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[General Topics] chuanmok:
Guys... Im in a huge dilemma. My contract ended and it's time for me to sign another phone contract. But I have to either go for HTC Desire HD (which is current best phone in the UK market) or wait for other better android phone (e.g. T-mobile mytouch HD which has got front camera).

Open for comments and suggestions. Thank you very much in advance
[General Topics] chuanmok:
I feel so helpless no one reply but many viewed
[General Topics] saurabh88:
wait for nexus s or samsung flipside
[General Topics] Leachpunk:
If you like the phone, get it... basically if you say that you'll pass and wait for another phone coming out, once that phone comes out you'll hear about a more awesome phone coming out. Just like computer hardware, the cycle is endless.

Also the DesireHD is a pretty nice phone.
[General Topics] Igor 3:
Im in the same boat as you. I decided to wait for nexus s, there are just to many good phones coming out at the end of year/begining next that will leave curent generation far behind
[General Topics] chuanmok:
Wow.. I havent heard of Nexus S before. As long as any better phone release I will sign a contract for it =)
[General Topics] jagpoag:
Dude you are the one that is going to be using the phone. You know what you are going to use the phone for. You know what features you want and what you do not want on your phone. You have access to the internet and can research current and upcoming phones just as easily as anyone else can.

My point here is that it's your phone, get what YOU want. I understand you are just trying to make conversation on the boards or whatever but at the end of the day we can't really help you here. We are not going to be using the phone and everyone of us uses our phone differently than the person beside us.

Get what YOU want and I promise that YOU will be happy with YOUR phone.

And please dont flame me in a response, I'm not trying to cut you down or anything here. I'm only trying to help you help your self man.
[General Topics] chuanmok:
I understand what are u trying to say. But here we are, most of us like the best phone, regardless what we use it for, how we use it. Im just like other ppl, who are looking for upcoming yet unknown phone provided it must be better than the current best phone desire hd. That's my point. Dont ask ppl what u want and how u want to use it, this is modern city life, ppl wont just want a phone that can make phone calls, text, internet. We want all rounded best phone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[General Topics] wsmurderer:
A best phone released is used to get out of time,so dont care too much about it!If you like it,go get it!
[General Topics] Pickx:
You should get what you want, but for a keyboard-less device you'd be crazy not to wait for the Nexus S. Just my humble opinion.
[General Topics] skaif:
Agreed with the majority, I was this close to upgrading my contract with T-Mobile UK

I decided to wait after hearing about the next crop of dual core smartphones to hit the market early next year! Till then I have my beloved Hero and will be more than happy to use that till then!

I understand the cycle of "something newer every 6 months" but the Desire HD is the last hurrah for the current crop of smartphones running the single core snapdragon. Awesome phone but I shall wait till the dual cores start rolling out..
[General Topics] chuanmok:
That's it. Spot on. But we will have to wait till febraury next year =(.

Btw are u sure it has a keypad?
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
I don't know how they are sending these down, but I am assuming that it's an update.zip file that they would run via recovery. If so, it's possible that the update.zip is not getting deleted, at least that's how it works with the zPad updates.

If any of you happen to get this update, can you check for that file and, if you have it, upload it somewhere? This is going to be the foundation for TnT Lite 2.00 given that it has a lot of bug fixes.

Thanks in advance!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] valentincasino:
This is my first contribution on this forum

I know it's not a big thing...but i got caught in Photoshop in the last two days...and this is the result...

All the folders are designed by me ONLY...95% of the icons are from the internet...the rest are from this forum...but i did not want to bother anybody for some icons...anyway...if someone has anything against me using some of these icons...i think we can discuss politely...:cool:

You can use this icons with CSMI or JWMD

For now i have made 5 sets of Start Menu folder icons...hope to do some more in the future...if i will have the time and the inspiration....

You can find each set in a separate attachment...or...all of them in the "all valentincasino.rar" file

I hope you like them...

​
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] valentincasino:
reserved

...for future uploads...
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] donwhann:
nice work bro......
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] Giraff:
The folders are looking great!Keep up your nice work!!!!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] rickyjune:
~Fab folders as always, you have high standards:D

off topic

what taskbar are you using:o
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] valentincasino:
thanx...:D
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] valentincasino:
thanx...

it's DJCedric & BobsBBQ's "Touch of glass taskbar" from the "Touch of glass theme"

you can find it here in post #3
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] axman79:
Great work!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps] valentincasino:
mersi fain...:D

thanx...
[Droid X General] snowboarderxd1:
Alright i just Got Fission 2.2.1 And its pretty damn Amazing. There is one problem that it really isent a BIG deal but eh i liked the Camera that was on stock with the touch focus. I used a DX_Camera Add on but the camera that it installs seems to be different then the one that i used to have. Is there a way i can get the Stock Froyo Droid X camera with 720p and touch focusing?
[Droid X General] aldo37:
Look in the official thread. The answer is in there. No need to make a new thread.
[Droid X General] Ubermicro13:
The one in the Addons Folder called DX_Camera is the stock 2.2 camera
[Droid X General] snowboarderxd1:
i installed that one but it doesnt let me do touch to focus? is there like something special i have to do to activate that?
[Droid X General] zehkaiser:
I have never been able touch to focus using the blur camera. It always just moves my focal point.
[Droid X General] SirBrass:
The dx camera isn't in the addons folder that comes with 2.2.1. I just looked, b/c the blur camera definitely took way better pictures.
[Droid X General] snowboarderxd1:
Yah Thats why i was trying to look for it, like a Droid X froyo drump but i cant seem to find it. Even just the Blur Camera APK would be nice. I tried the One found in the Addon folder for 2.1 but it just isent the same
[Droid X General] Ubermicro13:
Regarding the quality of the pictures with the Blur camera in the DX_Camera.zip file press Menu and change the setting from Widescreen to 8MP.
[Droid X General] zehkaiser:
You should also install the D2 gallery add-on. The photos look better than the android gallery for some reason. I initially thought the camera on Fission was crap.
[Droid X General] ZuneNinja!:
Can you please provide a link to said thread? I don't see what you are talking about, no mention of camera in the fission threads I saw.

Or, can someone please just upload a blur camera apk or zip. I'm sure the handful of people in this thread aren't the only ones searching around for it.

Thanks in advance.
[Droid X General] SirBrass:
ZuneNinja, here's the link to the .zip file from my public dropbox folder.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11912858/DX_Camera.zip
[Droid X General] ZuneNinja!:
Hey, awesome! Thanks for the file. Isn't dropbox a wonderful thing?
[Droid X General] SirBrass:
It's friggin AWESOME. Even better than bluetooth file transfer between my computer and phone (especially for LARGE files).

That, and the photo thing is far better than older services like photobucket and imageshack.
[Droid X General] murdoc158:
Check the settings in the camera and make sure face detection is NOT checked. That should let you manually focus the camera.
[Galaxy Tab General] wahida76:
I just got my Tab and i noticed that it does not have the media Hub and i believe it might be a German model the keyboard is displaying that layout anyone can help me with that please.
[Galaxy Tab General] wahida76:
Any one knows how i can get the Samsung Media HUB on this thing?
[Galaxy Tab General] ftgg99:
i would start by changing the title of your post so that people who know the answer might think to read it dude

also, wrong section ;)
[Galaxy Tab General] wahida76:
Thanks for the advice i'll change it now and i had this in the Dev section but someone moved it here
[Galaxy Tab General] alias_neo:
I'm not sure, but this might be the APK you want... (I just pulled it off my Tab)
[Galaxy Tab General] wahida76:
How do i use that apk and why does it say music? I am looking for the media hub thats used to buy apps movies.
[Galaxy Tab General] alias_neo:
It's the only "Hub" app on my Tab, but I don't think it has anything to do with Movies. Sorry.
[Galaxy Tab General] wahida76:
Thanks but i am missing the Samsung Media HUB that is used to buy and rent movies and shows

http://www.samsung.com/us/article/media-hub-a-universe-of-entertainment-at-your-fingertips
[Galaxy Tab General] alias_neo:
:( I guess I'm missing it too because I'v never heard of it.

EDIT: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=785041
[Galaxy Tab General] wahida76:
Thank you very much but i dont know if this would work on the TAB since no one tested it and i dont even know to install this apk file unless someone can help thanks again
[Galaxy Tab General] alias_neo:
I installed it on my own tab before posting the link. It works fine. As for installing it, just copy to the tab and open it with an installer app or file manager from the market.
[Galaxy Tab General] wahida76:
Thanks this did install but location is not supported any work around that
[Galaxy Tab General] bubblebob:
err...where's the file?
[Galaxy Tab General] quattr0:
If you read 4 posts before yours, you will see the URL :) I can't login the account (MediaHub) however. Even I just resgister. It says my email not found but when logging in samsung web site, it works. Go figure!
[G2 and Desire Z General] kcm117:
Hey,

So I'm on the fence about perma rooting and over clocking my G2, but i have a few questions:

1) Will my battery life suffer greatly due to over clocking say to 1Ghz or 1.4Ghz?

2) Are there any real world noticeable real world performance gains besides benchmark scores?

3) Will perma-Rooting it decrease performance? (Back when i had the mytouch 3g, the phone never felt as snappy after i rooted and installed custom roms, as compared to stock).

Thanks
[G2 and Desire Z General] thedarkpassenger:
1) battery life is the same if not better when overclocked with setcpu in ondemand mode at 245/1100mhz

2) there is a definite performance increase

3) custom roms can decrease performance depending on the rom and ui (sense is a bit heavy). Just simply rooting will not decrease performance. Also, CM6.1 is super snappy, especially using Launcher42

DO IT!

Sent from my T-Mobile G2
[G2 and Desire Z General] androidtoy09:
Launcher42? that's a heck lot of upgrade from Launcher2 :D I'd like to check it out

but he's right overclocking is not going to eat up your battery much. Heavy graphic ROMs do however suck up battery and performance. I personally like to stick to rooted stock roms and tune up here and there to fit my personal needs.

You should however read carefully and make sure to understand every steps you're doing if you want to root your phone.
[G2 and Desire Z General] kcm117:
Alright I'm going to give it a shot later tonight probably, i forgot about the SETCPU profiles where you can have the phone under clocked while the screen is off. That should definitely give me better battery life. Ill be back to post results
[G2 and Desire Z General] androidtoy09:
Good luck and I'm sure you will enjoy your G2.

Oh, and don't forget to show it off to your friends. Let them see how this thing "Fly" :D
[G2 and Desire Z General] shortlived:
I oc to 1.4+ with setcpu and a few profiles set up i get much better bat life then stock. Im also running a sense rom which feels sluggish until you oc. At 1.4 it runs smooth as can be with live wallpapers plus all the pretty sense animations. The only problem i have is i hate the sense dialer and msg system also i want to change the "personalise" tab....do people really change theyre settings everyday that they need a dedicated button for it? Anyway i digress
[G2 and Desire Z General] convolution:
Excuse me, since when does increasing the clockspeed of your CPU INCREASE battery life?!
[G2 and Desire Z General] androidtoy09:
No, that's not entirely true BUT with SetCPU you can profile it with different mode which can benefit the battery life.
[G2 and Desire Z General] dietotherhythm:
I don't notice any difference in battery and I have the 1.9ghz kernel. I normally keep it at 1ghz though. I enjoy it overclocked. My games run incredibly smooth, when navigating my phone it literally almost feels like it knows what i'm pressing a split second before i do and benchmarks rape the face off anyone else I know with an android phone. It's just sooo smooth. It really boils down to being the kind of person who likes to hold a powerhouse of a phone in the palm of their hand. (Literally) with even just the 1.4ghz OC you'll never have to ask yourself "can my phone run this without being sluggish?" because the answer is yes, it can probably even run two or three instances of whatever made you question yourself in the first place without being sluggish. Any if you're worried about custom roms from the past, just remember how outdated your old android is compared to this one. No offense because I can relate, I used to have a G1 that is now a hand-me-down to my brother and whenever he asks me to mod something on it, I'm just amazed at how slow it is and really don't know how I tolerated it for the last 2 years. I mean I'd score a 150 quadrant on the G1 (on a good day) but with my full OC on, the G2 scores 3000~3100. That's roughly 20 times faster...

Bottom line is that you won't need to worry about "will this make my device sluggish?" for quite some time.
[G2 and Desire Z General] kcm117:
Hey

Alright guys i got the phone perma rooted now, but i havent installed an OC kernel yet, two questions.

-Which kernal should i install if i want 1.4Ghz? there seems to be two threads with 1.4ghz kernels

-Do i need to install Bacon Bits for the kernel?
[G2 and Desire Z General] g_grey:
just install cm6.1 and setCPU and you will be fine, then you can tweak it up to 1.42 if you like or whatever you want it at
[G2 and Desire Z General] manvstech:
Any heat related issues? Let's say I get into a zone and play some graphics intensive game 6 hours straight on USB power at 1.4Ghz? Wouldn't that put out more heat then the G2 was design to handle possibly shortening its life span?
[G2 and Desire Z General] cparekh:
It doesn't. However, overclocking is misnomer. What we really mean is over and UNDER clocking. For example with SetCPU is can create a profile that greatly slows down my CPU when the screen is off. This saves the battery a lot, since my screen is nearly always off.

Also, I can create profiles that slow down the CPU as the battery lowers in order to offset the fact that I overclock the CPU when the battery is fuller.
[G2 and Desire Z General] cparekh:
Probably could shorten the life span. I keep phones for a year or two, though, and shortened life span for me isn't an issue. The phone becomes outdated before the CPU gives up.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Sv3nt3k:
^This.

I've gone a full 10 hours with my battery still reporting 100%.
[G2 and Desire Z General] snudel:
my default sense rom does not feel sluggish at all.

this oc is not really required from my point of view. and it also does not increase battery. the thing what increased is the underclocking when screen is off.

and this you can do even without overclocking. and THEN it brings even more gain.
[G2 and Desire Z General] fradog23:
an example of "real world" for me is how well my g2 plays PSX games on the emulator. I have it overclocked at 1.5 on setcpu and it runs chrono cross pretty much flawlessly with no noticeable slow down.
[G2 and Desire Z General] smirkis:
i use setcpu for underclocking since i don't do enough just yet to overclock, i haven't noticed any battery increase just yet and i've been using it for a few days now. i almost questioned my self if i was losing battery life due to my system mhz always fluctuating? is this a possibility? i just added a profile for screen off 245/245 but i still had to choose on demand? what should i put there. thanks for ur help everyone
[G2 and Desire Z General] kcm117:
I installed the bacon bits 1.4ghz kernel and setup some setcpu profiles.....battery life is much better now.
[G2 and Desire Z General] snudel:
screen off profile doesn't work with G2

noone has any proof it does change anything.

with or without widget running
[G2 and Desire Z General] sna66:
great thread and I'm also wondering the same thing. I have perm rooted, running virtuous 6.1 sense rom and i love it, i dont really see the need for overclocking, i would love to see better battery life though and in the past i have under clocked 245/245 to se eno benefit and wondered about setcpu running and fluctuating the processor, causing more battery drain defeating he purpose. I think ill try a oc kernel and see how it goes, hey OP, can you tell me the steps that you took
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PhantomHacker:
Close please.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hustle24:
If i'm not mistaken, it's not saved on your PC. It's saved on your SDcard.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fachadick:
If you use amon ra, your backups will be in the nandroid folder on the root of your sdcard. In that folder is a folder with the id number of your phone, and in that folder are various folders with dates in the names. Each of those is a nand backup.

If you use clockworckmod/Rom manager, then your nand backups will be in the clockworckmod folder in the root if your sdcard. In that folder is a backup folder, and in that folder are folders with the nand backup names that you set up. Each of those are nand backups.

Sent from my blah blah blah blah
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dkdude36:
but they need to be in the same folder structure to restore, so i would just leave them.USE AMON OR YOU RISK PERMANENTLY BRICKING YOUR 4G!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JasonK75:
I second this.

Make a copy to your computer to save them is a great hint as well.
[EVO 4G General] Beejis:
Everytime I read mobile.engadget or any gadget site for that matter, I see posts "dogging" the Android operating system about how they are fragmented and certain apps/games won't work for older OS's/devices. Our EVOs have been out for almost 6 months now and this phone is still rock solid IMO but I wonder how fragmented (if at all) this OS is and what that means for this phone and future android devices. I'm literally asking cause I have no idea. And also what the heck is fragmented actually mean, cause all I get out of this is that the older Android devices just can't run the app or game because of the older/slower specs not necessarily because of the OS.
[EVO 4G General] Brutal-Force:
It would help if you posted the link. When you say fragmented, I would guess that this means that Android Users are divided between those that can run an application on said device and those that can't.

This is not any different that using M$ OS's as well. Not all applications will run on older Operating Systems. This is partly due to Hardware upgrades and partly due to marketing. If all software were reverse compatible then people would be less likely to upgrade their devices. Also the list of Drivers would get longer and longer as the Android Developers add phones to their database.

Apple only has what, 4 phones and 2 or 3 Ipod Touch's? And realistically most of the people that own these would have the 3rd or 4th Gen. Phone anyways. I think the "fragmentation" problem will exist on no matter what platform OS you are using, its just that Android is on sooooo many devices now ranging from Phones/TV and now its going into cars. It wouldn't surprise me to see it on X-box since they like to run Linux code.

So yeah.... Long story short its due to all of the different devices and the fact that no one keeps electronics for any length of time but IMHO Android will start to get a lot more life out of their electronics since the software is upgradeable like on a PC.
[EVO 4G General] kf2m:
I wouldn't worry too much about it. We saw the same thing in the computer desktop arena. At one point you had Windows 3.0, 3.1, 3.11, Win95, WinNT, and Win98 all running around at the same time. Going back even further all the different flavors of DOS. The PC industry survived so will Android. Eventually you will have to upgrade so fragmentation is pretty much a moot point. IMHO
[EVO 4G General] dglowe343:
My guess would be because there are phones running multiple versions of the OS such as 1.6/2.1/2.2. Some apps such as task killers will work on 1.6 and 2.1 but not 2.2+. Game compatibility seems more reliant on what that particular phone is capable of. Our phones can handle just about any game available whereas a G1 or MT3G is far more limited.

Sent from my HTC SUPERSONIC
[EVO 4G General] Iceman5000:
Fragmentation refers to the fact that there are so many different versions of android the app developers have to code for. With the Iphone for example most everyone is at version 4.1 or 4.2. Android devices are being released with 1.5, 1.6, 2.1, 2.2 and soon 2.3. It makes it extremely hard to code and optimize apps across all versions. I foresee this has having no negative effects on our beloved EVO's for though.
[EVO 4G General] helioXverse:
People like to point out the fact that there are multiple android devices, and not all of them are on the newest os (like some of the sgs phones not having froyo, or the moment, or hero for example). unlike the iphone, where there is only one device of each generation, and when the update is released, everyone can get it.

My take on this is I like variety, just because I like my Evo doesn't mean it suits everyone. Just like there are a ton of people that consider a hardware keyboard a must have, yet I would rather not have one. Having to wait for HTC and Sprint to release the newest version to my phone, or wait for one of the amazing developers contributing their hard work and skill to port it for use is just fine with me. Would it be nice to get it the moment google pushes it out, probably, however I can almost bet that the Nexus line will always get first crack anyway. This is just my two cents, I hope the explanation helps.

Sent from my HTC SuperSonic 4G using the XDA app.
[EVO 4G General] Beejis:
One example of many if you google...

http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/entelligence-will-android-fragmentation-destroy-the-platform/

Yeah I'm not smart enough to know if this would effect our phones or not, but who really knows as of right now? Why doesn't Android just do what MS did and make a standard for what the manufacturers need to build in order for it to be up to par for Android (for once MS did something right in that regard IMO). Is that what Honeycomb is suppose to accomplish, a minimal spec sheet for manufacturers?