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[Touch HD General] Chef_Tony:
you should change this thread's title, it is confusing.

stock rom refers to a rom provided by the manufacturer or a carrier. what you seem to be looking for is a clean or lite rom. that would also be the names you should look for. there are dedicated lite/clean/vanilla roms around, that run manila 2.1 or titanium, that should offer you enough free space and speed, or did you, by any chance, forget to hard reset your phone after flashing. that will make your phone slower with every rom you flash
[General Questions and Answers] rajheev:
plz any one help to upgrade my O2 xda exec 6.1 to 6.5 plz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[General Questions and Answers] chopper the dog:
HERE is a link but the reading part is up to you.

good day.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Tehpriest:
With everyone else doing it does anyone know if Samsung a planning a upgraded S with a physical keyboard?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] INeedYourHelp:
Ever heard of Epic 4g? If you're asking about a gsm version, there has been no news about it and I highly doubt they will make one.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
like the Sprint version of Galaxy code named Epic 4G ? :D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Tehpriest:
Now that is a shame that would be a killer if it was 3G. Wonder why they do this CDMA only thing.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Maddmatt:
In my opinion the phone's screen is big enough to make a physical keyboard pointless. Typing on it is quite easy in landscape due to the size of the buttons.

On a smaller phone a keyboard is great but it's just not worth the added bulk here. I liked the idea of having something like the Epic 4G at first until I had my SGS for a while, now I feel no need for a physical keyboard.

On my old Nokia 5800 it was a different story, that screen was too small for me to type comfortably.

Look at pictures of the Epic 4G compared to the SGS and imagine carrying that in your pocket :p
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
the SGS is great!

but i'd still would like to have a hardware keyboard for many apps.... specially GAMES :p

otherwise there is no real need of a hardware keyboard

as everything works great without it :D
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Tehpriest:
The need for a hardware keyboard.

I use my phone as a work tool as well so here are a few reasons.

Editing documents (Yes you can do this with the screen but it is far easier with a keyboard as you can see the whole screen/page)

Writing notes. (as above)

Using text boxes on web sites. (far easier as you can see and choose each box without having to scroll the small slot to get to each)

Emails and longer texts.

Much easier for cut and paste

I could go on but you get the idea.

BTW what happened to that auto correcting screen keyboard or was that just a fake?
[Galaxy S I9000 General] nCoder:
I read "somewhere" that the EPIC 4G does gsm 3G as well ;)
[Galaxy S I9000 General] INeedYourHelp:
um, that would be a big fat no. Sprint uses CDMA, like Verizon. 2g/3g/4g - it's all CDMA with Sprint.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] ickyboo:
I would buy it! I need it for NETHACK! yes. the game. :P but its too late right now as i'm locked in a 2 year contract. Next Time round i would definately get Keyboard if the machine at the time had it, No idea what machine will be around as 2 years is a LONG way away in phone/computer land
[Galaxy S I9000 General] snaff:
An interface that let you clip on a keyboard for typing or a joypad for games, or whatever else for whatever purpose would be nice. You can add things with bluetooth of course but they have to be held, carried, charged separately etc.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Tehpriest:
Why not have a second capacitive laminate type glass under the main screen that could be slid out and act as a keypad. It would add very little weight and surely must be engineer-able.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
you know you can simply use any Bluetooth keyboard for that purpose eh?

it's been confirmed Froyo comes with HID devices to support mouse and keyboard via BT
[Galaxy S I9000 General] Tehpriest:
If that's right then brilliant. I can lay my hands on an old fold away Palm Treo one.
[Galaxy S I9000 General] AllGamer:
i was thinking about the same thing the old Palm Treo 3 fold super thin keyboard, forgot the model #

they don't make it anymore, it's even hard to hunt on ebay

at first i was thinking about using the lazer projected keyboard, but that one although cool, it sucks if as you can't use it in public places say like in a Bus or Subway, even on a Taxi cab

the foldable one works anywhere as long as you can put it on your laps
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Polarfuchs:
Hi,

is there an approach to port something like QuickGPS?

My GPS Fix needs 4 minutes.

With win mobile I did use the application QuickGPS. It downloads some GPS Satellite information. And the fix is faster.

The most important thing is, I can use Quick GPS at home via Wifi.

A-GPS from android needs mobile data network but I don't have a data plan.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
it is build in, it comes with Android already

nothing special to setup, nothing to download
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Polarfuchs:
SO when do I know when Android downloads that stuff? Or does i happen every time i'm on wifi?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ijob:
Hi there,

Have just charged my new Desire up and performed an over the air update. I was expecting the update to 2.2 but sadly not.

It is an unlocked phone from the carphone warehouse.

Any help would be appreciated :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ijob:
Ignore my Noobishness. After the first update I've just searched on the phone again and its there.

Apologies :)
[Droid 2 General] theecho:
I was hoping someone could help me out with creating a status bar background image. I have edited the files already which is status_bar_background but im trying to add a bigger logo that doesn't tile. Can someone please assist me with what code/image size I would have to have to not have the image repeat and be able to have a background logo?
[Droid 2 General] RidoKilos:
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[Droid 2 General] theimpaler747:
Piece of cake, you need to edit this file: frameworkres.apk, drawable-mdpi or drawable-hdpi, status_bar_background.png

:D
[Epic 4G General] churro7:
should I return the epic for the evo?
[Epic 4G General] Kcarpenter:
List, "All our Problems".

Battery Life

Upload Speed.......

Some people with a back button issue....

errrrrr that's about all I can think of though I am sure there are more...

No...I wouldn't switch.
[Epic 4G General] greengoldmello:
I have very bad signal reception in a metropolitan area.
[Epic 4G General] Tonythetigger:
My screen wobbles so I went in to exchange it. The new one I got wobbles even more
[Epic 4G General] badasscat:
That's just a defective phone, and your second one is also defective. It happens... it could happen with the Evo too.

Whether I'd say someone should switch depends on what you like and dislike about both phones. Why did you buy an Epic in the first place? Have those reasons suddenly changed? Is uploading faster than 150kbps right now more important than any of the reasons why you bought the phone to begin with?

If you've decided you like the Evo better, then switch. I wouldn't switch because of a relatively minor GPS issue with an easy workaround, and I personally wouldn't switch because of this upload cap (I have yet to have it cause me a problem), although if you're a heavy uploader, then maybe... then again, it's probably going to get fixed at some point and then you might feel pretty dumb.

I bought an Epic because of the keyboard, so unless the phone was basically non-functional, there's no way I'd want to switch to an Evo. If you like the Evo better, though, then go for it. I just don't know why someone would buy an Epic in the first place if they really wanted an Evo, though.
[Epic 4G General] hydralisk:
Switching to the EVO would be even more depressing than the problems the Epic is experiencing. I mean the processor on the EVO is soooo outdated.

I'm sticking with the Epic.
[Epic 4G General] churro7:
lol i remember when evos snapdragon was all the rage haha

but yeah upload speeds fluctuating signal where my hero didnt have that problem yes battery life

i chose the epic because of the keyboard and its the only thing keeping me from exchanging
[Epic 4G General] ImmortalLuD:
I'm in the same boat. Only thing that bugs me is battery life, and e-mail not updating at the specific times that I set.

I don't even USE the stupid physical keyboard... Swype is GOD.

I'm so used to the speed, smoothness, and brute power of this phone, I don't know if I can give it up!
[Epic 4G General] badasscat:
You have this too? I just posted a Q about this - no luck fixing it yet?
[Epic 4G General] greengoldmello:
now while the snapdragon may not be as fast as the hummingbird, its no slowpoke either. My nexus NEVER slowed down unless an app froze it. Other than that it flew. The main bottleneck in the snapdragon chipset is the freakin sucky adreno gpu.
[Epic 4G General] ImmortalLuD:
I'm sure it's happening to almost everybody. Sometimes a mail squeeks by, most of the time it doesn't. Otherwise, when I enter one of my many inboxes, it shouldn't start checking for mail... LAME.

Hope they put out some software fixes soon.
[Epic 4G General] hydralisk:
The snapdragon might have been "all the rage" back in january when it was put in the nexus one... but when it was still being used when the EVO rolled, I was a little upset. Yeah, I'm mainly talking about the GPU. The hummingbird isn't that much faster than the snapdragon sans GPU... but it is a LITTLE bit. Considering iPhones have always had some sort of GPU in them, I figured android would too. It's nice that the anroid manufacturers are finally catching on.

The Epic has video codecs as well. Combined with the GPU, high definition videos are a breeze to watch without having to convert :) This is a Godsend for me.
[Epic 4G General] jacjyd:
I agree that Swype is wayyyy better than just typing in a touch keyboard and I'm so happy that it came with (I couldn't deal with my bf's touch keyboard so I knew I needed a physical one) but there are just some things that are better with a keyboard.

Does anyone use it? Because I was just wondering if other people found that it skips letters sometimes? Gets a little annoying when I'm typing a longer e-mail of sorts. When I had a Rant, I remember having to almost break it in before all of the keys were at the same sensitivity. (Namely just the Y key...I almost returned it, got lazy, and it just got better on its own...used to have to stop and smash it in to get it to work.) Anyone else have minor keyboard issues?
[Epic 4G General] Dameon87:
Personally I have no problems with the hardware keyboard and missing letters. I use the hardware keyboard for anything over a sentence or so. But yeah no problems for me. Maybe I just got lucky :p
[Epic 4G General] badasscat:
I use it all the time, and never had it skip letters unless it was my fault for not hitting them properly. I love the keyboard but it's still not perfect for me; the letters are maybe a little too far apart, so I sometimes hit in between two letters. Can't really fault the phone for that, though; at least not the build.

It does seem like the space bar actually has two buttons under it (like it's a double length key, so it gets two standard key buttons), and I seem to hit it twice sometimes if I roll my thumb a little bit when I press it. But other than that, I have no problems with the functionality of the keyboard, I just need to get used to the key spacing. I'm coming from an HTC Fuze, which had all the letters jammed up right next to each other.
[Epic 4G General] churro7:
lol not using ur phone for what i was made for
[Epic 4G General] jfenton57:
I switched to the EVO and don't regret it for a second....but I don't play games on my phone.

Internet works great...GPS works great and my email gets delivered on time with no glitches.
[Epic 4G General] fetalp:
Don't forget to add the stupid problem not receiving mms messages while your on wifi.
[Epic 4G General] ImmortalLuD:
I use it for more than it was made for, just don't use the physical keyboard for typing. :)

I mainly chose this phone over the Evo for it's lack of Sense UI. I've had the HTC Hero before it was even released to the public, and an Evo is just an oversized, super fast version of that... No thanks.

I like AOSP style text, e-mail, and speed. :) Gotta thank Darch for that one.
[Epic 4G General] churro7:
the keyboards the main reason lol

but i use launcherpro plus on my epic as i hate you cant remove icons from the dock in touchwiz did the same when i had the hero even with sense still on it was noticably faster same on evo if i had it..........but i am eagerly awaiting 2.2 and roms and such

and yes the lack of mms on wifi annoying very as the hero could
[Epic 4G General] gTen:
Snapdragons were all the rage 2 years ago when we were all waiting on them and Tegra to finally hit the market....

By the time a Nexus One came out..we already knew about Hummingbird, next generation Snapdragons and Tegra 2...it was nice yes, but we should have had snapdragons in 2009 already >.>
[Epic 4G General] LordLugard:
I would not bother with the default Email app. Use K-9 Mail instead, much better.
[Epic 4G General] churro7:
and 3g killing our batteries wifi is fine
[Epic 4G General] tbobaggins:
I am in the same boat, and I only have 8 more days to make a decision. The only real issue I am having is signal problems..I live between Chicago and Milwaukee, and none of my previous phones had any troubles but my Epic is CONSTANTLY beeping (telling me that I have no service). It probably does this over a 100 times a day easily. I have gone through 3 phones and they have all had the same problems. I haven't had any troubles really with the gps..but today was the first day I had battery problems. Some days at work my phone gets decent service but other days I have zero bars all day long. Today was one of those days. I unplugged the phone by my bed at 630 am and by 11:30 I was getting a low battery alert. I love the screen, but could deal with the Evo..the big thing that makes me want to keep my Epic is the keyboard and the processor being much quicker. If only the dang thing got signal! Seems like the next update will be atleast a month out with no promises of a signal fix and if thats the case then I have no choice but to go to the Evo. ( I have no back up phone)
[Epic 4G General] itsmebryan:
yes, please do it. You will love the EVO. It's the best phone on the market. ;)
[Epic 4G General] churro7:
i cant return it to sprint store can i with evos in stock but i got mine at best buy
[Epic 4G General] MvP77:
Same here, I returned mine to best buy 3 days after getting it but they had no evos in so I ordered one. I stoped in today to check on my order the guy said they have people who been waiting 3 weeks for it.

I don't wanna go past my 30 days so I'm gonna stop at the sprint store down the road and see if I'm able to return the epic at best buy and just by the evo at the sprint store. If not I will just cancle and stick with tmo and get a g2 or mytouch hd.
[Epic 4G General] entropism:
You know, I've had no issues since last month (I got the phone 8/17), and now my touchscreen buttons stopped working completely. I'm not a happy camper
[Epic 4G General] MvP77:
Just to follow up on this. I was able to return my epic at best buy and get a evo at the sprint store with no problem. Just be sure to tell them at best buy what you are doing so the dont cancel the line.
[Epic 4G General] itsmebryan:
Happy trails to you. I hope it works better for you. So far my phone is great. I have no complaints. But report back about the EVO. And be honest. Nothing is perfect and this is coming from a 6yrs HTC fan boy.
[Epic 4G General] richse:
My only issue is my GPS doesn't work at all. I am just going to assume a fix is coming and enjoy everything else about the phone. Worst case scenario we still have my wife's Hero to use for gps in the car.
[Click General] tampitzel:
is this ever going to happen ? i know there were some rumours going on in march , saying tattoo will get the taste of 2.1 ... everyone said then than tattoo is going to get an update from 1.6 but nothing happened. is there ever going to be an official version of android 2.1 for tattoo ? thx
[Click General] Madic:
Give up the hope for an 2.1 update.

There were rumors. But they were nothing more than rumors.

This question was asked and discussed enough in different threads and the most threads came to the conclusion that we shouldn't wait for HTC to give us official 2.1
[Click General] yatindroid:
don't wait for that

sell your tattoo buy wildfire
[Click General] Densvenske:
and get disappointed again :D
[Click General] Neo_94:
If you dont want to get disappointed buy a HTC Desire Z :D
[Click General] hanzsp4m:
.. and exactly this is htcs strategy. Release no updates for old/low-end devices, so the customer hast to buy a new one, if he wants new software.

It wold be very nice, if they would open the 1.6 cam(fm,..)-drivers to us. So they could be ported to 2.2. But then everyone had a great phone and no one would buy a new/expensive one.

Next time I buy a device, i will think about, if I buy a htc or not, but the other companies do not much better.

greetz hanzsp4m
[Click General] 48151623421:
agreed. hopes for an update for tattoo are futile. Even Eris won't get updates anymore and it's a way newer device. we have a great community, we don't need HTC(except for the cam driver :p).
[Click General] yatindroid:
tattoo will no more

greetz hanzsp4m is right

HTC don't want tattoo more

in India they promoting wildfire

shopkeepers suggesting buy wildfire ( hero almost same spec available at higher cost 1/3 more) wildfire don't disappoint you at tattoo price

they should discontinue tattoo
[Click General] ph91ctl:
That sounds bad, hope your wrong. :)
[Click General] haree:
hi

as far as India is concerned hes right the tattoo is end of life and HTC is promoting wild fire i dont think were gona get any update but dont worry we have some great developers and very soon well have what we want

for example i also have a jade(its a WM Phone) never got any update but i have been using WM6.5 for a very very long time and im quite happy with the same:D:D

so done worry guys well get a fully working cooked 2.2 rom soom for our tattoo:D:D

thanks

hari
[Click General] tcat:
share cam and fm drivers

Does anyone tried to ask HTC developers for cam/FM kern modules? If rom cooking is legal thing (isn't it?), then they maybe share those modules for a discounted device. Maybe need enough ppl to ask.

Or just try unofficial way, by getting contact to one of the developers.

Personally i don't wanna sell my tattoo. I like it, however that upgrade is really need (ofc with working cam/fm).
[Click General] pts2grimm:
Well i sent message to htc to ask them if there will be any update for tattoo and here is their answer

Dear Mr. Tino,

Thank you for contacting us,

Kindly be informed that for the time being there’s no information regarding any future upgrade for the HTC Tattoo, you can, however, visit the HTC website from time to time to keep track of any released software.

Please note that you can contact us via support line.

HTC Team
[Click General] dimitars84:
htc update

And I've got this mail from HTC:

Currently there is no plan to upgrade your phone to Android 2.1. The result of our analysis showed that an upgrade

to your phone may impact the user experience and we ultimately decided that an upgrade was not recommended.

Your phone will still receive support, and we thank you for your patience and understanding.
[Click General] :
Nothing to add! :-)

mobas
[Click General] Anand J:
Back in June I purchased Tattoo believing Roumors.. here in India the retailers too promised me that HTC is coming up with updates. I purchased it and got rid of it within the first month. Purchased the Desire and the very same day 2.2 update was available :)

When HTC came up with Desire HD and new Sense UI I knew HTC would do exactly the same to Desire as it had done to its other phone. Desire Z and Desire have almost all the same specs infact Z has slower processor. But HTC has so far not released a comment if Desire will get the upgrade.

Long story cut short.. when HTC launches new phones it conviniently forgets to serve old customers.. but who the hell cares as long there is XDA team.. I am running RCMixHD v.14 on my desire and really dont care if HTC will provide an official update.

So all my friends using Tattoo just give up the hope of 2.1 from HTC. Root your phone and flash a custom ROM and dont complain if u brick ur phone :D

Good Luck.

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AMOLED Desire HBOOT 0.93 S-ON:(

Radio: 32.49.00.32U_5.11.05.27

Recovery: Clockworkmod 2.5.0.7.

ROM: RCMixHD v0.14b :)
[Click General] manilu001:
maybe they have problems with camera too on 2.2??
[Click General] arco68:
I couldn't care less about HTC giving the Tattoo an update, but they could at least have helped giving us a working camera!
[Click General] cmpk.mj8:
Stunned by htc Support

I've contacted HTC Support for Tattoo upgrade and they promised me that their technical team is working on it "very closely" but release plan is not available. I contacted them quite a few times now... and really stunned by their idiotic answers...

I've posted my conversation with them on a blog stunnedbyhtcsupport[dot]wordpress[dot]com [I couldn't post the link as I'm a new user] (You can visit my homepage)

You can see how stupid answers they are providing to their customers...

I've given up all hopes for any official support for Tattoo now and I've purchased a Motorola android device. Will never come back to HTC.
[Click General] SudevG:
Really HTC support is crap...
[Click General] oton:
HTC ignores its user

Thanks to HTC. Such ignorance can not be overlooked. I had a similar experience with Nokia. Now I will bought a Samsung, I'll see if they are more honest.
[HD Mini General] Masen:
Hi!

I´m a fan of Ezinput (or Touch input 2.2, as it says if I check the settings - about). I´m currently using build 2012.3429, which is in Toms 23673 ROM.

Now to the question. I have for a long time been irritable to the fact that I have to retype the word that I recently have added to my wordlist. For example, I would like to add the word XDA, I add the word to the wordlist and then I have to type XDA again to get it in my text. If I add a word, I´m certain that I like it in my text at once..! :p

I find it really irritable!

Do you recognize the problem, does someone have the solution to this, could it be a reg.tweak?

Thanks!
[HD Mini General] fighter7139:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=7951345&postcount=4
[HD Mini General] Masen:
Not really...

Thank you, but that was´nt the question...

...I add the word to the wordlist and then I have to type the word again to get it in my text...

I think it´s a double job! The word I add to the wordlist, for example when I SMS, IS THE WORD I LIKE IN THE TEXT, why don´t put it there by default!
[HD Mini General] Masen:
Only me?

Hi!

Soon 180 views and no one recognize this behavior or think it´s a problem? :confused:

How do you use your keyboard, is it me that does something wrong? :eek:
[Epic 4G General] greengoldmello:
Is anybody else on here able to grip their phone and have it go from 5/6 bars to 1 or even 0? Im really getting frustrated with this..
[Epic 4G General] hydralisk:
No. .
[Epic 4G General] greengoldmello:
well that gives me hope that i have a defective phone..
[Epic 4G General] hydralisk:
You are the first person since the Epic's launch that I've seen complain about this... so yeah I'm thinking defective.
[Epic 4G General] styckx:
Or the phone is fine and seeing Sprints great one day, terrible the next network, but antennagate is causing you to think every low signal is a grip issue.
[Epic 4G General] bomix:
HAHHA.. oh shoo.. your serious huh?. Nope not here
[Epic 4G General] greengoldmello:
Not specifically antennagate, the vibrant is my point of reference. Whenever i gripped the bottom of the phone the bars dropped significantly