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[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ohamn:
Just take it slow and easy....

Hi vtonyv!

Carefully read through this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=520312

The first item on the check list is this file that you need to unlock your phone for flashing custom ROMs:

http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=232404&d=1254155235

The second item in the checklist states that the phone must be connected via active sync or Center for windows mobile in order to unlock you rphone.

You must do this otherwise you will get a error message like the one you described.

So, take your time and read the WHOLE first thread in the top of my post, and and after that go look around this forum for a nice ROM to try.

I recomend any of NRGZ28 ROMs. They show you what your phone should have been when you bought it.

The easiest way to flash your Topaz is to use the SD-card flashing method.

Please look in this excellent guide how to flash your phone!:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=585201

Good luck and just take it slow!! ;)

// ohamn
[Desire HD General] themonkster:
Hello,

I was just reading a review on Hemorrdroids.

http://hemorrdroids.net/htc-desire-hd-review/

in the review it is quoted that the external speaker was something your mates will laugh at as the quality is that poor ?

I am hoping to upgrade to this phone in a couple of weeks. I was just wondering if that is that statement true ? I do use my external speaker sharing you tube videos with my mates at work. I can't imagine it being that bad.

Cheers for your help !!!
[Desire HD General] Thyrus:
if you are familiar with the other HTC phones such as the Desire and Nexus One, then this is pretty much the same on the HD. Quality is "bearable", but it is simply not loud enough. Max setting on the Desire HD is approx60-70& of Milestone Speaker loudness.
[Desire HD General] hawrai68:
Yep, its the worst I have had...but the quality of the phone makes up for it.
[Desire HD General] jamieeeee:
Well its not good but to say its really bad.. when you use dolby mobile its okay.. and when you use dolby mobile on headset its AWESOME!! best i've ever heard on any phone / mp3 player
[Desire HD General] zen123:
Yes I can confirm that. I just got mine, first thing I tested is external speaker volume, media playback sound, ringtones, etc. For the so called media abilities touted for the DHD I have to say the exernal speakers for both sound quality & more importantly loudness is pathetic.

I have a normal Desire, a iPhone 4 & a Samsung Galaxy S to compare it to right here I'm afraid to say its definately not in the same league as the latter 2 & even the Desire which I find quite tinny seems to go louder.
[Desire HD General] Guitarfreak26:
Maybe someone will make an audio hack so it goes louder!
[Desire HD General] NoEnd:
for me i don't care about listening to music through the external speaker, my concern is could i hear the phone when it rings?
[Desire HD General] zen123:
Ring volume is not that great I'm afraid.
[Desire HD General] AndyCr15:
I'm the reviewer... :)

I just find it so annoying, look at the San Fran, £99 and it's speaker is FAR better. Come on HTC!!!
[Desire HD General] mupet0000:
The speaker is rubbish, it's just not loud enough. You can't even hear the GPS talking in a car lol.
[Desire HD General] LeviathanPT:
If you want to see how sad it is, ive just updated the video thread with it in the bugs/problems sections :p a guy had some laugh with it.
[Desire HD General] SupremeBeaver:
to be honest the sound quality through the headphones is far more important to me. I guess it depends how you use the phone. Im just glad that people say the quality through a good pair of headphones is awesome!
[Desire HD General] noobdeagle:
im skeptical of how awesome it is, ive been spoiled with sound quality with my cowon S9 and Q-jays IEM's, im hoping that the DHD will sound on par with the cowon however i doubt it will be

awesome compared to iphone/ipod ....now that i can see
[Desire HD General] apprentice:
Speaker is woeful

I can also confirm that the external speaker is really disappointing. I criticised the original Desire for poor speaker volume and the promise of Dolby Mobile and SRS was one of the deal breakers in choosing to upgrade to the HD.

The ringtone selection is limited because you need to look for ones that are naturally loud. Forget watching some videos on the awesome screen when you can't hear the audio. I guess SatNav is going to be difficult too.

I use MixZing to improve speaker output for music when earphones are not nearby. But unless a hack appears to increase native volume, it's going to be a problem for a lot of people.

As a plus point, sound through ear/headphones is very impressive. Still needs a volume boost but perfectly acceptable for music playback.
[Desire HD General] squalllion1uk:
Reminds me of the streak when i got it on 1.6 the speaker was quiet and made odd noises when put up full then came 2.1 its louder and clearer....Quite possibly a retarded software safety limit implemented.
[Desire HD General] PapaDocta:
this is a deal breaker for me!

i thought with the SRS and all other crap they advertised that the speakers would be a bit decent! i have the n1 and the loud speaker and earpiece just total crap even with the hack to make them louder...

been missing a lot of calls cuz can't hear the phone (don't like vibration) ringing and when listening to the other side i try to find a quite place to listen to them as if i raise the volume the sound become very high pitched ..

damn you HTC i though the loud speaker would be at least like the ones in the EVO which is quite good!

a 50 bucks Chinese phone has far way better speaker than this crappy 700+ phone

hmm maybe most HTC's employees are bats! use high pitched frequencies to communicate
[Desire HD General] Dr.Sid:
Can anyone compare the loudspeaker with HD2 ? HD2 seems even too loud for me.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crackzattic:
just wondering if anyone else has had any problems. i know angrybirds and the new youtube app are on the market but for some reason its not showing up for me. i have a rooted stock 2.1 desire on Cellular South. thanks for the help and sorry if this is a dumb question but i haven't seen anything else about this
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hatemenow:
I think you need froyo 2.2 for them.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crackzattic:
well angry birds showed up for my friend and she has the milestone from cell south and it has 2.1. its really weird thanks for the help though
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MichelN:
You can download angry birds from their site (apk file)

http://www.rovio.com/index.php?page=angry-birds
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrono:
Is it possible to change the point at which the screen rotates? It flips to landscape any time I set it down but has to be outrageously vertical to go back to portrit.

I'm using cm6
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrono:
Bump
[Captivate General] dressanderc:
I love the Samsung Music Player. However, it is missing much of my album art. Now, I pride myself on how organized my iTunes is. I do not have any missing album artwork on my PC. Yet its not showing up on my phone. Can someone please give some advice on how to make it show up?
[Captivate General] Sladesamm:
I find "Album Art Grabber" is a great app for grabbing missing album art.

It's free and works great. I highly recommend it.
[Captivate General] dressanderc:
Thak you so much. Exactly what i needed.
[Captivate General] alphadog00:
My guess is your files are AAC and not MP3 - most Android phones have problems with a AAC tags. If your MP3 files are missing album art you need to add the album art as tags and then phone will be happy. MP3tag is a great app for this.
[Captivate General] screwyluie:
yay for winamp on android
[Captivate General] Dave the Knave:
iTag is actually a better replacement for the Album Art Grabber.
[Captivate General] Mac11700:
Actually I much prefer using Windows Media Player and dragging and dropping what I want over. It takes all album art and even scrollable data and allows it to be played and show in the Captivates music player if the album actually has any . Nothing like having a full lossless wav file to listen to especially if you have some quality ear buds. My sons with their brand new I4 phones are jealous of how their Moms & mine look..and having the equalizer showing certainly adds to the wow factor..

Mac
[Captivate General] fooldog01:
I like to use Mediamonkey to embed album art into the mp3 file. It works well.

sent from my Captivate
[Captivate General] noidd:
Yeah mp3tagger is what I use. Actually embeds album art into the mp3. The app also lets you edit the ID3 tags. Works great for me
[EVO 4G General] cgordon64:
I have an htc evo that has been fully flashed to cricket and for some reason i cant for the life to work on the android plan I have the 3g signal but it is not getting any internet connection. its are ready on the android plan do I need to have it listed as a zio for it to work on my evo? Have done these before and everthing alway's come out fine. Any help would be apprieciated if anyone can make the canges for me pm me thank's.
[Flipout and Charm General] dalkor:
I'm pretty happy with this phine right now, but I can't get info from system update menu.

If I use 3G data connection, update checking process interrupts with "update checking is currently not available" message, if I use WiFi connection, it just keeps checking forever, AFAIK it must at least say that my device is up to date, but it never happens.

Is it a common bug or should I blame my bad luck?
[Flipout and Charm General] bruce_wayne:
I would assume there aren't any system updates right now anyway. The handset is running eclair and froyo is not expected yet.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Phone Titan:
Hi,

Apple developers are able to give their paid applications away to people by using a promotional code (I think :p)

Does anyone know if you can do this on WP7?
[HD7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EMILY2010:
HIYA

where do you find the mac address for the HTC HD7?

I am having problems :(
[HD7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gasanpride:
I am also having a hard time looking for the Mac Address? Any help from anyone?
[HD7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dave the Knave:
This was a feature left out of Phone7 by Windows. The only way I can think of to obtain it is, if you're running Windows 7 and can make a virtual access point using Connectify to grab the Mac address once it connects to your computer

Sent from my Captivate
[HD7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gasanpride:
Yes it was confirmed also to me by HTC support that there is no way to look the mac address on the phone itself. The only way is to check the router's attached devices and check the mac address from there. I have to turn off the access control first of my Netgear router so that the HD7 will be able to connect to it.
[HD7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dave the Knave:
Can't you then grab the Mac from the attached devices list and then apply it to your filter?

Sent from my Captivate
[HD7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gasanpride:
Yes that's actually what I did.
[HD7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BodaciousDrake:
Good idea. Worked like a charm.
[HD7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jimbonics:
Here is an example of how to find it in a corporate environment. The following assumes you have access to the windows server that hands out DHCP addresses, assuming your wireless router does not. If your wireless router does, you should just be able to look it up in the DHCP client table of your device.

Anyhow...

I connect my HD7 to the wireless network, and the IP is supplied by the windows server. In the windows server, I go to DHCP and then Address Leases. I sort by expired date, and my device will be listed with the latest date, as it is the most recently connected device. I take note of the IP.

Then open a command prompt and type ARP -A

This will list the IP and MAC of all connected devices. Find your IP and there is your MAC.
[HD7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cheap66:
The problem with my phone is that when I reboot it the mac address changes. My router works with a mac address filter. So I have to add a new mac address after each WP7 reboot.

Is there anyone with a solution?
[HD7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pittphan:
If you unlock your device and install the Advance Configuration Tool the app shows you Mac address and other device details.
[HD7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] monkeyboy2009:
Yep, this is what I've done. Check out http://forum.touchxperience.com/ for the info.
[HD7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tai4de2:
Solution: buy an HD7.
[HD7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yavorz:
Are you sure? MAC address is strictly individual for each network adapter (ether or wlan).
[HD7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cheap66:
I know that, but I think the wifi mac address used is a virtual one.

Yes I'm sure, the six last digits of my wifi mac address change, so I have to disable the mac address filter in my box, connect the phone, look in the box config which mac address is connected, add the new address to the authorized ones and turn on the address filter.

If you have a HD2 verify what I'm saying and you'll see I tell the truth.
[HD7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yavorz:
cheap66, i have HD7 phone. My MAC Address is static. I use phone in my Uni. Administrators here use mac address filter too. I have no problems with that :|
[HD7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jimbonics:
He doesn't have an HD7.
[HD7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cheap66:
In fact my phone is an HD2 and I think it's the reason why.
[Vibrant General] h666:
since I updated to JI6 with odin, my battery life sucks. my phone is always warm, as though the processor is always working. I've uninstalled several new apps, media hub, drm services etc. using root explorer, but I can't seem to find the new task manager's .apk or .odex file. anyone know where I might find it?

thanks
[Android Apps and Games] Map Man:
Hi,

i created an App called 'MM Tracker' which is able to read QCT maps from Memory Map from SD Card and displays them.

The current GPS position is displayed and tracks can be recorded, saved and (re)loaded.

There is a free version called 'MM Tracker FREE' to test the App on your device.

The free version is just displaying your current position on the map.

All other features can only be used with the full version.

Features are:

Tracks are stored to SD card as GPX files

GPS track will be drawn on map

Track properties can be adapted (color, width and opacity)

Overlay Manager for Tracks, Routes and Waypoints

Waypoints can be created at GPS position or by manual entry of coordinates

Routes can be created

Displays compass on map

Map can rotate in direction of travel or by compass

Pinch zoom

Support for landscape and portrait display

MMI files can be used to search places

New maps at current position can be selected with context menu

Maps with larger/lower scale can be selected with on screen buttons

When leaving the current map a new map will be automatically loaded (when available)

'Lock to GPS' can be enabled to scroll the map while you are moving

'Screen Lock' can be enabled to prevent unwanted touch input

When device is switched off (standby) MM Tracker is still recording tracks

Displays the map scale

Volume buttons can be used to zoom in and out

MM Tracker does

not

support the new Memory-Map format QC3 / DRM encrypted QCT!

Important:

Due to limitations of the Android NDK currently only maps smaller than 2GB are supported! If the map is bigger than 2GB, the map tiles beyond 2GB will displayed as white tiles.

'MM Tracker' runs on Android 2.1+. For Android 1.6 there is a special version of 'MM Tracker' called 'MM Tracker 16'

The development of 'MM Tracker' is ongoing and new features will be added frequently. Feel free to suggest....

You can find all info about 'MM Tracker' here: http://sites.google.com/site/mmtrackerinfo/

Have fun...
[Android Apps and Games] Map Man:
MM Tracker is now available for Android 2.1.

As i only could test it with the SDK emulator, it would be great if you could post some feedback.

Michael
[Android Apps and Games] ccristal:
Michael,

thank you very much for releasing MM Tracker. I have downloaded the free version, and it's absolutely brilliant. I would say it works so much better than MemoryMap, since MemoryMap on WM had a problem with maps bigger than 200MB. The 2GB limit that still holds for Android makes things so much easier, in that I don't have to split maps any longer.

A few updates that I would suggest are:

speed vector

ability to read elevation data (*.qed files) and to display the elevation profile of a route or a track.

ability to read mmi data and search for a place by name.

With the above features, MM Tracker would be an ideal replacement for MemoryMap Mobile.

Keep up the good work, Michael... :)

ccristal
[Android Apps and Games] Map Man:
Hi ccristal,

thanks for your feedback.

The speed vector is a feature which i am currently working on. But i am not yet satisfied with the results. So it will be available with one of the next updates.

Rgearding QED and Search-Function... the problem is that i do not know how to read QED and MMI files. So for now this is not possible.

It would be great if anybody could supply a specification of the QED and MMI files :D

Best regards,

Michael
[Android Apps and Games] ccristal:
Well... you were not supposed to know the format of the .qct file either. If you reverse engineered that one, I'm sure you can figure out qed and mmi as well... ;)

EDIT: oops... I just realized that the QCT format is public... but we can still work on the other two. I've just opened a .mmi file with a hex editor, it doesn't seem impossible to decode. Let me investigate some more and I'll let you know...

ccristal
[Android Apps and Games] Map Man:
Yep you are right ... QCT is sort of public ;) As you can find various descriptions in the internet it was just about to put them in code.

As far as i know the QED format is similar to the QCT format. Only the tile size differs and maybe some other details. I will check this.

And i had a look into some MMI files. Seems to be very straight forward:

1.Section defines Categories

2.Section: Placenames and coordinates

But details have to be figured out.

If you get some more informations, it would be great if you could let me know.

Best regards,

Michael
[Android Apps and Games] ccristal:
Check your private messages... ;)

ccristal
[Android Apps and Games] lohtse:
GREAT app mapman...

Downgraded to 2.1 as dislike android 2.2..

Works well but occasionally lags a bit when moving fast cross country.

Would like to suggest OSGB grid refs and map rotation to compass direction and a compass too..

With these features it will run circles round Memory map.

Have to say there are a lot of us where am stationed who are very pleased with this app...

Looking forward to future releases and YES will be buying full version in next week or two...

regards

Lohtse
[Android Apps and Games] paul144:
Thanks

Hi MapMan

Thanks for this great app, having been 'forced' to switch recently from an HD2 (WM6.5) to a Desire, I became resigned to the fact that Memory Map appear not to want to support Android this side of the next millennium, so the ability to use my OS maps on my HTC Desire is very welcome indeed. Thanks. !! I switched from the free app to the full version after about 2 mins of evaluation.

The App works well for my basic needs, although as commented above, the ability to see height profiles would be welcome, although in terms of my priority wish list I would welcome the opportunity to :-

1 Accurately create routes on the device - with route properties in Miles and Knots (as well as Km). I would like to be able to create routes and edit route points - perhaps by nudging them with the central optical button. This was a great problem with WM6.5 on my old HD2 where all you could do was move the very small point with a very large finger !, and perhaps in slower time look at the route elevation profile.

2 Whilst its good to see tracks displayed, I can't seem to be able to save them - perhaps I'm doing something wrong.

3 A route arrow - although not a high priority for me.

Overall a great app and given my large investment in paid OS maps, this really is worth every penny. To be honest I would have paid 10 times as much for it. I just hope you don't get hassle from MM. Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] Map Man:
Hi lohtse,

congrats, finally you got rid of Android 2.2 ;)

I spent some hours to get it on my Desire ..... tastes are different :D

As a lot of people were asking for it i have planned to implement some support for OS Grid. But honestly... i think map rotation is not on the "roadmap" of MM Tracker :o

Today i added the speed vector as a first step. I think compass could be a nice feature too.

Happy tracking,

Michael
[Android Apps and Games] Map Man:
Hi paul144,

great to hear that you like MM Tracker.

Creating routes is definitely a feature i would like to have too. But as it is a little bit of an effort to implement, it will not be realized too early.

Tracks are saved automatically when you close MM Tracker. But you have to define a correct path for the Tracks (the latest update of MM Tracker has a more convenient dialog to choose the directories).

Regards,

Michael

P.S.: Thanks for your suggestion... i was thinking of raising the price too ;)
[Android Apps and Games] lohtse:
hi

mapman are you uk based? if so drop me a pm...
[Android Apps and Games] nmcnmc:
So how easy would it be to create an Anquet Maps equivalent?

Knew I should have gone for Memory Maps!!
[Android Apps and Games] sorimina:
Hi Map Man,

Your software seems to be very interesting.

I have a winmo 6.5 and I am looking for a new phone. I know there is no solution for the new WP7 and don't like iphone. So I think about Android.

I just want to know if it's possible to import/export waypoints/tacks between Memory Map PC software and your MM tracker.

Thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] Map Man:
Hi sorimina,

I think we have the same opinion there ;)

MM Tracker creates and reads tracks as standarized GPX files.

These files can be imported/exported with MM software.

Waypoints are currently not supported, but will be in future.

Best regards,

Michael
[Android Apps and Games] sorimina:
Great, Map Man. :)

Hope you could add waypoints import/export in the near future.

It's the last thing that prevents me to quit my winMo 6.5 for Android ;)

Thanks for your work !
[Android Apps and Games] Map Man:
Hi sorimina,

just to make my explanation from before complete:

If you export your route from MemoryMap as GPX-track and load it with MM Tracker, you can at least see the 'route' on the sceen.

Of course navigation to WP/routes is not yet possible, but maybe this helps you...

Regards,

Michael
[Android Apps and Games] Map Man:
Hi,

just want to inform you about the latest update V1.1.5

History

Feature Added: Switch between metres, statute and nautical units

Feature Added: Tracking can be started and stopped

Improvement: Status icons in statusline

Fix: ConcurrentAcces to tracklist while loading fixed (was leading to crashes at startup)

I would recommend this update, especially because of the last item in the list ;)

Regards,

Michael
[Android Apps and Games] Soupe:
Thanks Michael, this is such a great app! Really look forward to each update, nautical units much appreciated:-)

How easy would it be to implement quilting / auto loading of next map?

Thanks

Sean
[Android Apps and Games] Map Man:
Hi Sean,

great that you like MM Tracker :)

But what do you mean by "quilting" ?

Auto loading of maps is actually supported. When GPS-lock is on and you leave a map, the map with the best scale which fits to your position will be automatically loaded.

(Currently no support of subdirs, but this will be fixed)

Regards,

Michael
[Android Apps and Games] Map Man:
Hi Fred,

did you have regular map view visible or some other screen like e.g. track data ? Did you enable tracking ? I would be interesetd in a report if you manage to reproduce this error.

Best regards,

Michael