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[Desire General] tinytjf:
FYI - Can HTC tell whether your phone has an AMOLED or SLCD screen?

Short answer:

No.

Longer answer:

I bought my phone from Orange and thus the box comes Orange branded. Therefore, it doesn't say on the box whether than phone is AMOLED or SLCD (referred to as multitouch or something like that). I contacted Orange who haven't got a clue and just told me is AMOLED by reading their stock description. I contacted HTC UK and gave them the serial number of the phone. They said that at this present time there was no way for them to decipher whether I had an AMOLED or SLCD screen. There may be in the future but at the moment there is not.

The one bit of interesting information HTC could provide is that 90% of their stock is AMOLED and 10% is SLCD.

The reason I looked into this is because I can't really tell from the videos online what screen I have. There are some murmurings that all SLCD phones are bootloader 0.83 (what I have) but unfortunately not all 0.83 phones are SLCD.
[Desire General] ohyeahar:
http://pocketnow.com/android/how-to-tell-if-your-htc-desire-has-slcd-or-amoled-screen
[Desire General] tinytjf:
Already read that. And I'd say it's actually pretty difficult to tell unless you have their exact screenshots.

And a magnifying glass!
[Desire General] mitch1974:
The box for mine said "3.7-inch touch-sensitive screen", but it has the 0.75 HBOOT, so I really need to find a magnifying glass to check it.
[Desire General] BarnOwl:
If it's so hard to tell why bother?
[Desire General] familyhousing:
It really is easy to tell

Go into a dark room and go into the settings menu (which has a black background colour). If the black is lit at all or slightly grey, you have SLCD. If it is totally black (and I really mean no light at all) you have AMOLED. I have both and it really is easy to tell them apart in by the contrast of the settings menus, not so easy otherwise.
[Desire General] stats101:
that's not entirley correct. I have Amoled, and even in a dark room, it's not 'totally' black.
[Desire General] tinytjf:
Because there are some rooting methods that require you to know whether you're on SLCD or AMOLED... Having said that there are workarounds but it would be nice to know which method before I start.

As for the dark room idea, I'll try it. Thanks.
[Desire General] Gorskar:
I'm 99% sure mine has an AMOLED screen because the bootloader was 0.80 (before the 2.2 upgrade)

My box didn't mention AMOLED on the box (so it could have been either)

One thing I have noticed is that a block of white against a darker background appear to have a slight pinkish toothcomb on the left edge of the white block (eg the HTC clock widget that's usually on the main home screen.

I believe this is a sign of the pentile arrangement of pixels that you get in the Desire's AMOLED screen.

ie:

****

****

Without a magnifying glass though its difficult to be certain.
[Desire General] stats101:
Do what I did:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=7257878&postcount=10

Take a picture of the phone with a macro zoom camera. The pentiles become easily distinguishable.
[Desire General] mr.vandalay:
i had both amoled and slcd side by side and all i can say is that the difference is huge...

if open your browser and set text size to large and than browse to xda forums... with amoled you won't be able to read clearly without zooming in, but on slcd you will be able to read and see everything clearly..

other than that amoled is brighter and has more contrast but slcd has a lot more clearer picture, that is easily visible when you put two phones side by side

for me slcd is a lot better.
[Desire General] Teppic24:
A work colleague has just received his Desire and one of the first things he did was compare it to mine. He has an SLCD screen and I have AMOLED. When placed side by side the difference is gobsmackingly obvious. On the SLCD text appears far smoother, although the colours do appear to be washed out.

I agree that the SLCD is better, but I will say that I am more than happy with my AMOLED screen.
[Desire General] familyhousing:
Ok, I exaggerated a little. I actually have an AMOLED Legend and an SLCD Desire. Just for my own sanity I checked again and the Legend AMOLED screen does have totally 100% blacks, even in a completely dark environment. I assume an AMOLED Desire would be the same and hence as easily identifiable.

If you think about it, AMOLED will always produce complete blacks as each pixel is not even powered for black output. The light you report to see on an AMOLED screen can only be explained by reflection. If your screen emits light from 100% black areas then you have SLCD.
[Desire General] tolis626:
Well,one easy way is to put it next to your computers monitor while it shows a black image.The phone should be in the settings menu.If both seem about the same colour,you have an SLCD.If the monitor's picture seems grey while the phone's is pitch black,it's AMOLED.

I hope it helps those who don't have two devices to compare. :)
[Desire General] elmalote:
I have both the AMOLED and SLCD Desire. It's a clear difference. Mine has no bleeding around the edges. But It's clear to see the SLCD when the Call screen is on. The AMOLED is a lot blacker where as the SLCD is more gray than black.

The colours are also a lot more vibrant and alive on AMOLED, the SLCD looks washed out. The brightness is also higher on AMOLED.
[Desire General] vlasac:
You dont need magnifying glass. Droplet of water on screen will do.
[Desire General] Dragooon123:
I will be getting a Desire tomorrow or the next day and I don't know whether I'll get AMOLED or SLCD, so I want to know, are their quality worlds apart? Would it really make a difference to have either one of those? Is one better? How does both of them compare to iPhone 3GS's screen?
[Desire General] Lennyuk:
To the average person both are very very similar and you would not notice a difference without knowing there was two sorts of screens.

Chances are you won't get a choice of which to get, it just depends what is in stock.

Stat wise SLCD takes it on paper as being the best, but only marginally.

Honestly it really doesn't matter which you get, unless you compare two devices side by side you won't even know.
[Desire General] Loffen:
Because of the pentile matrix on the AMOLED, I would go with the S-LCD. The AMOLED is said to be over saturated in dark environments, and unable to read in the sun. I'd rather have balanced colors inside and readable screen outdoors. Also, the S-LCD have a real 800x480 resolution :)
[Desire General] andycted:
Had both side by side for a while.

They are absolutely equal in bright sunlight. That said, people suspect that some amoled screens come out of the factory better than others.

Blacks, contrast and bright colours are absolutely better on the amoled

Bright whites and overall colour balance is probably a bit better on S-LCD

Pixel smoothness and small text readability is a bit better on S-LCD. That said, after you have amoled for a while you will realize that unless you keep your nose touching the screen, your vision will process the amoled screen the same way as the S-LCD. Takes some time though.

Battery usage: we made -accurate- -measured- tests, of the battery drain in milliamperes/milliwatts. They came out very close, the main difference is obviously that amoled display is optimized for displaying dark stuff. Overall I think you save a bit of battery with amoled, but anyway the results were that:

- on low-medium brightness (inside) amoled is almost always better. If you are displaying all white screen, they are closer

- on medium brightness it depends on what you are displaying (light vs dark) but there is not a lot of difference, although amoled tends to save a bit more

- on high brightness (outside) amoled almost invariably drains more than S-LCD, except when the screen is very dark. When displaying almost completely white screens at max brightness, amoled loses big time compared to S-LCD, but that is the only situation where this big difference happens.

One last noticeable difference is colour temperature, but that also varies from handset to handset. Amoled tends to be a bit on the warm side (at least on mine) and S-LCD on cool. The old 'problem' of the pinkish tint is gone with the froyo update, those few displays still affected by it could be counted as defective.

Oh and by the way, here almost invariably if the box doesn't say 'amoled' you are getting a S-LCD screen. I have to admit I was very surprised at first by the quality of S-LCD and mistaken it for a differently calibrated amoled for some minutes. Blacks are good, but not close to amoled, if you go into a dark room you should notice
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Uri1234:
Hey evreyone.

I just got a new Tytn 2 and I decided to install Froyo.

I cant get me Sim to work but when I put the original Sim(The Sim of the provider that I purchase the device from).

How can I unlock the Sim(I have android)

TNX
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ChumleyEX:
By searching or using the wiki.
[Android Apps and Games] sr-ha:
Hello,

I search for the G4 TV app http://www.cyrket.com/p/android/com.eonline.g4/

the App is for free, but only available in the US.

If it is allowed to upload this app here could someone upload it?

THX
[Android Apps and Games] sr-ha:
can no one upload this app?

maybe over pm?

please

EDIT: finally i found the app on another page.
[Android Apps and Games] webstas:
Here ya go

Here's apk
[Android Apps and Games] sr-ha:
I have it already.

But Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] vj_:
TY very much.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] fmalheiro:
Hi all,

Someone is developing psfreedom for the kaiser?

In h**p://psfreedom.com/wiki/ has been developing for many HTC but for the Kaiser is not listed.

Best regards
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III Android Development] pavo87:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=776699
[Galaxy S I9000 General] nick5000:
After I updated to froyo the sync from jorte to google stopped working. When i creat a new event in jorte it never shows up at google calendar. But i can see it in the stock android calendar. creating an event in stock calendar syncs to google ok. Jorte does sync from google calendar.

Tried reinstalling jorte, and also tried clear data in "calendar storage". still same problem..
[Galaxy S I9000 General] pbruck:
I have the same problem.

After upgrading to JPC (see here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=769400 ) no tasks that are created with an third party app ar synced with Google :(

I use also some other Apps (Quickaddroid, Log 2 Calendar)

But no Task is synced. After editing with the Stock Calendar the Tasks ar synced but this cant be the Solution :confused:

Any Ideas?

Have also tried an Factory Reset and Disk cache wipe but no success.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ickyboo:
Problem is froyo beta
[Galaxy S I9000 General] pbruck:
So there is no chance to bring it to work with Froyo Beta?

Then i have to flash back and downgrade :(

It is Mandatory for me that Cal sync with everey app works.

No Workaround known??
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Entropyst:
Same for me, sigh.

No Workaround known?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] gurluver:
has this been fixed yet? :(

- New events created in Jorte (use google calendar mode) -> not synced to Google calendar, but does show up on stock calendar

- New events created in stock calendar -> sync ok all Jorte, Google cal, Stock cal

- New events created in Google calendar -> show up in Jorte, stock cal

:(
[Galaxy S I9000 General] boojay:
It seems like this problem is quite widespread, but there doesn't seem to be a solution. I'm having the EXACT same problem as described above and have found many similar issues posted on other boards, but no one seems to have an answer.

For the time being, I'm only using Jorte as a calendar viewer and entering events in my stock calendar. A bit of a nuisance, but that's the only way I can ensure everything's synced and showing up everywhere.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] boojay:
Okie dokie, I think I figured it out, at least in my instance of the problem anyway.

It was my task killer. I rarely turn my phone off and hadn't realized that it killed my Accounts & Sync process so when I restarted my phone I made sure to add it to my ignore list and VOILA, problem solved.

Hopefully most everyone else was experiencing the same problem and can fix it this way.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] M_J_Nazari:
Greeting to all

i wana port Aria Rom to HTC HD MINI Rom, wana extract Boot.IMG file for zImage file, but no software can open it, i used Nero, UltaISO, PowerISO, Winrar, 7-Zip,

any body know how i can open and extract this files?

:confused:
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] dew912:
Google unyaffs
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] M_J_Nazari:
im download it, but the program dosent run, hoe can i run unyaffs?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] rjm2k:
honestly, if you can't type "android unpack boot.img" into google, there's not much chance of you porting a rom.

First result has your answer (I can't post a link)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Geo411m:
use this kitchen here to extract it. Just leave the *.img in the zip folder you downloaded from or zip it up yourself.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] girishmadas:
plz i want to root my phone galaxy appolo tell me way how i can?tanx
[HD2 General] kcharlow555:
can someone please instruct me on how to install the cookies home tab editor on my HTC HD2. i transfered the app from my pc to my phone, clicked on setup tab and just got a blank screen. is it because my HTC HD2 is a t mobile phone, is it because the setup file is an xml. not too familiar. its a nice looking app but just need help installing it. thanks
[HD2 General] Scabes24:
Move the .Cab file to your device, open file explorer or total commander on your device and locate the file, click on it and install.. very simple. Remember you need to install two Cabs for CHT; CHT and CHTeditor.
[About XDA developers] ugumba:
As I've progressed through devices, I've added subscriptions to device forums. Some of these I'd like to remove from my list of subscriptions, but I can't find any way to do this.

When clicking Forum Tools in said forums, I am only given the option to subscribe (again?).

Looking forward to any hints you may give.

Cheers, and thanks for a fantastic community!
[About XDA developers] DaveShaw:
Looks like the link is missing, it's a bug in the new theme :)

You can either hand craft the URL like so http://xdaforums.com/subscription.php?do=addsubscription&f=263

or

use the XDA Classic theme (theme selector is bottom left) - this has the Unsubscribe menu option.

Dave
[About XDA developers] DaveShaw:
Now fixed (by the admins ;))
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] miki4242:
Title says it all.

The ODROID-T is a 10" tablet development platform using a Samsung S5PC110 (sound familiar?) SoC, sold by HardKernel Co. Ltd. (link, tech specs, dev area)

On their kernel build HOWTO page (link), they provide a cross toolchain download link.

Some saucy details:

Dir in tar: 4.3.1-eabi-armv6

Target: arm-samsung-linux-gnueabi

edit: the dir in the toolchain provided by Samsung in latest I9000 source drop is arm-eabi-4.2.1, so I presume the ODROID-T one uses newer gcc. Fewer bugs?

Since the hardware is so similar, has anyone tried building SGS kernels with this? I presume it to be configured and patched up ready for all the possible quirks and gotchas of this chip, so I'm quite curious as to the pro's / cons of using this versus the various CodeSourcery and CT-NG setups out there.

Any comments / experiences with this?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Benjamin Dobell:
As far as I can tell there is nothing particularly special about the ODROID-T toolchain that sets it aside from any other ARM toolchain. You could almost definitely use that toolchain but there are several alternatives, here are some examples:

http://www.codesourcery.com/sgpp/lite/arm/portal/subscription?@template=lite

http://www.gnuarm.com/

http://www.yagarto.de/

or you can build your own:

http://www.hermann-uwe.de/blog/buil...-with-binutils-gcc-newlib-and-gdb-from-source
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] miki4242:
Thanks for the links! I'll definitely check them out when I have time.

The reason I'm interested in people's experiences using different toolchains is because many of them probably use any number of patches for bugs which surfaced during tests on real hardware.

What really tipped me off about this was the wakeup lag story: one toolchain will produce laggy kernels, the other wont. That seems to indicate that somehow an obscure bug got fixed somewhere. Hard to pinpoint exactly except by lots of experimenting and compiling user reports.
[Android Apps and Games] dsMA:
Hello

I like the email client that comes with android (the one for accessing secondary email accounts). It does seem to have a major limitation though, you can not move mail around to different folders (e.g. lets say an important message ended up in my spam folder by accident, I can not see any way to move that message to the inbox)

If this is in fact possible could someone please tell me how to do it, but if it is not (which from what I can tell this is the case) can someone recommend an email app that supports this function.

Thank You

***UPDATE***

Yes I am using the vanilla/AOSP email app being that I am running cm6

The email account that I am connecting to is my AOL account. I am not 100% certain but I thought AOL uses IMAP.

So I guess the new questions are 1) does AOL use IMAP and 2)does the AOSP email app allow you to move emails between folders
[Android Apps and Games] ZeroBarrier:
If what you are accessing is a POP3 account, then I believe no email client permits you do do this (as this sounds like a sync function only found in IMAP accounts).

What I found to work best (and easiest) is to have my alternate email accounts foward all my mail to my gmail account, and have my gmail account tag each email with the name of the incoming account (hotmail emails are taged hotmail, etc.).

This lets me recieve all my email with one single app (Gmail), provides me with push notifications for every email, permits me to sync emails effortlessly, an so on.
[Android Apps and Games] khaytsus:
I'd think that any email client can do it, but I personally use K9 Mail and love it, and it certainly does this.

As the above poster says, if you're using POP this might not be possible. IMAP it certainly is. You should not being using POP anyway.
[Android Apps and Games] ajones7279:
Don't know about the vanilla android one but I know the HTC Email program will let you move between folders.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elziko:
Hi,

If I create an event with a start time of, for example, 02:00 but my phone is turned off at that time I get a reminder about the event as soon as I turn the phone on.

However, if I create an 'all day' event then I'd expect to see a reminder at 00:00. However, if my phone is switched off at this time when I switch my phone back on I get no notification whatsoever.

Does anyone else see this same issue, where all day event notifications that are missed due to the phone being off are not postponed until the phone is next turned on?

Is there any way to fix this?

Thanks!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] foxmeister:
There is no facility for an alarm/calendar entry to switch the phone back on it it is off.

This is mostly a feature of dumb/feature phones, and whilst I know it's a retrograde step in many ways, most modern smartphones are just designed to be left on all the time.

Regards,

Dave

EDIT: Sorry, I misread your post. You were just asking why you don't get a reminder for all day events when the phone is switched back on again. Sounds like a bug to me.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] elziko:
That's OK. I'm wondering if this is a general Android bug, a Froyo bug or a bug in the specific ROM I have flashed (official rooted HTC Froyo). :confused:

Does anyone fancy doing a test?:

1) Create an all day event dated for tomorrow, with a reminder.

2) Switch the phone off when you go to bed tonight.

3) Tomorrow morning, when you wake up & switch your phone on, do you get a reminder for the all day event that would have triggered at midnight when you were asleep?

I'd really appreciate it if anyone could give it a go! Thanks.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Conversed:
Hey,

Is it possible to remap the HTC Desire trackpad to a way that it wakes the device when it is double pressed à la the iphone/itouch, which is then bringing up the music controls? since android already has the music controls on the lockscreen just the wake action would be sufficient...

i hope someone has any ideas!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] foxmeister:
Wake on Trackpad is already available for lot of custom ROMs. I use with it with MCR8.

However, it's a single press, not a double press.

Regards,

Dave
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] !PANDA:
Just to comfirm.. yep I've got it on NeoPyTe 5.3 :) try it, its guuuud :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UnSkilleD:
Hey guys...

they just released the PSFreedom for the HD2 based on Android..

any chances to get it running on our Galaxy S's?

UnSkilleD
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TDO:
The new mandatory PS3 update closed this security hole, so ....
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UnSkilleD:
wait a week and it will be open again ;-)

just want to have it running from my galaxy s ...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ermacwins:
theres ways around it

http://psfreedom.com/news.php
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stepping:
Good News! "khalaan" is working for a solution for the Epic 4 G, which uses the same USB as the I9000.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=8053821

http://wiki.psfreedom.com/wiki/index.php?title=Device_compatibility_list
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UnSkilleD:
yeah.. sounds cool..

a buddy of mine hacked his ps3 with an HD2.. and it works like a charm..
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fiendHD:
My plan is to buy a new ps3 for online gaming, wanted a slim anyway. :D Regarding the geohot exploit and now this I dont suspect we get another chance. Nothing is mandatory. :P
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UnSkilleD:
i'll have to wait for an update of the jailbreak..

a day before it got public.. i updatet my firmware to 3.42 to download the mafia 2 SE content -.-*
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MetalWeirdo:
Is it avaible yet?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MetalWeirdo:
Use this costum DNS guys!! It works! 67.202.81.137 ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leoon:
He already updated to 3.42 so this wont work.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] luke95:
I just buy a Galaxy S today in exchange of a HD2.

Damn :p I since it's working on HD2 device, I can't wait for a working method on my new androphone lol !
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rbanaco:
any news on this?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stepping:
I found an older post of a dev. Dont know if he has more information about our Galaxy S.

Is he in contact with "khalaan"?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rbanaco:
don't know... i'm desperate :P i thought it was easy to port those things from android to android...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Signatune:
Any news on this?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brusilva:
can someone tell me where I can track status of the port?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wilx:
sorry, what does this DNS do for us? Does this mean I could browse etc without updating?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wyild1:
Please follow this thread for updates!!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=777592

As mentioned previous, the epic has the same usb controller as the Galaxy S
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cpasjuste:
Well, if someone send me a vulnerable ps3 (france), i'll port it :)