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[Windows Phone 7 General] amb9800:
The 65nm first-generation Snapdragon platform is over two years old now. Its general CPU performance is fine, but using an older, hotter-running, more power-hungry chip means current WP7 devices won't be able to match the latest handsets in battery life without aggressive throttling.

And on the graphics side, the QSD8250's Imageon Z430 (Adreno 200) GPU is slower than the iPhone 3GS' PowerVR SGX535, let alone the iPhone 4's GPU or the SGX540 in Samsung's Hummingbird chipsets, limiting what developers can do on the 3D front.

Essentially we're paying high-end prices for what is now mid-range hardware. Not fully the OEMs' fault though- Microsoft severely constrained what they could do with these phones (e.g. mandating first-gen Snapdragon chipset), so it makes sense that HTC would, for example, just tweak the HD2 a bit to make the HD7. The next generation will probably be the first WP7 handsets to actually innovate on the hardware front.
[Windows Phone 7 General] amb9800:
Yeah a bit sad the HD2 never got to flex its muscles. Still the best WM phone ever made though (IMO :) ), and props to HTC for investing in one last, multitouch-equipped monster as a solid send-off for WM6.x.
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
Agreed. The hardware is perfectly fine. Matches or beats most anything out there.

Here's a review comparing some flagship models to the HTC Surround, which is essentially the same as the HD7 except for the smaller screen and slide out speaker. HTC Surround beats the comp

Here's a backup of the claim the Surround and HD7 are the same
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
One thing I would like to see implemented in WP7 is sectional or segment queuing. A thin visible or invisible (preferred) strip at the right edge of the screen for quickly transporting to the corresponding segment of the homescreen. For the bottom of the screen, you would tap the lower part of the strip, for the middle part, tap the near the middle. And have unlimited degrees of sectioning....kinda like a high-fashion, faceless watch. Tapping at a learned part of the edge would take you to the corresponding section or segment of the screen. This would be desirable for when there are a great amount of tiles.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mftek1:
What are you guys using to remove bloatware? And which apps are safe to remove?

Edit: So far I have removed these apps with no problems:

(via: Titanium backup)

AppPack

Monopoly

Setup

MyAccount

Stocks

Rockband

Amazon

Demo

Flickr

Sent from my HTC Glacier
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crxtasi:
I personally use root explorer but I don't delete them I just move them to a folder in my sd card just incase I would have the need for them.

Not only did I take out tmo bloat like app pack, tmo tv, demo videos, demo games but some sense ui too like tweeter(peep), stocks!
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mr_skot:
What folder are those apps in?

Moving them sounds like a good idea to me.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crxtasi:
Their in the system/app/ folder
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] poulosjr:
what demo videos, and games are you moving to your backup folder?
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ryan562:
X2
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mftek1:
How do I move them?

Sent from my HTC Glacier
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lghorn:
Just select the files in your file explorer and use the "move" option, or cut/paste (though I've only seen move as an option).
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lghorn:
Hmm, I don't see all those in there such as Tweeter and that damn AppPack.

Where are those, or what are they named? Thanks!
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] borodin1:
Twitter is HTC Peep ( I think). What's app pack? is that all T-mobile junk? Those are all separate apps.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lghorn:
Yeah, don't see it in the app drawer, but there's a widget for it.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrpanic7:
dude titanium backup is by far the best for bloatware, not only is it one click to remove, but you can do backups as well just in case. :cool:
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mftek1:
Which apps have you removed? Cause when I removed alot I started to have syncing.. My phone just kepted syncing and getting errors.......

Sent from my HTC Glacier
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrpanic7:
well you gotta be careful as to what you remove, you cant just go delete crazy, some apps are tied to the system. for instance i deleted monopoly, amazon, and the T-Mobile app pack. No problems. im curious what have you deleted? and did you do a backup via recovery before you did?
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mftek1:
Yeah I made a few recoveries just in case I had a oops moment like this one lol.

I deleted: amazon, asfault racing, peep, demo videos, twitter widget, app pack, yahoo mail, all the themes, modes, friend stream

Sent from my HTC Glacier
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mftek1:
And setup, stocks, mobile tv.

Sent from my HTC Glacier
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrpanic7:
yeah thats your problem righ there. Things like amazon, app pack those are tmobile add on apks, the things like peep, modes, friendstream are built in with the software, therefore can cause the system to not respond correctly. id say restore from a recovery and delete only simple things, nothing connected to the "My Sense"
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mftek1:
Oh ok. What have you deleted?

Sent from my HTC Glacier
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrpanic7:
I've only removed amazon, T-Mobile App Pack, and Monopoly and havent had any issues at all. I would say you could get away with deleting all the games it comes with since theyre on the sdcard, like i said anything deleted thats connected with the "My Sense" (i.e. friendstream, my modes, etc) may cause trouble. hope this helps!
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrpanic7:
not a problem senor! thats what we here for
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jaleroca:
Can someone tell me how to make a recovery.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrpanic7:
sure, do you know how to flash ClockWork> and are you rooted?
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] QUEDRO:
We need to post in OP which APPs are safe to remove and a brief description, so we can have a guide:

So far I removed and no problems:

AppPack

Monopoly

Setup

MyAccount (annoying app, constantly running a service and alerts for power saving, why?? there is already a Power Saver setting)

Stocks

Rockband

Amazon

Demo

Flickr

News + widget

I do not remove anything that has HTC related.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mftek1:
Sent from my HTC Glacier
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s10shane:
.............
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kid Poker:
Quick question, I have a backup thru ClockworkMod. When I remove these bloatwares, will the backup from ClockworkMod restore the stuff I remove back to when I backed up the nand?
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lonlawrence:
ighorn, where did you get your 16 gb class 6 sd and what's the best price you found?
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s10shane:
ok so i just did this to remove some apps. i removed AppPack and my phone rebooted then i got a notification saying that in 24 hours my phone will restore itself (i think thats what it means). my phone rebooted after uninstalling AppPack, i got a pic of a phone with a question mark. here are the pics i got.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mftek1:
Yes it will. As kind as the back up was made before you delete the apps of course.

Sent from my HTC Glacier
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mftek1:
Im confused as to why it says "update" failed.... Have you got the 2.2.1 yet?

Sent from my HTC Glacier
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s10shane:
yeah i have 2.2.1 update already. but idk what going to happen with my phone but i removed like 9 apps now so i think i am good but i dont know if that means its gonna put my phone back to stock or what? do u know what that is suppose to mean?
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mftek1:
What apps did you delete? And what is what suppose to mean?

Sent from my HTC Glacier
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s10shane:
AppPack

Monopoly

Setup

MyAccount

Stocks

Rockband

Amazon

Demo

and go read page 3, 2nd to the last comment is mine with pics. thats what i mean.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mftek1:
Is that all? Cause I and a few others have deleted the same and we dont have that update failed screen.... What else did you do?

Sent from my HTC Glacier
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s10shane:
nothing i rooted my phone. turned off s. then i unrooted my phone and turned on s. then thats it. so i dont know what that means at all. i have the most recent update 2.2.1. but i was wondering if someone had the stock rom so i can flash it or whatever.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mftek1:
There's a tutorial on how to turn it from ota to stock in the development section. The stock rom is in the post.

Hope this helps.

Sent from my HTC Glacier
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s10shane:
yeah i tried to but i got lost at step 6 and so on. i had no idea what to do lol. im new to this phone so im still learning.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s10shane:
also i removed the app pack and tmobile tv i think that was it on top of the other apps i said before.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] timbo1083:
I want to get rid of MYDevice.. has a question mark on the icon, and mymodes. What are they titled? I can't seem to find them.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cheeze[iT]:
i don't see any apps in titanium backup... am i missing something?
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mftek1:
Make sure your perm rooted. Open up titanium backup and click the problems button. You need to download busybox

Sent from my HTC Glacier
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cheeze[iT]:
ah HA! Thanks! :cool:
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] s10shane:
hey can anyone here please upload ur nano backup? i deleted the setup app and now i cant get it back at all. plus i deleted some more apps like the games. i want to return my phone to tmobile to get the black one. but i cant till someone can help me out. i forgot to back up my stock apps.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] timbo1083:
Follow the method to downgrade your phone to stock in another post in the development section. It will walk you through it and put everything right back to the way you got when you walked out.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] timbo1083:
So I have a problem. I want to remove the news app. If I remember it was something news.apk.. well I have the news app.. but no type of news.apk How can I remove that and.. MyDevice. its some icon with a pink question mark on it.

Btw I successfully removed everything called setup with no problems. Once you get your phone setup you no longer need these programs. Plus they are kinda big.

Hopefully someone can solve my problems of the missing apps that I some how have installed?
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] QUEDRO:
I removed news thru Titanium. No problems

PS: I was listed as News
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gaww:
It has been said before, but might be worth repeating based on the problems some are having. Suggest freezing rather than removing them. if you remove an OEM app, you will not be able to get it back.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] daewond3r:
Everytime I try to "force remove" an app using TB, it reboots, I get the triangle w/ ! and little android dude, then nothing happens. No second reboot. I have to pull the battery and reboot.

I've resorted to booting in CW recovery, mounting system, connecting my phone and removing apps with adb.

Can someone tell me what MyAccount is called? I can't seem to find it it by that name or anything similar. Also, what are the theme names?
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] goldfish524:
So here's my list of apps that I've removed. So far there hasn't been problems so I assume these are all safe to remove:

com.htc.FriendStreamWidget

com.htc.StockWidget

com.htc.TwitterWidget

Facebook

FavesWidget

Flickr

FrindStream

HtcFacebook

HtcGreader

HtcGreaderWidget

HTCSetupWizard

HtcTwitter

Stock

TwonkyMobile_T-Mobile

Anyone know if "My Device" and "myModes" is safe to remove?

P.S when I say "removed" I really meant "moved apps to folder in sdcard"
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] el-jodio:
I believe "myModes" controls the way you setup your themes. I read in another thread that removing it disables the theme picker and maybe other things.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrrobc97:
Why after I delete bloat apps from my phone with root explorer they keep comimg back after a reboot? THX ahead.

...oh and btw I just got a my touch 4g so dont mind the signature.
[Android Software Development] chevyboy_0:
Hey guys I'm a first time poster here, and I am really hoping someone can help me. I am trying to build a ROM from CyanogenMOD source for the Moto Droid 1. whenever I run the "make" command this is what I get:

Is there something else I should try? I'm a new Dev in training and I'm at my wits end if someone could tell me how to update javac that would be greatly appreciated. And I am also having trouble getting ADB to work when I try to extract the Sholes files from my phone. Any help on that would help too thanks. By the way I am running Ubuntu 10.10, and Cyanogen 6.1RC3
[Android Software Development] vladistan:
Javac Problem

Android build system is picky about Java versions. I would download and install official JDK 1.6

Before compiling make sure that your PATH points to the newly installed Java 1.6. Also make sure your ANDROID_JAVA_HOME and JAVA_HOME point to your newly installed JDK 1.6
[XPERIA X10 General] Infallible:
I'm well aware that there have been many threads about multi touch and I am also aware that many people are angry about this, however I haven't seen anyone say anything about gesture-enhanced single touch. As far as I know the nexus one as well as many other android phones do not support true multi touch or even dual touch. I'm just wondering if any devs have considered the idea, or if I'm missing something here. I know that even laptop trackpads can be used to pinch to zoom using gesture-enhanced single touch, and I'm curious if this can in theory be applied to the x10 once we get custom roms.
[XPERIA X10 General] Minoza:
When we get custom roms we might as well apply MT then, cause we all know X10 supports it. Point is, why go for alternatives if it is MT capable?
[XPERIA X10 General] Infallible:
Do we know for sure that it is capable of multi touch? As far as I've read it's just a lot of speculation and back and forth of it being possible and not being possible. It should be possible, I understand, but my question is even if it isn't is it possible that we'll still get gesture-enhanced single touch or is there a requirement for that that I don't know about?
[Focus General] lungothrin:
On the specs it says the phone supports wireless n (802.11n), but when i go to settings and search for networks it wont show my local wireless n network, is it the phone or just wp7 that currently doesn't support wireless n?!
[Focus General] foxbat121:
No problem with wireless N here. But WP7 doesn't support hidden networks. Make sure your wireless network is visible. Also not clear is whether or not the phone can connect to 5GHz band.
[Focus General] Paolo01:
This is one of those unusual known software issues. The phone is capable of n, but the mediocre wifi software/interface the the phone is packaged with has no options to enable it. This is set to be a first round fix. Chalk this up there with the no hidden SSID's support right now.

There is no good reason as to why your phone cannot do this now and you probably could go into the diagnosis panel and figure it out, but that is not the users responsibility.

MS must have a great reason, but it is not readily apparent.
[Focus General] cwiley2566:
Yeah my router does 2.4ghz G & N plus 5ghz N; so it connects but it would be nice to know what it is connecting at. I am sure it doesn't do 5ghz because that ssid is not found as an option but it would be nice to know it is connecting to the N 2.4 and not the G.
[Focus General] tonyfreak215:
It doesn't support 5ghz N. I had to change my router back to 2.4.
[Focus General] foxbat121:
Or you can just let it connect to 2.4 11g instead. There is no benefit for it to be in 11n other than burn your battery faster.
[Focus General] lungothrin:
My router is set on 5ghz wireless n, so i guess that's why the phone cant show the ssid.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] emyllis:
Simple qn;

I have a touch pro 2 running win 6.5 - and will today receive a desire HD.

What's the easiest way of copying my messages from one phone running WM 6.5 to Desire HD?

I can't think of an obvious way of doing it, so thought there would be someone here in the know!

Cheers
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] schriss:
Hi, there is an application calles SMS Backup & Restore. You can use it to Backup messages on Windows Mobile then import on Android.

http://android.riteshsahu.com/apps/sms-backup-restore
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] emyllis:
That looks perfect - thank you for your help - i will hope it works, if you don't hear from me, assume it's been a flawless operation!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] emyllis:
All seems to be good here

The only issue I had was in setting the SD card to be a readable/writable unit, and then I had to create a folder called SMSBackup on my SD card, copied the file into that folder and hey presto :)
[Galaxy Tab General] younggunner:
Lets try a new approach to this for the phone feature. Since we know it dials out on activations, lets try getting log cats of it. Same goes for a failed call. Compare the two
[Galaxy Tab General] shollywood:
It dials out with what? If there isn't a dialer app on it what is it using? Or, are you saying it dials out with the dialer app and then disappears?
[Galaxy Tab General] hourst2:
Netdial allows for calling over 3g and is free in the market. Works the same as the dialer.

Sent from my Galaxy Tab.
[Galaxy Tab General] xexes:
Only Verizon versions call out to activate.

Tmo doesn't.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ikithme:
Is it possible to use emmc as data instead of having it usable space?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tdiman:
Its a good experiment. Since emmc is the third partition on mmcblk0, I don't see why you couldn't grow mmcblk0p2 and shrink mmcblk0p3. I wouldn't delete it completely.

This may have consequences when flashing other ROMS, but I don't know for sure.
[Galaxy Tab General] snudel:
Hi

Is it normal, that the paad does not charge while turned on?

Rgds

snudel

update: usb options was set to these crappy sync software and usb debugging enabled.
[Galaxy Tab General] nobnut:
I've noticed the same here. But only whilst plugged in to a USB or other DC device. It states that it is not being charged... occasionally however it does actually charge, or at least I assume it does as the battery level goes up. More often though it discharges with a DC USB cable plugged in from a pc.

It does charge when turned on and plugged in to the AC (mains) adapter.
[Galaxy Tab General] daniel.weck:
Huge battery => USB charging not really effective...that's what I read anyway.

Talking of which:

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Samsung-Galaxy-Tab-Teardown/4103/1

Who wants to reverse-engineer the charging cable/connector ? :D
[Galaxy Tab General] Croak:
No need, it's an open standard:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDMI
[Galaxy Tab General] daniel.weck:
...with no known compatible product other than Samsung's own connectors / cradles though :( Talk about interoperability ...
[Galaxy Tab General] crazy talk:
can someone look at the charger that comes with these things?

im guessing it outputs 2 amps, compared to the 1 amp most desktop PC's have available at USB ports.
[Galaxy Tab General] knightnz:
Looks like it's not, from that same page:
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rockingx10:
Anyone played this game called pocket legends?
[Desire HD General] kanej2006:
Just received my Desire HD last night. At first it appeared ok. After a few hours of usage, the ram gradually drops and drops and drops.

At first it's around 390 or 420 free ram. After playing about for a few hours, the ram drops well below 200.

Even after using an app to free ram, it will free some more ram but will quickly use it all again for nothing.

Aside from this it's VERY laggy, much worse than my current HTC HD2.

It lags like crazy through the menu, not smooth at all and sometimes takes a few seconds to open something/go through the menu, it's like it will suddenly freeze completely and will not respond until it finally decides to wake up and continue what it was doing.

Worst of all is the picture gallery!! There are only around 17 pictures, 5 of them I took on the camera and the other pictures are sample pictures that came with the phone.

Now, when opening the gallery, it takes quite a while to display the pictures.

The pictures range from 500kb to around 1mb which is tiny and when opening pics in full size and going through them, it really struggles and lags, sometimes evening freezing for a few seconds before going to the next pic.

This is really bad and is pissing me off. My current HTC HD2 FLIES through pics without a lag.

I have pics ranging from a few kb to 5, 6 and even 7 mb and it's silky smooth and zooming in/out is effortless.

That said, why is my htc desire hd so laggy and performs so poorly?

What can be done to solve my issues?

It could very well be an app causing this but I doubt it as the apps I have installed onto the phone have also been used on my previous HTC Hero and Samsung Galaxy S.

Now, the HTC Desire HD is higher spec than the 2 above android phones but performs poorly.

Could someone PLEASE try to help me fix the lagging issues?

Apps on phone should it help:

KK Boxing Game

Air Hockey Game

Classic Tetris Game

File Manager App

Barcode Scanner

Vizbattery App

Uninstaller App

Rockplayer App

Beautiful Widgets App

Barcode Scanner App

Best Keyboard App

Mixzing Media Player App

Thanks in advance everyone
[Desire HD General] cyberpedz:
Go to settings applicactions development and turn on USB debug will fix all your probs, it is to do with the /init process using almost 90% CPU seems to be a system process
[Desire HD General] kevinm2k:
Also bluetooth on seems to make the phone lag after a bit as well.
[Desire HD General] daniel81k:
You haven't ever read why you sholdn't use any task killer on an android system?

e. g.: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=826647
[Desire HD General] vimto25:
The usb debugging solves it but still takes me ages for pics to load up on screen and I am slightly angry with its performance still.
[Desire HD General] mnd_bg:
Someone reported the barcode scanner is eating quite a lot of the system resources. I think it was here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=819266 but don't flog me if it's not there! Although the uselessness of the task killer is explained there as well.
[Desire HD General] kanej2006:
Thanks all for your reply. Thanks to many of you the lagging issue has been solved! As many of you mentioned the problem was the usb debugging mode. It was disabled and was causing extreme lag/slowness in everything, it was unbearable. The phone is now super smooth, fast and responsive. Going through pictures now is fantastic and at least 5-10 times quicker than before. Menus are also a lot smoother. Now my htc desire hd is quicker than my htc hd2! Once again many thanks for your help everyone.
[Desire HD General] Rixsta:
Music to my ears