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[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nguyenmd:
How can it be? R u halloweening?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] subzerold:
No I'm not joking. Please help.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] subzerold:
Someone help me please
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] kuhan:
alright, so I've recently started installing custom ROMs (Go Bionix!) and so I've been needing to "recondition" (I put it in quotes because it's not TECHNICALLY reconditioning) and since most of the ROMs increase my battery life, the step involving... you know... draining the battery... takes up to 3-4 hours.

So I got to thinking:

What if we could design an app that is basically a white screen that runs your GPS and pulls data, etc. so that we can kill our batteries faster. What do you guys think?
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] gravis86:
I was just thinking about that a couple nights age when I was trying to run my battery down. Just stream some Pandora while using the Google Maps Navigation and go for a drive. It worked pretty well for me :)
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] Bronk93:
You wanna drain your battery fast as hell? Use media hub! That's a power sucker if I've ever seen one. Or, alternatively, get hopped up on energy drinks and play reckless racing for hours on end.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] Mothafizzy:
Not sure if I'm correct here, but I thought the best way to condition your battery is to let it drain out as natural and lengthy as possible; as in avoiding heavy data usage or heavy loads. This way it allows the battery stress to be less and successfully make it adaptive to long-time uses. :confused:
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] nearblack:
the thing that works the best imo is recording a video.

Just open up the HD camera, with the brightness all the way up.

It will drain it under 3 hours, and you can just delete the video after the reconditioning!
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] kuhan:
Well, I don't actually have 3G... Our a car...

I think that's for true reconditioning, but with Li-Ion batteries, you don't actually recondition... We're just giving the software some stats to work with
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] atlaswingpasaway:
myself i use CPU intensive apps like PSX4DROID and live wallpapers. I also keep the brightness up and screen always on. And...... what i like to do is turn all antenna's like WiFi and GPS on... 5-6 hours, its dead.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] sroach23:
just start playing angry birds.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] the3dman:
I agree! Angry Birds is a real battery killer, but so addicting.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] Insomaniac10:
+1........
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] kuhan:
yeah, I get about 2 hours playing Angry Birds
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] NJLaPrell:
Did this yesterday for a new install of Bionix Fusion.

1. Install free app "Every Trail"

2. Turn blue tooth on.

3. Set screen off for 30 minutes.

4. Put brightness on full

5. Run Pandora. Stream high quality. (turn volume off if you don't want to hear it)

6. Launch Every Trail and start tracking a hike. This causes the GPS to continue locking on your position.

Drained the batter in ~ 3 hours.

I tried Angry Birds and it just wasn't draining fast enough (strange, huh?).

Trapster is another possibility.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] gottifour:
Be careful leaving the screen on with full brightness. I have always kept my screens to never timeout and set to full brightness but I have minimal screen burn so I stopped. You can see it well on my phone when using a flashlight type app.

Just a little heads up..
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] kuhan:
When I leave the screen on, it's usually playing a movie or running a flashlight app.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] iwillkillyou:
Okay thats when your wrong, muting the sound wont drain as much battery, it has to be max to drain the juice out faster
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] kuhan:
yeah, i'll put it between a couple of pillows to muffle it.
[Desire HD General] deadlock1969:
So another day another lack of phone :(

Went to the Orange stores in London and was told....

"We will have the Desire HD on Saturday. Its being delivered to only 400 stores across the UK"

Saturday

Oxford st - no Phone

Woking - no Phone

Oxford Circus - on Phone

Southend - on Phone

Anyone seeing a pattern there???

So the next Orange store delivery is Tuesday so I'll update later..

Anyone else got one on preorder?
[Desire HD General] gmmamin:
update from orange customer service

spoke to their customer service on Thursday and they said they should get it first week of Nov, worst case 2nd week. Hope its by the 1st
[Desire HD General] avenge the rage:
Every time I ring Orange I get told it will be here in Nov. They don't know a date and won't let me pre order
[Desire HD General] Hero Yu:
Its comming very soon, you can pm me for more info.
[Desire HD General] Andy:
I preordered mine on Orange through Phones4U. I got it on Friday. It's unbranded and unlocked.
[Desire HD General] avenge the rage:
I can't get it for upgrade as I'm due it in Dec but can upgrade with Orange, but noonday else
[Desire HD General] deadlock1969:
Success.......almost

Ok so here's the update.

Went to orange shop last week who said it would be in last week.... lies.

So while walking past the shop in Woking thought I'd chance my luck.... One in stock SUCCESS!!!!!..... or so I thought.

When the assistant asked for £100 I explained it was an upgrade and he pointed out that you cant get it for free upgrade!!!!!!

Called customer service who said I COULD have one for free but they are out of stock......... so still waiting till next weeks delivery now.

Good news though. It's officially out now and anyone pre-ordering one from Orange will get a txt message when they are in stock. You then have about 4 seconds to call and order before they go out of stock again....

So wish me luck for next week. Hopefully should have one in my hands by Tuesday..... fingers crossed...
[Desire HD General] mousey_:
I'm on Orange.

I enquired with Upgrades on Tuesday about the phone and they said they would call me when it was available.

Wednesday I got a call from the guy I spoke to in Upgrades he said their first batch had come in and he was sending me mine.

It arrived on Thursday at 1pm.

I didn't pay anything for the phone, I'm on a 12 month contract £40 as I upped my Internet to 1GB I could have stayed on £35 but only 500MB. Very happy with it so far, I've had none of the issues reported so far. My friend just picked one up today at the Orange Shop in the Birmingham Bull Ring
[Desire HD General] AndyCr15:
I'm after some advice. My contract ends next Saturday. I've already bought a Desire HD SIM free, but am wondering if I can wangle another HD (and sell one obviously to by a Galaxy Tab!) or maybe get a Z.

I've been with Orange since they weren't even Orange (anyone remember Wabbit?) and I don't recall I've ever threatened to leave. My bill is only £22-£26 a month so I would imagine they want £200 for the HD.

Do I simply say 'Vodafone say for £30 a month I can have a free one!' ? I don't really want to leave Orange I don't think. Is there any way they call my bluff and I'm booted?

What advice can anyone give?
[Desire HD General] scott9824:
I've just took out a new contact via phone with Orange, new customer, £22.50 pm 24 months and £99 for the phone, which I thought was ok
[Desire HD General] deadlock1969:
Well another week and another lack of f....ing phone...

So here's where I am with it.

As of this morning Orange customer service have said there is a batch in testing that will be released next week. As for price, I'm paying about £22 per month and I'm getting it for nothing... :) Customer service have the ability to waiver the £100 the shops are charging for the same upgrade... shops have stock but cant release it to upgrade customer for free as they have different rule regarding upgrades. ie if someone wants to 'pay' for an upgrade who are they to stop them.... pretty sad really but that's the world we live in. Hoping to see one by the end of next week... wish me luck.
[Desire HD General] AndyCr15:
Are you an existing customer? Did you have to threaten to leave or anything? That seems a very low monthly bill to get it for free?
[Desire HD General] MarkieSA:
That does seem very cheap
[Desire HD General] baritoneuk:
I'd recommend always phoning through to Orange retentions when your contract ends. Dial 150, then 1, 4 then 2.

You need to do your research first and check other deals out there. Depending on how long you've been with Orange and what your normal usage is will depend on your loyalty reward.

I've been with orange for nearly 7 years so my loyalty reward is quite good. I managed to get the following deal:

24mth contract

HTC Desire HD for free

600 xnet mins

1300 texts

500Mb ("unlimited") data

5 photo messages

and a free 3G dongle with a 1Gb data usage per month.

For £22.50 per month

So it really does pay to phone them up! I am concerned about Orange's data fair use policy as 500Mb isn't very much. However you can pay another £5 to bring it up to 1Gb. Also, one guy said that they don't usually start charging you over the first 500Mb until you go over 750Mb and they charge you 60p per day you over which isn't too bad.

You need to say you've been looking around and are thinking of leaving Orange. Ask them what the best deal is they can offer and haggle if you like. They have some special deals that aren't advertised.

For more info check out the Money Saving Expert here- http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/phones/cut-mobile-tariff

and this one on the forum which is titled "Orange Retention Offers" - http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=627683

(it's a long thread so you're best going towards the end!)

Hope that helps- let us know how you get on.

Personally, I don't understand why people buy the phone out right and then go SIM only- as it's not cost effective when compared to the deals you can get through retentions.
[Desire HD General] AndyCr15:
Some great tips, thanks. I've been with Orange for around 17 years so hopefully they'll cut me a deal.

Just wondering if i should wait to see if they get the Desire Z now I already have the HD.... or get the HD and sell it...
[Desire HD General] avenge the rage:
I got mine from Orange the day it was out. Their cs rung me to tell me it is in so I got it within a day.

Ring them and tell them to ring you when they have it in stock.
[Desire HD General] jeffmasson:
I got mine on Saturday from three. The good point is it unbranded and unlocked how cool. No more wait for updates.

Has anyone ended up with a branded phone?
[Desire HD General] mancuk29:
Nope three is unbranded .. had to take my first one back cos of reboot problems and lag , new one no reboot so far but lag is still bad HTC better sort it out quick
[Desire HD General] ste1164:
The only carrier getting the desire z is vodafone.
[Desire HD General] Jivel:
Anyone know if the hd comes unbranded from mobile s.co.uk?? (part of carphonewarehouse).

Seen some good deals for my bro who needs a new contact and my galaxy s from there was unlocked and unbranded.
[Desire HD General] liamhere:
i just got it for £22.50 down from £30 with orange....for 2 years

free handset :)
[Desire HD General] Jivel:
Im still debating what deal to go for, the prices seem to change daily.

Ive heard that orange and tmobile have now joined so you use either signal, so a deal on either of those networks would give the best coverage.

Coverage is an issue for me as I do a lot of travelling. I think ill make my mind up over this wkend.
[Desire HD General] stiscooby:
Free on a £25 pm deal here at phones4u on TMobile - http://www.phones4u.co.uk/shop/shop_contract_details.asp?ItemKey=421508
[Desire HD General] Jivel:
When I compare the available deals with internet http://www.comparemobiledeals.com/mobile-phones/HTC/Desire-HD?&tab=Pay-Monthly&page=1&internet=yes

I think the orange deal from dialafone seems the best. 500mb a month has been fine for my galaxy s.

Only issue is I dont know if the phone comes unlocked and unbranded, which I would prefer.

Gonna give them a ring.

Ive been keeping my eye the HD prices above and they seem to be changing daily.
[Desire HD General] AndyCr15:
Orange have agreed to a free Desire HD on a £20 a month contract for me :)
[Desire HD General] Maxwell Smart:
Find it interesting to see all the deals they're offering and now feeling ripped off!

Been with them about 16 years and while only paying £22.50 a month had to pay £49 for the handset (through retentions!) and nor am I getting as good a service offering!

600 xnet mins,

100 texts

1gb data

It's not bad but the dongle would of been a nice addition... :(

Also don't understand why people (at least in UK) buy them unlocked....
[Desire HD General] AndyCr15:
Because if I was waiting for Orange, I'd still not have my Desire HD...
[Desire HD General] Gurps777:
T mobile shipped out their batch yesterday and today... Wonder how much longer orange will take.
[Desire HD General] Aamir.Badat:
When I ordered mine from orange it took just about 5days to deliver Orange stuck to their word and delivered it in a week.
[Desire HD General] themonkster:
Just upgraded my Phone:

Orange 24 Month Contract

Phone Free

600 mins

Unlimited Text

1.5 Gb internet per month

£17.50 per month.

Happy days roll on Monday...

Sent from my Hero Froyo'd Villian 1.5
[Desire HD General] AndyCr15:
I got a text this morning to say they're in stock. I called and it's going to be with me tomorrow :)

Can anyone confirm, the handsets provided by Orange or locked to Orange? Are they branded at all?
[Desire HD General] fz9999:
My wife got her DHD from Orange (UK) yesterday. It didn't see to have any branding and I'll check whether it's sim locked with my Vodafone sim this evening.
[Desire HD General] gavin watson:
I decided to ditch O2 as I wanted the Desire HD but they didnt do it, popped next door and orange confirmed they did, got my PAC code and then had to wait for my local Orange store to get one (Basingstoke, UK). Unfortunately they didnt have them in stock, went in the day they told me to, no news, Orange had none, pretty much by accident popped into a nearby Orange store (Newbury, UK) and they had one arrive onyl a few hours before. Needless to say I scooped it up pretty damn quick! This was last week, BTW, had it for just over a week now, very very nice phone, very happy. Never been with Orange and have to say the service and coverage and more importantly, the network speed is very good, slightly better than O2 and waaaaay better than Vodafone.

The phone is totally unbranded but have just tried a Vodafone SIM and of course, it says 'Network locked'. Shame, but expected.

Overall, very pleased with the Orange/Desire HD combo.
[Desire HD General] Tapori_UK:
Hey everyone, any insight?

On Orange (Upgrade - Free, 22.50)

Ordered Monday last week. Told stock in on the 22nd, so wait for "text"

Phoned today and told its in "Testing", could be 1-2weeks

Genuine queue or am I being too naive? Anything I should do if I am indeed being "Fobbed off"?
[Desire HD General] gavin watson:
Hi, I got mine from Orange UK (in store) so not sure what they mean by 'testing', they are/have been available instore so not sure what may be going on.
[Desire HD General] DjLukeW:
Ive got a couple in my store in the north west. have had them for just over a week
[Desire HD General] Tapori_UK:
Thanks for the responses - I can see T-Mobile allow store pickup;

So as the upgrade was done over the phone through Orange directly, do they allow store pick-up or could they just get it delivered from the store's stock?

Maybe there are far more people who have ordered before me getting their order understandably first?

Basically rang twice in a week - Don't want to be excessive.

In Manchester BTW. Thanks again for the help.
[Desire HD General] Jivel:
thanks for the help, i monitored the prices for a while and plumped with the orange 300 mins, unlimited text and web deal , seemed the best deal for my needs when I compared the prices at the other retailers, im more of a texter than caller. http://www.comparemobiledeals.com/mobile-phones/HTC/Desire-HD?tab=Pay-Monthly&Network=Orange and my current provider wouldnt match it. Just gotta remember to send in a cashback claim.

Received earlier this week and as the customer service guy promised, it is entirely unbranded. whoop!

Now onto customisation and finding a decent case, I ordered a £3 one off of ebay and its so loose Im afraid my mobile will fall out every time I pick it up. Gotta spend a bit more. ;)
[Desire HD General] Tapori_UK:
Still "Out of STock" on back orders direct from Orange.

Being offered allsorts instead.
[Desire HD General] t3rm3y:
i been waiting for this mysterious txt for some time from orange, have it on orderfrom buymobilephones also, but not holdign my breath.

Got call from orange Friday lunch time offering me the old desire, guy called richard not pleasent, i may be blinkered saying i want the latest handset, he telling me the old desire is same spec, and new one is a lot bigger??? i told him i know its bigger, and am happy to wait as want newest model, he didnt like this, dunno what his problem is?
[Desire HD General] Tapori_UK:
Mines from Orange themselves;

Got offered other options too; But more friendly in my case!

That guy was probably comissions based and didn't want to waste time if you later cancelled; Their order is on hold until the phone gets delivered to you. IMO.

TBC next week...
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marko_mk:
Has anyone tried to compare hd desire and hd2 port? what about stability, speed of the OS, etc. We all know that desire has better display, 8mpix camera. But i've made test on quadrant and got 1476 compared to 1680 points on desire hd which is not big difference, but still the os port is buggy and laggy. what do you think is it worth it to upgrade to hd desire?

tnx:)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zarathustrax:
Quadrant scores aren't a reliable way to compare phones. I'd say if you plan on using android full-time and don't want winmo at all, the desire HD is the way to go. A native android phone will always run android more smoothly than a port.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ReVoZ:
Android on HD2 is just a BONUS
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] matejdro:
I will type here, so i don't have to open new thread.

I consider myself pretty "geeky" user. I probably won't use WM much anymore, but I like to try new stuff and since i heard that there are several projects on HD2 (WP7, Android, Ubuntu, Meego etc.), it's tempting me to buy HD2 instead of Desire HD.

So what are advantages of Desire HD to HD2 (when running Android of course)? Is there a chance that we would also get Meego and others to Desire HD?

Camera - i don't really care. 5mp or whatever is on HD2 is perfectly fine for me

Performance - 1400 compared to 1600. Not that much of a difference if you count that Desire HD have newer processor and that HD2 android port is still in development. Also NAND should bring big performance hit.

Anything else?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcbyte_it:
I'm also in this club, i got HD2 the day after i saw the video of it running WP7.

I already knew it runs android, but knowing it might also run WP7, and ubuntu makes it a better device for a geek like me.

I was able to get at the same price a Desire, or at much less an Acer Liquid, but i prefered a multi OS device ;)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] psykick5:
The Desire HD isn't as elegantly thin as the HD2 :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] opensourcefan:
It won't boot anymore or exactly..

It boots too the colored logo, I get a couple vibrations and screen goes black. I tired a factory reset and no go. I am using the rom that is in my signature.

I do have 3 button recovery.

ANY help will be appreciated. Thank You.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] opensourcefan:
Thinking of flashing stock JH2 with 512 and repartition... Will it flash okay over top of this rom you think??
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DocRambone:
Yes, if you repartition, any rom will do
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] opensourcefan:
Thanks Doc, really appreciate the help. Here we go.... [fingers crossed]
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] opensourcefan:
Okay it's alive thank goodness. Now to get your rom back on Doc.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Kasaki:
Tried to do a task 29 and it rebooted to a Touch Pro 2 black screen, but it just stay their , tried a soft reset bur ir goes back the same screen, and tried hard reset, my computer isn't picking it up. Any tips
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] johng75:
Well... if your using the task29 tool and read the instructions completly, u would already know thats what its supposed to do.... now flash your rom of choice... via sd card or usb
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Kasaki:
yeah I read it but the issue was that the phone was connecting to my computer. I figured it out had to remove sim and battery wait a couple seconds then was able to boot into bootloader. thanks all issue fixed.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] Kasaki:
Can't use my wifi now apparently, got the latest t-mobile radio but it's blanked out , it's also only saying "Edge" but earlier it was on 3G
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] TechKit:
Try flashing a different radio, make sure you've got the unlocking thingy done, i think it's called HardSPL or something by olinex or something. There is a collection of radios on XDA, just cant find it right now as the search isn't working at the moment.

EDIT: heres the radios link: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=549939

NOTE: Make sure you follow the instructions very carefully when doing any kind of flashing to your phone, i'm not responsible for any issues that may arise.

Hope this helps a bit
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General] stevedebi:
You had a strange experience when flashing. I would try a hard reset, and if that doesn't work, flash it again.
[Android Apps and Games] Techvir:
i am looking for a search app which would give instant results

aurora search app is a good one but it does not search for files in android v2.2

Is there anything like that ?

any one using similar app for andorid 2.2.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GalaxyDroid88:
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Hey guys I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this but I just really need some help...

I just recently flashed my galaxy to JP6 and installed voodoo and everything was running fine. I then wanted to root my phone and tried Chainfires solution from here on this forum. It bricked my phone and I had to flash back to JM8.

I am now running JM8 but when I go to flash JP6 it says fail and wont let me?

I also tried flashing JMP and my phone screen went green halfway through and stopped flashing.

Any ideas why I cant flash to froyo anymore?

Is it because I still have voodoo installed?

If so how do I delete it? I've tried following th instructions from curios google page but I couldn't figure it out.

The error in odin reads "Can't open the serial(COM) port"

Any info on this would be greately appreiciated!

Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] juzz86:
Hey,

My guess is it's your recovery version. You need to boot to recovery mode and see whether the version is 2e or 3e. 3e won't allow you to flash unsigned updates.

Also, make sure you put a 'disable lagfix' folder inside your voodoo folder on the internal SD card. That may also be an issue.

Good luck!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GalaxyDroid88:
I can currently only get onto download mode with my phone, I used to be able to get into recovery mode using the 3button technique but I no longer can.

I'm pretty sure it's voodoo that is causing me my problems, is there any way I can disable/un-install voodoo with only going into download mode?