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[HD2 General] Smartphoner:
Such a classy device needs to be treated elegantly!!

A screen protector is a must have.

And to show off with ur sexy phone use a OEM leather pouch (slim and rich looking) that can be bought from ebay with a reasonable price.

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-Leather-pou...389855?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item415267839f
[HD2 General] OrionCarl:
for such a big screen with lots of glass, its pretty tough, im a bit clumsy with phones, like some, i dropped by LG BL40, good job, it was ****e, but screen shatterd, chucked it in the bin and got this...always used the pouch, but had it out playing music, a broom(yes a broom) fell over and i have a c shaped scratch, drives me mad...but did scratch easier i thought..the case marks pretty easy to. But for such a large phone, thumbs up.
[HD2 General] nrfitchett4:
not sure I agree with the screen protector. I can never keep one on the phone, it will be on for a couple of months, then start annoying me and I take it off. The screen is very scratch resistant and I don't tend to drop phones. It stays in it's bodyglove kickstand case (which adds a little lip to the edges) and goes in a leather beltclip case.
[HD2 General] compact_bijou:
The screen is very durable. Over the 9 months I've owned my HD2 the screen hasn't had one scratch on it despite no screen protector.

Drop it and one of two things will happen: nothing or total destruction of the screen.

Unfortunately, after 9 months of being careful I recently dropped my phone onto concrete from about 2 feet and the screen is totalled :(

The problem lies with the thinness of the bezel where it meets the screen (it deforms easily) and the tight tolerances of the join between the bezel and glass.

The combination is deadly and any design engineer ought to have noticed that at pre-production.

Someone at HTC sacrificed how the phone felt in the hand to how the glass screen reacts to side on pressure as a result of the bezel deforming on impact.

I'd be happy to have a chunkier bezel with just a few more mm of metal on the bezel if it prevents deformation on impact.

The phone is insured but I'll probably get reamed at policy renewal time next year.
[HD2 General] jamima69:
the hd2 is durable as far as drops go (i don't use a case) - i've dropped mine twice, once on a wooden floor from about 5 ft up,no damage, and once onto concrete from the same height,only damage a very tiny dent/scratch on the corner of the case where it hit the street.

however, do NOT believe the bull**** about the screen being super scratch resistant !! after only two weeks of GENTLE use,and only being kept in my back pocket with nothing else,there was a one inch scratch across the front. i know,i saw the videos as well, but the fact remains. it scratches,and it scratches pretty damn easy.

GET A SCREEN PROTECTOR IMMEDIATELY !!!!
[HD2 General] Faelok:
Neither case nor screen protector has (or will) ever touched the perfect curves of my hd2. Furthermore, it has seen a heavy ammount of abuse.

As far as dropping it goes... I wouldn't reccomend it. Mine has survived chest high (I'm 6'4") drops on to concrete (landing screen first) and not broken. However, many a sad story has been told by users with falls from lesser heights. The unlucky folks notwithstanding, I have to say that the screen is certainly well-made. In the 6+ months I've owned it, the screen remains conspicuously scratch-free. It should be noted that I often take out my car keys and and aggressively assault the screen with them (to the horror of onlookers). I also regularly lay my device down face-first. Still can't seem to find a single scratch.

As previously mentioned, I do not have or use a case of any kind. I keep my phone on me at all times in my front pocket (screen facing my leg). This includes when I am at work. I work... at a warehouse. Which means my hd2 gets to enjoy pallets, boxes, and various other blunt-force trauma slamming against it in my pocket. Here's what I have found.

The parts that are NOT so tough:

1) Battery cover.

I have noticeable scratches and marks on the battery cover. There is a thin coating on it that will flake off after a certain ammount of abuse.

2) The flash.

My led flash was dislodged slightly (some time while at work) and pressed up against the vibration motor. Although it was easy enough to fix by popping the phone open and remounting it.

The parts that ARE tough:

So far... everything else. :cool:
[HD2 General] Faelok:
No. It really doesn't. Whatever happend to your phone to cause a scratch is unfortunate... but it is the exception, not the rule. When I am unable to INTENTIONALLY scratch something, aforementioned "thing" can not be considered "easily scratchable".
[HD2 General] prag16:
I dropped mine from 4-5 feet high a few times (a couple onto concrete) and it was fine.

Then yesterday I dropped it from 2 feet high onto a wood floor and the screen was totally destroyed. Must have just hit at the right (wrong) angle...

Also, my screen has several scratches on it, so saying it is EXTREMELY scratch resistant is BS. However, now that my screen is destroyed anyway, I tried scratching it with a key, and knife, a pushpin, and a couple other things (haven't tried my wife's diamond ring, heh) and cannot for the life of me scratch it. But it DID get scratched somehow... and one of them was there after only a few days of use.
[HD2 General] kuzibri:
the one inch scratch on your HD2 is very unfortunate, but does not mean at all that it scratches "pretty damn easy". At this point I totally disagree. I have my HD2 now for more than 1 year and I'm a heavy user, but after all this time there is not one single scratch to detect on the screen. I must say though, that I always have my HD2 in a leather belt case when not in use, but never used a screen protector on my HD2.

So in conclusion: the HD2 does not scratch easlly at all, but you have just been unfortunate and very unlucky.

regards, Kuzibri
[HD2 General] Feni:
I've recently replaced the screen in my HD2 because the old one had sustained some serious damage through an unfortunate encounter with asphalt. The device can handle some serious punishment, but the screen can crack quite easily when dropped just the wrong way. I've heard the screen can handle 400 newton of force which is quite a lot, but a 1 meter drop and slide across asphalt was too much.

Also, the screen is almost scratch-free except for sand! Sand can scratch the screen easily (had it in my pocket when working on the beach) so use a screenprotector when in a sandy environment.
[HD2 General] anhyeuemmaimai:
While the phone is durable, it is always a good idea to to have the phone in a gell case to keep it from getting mangled when dropped. having owned several touch phones I have not found a need for a screen protector as I do not put my phone face down or in a pocket with other things...
[HD2 General] Kalavere:
The sensible thing to do when getting a new phone is to fit a screen protector, I don't care if the back gets scratched, but the screen, that's a different issue.
[HD2 General] kuzibri:
Sorry Sir to interfere/disagree, but the HD2 does not need a screen protector at all. I have my HD2 now for more than one year without a screen protector, although I have two protectors lying in my drawer, and I can not detect any scratch at all on my device and I'm a heavy user. The only thing that you have to do is use a belt leather case in case you're not using it. I really find it unbelievable and hard to understand to read how many times people drop their HD2 as mentioned in this thread. It's an expensive device so a more careful attitude prevents a lot of problems. I can state that in the 13 months of use of my HD2, I never dropped it al all.

regards, Kuzibri
[HD2 General] Kalavere:
I used an Otterbox Commuter case and a screen protector with my HD2 from day one. I would never not use a screen protector with my phone, I have one on my Desire, Desire HD and the girlfriends Wildfire, my point is, that if the screen somehow does get scratched I couldn't handle looking at an imperfection in the screen for ~18 months.
[HD2 General] kuzibri:
Of course Sir, that's your choice, but in the end the HD2 really does not need it. Just my 2 cents. I own my HD2 now for 14 months without screen protector and without any damage to the screen at all. Everybody is entitled to their own decision of course and if you feel better with a screen protector, who am I to counteract/deny/not advise that?

regards, Kuzibri
[HD2 General] souljaboy:
Pictures please i need it for my collection of wrecked exotic phones !!
[HD2 General] kuzibri:
It's no BS about regarding the scratch resistance of the HD2. Mine is still new regarding scratches and using no protectors (after more than one year), But, if you keep on dropping your HD2, either on concrete of wooden floors, every Phone will eventually sooner or later die. This has nothing to do with the scratchability of the HD2.

I only can say/advice you to do not drop your HD2 so many times and protect it with a leather belt case, when you are not using it.

Sorry to state this, but IMHO, you do not take care enough about your precious and expensve HD2.

regards, Kuzibri
[HD2 General] swiss420:
The weak equivalence principle

I stumbled upon this Thread and had to post my experiences regarding HD2 durability. One thing I can say for sure. If you drop your phone on a Autobahn at 120km/h and after coming to a rest a Military Truck drives over it again with 120km/h, it will look not one bit thinner. :) Obviously a bad Idea but still impressive that the Battery and Battery Cover are not flattened and are still usable. The Device itself got pushed pretty hard into the tarmac and the Glass front totally broke but the Case itself has only minor scratches. Beyond that it separated into three pieces. The Battery Cover, Battery, and the complete unit with everything even the broken glass still in place. Before that I had not one scratch for almost a year. :( You can see a picture if you click on my HD2 in my Signature. By the way after hearing the Phone crash-land on the Autobahn I immediately stopped on the side of the road, reversed and was able to observe the Truck driving over my HD2 with all of his wheels and a full load of Swiss Soldiers. A truly hard shattering moment. One thing is for sure the Swiss Military don't worry about IED's because I am pretty sure he swerved to hit it otherwise he would have missed it. Oh well life goes on but the moral of the story is "The trajectory of a HD2 in a gravitational field depends only on its initial position and velocity, and is independent of its composition. ;)
[HD2 General] rr5678:
:eek:

I would pull out a gun and shoot somebody if that happened to my HD2.

Well, no I wouldn't :p

But I'd be very darn pissed.
[HD2 General] cliffordlee:
Well, as much as I can testify about the scratch resistivity of the HD2's glass screen, this is what happens when you happen to drop it on granite at an angle.
[HD2 General] rr5678:
So the inner LCD cracked, but no scratches on the glass touch surface?
[HD2 General] cliffordlee:
Yeah, though the digitaliser survived. Had to access my phone through SOTI's pocket controller to grab my stuff out before replacing the LCD.
[EVO 4G General] martyzidek:
I click it and says cannot connect to camera. Checked and the apk is there so I'm clueless.
[EVO 4G General] martyzidek:
Delete... should of rebooted first then ask.. working again..
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ipeench:
so i know there are plenty of sites that search the market and such and sites that tell you what apps do what.. but im trying to find an app that will toggle text to speech and im having no luck finding one.

then i started thinking.. i dont even know half of the widgets that are out there cuz i dont know where to even start to look for them.
[Droid X General] GoogleisGod:
I dont have flash player on my Droid X. It is rooted. I downloaded the flash apk which worked on my Droid, and it doesnt work on this. When I try it says "Parse error: There is a problem parsing the package." Does anybody know how I can get flash on my X?
[Droid X General] c0uRtJe$t3r:
You not only need to be rooted, you must also upgrade to the leaked 2.2 update to run flash.
[Droid X General] GoogleisGod:
Thank you, I thought The droid X had 2.2 by default. I just got the phone yesterday
[Droid X General] ZerkerEOD:
No most of them come with 2.1 with an OTA later/ rolling out right now. Some of them not many came with 2.2 as a test....
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] firsttimer44:
Quick question,

I went over the themes section and downloaded a football logo to save as my wallpaper. Well I always have this problem where I would like for the whole picture to be my wallpaper instead of a zoomed in blurred piece of it. I downloaded the Colts logo and you're forced to crop the stupid thing and i get a worthless part of the horseshoe. Is there a way to make it so that it doesn't crop every single image?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mmegalodon:
Stretch the frame within the picture...tried that?

SWYPED from my SUPASONIC
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] firsttimer44:
still crops it funny
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mmegalodon:
Somebody was asking this earlier, never have any issues stretching the frame to get the full picture..?

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[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jkinnison90:
There's always a wallpaper app in the market that will set you wallpaper perfect if you're having issues..

It's called Wallpaper Set & Save I think.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] firsttimer44:
When I was on fresh's rom, or any sense one for that matter, it seemed like when you cropped it, the picture was resized to fit the screen and still had great quality. With cm6, even if stretching the full frame, it zooms in on the picture and gives you a crappy blurred looking wallpaper.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] firsttimer44:
Downloaded one that worked quite well. Don't know why I didn't think of this. Thanks!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mmegalodon:
Interesting, thanks! For future purposes but setting a wp seems just the same with CM6 as before. Strangeness. :confusedface:

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[Fascinate General] elfofelm:
On fascinate, the default android keyboard does not have the option to un-check. So, even if I installed other keyboards, only the default keyboard is on. Is there any way to disable the stock keyboard and use other keyboard that I want to use?

Thanks!
[Fascinate General] devlp1213:
jus ordered my fascinate so still wait on mine but as far as I know you cant disabled but to switch it should be the same across the board on androids just tap ur text box then long press in the text box and it should pop up with ur options
[Fascinate General] ksizzle9:
Go to messages. Long press on input feild, go to android keyboard, press it with ur finger, WA la
[Fascinate General] DeezNotes:
In some cases, when you install a new keyboard manually (such as one of my favorites HTC_IME http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=624416), you have to go to Settings > Language & Keyboard and enable the checkbox next to the keyboard you installed.

After that, the instructions ksizzle listed above still apply.
[Fascinate General] elfofelm:
Thanks!!! I do not have the phone with me right now, but I will try that!!
[Fascinate General] ivorycruncher:
Coming from an HTC device, which has a keyboard that worked quite nicely, I was utterly disgusted by the horrible keyboard on this phone. Reading around a bit, I decided that Better Keyboard was the way to go, so I decided to shell out the $2.99 for it, and also downloaded a couple of the free themes. I now have a very good looking keyboard, which works 10 times better than the stock one.
[Fascinate General] TheAlmightyDrew:
Which skin did you go with?
[Fascinate General] ivorycruncher:
It's called SilverBlue AndroidandMe. It's gray/silver keys over a medium blue background. It seems to fit well with the gray/blue theme that Samsung has implemented on this phone.
[Fascinate General] illtema:
this is my first touch screen so what makes the htc and better keyboard better than the stock one?
[Fascinate General] DeezNotes:
The HTC_IME keyboard link I posted is pretty much the HTC keyboard with a ton of customizable options. And its a free download.
[Fascinate General] ivorycruncher:
Ah darn, guess I should have hunted a little more. Oh well, I'm happy with better keyboard, and you can apply themes to it, for added value. For the record, I think it works even better than the HTC keyboard, but I'd have to actually try it on this phone to make a fair comparison. All I know is that I can type way faster on this one than I've ever been able to on a touchscreen phone before.
[Fascinate General] phubeone:
That worked like a charm. Thanks!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dusan22:
Hello everyone,

I can see many custom icon sets out here, but after some downloads, I realised I would like to create my own icon set, to satisfy my creative needs :-)

The question is: Is there somewhere any kind of application (on PC or PPC) that enables you to replace stock icons on their respected locatons :confused:

I'll make myself more clear... Let's say I would like to change my Start menu icons (folders, apps,...) I do know that you can do this with some apps already available on the WM 6.5 platform, but only individually. What I'm searching for, is an app that manages to replace the icons with my own, importing (replacing) them on their locations (for example it will find the icon "Comm Manager" under Start Menu>Settings>Connections>Comm Manager.lnk) In this approach you could make one personalized icon set and use it repeatedly even after a new ROM arrives all in one sweep.

I understand that all aplications are packed in .cab files. So perhaps there is one desktop app, that manages to link my .png/.ico files to the appropriate files, converts that to a .cab and after copying to the storage, that cab after execution would replace/overwrite all the icons.

Hope it's understandable. Sorry, english is not my native language.

If this was asked/commented before, I apologise for bringing that up again...

See you all :-)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jsmccabe78:
there is nothing to do exactly what you want.

however, if you use jwmd and change them 1 by 1, you can save as a "theme" and then import it after you flash a new rom and get the same icons back.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dusan22:
Great app, this will do, thanks! Downloading now, will try it out :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aerobro:
I installed RUU_Bravo_TMO_UK_1.15.110.11_Radio_32.30.00.28U_4.05.00.11_release_122755.exe

to my phone.

but the screen doesn't work no more

i can here it!

I tried to turn it on with no sim and no sd

what I have to do now?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] !PANDA:
Think you flashed a ruu that is for a different screen version :)

Use the search button! You can un-brick it in the dev section :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aerobro:
Yes. I've instaleld with wrong ruu.

Where is dev section?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nzdcoy:
http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=594

"desire android development"=dev
[General Questions and Answers] kaillasse91:
I was wondering where to found info about the niki / nike / touch-dual cause the infos I need had disapeared; precisely where are the link to specifications, how to make the android kernel with the chaintool; link to the daily kernel...

It's true that the new wiki is much clear and modern but I've search everywhere and every sections, I can't find theses pages.

Is there a link to the old wiki pages? I mean even if the info is outdated it will help me to not search (and ask for) everywhere to collect the same infos that were there before.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] airfreshjoe:
I just got done rooting my phone and i think i installed busybox and SU

and i only see SU on my menu and i tried clickin on it and then its blank.

It only says Superuser Permissions on top and rest of it is blank...

did i even rooted my phone right?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] jbdavies:
Did I even root my phone... :) (Sorry... I blame my mother for that...)

Try restarting your phone a time or two. Or you could try and download the superuser application directly and installing it. If that doesn't work... I'm not sure.

I don't remember having any issues with that... but I rooted my phone a couple months ago, so I've slept a couple times since then...
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] KGBxxx:
Try doing something that requires root. If it doesn't work than you're probably not rooted. If you don't know what to do after root, then you probably should have waited to root. If busybox installed without errors then you are probably rooted.

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[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] KGBxxx:
Fyi. Superuser is something that gives your phone permission for rooted system apps and such. If you haven't installed anything requiring root, then superuser will be empty untill it grants permission.

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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snoboardfrk:
Hey,

I am trying to flash my Captivates firmware using Odin3 and I have it connected to usb on download screen with the right .pit file and firmware, but when I start the process the log reads:

<ID:0/003> Added!!

<ID:0/003> Odin v.3 engine (ID:3)..

<ID:0/003> File analysis..

<ID:0/003> Get PIT for mapping..

<ID:0/003> Firmware update start..

<ID:0/003> zImage

Then it is just stuck on this zImage forever. I'm not sure if this process just takes a while or if maybe I did something wrong. I'm a real newb when it comes to all this android stuff but I'm trying to learn. Also I'm not sure if the Re-Partition option is supposed to be checked. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SykesAT:
I am traveling and the provider I am using lists data settings which specify the "APN type" needs to be set as "not set"

Every time I manually enter the APN I leave that option as is "not set" but as soon as I save the APN, reboot and view the settings the "APN type" changes to "internet = mms"

The menu for "APN type" has three options "internet" "mms" and "internet + mms"... there is no option for "not set" or nothing, blank, etc.

Help, how can I make that field remain as "not set"