyo.
[Touch CDMA Android Development] weelala:
Bummp?? ://
[Dash 3G, Snap General] Nofear99:
I have Htc Snap and i need portugese ROM for it...........
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RiceHog:
Does anyone know where to buy a Telus Desire if you are in the US. Telus does not ship to the US? They went on sale today on the Telus site.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fungflex:
I ended up paying a buddy in Canada to pick oneup and ship it stateside.

The $450 price makes that pretty reasonable compared to the $529 developer nexus one.

Cellunlock is unlocking them for 15 bucks with a coupon from hofo.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RiceHog:
The only one I found so far is THIS on ebay. Bestbuy has it as well but they won't ship.:mad:
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rede83:
Anyone know what SPL it comes with? Can the Telus phone be rooted?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jaa-Yoo:
Thanks for the heads up guys, now i can get my friend to pick one up for me this weekend. $450 (~ $500 with tax) is a steal! :D
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fungflex:
Total with tax in Ontario was $508.49. Considering the Nexus one directly from Google is $529.99 not a bad deal at all.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mickliq:
Unrevoked3 successfully roots the Telus HTC Desire (I've done it on mine). Someone on Hofo is further reporting they can load new ROM's (I'm too scared to try that at this stage).
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jaa-Yoo:
It comes with 2.1 right?

On a side note, no place in Richmond BC seems to have them yet. Booo!!

Questions for those who have one;

Is it branded?

Does it have lots of Telus 'crap' installed?

Is the SLCD any good?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] azn604boi:
I just bought it yesterday at the Lansdowne- Bestbuy (~2pm). Really really friendly guy 449 for the phone (no questions) - knew exactly what i wanted to do with it ... unlock + root.

I wasn't sure if i wanted it (currently using a rooted htc dream) - he told me i have 14 days to try it out as long as i dont (root/unlock it/ use >30mins talk time) i can return the phone. I am with Rogers so its not possible for me to make any phones calls. I am using the WIFI to do everything at this point (install apps / exchange corporatte email / hotmail / youtube / twitter / facebook)

Gotta say the phone is DAMN FAST!!!

going back to your questions:

yes its 2.1 eclair

branded? - no it doesn't say TELUS on it anywhere .. it just says HTC on the splash screens - the back of the phone says

(on the top) - HTC

(bottom) - with google

with HTC Sense

i dont see any telus stuff on the phone - all the stock eclair crap (unlike the rogers htc dream) a crap load of rogers icons and colors

SLCD - it looks awesome on the phone - i've watched some HD videos from youtube and its really really clear so :)

when i picked up my phone they still have 1/2 in the lockup - so give it a try :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] the_ahmadzais:
@azn604boi did u unlock it if I did can I ask where I live in vancouver. I took it to 5 different places they couldnt do it. Cuz supposly telus store sold me a refurbished 1

Im takin it bak tmr try return it. Cuz when I went home the box wasnt sealed and there was fingerprints on screen.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jaa-Yoo:
Thanks azn604boi,

My friend went to the Lansdowne bestbuy as well but they told her to check back next week hmmm. Oh well, she ordered online instead.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] azn604boi:
no i haven't unlock/root the phone yet - still debating if i want to keep the phone or stick with my slow htc dream

my colleague sent me a link to get it unlocked -

but i cant post links :( :( - go on howardsforums search for "unlock telus htc desire remotely by code"

i will probably do that in a weeks time
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jaa-Yoo:
Heres the link to the thread on Howard Forums...

Unlock Telus HTC Desire Remotely
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] azn604boi:
yeah i wasn't allowed to send external links.. maybe cuz im a junior member or etc etc but yea... tahts the one!

and just to confirm that site works!!!! I did it this morning - it took 5 mins for them to send me the code

popped the sim card in typed in the generated number tada!!!!! (rogers on a telus phone) i've also rooted my phone using the revoked3 method haven't installed a custom rom yet ... dont know which one i want but i've tried wireless tethering and shapewriter keyboard and i can install them so ROOT works
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] opethfan3:
I got mine from the BB in Coquitlam Centre. Apparently I took the only one though, since the online stock checker is now sold out. Apparently Best Buy in Metrotown still has them, plus Metrotown is nice and easy for an out of towner to get to :D
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jaa-Yoo:
A question for anyone whos bought a telus desire from best buy;

Do they normally sell new phones without a contract, or do you have to talk them into hooking you up?

My friend tried to order one for me online but they are out of stock, the same for the telus store nearby. She called best buy but they insisted that they couldnt sell it without a contract. Whats up with that?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] azn604boi:
nopers thats a lie ... if you go to the store.. .on the info card it says

1 year - price

2 years - price

3 years - price

$449 with no contract / (PHONE ONLY)

so yea... you dont need a contract.. but they would try to suck you in
[Galaxy S I9000 Accessories] DrBarrell:
This is getting stupid, over a month after launch and still no genuine spare batteries? Anyone have any information on this?