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[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] suzaku:
what's the best and most suitable SD card class for running android?

what i understand (and correct me if i'm wrong) higher class cards are faster but take more battery power so causes shorter battery life and heat.

lower class cards on the other hand are slower but consume less energy.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] mastajest:
It's really all about preference, but I think a class 4 will be more than enough. I've read that class 6 or more is only really needed if you plan on using the card on a camcorder for hd recording, but I just ordered a class 6 16GB myself :D
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] igritz:
Does anyone know how to get the thing the Droid X uses to get pick the spot you specifically want to be at when you text/type?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] v_lestat:
what????

you need to explain a little further. i am not a droid x guy, obviously but there is nothing any phone can do to predictt where you really meant to type aside from just the text prediction within the keyboard app itself.

whats wrong cant you type?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thenewguy821:
I keep telling my phone that I specifically want to be on a beach in Hawaii when I Type, but sure as hell, when I look up from my phone, I am still in Chicago..... :p

Not sure I fully know what you mean. If I need to add text to a message, I just tap the screen where I want to add the text. If I am a little off, I just use the arrow keys to get the cursor where I want it. If you are using Swype, Slide your finger from the swype key to the symbol key to bring up the arrows.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wickettaker:
Are you talking about how to specifically go to a place between the text in a message? Sort of like the iPhone does when you long press on where you're typing and this magnification circle comes up? Haha this is pretty hard to explain.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] igritz:
Sorry about the delay guys... But that ^^^ is what I'm looking for! Dolphin HD does it... HTC browser does it, but the place I want it the most (text messages) doesn't! Anyone know any options? All I know is the droid x has this red thing that makes arrow keys and trackballs pointless, and I want that feature on my EVO!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rugedraw:
Just tap the spot on the screen where you want to cursor to go. Or, swype from the top left key with the swype symbol, down past shift all way to the SYM key. The menu with the arrows will appear.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bronxknight28:
Doesn't htc input have the arrow keys, that's why its there
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mr. Monkey:
I do have to agree on this. Cursor arrows on keyboards are a joke most of the time. The one that swype has is nice, but if i had the magnifying glass like on Dolphin Browser I would never need the cursors. The cursors on the original HTC keyboard are a joke.

+1 I would love to see this on the EVO.
[Touch Pro, Fuze General] PasSlert:
Hello all,

Well, some days ago, I decided to buy a Rhodium and sell my old Raphael, but first I had to fix the keyboard space bar who was causing trouble (had to push quiet strong to (as this thread : http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=777284). So, I had an old TP who was bricked, I thought I could switch the keyboard to fix this problem.

I disassembled the TP very very slowly and carefully (2 hours to open the first housing [...]) after all was done, I reconnected the speaker (once more, 2 hours to reconnect it...). I started the phone... all was fine, keyboard ok, but radio signal no detected (may be a bad location). Well, after somes hours I thought the rom was causing trouble -> flash into shipped rom, radio included, not improvement. Updating radio to latest one... no change. Hardware problem could only cause this.

But, when I'm very very very (yes, very !) near a great signal radio, my TP can connect to the operator ! (but low signal). Otherwise, the TP is like in Flight mode.

What have I done ? have I destroyed the radio ? I followed the dissassembling file step by step.

Ps : I switched again to my old keyboard, no change. :(

Thanks to help a poor noob.
[XPERIA X2 General] shaker1980:
Why is this negligence on your Xperia x2 device, in recent times has no program Hard SPL so far is this delay due to testing or that there is an obstacle to the programmers or that this system no one looked at him and there is no developers Please, let us know what is the new Will have a role in the progress
[XPERIA X2 General] indycar:
and you might use the search button
[XPERIA X2 General] shaker1980:
I searched but I can not find new hardware is installed by the old systems such as LInux and talk as well as the only device Xperia x2 has no hope of any support Alabagher interest in this device is hope for this ancient device that awe-inspiring for me
[XPERIA X2 General] michaelthemage:
Most likely due to the fact that this is NOT a popular phone and even though it just came out January this year, nobody wants it anymore (besides us!).

People all move to the google and X10. So it is very unlikely that any spl/hardspl or what ever will come out for the X2. In other words, the X2 is dead!

I did not even find any phone that was manufactured in the U.S. after week 5 of 2010!!! Perhaps and most likely, SE does not even manufacture new phones of the X2.

Sad, very Sad! :cool:
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] omerson:
Hello,

I have a bricked Touch Diamond.I bricked it while installing an unlocker which is not suitable for my pda.I tried many button combination, It didn't work.

I need to get repaired it.I live in London.I can post it anywhere in UK.If anyone can repair using JTAG solution please let me know.

Thanks.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] dr.james:
Hello omerson,

i know how you feel. The same thing happened to me last week. (Used the CMDA unlocker on my GSM Diamond). If you find someone who can JTAG repair / buys bicked Diamonds please tell me, i will do the same. (I'm in germany though...)
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] davpel:
I'm new to Tasker and have an idea which might be useful to those of us who worry about battery life (i.e. most Evo owners).

Here's the background. I use JuiceDefender to save battery life and it works okay. But I hate having to wait for JD to turn data on every 15 minutes to get emails (or even 5 minutes). While I don't always get multiple emails every 15 minutes, there are times when I do and with JD, the possibility of a delayed urgent message is a major drawback.

So my Tasker idea is this: 1) Set up gmail to forward new messages to my Evo via SMS (using XXXXXXX@messaging.sprintpcs.com). 2) Create Tasker profile to turn off mobile data except when the screen is on. 3) Have Tasker watch for new texts from my gmail account. Upon receipt of such texts, turn data back on for long enough so that the Evo's gmail app has time to grab the new messages and then turn off.

Ideally, I'd like to have this profile set to silence new text notifications from my gmail account, so that I am not flooded with extraneous texts when the Tasker profile is not enabled.

If you think this is doable and potentially useful, and especially if you could help me create such a profile, please let me know.

davpel
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Gregalous:
AFAIK Tasker cannot turn off Mobile Data on CDMA phones. I have been unable to so far and I have not heard of anyone else being able to either. But, if you figure it out please let me know because I would love to do this also.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] davpel:
This has been added back in with the newest beta, available at http://tasker.dinglisch.net/beta
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] dmoses1969:
Been using tasker to toggle data on and off for awhile now. It works great

Sent from HTC EVO using Tapatalk
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] davpel:
So now the question is whether we can use SMS to trigger data on.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] samrat123:
EDIT: figured out how to get this to work, I guess tasker cant initially turn on 3g.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rickead2000:
I have followed the tutorial at http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=768256&page=34 to debrand my Orange UK Desire.

I now have:-

HBOOT 0.83 (Although I'm 95% its AMOLED)

Radio 32.41.00.32U_4.08.00.09

Build: 1.21.405.2 CL174215 release-keys

Software: 1.21.405.2

But when trying to do an OTA update I just get "No updates are available".

I havn't rooted the device and can't understand why I can't get the OTA updates. Is there a specific software version I have to have for it to update?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] System of a pWne!^:
To my knowledge, once you debranded your device by installing a stock-ROM you are unable to get an OTA update (because somehow HTC or whoever ships the OTA recognizes that you don't have the specified ROM installed on your device - judging on the IMEI and the ROM).

I had an orange.FR branded Desire, bought over eBay, and I installed a custom ROM on it. It doesn't get any OTA too.

My suggestion is, just root it again and install your desired ROM manually.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] warrinm:
I also have a debranded orange desire via a gold card and also SIM unlocked, I initially got an OTA last night for 1.15.405.4 and downloaded with delight until there was no wifi. A second update then OTA for froyo 2.2 which I installed via 3g (as I have unlimited data plan) however this worked for seconds before shutting down and restarting again. I then reverted back to the initial RUU and now have the same issues of no updates available.

I now have

Radio 32.30.00.28U_4.05.00.11

Build: 1.15.405.3 CL150129 release-keys

Software: 1.15.405.3

Does anyone have a solution to get 2.2 onto this desire, the links on xda for roms are all not working as there is a problem with the site being closed.

I am looking for a generic HTC ROM newest version possible please!

Thanks
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sbdags:
Just root with revoked.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] profjekyll:
Am I stating the obivious here?

HTC handsets are getting faster and faster and yet I find the devices less and less responsive.

However, having installed a ROM with an older Windows build, I immediately found it to be faster (even when it's one running Cookies Home Tab).

(This was going first from "Energy.RHODIUM.23569.Sense2.5.Cookie.May.16" to "Energy.RHODIUM.21911.Sense2.5.Cookie.Jul.24" and then to "simplicity_3_September_21887_2016CHT").

Is this a general rule that seems to be overlooked in a quest to get the latest Microsoft title?

Is this like the "great advantages" of Windows 7 over Xp (EG NONE EXCEPT AERO SNAP AND A NEED FOR FASTER HARDWARE) (Caviat = I know there may be holes in this statement).

Anyway, besides ranting...

PLEASE CAN SOMEONE SUGGEST A MARINADED AND COOKED ROM WITH THE OLDEST WINDOWS BUILD AVAILABLE BECAUSE I AM ON A QUEST TO GET MY TP2 WORKING AS FAST AS AN ANDROID PLATFORM BUT STILL BE ABLE TO USE MY WM APPS?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] maximus4:
give jackos old school rom a try!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] universil:
Jacko's Oldschool is a relevation.

Nothing is as slick and I love it :)

Currently trying another Jacko Rom though.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] eXilius333:
Maybe I'm stating the obvious too... but obviously it is for support and compatibility with newer technologies and hardware? Which is true for Windows Mobile platforms, is it not?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] profjekyll:
Wellllllll.... Yes, newer versions of Windows Do have much better hardware support, and DO have the ability to support newer runtime platforms like .Net and newer hardware interfaces such as DirectX. True.

I still manically wonder ifl Microsoft has a deal going with Major hardware companies to always tax the hardware as much as possible so faster machines are needed.

And while I'm on this Rant... DELL! What a bunch of gits, putting multiple security softwares (poor ones at that) on their systems (EG McAffee & Aol Security). Which are ticking time bomb waiting to nerf the computers out of waranty!

And to continue my Rant, it's all "Processor, Processor, Processor". How many of the shelf systems come with faster hard disks? The TRUE bottleneck of the day is not "Slightly faster CPU / RAM / FSB" (although this is of course nice). The Glaring bottleneck is Hard Disk thrashing (which takes place even if you have a squiggabyte of RAM) which has been engineered by our pals Microsoft. Having a 10k RPM disk, or even better an old 15K SCSI server disk (which are pretty cheap if you can manager the scuzzy SCSI nonsense) then your general PC performance increases more than the latest Ram type.

Anyway I digress. Anyone looked at Gonzo's? Is is possible that his ROM is fast because he uses a weird old Kitchen no one else does?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] profjekyll:
And Another thing. After installing AeroSnap for XP I think it's better and more supported by far than 7 / Vista.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] profjekyll:
PS - Thanks for helping me release my "Pentium" up aggression.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] eXilius333:
Are you being serious?

Vista and, subsequently, 7 are far more robust as operating systems than XP in terms of networking, security, multi-core usage, memory usage (as in how it is used not how much is used), and compatibility for new technologies such as multi-touch capacitive touch screens, 64-bit (unless you're using the discontinued XP-64 bit which works on old and discontinued Itanium processors) which means total system memory is capped at 4GB, and well bluetooth advances and just a whole mess of other technologies that you can go look up yourself.

Do you only care about looks and speed? And don't mind blue screens of death from conflicting drivers from unreleased memory? Or maybe you like your background services more exposed, unnecessarily? I see... :)

I don't know how you formed your 'opinion' about XP or what "information" you used to form it.... but here (http://www.techradar.com/news/softw...red-windows-7-vs-vista-vs-xp-615167?artc_pg=1) is one of many articles about some of the differences between the operating systems... if you actually studied the architecture of 7 vs. XP I think you'd find your response about AeroSnap (lol?) substantially short-sighted...
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] OndraSter:
Vista brought new version of NT kernel, featuring remaked memory management, support for new things etc. And re-optimalized from previous "swap as much as possible" to "use memory as much as possible with multi-core processor". That's why it behaves as it behaves on low RAM and singlecore CPUs. Comparing XP vs Vista (and later 7) is like comparing Windows Mobile 5.0 and Windows Phone 7 :).

Vista was revolution for me, I used them 1.5 years without single issue or reinstall. I'm not kidding (Ultimate x64). Now it's year after I moved to Windows 7 Prof x64 and for past 2.5 years, I've never been happier with the system.

Anyway, new builds are not nescesarilly faster or slower, some are slower, some are faster. Eg 21910 can be slower than 21909, but 21911 can be again faster etc. Sometimes they bring some change in the drawing, some optimalization, next time they add some (for you hidden) feature.

Best combo for speed, RAM and user experience is IMHO my LBFAR WM6.5, featuring 21899 build, TF3D (from WM6.1 ROMs), over 320MB free ROM and 115MB free RAM, enabling really awesome multitasking, all running apps don't even fit on the window in tasklist.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] profjekyll:
Haha - your both wrong and you know it (about XP that is).

Thanks for the advice though!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] eXilius333:
I don't mean to sound rude, but you're* wrong and you "don't" know it.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/ou/how-higher-rpm-hard-drives-rip-you-off/322

Read that... or any of a countless articles on Hard Drive speeds... again I don't know where you get your information? I studied only a little bit of architecture for my Computer Science degree but it was enough to learn that HD RPMs are not the "true" bottleneck of anything... Solid State can potentially be faster but the RPM-based disks but this idea that RPMS are a bottleneck is outdated and does not account for today's programs or paradigm :/ I am terribly sorry to break it to you... opinions are not necessarily reality. :'(

On a final note, you really SHOULD try OndraSter's rom... you can even install 6.5.5 with TouchFlo3D which is supremely fast, why? Because it is Sense 2.1 and, even more so, 2.5 which are slowing down the performance of our TP2's not so much the OS increments. I definitely recommend his if you really want speed, memory, and an unbloated foundation to install whatever you wish...
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] eXilius333:
At first I was going to let this bit slide, but... well...

That statement is just wrong in too many (almost all) ways and scenarios, it is about "processors, processors, processors" because applications are becoming richer, the web is becoming richer, programs that 'average' people--maybe not you--interact with are requiring more resources such as memory and processor 'time' and even if the disk was "faster" (such as potential SSDs) the system would have to wait for the processor to finish or the memory management (although I know little about this, but you can read further, yourself). The world is increasingly becoming more focused on "multi-programming" with dozens of rich web 2.0 sites opened in tabs, updates/patches possibly downloading, user content being uploaded or multimedia being downloaded, photo-editing, or rich software development... which are bottlenecked mostly by system memory, CPUS, GPU, and network speed, not simply "disk thrashing"... you may be used to a system with less than 4GB of assignable system memory that was pushed to it's fullest. Have you actually used Vista, 7, or their 64-bit versions for your everyday tasks with your everyday programs as you do XP, for a sufficient duration?

If you have enough system memory you won't experience "disk thrashing". That term, "thrashing" refers to a situation generally generated by your physical memory being full (or nearly full), and constant page swaps must occur... and it does NOT refer to normal page swap activity. That is not thrashing, but how the memory management algorithm was designed... most "work" lives in your RAM.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] profjekyll:
Clearly. ;)

Thanks for the WM help though.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] profjekyll:
SOOOOOOOOO Wrong!
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] profjekyll:
SSD vs Traditional disks... both have advantages and disadvantes. SSD seem to have very fast access time but slow throughput meaning they are good for rewriting lots of small files, but poor at shovelling a lot of data. Traditional disks are the reverse...

I don't care what disk you go for, but the fact is disks really are one of the main bottlenecks in day to day computing.

Thanks, that is VERY insightful, TF3D vs Sense... Thankyou thankyou.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Joe USer:
Thrashing is not the same as background paging. The Windows Vista/7 paging system is tremendously more efficient compared to 2000/XP.

Vista's biggest flaw was a slight lag in foreground processing, which made it feel slower. Windows 7 changed the foreground priorities around.

As for WM builds, Sense is a dog. Especially once you go past 2.1. I basically made the Foundation ROM because I wanted a slimmed down 6.5 ROM with lots of free memory. I think it's as stable as 6.1. I've also given up on Sense and moved to SPB, which I think helps the stability and battery life.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Rajinn:
i cant tell if hes trolling or serious.

yes, xp is faster in the fact that it requires less resources to get to boot.

for that matter, chromium devastates XP.

the hdd vs sdd:

SSDs do not have bad 'throughput', the only problem with SSD is that when you write numerous little files it still has to go through and add to the allocation table where they all are, which is true on every form of media. the ssd still writes faster than conventional HDDs.

read speeds are phenomenal and large file write speeds are quite good too.

cpu use:

XP only truly utilizes dual cores, after that it really starts losing efficiency. Vista was a failboat, for this post i'll only refer to win7 from here on. win7's kernel fixes the holes in xp's multicore flaws, as xp was never intended for multicore systems.

if you have a fresh install of xp, and a fresh install of win7 basic, give them both about 15 reboots, then boot them both. it will be about the same time, within a second of each other.

i'd love to finish this but i have other things i must attend to atm :(
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] OndraSter:
Looks like everybody got stuck on P III 1.2GHz and 256MB RAM when Vista came out (which was avg PC on that time). I was using happily XP on Barton, about 2GHz with 2.5GB RAM. Hating Vista that time. Then I upgraded to E2200 with 2GB RAM. Reinstalled XP, everything was working fine. Then I upgraded to 4GB RAM and I was like "hey, now I have enough RAM, lets try 64bit."

Since XP64 weren't in my native lang (and I don't like EN windows) and it was pretty much abandoned by MS because it wasn't used heavily (like... 1%? maybe less?), I tried Vista Ultimate x64. Compared to XP, I felt alive, modern, able to multitask and system could use all my cores and all my RAM, without killing my harddrive. WHAT A FEELING!

I used Vista for 1.5 years with changing pretty much my whole PC (except motherboard), without a single issue. Compared to XP, which died in like... 4 months tops (still dont understand, how anybody's XP could last > half a year) it was huge difference. No slowdown after few days, everything was running fast. I switched about the time SP1 came out. And never looked back. Vista was awesome update for me. NT5.1 was too archaic for current hardware. You never should use new system on old hardware, old technologies (eg NetBurst vs Core2), because it is built for NEW hardware.

Also, Vista brought new options and directives for drivers, so many of them weren't compatible. That was major issue, but not on side of MS, but on side of OEMs, which didn't deliver drivers for new hardware in time. But after few months, there were drivers for Vista working OK.

Then Win7 came out with a bit enhanced priorities for processes (like the UI), also featuring new cool stuff and minor update to kernel (NT6.1).

Sorry, I just loved Vista and never understood anybody who hated them. If they would try them on correct hardware about a year after launch, when everything was fixed and drivers were available, everything would be different and Win7 could be delayed and featuring even more changes. All in all Vista, it was featuring huge kernel upgrade... Something like CE4 vs CE5.

But this is heavily OT, we should keep in lines of ROMs. If mod is about to delete it, let it there for a while so the people up can read it.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] profjekyll:
Genuinely not trolling. Just ranting + convinced I am right.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] profjekyll:
Ok, so sense is a dog... I am getting that generally. 2.1 is pretty fast, but lacks hand buttons on the home page (as far as I can see). I want to be able to quickly press once, maximum twice from the home screen to phone my GF or open CoPilot etc.

I have never found this out... Perhaps someone can enlighted:

If I got a raw WM ROM without any sense on it (haha "no sense"... nvm) can you install Sense OR SPB OR ... as an alternative "front end" onto this using a .cab file or similar?

Or is this not possible, because Sense etc are very intrinsic to the build of WM?

If so, where can I get these .cabs?

What other front ends are there to WM?

At this rate, I expect I will end up learning C# and writing my own. Well, probably not.