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[myTouch 4G General] ESKIMOn00b:
I still lose a bar or two holding the phone in such a manner after turning performance WiFi on... it is nowhere near as catastrophic as it was before....

Fwiw I have my router in the same room as the phone and it still happens.... N band wrt-310n with dd-wrt set to a full 40mhz wide band, wpa2.

From what I can tell this setting basically enables mimo. As a result my speeds increased dramatically... I can get a full 16/16 Mbits up and down................ as long as I'm not actually holding the phone :rollseyes:
[myTouch 4G General] dickydick1969:
GALAXY S does not have this option "best wifi performance"

Does anybody know how to enable this option "best wifi performance" on the galaxy S?
[myTouch 4G General] carmeng4evr:
I notice This alot. Affects wifi calling

It happens in general but its worse when you touch the

Top left of the phone

sent My from my crappy mytouch 4G
[G2 and Desire Z General] yunghit:
Double sensors! Oh my God! FFC!
[G2 and Desire Z General] yunghit:
Lmao
[G2 and Desire Z General] ibemad1:
Lol... please use the search tool in the future. One of them is the light sensor and one of them is a proximity sensor.
[G2 and Desire Z General] yunghit:
I know... Im jp.. (double rainbow) lol
[G2 and Desire Z General] bluegizmo83:
Is this new to the G2? I may just be retarded here, but I swear the N1 only had one sensor, which was a light sensors. I thought it used the light sensor as a sort of proximity sensor by reading a 0 value when it was covered. So it wasn't a TRUE proximity sensor, it just mimicked one.
[General Questions and Answers] perquisitor_omnia:
Weird problem:

When I try to copy files from my computer to my phone using ASTRO File manger and SFTP the transfer is really slow, it takes about a minute a MB (ASTRO oh so helpfully doesn't tell you KB/s). All of this is over WiFi.

When I use ASTRO bluetooth to transfer files from my computer its really slow.

But when I direct download the file using the browser from my home server, it downloads as fast as I'd expect over WiFi and so is mounting the SD card or using adb push.

I have this problem on both my G1 and my G2 so I don't think its a phone issue. If it matters, both phones are rooted. I can't think that there is that much overhead with SFTP that it would be a problem.
[General Questions and Answers] cgevrey:
Same on my Galaxy Tab.

I did test with a command line sftp: 26K/s
[General Questions and Answers] ejtttje:
I see this as well, Droid 2. Transfers at around 80KB/s. AndFTP does about 60KB/s. But if I mount the SD card on a laptop, and use the laptop to download to the SD card, also over wifi using sftp, then it will get over 2MB/s.

What's the problem? Is this a general platform issue?
[General Questions and Answers] pablomme:
Same on my HTC Wildfire. Using SFTP or SCP in both Astro and AndFTP results in ridiculously slow transfers over wi-fi of under 20 kB/s - which could easily be beaten by bluetooth, I think.

However if I go to the command line on my phone (via Terminal or ConnectBot using a "local" session) and use the built-in scp (which is in the PATH, in CM7 at least),

scp pablomme@192.168.1.10:Desktop/cm_buzz_full-34.zip /sdcard

I get an average speed of 550 kB/s, which is closer to what I'd have expected.

That leads me to think that either Astro and AndFTP are not using the built-in scp but some other (inefficient) implementation, or that they are limiting the transfer speeds in the free versions of their applications..
[General Questions and Answers] kaoruAngel:
Same slowness here w/ ASTRO SFTP.

I was just testing this method of file transfer right now and Cerberus FTP server is reporting the transfer speed mainly sticking to an unusually constant speed of exactly 47.96 KB/s. Occasionally it spikes or drops to precisely 63.95 KB/s or 31.97 KB/s for just a second and then returns to 47.96 KB/s.

I haven't used Cerberus' SFTP server before, so I don't know if it typically displays this weird speed 'banding' issue where it reports only a few specific speeds and never the intermediates.

The connection just timed out about 17 mins in, after transferring only 47.74 MiB of a 1.09 GiB file. I calc the average speed to be somewhere between 45.23 and 50.87 KiB/s.

I am using my Epic 4G w/ the recent official EB13 Froyo update over an 802.11n wifi connection just 1-3 ft away from the router. Unfortunately, I'm not rooted, so no chance of using scp for me :|
[General Questions and Answers] kaoruAngel:
What do you mean by "direct download the file using the browser from my home server"? You hosted the file via an HTTP server on your home computer and downloaded it over wifi via the integrated Android web-browser on your phone?

If so, I will try this out tomorrow!
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wongtonsoup:
Okay, so today I tried to flash a ROM with Clockworkmod which btw was my first time.. and now my phone can go into recovery mode and then when I select reset to factory setting it takes me to the Clockworkmod recovery menu. However, even if I delete all data, the phone does not boot up to the stock ROM. I have tried everything >< but to no avail..what should I do?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] mohitrocks:
What is the fastest rom for 2.2.1? I have heard about Telus V5 but it is only for the older files.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] gmbhneo:
In my opinion its MuUi ... runns very smooth with 550 (no overclock) ... with 800 its just perfect and drains no battery ... i got it to work for 3-4 days ...

But for me the UI is not that nice ... its coor wor the first moments but in general its to "special" ... I only love the squere icons :D
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] sfsucaesar:
roms

HO!NO! and MIUI are very fast!
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] mohitrocks:
Thanks for the input guys! Are HO!NO! and MIUI faster than Froyo Mod V2 and Telus Lite V5

Edit are they faster without overclock??
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] dcarr622:
How does the latest CyanogenMod running atop the new kernel compare to these?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] harrynghiem:
I think you should try to use them (CM6, Hono V3, Froyo Mod V2). You will sense about smooth, stable rom.

I recommend Hono V3
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] dlbogdan:
From this day on, at this point without question Cronos 1.5.0 wins on all charts.

Perfect stability, Very good battery life, Perfect WiFi, Very fast.

The only thing missing from it is the ability to force close an app by long pressing the back key (like in CM6? can't quite remember)
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] mohitrocks:
Can you guys tell me which one is faster : Cronos Froyo 1.5, HONO v3, CM6, Froyo MOD V2.0.1 or MIUI Rom? (Without any issues!)

I have Froyo MOD V2, and if I do say so myself, it is quite fast and smooth, but I want faster :) I'm going for Cronos Froyo next! Wish me luck :)

Also, on a side note, thank you all for your responses.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] moviecut:
i think its in there! settings > applications > development....
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] phanrion:
Is there a hotspot app for android that will allow an android device to look like a WPA2 enterprise AP doing peap/eap-MSCHAP? It would be nice if I could give some people logins, and log failed attempts.
[Focus General] chizzwhizz:
I would love to see a music equalizer app created...preferably one that would integrate with Zune.
[Focus General] KonAitor:
Yes, I totally Agree. I can't believe there is no eq.

Also. I would love to see a Pandora app. It was promised, but no one delivered.
[Focus General] simbadogg:
i would also love this, and something that could also increase the max volume of the headphones
[Focus General] nerdslogic:
I would love to see a true VLC player that can play any video I put on my phone....I hate converting as it lowers quality and I can't always stream when I am not home
[Focus General] AllTheWay:
MeCanto has to be one of my favorite apps for both the iPhone and Android. Would also be nice to have tapatalk for browsing XDA ;-)
[Focus General] Paolo01:
I am looking for a robust alarm clock app. One that will take into account which time zone I would like it set for, and one that will override the phones volume settings to ensure that it is audible.

The current stock alarm is good, but certainly not great.

For example, if I am based out of Chicago, but travel to London, I should be able to have an alarm set for a phone conference based on Chicago time and a wake up alarm based on local London time.

Basically on my alarm time settings there should be an option to account for Home/Local/ or any other arbitrary time zone.

BB's function a little like this except that theirs fo one further and will turn the phone on from being off at the alarm time. I was never sure that was great functionality. when I want the phone off, it should probably be off. The new BB software though will ask you when you turn it off if you want it to come on at the given alarm time. That could be elegant.

Any ideas? Any of you seen a great alarm app?
[Focus General] ryotgz:
VLC would be awesome
[Focus General] kbanes:
I know that its coming...

...but if the Kindle reader app doesn't get here soon, I'm going to go crazy.

I would even be happy with the Nook reader app.
[Focus General] ajftl:
lol funny that the hd7 have a eq but i want to change to a focus because the camera features are a lot more on the focus .. we dont have brightness adjustment and other camera features that the focus have....

I WANT TUNEWIKI/ENGADGET/TAPATALK(I KNOW THERE IS A BOARDTALK) not the same tho...

ugh and no multitasking...lol i feel like im on the iphone again
[Focus General] burningembers:
I'd like to see a Meebo or Google Talk app. As well as a Google Voice app that isn't unofficial.

I really wish there was a free turn-by-turn navigation solution, but at least I still have my Fascinate for that.
[Focus General] MHC48:
One that translates speech to text and can send as text message or e-mail. The Insurance industry and National Highway Saftey Council ought to fund that one.
[Focus General] SportsFans:
Better looking Compass apps than what's currently available.
[Focus General] buffalosolja42:
Palringo and evernote and keepass

Or the ones I am really missing from my TP2
[Focus General] Seed 2.0:
I second that!!!

Also, I want a Text message encryption app, so only me and my recipient can read it.

I want Google Locator that works cross platform for android, Iphone, WP7 users.

All in one bar-code, QR, MS TaG, Shipping label scanner.
[Focus General] codyt01:
A sound profile app would be nice, I mentioned this in another thread. The basically the ability to set up preset Normal, night, silent, vibrate only, profiles. Which also give the ability to control and set different sound levels for the Ringer, Alarm, Music, System, earpiece, keyboard clicks, etc.

Also I'd love to have the following apps from the iPhone 4 and Droid Incredible

- Cardio Track (Android - great app for tracking your workouts)

- CBS Pro Football App - on iphone and Android, use it to track and control my fantasy football teams.

- USA Today App...

- XDA Tapatalk App!!!! Someone working on this yet?

- Amazon.com app

- Pandora!!!!!!!!!!

- Sport Tac - App for tracking scores of various sports. Like the Andorid one.

- A true flashlight app that uses the LED Flash!

- PhotoShop App

- Task app that synchs with MS Outlook/Exchange OTA using ActiveSync Why did MS leave tasks out up front?

- I'm sure I can come up with more if given the time..

and what is with all the tip calculating apps out there in the market....
[Focus General] Impunity_:
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned it but an IRC client would be superb. even if its just something basic like irrsi, that would be God-like.
[Focus General] aimer:
Am I the only one who thinks the Paid portion of the App market is a tiny bit inflated? Apps that SHOULD be free are a dollar (e.g. xkcd). And apps that SHOULD be a dollar are 3$ or more... even "Glow Air Hockey" is $5.49CAD (The much better iphone version is only 2$) and that's only singling out one of them.

Basically whoever releases an app on the market place has the monopoly for the time being which results in 50-100% markups and I'd even go as far as to say 200% in some cases. It's kinda rough... but with that being said, there definitely are

some

fair prices to be found if you search well enough.

All in all, I'd love to see discounts across the board!
[Focus General] Impunity_:
in time, as you said when competition arrives the prices will drop.
[Focus General] sandrobber:
glypmpse

I emailed them and they said they are working on it actively.
[Focus General] JMackey:
I hate to break it to you guys but much of what your requesting is not possible (yet) with the current sdk available to developers. For example, we can't access the compass at all currently. With that noted, I am a registered WP7 developer and I'm fishing for ideas on what to make, so suggest away.
[Focus General] simbadogg:
yeah, i totally agree. i wish MS would get it together and release more APIs so that devs could actually put them to use, and then make even more apps (more fully featured apps). Just off the top of my head, i know they dont even have one for compass as mentioned, and the camera either.
[Focus General] Revaric:
XDA App!

The ability to scroll the forums in the metro theme - heaven!
[Focus General] emjee87:
Second the XDA, Amazon, and Flashlight apps! As for Pandora, I have a Zune pass and find that being able to stream any song I choose along with using the Smart DJ (or whatever it's called) feature is quite nice, and I wasn't a huge fan of Pandora's selections to begin with.

To add to that list, I'd like to see an implementation of Dropbox added...somewhere between iPhone and Android's. I understand WP7 will have limited accessibility since we can't save directly to the directory like on Android, but at least being able to view or stream things from there would be something.

Of course, I hope that our games selection becomes as robust as iPhone's, but they have a 4 year head start so hopefully we get there with the company behind Xbox live backing us.

And lastly, this isn't necessary an app, but I would like them to have better separation of the app market and music/video market.

Edit: How could I forget, a Google Navigation equivalent!
[Focus General] riceboyler:
Just a few:

ESPN Scorecenter (or something similar)

Waze (yeah, I miss it already)

Tapatalk or something similar for forum browsing

A nicely integrated Google Reader App
[Focus General] :
Flashlight app that allows you to control the brightness of the LED. Ultra low, low, medium and high settings would be nice.
[Focus General] SportsFans:
Thanks JMackey for the compass update. That's about the only thing that impresses me about the IClone is the intergration of the GPS and onboard compass used with google maps, a stellar experience. The compass app they have available on the "Market Place" for the Focus must not be a true compass an doesn't make use of the onboard compass. At any rate I hope they open it up in the sdk soon so you can have at it.
[Focus General] swake457:
The SDK prevents access to the Compass? That's just crazy. MS does realize their competition allows this right? MS needs to enable all options as it can to let the development community drive this new platform forward! What else are they preventing access to?

/rant

Anyway, I'd like to see a legit Office Communicator or Lync Server mobile client. I'm surprised Microsoft hasn't already released one, at least for OCS. There's already a couple for the iPhone and they work pretty good too.
[Focus General] JMackey:
They will allow it in the SDK in the future, but they claimed it wasn't ready quite yet. At the moment, we only get access to the accelerometer, GPS, and the radio.
[Focus General] Thresher:
I can't find a nice countdown/alarm clock. I loved SPB Time. It had multiple alarms and multiple countdown timers. It was great to gave it all in one app. If anyone knows of one...

An RSS app that handles enclosures. BeyondPOD was awesome. For instance my ESPN PTI Podcast, it needs to download on a schedule with the enclosure so I can listen to it in the car.

Astronomy/star gazing app.

Corporate Apps:

Yahoo Fantasy Football App

CBS Fantasy App

ESPN Podcenter

ESPN Scorecenter

Skyfire
[Focus General] JMackey:
The problem with alarm/countdown apps is that since there is no multitasking on the phone, the app would have to be running at all times in order for a alarm to sound.

While a countdown app could be easily made, unless the app is open, there is no way for it to alert you that the countdown reached 0.
[Focus General] pigue:
Control apps

I sure miss seeing the "Percentage" of battery left.

It sure would be nice to control the E-mails more like which Attachments would always download automatically; and when not to delete off server for pop accounts.
[Focus General] siralex241:
vlingo and if you looking for a fresh idea an app that has futbol/soccer updates you're able to chose your favorite club and track stats highlights and video clips. You can expand that idea to many sports depending on how savy of a developer you are!!! Just if you do make is a soccer club app PM ME!!!
[Focus General] norsairius:
As others have mentioned, having the ESPN SportsCenter app would be nice.

It would also be nice to have a non-crappy free Magic 8-ball app. Android has a really nice one in their market for free. It'd be cool to see one for WP7 too. Cuz you know, having a Magic 8-ball available is so important for those crucial day to day decisions that must be made!

As for a fun game, there's a game called WordUp on Android that I always found entertaining. It was ad-supported for Android, but it was also free. It'd be pretty cool to see that around on WP7 too... and on the topic of word games, Words With Friends with cross-platform support would be AMAZING.

I'm sure there are others, but I can't think of them right now.
[Focus General] Nebor:
An Audible.com app would be great. Or if audible would just update their software to let us load audiobooks on like I can with Zune HD, and just gain an "audiobooks" section in the Zune player....
[Focus General] KonAitor:
Trillian, Palringo, or some other multi-service IM application. The one in the marketplace is crap, and only supports MSN.

If it could be made by MS or be allowed to run as native(multitask) would make it amazing. I would easily pay ~10 for something robust and able to do this.
[Focus General] wrxdrunkie:
I would love to have goodreader!

So handy on the ipad for downloading resources professors post.
[Focus General] jeffgeno:
Scrabble that allows online play against people on Facebook like the IOS version. If I got that and a MLB app by the start of next season, I'll be happy.
[Focus General] BradM32751:
I just got my Samsung Focus (upgrade from a HTC TP2). A few ideas: Theme creator/customizer (if possible)(Kinda want my HTC Sense UI back if someone has the skills). FLASH SUPPORT internet browser. RAM booster & Disk Defragmenter (not sure its needed but hey) Really want a File Explorer too. TV streaming apps (not just youtube shorts). Not sure if MobiTV or any others even work on wm7. A builder game like Stronghold Crusader or something similar. *Black's Law Dictionary mobile edition would be awesome :)

*Aside: Does wm7 support active wallpapers? I know the tiles are active, but what about the backgrounds and screen shifts?

Just a few ideas. If there are programs already out that i listed, note i just got my phone a day ago. But it is nice so far. Most of the movies I encoded for HTC Album work perfect on Zune player and the AMOLED screen looks very nice. (Focus is 480x800 like the TP2/Tilt2)

*Is there a video encoder specifically created for the Zune player?
[Focus General] karlotta:
Must have missing apps a la Karlotta

OK - I respect all of you, but ... :p no! I returned my iPhone 4 when I had antenna problems and the runarround between AT&T and Apple. I'd had an iPhone since the first model. Hundreds of dollars worth of apps - only some of which are useful/nice on my iPad ;) Here's what's missing for me:

Mission-critical

Mint - I used this ALOT. Really miss it.

Dropbox - very useful - because I don't want everything in the MS cloud. And Dropbox security is good. They have a voting box where you can make your desire known multiple times a day - you have to sign in, but worth it. WP7 is ahead of Symbian, but behind some interface requests.

1Password - again - if you use the cloud securely, change your passwords, and use internet banking sites, this is very handy.

SiriusXM radio client - there is some content that isn't on Zune. Sirius/XM has iPhone, BlackBerry, Android apps... need to petition them to do a W7P client

Desiderata

GoodReader - decent interface and I like the ability to sync with DropBox...

Scrabble - really addictive and multiplayer fun

Crossword puzzle app - the one i had synced with the WSJ and other online services

SimpleNote - nice syncing ability - I guess if OneNote were easier to use, I'd like it

Free turn-by-turn nav app - not on iPhone obv, but would be nice addition

Pulse RSS reader... using hub design - would be very nice

User-created hubs - ok not an app, but if it were, it would be a great idea and nothing in Android or iOS could touch it, IMO

Thanks for all the ideas!

Karl
[Focus General] Bwyan Benton:
Id like to see an actual YouTube app that doesn't bring you to YouTube mobile to play videos. I'd like a xda tapatalk app for browsing here....and if any of you actually tried the vignette camera app for Android well that would be awesome as that's my most missed app!
[Focus General] gxh1990:
1) Official google voice (Govoice is good, but it's annoying how sometimes I just don't get notifications)

2) Turn by turn navigation (that doesn't cost $10 per month)
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Madcypher:
Just curious, I have my pictures separated out into different folders: my daughters, cars, girls, etc, etc.

I know there's a 'favorites' and I know you can view by date, but does WP7 allow you to create folders for pic organization?

Thanks.

Cyph
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Iridox:
Not really. If you upload them to Facebook as private albums they'll show up separately though with the integration
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] root beer:
You can sort them into folders on your skydrive.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Madcypher:
It actually does, thank to Pocketnow.com for the article.

Picture folders on WP7.

Skydrive works too. Thanks.

Cyph
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mwako:
think your links broken ?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Madcypher:
Good catch, left the "7" off the end of the URL. Works now.

Cyph
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jim Coleman:
In my experience, Windows Phone simply mirrors the directory structure you have on your PC. Not rocket science!
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lumpaywk:
I realise its now been said but yes yes it does and it does it very well. media organization is simply superb on wp7 be it pics music videos contacts this is one area MS is king
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Madcypher:
Thanks...or not...

I don't have a WP7 phone as of yet, hence the question. My directory structure in my WM6.5 was setup like I wanted on the phone itself.

I don't use Zune either so I put the question out there.

Sheesh.

Cyph.:cool:
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FL5:
This was a worry for me, too.

You can directly copy the picture folders from your phone to your PC and set the Zune software to use that as the sync directory for pictures. Doing so will migrate your folders just as you desire.