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[G2 and Desire Z General] Ghostcreamy:
The G2 is amazing, simply put. However, perfect it is not... but it could be with a few tweaks that should come from either tmobile or post-root mods. I'll share my wishlist, but feel free to add yours!

1. Unleash the awesome potential of the trackpad! Imagine if you could press to unlock and swipe in all 4 directions to launch various items.

2. Improve multimedia capturing! The sound quality is pretty poor and the video playback is rough. Moreover, the camera features are sparse and could use a little TLC.

3. Pump up the volume! The sound is too low for my liking... I have mine at full blast and its barely acceptable.

4. Give me tethering and let me remove apps! This is as close to stock Android as a carrier will allow, but it's not true Android :)

5. Allow me to map Quick Keys to functions that matter! It's weird to have menu and search as physical keys, but I have to touch the screen for "back" and "home"? Those two are as integral as the menu / search, so at least let us use them :)

Last, I want my G2 to smell like freshly baked chocolate chip cookies :)

*Ghostcreamy
[G2 and Desire Z General] nomadism:
I agree with point 5. The G2 would have been much better with a "back" and "home" key on the keyboard. For now I have mapped the first quick Key with to the launcher (in my case, ADW...), but I still miss the "back" key.
[G2 and Desire Z General] mtl171:
All this will come we get root and/or a OTA update. Though I wish the G2 could smell like CCC. Now what if i could make us cookies?
[G2 and Desire Z General] PlatinumMOTO:
How can you say the volume isn't loud? The stock volume on my G2 is as loud as my G1 with LVH v2r2, and it's clear.
[G2 and Desire Z General] weber09:
I gotta disagree with you on this one. The G2 speaker is the quietest HTC phone I've ever heard.
[G2 and Desire Z General] KiNG OMaR:
It's just as loud as my nexus!
[G2 and Desire Z General] k0shi:
hmmmm weird i feel like its one of the loudest phones i ever owned recently! i had a iphone 4, 3gs, nexus one, n900 mine is VERY loud and clear with no distortion
[G2 and Desire Z General] greengoldmello:
Man that crappy audio codec was one of my man dislikes about the nexus one..i usually record bands and the like..and my old vibrant and now epic excell at this..but man its like they dont know they camera apps suck balls...ugh
[G2 and Desire Z General] Arcadia310:
A phone will never release with tethering out of the box unless it's Google's phone like the Nexus One.

I'm starting to see the true potential in buying phones directly from Google. Out of the box the phone won't be hampered by the carrier and you can use it on any carrier. You will have the wifi tethering and whatever else Google develops into Android. I really hope they release more phones down the road.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Ghostcreamy:
I wonder if Gingerbread will solve any of this or if it will be an update from tmobile.

Also, I'm wondering if google will even release another phone again.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Kaczman:
google has already said they have no plans to ever release a phone again.
[G2 and Desire Z General] chewy106:
Per the T-Mobile rep I talked to today, OTA is coming within a week. Hopefully it fixes some things, like the total lack of a lock sound file on the phone (??), MMS in slideshows, data connectivity, random reboots, the messed up sound at times, and syncing pre-installed apps back to market for correct updates. Oh, and let's us in on a Root option by seeing how OTA is done :)
[Droid X General] stevo760:
I would like to change the keyboard clicking sound to somthing different how would I go about doing so???
[Droid X General] razorloves:
just go to the keyboard settings and shut it off.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ranger61878:
I apologize if this has been asked, but I am on my phone and can't search (hence the question) with the XDA app because I get a fc. Anyone else having issues?

Sent from my FroYoed Sprint Hero
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Technecium:
Just tried to search and had no problems.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ranger61878:
I stand corrected. After days with no ability to search, my search function on the phone now works. Huh...weird.

Sent from my FroYoed Sprint Hero
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joehunni:
It tends to clash with jit if you have it on.
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ranger61878:
Nope, jit is off (never was on). But like I said, it just started working this morning. Last night, and since I downloaded it I got a FC every time, but tried it again this morning and it worked, so whatever the issue was, it solved itself without my doing anything :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brockyneo:
hi guys im looking for a change i looked in android but seems to me they still haveing few problems unless someone can enlighten me so looking at spb mobile shell just want to know if its any good i am using cht2.0 at moment and must say its excellent but is either android or spb just as good or better thanks in advance
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brockyneo:
lol anyone ive just installed spb mobile shell and its kinda good very fast wounderwhy cooks dont have this as option ;)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tech Savy:
CHT v2 is the best

:D:DCHT v2 is the best, and it's still maturing... With more add-ons it will be even better....:D:D
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] conantroutman:
yup..................:D
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xaccers:
MS3.5 is lovely, don't get me wrong, stock sense is good, but I just find MS3.5 suits me better. Now if I could just work out what dimensions the wallpaper needs to be to fit a single page.

Do a search for the video of MS5 and try not to drool on your keyboard :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brockyneo:
hi there what is ms3.5 and where can i get latest version from lol
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] m0bmentality:
::shakes head:: (M)obile(S)shell 3.5 and the latest version is 3.5 there is a 5.0 coming out.. but :A: it looks like samsungs touchWiz to me.. and there is no definite release date..

I like Sense with CHT2 but im running on top of CHT so hard now i wish there was a way to just turn sense off but still run Sense/Cookie so it would be as fast as MS 3.5... although.. i dont think speed is too far off anymore
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zarathustrax:
Android is a completely different operating system... you wouldn't be able to use any winmo apps on it... but it couldn't hurt to try out android and play around with it, even if it has some bugs. It will run separately from winmo, so you can use it without affecting your winmo setup. And its running very well considering the hd2 wasn't meant to run android. It will run from your microsd card.... you run haret and that shuts down winmo completely and boots Linux kernel and android into ram. Then whenever you shut down or reboot your phone, it will boot up winmo like normal. It's fun to play with.
[HD Mini General] AllGamer:
Hi everybody,

Just wanted to introduce myself to ever one in this section of the forum.

I'll be keeping a good eye for any illegal activities here in this hood.

if you see this message:

Warez are not permitted on XDA, please follow the XDA Rules

you'll know there will be no question asked, any unlawful stuff will be automatically removed, to keep the forum clean from potential lawyers target lists.

There are room for grey areas, but some Apps & Games are rather too obvious to be allowed either as a link or uploaded to the forum, so please keep an eye on those and use the Report button.

I might not have a HD Mini, but I've had my shares of HTC phones, on both WM and Android, so I've been through Microsoft Hell and Heaven on both side of the spectrum, and know what are considered part of the HTC included Apps/Games and what's not.

The other rules are quite straight forward, no advertisement of any kind, unless a deal has been rigged with the XDA Admins, also no swearing, trolling, flaming, etc...

be nice, be helpful, and keep the questions outside of the Development area.

The Dev area is only for ROM development (common) and Apps/Games development (which is usually rare)

If you find any message offensive or in the wrong forum please feel free to report it using, and we the Mod team will take care of it.

Thank you for your cooperation and have a fun stay with us at HD Mini land.

P.S. I've got my eyes on you... :cool: ...all your base are belong to us ;)
[HD Mini General] _Madmatt:
Welcome! I hope we'll have a good time with you :D
[HD Mini General] JHTCHD:
Welcome to the forum!
[HD Mini General] rork:
welcome on board
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] esebrown23:
So i unrooted my phone. And flashed true stock firmware for the vibrant via ODIN, it said PASS,and completed at the bottom.But now all it shows is a black screen. It loads up normal, passes the vibrant screen, after that its just a black screen. Any suggestions on how to fix this? also when it boots into recovery it says ''DATA WIPE FAILED''
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tenbeau:
I would like to ask what stock rom or nanroid did you flash? Was it original stock and what pit file in odin?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] esebrown23:
Yea, i found out i flashed over Bionix rom & didn't disable VOODOO lag fix..So i searched a bit more after posting and found the problem.. :D
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] speoples20:
Flash the froyo rom through odin then flash back to stock. That will fix your issue.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] All~G1:
^^^ to be more specific flash "eugene's froyo that doesn't brick" ROM, then the true stock.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nciiu:
Hey, i'm experiencing the same exact problem.

can you please share your wisdom with details?

thx
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] l33tlinuxh4x0r:
I have noticed that some roms when you type adb shell go straight to root (#). Other roms start as user ($) and you have to type su. What is differnet in these roms? I would like to be able to make any rom do either. How do I change them?

Thanks in advance.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] v_lestat:
it was my understanding that this is not the rom but nand unlock or not.

probqbly wrong though.

do the roms that do not go to root prompt already have the superuser app installed???
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] M@XLOL:
I believe tjohnsonr had this problems in his 2.1 roms look there
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] l33tlinuxh4x0r:
All of the roms that I tried are 2.2 and NAND unlocked.
[Vibrant General] oldarney:
I had a touch pro2 for a while and used the web connect data plan with it. I had full 3G and push email. When I transferred the SIM to my vibrant, I get redirected to a web2go page saying my phone is incompatible with this plan. How does Tmobile verify this?

Google search works, almost everything else doesn't. My touch pro2 is just as much as a smartphone as the vibrant under Tmo's eyes. So I think I wasn't supposed to have been able to use the data plan that I had with it. My TP2 was unlocked if it matters at all.
[Vibrant General] ELStiko:
Tmo has a separate data plan (Which is basically the same as the other) for Android devices. My brother took his sim out of his Touch Pro 2 with 3g data plan and placed it into my G1 (after I got my Vibrant) and it didn't allow him to be able to use data on my G1. He had to call and they had to swap his data plan over to the Android plan.

Now on the flipside of that, my Fiance took her sim out of her myTouch 3g and placed it in his Touch Pro 2 and data worked perfectly. So it looks like the Android data plan trumps all data plans.
[Vibrant General] masterotaku:
Android smartphones are not supported with their old Web Connect plans which are being phased out anyway. You may be able to get T-Mobile to give you a discount on the Android Data Plan given that you're an existing customer, but that's about it...
[Vibrant General] oldarney:
Awe.

Well thats no fun... I find browsing on the TP2's opera mini and Tethering on it to be just as enjoyable as my vibrant. I wonder how they figure out what you are using.

I was asking because I have a web only plan... I pay 40 dollars for unlimited data, period. I thought I was going to get away with it on android too.

I would have to pay 70 Dollhairs if I want internet on my android! because I would also need a talk plan. thats no fun.

I have been doing research and I've found speculation that T-mobile uses the IMEI number to tell whether your phone is android or not. I don't think this is true given the fact that Tmobiles site depends on user input rather than automatic detection to know what phone the person is using.
[Vibrant General] KnottyBitz:
@Oldarney: I've got a T-Mo unlimited data plan for Android and I don't pay anywhere near $70 (USD). Not even close. Barely more than what I was paying for Blackberry service.

I should add that I've been with T-Mo forever and have a sweet, "loyal customer" voice rate. Maybe I'm getting a break of some kind on data too.

Edited after re-reading: Your $70 _includes_ the voice. Okay. I gotcha now. Never mind.
[Vibrant General] natecglenn:
Tmobile is building there phones with special hardware so that it can detect when you're using an android phone on there network with the wrong plan. That's why your old plan wouldn't work. Its the same for blackberry phones/data plans
[Vibrant General] oka1:
Op systems

Depending on the op system on the phone the company has to configure their end. So, if you have an android the account needs to be sync'd for that type of op system. If you have an winmo 6.5 then it has to be sync'd with that system by TMO and if you have rim (blackberry) you have be to sync'd with that. I know this from personal experience no biggie
[Vibrant General] ELStiko:
It does use an auto detect. My fiance bought her Vibrant out of contract and when i checked our account online, both my line and hers showed the Vibrant as our default devices. So yes, it does update it through IMEI.
[Vibrant General] tjhart85:
I bought my phone out of contract as well & it didn't update. I'm thinking the rep at the store you bought it from must have updated it.
[Vibrant General] funeralthirst:
when did you check cause it can take up to a week to update the imei to the account. but that's how it works (getting the device's imei), insurance also bases coverage on the imei. some stores update the imei manually when you upgrade, but that's a waste of time because it will happen automatically.
[Vibrant General] DarkAgent:
No they aren't. They are simply doing IMEI filtering - no help hardware used or needed.
[Vibrant General] kmdub:
I think it is something along these lines, perhaps being oversimplified a bit. I believe it may have to do with how the OS on the phone makes the data connection with Android being more like a true "always on" connection (more akin to ethernet) and WinMo using a type of PPP or similar that is in effect "always on." The mobile operator has to have their back-end set up for this and there are probably different settings (IP addresses, connection types, etc.) built into ROMs for Android and WinMo. That being said, I really don't know if they track it by IMEI or not, but I imagine they certainly could.
[Vibrant General] funeralthirst:
there are different internet packages for each phone os, not entirely sure what the technical differences are, though. and they do track by imei, i know that for sure (i used to work for tmob and my wife still does).
[Vibrant General] stafly17:
Dude, I work for tmobile! And the data stick is just data and SOC that its on it is just a data SOC but the vibrant requires an android data specific SOC. that's why you can't use that sim with the vibrant!
[Vibrant General] oldarney:
I was using the Rhodium ANdroid hack for windows mobile and The internet worked fine... maybe there is something to that. I gave up on it... I using the web interface to jump me to talk plan and then back to the a data plan, this time android.
[Vibrant General] Lieu10ant:
they use the imei to check what phone you have. but for some reason, it's still showing me as a G1 :) so yay! i've had this phone for more than a couple months now i think.

also, i only pay 20 bucks per month for UNLIMITED data. i dont know why you're paying 40..... they offer a 30 dollar plan for regular users.... and i dont know where you got the $70 figure... that's just rediculous. i dont even pay that much for home internet.
[Vibrant General] Gr8gorilla:
At one time I had both a Vibrant and a Nexus One. I lost the Nexus while I had my sim in my Vibrant. I placed a claim with Asurion. They asked me to call T-mobile and find out what the last date the SIM card was in my Nexus One. Tmobile gave me a date that was exactly correct. I don't think I even placed a call that day with the Nexus.

So they know what phone your sim is in. Whether it is reporting IMEI number or Build Number or whatever. If they have a list of IMEI's in their system it is easy for them to know, IMEI filtering, like another poster stated.

IMEI numbers are unique and tied to each phone, not really a huge mystery.
[Vibrant General] scrizz:
IMEI is like the MAC address that PCs use

;)
[Vibrant General] oldarney:
except that you can change your mac address while you can't change the IMEI address on the vibrant, and if you know how then let me know.

On another note I am really getting the hang of this swype thing.
[Vibrant General] oka1:
A lot of confusion

This is way easier than explained in here. Basically, data transfer has to follow a protocol. So, if the firmware/software does not contain say an android language based compiler, then the unit is unable to send or receive the check sum...or ... in other word it can not make sense of what it is reading. T Mobile does this for just really one basic reason, It make the data transfer smaller and more efficient, which, in turn, makes all the data on the system smaller and easier to manage. It is a function of saving cost and improving speed. This is kinda a standard ever since 3G

T Mobile runs slightly different protocol for the different op systems:

Win mobile

Android

Blackberry

I know this to be true as I have migrated from Black berry to win mobile to android and each time i had to call and they send a sync signal and then the phone is recognized and everything works correctly. There has never been a cost just associated doing this.

That has been my experience. my 2-cents
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ocelot4ark:
Okay, I was using BakedSnack and everything worked fine. Switched to Fresh and everything worked fine. I did SOMETHING, though. No idea what. But my wifi isn't working correctly. I can connect to different networks, but there's no internet connection. I can connect fine though 3G/2G. But anytime I use wifi...no internet.

I flashed back to BakedSnack from a nandroid backup and wifi worked. Tried flashing CM6 on top of that and...boom...no more wifi.

Does anyone have any ideas?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] v_lestat:
and you have done a complete wipe? not just cache?

start with the stock 2.2 odex or deodex rom....

are you using clockwork or amon ra recovery?

if you are restoring everything with titanium bqck up after you flash then stop it....
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scottspa74:
+1 on the titanium issue. Titanium can create a lot of trouble if used for more than just apps, and some system things, if done very selectively. When 2.2 first dropped, people were flashing to 2.2, then restoring all kinds of stuff from Android 2.1, creating much havoc.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ocelot4ark:
Yeah, I'm wiping cache, data, and davlick cache every time. As soon as I boot into CM6 from a working version of bakedsnack, I try connecting via wifi with no luck. I updated the radios last night on both (I have no idea if that would have helped or not. just a desperation move). Wifi worked no matter what on bakedsnack, before and after. On CM6 it didn't matter what I did.

I'm using clockwork recovery. I haven't touched titanium (I could never really utilize it when I was switching between a Sense ROM and a non-Sense. Never knew what I should omit from my restore process).
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ocelot4ark:
Switched to Amon recovery to see if that made a difference. No luck yet. (bump)
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] casual864:
Flash a stock rooted rom and test your luck. If it still doesn't work after wiping + cache + dalvik then there is something wrong with your phone.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ocelot4ark:
I'm trying to flash a stock ROM now, but I keep getting an error:

"write_raw_image PACKAGE...." installation aborted. something like that.

Limited research appears to indicate that the stock ROM is too big for my boot partition or somesuch.

I can install CM6 all day long. I can nandroid restore anything.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ocelot4ark:
I don't know if this is relevant or not...trying to research. but my hboot version is 0.76.2000. I'm running all the latest radios/wimax.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] willy900wonka:
You might try looking at your firmware settings in both a rom that wifi works and one where it doesn't.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=733773

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=726877

Don't know how you could have inadvertently changed these but, who knows.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] willy900wonka:
Try this in a terminal emulator

/ $ getprop persist.wimax.fw.version

That value should not change between ROMs.

Alogcat from market will display the status messages generated while you try to get on wifi. Start Alogcat then tap home tap wifi, tap home resume Alogcat select logs... look for red.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ocelot4ark:
Thanks for the tips, willy. I'll try these out later today after work or if things slow down.

I did have some progress, though. I was able to get wifi to work on the Fresh ROM. I had installed a "wiredtetherfix" from the Wired Tether for Evo is working/patched thread. That fixed my wired tether, but evidently broke the wifi. So applying his "wiredtetherrestore" fix got my wifi working again. Unfortunately, a fresh install of CM6 from that piont (with full wipes beforehand) didn't cure wifi for that ROM. That's the one I want most, CM6, so I can go back to a faster ROM that had all the tethering apps as native applications.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ocelot4ark:
On FreshROM the wimax fw version is: 4.6.2.2v26023_

Will update later with CM6 wimax version.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ocelot4ark:
Okay, I flashed CM6 again and tried to pull the wimax fw version. There is no wimax on CM6, though. I think that's the problem, anyway. When I run the command, nothing happens. When I run wimax_mtd, it says "not found."

CM6

wifi MAC: 38:E7:D8:17:CB:**

android version: 2.2.1

Baseband: 2.15.00.09.01

Kernel version: 2.6.34.5-cyanogenmod

Build number: FRG83
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ocelot4ark:
bump. Anyone have any ideas?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lenglain:
Hey guys, the default keyboard has been acting up, it wont let me type fast, if i type too fast it erases some letters, so i am forced to type at a glacial pace. Anyone else out here expeience a similar issue? What are some possible fixes or alternatives besides Swype?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Krynj:
I (and many others) experienced the same behavior from the stock keyboard after the recent update. Not sure what caused it, but the stock keyboard has been flat out unusable for me. I switched to Smart Keyboard Pro and I'm loving it. The layout is much better, and I find myself typing a lot faster and more accurately than before the stock keyboard began malfunctioning. Smart Keyboard Pro in landscape mode provides the best typing experience I've ever had on any cell phone. I dare say it even beats out my old BlackBerry Bold's keyboard.