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[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ronjeremy11:
I've had the blurry browser srolling on all my Google phones. Its more noticeable if you've used an iPhone for a while then used a Google phone for a while. Just go to this forum, and look at the arrows pointing right and the icons especially the envelopes to the left of the thread titles. Now slowly scroll, you'll notice the envelopes almost blinking, and the lines become jagged off and on. So when you scroll normally theres a subtle choppiness. But really its only annoying because iPhones don't do it they are smooth, I thinking its the gpu acceleration which we should have shortly. Android hadn't said why they have put off gpu acc so long. Or maqybe they have but I don't know about it. As far as sunlight it could he better but coming from a nexus I would say the vibrant is indeed a treat
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Joshochoa187:
I hope this isn't too off topic. I've over clocked and lag fixed my vibrant, I'm trying to show up this guy at my job that has iphone4 how do you run a benchmark test on iphone so we can compare? I'm at 1700 benchmark right now
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PaiPiePia:
There's linpack for iPhone, but it isn't made by the same company, so I am not sure how *valid* the comparison would be. There isn't really any universal benchmarking tools that exists on both platforms. So you are SOL at the moment.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kil43:
Dunno why this turned into a iphone vs galaxy s post but here is a link for an unbiased view on both of these phones screens (scroll to bottom);

http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i9000_galaxy_s_vs_apple_iphone_4-review-500p3.php
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wendellc:
Most people won't be able to tell the difference in my opinion. Now if you are blowing up pics and text you will probably will see the difference. The super amoled blew me away the first time I saw avatar on it, Iphone can't do that.
[Droid 2 General] mikeyinid:
I just got my droid 2 in the mail today and I'm disappointed, to say the least...first off I'm comin over from tmobile where I've had nearly every phone they have released over the last 2 years. The first thing I thought when I booted this droid 2 was how familiar evrything looked. Then I realized they put motoblur on it(boo!). So I feel like I'm using a moto cliq again...I thought that since this thing has a 1 ghz processor it would run a lot smoother than the cliq, but that has not been the case. It takes almost 10 seconds for the camera to open which is unacceptable. It hangs up doing the simplest things, such as opening and closing the app drawer. I planned on getting the droid x, but after reading several side by side comparisons, I decided on the 2. I hate to say this but I'm really thinking I made the wrong choice. I believe this to be a nice piece of hardware, just not right for me....

Anyone have any suggestions to make my experience better? I'm open to rooting but only if there is a 100% fully functional rom out there...my last tmobile phone is a vibrant and I don't know if you guys are aware of what's gone on over in those threads the last few days, but its been interesting to say the least :)
[Droid 2 General] ksizzle9:
I would have to say....take it back and get the fascinate
[Droid 2 General] boborone:
What happened? I heard ebait8 had a hoax, no clue what of. You guys got the official 2.2 leak. Bunch of threads got closed. What happened?

From a phone on an app
[Droid 2 General] mikeyinid:
Hoax...not sure. But there was suddenly a fully functioning 2.2 rom. Its very nice. Working everything. Takes the vibrant to the next level...I wanted to get away from tmobile for a while and as SOON as I commited to verizon, BAM!! But I have 30 days to send this phone back. I probably will. I installed launcherpro and its very smooth, but I don't like to use a 3rd party app to make my phone work the way I think it should...my vibrant is a trooper...
[Droid 2 General] newk8600:
There are a few great ROM's floating around here that are waaaaay better than stock. I'm running Fission (I really like it!) right now but There's a new one by Matt4542 coming soon that's supposed to be AOSP so check 'em out and flash a few and see if you like it with overclock before you take it back.
[Droid 2 General] mikeyinid:
Sweet! I'm pretty sure that this thing would be a beast overclocked to 1.2! And I remember that its the dam blur launcher that lags, and its dumb! Does wireless tether work on this thing if you root? Without paying the 2o to verizon?...
[Droid 2 General] mikeyinid:
Is the internal memory on this thing read only? When I hook up to my computer I can open the external and transfer files but only look at the internal...or am I missing something?
[Droid 2 General] newk8600:
Um not sure I can't remember what it's like to not be rooted. lol.

I think you either need to be rooted or use ADB.

As for launcher's I've heard good things about LauncherPro but I use ADW. and Home switcher to set my choice to default (so the home soft key doesn't go back to stock.

You can wireless tether for free but as of yet the only infrastructure mode (as opposed to Ad-hoc) you can get is through the Verizon app but thankfully someone found out how to hack it. (check the Droid 2 Information Directory in Android Development for the D2)
[Droid 2 General] mikeyinid:
Hey guys, so I rooted and bought one of those overclocking apps from the market. I know that quads and linpack mean nothin to some people, but I like to use them to gauge my own phones performance. I overclocked to 1.2 and my benchmark went from 865 ms to 675. My linpack is almost 17. But, my quads are down to 800! What the hell is that about? Are those overclock apps just crap?

*EDIT: I rebooted and ran a quad...1627! thats what im talkin about! and i didnt even flash a rom or a kernel. My issue now is the internal memory is still read only. How do i fix that? Can it be fixed?
[Droid 2 General] Androidnite:
Can you at least read data with apps such as Gallery and Astro File Manager? On my Droid Incredible I can copy pictures and ringtones from my computer directly to the internal memory (emmc), but with the Droid 2 I can only mount the SD Card. This is kinda annoying...I've been searching old threads but haven't found an answer. :(
[Droid 2 General] mikeyinid:
I can move them between internal and external sd, but that's a freakin headache. On my vibrant when I mount sd to computer, I get two windows that open and I can transfer directly to internal from pc. I can't believe they (motorola) really give you 8 gigs for apps only. Everything is saved to external by default. Except apps.
[Droid 2 General] Androidnite:
Are you serious??? Wow, I'm glad I decided to stay with the Dinc as my main phone. So do you use any particular app for moving stuff between internal and the SD card? Or you do it within an adb shell? I don't see the point of making the internal memory only available for apps...I would never need that many space for apps...I rather use it for music.
[Droid 2 General] mikeyinid:
I use root explorer personally. Just cus it gives me access to everything. I barely use 100mb for apps so I see no reason to have 8 gigs for apps.
[Droid 2 General] Androidnite:
Cool. I guess for now I'll just forget that I have internal memory in the phone. I'm looking into building my own AOSP ROM, so this is something definitely looking into fixing ;)
[Droid 2 General] mikeyinid:
That would be awesome....so I overclocked to 1.45 this morning just to see what my battery life would be like and I notice no difference. Im not buyin this overclock app works as advertised. If my minimum is 400 mhz, there would be more battery used when the phone is sleep. That has been the case with every other phone at least.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Charlie Brown:
Hi.

I come from a winmo background. And even though I have learned a lot the past three months with my android phone (Vibrant of course), I have a question I can not seem to find the answer for.

I want to increase the size limit for the phone's MMS.

For example in winmo I knew where to look. It was fairly straight forward and I could increase T-Mo's 300k setting to their max which is 1MB.

Then I was able to send and receive larger files.

Can anyone shed some light on this and point me in the right direction?

PS I searched but could not find anything relevant

THANKS~!
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] perdurabo2:
Anyone else experiencing this? I go between wifi for work and home, and wifi stops working when I do. When I go to the wifi settings, it shows Wifi as "scanning" and shows remember wifi networks, but no actual live networks. It pretty much happens every time I go between work and home and a soft reset or manually cycling wifi off and then on fixes it.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jOrOdee:
I get the same issue when connecting to 5G N network... it tries to connect the disconnects... I usually restart and it works fine...
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XfooYen:
This sometimes happens on my mt3g. Maybe a froyo issue and not a phone issue.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] perdurabo2:
Wow, I think you may have hit the nail on the head. At home, I am 5ghz N only, and at work, I connect to 5ghz N half the time, and 2.4ghz N the other half.

Where would I submit the bug for this? HTC? I can gather up enough technical data for a good ticket.
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
The more I think about this the more incredulous I becaome. My new HTC HD7 with WP7 has no free GPS navigation. And there is no app on the Market other than the paid apps that require a monthly fee. Every smartphone in existence these days has free turn by turn nav. Google provides it free with it built into Google Search and my HD2 had Bing search with it built in. But WP7 does not. I cannot fathom how Microsoft can even have a spark of a thought of competing in this industry without providing something all of the others give away free.

The HD7 has Bing search, but it doesn't have nav built in. You can go to the Marketplace and type in Bing search, Bing Maps, Bing nav and get nothing but albums, songs and playlists. You can manually search the specific categories like "Navigation" or "Travel" or "Tools" and not find anything.

I've scratched a bald spot on my head over this nonsense.
[Windows Phone 7 General] ericc191:
I do believe Google Maps is on the way to WP7.
[Windows Phone 7 General] The Gate Keeper:
App list... "Maps"...

I have turn by turn directions fine. Only short fall is that it's not live navigation (as in it's not a GPS unit), merely just from current location (or point A) to point B. It works good for me to know how to get there, though i would like to see it actually as a proper GPS unit.
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
I hope it will get here within 15 days, because that's the amount of time I have to return this HD7.

I doubt, even if there are a dozen apps for free turn by turn nav on the horizon, that I will keep this phone or ever buy into WP7 because for Microsoft to not have it already built in and ready to go nor have it available on the Market is a bad sign of how hard headed and conservative they will be with WP7.

Without this common feature, they have zero right ever thinking they can compete. Yet they dare to build a mobile OS from the ground up and handicap it and still expect people to buy it over Android or iOS or any of the other more feature laden mobile OSs available out there.

Good friggin grief! What are they thinking??? Are people at MS that ignorant?? Surely not.
[Windows Phone 7 General] The Gate Keeper:
maybe you should try and ask on twitter if they have a timeframe for this?
[Windows Phone 7 General] ericc191:
I think you're overreacting a bit. Google maps is pretty much the only free GPS solution on Android. Chime in if there's other options.

I bought CoPilot Live for Android

I bought TomTom for WM6.1

I'll buy the first GPS app that comes without a monthly fee on WP7.

No biggie to me.
[Windows Phone 7 General] PG2G:
Except for the most popular one...
[Windows Phone 7 General] rruffman:
Bing just within the last few months was turn by turn nav for win 6.xx so lets keep things in prespective here... there is normaly no FREE gps its called buy one..
[Windows Phone 7 General] Iridox:
This feature is rumored to drop in January with the OS update containing copy/paste functionality.
[Windows Phone 7 General] emuneee:
What's with the spoiled brat attitude. I don't think Microsoft owes you free turn by turn service. I'm sure there are alternatives in the market. Try those until hopefully Microsoft finds a solution, but drop the attitude lol

And as far as I know, Android is the only smartphone with free turn by turn (maybe Symbian with Ovi Maps?). Not WEBOS, not Blackberry, not iPhone, etc.
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
Bing had turn by turn nav before Google did. I've had my HD2 for almost a year now and Bing stated out without turn by turn but within a very short period listed the updated Bing app in the Marketplace with TbT. I teased a friend who hates MS and loves all things Android that WinMo was on the leading edge because they came out with TbT before Google did.

What floors me though is MS being so far behind the times with this supposed leading edge new mobile OS and they don't even try to make it a success right off the bat. How closed-off are they to the real world that they can't fathom common, everyday needs?
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
My nephew has a Palm Pixi (WebOS)...it has TbT nav. Any phone with Google Search has TbT. Google set the standard and now MS wants us to pay for something we can get for free elsewhere. That's rediculous for them to be so closed minded. Not only that, but MS had free TbT before Google did on the previous WinMo.
[Windows Phone 7 General] arturobandini:
It's a little bit surprising to see that WP7 was launched without any GPS navigation application available.

At the moment I still cannot ebay my HD2 just because of the absence of Google Maps and the absence of a real GPS software.
[Windows Phone 7 General] adesonic:
Did none of you read the specs or any reviews before making a considerable investment in a wp7 phone? If it is so much of a problem, return/sell your device and get an android phone or a pixie if that's what floats your boat.
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
I couldn't do it. I was going to return this HD7 because of the lack of TbT nav, and I got all the way to the store, but I just couldn't part with it. It is just too nice. MS has a mobile OS that, I believe, is the best in the world for user convenience and quality of operation. This is an OS that will make Steve Jobs jealous. Like a couple others posters said, and I did hear it, MS wants to be careful with this OS and make it the best it can be. And that means taking it slow and cautious about features. Making sure the system is top-notch. I think they achieved it. This OS oozes quality from every circuit.

Sitting there in my car waiting for the store to open, I kept playing around with this phone and the more I played with it, the more I couldn't part with it. Just a superb OS. What little it does, it does superbly.
[Windows Phone 7 General] markgamber:
Yep...it took a long time for turn by turn nav to appear on an iPhone, mostly because Jobs said it would never appear on an iPhone, and when it did it was expensive. So at least WP7 has the benefit of not having some blowhard CEO making big, bold statements that almost immediately turn out to be nonsense. I bought Navigon because it included the maps and there was no monthly fee but given the benefit of hindsight, AT&T's app would probably have been a better value. It's a monthly fee but if I need it a couple months a year, that's $20 a year. Navigon was $80. Will the iPhone last 4 years? Since I got a Focus yesterday, that would be a big NO.
[Windows Phone 7 General] mrmomoman:
Just be patient. you might get what you asked for a short time from now.
[Windows Phone 7 General] JEEtoP:
This is what I'm hearing as well.

That's what I feel Microsoft has to hang on to to really make this OS the success it can be. I would not want to jeopardise that user experience and that kind of feedback for anything, especially rushing in a could-be-better turn-by-turn nav app.

A little bit of patience and I'm sure we will all be rewarded.

If someone told me I had to wait 3 months for a free first-party turn-by-turn nav experience that worked as well as and was as simply brilliant as the mail app I would have zero problem waiting because well, it just is that good.
[Windows Phone 7 General] skycamefalling:
For me, GoogleMaps on Android was the first free realtime GPS Navigation software I've seen. And it's not 100% free and not reliable because you need data reception to use it and it's useless when you drive through a big city because it's just maps without caring about one-way streets, traffic and lane assistance.

I've used CoPilot on Android and iGo8 on WinMo and as far as I've heard, Navigon and CoPilot will come soon to WP7. So no real problem for me, I will wait for the first to come.
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
I used the Bing nav on my HD2 and found it to be amazingly accurate. It seemed to also account for traffic density. It leads me in the direction with the least amount of congestion and gets me there with ease. My nephew, who with one time when I used it, commented about how good it did.
[Windows Phone 7 General] skycamefalling:
Yeah, must be because Bing is fully functional in the US.

Here in Austria we don't even get address search :mad:

There's a lot of work to do for MS to make Bing Maps functional and accepted in Europe.
[Windows Phone 7 General] arturobandini:
Yes, +1.

Crazy that MS dares propose such a bad soft in Europe, where obviously it is totally inefficient.

No PoIs, and if you want PoIs you have to change the search language to English in the settings :mad:, but then of course Bing will search everything in English and will avoid non-English results.
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
Just so I don't open a new thread, I will post my concerns in this thread.

Some observations I'm seeing as I become more familiar with WP7:

The YouTube app is nothing more than a browser bookmark. You tap it and IE opens up to the YouTube webpage.

I can't seem to crop pictures for contacts. Tapping the 3 dots at the lower right pulls the circled checkmark up slightly to reveal the word "Crop" beneath it but tapping it only confirms the usage of the particular image, it doesn't allow for cropping it.

There doesn't appear to be a "Favorites" selection in the "People" tile. Sliding the widow sideways reveals "What's new", "Recent" and "All" but no "Favorites"
[Windows Phone 7 General] The Gate Keeper:
marty, i'm surprised you stuck with it, but good to have you still going.

i saw the youtube thing as well, check this out: http://wmpoweruser.com/a-new-youtube-client-for-wp7/ (don't mind all the ads on the site)

as for photo, not sure, hopefully MS fixes it up.

and favorites, i think they're expecting people to pin them to the start screen, but i do see your point of view for this as well.
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
LOL...yeah, I couldn't stand to part with it. The OS itself is first class and probably the best I've used yet, for quality and convenience. It just oozes elegance and quality from every circuit...lol

I will wait patiently for the features I desire to appear and hope WP7 will gain enough marketshare to interest more and more development.
[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
I think alot of the crybabies are forgetting that Google almost always doesn't implement voice-guided TbT directions for non-Android Platforms. That's why Bing on Windows Mobile 6.x was >>>>> Google Maps.

Bing can also direct you around tolls and away from trafic jams. There is nothing superior about Google Maps compared to Bing - nothing whatsoever.

Anyone who thinks so probably haven't even used it much, if at all. It's amazingly accurate and the way it is integrated into the search app is very convenient.

I think looking at a smartphone screen while driving is pretty dumb, IMO. I have a real GPS in my care and I almost never look at it unless I'm at a red light or stop sign. I rely on Voice-Guided Navigation when I do this.

However, it's only natural that Google would reserve trivial functionality to prop up their own platform.

But it is not "superior" to Bing Navigation, Lol.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Smokexz:
Cool it dude, Android didn't have amazing GPS nav support at launch. I am sure Microsoft has Bing navs on its way, hopefully with the next update? Anyways I really hope Google maps comes, Bing is fine but I just... I would like Google lol.

For now we are just going to have to deal.
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
On a positive note, I figured out what the deal was with picture cropping. It makes use of the WP7's outstanding pinch-to-zoom function, the absolute best and most accurate implementation of PtZ I've ever seen on a device. I was accustomed to the Android way of cropping...contracting or expanding the square...and couldn't rationalize the PtZ way.
[Windows Phone 7 General] ustudio:
I also heard that htc is gonna offer a free gps nav, as apart of the htc hub, and its was meantioned to have downloadable maps to, so hold yuor horses
[Windows Phone 7 General] The Gate Keeper:
guys, no need to grill him, he's come back and stayed on :P.

But yea, given they're already half way there with bing maps (i can get directions from current location to person/address), i'm sure they can finish it up for the end user in the next update. hopefully this will use compass as well.

everyone complains about how google/bing uses a lot of data to do directions, what they could do is have it so that it gets the directions, and only pings back to the server if you go off the right path. they can use the gps unit to update local path, and even the compass to keep it correct. this would use minimal data if you actually follow the TbT correctly. hopefully they do this rather than have it constantly ping back to the server your location (Google does this... i think to track you :P).
[Windows Phone 7 General] StevieBallz:
I once went to a house where there was no cell network whatsoever for about 3 kilometers in every direction using Google Maps. It stopped reloading the map (luckily the target was already displayed) but it managed without the server backup until we got there.

But yes, in principle it just should fetch and store the path to the target (including underlying maps) for the calculated route (Google Maps as well as Bing Maps).

For the austrian user without address search: set the search language to german (germany) and you can do route calculation and address search.
[Windows Phone 7 General] synpax:
The Pre has it for free.

What I am really looking for is TomTom so I am not dependent on the internet connection and have all of North America on my sim card.
[Windows Phone 7 General] pikacz:
these are excellent news, does anybody know more maybe?
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
Another feature I just now realized the HD7 doesn't have...maybe it's with WP7 and all handsets, I don't know...is front facing camera for video calling. Since the HD7 doesn't have the hardware support for video calling, that is a feature I will never see with this model, even if WP7 ever gets the support. :(
[Windows Phone 7 General] lip:
Be honest, will you use it? HTC have had this feature in windows mobile phones for years and in units I've used and I can tell you that I never had the inclination to use it more than once to see if it worked...
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
Times change. I didn't think I would ever use Facebook, but not only Facebook but also Twitter. Its feature that increase in popularity. Just because HTC didn't time the feature correctly doesn't mean it won't be a viable thing.

Look at texting. I never understood the drive to text when a person could more easily just talk with their cellphone rather than constantly type on s tiny keyboard. But now texting is a major thing. [Scratches head]
[Windows Phone 7 General] deeken:
Are Garmin and Tomtom going to make their application work with Windows Phone 7?