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[Captivate General] Divinedark:
It really depends what you use the phone for. Personally, I use it for surfing the web, playing games, email, Music, texting, and GPS. Those things are the most important to me, as I basically live on my phone.

With that said, several of those things the iPhone actually does better. Surfing the web is a toss up. The Captivate has an incredible screen with a size bonus, but the iPhone has MUCH better text fidelity and pixel density. Games are a given here. The iPhone's app store just crushes the marketplace right now. Android is catching up, but Apple has those big name developers throwing good games at them every day. Email goes to the iphone as well. The email apps for the Android are sub par when dealing with certain providers like Yahoo. Apple's isn't flashy, but it does work consistantly. Music... Again iPhone is a superior mp3 player. It's easy to manage your collection and buy music on the fly. When Google Music gets up and running they'll be on a more level playing field. Texting goes to the captivate because of SWYPE. It's frikkin fantastic. Then GPS... We know what's happening here. Just waiting on Samsung to come through with the goods.

I wouldn't say the iPhone smokes there Captivate, but you really have to look at what the majority of people do with their phones. One thing that pisses me off with my Captivate is the ESPN app. What a frikkin' dog. Run it side by side with the iPhone equivalent and it's just a slap in the face. For running on equal hardware, the Android app is slow, unresponsive, and sometimes completely non-functional. On the other side of the coin... I love the customization of the Android device. I love being able to flip between widgets and launchers on a whim.

Oh yeah... And I guess I also make calls too. It's a push here, but I do like the speaker of the iPhone a bit better. The Captivate's speaker quality fluctuated from device to device quite wildly, and my most recent handset has a tinny speaker.
[Captivate General] Dxtra:
@Divinedark I can only agree to the appstore been better than the marketplace, and its the only thing I'm really missing. Everything else android does the same thing in my opinion or better.
[Captivate General] Divinedark:
Again, it's really user preference. I never got my email or music to work with any level of elegance that the iPhone displays, and you can't honestly say the GPS is even a competition. The phone call thing is really handset specific. The first 2 Captivates I had had incredible speakers. Two of the last 3 did not.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iScream^:
Hi.

I'm curious about how can I link a folder on the external SD to the internal. For example I have a folder "gameloft" on my internal, which consumes quite a lot of space, and I'd like to link it from the external SD rather than having it on the internal. Is it possible somehow?

Thanks in advance.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ickyboo:
Best beat is to use busybox to link
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iScream^:
How to do that? I have busybox installed.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pnin:
You could try:

ln -s [source] [target]

Please tell me if it worked.
[Vibrant Accessories] khchan:
Anybody Know where Can i buy this Dual Sim Adapter In the states ?

h t t p : / / w w w . youtube.com/ watch ?v=PssrrYBO-KQ

Looks pretty attractive to me. If anybody tried it before, Please let me know how it works.

h t t p: / / w w w .simore.eu/ en / Dual_SIM-168-Dual_SIM_Platinum.php

Thanks
[Vibrant Accessories] JJEgan:
http://www.m-99.co.uk/samsung-galaxy-s.html

At not very much money i have ordered to try as i have just joined the GiffGaf network .It will also use up a few prepaid sims i have yet to empty .

jje
[Vibrant Accessories] FireRaider:
Any update on how this worked out for you?
[Vibrant Accessories] David111jr:
does it work
[Vibrant Accessories] RHOUSMAN:
I've got the new MagicSIM 28th gen PLUS for this phone model and its working flawlessly!

I got it from directdevices on ebay.

Hope this helps!
[Vibrant Accessories] Dattack:
Does anybody have pictures of how this look in the Galaxy S?

So I can use two different sims while traveling to another country?
[Vibrant Accessories] sophiewyles:
I've got a 28th gen plus no-cut working in mine. I'll get some pics and post a link later when I get home
[Vibrant Accessories] FireRaider:
I bought one a few months ago and ran a ATT and a TMO sim in my Captivate for a while. It worked perfectly. It just wasn't a neat nor as handy as I had thought it would be so I stopped using it.

sent from XDA app
[Vibrant Accessories] sophiewyles:
Here's some pics btw. I couldn't get my camera to work but someone had posted these on another thread.
[Vibrant Accessories] Drjjones426:
I would like to try one also
[Vibrant Accessories] csalt:
Thanks for posting pics!

Where did you get yours from please sophiewyles?

Thanks in advance!
[Vibrant Accessories] galaxyms:
Thats not a picture of the back of a Galaxy S... unless its the S II with the 8 MP camera? The Galaxy S I9000 has the sim slot going vertically... the cut corner of the sim being next to the battery, that picture posted shows the sim socket mounted horizontally. I don't see how the ribbon cable would fit as it would hang out of the side of the phone on a galaxy S.
[Vibrant Accessories] sophiewyles:
Ah yes sorry it's the galaxy s2.

Although for the record I have tried this in a standard galaxy s and it does also fit that!

Hope this helps
[Vibrant Accessories] Markoldfield:
What was the score with this? Where did people find was the best place to buy from?
[Vibrant Accessories] SamsungVibrant:
whats a dual sim adapter and why?
[Vibrant Accessories] FireRaider:
A dual similar adapter allows you to run two different sim cards in the same phone. I used mine to run a tmo sim and an att sim in my captivate galaxy s. It worked well, the drawback was the captivate couldn't run on T-Mobiles fast data frequencies. I finally stopped using it but they do work as advertised.

sent from XDA app
[Vibrant Accessories] davesalmon:
Got mine from www.magic-sim.com and I've had no problems with it.

Cheers

Dave
[Vibrant Accessories] cowppl:
does this allow you to run 2 simcards simultaniously or do you have to switch providers depending on your needs? If I have a tmo and att simcard both in the phone, will I receive calls from both numbers or only one at a time depending on which simcard I select?

I know this might be an extreamly noobish question but I have never used one of these or owned a dual sim phone
[Vibrant Accessories] davesalmon:
No it's for sim switching. You can however get it to switch sims at a timed interval to make sure you pick up any missed calls or text (although personally I just switch over sims every hour or so and check)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] stesul411:
Have you ever experienced the endless searching for signal loop? Read on.

Sometimes after you've been in an area with a poor cellular signal your phone will continue searching for a signal, even though you know you're in a area with a strong signal. Instead of resetting the phone just turn on Airplane Mode, wait a few seconds for the radio to shutdown, then turn Radio Mode off to restart the radio. The radio will now lock onto the stronger signal. Quicker than resetting the device.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] diversificationied:
Messenger widget.

Bookmark widget.

Notifications count.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] diversificationied:
Since he can't put paid apps on the market he includes everything together and then just "unlocks" with a code.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Prufrock:
He can't sell paid apps on the market because he's not in a country that allows access to paid apps through the market.
[Droid X General] OneStepAhead:
edit: I called Verizon earlier and ordered the Droid 2, sending the Droid X back. Reason being, the Android Eyes Free Shell and the Talking Dialer make use of either a trackball or a directional pad. The Droid X has neither. This should also solve the answering/hanging up problem, as im pretty sure on the Droid 2 you can slide it open to answer and slide it closed to hang up. I'm starting a new thread in the Droid 2 General section, but i'll still be watching this one if anyone has anything to add

Ok guys, the Droid X I ordered for my sister arrived yesterday. I personally have an EVO, but I gotta say the Droid X is pretty sweet. Much better designed phone then the EVO, but it is lacking 4g and a front cam (although honestly I dont use those 2 features much anyways). I cannot believe how light it is! My phone feels like a brick compared to the X!

Anyways, this post is not about comparing the X and the EVO, it's about setting up the Droid X for a blind person. My 25 year old sister lost her vision last year from diabetes. I'm hoping to setup this phone so she can use it on her own to make/receive calls and text messages, use the TiKL push to talk app, compose/read emails, have facebook updates read to her, pandora, that kind of thing.

First thing I'll need to do is get rid of the lock screen, not ideally made for a blind person thats for sure! I'll probably try and set it up with a "shake to unlock" app.

Secondly, the first thing I want her to be able to do obviously is make and receive calls. Problem is right now she cant slide to answer a call. I'll need to replace that somehow so she can answer the phone more easily. Any ideas?

SOLVED (double tap home) Next of course is dialing a call. The Motorola Voice Dialing thats built into the dialer is pretty awesome, we don't have something like that in HTC Sense. I need her to be able to press a button on the phone and start the voice dialer. The only way I know how to do that right now is using the search button which launches the google voice search. That's not what I want, I want her to be able to use the one that Motorola built into the dialer, as it's much better designed for a blind person. It re-reads your command and asks for confirmations that that is indeed the right person, and if it's not it goes down the list of the next closest match. The google voice search feature does none of that. If you say "Call OneStepAhead on Mobile" it just starts dialing, it doesn't ask for a confirmation. Any devs out there that could figure out how to remap the camera button on the side of the Droid X to launch the Moto voice dialer? It's for a good cause! :)

Once I get these things resolved I'll move on to things like facebook. A 25 year old girl with over 1000 facebook friends not being able to use facebook anymore, well, its practically the end of the world to her!

Thanks in advance to anyone that is willing to help with this task, it's very much appreciated.
[Droid X General] Insta:
By default you can press the home button 2 times to get voice command to dial. This should help with your voice dialing.
[Droid X General] sp1kez:
A phone with no keys is probably not the best for a blind person.

Get her a basic phone that accepts voice commands

Don't mean to be rude, but its not like she's gonna be browsing the web or looking at the big screen.
[Droid X General] michael_bolton:
Double pressing home auto launches the voice command function. You can do almost anything from there.
[Droid X General] crashdau:
One way I can think to allow her to answer a phone call without having to know where to touch on the screen id to have her use a BT headset. Then all she needs do is press the button on the headset to answer.
[Droid X General] OneStepAhead:
umm, actually thats exactly what she'll be doing. maybe your just ignorant to disabilities, but blind people DO use the web, facebook, twitter, youtube (yes youtube), and everything else. and actually touch screens are ideal for blind people, you can use gestures with your fingers, and the bigger screen the better. it's very difficult for a blind person to use tiny little keys on a phone. are you even familiar with the Android Eyes Free project? I fail to see the point in your post, I'm not asking you which phone I should buy, i already bought one.
[Droid X General] OneStepAhead:
yup, thought of that. i ordered one last week, should be here soon. the problem with a bluetooth headset though is it can be an easy thing to lose if your blind! im hoping she'll use the headset a majority of the time, but we still want a way to answer the phone without one.

I called Verizon earlier and ordered the Droid 2, sending the Droid X back. Reason being, the Android Eyes Free Shell and the Talking Dialer make use of either a trackball or a directional pad. The Droid X has neither. This should also solve the answering/hanging up problem, as im pretty sure on the Droid 2 you can slide it open to answer and slide it closed to hang up.
[Droid X General] OneStepAhead:
THANK YOU!! That was a big help, now she can pretty much do anything on it! I'm assuming the Droid 2 will work the same way. Awesome!!
[Droid X General] thatblinddude:
I saw you had the evo, grate phone, I am working for sprint, and a girl from work and I both whent out and bought the epic, very nice phone, and if your sister is looking for a good phone she can use, the epic has the slide out keyboard, and eyes free shell now takes advantage of the touch screen, i've been completely blind all my life, and have used talks on nokia phones, mobile speak on windows mobile phones, the iphone and now the epic, the only thing i don't like about the epic is there isn't a quick way to use the talkback feature by turnning it off and on, though now that i've rootted my phone i might be able to figure out a way to rute a key to the talkback software both activating it and deactivating it, not sure though.

anyways, hope your sister's phone is working fine for her, have you found a good app that works for twitter for her? The built in fb app is crap, removed it with titainum backup, so i don'th ave to have that crap on my phone, do most fb work via sms and sutch.

anyways if you want to chat with a blind person using android since start of oct for questions and sutch, send me a pm

michael!!

--Sprint, epic user.
[Droid X General] mithikx:
With a Droid X it might be a good idea to go in to Settings > Accessibility > Power Button and check the checkbox (it allows you to end calls by pressing the power / unlock button on the top of the phone. I use it my self as I have a fondness for physical end call buttons...
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dcppaulo:
hello to your all

i lost the task manager on my hd2

no way to have it back, tried a hard reset an nothing changed.

anybody have an idee?

regards and thanks
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dossant1:
hi everybody, good morning!!!!!:) for some reason, some of the text i sent out from my evo4g arrived blank at destination, i happened 3 times in a row to one person 3 days ago, i ignored as it could have been just e hiccup, but yesterday it happened again to a diferent person... i saw somewhere that it may have to do about sending messages on other languages:confused:, like letters with simbols on then... the only similarity i found was that both phone were from metro pcs... :confused:again, right now is not that big of an issue,but it may become if this keeps up.

in advance, thanks for your help and constructive advice.:)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wiggey1337:
hey guys, new to rooting my device. always been heavy into customization and seen alot of work on here for cyanogen mod. so - went ahead and did the one click root. worked fine, checked with superuser permissions, and rom manager. downloaded cm 6.0.0 stable. "flashed" that rom onto my device, and it asked me to reboot to take effect. so hit reboot. and it is now stuck on the startup boot logo for cm6 with the blue android with the circle around the edge (im sure you all know what im on about) having a look about cant seem to see anybody else with this problem.

heres hoping somebody will help me out, hopefully make me look like a prat and tell me its something really simple and easy to do. beacuse im not liking my phone right now at all :/
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] evilkorn:
Boot into recovery, wipe the device, then reflash the rom.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wiggey1337:
okay, after having a play i've got it to boot into cm6.0.0 with google addon, however it now says there is no internet connection. anybody?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mythamp:
Stick to stock rom, CM6 kills your battery within a day, half a day if you are a heavy user. I am a lot into customization too but after moving to cm6 I moved back to stock within a week. I think your phone is hinting to you not to install cm6 :)
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wiggey1337:
i didnt know cm6 did that to be fair brother. however, that doesnt solve my problem at the moment. if i find i cant live with it, then ill reset back to stock or a different rom, but at the moment my main priority is to get access to my internet again for the time being whilst i look into different roms
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LuLuBaby86:
Mine did the same thing. I just waited and within 5 to 10 minutes my phone started and I was able to use it.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mythamp:
Have you inserted the appropriate APN settings? Are you talkin about 3G or WIFI?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jack_R1:
Enter/select the correct APNs for your carrier.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] luvtorev:
Does anyone have the new droid 2 live wallpaper apk for the evo laying around? Thank you very much.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] senobmed:
Here ya go
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] luvtorev:
Thank you very much
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Sporkman:
screenshot by chance ?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jumaxas:
Hi,

Iam use TweetDeck or Tweeter but i have one problem, when iam lock phone, and dont touch it about 2h or more, process killing TweetDeck app and dont update messages.

But questions: How i can lock process and it dont automatical kill (android kill automatical)....

How to maintain an active process and not allow him to close down automatically?

Ima use for more programs and of using it as the program does it automatically closes ...

Sorry, Iam frm lithuania, and not good write english languages, bet i hope you understand me an my problems...

Thanks for all.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] K900:
I

Tweetdeck doesn't have a service yet, so it can't catch your tweets in the background. They were planning it, though, so wait a bit or use Peep
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jumaxas:
But nimbuzz and more app close :-(
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pascanu:
Are you using a task killer?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] runningdap:
i have downloaded and install a cab of omniano (as many versions as i could find), and everytime i try to start the app, i get the message you can see in the image.

i tried updating .net framework, but it says that i already got a newer version.

im using energy rom.

anyone got any ideas how to get this app work?
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] chustar:
I am currently running Timolol's Windows Mobile 6.5 Rom because it has mostly the stock interface. It doesn't have Sense, though.

Are there any ROMs for the Fuze that have the stock Sense?

If not, is there a way to convert a regular cooked ROM, like Energy's, to stock?
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] hartleyshc:
Energy releases many types of Roms.

CHT (cookies home tab) is offered in 3 flavors.

Energy theme, Dinik Glass theme, and GTX theme.

Standard Sense is offered in 2 flavors (this seems to be what youre looking for)

Energy theme (standard energy)

Stock theme (standard reference)

**note: the reference rom leaves a few programs out. personally ive always just used the standard energy version, icons look good, and it runs great.

He also offers a MaxSense, and a Titanium roms.

Energy Thread
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] chustar:
About the Standard Reference

The standard reference by Energy aren't linked from the page. Maybe they're still under development or something.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] Slipdoozy:
hey you can always make your own rom and use sense 2.1/2.5
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] kekkle:
PingChat 2 has been officially out for iPhone, Blackberry and Android for a while now. It's free and ad-supported I think (not sure).

Who have been using it? I'm currently on WhatsApp, but it's kind hard to convert friends to that as it's a paid app.

Here's a more official post:
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] DaanJordaan:
One of the big advantages of whatsapp is that people subscribe with their phonenumber, so you immediately see everbody who has whatsapp. This is really a problem with pingchat, yes it free, but why would people use this?

I have tried to pursuade some people but the most common thing you'll hear is this:

"But all my friends have whatsapp."

Personally I really like pingchat, very nice layout, easy to use and best of all, FREE. Although i'm using whatsapp beta for free now as well. I'm still trying to get people over to pingchat.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] kekkle:
That seems the most problematic thing for me as well...
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Sn0opy:
I won't use it until pingchat allows multi login.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] jamesey10:
I've been using it with friends. It's been great, but what would be awesome would be the ability to add a user to an already in progress group chat. I have a forum of people who all follow a sports team, and we've been using it to discuss team news and happenings. Every time someone new joins, i have to close the current chat and reinvite 20 people into a new chat.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] philiphoh:
Can I know can HTC Touch HD (Blackstone) use pingchat.. is there any link to download if is useable..been searching alot of site but can find any..
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] kekkle:
The Touch HD uses Windows Mobile.

PingChat is only for Android, Blackberry and iPhone.
[Hero, G2 Touch General] :
http://www.greenecomputing.com/apps/linpack/linpack-by-device/

Scroll to HTC Hero!
[Hero, G2 Touch General] btdag:
Compensating for much?
[Hero, G2 Touch General] takuhii:
What would a standard reading in MFlops be for a HTC Hero?

Regards
[Hero, G2 Touch General] brat.haneq:
Some liquid nitrogen to cool the phone, and we could reach over 9000 Mflops;)
[Hero, G2 Touch General] captainstu72:
Hmm, HTC Bravo. Well done to whoever changed their desire to have it recognised as a hero...
[EVO 4G General] Wallabe:
Why is that we don't have multi-touch though the whole phone? I understand the keyboard issue but what about the apps and just general use of the phone it self.
[EVO 4G General] drmacinyasha:
Blame the app makers. They're the ones who chose not to implement it.
[EVO 4G General] davebu:
be more specific.. what doesnt have multi-touch that you would like to see it in and it would be intuitive in. it is in the gallery, browser, and homescreen, what would you like it to do next?
[EVO 4G General] Wallabe:
How did you get it in the homescreen? Thats what I'm refering to.
[EVO 4G General] ms79723:
I think multitouch on the homescreen was added in 2.1. because you can do that pinch zoom to see all 7 screens in senseui
[EVO 4G General] twilk73:
I find multi touch to be in everything I need it in. What pi$$'s me off is the fact that when I am in an email or even on a web page I cant click on text and copy it. What the heck, why in the heck doesnt this work. Where do I go to suggest this to google?
[EVO 4G General] drmacinyasha:
Quit complaining. It's going to be in Gingerbread, and Swype has a text selection feature built in.
[EVO 4G General] Last-Chance:
idk about you, but if you hit the text and hold it, you can select how much of it you want highlighted, and then copy it.

well thats what happens on mine that is.
[EVO 4G General] fenixjn:
Same here. Hold, then drag, menu pops up then select copy...