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[Captivate Themes and Apps] pyrplhaze:
agreed. the reason I'm gonna wait til it's avaliable via alternate methods. If I like it, I will buy.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] ice3186:
Using 8pen to type this is taking some time but I have to say i am impressed at how quickly I am getting used to writing with it. And it can be reallyfast when I am writing familiar words. Worth using for a few days to see how it works. I will post back in a few days to let you all know what I think.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] anatole78:
8pen is so impressive because you get used to it so fast!
[Captivate Themes and Apps] delutedsoul23:
this thing is sweet well once you figure out where the letters are anyway...i think its a nice little addition to my growing keyboard collection
[Captivate Themes and Apps] lowetax:
I can't see where the letters are with my finger blocking them. they need to be farther out from the center dot. and when I hesitate looking for letters it changes existing letter.

but certainly is worth trying.

app purchased.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] pulser_g2:
Warez removed
[Captivate Themes and Apps] lowetax:
do you think you'll memorize where all the letters are?

and in what position?

maybe i'm a touch old, but how do you do that? :)
[Captivate Themes and Apps] jwood55812:
Wow you aint kidding theres a steep learning curve! I'm gonna keep trying it, but like someone said, the key is to just keep using it, not giving up and going back to your old keyboard. I'll gve er a week.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] Matchless 11x:
I believe someone posted the app on 4shared.com if someone would like to download it for free. But its only around a dollar in the market
[Captivate Themes and Apps] GiXXerSTeveO:
just google the apk for the app i found it at 4shared.com
[Captivate Themes and Apps] Dave the Knave:
Oh yes, lets promote piracy. /sarcasm. This is a huge problem with android, (or any mobile os) its so easy to find any app you want. Support these people that work hard to make these apps. You have 24 hours to buy, try, and if you don't like it and aren't satisfied, get your money back.

That being said, I just bought it and plan on using it all day tomorrow. I'll post my feelings later in the afternoon. Night all!

Sent from my Captivate
[Captivate Themes and Apps] Demented71:
Man, when I first saw this thing, I was all into it, and thought I'd give it a go.

:|

That thing was installed, tried and uninstalled in under 5 minutes.

It's a great concept, but I think with having to already adjust to typing on a much smaller keyboard, to adjust to a totally new WAY of entering text is too much for me to want to put effort in.

It's sort of like the Dvorak keyboard. Yeah, it's supposed to be much easier to type on it, but if you originally learned on a Qwerty keyboard, it's the relearning that is the issue.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] insaneturbo13:
so ive been playing around with this for about a day now, and i must say that while it is neat, its not as fast as swype. there is no way for it to contend with swype due to each letter taking too long to get all the way around the screen and then back to the center. i know that some are short and the most "used" letters are closer to make typing faster... but still, in an all out contest between swype and 8pen, swype would win in the speed genre.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] Undergrounded:
Tried but did not like it. I know getting used to Swype took me a couple of days but even though I am a bad typist, the intuition helped in the learning curve. When trying out the 8pen tutorial, I couldn't type out the "u" in "you" no matter how many times I tried. The size of keys makes this user experience harder for people with fat fingers and they don't get much benefit out of it over a traditional/Swype keyboard. Needless to say that the typing speed will always be faster on Swype due to less gesture work as compared to 8pen.

Lastly, I do not understand why there would be a disclaimer like this when 8pen is made default:

I later realized that the same was true for Vlingo keyboard so it might be there for every keyboard that's not out of the box. However, such a disclaimer could freak out a user who is switching from a traditional keyboard to one like 8pen.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] avgjoegeek:
This looks confusing as all get out. But then again I've been using a Qwerty keyboard for 20+ years (yikes) now. I can type 80 WPM on it. With Swype on my phone I can do about 20-30 WPM with decent accuracy.

If I tried to use 8Pen - it would have taken me half a day to write this instead of typing it on my keyboard or using swype.

Interesting concept - but dunno how well it will take off. Plus I hate going 'anti-clockwise' feel like I will implode the universe or something. :eek:
[Captivate Themes and Apps] shiftylock:
Im used to it now!
[Captivate Themes and Apps] kampfy:
Interesting take, but there's no way it will ever be as fast as Swype. It can't be, because of how long each gesture takes (the characters farthest away from the "dead space" require drawing a full circle just for ONE character).
[Captivate Themes and Apps] docflower:
I am liking the 8pen. I've put in like maybe 30 min of practice just random words and its already getting easier. Im not totally sold on it yet, but I def like it.

I think it could be good for driving and texting at the same time. Sometimes when I whiskey it up, it gets tough to text when im driving. 8pen should help.

Really tho. Its not as steep of a learning curve as some are saying.

The drunk texting while trying to drive thing that is.:eek:
[Captivate Themes and Apps] random1204:
Really? On a streak?
[Captivate Themes and Apps] wvcachi:
On first impression, I'd say no f-ing way is this bullsh*t worth learning, but I always appreciate thinking outside of the box, so--like many others--I'm giving it time...

8penned in under 52 minutes on my Evo
[Captivate Themes and Apps] jc2470:
Kool idea, and def thinking outside the box but not pratical, there are many situations that take way longer then swype. for anything using multiple letters or even lol no way that is faster unless u have alot of gestures saved that is fast. But I often wondered why they never included some key binds for the buttons like a function key and have certain words or phrases bound to it. kinda like on warcraft or any other mmplayer game like that, where u create a macro and bind it.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] EsotericPunk:
If you really want to test a new keyboard, type the following in a few times: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." It hits every letter of the alphabet. That being said, I tried it but I really don't have the patience to deal with the learning curve. Not to mention that I felt like an idiot holding my finger in the circle and rotating the phone all number of weird ways to see where the next letter I needed was...
[Captivate Themes and Apps] a_p3rson:
Anyone know of something like this for WinMo?
[Captivate Themes and Apps] Cosanostra_OG:
Interesting concept, and nice to see innovation, but I doubt I have the patience to learn a new input method such as this.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] smithisize:
very crazy... steep learning curve. been playing for an hour and don't remember everything all the time yet.

shows great potential though!

nice share!

Regards

Smith
[Captivate Themes and Apps] 88EVGAFTW:
Cool idea, but Swype owns this in my opinion.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] TRusselo:
yeah id be pissed if i payed for it because its free now.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] kn0xb0x:
Definitely will take some getting used too, but like challenges!
[Captivate Themes and Apps] bennijai:
I'll give this a try for a week and see how efficient I get with this.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] sharksman:
I tried this for a few days but I am so used with swype I just could not get the hang of it. Maybe with some more patience and exercise I would have gotten better but I am pretty good with swype so ... if it ain't broke don't fix it.:) .. cool idea but it does have limitations.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] lmaoxlong:
Quite a big learning curve, but could prove to be useful.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] GreyRain:
Pretty Interesting. I agree the the learning curve is quite steep.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] Darksider94:
Hmmmmmm. I really like the concept of it. There's definitely a very steep learning curve. But, once you get the hang of it, i'd assume it can be better than swype.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] whiteguypl:
People keep saying this has a big learning curve. I don't get it. It's so easy to use. There is almost no learning curve if your actually looking at the keyboard, and once you adjust to the key layout not being qwerty you don't even need to look at it anymore.

P.s. Qwerty is a horrid choice for cell phone key layouts.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] Darksider94:
People say it requires a new learning curve because it requires you to memorize a whole new keyboard. For this to be an effective choice, you have to remember "ok, i want to type an "f", so i need to go right and around 3 areas. It's not as straight forward as a qwerty keyboard to memorize. THAT's the big learning curve.

Sure you can look at it to type, but that defeats the whole purpose of it trying to be an effective keyboard replacement for cell phones.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] whiteguypl:
It's no different then learning querty. In fact it's easier.

Edit: people just don't like change. Earth was flat for a real long time.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bryank930:
I can't seem to download anything from the market. It hangs on "starting download". The web works just fine. I'm running CM61. RC1
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HiddenKnight:
download a market update from here on xda. dont have a link. but find an update or reinstall it.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bryank930:
That did it. Weird that it would suddenly not work like that.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HiddenKnight:
Could tell u why it happens like that,but glad it worked.
[Touch2 Themes and Apps] x_uereb:
i`m used to Compact qwerty keyboard... how can i do that on my touch2 smartphone? there must be some kind of aplication to switch the actual regular keyboard.

i`ve noticed when i hard format my phone the tutorial before windows starts is qwerty keyboard... pls someone help :) regards
[Touch2 Themes and Apps] x_uereb:
SOLVED

Anyone who has this problem use SPB keyboard ;)
[Desire HD General] raze599:
Sorry I saw the other thread now LMAO
[Fascinate General] lilmoney30:
Has anyone found the white battery door yet? Best buy sells the white Samsung Fascinate, and I was just wondering was the white door out there somewhere.

My Phone is Fascinating :-)
[Fascinate General] dangerismymiddlename.com:
That would be so awesome!
[Fascinate General] Sherwood1:
You can buy it direct from verizon
[Fascinate General] lilmoney30:
Really? I haven't seen it?

Sent from my Motorola Bag Phone
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] Phoenix the II:
Hi everyone,

I want to give out an alert to whomever thinks of buying subscriptions out of the upgrade section of the HTC Locations app.

The subscription "Traffic information" is NOT working. At least you expect traffic information to light up on the map, like Google Navigation does. But it doesn't the only thing that mentions something about traffic is the "Car Panel" settings. But thats only about when it should update the traffic info. Thus making traffic information totally useless.

Yet another expectation is that it should reroute your route to avoid traffic jams with this. It fails to do this either.

So my conclusion is you're buying vaporware here.

Support on this product is unbelievably bad. There is NO manual in the HTC Desire HD, Nor does Route 66 deliver instructions on how to use this crap piece of software that they call premium navigation.

HTC Support POV:

"Sorry, the locations app is build by a third party than HTC, namely Route 66. Please contact them for support on this.".

I can confirm this because whatever you buy from the locations app is processed and credited from Route 66.

So I went and call Route 66:

"Sorry, but the application is provided by HTC on your phone. We have nothing to do with this. The order you say is processed by us isn't ours. Please contact HTC for support on your purchase. *Hangs up phone*"

So Route 66 doesn't want to refund my purchase, in which they obviously got paid by me.

So my advice:

Don't buy anything from this scam!
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] funfair:
Good to know... but isn't there some kind of trial option?
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] Phoenix the II:
Nope, there isn't anything.

You just hand over your money, and they not even thank you for that....
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] Dvdm1:
I believe that there is a trial-period of 30 days.
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] danielpetrovic:
Which country are you from, maybe they just don't have traffic coverage in your country? Haven't checked if it states for which countries it should work.

The trial only is for the navigation itself, but not for the extra services like traffic info and speed cameras.

Any of you tested that?
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] Phoenix the II:
Trial period of voice guided turn by turn navigation, not the speed cams (this one works unlike the traffic one) nor traffic information

Im from The Netherlands.
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] kingkeld:
Why would you need to know info on the speed cams anyways? Wouldn't it be much easier to just follow the traffic rules like you're supposed to? :)
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] appelflap:
You don't want to get punished when you are in a traffic jam and are driving too slow. So when there's a speed cam, you take the emergency lane and pass the trafic jam with full speed.

Just a different interpretation of rules :)
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] Phoenix the II:
I got a suzuki swift 1L, and love speeding... :p

Oh wait, I can't even...

Nah, I just wanted to test speed cams. :)
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] Planescape:
Anyone know if when the trial period expires does standard navigation kick in?
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] YumYumHD:
When the month worldwide trial period is over, the only thing that changes is that you don't have spoken directions anymore. The maps and soundless navigation stays free.
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] dazultra2000:
OK confusing situation here...

I got my first DHD on the 18th October and activated the trial for navigation on that day.

I returned that phone to the store 1 week later (25th Oct) and had it replaced with a new handset.

Last Wednesday (10th Nov) I actually needed to use the premium navigation, so assuming I was still in my 30 days trial (which I was) I went to use it. It had to search for my license and it took a few seconds, but it activated fine.

I decided that I'd try out the speed cameras and traffic to see if it was any good. I couldn't buy the traffic as I just got a blank page, but I went and bought 30 days of speed cameras. However, nothing appeared to download to the phone. I carried on anyway.

However, the cameras were not displayed. When I went through some average speed areas, it would bring up a red bar indicating I was in a speed controlled area, but it gave no indication to speed, distance, or anything!

I figured it had just not downloaded it, but when I went to check, it said my licence for both the Navigation and Cameras was due to expire on October 12th (before I even got my first handset!)

The Navigation was still working, but I didn't think the cameras were.

It's totally bizarre.

Indeed today, if I look at the "Upgrade" menu in the Locations app, at the very top it says:

Navigation

Worldwide

Expires 12/10/2010

Safety Cameras

United Kingdom and Ireland

Expires 12/10/2010

What's going on?!
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] AnvarSilver:
Are you sure it's not US dates, they put the month before the day, so that date would be December 12th.
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] AnvarSilver:
Just checked mine, it says 12/9, so I'm sure it's month then day
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] dazultra2000:
Ok that might make some kind of sense, and would seem to suggest that the 30 day trial is linked to IMEI rather than a particular account.

Can anyone confirm how safety cameras are working for them? Can you see them on the map? Do you get alerted before going through them?
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] Heffu:
Registering 30 day trial?

Anyone else having problems with the 30 day trial than me and few other finns?

When starting to use the Premium Navigation its checking for licence and the shows installed maps, voices etc.

But when returning to navigation software gives a menu where are options to Buy, use a coupon or syncing licence.

Ive tried many times to sync the licence but there is no change to the navigation and it asks to buy etc. all the time.

I think the problem is same with Desire HD and Z here in Finland?

Other finns to comment this?
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] mjl_79:
Same here..
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] mjl_79:
Problem solved, I bought Premium Navigation with Speedcams for Nordic countries. Now it works.. I don't know trial license wont work.
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] khakala:
I have also problem with 30 days trial in Finland :(

Sent from my Desire HD
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] kulantimba:
I have the same problem as mjl_79 and others, the trial wont work:mad:
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] abrasive:
Same here... But the support for Nordic countries are, when it comes to navigation, generally bad.
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] andreasy:
Well, if we know that this is their behaviour to customers, then whatever the case, nobody should buy until they learn how to treat their customers. These are the mistakes we all make and then we make them powerful and when needed, we can't defeat them for our right.
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] Wil-j:
Would it be possible to skip the Premium Navigation trial perioid somehow and go straight to the post-trial phase where you lose the voice guidance? In Finland the trial apparently won't work at all and I don't want to buy the navigation just for the voice guide.
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] superdaddy:
Well im in england and the trial will not work for me either.
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] 0l-ROB-l0:
Ok, I can confirm that all subscriptions are linked to the specific phone by IMEI no.

I know this as I've been fighting HTC and Route 66 to get my navigation back after I returned my DZ for a DHD. I purchased premium navigation on the DZ but don't get anything on the DHD.

In order to transfer/migrate your subscriptions between handsets you need to provide both old and new IMEI no. to Route 66.

If I'd know that earlier I'd have copied down the IMEI for the DZ before I sent it back! And to add insult to injury Handtec don't keep IMEI records. Aggggg.

So if you find your free subscriptions are already started it may mean someone had the phone before you!
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] Flacid Monkey:
Free trial not working here either!

I've got the United Kingdom and Ireland maps but im stuck on the tiny island inbetween.

Keeps forcing me to pay.

Used google nav before, other than the stupid sounding woman i'd say it was excellent! Especially with the satellite photo's on and a 3g connection.

:)
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] jwre:
Traffic Subscription does not work

Hi

I purchases the premium navigation with the camera subscription.

However when I click on the traffic subscription icon the page says loading or goes blank and nothing further happens.

Have soft rebooted phone and cleared cache, still I am not able to purchase the traffic subscription.

Can anyone please help? Many thanks.
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] ratykat:
I've not had much chance to see how the locations works, but there is an option under gps to activate google navi through locations. Would this stop using 3G?

Basically the deal clincher for me was locally stored maps under the illusion that you could then use google navi without 3g (apart from possibly directions)

Is the only way to get turn by turn navigation without 3g to pay for it? I couldnt get the trial to work :(
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] dr.m0x:
Traffic is broken. I'm hoping it can be fixed in the future.

Sent from my Desire HD
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] technodad:
Premium navigation

Hi,

Can some one tell me how to remove this premium navigation from my desire HD?

It take's about 2 gig on sd card, and i never use it!

Thanks for helping me if you know how to do that :)

Greetsz

Mark
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] dazultra2000:
Open Locations

Select "Show on map" (top option)

Press Menu

Select "Get More"

On the "My licenses & content" tab (first tab) you can press the trashcan icon to delete any installed content and free up the space.
[Desire HD Themes and Apps] ajayverma999:
Brut Google Maps 4.6.0.4686-brut17 NOt working on desire hd

Brut Google Maps 4.6.0.4686-brut17 .

hangs after install . Previous version works like charm..
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spacecasespiff:
Is there a way to use metamorph or ninjamorph to change the battery icon in the notification bar. I've done it before but that was a while ago.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] creator2456:
This is not the Q&A board.

A simple search of this board will get your answer.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Insomaniac10:
for crying out loud its still the theme forum, leave him alone....lighten up on each other honestly, friggen search police
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spacecasespiff:
OK so I put it on the wrong forum oops. There are a lot of people with questions on this forum. I thought it would be better answered if it were on this forum since I'm asking about something that can only be done on a rooted phone. I did do some searching but did not find much not saying that there isn't anything just didn't find it.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spacecasespiff:
Thank you. I just thought that it had something to do with customizeing the phone.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Insomaniac10:
youre fine, dont let wannabe searchsearchsearch mods get to you, people do ask questions all the time in EVERY section, and your question is perfectly relevant to theming. Q&A forum is more of a safe secondary option for people who dont know where to post

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you may be able to actually change the .png through ninja morph but you wont be able to apply it. Ninja morph is a good concept, but until there is the option to sign through it, realistically it creates more steps than it eliminates.

With that said you can alter a Metamorph theme (thats what i do), just go to your theme that you use in /sdcard/Android Themes, and find the image/s that you want to edit, then just reapply the theme.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spacecasespiff:
I'm sorry to ask you this but I'm a big time noob when it comes to this stuff. So it it easier to go that way or just flash it?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Insomaniac10:
depends. if something you like is already in flashable format, and its compatible with your firmware/ROM, that would obviously be the best way to go. But if you have decent image editing software (GIMP), its not all that hard to access your sdcard from your pc and just edit a few .png files within a theme and then reapply the theme. Sometimes it can be a hassle to figure exactly which image you are supposed to edit to get the result youre looking for.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spacecasespiff:
I'm looking at the battery icons in a thread just a few down from this one. Those I think a flashable. I'm running on the stock rom.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tonyfausto:
You can find about 7 different battery icons using the gst app. All you do its download the icon you want and put it on the root of your sd card. Then use rom manager to boot into clockwork mod recovery and select the apply zip from sd option. The battery icon will show up on there.just click it and that's it.pretty easy huh
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spacecasespiff:
Can I still do that on my modified notification bar. I'm using the clear with the modified icons that I got from one of the threads on this forum.