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[EVO 4G General] hercules rockefeller:
Old cell phones? That's a favorite subject of mine - I'll need to be careful not to rant on an on about all the obsolete phones I've owned over the years.

Let's see, my first phone was the Nextel i370:

Not much as far as phones go, but I was hanging out at the bar one day in 1999 and a friend of a friend had one, and mentioned that he got free service as a Nextel employee. Now, keep in mind this was 1999, so any cellphone at all was pretty cool, never mind actually getting free cellphone service. I put my application in the next day and I've been employed by Nextel/ Sprint Nextel ever since

Then there was the i1000+

Again, not much by today's standards, but a remarkable phone from a historic perspective. it was the first phone with a speakerphone, a true clamshell design (you could operate every function of the phone with the clamshell both open and closed, as opposed to the old school flip's at the time, which was merely a brick phone with a peice of plastic that flipped over the keypad), and it was one of the first data-capable phones in the US.

after that I had the i90c, and the i860, but the one I really loved was the PPC-6700:

A buddy of mine constantly called it "Fisher Price My First Smart Phone", but it was the first smartphone I owned, and it opened my eyes to all the possibilities of smartphones and I've been hooked since (and I've never owned anything but HTC since as well). I still get some use out of it to this day - I loaded it with as much music as it's 2GB card will hold and gave it to my son to use as a media player.

I've had the touch pro and touch pro 2 since then, and now of course the EVO, but I'll admit to having a soft spot for some of these old clunkers as well.
[EVO 4G General] thisguyinoc:
My smartphone history:

Audiovox SMT-5600 (Windows Mobile 2003 2nd Edition, AT&T)

UTStarCom PPC-6700 (Windows Mobile 5-6, Sprint)

HTC Touch (Windows Mobile 6, Sprint)

HTC Touch Diamond (Windows Mobile 6-6.5, Sprint)

HTC Evo (Android 2.1-2.2, Sprint)
[EVO 4G General] roscoenr:
My Motorola Krazer was the best phone i had till android devices (HTC Eris, Motorola Droid, and EVO) it was the only phone all i had to do was switch sim cards and i could use it in U.S.A AND Iraq
[EVO 4G General] phatmanxxl:
I always wanted to make a phone history sig, but I've had so many since '99 I can't remember them all.
[EVO 4G General] Badious:
A mix of smart and dumb phones(this is probably the last three or four years worth of phone I think..)

Samsung MMA-920

Audiovox PPC-6600

Samsung Upstage (biggest piece of garbage ever)

LG Rumor

Motorola Q9C

HTC Hero

HTC Evo
[EVO 4G General] superstudinor:
hmm,

razr

centro

treo 800w

pre

hero

evo
[EVO 4G General] skennedy843:
Too many flip phones to remember

PPC-6700

MOTO q9c

BB 8330m

Evo
[EVO 4G General] JayStation3:
let me think...

My very first phone was from PrimeCo. I cant remember who made it or what it was called but it had the thin plastic flip cover over the numbers and it was woodgrain...lol

then PrimeCo got bought out by ATT and I had the tiny "peanut" phone and then also bought the first flip phone they offered about a year or two later.

then I went to sprint. I always had flip/camera phones from then on. I had the SPH900 - the blade (sprints version of the razor) It had a 180 degree camera with the media buttons on the front. It took great pictures for its time and I had that phone for 5 years with out any problems - although eventually - the camera went out on me cause I had a bad habit of swiveling the camera in my pocket with my thumb...

then i got the Instinct and had that for about 2 years before getting the EVO...

before phones - i had a pager :/
[EVO 4G General] EndlessDissent:
Wow. Some of you have had a lot of phones. The Evo is only the third phone I've had in 6 years.

I got an LG clamshell/flip phone in 2004. It was the first phone I had seen with a second screen. The screen was monochrome, but it was high tech for me.

In 2006, the lg's reception got super spotty (some stupid chick pulled the antenna off), and I got a Nokia 6102. It had a color secondary screen, and it was a nice upgrade, much sturdier and better looking than the lg. Somehow, it lasted me 4 and a half years before I dropped it one too many times and both screens died.

Now I have my Evo and couldn't be happier. (Well, until the battery makers make some huge advancements in their technology, anyway.)
[EVO 4G General] AngelofChaos:
my very first phone was what I would consider a brick, the Sanyo SCP-4900. The second one (also a Sanyo) was the MM-8300, before I switched over to LG and got the 570 - MUZIQ. Final and the most accursed of the group was my Samsung Instinct s30 (never buying a Samsung phone ever again), before I finally got my EVO
[EVO 4G General] miguelfp1:
I've had a LOT of phones...

strated with a Nokia 5120, a Motorola v120, and then went to Sprint, where I had a Samsung N400, a Sanyo 8100, a Samsung A920, then a A900, 3x HTC Mogul (my first smartphone!), then a Touch Pro, a Hero and my current Evo...

just 11 phones in 7 years
[EVO 4G General] Fadakar:
Got this phone when I was 12 (18 now)

SPH-A660

Got this phone 2 years later when my mom dropped my old phone and shattered the screen. :<

Toshiba VM-4050

Got this one two years later just 'cause.

Then this...

And this...

And then finally... this!

but then it got stolen, so I switched back to the BB Curve and that ended up breaking, so I got a palm pre for cheap from a friend, and ended up rebuying an EVO a mere three months later. :p
[EVO 4G General] BrianDigital:
Some flip phone

Helio ocean

Palm Treo pro

Hero

Evo
[EVO 4G General] potna:
Not really on topic, but I remember when I got my first phone. It was sometime in 1995. It was a nokia, nokia was real popular back in the day.

Her are a few highlights of my observations as a cell phone user over the last 15 years, in no particular order.

In 1995 I was one of the few that had one.

By 1998 every one I knew had one

My parents and a lot of my idiot peers always made fun of me for having one, now they have smart phones and rock out with their bt head sets all the time, lol. Even old people that still don't know how to program their vcr all now have one.

Flip became trendy

Cameras became popular

Speaker phones were a hit, but most of them sucked. But some fools still used them.

Smart phones were coming out. My fist was the 8125. Again I went through the crap from everyone saying crap like, "my phone makes calls and that's all it should ever do, lol stupid children with their gadgets will never learn" and once again now days everyone is rocking smart phones. And those that aren't will be very soon.

Internal GPS chips seem to be becoming the norm now.

Seemed like I had more to say but its getting late.
[EVO 4G General] Cal3b:
My favorite non smart phone was the helio drift in white. It had a 2 MP camera, decent internet browser, and Google maps/Google earth, it was pretty awesome for 2007. I used to walk past the cell phone booths in the mall with it out, when the people at the booth asked me what phone I had and if I wanted a new one. I told em I would buy any phone they had they was cooler then my phone. Then I would open Google maps switch to the satelight view and hit find my location. Then i would open my email and check my myspace. They never had anything cooler then that phone at the time.

The way the menu was layed out everything just made sense. I could write and send texts without ever looking at the screen. I used bitpim to transfer ring tones and pics from the computer to the phone. Could back everything up that way too.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] ms79723:
These keyboards from this link are all for 2.1. Is there anyone out there that will be able to get the keyboard that looks like the iPhone's keyboard to work for froyo?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] rujelus22:
Here you go. I have not tested it. Let me know

iphone_Multitouch_keyboard.zip
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] xNotta:
It didn't work well for me. :(

My Evo's hatred tword the iPhone made it burn the letters off the buttons, I guess.

Droid2MultiTouchKeyboard workes pretty well.

The letters are tiny but it's still very usable.

Too bad the CM6 nightly keeps removing it.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] ms79723:
it works! but the letters on the keys are white instead of black..thats the only thing wrong with it. Any way to fix it?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] ms79723:
bumpity bump
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] ms79723:
any takers?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] rujelus22:
Here you go. Sorry it took so long to get back to ya. Been really busy. I just flashed back to Sense and tested this one.

just re-download with the same link
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] garenzy:
Is this a flash install? If so, didn't work for me.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] ms79723:
Marry me? I've been askking for a keyboard like this since day one...thank you so much :)

And to the post above this one, yep you just flash it.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] SumTinLikaNinja:
Worked great for me

Flashed the provided .zip file on my phone just now and it worked wonderfully. Thanks a lot.

Cheers
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] boredtoday:
tried this on my SGS, but it didn't work. any chance of port? :D

EDIT: it *did* work, but with tiny letters.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] SumTinLikaNinja:
Work great for me (update)

It works for all the screens displayed above but the characters on the numeric only key pad are still white.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] vselca:
Worked perfect on my OG Droid.
[XPERIA X10 General] fightingroost12:
just a quicklist in order of the roms I have flashed to

(out of the box) at&t

nordic 1.6

german generic customized 1.6

bin4rys 2.1

world generic 2.1

latin american generic 2.1

jerpelea aosp 2.1 folowed by aosp 2.2

then I flashed with the unbrick x10 flash tool... idk which firmware that was

I decided yesterday to flash back to at&ts firmware for warranty reasons and because se's 2.1 really didn't impress me. I flashed back by rooting my phone and going into default.prop and editing the numbers to match an at&t phone.

well after flashing back to my old firmware I noticed I had the better looking market icon from 2.1 instead of the awful 1.6. I checked the service menu and all the info was correct for an at&t phone. I downloaded an app from 4shared to see if it would install and it did!!?? so I somehow don't have the restriction at&t puts on non market apps. anyone have any idea how this happened?
[XPERIA X10 General] Narvarr:
That option is not available on AT&T. I too would like to know how it happened. Also.
[XPERIA X10 General] ellokomen:
as far as I know that option has been removed from AT&T android phones
[XPERIA X10 General] Mortimus:
the at&t rom removes Settings > Applications: Unknown Sources tho =/ it was terrible before i switched to generic rom. had to adb everything
[XPERIA X10 General] ellokomen:
superclick root method enables the unknown source installation
[XPERIA X10 General] Narvarr:
Are you talking about the Z4root app?
[XPERIA X10 General] fightingroost12:
but I never rooted my phone after flashing back to at&t
[XPERIA X10 General] ellokomen:
yeah, im just saying that it does it
[XPERIA X10 General] AyDee:
Well the only thing that makes the At&t rom not able to load apps in the first place is 1 value in /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db so maybe that file was not replaced....?

After editing default.prop you just 'fixed' with seus?

or if you flashed a 1.6 rom maybe it had the fix applied already?
[XPERIA X10 General] BingoRingo:
Are you 100% you installed the AT&T firmware?

Is there an AT&T bootscreen?
[XPERIA X10 General] fightingroost12:
I flashed back with seus, I didn't delete every and repair the softwarex I just picked "repair software"
[XPERIA X10 General] fightingroost12:
yes I have the at&t bootscreen with the 3g swoosh and full bars animation. I also have the at&t bloatware
[XPERIA X10 General] zephyrix:
Probably the data partition wasn't wiped - that's where the settings are stored.
[Nexus One General] skunz35:
Okay so I know we haven't even gotten gingerbread yet but I was just wondering if the n1 would have the hardware specs for honeycomb. Thoughts anyone?
[Nexus One General] Award Tour:
No it doesn't.

Actually, who the hell would know? But if the Nexus One has a debilitating bottle neck, it's the GPU. When the original Droid from 2009 beats you, you got a problem. If Honeycomb finally brings GPU acceleration (that's if 2.3 doesn't) along with a ton of intense UI stuff, the Nexus One might lag behind.
[Nexus One General] skunz35:
I hate to read that I hoped my n1 would never turn into one of those old dusty android phones that falls behind on updates
[Nexus One General] ap3604:
Since we don't even know the spec requirements for Gingerbread are, how would anyone know what Honeycomb requires? ;)
[Nexus One General] skunz35:
I thought we knew a little bit about it, especially after all these rumors about it running on the n1 already
[Nexus One General] mortzz:
Of course it does. What do you think Google is testing it on? You know the Nexus One is their development phone, right?
[Nexus One General] Award Tour:
They are testing 2.3 on the Nexus One (and of course the Nexus S). Honeycomb seems to be a tablet OS, but even if it isn't, what makes you believe that they aren't focusing on their new in house phone, the Nexus S?
[Nexus One General] galaxys:
We'll skip honeycomb and go straight to icecream :p:D:rolleyes:
[Nexus One General] mortzz:
Development for Honeycomb existed before the Nexus S.
[Nexus One General] charnsingh_online:
First thing guys, Nexus One will get honeycomb, no the gpu isnt ****ty its way better than the droid 2009, Nexus One scores better on 3d. Yes Nexus one has the specs for honeycomb, IMO even G1 will get gingerbread and might get honeycomb as we already have the drivers for it working on the 2.6.35 kernel. Nexus One will be supported beyond honeycomb as 1ghz processor is not ****ty in a smartphone. Even with the upcoming of the dual core processor, single core 1 ghz will not be obsolete. About the gpu, the drivers are improving day by day and it supports open gl 2.0 and its time since open gl 3.0 lands on mobile devices. Until 3.0 stuff starts appearing Nexus One will continue to be a good phone. It will become a G1 the day open gl 3.0 starts appearing and along with it all other devices g2 etc will become a overclocked g1. Nexus S might not be the new dev phone, u have no confirmations, it might be like the HTC magic, the flagship phone for 1.5 or Droid the flagship phone for 2.0. Look at the facts and understand wats in there before caring for such stuff, will honecomb come, will icecream or whatever come. If its in the AOSP it will sure boot on ur Nexus and will boot on ur G1 and i suspect it might slow down on the G1 etc after gingerbread
[Nexus One General] ChongoDroid:
YEAH! what he said :)

Sent from my Google Phone
[Nexus One General] solidmac:
Honeycomb requires a core i7 5ghz processor 6gb ddr4 ram ..... I heard about this from my friend that works at google.... weird thing about him is that he says that he wants honeycomb all the time....
[Nexus One General] going_home:
So now that Gingerbread has been released on a phone....

What say you about :

1) The Nexus S phone with Gingerbread

2) Honeycomb and the Nexus One

:confused:
[Nexus One General] Award Tour:
1. I thinks its obvious that development has now shifted to the Nexus S.

2. We've now seen some glimpses of honeycomb and it looks to be the release with the UI overhaul - even stated by Andy Rubin at dive into mobile. The smooth orientation change animation also makes me believe that Honeycomb finally brings full HW acceleration. Nothing is known for sure but considering the shift in attention, the very weak GPU and HW acceleration, Honeycomb is not a absolute given.

Sent using Tapatalk
[Nexus One General] Clarkster:
The GPU is more than powerful enough to display a few triangles on the screen for the UI. The only time you will see the GPU dragging down the phone would be full 3D environments like games.
[Nexus One General] Award Tour:
Some quick things I noticed between the Nexus One/EVO (have both now and are similar) and Nexus S.

1. The 3D view in maps is much smoother in the Nexus S. The Adreno 200 can still perform admirably(~20-30 FPS) but when you compare it to a more capable GPU you realize that it can not perform at 100% (~60 FPS) and is already struggling.

2. Pretty much any live wallpapers will lag up the home screen, some more than others. This isn't the case with the newer GPUs.

3. The same thing that happens with the 3D view in maps happens in the 3D gallery. It runs okay (20-30 FPS) but when you compare it to a newer phone like the Nexus S it runs so much more smoother (~60 FPS). Even worse I experience severe choppiness (~10FPS) when there's a lot of photos and I do something simple like popping up a menu or a info modal. This point is especially important since everything I read references the 3D gallery app as a HW accelerated app.

I could very well be proven wrong by Google; I'm just point out some observations I made.
[Nexus One General] Clarkster:
Yes, that's exactly what I mean. Everything you mention are full 3D apps that would tax the GPU a lot more than simple hardware acceleration for the 2D Android interface.

So if they rewrote everything in the style of the Gallery, it would be a problem, if they just used the GPU to accelerate the 2D interface elements such as transitions, the scrolling, or the web browser it should be perfectly fine.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Jazi:
I have yet to find a good way to get around this issue.

I want all my SMSs from Facebook to appear in a single thread on my phone (an Incredible running Skyraider 3.3.4 if it matters).

The only solution I have found is to add all numbers facebook uses (32665100-32665199) to one contact for my phone. But by default these show up as different threads since they are different numbers within a contact.

Is there anyway to either use a wildcard, or to combine them all into one thread for easy management?
[G Tablet General] Don Lettrich:
Anyone know how we can enable mock locations with the TnT settings? There is no option under locations or security. I want to use my Bluetooth GPS but it needs to use a mock. Is there a way to permanently set it on, or toggle with a widget?
[G Tablet General] Turbo4V:
Settings->applications->development
[G Tablet General] Don Lettrich:
DUH...was looking in wrong sub menu! Working now, but had to use Blue GPS to get the pad to actually connect to the device. Thx for the help.
[G Tablet General] katmandu421:
What is this blue GPS? I can't find anything like that in the market. I am trying to connect my Holux bluetooth gps module. It pairs but says it's not connected. I'd like to try this blue gps if I can find it.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] wesideballer96:
I installed Froyo 2.2 by darkstone recently and everything is working well except one issue. After I installed the software, if i reset or turn off my phone I go back to winmo6.5.. How do i keep android up and running?
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] redpoint73:
It would probably help if you told us what device you are talking about.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] stepw:
wesideballer96, there's a Q&A section you'd better post this kind of questions in. Expect to see your posts closed or moved often if you keep going like this.

And if you don't search the forum before posting, expect to be bashed or banned.

Anyway, did you try this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=623792
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] gbajzelj:
for most wm6.x devices it is not possible to use android as primary os. you probably installed it on memory card. but in the ROM you still have wm6.x.

im using htc hd2 and have costom wm6.5.3 rom in the phone and a nice clean froyo port from desire on my memory card.

when iturn the phonw on it goes in wm6.5.3 but i have instalede dualboot app that emediatly pops up and sks me if i want to use wm6.5.3 of android 2.2 (froyo).

but remembEr. firSt it goes to wm, asks me for pin number, then i only have 2 buttons on the screen BOOT ANDROID, BOOT WINDOWS MOBILE (wm is already ready to use you just dont see it).

dualboot app is basicli a nice shell over the wm desktop that helpsyou to run haret.exe by simply pressing a BOOT ANDROID button.

search on this forum for a dualboot app for yourt model.

sory for bad english.
[Captivate Themes and Apps] domtra:
Hello,

Does anyone know if there are any scrollable playlist widgets for the home screen?

I just find that it would be easier to select a song you want from your home screen instead of opening the music application and choosing what to listen to.

Thank you,
[EVO 4G General] Isriam:
is there a way to do this? i want to hear a beep/vibrate but i don't want any notification window. is it really that hard to customize without downloading handcent or another sms app?
[EVO 4G General] romah:
In Messages app, go to the "All messages" screen, press <-- (back arrow) button if neccessary. Press "Menu" button, tap "Settings", look for "Received notification", make sure this is unchecked. Below it is "Play notification sound". make sure this is checked.
[EVO 4G General] Isriam:
I did that, and it shows sound/vibrate checked however it greys it out when i uncheck notifications. it is silent when i do this.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bluehonu:
When I send SMS in Chinese, the receiving party only sees ***** instead of Chinese character. However, the sent message characters displayed normally on my phone. I saw some posting with similar problem on Galaxy S. That can be fixed by setting the input method to Unicode in the SMS app, but I cannot find this option in G2. Anyone has any idea?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bluehonu:
Does anyone experience similar problem? Or you don't encounter any problem sending SMS in Chinese?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ruisant:
I don't know about Chinese but I have a problem with Portuguese. When I type an accentuated character the number of available characters decrease. As an example, when I start a new sms I have 0/160 characters available. Then if I type an 'á' the counter reads 1/70 but if I type an 'a' it reads 1/160. I think I had the same problem in my old Nokia phone and I solved it selecting unicode charset or something like that but I can't find that option on the desire z...
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KiNG OMaR:
I don't mean to offend anyone by saying this, however, wouldn't it just be easier to type in english? :)
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ruisant:
I'm Portuguese, I live in Portugal, all my friends are portuguese and in Portugal we speak portuguese. Why the heck would I want to write in english??
[G Tablet General] birk79:
After playing around with my new gtablet for a bit, I went to shut it down... The device is stuck on "Power off, Shutting down" screen...been over an hour, pretty sure it's not going to shut down. :) The battery is fully charged, and I've tried holding down power, plus various combinations of power and volume, but I can't seem to find a way to force the power off... Any suggestions? Guess by morning the battery will be dead...
[G Tablet General] birk79:
So... I got impatient and opened it up to hit the reset button... Not sure why they didn't leave a little hole in the case to allow you to reset the device in these situations... I plan to drill a hole soon.

There are some helpful tips for disassembly in this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=842354
[G Tablet General] rayden25:
I was thinking of drilling a small reset hole.
[G Tablet General] cahiatt:
It would be nice to have a hole for the reset button. Haven't needed it yet though. My G-Tab (at least is behaves that way) will force power down if you hold the power button for about five seconds.

I never read the manual to see if this was an included feature. I just did it one day instinctively thinking it would force power down like a regular PC. It did....