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[Windows Phone 7 General] The Gate Keeper:
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1. good to know, i didn't know this and hopefully MS will improve on it as they threw it together pretty quick, but who knows... doesn't zune detect the files on NAS though? mine does (well videos anyways, and i've got all sorts of videos formats which all worked), maybe try the k-lite codec pack and see if zune will pick it up then?

2. cool! i'm still getting use to zune myself. i found that if you try and sync an item, and then decide not to sync, there isn't any easy way to just clear it from queue. what you have to do is goto the device, then to sync groups, and remove it from there... bit od, but worked it out.

3. the hissing is most likely hardware related not software related. it is possible that the software could be outputting something to check if it's alive, but i think it's more hardware related.

4. same as 3, i don't believe this is OS related but more hardware related. best thing to do is ask to borrow someone's samsung/LG phone and see if you experience the same?

5. screen tearing? would be hardware as well... i have a HTC trophy which was the phone to show all these screen defects, but luckily i haven't noticed it with mine.

6. gapless playback, that is OS related... and yea they should implement this. Some were saying that it could be to do with the i3 tags? Could you try something for me? try ripping a cd using zune and then see if it plays gapless on zune, if it does, sync it to the phone and see if it's gapless. note though that cross fade (start playing just before the end of the previous sone) isn't available from what i've read.
[Windows Phone 7 General] NRGZ28:
What is a shame is the fact that you're returning the phone because of #6. Are you friggin kidding me ? Wow...
[Windows Phone 7 General] StevieBallz:
He's using the Connector for Mac instead of the Windows based Zune client. The Connector for Mac is still Beta if I recall correctly so issues like this are gonna get solved eventually I guess.
[Windows Phone 7 General] harsaphes:
Basically your complaining about software issues or using a phone as a music player.

Im on my third day of using HD7 all day long and have no problems with it at all.

Zune loaded all my photos and music.

Have not had any screen problems, that could be your one hardware problem.

Sound is fine, though could be louder

No LED alert for notifications. My one complaint.

Everything runs smooth and fast.

I have to say its a nice piece of hardware.
[Windows Phone 7 General] DaveyBoy72:
For someone who uses their phone primarily as a music player (why carry two things in your pocket), no, I am not kidding you. I could go on all day how iPod/iPhones work with this without problems, but we'd be covering old ground.

Also, it's not just live/DJ mix albums that are gapless these days. I don't know if you listen to a lot of continuous albums, but having a 1 or 2 second gap in a seamless DJ mix kind of defeats the object. It works on the Zune players (and iDevice), so why not on WP7?

To those who suggested using Zune PC to rip new files. I'm on a Mac, so at the moment the Zune software isn't available. I will try a 3rd party ripper though, which might give a different outcome to iTunes. I did try .M4A and .MP3 files from iTunes, but got the same result.

With regard to Connector for Mac, the external drive problem is being looked at and will hopefully be fixed when it moves from a beta release.

Unfortunately I don't know anyone else with a WP7 device, but will try another HD7 in the shop to see if the call interference is there. As mentioned, the earphones act as an antenna for the radio, so maybe it is this that is causing it. After digging around, I've found the screen tearing may be a driver fault and not the hardware itself.

One other minor (good) quirk, is that my Shure iPhone MPA remote/mic partially works with the HD7. It can only stop/start music, but a bonus nonetheless.
[Windows Phone 7 General] panflute:
New phone

It's interesting each time a new or updated OS and phone comes out we don't really know what to expect or what the limits of the device will be. I went thru this last year (and every other previous year) with Win 6.5 on my Dash 3G. In the end I managed to get 100+ apps installed and the phone did everything except my laundry. I have a good feeling about WP7 (and my HTC Surround)....I've only had it 3 days and I've customized it, I see more (free) apps every day, and I will bet anyone MS will be implementing a lot of tweaks and new features i.e. spending a lot of money to insure these phones will compete with the others. We are all tweakers here and we want to push the limits..a little patience may be necessary.....it's only 3 days old :p
[Windows Phone 7 General] lip:
Is your music DRM? With the Zune HD gapless works great as long as it's not with DRM so with my zune pass everything from the pass fails at gapless but works fine with the music I brought to the table without drm
[Windows Phone 7 General] arturobandini:
Why don't you support this idea on the WP7 wish list here ;)

http://windowsphone7community.userv...ral/topics/85023-i-suggest-you-/filter/recent
[Windows Phone 7 General] DaveyBoy72:
Done.

None of my music is DRM as I've only ever downloaded 2 tracks in the last 5 years in iTunes.

Most of my music is from CD rips, with the occasional BitTorrent download.

I've still not had a chance to check another HD7 to see if it also produces feedback through the earphones. Has anyone else with an FM radio equiped handset ever had the same thing happen?
[Windows Phone 7 General] jz9833:
honestly I was shocked at the quality of calls on my HD7. I wouldn't call it decent, I'd call it excellent.
[Windows Phone 7 General] The Gate Keeper:
is that coming from an ex-iphone user? :P
[Windows Phone 7 General] xma1e:
There are many problems with Wp7, but people have to remember this is a 1st release and only a couple of weeks old. I've had mine for 3 weeks and dispite the shortcuming it's my best phone yet.

I've only had the screen flicker problem once in Zune.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Aturayd:
When you say gapless are you talking nearly instant vs absolutely instant or 2 seconds vs nearly instant/absolutely instant?

I have a few albums, some Linkin Park ones in particular that are compiled as a continuous album and i tried it first on the PC zune player. the transition was instantaneous. Then i synced the same tracks to my HTC Surround and played a few and there was about a tenth of a second skip before the next song started. Is that what you are talking about?
[Windows Phone 7 General] DaveyBoy72:
*Update*

I've made some progress with the HD7.

1. Finally got Connector for Mac to work properly. It now mirrors any changes in iTunes (eg adding media, playlists, etc) and accesses my NAS no problem. It also syncs ok. Previously I had to use the iTunes library on a local drive, but now it works with the NAS. I had to do a fresh install of iTunes, but it seems to be working now.

2. I've not had any further screen tearing issues. There were a few updates to the HTC apps/front end showing up, so I installed them. Not sure if this has fixed it, or whether I've just been lucky.

3. Gapless playback - Hopefully MS will implement this in the next OS update. I take gapless to mean totally seamless. At the moment, I get gaps of 1-2 seconds at least. Obviously on shuffle or with a regular album it's not a problem, but with an album like Radio Soulwax by 2manyDJs (45 tracks in 60 minutes), it's kind of annoying.

4. The interference! I'm going back to O2 at lunchtime today to try another handset (providing they have one). Still getting that noise when using earphones (my Denon or the supplied headset) and this is noticable with calls, when listening to Zune or the radio, and even when there is no music playing.

Do any other HD7 (or Desire HD) users have this problem??

Note: This is ONLY when using the headphones.

Thanks.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Aturayd:
I don't know how you are getting such a long delay in between tracks.. Its barely a split second between mine. Not even close to 1-2 seconds.
[Windows Phone 7 General] DaveyBoy72:
Further update.

Popped into O2 at lunchtime. The guy knew exactly what I was talking about when I mentioned this interefence noise, and said they'd had a few others with the same problem.

Anyway, swapped the phone and gave the new one a try in the shop. This worked fine, so hopefully it was just a one-off for me.

Re: Gapless - I was probably exaggerating with the 1-2 seconds, but it's around 0.5-1 second. There's no click and chageover, it's a definite gap.
[Windows Phone 7 General] efjay:
I continue to wonder why HTC is regarded as being a top hardware maker, here is yet another indication they are anything but.
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
Yes, actually they look like a quite faulty hardware maker...

Software is definitely better from HTC.
[Windows Phone 7 General] The Gate Keeper:
i haven't had a bad run with HTC, but I would have easily swapped to samsung (omnia 7) if the carriers here really made it worth while...
[Windows Phone 7 General] BazzerBazzer:
Are Microsoft following were they use to lead?

Sad to say they are. Had a Jornada 650 micro computer many years ago and two Acer N 50 and n35 handhelds. Then phone’s HTC C500, TYTNII, and now a htc Touch HD. All very programmable. All using Windows CE operating system that is a mini version of NT4. Very powerful.

You can blame Apple for all of this. Microsoft gave us very programmable operating system. Apple come along and tie everyone into pay the earth mini apps and wow betide you if you change anything we will lock you out. and inferior music players that sound rubbish. Low sampling rates.

People went for nice design and pay the earth for everything. Now Microsoft are following were they use to lead. I have been offered a very good price on a Orange Mozart. After reading the warnings might buy it and trade in Mozart+Touch HD for the final programmable CE phone HD2.

Thanks for the warnings.
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
I don't know how it was in Europe but here in America people were clambering for a smartphone that actually worked. Until the iPhone came along, we all were tied to pure crap. There was no capacitive touchscreen goodness until the iPhone. There was no proximity sensor or G-sensor before the iPhone. All we had was hashed together, cheap-ass, low res (320x240-PPC & 160x160 + eventually 320x320 Palm) displays. The reason the iPhone is such a success was because every other smartphone maker ONLY wanted to skimp and NOT give the public genuine reliability, quality and innovation. The public had enough of the unreliable crap they were dished. Apple gave us all something, at that time, was true and honest quality and reliability. Times have changed and the iPhone hasn't. Apple needs to get with the times and stay ahead with change to remain a leader.

I was there when the iPhone came out. I know exactly how I felt about the offerings prior to the iPhone. I was like everyone else, I snatched an iPhone up and was finally pleased with a real smartphone. Something that wasn't no hashed together, cheap-as-hell low-cost-to-make, high-cost-to-buy smartphone. We all just wanted something genuine and real. We couldn't even think about customizing yet because we needed something worthy. Now, however, we are filled up with all the goodness that has come about because of the iPhone and everyone is offering decent, high quality handsets now. Even Palm has finally put out a decent product with the WebOS. But it took them to be in survival mode before they put it out.

The whole current smartphone industry owes Apple for what there is.
[Windows Phone 7 General] amb9800:
For me the biggest problem by far with the HD7 itself (ignoring OS issues) has been the buttons. The power, volume, and camera buttons are recessed and difficult to press.

The power button is difficult to catch, so often I discover the phone's on in my pocket because I unsuccessfully tried to turn it off before slipping it in there.

The camera's almost useless because you have to press so hard for so long on the button-- not only can no one else take photos with it (in NYC yesterday, I had to have 5 different people try to take a photo of a friend and I before I ended up with one that wasn't completely blurry), but even I myself have had problems (not to mention it takes so darn long to take a photo).

The volume rocker has a slight gap between the faceplate button plastic and the actual button mechanism underneath, so if you tap lightly or shake the phone, you can feel/hear a little rattle. Very cheap-feeling.

I've examined four HD7s now besides my own, so these are design issues. The phone looks fancier than the HD2, but HTC seems to have sacrificed things along the way (the HD2 is much more solidly built).
[G2 and Desire Z General] amack10:
ive tried using fastboot to oc and to do the cyan bacon bits recovery. adb recognizes my device but not fastboot. i will power down and hold volume down and power. i then select fastboot. i plug in my cable and open a cmd promtp. i cd \users\name\desktop\sdk\tools. ive tried both fastboot flash recovery and fastboot flash zimage and it says waiting for device. i turn my phone on along with usb debugging. cmd promt again adb devices and lists it. then fastboor reboot bootloader. waiting on device
[G2 and Desire Z General] Shambala001:
when in fastboot on your phone, on device manager (windows) it should say android bootloader, does it?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tarheel:
I am using a jawbone earpiece that worked fine with my TP2 now when trying to answer a call it disconnects or ends the call when I press the answer button it will only work when I answer using the phone. Defeats the purpose of BT when phone is in my pocket

any help is much appreciated
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kelsusit:
Hi I own an Omnia 7 and also own a iphone 4. I am loving my Omnia 7 but there is one thing really bugging me. I have email accounts sync and on my iphone 4 I notice on sync all sent items (sent outside of the phone) are downloaded.

I have sync'd my gmail account and inbox is fine, but when I go into the sent folder and sync nothing happens! Is this a wp7 bug or an issue with my phone? I assumed it would download all my sent emails from my account from the last two weeks but sent items inbox is empty.

Just signed up to xda but have read this forums for years but registered in the hope someone out there can help me!

many thanks in advance.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The Gate Keeper:
i can't speak for gmail, but with my hotmail account, after "show all folders" and viewing the sent items folder, then selecting sync this folder, i was able to get it to sync fine. all the way back to emails from may.

do you have a hotmail account you could check against? is it just gmail?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrroey:
this is happening to my gmail as well. I am using an hd7.

most inboxes load but the "sent" and "outbox" folders do not sync.

One way I found around this was to sync the "all mail" folder. This will allow me to see both inbox and sent mail. however, it also shows mail in the trash

If anybody has any insight into this issue please advise. thanks
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zulu208:
You do the same w/ gmail and it will sync the outbox folder.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kelsusit:
Thanks for responses and glad to hear I am not the only one. Its doing it for hotmail and gmail. Just tried suggestion by @mrroey and no joy. Its a very strange issue. I assumed it would download all my sent emails from last two weeks but not working only showing sent emails that were sent from the device itself. Anyone else getting this?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rwhiteside:
I had this same problem with Windows Mobile. Gmail puts sent mail in the "sent mail" folder. The name of the folder in Outlook is "sent items". Since the names do not match the folders do not sync as you would expect. With WinMo I just added "sent mail" as a synced folder. "sent mail" does not appear in the folders list for WP7.

Workaround: Go to settings in the Gmail web client. Create a new filter in the filters tab. Enter your email address in the from box. Click next. Check "Apply the label". Choose "sent items" from the drop down list or create the label if it doesn't exist.

Optional: Check "Apply to the conversation below"

Click Finish

This works perfectly for me.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] N8ter:
Google uses a whacked out version of ActiveSync. It's not the Official ActiveSync that Microsoft uses for Exchange/Windows Live, AFAIK.

So there are some issues with it that may pop up.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrroey:
thanks! creating labels seemed to fix the problem. great workaround.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] N@vX:
Works OK on my HD7 many thanks!
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vortexela:
If you don't require push email then you can just set up gmail using IMAP. You should be able to sync any folders using that method.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] evo4gfan:
So what is the different between a nandroid backup and a backup using titanium backup? What is being saved with either? I hear using titanium back up is a "full" backup. What is titanium backup used for if you are already rooted...wouldn't you already have a custom recovery like amon ra or cwm?

If I do a nandroid back up on stock 2.2 rooted, can i do the same back up while I'm on a custom ROM? Where is this "backup" being saved to? Can i have multiple backups for different ROMS?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] themassofthesun:
Nandroid is more like creating an image backup of your operating system, it backs up both your rom and apps. Titanium just backups app, their data and if you choose system settings.

Swyped from my EVO running CyanogenMod 6.1 RC 1
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] evo4gfan:
In what situation would i use titanium back up with a rooted evo?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ruben1221:
Titanium backs up your app and data from your phone. I am rooted and I use it when I need it, when I want to re install apps when I switch roms.

Using my HTC Evo phone which I'm using Xda app to post
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] honeyBfly:
Think of Nandroid Backup as a system restore point you would create on your PC and if for some reason you installed something on your PC and it makes your PC unstable, you can do a system restore and go back to when your PC was acting perfectly. (So for your EVO...you create a nandroid...messed around with your phone and screw everything up...Power up into bootloader (or reboot into recovery)...go into recovery and restore your nandroid backup)

Titanium is for you to back everything to your SD card right before you decide to WIPE DATA, CACHE & DALVIK/CACHE to flash a NEW ROM. After you flash the NEW ROM...your phone will be like a new phone you just received out of box...you have to set everything up on it. So instead of spending hours, you swill only spend a few minutes doing everything. 1st and foremost, sign back into Google Market, download Titanium and tell it to restore all apps...data, etc. Not sure if Titanium backups home and system stuff, I use Mybackup Pro and it does...it has everything configured the way I originally had it on the previous ROM...all I do is set up all my POP mail accounts and sign back into Twitter...Facebook...etc.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] evo4gfan:
okay that makes sense. So whenever i flash a new rom, do I need to download titanium back (or MybackupPro) again on the new rom to get the data back? I can't locate the saved file from my sd card?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] themassofthesun:
Yes

Swyped from my EVO running CyanogenMod 6.1 RC 1
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChristopherBurg:
I use Titanium Backup for backing up data and restoring it on a new ROM a lot. Before I flash a new ROM I always do a complete Titanium Backup and a nandroid backup. If the flash fails I restore from my nandroid backup and if the flash works I load my apps back with Titanium Backup (that way all my saved data on things like games is there and I don't have to start over).

I will caution against doing a restore of everything on a new ROM though (mostly a problem if you're going from something like a stock Evo based ROM to a AOSP ROM). I've had some issues when I restored a few system files (accounts database for example). If you stick with installable applications you shouldn't run into any trouble though (also I've had no problems restoring my call log and text message database).
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 4redstars:
When you are in Titanium Backup, when you hit menu and select more you can create a flashable .zip so that after flashing a new rom or resetting the device you don't have to log into the market to reinstall. Makes life a lot easier.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ChristopherBurg:
I didn't know that, thanks for the tip.
[Vibrant General] sunsguy:
I love the genie widget but I can't get it to with on any of the vibrant 2.2 roms. Does anyone here have a working apk for 2.2 vibrant?? I've searched all over but all I can find is the same one I've been using since my g1.

Thanks
[Vibrant General] wannagofast:
Ya the one I was using on eclair FC on froyo. So, I found one that works last night. No problems all day today...even auto finding my location.
[Vibrant General] sunsguy:
Thx. I'll check it out
[Vibrant General] sunsguy:
How did you install it. At 1st I got cannot install so I used root explorer to put it in system apps. That let me install, but all I get is fc when I try to use it
[Vibrant General] wannagofast:
I used Root exp. Try rebooting your phone and see if that works. What way did you try installing the first time before root exp?
[Vibrant General] sunsguy:
Thanks for your help but I can't seem to get it to work. I usually install directly from the download file in astro. I then tried using root explorer.

Thanks for the help though
[Vibrant General] demo23019:
This works fine with 2.2 just install normal
[Vibrant General] sunsguy:
BOOMSHAKALAKA! That worked. Thanks demo
[Vibrant General] aperezny:
Thank you thank you thank you!

I was looking for this too.

Good job Demo
[Vibrant General] lexluthor:
Is this the version of the program that brings up news stories in the program itself or does this version just display the headlines and opens the stories in the browser?
[Vibrant General] kolyan:
I posted a link to smoked glass geneiwidget in apps if interested. Looks better. It has about 70% transparency
[Vibrant General] renster721:
thanks so much!
[Vibrant General] Emama:
anyone has a no background one? (complete transparent)
[Vibrant General] krazie1:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=9213757

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=719425&page=2

look on these page's and i believe you shall find what your looking for. =D

Edit: or this one which i believe is transparent http://db.tt/f7X6c4u
[Vibrant General] giodelgado:
This one worked perfectly for me, no need to push, just install like any other app.
[Vibrant General] BreakTheLaw:
Lololol

He's on fireeeeeee
[Vibrant General] dougstoner:
he's heating up. Oh man, I used to love that game.
[Vibrant General] BreakTheLaw:
From loonngggg distanceeeee

Ugly shot!
[Vibrant General] oka1:
Thanks for posting this
[Vibrant General] sunsguy:
The new NBA Jam is just about as good :D i got it on the PS3
[Vibrant General] BreakTheLaw:
Wait. What??????

I want it
[Vibrant General] BuzaG:
Yeah, BOOMSHAKALAKA! :):)

Thank you, demo.

SGS-i9000, 2.2.1
[Vibrant General] alessa:
thank you, it runs lg Optimus X2