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[HD2 General] gregzeng:
WP7 needs a hardware camera button, plus ....

Android, Maemo, Ubuntu ... will probably be more successful than anything from Windows Mobile.

Winnmo 7 is very tight on hardware & software requirements eg hardware camera button.

Retired (medical) IT Consultant

Australian Capital Territory
[HD2 General] xaccers:
And the Evo 4G has the same screen as the Leo?
[HD2 General] anhyeuemmaimai:
Well it looks like MS is not in charge of updating devices after all lol

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/...-7-updates-in-the-hands-of-the-carriers/10314
[HD2 General] bassdroid:
I personally will never abandon android especially for anything windows. I can't stand iphone our windows mobile so I'm sticking with what I like
[HD2 General] Belligerance:
I don't see any point! With a little patience, the awsome people here will have things sorted out and we will be able to have WM7 on our HD2's (and Android, WM6.5.5, Ubuntu). Plus I will still be able to change my memory card whenerver I need.

I think shelling out the money for the same thing I have now so that I can have more restrictions placed on me is probably one of the dumbest business ideas I have ever come accross...I fully expect to see the death of MS in the Darwin Awards one day!

To be completely honest, if it wasn't for xda-developers, I would probably go buy a Nokia! WM without xda-dev. is like running dos on my Quad Core desktop!

I have a suggestion: How about we all put our heads together a make a real mobile OS. :)
[HD2 General] Spl4tt:
no. im gonna skip the second generatino snapdragon chipsets and wait for the thrird. in the meantime i enjoy all of the ports on my hd2 :)

the dual boot is cool enough to survive another year :P
[HD2 General] Spl4tt:
u are just fkin awsome xDD

+1

+1

+1
[HD2 General] chrisjasper:
What do you mean "Dont think about having any "saucy" pics of your gf on your phone"?

Personal content is censored???

Edit: never mind, I read it wrong.
[HD2 General] xaccers:
I couldn't find any way of preventing some photos being visible in the picture hub.

So whereas on the Leo we can tell Album to ignore certain folders, and view the pics in there via file explorer, on WP7 it looks like if you have a photo of your gf in her birthday suit, anyone who picks up the phone and has a look at the photos can see it.

Imagine the scene, your gf's brother has gotten married, you took loads of pics on your phone and back at your gf's parents' home you give the phone to your gf's mum to look at them. Sliding through them she gets to the end and WHAM! there's a photo of you bumping uglies with their daughter.

Many people will get stung by this in the same humorous way that they get stung by posting a personal FB update without realising everyone and their dog could see it.

Of course if you don't mind the world and their dog oggling your gf in the buff, this won't be an issue.
[HD2 General] Towserspvm2000:
Droid........
[HD2 General] monkeybutler365:
Dude, is your biggest complaint about WP7 that everyone can see your pr0n?
[HD2 General] xaccers:
I'm intreagued as to why after reading my post regarding how depressing and slow I found WP7, you've chosen to concentrate on that.

Hmm...
[HD2 General] monkeybutler365:
Because that was the only complaint you deemed worthy of mentioning twice and dedicating a whole post to?

I am also intrigued as to why you found the settings menu any more or less depressing than any other settings menu on a phone- it's a list of settings, how would you spruce it up?
[HD2 General] xs11e:
I'll be sticking with the HD2 for awhile and then probably I'll go to Android or back to Blackberry. Why? I believe a phone should make phone calls and that requires UMA from my house or several other places I'm likely to be.

I can make calls from home with the BB, I suspect later Android devices that support UMA will do the same but I cannot have a phone w/o UMA so the HD2 will be my last Windows phone unless something changes soon... (Soon being the end of the month, I'll be visiting in California and there's not much of a T-Mo signal where I'll be so I'll be taking the BB.)

NOTE: I have no problems with the HD2, it doesn't freeze, it doesn't have this problem or that problem or the other problem, it works very nicely BUT it has no UMA so.....

DEFINITIONS: Phone w/o UMA = Paperweight.
[HD2 General] xaccers:
Nope, don't see what you're getting at, I only mentioned "saucy" pics once in post #67, and chrisjasper asked what I meant, so unless you're saying I should have ignored him, I do not know what your problem is.

As for the settings, it was the feeling I got when going through them, dull dark grey backgrounds, huge "5 year old reading" text, combined with the general dullness of the rest of the UI, it's dire.

Uh-oh, I've now deemed the settings menu as worthy of mentioning twice! Now you'll think that's my biggest complaint about WP7 ;)
[HD2 General] anhyeuemmaimai:
WinMo 6.X only supports 65K colors. pay attention when you watch qaulity encoded videos,you do not get any banding that you would expect if the display was really 65K colors.
[HD2 General] Spl4tt:
such a **** :P

http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_desire_hd-3468.php

and yea, the hd2 only has 65k colors cause winmo.. it doesnt support more
[HD2 General] cayotte:
Ha..ha..ha.... I thought I'm the only one who bought spare HD2.
[HD2 General] power121212:
I get enough Windows on my laptop each day.
[HD2 General] LeShin:
Totally agree with this gentleman! I bought my HD2 after owning a Touch Pro 2 because of the huge performance boost. I got it because I DIDN'T want an Iphone because of it's many restrictions at the time, why on earth would I go backwards? No multi-tasking? no bluetooth transfer and the above things mentioned by that poster...no thanks! I have to admit, I loved how silky smooth the interface was when I saw the many youtube video's, but then I realised I can view a lot more info on my HD2's screen without having to scroll anywhere!

In a way I'm sad and happy at the same time. On one hand I was waiting for a phone to completely surpass mine as I'm a bit of a gadget freak (this hasn't happened) and on the other, I'm happy that I think I have the best phone out for my purposes! Thanks to the brilliant cooks and tweakers here on XDA for making it so :D

To be perfectly honest, the only thing I would want is for a lot more apps to be developed for the HD2. Of course that won't happen but the only app I really want is that augmented reality gps program on the android...and even that's not enough of a reason to replace my phone.
[HD2 General] kenny_33:
Yes i will just to test it myself, and probablu switch back to 6.5 or android if nand version works soon ^^
[HD2 General] 3octaves:
Absolutely not, if Microsoft think they can tell me I have to have 8 gigs of memory only in a 32gig world and rising then they thought wrong.

Android for me next phone, after I have it running on my HD2 now!

And the tiles thing....YUK...looks like a 90 year old granny designed it.
[HD2 General] bountygiver:
It takes time for WP7 to be matured

also, HD2 will be able to boot WP7 soon

HD2 can boot more OS than HD7

3MP difference in camera is nothing to us
[HD2 General] Spl4tt:
the hd7 has only 5 mp too. the desire hd is the one with 8mp

and i played around with the hd7 now too. its just.. nothing for me
[HD2 General] sandman01:
Hi!

I'd like to see a wp7 rom for HD2 :-)

I'm a friend of everything new, and want to compare (dis)advantages between different operating systems without buying multiple devices.

So I hope android is only the first step in the right direction for the HD2

At the moment I can only play around with the wp7 simulator for windows which seems very restricted to me :-(

But otherwise, if we have the possibility to play around with our HD2 & WP7, additional software tools,... will be sooner available

PS.: I'm one of the persons who will also test apple's os4 if it could be ported to our htc phones. :-)
[HD2 General] romskii:
WP7 is amazing but the only device i would buy is a htc mozart. but there the screen is to small and the hd7 is ugly :D
[HD2 General] Slicerwolf:
I got no mo money foo!
[HD2 General] theblueflash:
im enjoying my HD2. i find the amount of things you can do with it a great selling point. i know a lot of people wont feel they have the patience for everything on this site but i think as you get used to a phone its a nice touch to upload new roms etc and have a completely new interface/theme.

there are only a few plus points i can see about getting a hd7 and they are a kickstand. which is simple but thats me. maybe the hd camcorder is a + too. other than any hardware/sofware improvements that appear when its fully tested i think its a waste of smartphone space.

firstly. 16gb internal memory! something the hd2 needs more of id agree but with an expansion slot with potentially infinate space its won that.

the hd2 has hard buttons. touch screen is a flipping nightmare if your like me and find your fingers moving too fast for the phone. even i find with a few reg tweeks the keyboard is still a little slow.

the ability to dual boot to andriod. something im looking forward to trying and using. adds a new dimension to the hd2 which windows cant match atm. in a few years maybe but who here uses there hd2 with htc sense off? ive tried. its weird and annoying. wouldnt like this phone if it didnt have sense

cant think of anything else right now but i can see myself selling my upgrades for quite a while as this phone continues to improve. the only reason i see myself moving on from the hd2 is when wimo/android takes off properly and we see some real daylight between the competition. if camera technolgy improves for phones which are to small to take quality pictures. large mega pixel count means nothing if the lens quality isnt there.

personally its HD2 all the way
[HD2 General] raziel123:
Pretty much, the only significant difference being the souped up, Adreno 205 Graphics Chipset ...

In my opinion anyone thinking of an upgrade,, forget the HD7, go for the Desire HD with Android ...

regards.
[HD2 General] okhna:
i searched the net for htc hd2 upgrade parts like a digitizer with no hole for the plastic keypad, a whole digitizer like evo or hd7, does such things exist?

i consider my hd2 like a small pc, which also supports mobile communications. therefore i do want to do things with it that i am doing with my pc.

and why companies trying to force non customizable devices while customers are trying to modify in everyway possible?. it is ours after we paid, and why can not i upgrade, downgrade or modify some parts of it? is it their shame or my incapability?

i am not finished with hd2 yet, so maybe i might consider buying a htc h3d ;) but not hd7 thanks
[HD2 General] Samsunguy:
The only reason that would make me switch to the hd7 or any wp7 devices if it is jailbroken and gets a jailbroken app store like cydia for the iPhone other than that windows phone 7 can rot in loneliness. :) ;)
[HD2 General] jkolner:
NO!!!

Im changing to Android on a Desire HD.
[HD2 General] iarapilot:
I certainly second that thought!
[HD2 General] iarapilot:
I would say FUGLY! :)
[HD2 General] iarapilot:
I have one spare.....for parts now. And, a T9193 on the way. Cant imagine a better phone. Maybe a close equal, but not better.
[HD2 General] otherworld:
Maybe to give an alternative angle - as an apps developer WP7 (and the free development tools) make generating beautiful and powerful app interfaces so much easier than trying to for the HD2. For that reason I think it has a lot more going for it than unfortunately the HD2 does now. Everything should have been possible in developing for the HD2 as it's very powerful - but nothing was made easy. The only GUI's you could design visually using the Microsoft supplied tools made for very old fashioned looking interfaces. HTC didn't supply any code either so that Sense could be enhanced. As a result I (and other developers) had to spend months developing custom interface code so that our apps could look good / kinetic / animated / transparency / blends etc. so as to be on par with other phones' apps.

WP7 now gives developers a much better programming / design environment than any other phone platform. Most of the things you need are already all there for you, and as easy to work with as drawing in a paint package (i.e. silverlight/wpf/expression blend). For that reason, even though it is young and by no means perfect yet, I think in time the apps will be better on WP7 than any other phone. Even if apps aren’t the be all and end all for you and your phone – they’re what makes the phone get noticed in the media (and conversely what ‘killed’ the HD2 in the media), and therefore what attracts investment to enhance the platform from both Microsoft, professional developers, and others.

I love my HD2; and as someone technical it offers a lot of power. There's a lot I miss when I use my WP7 phone - e.g. customisability, swype, no proper outlook sync, having a button to hang up and a button to go straight to the phone. I also agree that for the kind of person who frequents XDA the phone can feel somewhat 'dumbed down' compared to the flexibility and desktop OS-like features of an HD2. But the HD2 never had big media excitement about it, never had an app store that properly took off, had the worst facebook app anyone could ever have imagined, and left many people having to defend their choice of phone to people outside of XDA.

There’s a lot of buzz and excitement from the media about WP7. I’m enjoying that - and enjoying having a phone that also non-technical people think is cool. It’s not perfect yet – but it is definitely unique and different to other phones and has a lot planned for it. Whilst some things are limiting (to advanced users), there’s a lot that is fun and very cool about it and I’m finding myself really liking it more every day. Other people are too. Unfortunately the HD2 / wm6.5 now feels a bit like hanging on to the past, whereas WP7 definitely feels like looking to the future.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] hd2k10:
Is there anyone that could tell me how to remap the menu keys? I hate having the add shortcut key there. I'd like to make it, (little button) Phone, (Center Bar) Apps, (right button) Browser.

Like applying the patches in this thread:http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=797688 but from what I read we can't flash through recovery (and I can't even get to it on this build it seems)

Rom: VBNDroid Reloaded2

Build: FroYoMooStone BlueTopia v0.3.1

Radio: 2.14.50.04

I was also wondering if there's a way to change the standard battery meter to the meter that displays the % like in other builds. I know there's apps/widgets to display it in the notification bar but the extra battery icon annoys me.

Edit: Another thing I was wondering is if there's anyway to disable the slide to answer and make it only the Call/End buttons. I tend to answer/decline a call while in my pocket or pulling it out due to the slide.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] law16:
would also like to know
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Kouno.Takaaki:
For % in Battery, AFAIK CyanogenMod did what you want.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] hd2k10:
Yeah, I just don't want to swap builds because it's based off a different theme. I was wondering how I'd go about implementing the percentage and keep this build.
[Android Apps and Games] crazyboy_beggar:
A simple tool to help you search and download mp3 music using public search engine Feature: *search,preview,download mp3 *Play,delete mp3 *set as ringtone,alarm,notification @WIFI IS PREFERRED KW: MP3 download music search imusic blaster junk audio media ringtone V1.5.0 #Fix some bugs #Sort downloads

A simple tool to help you search and download mp3 music using public search engine

Feature:

*search,preview,download mp3

*Play,delete mp3

*set as ringtone,alarm,notification

@WIFI IS PREFERRED

KW:

MP3 download music search imusic blaster junk audio media ringtone

V1.5.0

#Fix some bugs

#Sort downloads
[Android Apps and Games] egzthunder1:
The app allows for distribution of copyrighted material, which is not allowed on XDA. Thread closed.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] DarkTharen:
​

Conservative Icon Sets

Below are some basic icons sets that have been made to work with the rom that is in their name. Each of these sets includes basic color system icons. As I updated system icons the user will have to flash the new set version. I also have made a flash able recovery to return the roms back to their original icons without having to reflash the rom (Send me a PM to get those files). If you have any problems with these sets please end me an email with the Rom and some basic information including the file name that you downloaded and tried. Follow me on Twitter HERE. For more in depth information on the project see my Blog HERE.

Installation Instructions

1. Download the base set based on your rom

2. Put the ZIP file on root of MicroSD card

3. Reboot into Recovery

4. Backup/Nandroid current Rom

5. Install ZIP from MicroSD card

6. Reboot

Conservative Icons (Virtuous Set) – HERE

Conservative Icons (SkyRaider Set) – HERE

Conservative Icons (Stock Froyo Set) - HERE

Conservative Icons (Stock Froyo Green Circle Battery Mod Set) – HERE

Conservative Icons (Stock Froyo Blue Circle Battery Mod Set) – HERE

Conservative Icons (SkyRaider 3.5 UncommonPack Mod) - HERE

Conservative Icons (Redemptive Rom Set) - HERE

Conservative Icons (Redemptive rEVOlution Set) - HERE

Conservative Icons (Redemptive Senseless Set) - HERE

*Note - The Uncommon pack is not fully tested. The pack is the full Uncommon pack from Rom Manager I just added my icons to it. This flashable zip will install the full uncommon pack not just the files that use the icons.

*Note - I removed any rom that uses the Desire Z or Desire HD Rom. The icons related to those roms need to have transparent backgrounds for different themes. I had to go back through and recreate icons so that they have transparent backgrounds. I will be releasing these icons in there own individual thread called CI Premium Icons (Dezire base) and will be released soon.

Extra Packs

APK File Installation Instructions

1. Do a nandroid/backup

2. remove App Completly icluding in System (In File Explorer goto System\App and look for App Name. If there Delete

3. Put APK in root of SD Card

4. Install using a file explorer software. I used Estrong File Explorer

6. Reboot Phone

5. Run program

MetaMorph Installation Instructions

1. Download the base set based on your rom

2. Put the ZIP file in the AndroidThemes folder on your MicroSD card

3. Start MetaMorph

4. Select Unzip/Extract new theme

5. Select icon pack ZIP file

6. Select Close

7. Select Apply all!

8. After it is finished if the phone doesn’t reboot automaticly, Reboot it manually

Flashable Installation Instructions

1. Download the base set based on your rom

2. Put the ZIP file on root of MicroSD card

3. Reboot into Recovery

4. Backup/Nandroid current Rom

5. Install ZIP from MicroSD card

6. Reboot

APK Download​

MetaMorph Download

Flashable Download​

MetaMorph Download

Flashable Download​

APK Download​

APK Download​

APK Download​
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] bluewave53:
Looks promising!
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] JAYNO20:
Looks good... Are more on the way? I'd like to have this type of icon for all of the system icons.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] pete_kowalski83:
Works on redemption rom21 but it takes off the semi transparent pull down menu :(, you should add that in and you're golden ;)
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] DarkTharen:
Yes, I am working on the other system icons and will post as I get them done.

Good idea about the semi transparent menu. I will add that to my next release. Thanks for trying this out.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] JAYNO20:
Just a few that I thought of...

Gmail

3g Hotspot

Facebook

Ebuddy

Location icon

Google Voice
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] OSully:
I second these.. except location icon, hide that ****.

I did a google voice one if you want to use it.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] SynisterWolf:
I have one for gmail. It's a metamorph theme. I'm working on a Facebook one and a Google voice one.

Sent from my slutty assistant.(HTC incredible)
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] JAYNO20:
No clue how to use metamorph... I would rather these stayed a ZIP to be installed in clockwork.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] gobluejd:
Google Talk would be sweet as well!
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] shoman24v:
Does this work with AOSP?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] SynisterWolf:
Only problem with a zip for gmail is you can't update with market. It will error out

Sent from my slutty assistant.(HTC incredible)
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] DarkTharen:
I used your one for Gmail through metamorph and works great! I will try to add that to the list so a person can just flash the file.

Thanks everyone for the list of icons that you would like to see. I will try to incorporate all of them. I am not sure on the location icon because that does really need to just be hidden but I will add it to my list!

As synisterwolf stated that the as the apps got updated I would have to release an update for those apps. I am sure there is away to streamline that process a bit so that as the apps get update I could get a release right away and get it out to those that would like the notification change.

I also would like to do some testing to verify what would happen in the situation of updating. Even if Gmail would error that doesn't mean the other apps would. In theory it should just install the app over what you have. that might or might not change the notification icon depending on how the updated is applied.

This is just my first project so I am learning as I go. I am not a design artist but I do have a degree in computer sciences so programing and computer logic is something I am good with and should be able to pick up how the Android OS works pretty easily.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] DarkTharen:
I am not sure if this works with AOSP roms. It would be a great test if someone would like to try. As long as you do a backup/nandroid before you flash, you should be alright. If it doesn't work on an AOSP rom, I can add that for a future release. But that would be down the road after I got the other icons done and working.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] SynisterWolf:
I tried to theme chomp sms to do my own icon via metamorph and it worked till I reset and then I could not re install it. Had to do a back up. Along with Google voice. I'm sure a flashable zip will work because I did it that way and it worked. But if the app gets an update it will have to be re applied and installed. Just my 2 cents.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] DarkTharen:
I agree, if these could get working through metamorph that would eliminate the problem of having to reapply them if there is an update to the app. But for me that does not seem like a big deal and in the future I will support those changes as long as I can.
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] SynisterWolf:
Sounds great man. If you need any help let me know.

Sent from my slutty assistant.(HTC incredible)
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] DarkTharen:
For everyone I upload version 2. I fixed the text message notification and google talk notification. In the next version I hope to have transparent notification background, google voice, and others
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] gobluejd:
Thanks for your work. Quick question, after applying this, I lost my Circle Batt mod, and thought I could re-apply. Once I did that, your pack disappeared? Is there a way to apply both?
[Droid Incredible Themes and Apps] DarkTharen:
Yes there is away to get both. I will have to upload a version with the circle battery mod. Send me a Private message with your email and I will send you a version with the circle battery mod later this afternoon.