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[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] shure2:
Some of you might have heard that about a week ago opera released a statement saying its new full mobile beta (not mini) will be available within a month.

The 2 major features stated are multi touch and hardware acceleration. Im a fan of opera mobile from using it on my tp2 and occasionally on my hd2 and I'm pretty hopeful of a new top browser to choose from.

My question is whether hardware acceleration might work on out hd2s with our custom roms, it should make zooming and navigation rapid, but if we are using a desire be Rom it might try and use that graphics driver instead of the hd2 one, resulting in failure?

I know the only way we will really find out is when its released, but I wondered if any smart codes could add some theories of how the hw acceleration could work.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] Anderdroid:
I'm currently re-working Doom to be like quake2droid / quake3droid with on screen controls. Is anyone interested in this? I'll hurry up if so. Lol.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] lemarg:
Yes, yes I am.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] deez1234:
Also interested
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] cashless:
+1

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[Vibrant Themes and Apps] junkdruggler:
I've been on quake 3 this morning fraggin people... I'm down with doom...
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] emceeskwaird:
Very interested here....
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] musky:
For sure interested!
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] Gettintheledout:
Yes, please.
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] Sane1:
Hells yeah
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] tjhart85:
That would be very cool!
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] paitobp:
Interested too!!:)
[Vibrant Themes and Apps] iwillkillyou:
Nice, sends us betas to test on
[Windows Phone 7 General] asbessette:
I currently have the HTC EVO....and love the phone with a passion, but I don't love how basic the UI/Animations are on the phone and screen changes. It is super fast, but like all phones...it has it's buggy moments too. With the EVO I can change my UI with "home" apps like Launcher Pro which are more pleasing on the eye then the standard sense it comes with....but still lacks the smoothness and super graceful animations that WP7 comes with. The flipping tiles are just an example of some of the animations I am talking about.

Now I know that WP7 has it's short comings...but so did Android at it's launch as well as IOS, but overall it's a solid phone and super fast as well. WP7 will grow as the months and years pass, just as android did with 1.5, 2.1 and 2.2

I had to sit and think if I could do with out some of the better features the EVO has over the HD7, which is the phone I am wanting to switch to.

1. Do without the front VGA camera on the EVO (yes)

2. Do without the "8" megapixel back camera and go down to an "5" (yes)

3. Do without changing how my screen looks every bloody week, lol (yes)

4. Do without the 100,000 apps that are currently in the Android Market place (yes - as I only use several)

I guess the only thing I will really miss is the good friends I have with Androids that I play "android" games with online like wordfeud.

Am I alone in coming from what I think/thought was the best thing that ever happed to smartphone? Are there more people like me, that are switching from Android to WP7....or am I crazy insane and should stick with what I have because it truly is the best of the best?

I just wish Android could be gorgeous and sexy in it's UI as WP7 is!
[Windows Phone 7 General] bean_ian:
I moved from a HTC Legend to a HD7. The main thing i miss is the google integration. Mainly google talk & google latitude both of which I used everyday.

Hopefully they will become available for WP7 in time.

Apart from that i'm happy i made the move. The OS is very different from android and really challenges developers to create visually engaging apps. Already lots of apps are available that weren't at launch and as the USA launch approaches I reckon the number of apps will be 2x-3x in time for xmas easily.

I love the UI and it's simplicity and simple but great animations. It really is a solid OS and although on paper it doesnt stack up against android, on a day to day practical level its perfect.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Omega Ra:
well it is all really a personal preference. I have been using WM since 5.0 (motorola Q) and had the omnia 1 and now the omnia 2. I don't really like android so I will be going to WP7 once it hits Verizon. But obviously you like the droid, but have some reservations. The question is does the lack of FULL multi-tasking, no copy/paste (until Jan) and things of that nature bother you? Obviously you have thought about those other things, so think on these, if they bother you then stick with the DROID, if not give WP7 a shot. As to whether Android is the "best of the best" that is a matter of opinion, no matter what anyone here says, so ask yourself, do YOU think android is better?
[Windows Phone 7 General] asbessette:
Thanks bean_ian and Omega RA....I have thought about the "no" full multi tasking and "no" copy and paste (until jan), and decided I can totally live without those & the other minor shortcomings mentioned a slew of times through out the internet and review websites.

The EVO

is

superior to the HD7 in many ways....but HANDS DOWN WP7 kills Android in how beautiful, simple, and easy to use the UI is! To me that is what I am buying the phone for, as I mainly use it to surf the net (for info on the go)...HUGE twitter head here, and I use Facebook alot too.

I like pretty, I will not lie...lol. Both phones, the EVO & HD7 are gorgeous body wise, but I want the VERY same when I power it on too.
[Windows Phone 7 General] diablos991:
I went from blackberry with the 8700, to the iphone 2g, to the iphone 3g, to the nexus one, and now to the HD7.

I have experienced all the ball-games in town and I am excited to try out the rookie.

If I dislike it, I will just go back to Android with a Tegra 2 powered phone.
[Windows Phone 7 General] brummiesteven:
Yes, I've just bought my HD7 and I'm selling my Desire.

Will use it as a gap inbetween Android 2.2 and Android 3.0 whenever that decides to come out. Let's see if the HD7 is enough to persuade me to stay with WP7 instead of selling it in about 6 months for a Android 3.0 phone..
[Windows Phone 7 General] asbessette:
So you are definetly happy with it "hands down" over Android 2.2? I believe I will be...but like other peoples opinion having had android.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Tom Servo:
I had a Nexus One and before that a HTC Magic.
[Windows Phone 7 General] AdrianK:
Could you clarify? You seem to be contradicting yourself...?

Which animations are you on about?
[Windows Phone 7 General] irdawood:
He is refering to WP7 being fast and Android though good, not as fast.
[Windows Phone 7 General] asbessette:
The EVO is superfast, no doubt, 1Ghz Snap Dragon and all....but every phone regardless of "snapdragon" or not, has it's moments of buggyness.

NOT SAYING that WP7 or the HD7 will be bugless...it too has a super quick 1Ghz SnapDragon, and I'm sure will have it's glitches on the rare occasions. Point being (I guess) would be that the EVO/Android 2.2's speed is certainly "not" a factor or reason that I should to keep it, and not move to WP7.

Some animations include...the screen rotation, with android the screen just turns with no animation - BAM it's turned. With WP7 it turns fast but has a little animated wobble/bounce to it, as it settles into it's new position (very quick one so it's not obtrusive, but a nice touch) - small potatoes to most, but these little touches count to me.

Also the tiles flipping out when you touch a specific tile to "go into" that hub....the tiles fly away, and when coming back to the home screen the tiles flip back in a smooth beautiful way.

There are others, through out the phone that are seen in the slew of videos on the UI found on youtube.

There is just no real nice....smooth animation to Android. Some "home" replacements give it a try, like Launcher Pro....but it's still choppy at best.
[Windows Phone 7 General] krjcook:
Yea I'm migrating from android. Moto Cliq with 2.1 upgrade. Android is nice, but I sick of all the sluggishness.
[Windows Phone 7 General] vishurao:
"Android with a Tegra 2 powered phone"

I heard its going to kick everything butt out of the park. I have heard a plathora of new features that its going to come out with. I just hope to do release it to market FAST.
[Windows Phone 7 General] mike21pr:
im planning on switching as well... android is great but its looking like the next windows mobile: clunky / inconsistant UI, no guidelines on hardware or updates making it go out of control with fragmentation (different processor arquitectures, speed, screen sizes, shapes, resolutions, etc.) makes it a mess to develop for without p!ssing a few people off because of incompatbility issues, OEM's still release 1. 6 devices today, and most are currently upgrading to 2.1 (wtf? ? isnt 2. 2 the current? ?) multiple app stores, really? poor quality apps when it comes to asthetics and function compared to iOS

AND THIS IS COMING FROM AND ANDROID USER AND LOVER **sorry but thats how i see it**

WP7 really interests me since microsoft will keep tight control on hardware and software thus giving us apple-like experience, and android-like hardware choice. i also loved how they provided all drivers for the snapdragon chip as a supported processor making it use its full potential since its tighter integrated with the OS unlike android where its like a one-OS-fits-all where the lack of optimization can make the strongest cpu fall short of the snapdragon (just like apple makes theirs so silky smooth with slower cpu's than ours) xbox live integration, and great developer interest also makes me sure that it will be a success. just needs time to grow but im willing to evolve with them...
[Windows Phone 7 General] ajftl:
im switching but not 100% since im stock with sprint(which i can cancel) so im on a nexus one on tmo running cyano nightly 226 and ive never seen android running this fast before, cyano really killed with 226 ..anyway im not a big fan of big phones like evo(which i own lol) and tmo is offering the hd7 same size...so i might give att a try with the surround or samsung
[Windows Phone 7 General] asbessette:
Really glad to hear other peoples reasons for leaving the all mighty Android and switching to WP7....definetly enlightening!

I started this post because I felt in my head that I might be trying to talk myself out of switching, with all the MS haters pointing out all the minor lacking issues WP7 has...albeit, it'll all be fixed in time.

I truly want a beautiful experience when I

use my phone

, not just a beautiful phone being pulled out of my pocket.

I am 100% certain that I will be switching carriers and phones on November 8th when T-Mobile gets the HD7...and selling my HTC EVO. "IF" and when Android comes out with a UI that has great animation and is not so basic looking, I might be back!
[Windows Phone 7 General] nicksti:
I am trying to fully understand this:

A major reason for you liking WP7 is the transitions?

To each his/her own but if you got sick of changing your UI screens I believe you will eventually get really sick of the screen transitions. That was the first thing when I saw the demo that I was praying that I could turn off when I got sick of it.

I am having a hard time accepting all of the initial shortcomings the more I am seeing the end result of these shortcomings. I love the hub style screens but I am not sure if it is enough.

I may end up choosing an Android phone. Maybe the rugged Defy.
[Windows Phone 7 General] asbessette:
Yes, the major reason I like WP7 over Android is the Animated transitions "throughout" the phone (not just the screen transistions) and the SMOOTH operations and function of the apps! That is just the major reason....the hubbs that have several apps combined into them is another reason, saving me time.

The functionality/smoothness of the Android UI is far from up to par with iOS and WP7...although Android crushes both is other areas, like the ability to change something. Although I like the ability to change how my home screen looks from day to day or hour to hour...at the end of the week, I'm still longing for a beautiful experience when I USE my phone, or do what I need to do on my phones OS.
[Windows Phone 7 General] tjhart85:
Are you blaming Android for the sluggishness or the fact that the Cliq has a ~530MHz processor in a 1GHz world?

I'm switching to Linux because Windows 7 is just too sluggish on my PIII 900MHz.

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Personally, I won't be making the switch, but that's neither here nor there.

Most every carrier will give you a return period. It's not like you actually risk losing anything (as long as you take care of the phone). Give it a try for your two weeks (or whatever your carrier allows) and see how you like it.

Two weeks is long enough to determine if you love it or if you find the transitions to be annoying as hell when being used.

At about a week and a half, I would try going back to the Android phone for a day or two. If you're annoyed as hell by the Android phone, then keep the WP7.

If you find yourself relieved to be back with the Android phone, keep it.

If it's about even, then think to the future. Is the Android phone likely to get an upgrade (either officially or through a 3rd party ROM)? Is the WP7 likely to continue to get upgraded?

Make a pro/con for each phone & decide which one you'll ultimately be happier with.

For me, the cons for WP7 are too many, but for YOU, it might be reversed.

Ultimately, what fits you better is what you want to determine & the best way to figure that out is to compare/contrast through actual use.

I've seen a LOT of phones demo'd that have super smooth animations, but in actual use, they suck horribly once things are installed on teh phone. Since the WP7 can't multitask, this isn't likely to be such a big deal, but it might be. Actual use is really the only way to know.
[Windows Phone 7 General] evilangelic:
I wonder how many tiles you can get on there before it gets ridiculous
[Windows Phone 7 General] asbessette:
An apple fanboy said in the HTC Hero forums here on XDA once, "how many screens and widgets can you fit on there before it gets rediculous". I replied to him as many as we can fit in seven screen (that's our cap)...and for those with a three screen cap, three screens...lol.

I'm quite very sure a die-hard droid fan went into some apple forum, some where and said "I wonder how many apps icons you can fit on your screens before it get ridiculous, lol.

So I am sure there is a cap with WP7...and if not, good luck & more power to those who like to scroll on for ever. On my EVO, I only use three screens (A select few apps/widgets go on my home screen - mail, phone, text to name a few of the few)...for the rest I simply head to my app drawer ;-)

Every forum has the "guy" who says I wonder how many "____" will fit on the phone before it gets ridiculous....lol.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Smokexz:
I am seriously considering the switch, WP7 is just so polished and the Android market is flooded with Nazi apps, porn apps, buggy apps, and pointless apps. 100,000 apps, and probably 1,000 of them are of some use and are actively used every day. Honestly I found myself baffled how Google could boast about something so stupid, this many apps and almost none of em are good.

However I still love Android... and WP7 will soon get updates to further improve it.

I will try the myTouch 4g and the HD7 at the T-Mobile store, and when I come home I should be happy with my decision.
[Windows Phone 7 General] asbessette:
What phone do you sport currently?
[Windows Phone 7 General] Phone Titan:
WP7 is looking to become a great operating system. Microsoft just needs to add those missing key features.
[Windows Phone 7 General] brummiesteven:
I don't have it yet sorry, it's being delivered tomorrow morning before 10am though :)
[Windows Phone 7 General] tboy2000:
What are you doing awake? Get to bed NOW so the night passes quicker and you will get your phone quicker :D:D:D That's what I would do. :D
[Windows Phone 7 General] Phone Titan:
On this occasion its probably not possible as I bet brummiesteven is pretty excited about his new phone that will be arriving in a few hours :D
[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
I'm going to switch in the next month or two, from a Vinrant. Android phones all seem like dead ends when it comes to support, updates, and overall user experience.

Plus, I've always wanted a Zune HD to go with my Zune Pass.

No more cludgy media syncing? Count me in. Among a host of other advantages (perfect Exchange support, Live integration so I can delete this Google acct, office live, onenote cloud synching, etc.)
[Windows Phone 7 General] asbessette:
That is exactly how I feel about the user experience. Terrible for the amount of press it has, customers using the OS, and amount of money that is behind this OS UI! They can do so much more.....WP7 just did.

Some other things I "intensely" hated about Android was its crappy music player and it's all around media center. My Zune player is hot and I L.O.V.E. it!!!!!! Happy it's now it's own phone (so to speak)

The other thing I just did not understand was coming home and getting 65 emails from Facebook and other random email.....I would have to sit there and delete them all one by one. The gmail client had the box to check so you could check a slew of them and delete all at once.

The HTC email client did not.....
[Windows Phone 7 General] pikacz:
yep, i'm moving soon to mozart from my "gorgeous" samsung i7500 (still on 1.5 btw). was planning to get the nexus but when wp7 showed up, everything changed :)
[Windows Phone 7 General] havox22:
Yup...im dropping my epic 4g as soon as sprint has a wp7 device
[Windows Phone 7 General] ericc191:
I was with WM since 5.0 to 6.5 and then bought the Nexus One. Android was quite a fresh of breath air. Though, I do feel I liked it so much partly because I chose the N1. It has so much support and is still quite powerful. I sold my N1 when I saw that the G2 was coming out but quickly returned that phone.

So, yeah, I'm waiting for WP7 to launch here in the United States. In a way it feels like I'm coming home from Android, lol. I know that 7 is nothing like 6.5 and below, but I have faith that they'll add in some of those missing features we all want.

MS has listened to the dev community for the most part over the years, and I don't see why they'd stop now.
[Windows Phone 7 General] asbessette:
Wow, coming from a Nexus One...very nice! That I feel is comparable to relinquishing an EVO (which is truly a flippin' powerhouse) for WP7.

Yea...I have complete faith they will keep getting better! As you stated, 7 is

nothing

like 6.5 - it's completely a new OS made from scrath from the very best minds out there (that is where "they've been at this forever" comes into play)!

They "HAD" to do something new and fresh or they would have died out 100% with iOS and Android taking over like nothing we've ever seen.

They listened to the masses...they produced for the masses....and they will continue to improve and listen to all of us. The fight to get back into the game has just begun for them.

They're not just going to hand us this new look/feel and say "they you go", lol.
[Touch HD General] chatchater:
Please help subfolders of my hotmail account can't sync on my phone's hotmail live mobile...:confused:

I've no problems with syncing INBOX
[Touch HD General] chatchater:
Problem SOVED!

Go to MENU -> FOLDERS -> and SELECT folder you want to be synced by WLM Phone

TOPIC CLOSED
[Omnia II General] cafein:
Hello guys :) As I mentioned I need the latest official wm 6.1 for my Omnia 2.Could anyone please give me a link for it ? It is a bir urgent , thanks in advance ;)
[Omnia II General] dhawal4u:
i also need wm6.1 for

b7610

anyone has link for it !!!!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lost_man10002:
First and foremost I'm a total noob too all this andriod rooting and flashing roms stuff so feel free to point and laugh at my stupidity lol.....Now thats out the way down to noob questions lol.

I attempted to flash myn's warm twopointtwo rls 2 last nite and failed doing it this is what I did so maybe somone here can shed some light on what I did wrong please.

1. I used unrevoked 3.21 on a mac to get the root. I achieved root & superuser icon.

2. Then I rebooted in recovery using clockwork mod (couldn't figure out how to flash RA mod which I read is better)

3. wiped factory reset, davlik and cache.

4. went into sd card tried to flash the rom and it would not doing anything.

5. Reboot and still be in htc stock.

Please help!! and yes I"m a noob lol
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] omegasun18:
it looks like your steps are correct but what exactly happened when you selected the rom? that is the step it looks like there may be a problem.

make sure youa re selecting install rom from SD and not flash update.zip from sd.

otherwise once you select insall file from sd you should jsut have to scroll to the rom and hit the power button once to install it. shoudl be obvious that it is installing. once its done reboot and you should be good to go.

one last thought if you downloaded the rom on your mac i have heard that it can cause an issue. something about mac recompressing the zipfile as it downloads and not flashing. you may see if you can downlaod it directly to your phone or on a windows pc if you ahve one and try flashing that file.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lost_man10002:
I tried the install from sd card then chose the myn's rom and it didn't take just went back to main clockwork mod screen no installing...I have a dual boot mac at home with windows xp on it so I"ll try downloading it from there...I'll report back when I try again...Thank you for the reply
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lost_man10002:
so I finally got around to trying to figure it out and it was a noob move I did of course...I didn't clear the sd ext that was my mistake...I am using Ra recovery now finally figured how to flash that also lol...Love andriod phones so far now on to custom roms!!! Thanks for all your help.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] omegasun18:
great glad to hear you got everything working!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AV1985:
Hi,

I have searched the forum and couldn't find a solution for this one.

It seems easy (or at least, doable) to go from Samsung glass lockscreen to android stock. But how about the other way around?

I am using Darky's ROM which has a custom lockscreen, could anyone advise where I could get the standard Samsung lockscreen from as I kind of preferred the fact that I could swipe in any direction!

Thanks!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lalaca:
This is probably the file you need. It's from JPM, deodexed.

Installing it is up to you. Root Explorer is probably going to be the easiest way.

I highly advise making backups before doing anything.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dbtomas:
widgetlocker.v1.2.4 its OK;)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AV1985:
Any advice as to how I go about using it? I already have Root Explorer. Thanks!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] franklin01:
Easy, copy a stock android.policy.jar to /system/framework/ folder (replace it using roote explorer or similar).

Here is mine.

I will upload an update.zip later.

Copy, paste and reboot, then wait, first boot will be a little slower than usual.

### Update ###

Download Old lockscreen.zip, rename to update.zip, copy to internal sd, reboot into recovery and apply update or use CW to apply zip from sd.

Tested and working on JPM / JP6 (not tested on not deoxed rom...)

Work with CW or 2nd recovery (need to be renamed to update.zip)

First boot will be slow.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AV1985:
I saw this post of yours before you uploaded it as a zip and just copied into the right folder through Root Explorer, has worked a treat! Big thanks to you!