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[HD2 General] Camusa:
So, Love my HD2 still, but...the bloody thing deleted itself last week on Friday.

I seacrhed the forums and found this to be a well-known issue, but no fix that I could find and I want to be able to sync with Exchange without worry.

I was wondering if anyone has a fix for this "lock-out" issue.

PS-yes, I have hacked the registry to give me SOME of the original options back for the calendar other than snooze five minutes, but I want my old options back (2 weeks, 1 week, 2 hours, etc.)

To HTC:

This is very upsetting and I hope that this gets read.

With all its foibles I still loved this HD2.

It does not do the calendar well: I need things to be able to snooze for more than 5 minutes. I would like the functionality back for multiple snooze options.

The battery life is pretty poor.

Other than that I have loved this device-UNTIL NOW!

Last week my phone locked me out.

I am synched to my exchange server at work and policy mandates that I use a password for this in that I work in an FQHC.

All of a sudden I wake up and the phone will not let me in.

Now, I am not employing a genius password it was "2222." That was it!

I tried again and then once more and the phone prompts me to input characters to make sure that my keyboard is taking the strokes properly. It was.

I removed the battery and tried again. Still nothing.

I note that with my fumbling around that I have exhausted 6/8 of my attempts.

I wait to call HTC.

I get on with my IT department first and ask them if they forced a password change. They had not.

I called HTC and was told that this was terrible...have I tried removing the battery?

Yes. Then I am asked to do it again.

I do so. When the phone comes back up it states:

"You have one more attempt left. If you enter the wrong password again all of your data will be erased." Mind you, I am not pushing any keystrokes, just resetting the phone.

Then the rep asks me to do a soft reset.

Stupidly, I do so.

Upon rebooting the phone informs me that it is resetting the phone to factory defaults, wipes the whole phone INCLUDING my SD card which had photos, movies and other.

I look on the forums and see that this is a KNOWN issue since back in MARCH!!!

All of my information is gone.

I will not be able to sync to the exchange which I need for my calendar and work emails because I refuse to lose EVERYTHING again.

I spoke to another HTC rep yesterday and he was simply aghast. Very knowledgeable gent, but did not know how to address this issue.

So please, along with the calendar, the battery, and some other much needed updates...what is your team doing to resolve this "lock out" issue?!

I can almost deal with the other problems, but this one?!

Please, let me know.

Very sincerely,
[HD2 General] samsamuel:
for the snooze, use bsbtweaks "windows dismiss x notifications" tweak.

or go to hklm/system/shell/notification/oem find customUIDLL and change the filename to,well, anything. bsbtweaks adds a "2" before the ".dll"
[HD2 General] Camusa:
Will this work even though my company forces out a lock as its exchange policy?

I found some interesting answers in this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=582660
[HD2 General] samsamuel:
it has nothin to do with lock, it simply stops the htc snooze/dismiss popup from showing, so it defaults to the windows one.

for the lockouts ive never used lock so never seen the problem, so can't help.
[HD2 General] Camusa:
I found an answer that seems to work (for now) in an old post linked to a WinMo Blog:

Enable/Disable the Exchange security policy - HKLM\Security\Policies\00001023: 0 = Enabled; 1 = Disabled

I just did this moments ago and the forced password is now not being forced, but I do not know if they push the policy out more than once (like every 24 hours). I guess I will find out!

I saw some other keys:

"HKLM\Security\Policies\Policies" folder.

00001005 to 1

00001006 to 1

Have not touched these yet.

I am a little worried that if they kick the policy back in I won't have the proper password (or any) and will not be able to get in, but I guess this one is going to be trial and error for a bit.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] mattygdot:
I have tried a few different roms and the majority of them display the received date 4 hours in the past and I am not sure what is causing it. I first noticed it in the Don Solari rom and the Freya rom (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=765247)

I have read through the threads and people have reported it but without resolution. Since this spans multiple roms I figured I would post the issue here. DST is enabled and my time zone is -5 Eastern Time (US & Canada). I have seen the work around for the 2016 date but obviously this isn't applicable however I have applied the patch anyways without resolution.

I may just have to revert to the original rom I was using as I didn't experience the problem with that rom.

Cheers.
[Android Software Development] DatacomGuy:
..and no programming knowledge.

Is there a resource for those of us with great, profitable ideas without the knowledge to make them happen? By the time I learn the language, the ideas may have either been developed, or no longer relevant.

Just curious what kind of input you guys might have.
[Android Software Development] :
Just Post them

Just Post your ideas in this Thread. Any developer willing to do one could write a quick post to stick an idea to himself/herself....

Cant wait to see your ideas..

Best Ragards,

Hans Moleman
[Android Software Development] MacaronyMax:
google app invenotr should do whilst learing code :D :D :p
[Android Software Development] dyrer:
You could start a thread with your ideas, and maybe will other people follow you and start sharing their
[Android Software Development] kuroSAVVAS:
As MacaronyMax said Google App Inventor is supposed to be easy enough for non programmers. You might want to give it a shot.
[Android Software Development] GoogleisGod:
Ive been waiting to get invited to Google app inventor for two months... :(
[Android Software Development] Zhypr:
I have Google App Inventor. Don't expect a miracle, it's just a tool. At the moment it's very limited in my opinion. The example with the cat in their own video is a good example of what you cán create, but don't think you can make professional apps with it.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mukesh_thiru:
Does any one know if I can download a virtual keyboard for HD2 which has a Ctrl button.

So that I can do Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V commands.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d0ug:
I know the default WinMo keyboards had the CTRL. Seems HTC in their wisdom removed the default WinMo keyboard, though it would be just about useless on the HD2 without stylus.

You might be able to try a 3rd party keyboard, i think Resco has one that looks like the default WinMo keyboard, but is skinned to look nicer

Edit:

http://pocketnow.com/review/rescos-keyboard-pro

I believe this is an older version though, the one currently on resco's site looks somewhat similar to the HTC Keyboard. Its possible the older style keyboard skins are still in there maybe? or just hunt around for the older version
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] p107r0:
you can modify keyboard definition files to assign Ctrl-C, X and V to chosen keys - check this thread, posts 37 and following
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mukesh_thiru:
I went with rescos keyboard pro
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] alexnaoumi:
Is there a way to take panoramic pictures on the htc hero?
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] bk718:
thought about this a while back and found 1 camera app that does up to 3 shots but it looked horrible..cant remember the name.. if there is another one, i would like to know as im still interested in this
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] dsMA:
I wonder if you are talking about Andropan...I downloaded it last night and tried it out today and did not like it at all :-(
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] gidkid:
Yeah, I also tried andropan once, man, it was UGLY.

Sent from my CDMA Hero, sucka!
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] bk718:
yep.. thats the name of it.. i remember seeing some BS samsung or LG phone that came with this feature stock and it looked good, so its hard to believe that someone hasn't made a good working panoramic picture taking device...
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] big-baloo:
Hi,

I'm the developper of Andropan.

Can you tell me what is UGLY in my application? :(

So I can make it better and better

Which device do you use?

Thanks for your help
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] lookout4theyeti:
The Epic's camera app has panorama built in. Im on the Evo myself but my family uses the hero. Glad I lurked on this thread, hopefully the Epic's camera app can be ported over sometime
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] 151jcolon:
try vignette. is the best camera.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] Kcarpenter:
1.Starting the application into a black screen is a bit - distasteful and not user friendly. Add the buttons that you have when pressing menu here.

2. The Plumb and Level indicators are a bit hard to get right, you should probably think about over laying a set of arrows to tell the user how they need to move to get level and plumb.

3. Typical camera uses the trackball to snap the picture instead of menu or a screen tap (at least on our heros) This would make it more fluid.

4. Not sure how you are storing/retrieving GEO information, but its wrong...at least for me it is

5. Just in my office - it seemed like one picture would have a different light saturation than another frame in the picture.

6. Your stitching of the pictures seems like it has a VERY low error tolerance, and you might try looking at other ways of matching and stitching pieces together so they are seamless.

7. After you have one panorama, instead of showing it at the beginning, have a gallery button, this way they can come into a screen of buttons and actually navigate with out having to use hard keys.

The above was meant to be constructive - please don't take offense, I think you have a good starting point with the app. If you need help with any of it let me know, I have a pretty decent Java/Android background, just no time to make my own apps.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] alexnaoumi:
I tried the demo version but I didn't see An option for panoramic pictures.plus I wanna wait till that black screen thing is fixed.

I'm asking about this cam cuz its on my bros epic and I'm kinda jealous, lol
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] dsMA:
I didn't understand the difference between the two different options for creating a panoramic pic (I don't remember what they were called, manage and auto I think)

I also didn't understand the point of levels

Also it would be nice when the stitching occurs if the app looked for overlap and then removed the overlapping parts of the pic.

Another suggestion would be that when you take a pic that is part of the panoramic shot that you leave it on screen and then overlay the camera view over it so you can better line up and tell where the next shot should be.
[Hero CDMA Themes and Apps] bk718:
i feel like an idiot.. i've had vignette (paid version) on my phone for months now and never noticed the panorama cam... gonna try it out in the daylight tomorrow to see how well it works..
[Epic 4G General] e3chaos:
sucks. I know there are threads about this but I just am sick of this. I had the Evo for a bit and I swear that battery life was better.

I don't know if its because of my crappy reception or what--but I can't even last a morning of light use with this phone. Super annoying... I had high expectations but when i'm getting low battery warnings before noon with barely using the phone at all, something has got to be wrong. I did a factory reset, did a full discharge/full charge. after it said fully charged i unplugged and plugged back in. i don't know what else to try. should i replace my phone? ask for a different battery? the date on the battery is 8/14.

Ok my rant is over...publicly that is.:mad:

edit: mods you can just delete this thread. i also hate clutter and hate that my rant has added to it. (hopefully we get some sort of update/custom rom soon that fixes battery!)
[Epic 4G General] hydralisk:
The battery life on my EVO is not better.

What do you do with the phone that drains it so much?

Open up your battery statistics. What is using it the most? How long is your display on for (select "display" from battery history and it will say long long it has been on for).

Have you charged it correctly for 1st time use? (charge to 100%, then drain to 0, then charge to 100% again)?

Seems like you are experiencing much faster battery drain than expected. My battery lasts all day long with light use (~22 hours). 10-12 hours under heavy use (3-4 hours of screen on time). I use juice defender as well, and I keep my screen brightness at 0% (still pretty bright) unless I go outside).
[Epic 4G General] e3chaos:
i've done everything you said. this isn't my first smart phone.. i've been around a long time. :-/. from what i have been reading some have been getting the ok battery life while others are in the sinking boat with me. just frustrating..i've been giving it more than one chance since i got it at 8am 1 week ago. :P
[Epic 4G General] b1indsided:
Bro turn off wat u don't need. Auto sync is adrain and having data connected is a drain as well. If ur not using the data then turn it off. U can still txt n get calls. N when u wanna check the net or watever then turn it bak on.
[Epic 4G General] ryan74701:
I tried all of that with my epic but it sucked the battery way worse than my evo
[Epic 4G General] ss4rob:
In Battery Usage / Cell standby, what is your time without signal? If it's high (like over 10%) this will eat your battery, so you'll need to reset the radio by quickly going into airplane mode (hold power) and leaving airplane mode. TWS will drop quickly. Weird bug, you'll have to do this once every reboot, hope it gets fixed.

Also, if you are in an area like work or home that has wi-fi, leave it always on, turn off "notify open networks" and hit Menu / Advanced to switch the wi-fi policy to "never sleep". When you are at home or work the phone will auto connect to these places and do all data over wi-fi which uses less power than 3G, even when the screen is asleep.

Finally, while I leave on window animations & Google Talk, I turn brightness in the browser and on the phone all the way down and turn off haptic feedback except for the capacitive buttons.

I've been unplugged since 8:30am and have been at work & home and texting all day, light surfing, a few phone calls, apps, etc, and now at 10pm I have 65% battery remaining. I think that's pretty good.
[Epic 4G General] mc-fine:
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Wha?! All that and still 65% by 10pm? If I let my phone sit on the desk from 8:30 am by 10pm I would probably be less than 65%.

The range of experiences is just way too wide on this board. I like this phone so much that I've decided to just accept it drains battery and have chargers everywhere. Plus I have 2 in my house purchased in different stores that exhibit the same power consumption.
[Epic 4G General] DevinXtreme:
You wanna explain this to me? Do you mean ALWAYS have wi-fi enabled? Or just when I'm at home? I use wi-fi at home for both the better battery life and faster speeds, but I was under the impression that if I always had it on that it would always be searching for signal, thus being entirely counterproductive.

This. I don't have all the chargers yet, but come Friday, I'll have two house chargers, an extra computer cable (for school/work), and my car charger. This phone is too awesome to let my battery life ruin it.

I've noticed that web browsing kills it fastest, which wasn't a surprise at all. I usually get 8-10 hours out of it, which is a lot lower than desired, but something I can live with. At least if I get my chargers, I can save the overall life of the battery.

Another thing to mention:

Vibration, while convenient and least annoying to everyone else, is the most power-draining notification you can use. Next is audio. Last is silence (obviously). Having it make noise AND vibrate is like signing your battery life's death warrant.
[Epic 4G General] ryan74701:
i think hydralisks epic runs on fairy dust and unicorn blood bc my epic sucked battery like no other.. and thats...screen brightness at 0...no programs running at all. and it still said 77% of battery drain was from the display. lol
[Epic 4G General] bomix:
+1 yeah battery life does suck worst than evo I rebooted phone once and it was at 40% came back on at 2% had similar problems with moment just have to deal with it juicedefender does help overall its horrible
[Epic 4G General] hydralisk:
Fairy dust and unicorn blood = I know how to use a phone. Copying word for word what I posted in the other battery life thread............

I'm convinced that if you know what you're doing, you can make the battery last very long.

First one reads: 21 hours and 29 minutes. For almost 4 hours of that, the screen is on. So you people saying you get 5 hours of battery life are doing something very wrong... or you have a bad phone. I can easily surpass 4 hours battery life with the screen on the whole time. Some of you don't seem to realize that once the phone hits 10-15%, it takes a LONG TIME to get it down to 0%. This is probably due to the battery just not being calibrated yet. At 6% battery I actually had to watch a whole hour of movies to get it to 0%... and even then the phone did not shut down.

Edit: phone was in airplane mode because the battery was at 0% and I didn't want it to crash before I snapped the photos. Cell standby is a major killer of battery. A solution to that (if you have a large cell standby number) is just to toggle airplane mode on and off when you boot up your phone. It works... dont know why. By my cell standby is almost always down to 5-10% now. More info on this issue here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=772571
[Epic 4G General] yellowxboy:
i agree with hydralisk, try toggling the airport mode on and then off. it will reboot the antenna of the epic. the cell standby mode totally drains the phone's battery reguardless of user activity or not. mine was 51% without signal but after the airport mode toggling, it dropped down to 8% without signal and my battery is somewhat better. (i'm a hardcore user so 8-10 hours is awesome for me. haha)
[Epic 4G General] issai:
I can say that my first Epic was a bad phone. It wouldn't even last 3 hours on a single charge! It would discharge while browsing amazon.com and bn.com using the built-in browser and while plugged into the AC charger. I thought I was seeing things.

Today, I've exchanged it for a 2nd Epic. It still does discharge when I'm pounding away on it even though it's plugged into a USB charger. But otherwise, everything else is looking at lot better now, especially AC charging.

So there are good and there are some very bad examples of the Epic out there. I believe I've personally had my hands on both kinds.
[Epic 4G General] rjmjr69:
I'm getting great life with the latest rooted kernel by noobl. 5 hours and phones at 98% medium usage
[Epic 4G General] imdshiznit:
i am getting similar hours to hydralisk.

i love this phone! it looks like there may be a few bad apples in the bunch, but i hope everyone else who got a good phone is enjoying it as well!
[HTC Aria General] matroe11:
I didn't want this to be my first post and I've been holding out for a couple of days now, but here goes.

When the CM6.0 zip installation finishes, I tell clockwork to Reboot Now.

When it reboots, I get the white screen with green HTC letters. I do not ever get to the screen with the black writing on it. It then proceeds to the cyanogen mod boot screen with the swirling circle, but that's all it ever does. It will stay in the "boot loop" forever if I let it. The phone never progresses past that point.

I am able to do a nandroid recovery back to before the CM6 ROM and everything is OK, but its not FROYO nor is it rooted. I followed the instructions from here //xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=730002

Any help will be greatly appreciated.
[HTC Aria General] jbizz:
Are you connected to the PC when you reboot?
[HTC Aria General] matroe11:
No, I've tried twice and both times I was unplugged.

Let me run down some quick troubleshooting answers

I used CyanogenMod-6.0.0-liberty-signed.zip

I have the Android USB Drivers

I installed HTC Sync, but uninstalled to leave the drivers.

HBOOT is good

Clockwork installed like clockwork.

I did not install the Android SDK, I didn't think this mattered since I had the drivers from the Sync install.
[HTC Aria General] Anthony1s:
Your best bet is to hop in the IRC and ask for help. http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#liberatedAria
[HTC Aria General] matroe11:
I'll have to get on when I get off of work. Thanks for the linkage and taking a look at my issue!
[HTC Aria General] matroe11:
OK, so the guys over on the IRC helped me out....very quickly I might add. I didn't want to start a new thread for this very reason...super simple fix!

My issue was that I did not perform a wipe through clockwork before installing cm6.zip.

According to Yoshiofthewire and jznomoney, the cyanogen boot loader will loop if the old HTC files are still on there. Performing the wipe through clockwork and reflashing did the trick!

Thanks to you all! now to set the rest of the phone up. Amazing resource!
[HTC Aria General] Anthony1s:
No problem. I was gonna suggest that you didn't wipe, but I wasn't sure without being able to talk to you. Figured it was faster to send you to IRC. Glad everything is working. Enjoy.
[General Topics] John512:
Bloomberg News Report on it
[General Topics] zephiK:
cool, i read this on another android website. no need to repost things

and how does this have any relevance to "developement".. wrong forum
[HD2 General] serg90gt:
can i just download to my phone and not to computer then to my phone? the reason is im having trouble with zip files. but i can open zip files fine on my phone. ive read all instrutions but i cant seem to get it to work.
[HD2 General] ddgarcia05:
you using winrar? It's free and always works for me. Just right click the file and click on open here.

http://download.cnet.com/1770-20_4-...ndows,Webware&filter=platform=Windows,Webware
[HD2 General] serg90gt:
32 bit or 64 bit and when i down load it do i save or run if i save were should i save it

thank you
[HD2 General] ddgarcia05:
What operating system are you using? XP, Vista, or Windows 7? click start, my computer, towards the left had side of the window you should see "view system information", click it. If you don't see the number "64" anywhere their then your running a 32 bit. Download the 32 bit (i personally click "save"). Then go to your download folder and run if from there. (right click and press if "run as administrator" if your using vista or windows 7) After it's installed. On the rom file you download right click and hit extract here or extract file if you have a certain place you want it.

Follow this youtube vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q8hAdmNHpY
[General Questions and Answers] dany4j:
Hello,

is there a way to view the archive (.exe) created with sprite backup? I need to see the email I used to register/login on myphone.microsoft.com because I forgot it. Or witch "file" to restore to get that setting in my new rom.

Thank you

P.S. I replaced original ROM with the one here h t t p ://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=562942
[General Questions and Answers] ElaineD:
Have you contacted SpriteSoftware? They might be able to help you or change your email.