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[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] bogdatov:
Hello, ALL

My T-Mobile (USA) HD2 plans to move to Android. Currently using stock (3.14) ROM and happy with it. I'm VERY experienced WM user, but tried couple Android ROMS and now I want to move.

It took me quite some time to get the BEST (imho and for my needs) apps for WM and I'm looking for alternatives with Android. It does not matter if they are free or paid. They have to be BEST of the BEST.

E.g CorePlayer is the king of WM video players. I'm looking for the king on Android. Not just "some" player, but the best player. Got the idea ? :)

There are so many apps for Android and I would appreciate your help in finding best alternatives for my favorite WM apps.

Here is the list of apps on WM and I'm looking for alternative in Android. And YES I did read other 2 threads about same "migration" :)

1. Resco Explorer

2. iGo Primo 1.1

3. Magicall - this program intercepts calls/messages and change them.

E.g. when I call international phone#, Magicall automatically (!)

determines it is international - then calls my calling card access#,

enters PIN and then original phone#

4. RSS Hub - RSS aggregator

5. ABBYY Lingvo - dictionary. NOT online, does not require internet connection.

Can speak words

6. SPB Radio - online radio with nice touch interface and ability to add own URLs

7. Nitrogen - music player

8. AlReader2 - ebook reader

9. Panoramic Calc Pro - great calculator with a lot of things and with

self-updating currency rates

10. Resco Photo Manager

11. PPC Pim Backup - for contacts/email/appointments backup/restore

12. SPB Backup - full system backup/restore

13. Panoramic moTweets - twitter client

14. LMT - allows me to close/open apps by sliding fingers in different directions

15. Pigeon - ICQ client

13. PortGo - similar to fring, but finger friendly interface for SIP calls

16. FPSE - Sony PS emulator

17. Slacker Radio - similar to Pandora, but I find it better

18. GrooveMobile - client for GrooveShark service, where you can search and

listen to music

19. ArkSwitch - program task manager, shows me what is running,

close apps/close all, finger friendly

20. MobileTag - barcode reader with price check on internet.

Very handy in determining "deal or no deal"

21, Official Livejournal app for mobile

22. MS Facebook app

23. SPB Wireless monitor. Calculates you data usage. Can produce charts per app/day/month/date range/etc

I know this list is big. But its been so many years on WM :)

And BTW, if you know absolute KILLER app on Android which is not in WM but everybody knows it on Android (like Angry Birds :) ) - let me know too !
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] RKight:
You can get Slacker on Android. As for playing MP3s, I use MixZing on a daily basis and love it...but it really all comes down to personal preference.

Edit: Oh, and one of those killer apps you mentioned, IMO, is LauncherPro. It's a replacement launcher that adds a lot of functionality. There are both free and paid versions of the app.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] eenbox:
See italic answers and this should help at least a lil bit!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] StephanV:
Would like to make some additions to the poster above. First of all, the video player you would need is RockPlayer. Still in beta i believe, but plays all kinds of formats without having to convert the video: you can just put the divx files you would normally watch on your computer on your microsd, and RockPlayer handles them just fine. Subtitles support included.

You also mention Grooveshark, they have developped their own app for Android for quite some time already. Haven't used it, but I suppose it's good.

CoPilot is very good if you don't have a mobile data plan (or wish to navigate abroad), but the built-in google maps navigation is probably the best there is, and it's free.

Other recommended apps:

- Tasker: paid, extremely advanced profile manager. Triggers include date/time, battery %, power source, headset plugged, wifi enabled, app launched, ... - basically everything you can imagine

- Wavesecure: paid, very innovative remote lock/wipe/backup/trace application. There are alternatives by now, but Wavesecure was first and I believe they are still the best.

- Chrome to phone: free, app that sort of links google chrome or firefox (google fox2phone) to your phone. Send links, text, google maps, ... with just 1 click, very useful at times!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] kinsago:
"7. Nitrogen - music player"

- For what it's worth, i find that winamp for android is a very good music player, much better than stock. Just an opinion but worth checking out.

"16. FPSE - Sony PS emulator --------- do not think it exists"

- There is a PS Emulator. It's on the market and (I believe) it's free, or at least donation-ware.

Also, for what it's worth, at the moment with running android from SD card, some people experience data loss when copying over usb. The best solution so far for me is use FTP. There is a free FTP server (just search on market) and FTP clients for all platforms are widely available. I personally use FileZilla.

Sorry for not being more specific with app names but I don't have phone with me ATM.

Regards
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] bogdatov:
Thanks for suggestions. Keep going !

Also I forgot one app which I find useful in WM and want to see something like that on Android.

23. SPB Wireless monitor. Calculates you data usage. Can produce charts per application/day/month/date range/etc
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] dyter:
Hum Copilot is a big chit compared to Igo Primo !

FPSECE is 3x faster than the PSX4DROID

...

...

No Igo , no Android for me ! mails, task not synchronised, bad for job

Android is same as Iphone, good for games and useless apps ...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] hello00:
Best music player for Android is PowerAMP. You can find it on the market for $5 bucks. It is worth it..
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] greg17477:
wow, a pro hater.. :D

now seriously why posting, if you have no clue dude...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] bogdatov:
Copilot looks not as great as iGo Primo, but at least it has TTS voices. My main concern with CoPilot are maps/poi. With iGo I can mix and match maps/poi from Navteq and TeleAtlas. And I new they are pretty reliable. Not sure about maps/poi source for CoPilot.

But iGo Myway does not have English TTS :(

I also tried Aura. Interface is better, but again - not sure about map/poi source and no TTS. Some routing issues too.

For now I settled with iGo MyWay but it does not look as nice as Primo. Even with skins and such. And no TTS.

BTW ... for RSS/Podcasts I ended up using BeyondPod.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ValeraVi:
You can use 3G Watchdog Pro for this...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] b_mithani:
Cant use SPB Backup or PPC PIM Backup

Please help...

recently changed from wm6.5 to google android for the htc hd2.

coupla quick questions.... every time i reboot it loads windows again and i have to click the haret.exe file to load andriod again... is this normal? will it slow down my phone and is there any way to completely get rid of wm6.5? i followed the xda thread for android and it was great but unsure of this last bit...

secondly i backed up all my contacts email etc. on spb backup and on ppc pim manager but neither backup file is compatible with android. are there any programs that will work with both operating systems so that i can transfer contacts easily?

Thank you in advance!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ValeraVi:
In WM6.5:

1. Sync you PIM data (contacts, calendar) with your google account via exchange. (creage google account before if you do not have one, then setup google sync via exchange as described here: http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=138636&topic=14299 )

2. Flash one of the Android NAND ROMS from here: http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=928 and during firs boot enter the credertials of your google acooudt from 1st step. All you PIM data (contacts, calendar) will be downloaded from google account.
[Galaxy Tab General] alftanner:
Hi@all, has the following problem. A while ago, without evident reason, my Tab at music caught to plays. Since the part does not have a RESET button, I pressed on the circuit breaker.

After a restart the internal memory had disappeared. Now well, thought I make a hard RESET. Unfortunately brought no success.

Now I wanted to again up-play the firmware. After the guidance proceeded: Update XWJJ4 Property me the file Galaxy Tab/.PIT file: TO DOWNLOAD. (P1) and P1000XWJJ7 ## NEW P1 PIT version 2.2 down-loaded.

Unfortunately comes to that bottles fat Fail! Are degree quite to despair need assistance as it were The part does not start times more. After switching on on I have only mobile phone 2 PC connection. and greeting thanks
[Galaxy Tab General] GANJDROID:
Circuit breaker?! :|
[Galaxy Tab General] alftanner:
Power OFF :) my english is :eek:
[Galaxy Tab General] konawayne:
LOL, really did you use some translation service as you used a few words that only someone with an extensive vocabulary would use. :p

So, basically you were playing music and it froze so you had to reset it with the power button, but now your internal memory won't appear? So, you did a hard reset and nothing happened. And you tried to flash the firmware...I'm lost after that.

Will your internal memory not appear when you doc your tab to your computer?
[Galaxy Tab General] GANJDROID:
Is the internal issue the only issue? Struggling to understand most of what you said :(

I guess you can commect to pc as you updated/downgraded your firmware. Flash the latest firmware (if you havent done so already) and see if that helps things. Dont know what else to suggest :/
[Galaxy Tab General] alftanner:
nun gut, vielleicht darf ich ja mal in Deutsch schreiben ;) und mich versteht jemand.

Hi@all, habe folgendes Problem. Vorhin, ohne ersichtlichen Grund, fing mein Tab an Musik zu Spielen. Da das Tab keinen Reset Knopf hat, habe ich auf den Ausschalter gedrückt.

Nach einem Neustart, der auch ewig lang war, war der interne Speicher verschwunden. Daraufhin machte ich einen Hardreset. Leider brachte der keinen Erfolg.

Jetzt wollte ich die Firmware neu aufspielen. Bin nach der Anleitung vorgegangen:

h**p://www.android-hilfe.de/samsung-galaxy-tab-forum/50580-update-xwjj4.html

Habe mir die Datei

Galaxy Tab / .PIT File: DOWNLOAD. (P1)

und

P1000XWJJ7 ## NEW P1.PIT Version 2.2

runtergeladen.

Leider kommt nach dem Flashen ein fettes

Fail!

Bin grad ziemlich am verzweifeln

brauche hilfe sozusagen

Das Teil startet nicht mal mehr. Nach dem Einschalten habe ich nur noch Handy 2 PC Verbindung.

danke und gruß
[Galaxy Tab General] alftanner:
ok, this is now my problem:

wipe data/factory reset = no effect,

need help :confused:
[Galaxy Tab General] alftanner:
Update

i flasht a vodafone rom. now it is started. I have no internal memory more in Tab. :confused:
[Galaxy Tab General] xIllu:
Hallo,

ich hatte die selbe fehlermeldung als ich mein TAB geflashed habe und die partitions durcheinander gebracht wurden..

was ich dann gemacht habe ist es mit der firmware P1000XXJHA zu flashen um die paritions wieder in ordnung zu bringen.. und dann einfach mit der neuesten firmware ohne parition angeklickt in odin noch einmal zu flashen..
[Galaxy Tab General] GANJDROID:
Youre not meant to be in recovery. Vol down + home button + power. Keep holding them until you see the yellow triangle then flash your firmware.

And please keep it English :)
[Galaxy Tab General] alftanner:
now it runs again, I have two problems / errors.

1. neither the internal memory nor the sdkarte are available

2. and the keyboard writes onloy "null null null...."

someone has an idea ?

thanks
[HD2 General] thebestalex:
Hello well I have a problem and I can not fix the video camera and throw my cell phone always pixelation photos and videos you see on youtube, megavideo, also come out pixelated've tried almost everything.

I changed the HTC official roms and I've also tried the cooked roms here between them.

Roms vauss the Pro 4

the official Roms Rom 1.66 and 3.1 HTC official

I moved all settings and have come to think until I cheated and that is a Chinese mobile which I have but do not think so because if not, not cogiera the ROM you install and all that ....

I've also come to believe that may be the version SSPL / HSPL which version I have now is 1.42

that was the one that comes with the current ROM that I have bone the Vauss Pro 4

the truth do not know what to do and move to that problemaaa liarme

aaa night sometimes when I use the camera Flashden like Pink I get the photos and looks Remal!!

I give you an example of how I get my camera pictures on the internet I found this image that resembles as to what I get in my camera and video playback.

I leave the picture attached so that they can appreciate

so leave me like that person in the photo ....

I hope your help thanks.
[Off-topic] superliam:
hope you will all join....or at least check it out...

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=159109897444076&ref=ts
[Off-topic] johndub71:
Frellin right that! Typically british, and has a derbyshire lad, have duelly joined!
[Off-topic] Shreyas Jani:
After i joined XDA, i left FB...:D
[Off-topic] orb3000:
Lol!

I´m just about to do that:D
[Off-topic] Shreyas Jani:
They say facebook is addictive....They are wrong!:D
[Off-topic] orb3000:
Lol agree, that´s because they don´t know about XDA:cool:
[Off-topic] Shreyas Jani:
I wonder if Svetius has the urge to become the next Mark Zuckerburg...If not, ask him, i had proposed to him about selling XDA to me...I have much better ideas to keep the forum on top...:D

SERIOUSLY:)
[Off-topic] flyboyovyick:
XDA must be worth thousands!!!

i would pay a annual subscription.
[Off-topic] superliam:
100% agree. love XDA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[Off-topic] Shreyas Jani:
:) true...I guess thats why Svetius doesn't wanna sell it to me...I had offered him, but he said he doesn't need a Co-Owner...!:)
[Off-topic] orb3000:
Not only you need better ideas, you also need the money!!:eek:

:D

Reference to the amount of money you need:D
[Off-topic] Shreyas Jani:
O_o..Partners invited...:rolleyes:
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] d0nate110:
Dear Reefermattness and arrrghhh !

I apologize for making a new thread but I just want have your attention on the Neopeek Release for Rhodium.

In this forum stays that in FRG83.R5 release

http://www.neopeek.com/en/forum/Android-ROMs/2183-ROM-FRG83-Build-Froyo221-05-11-2010

Bluetooth IS WORKING !

I have no idea what this release can, but I saw its structure. Basically EXT2 Partition for Neopeek is the same thing that system.ext2 file for FRX03 !

And in andoidinstall.tar.gz file is the same stuff as in system.ext2 and roofts.img together.

Why we just not pick the working Bluetooth "driver-package-what-ever" from Neopeek and combine it with FRX03 ? I could do it by my self, but I don't have deep system structure know-how.

I must say that FRX03 is lot easier to handle (getting ready, install, edit etc) thats why I'd prefer working with it as with Neopeek.

And besides I just reached almost 8 hrs of working time with one charge on it with new kernel and startup change. Thats why I want to improve it. Can you help me to understand the structure of driver packages for BT ?

Thank you :)

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EDIT:

Here it is, a repack of SuperFroyo in system.ext2 file.

http://narod.ru/disk/27385762000/system.zip.html

I didn't test it yet. But if some one want to try out - please download and report back !
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] sad0felix:
1) as far as I understand Neopeek uses large parts of Xdandroid projects, starting from the kernels/rootfs. This is not hidden/secret, so he and xda devs may know each other pretty well.

Therefore I can't understand how he can have bluetooth working and Xdandroid not.

then ...

2) maybe he shares branches of code and patches with our devs, but while our devs decided that the code to make bluetooth working is still too buggy, he could have decided to shoot it in for good. In fact reading comments on the thread you posted you will see that at the end the people crying for not-working BT are a lot ...
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] arrrghhh:
I'd be interested to see if BT works fully. I've seen some where they scream that BT works, but then when they actually try to use BT... it fails. So if it pairs and nothing else, that's what state our build is in as well.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] sad0felix:
I just installed it, on a blank 2Gb I had spare.

At start it's quite a pain in the arse ...

cmdline was a little different, I just set correct keyboard.

But I immediately put the latest kernel (24.11.2010). Both in installer and main.

Much faster than Xdandroid. Much faster at boot, much snappier in launcher etc., but this may be related also to the age (of the FAT32 file system) of the other SD I use for Xdandroid. Will format it and see what happens swapping.

But then, when it went to sleep it just crashed.

I tampered with the startup, added pmsleepmode=2, this worked, tried =1 and works quite well.

As I expected, BT doesn't work on my RHOD100.

This neopeek build comes nearly all from xdandroid, so it seems it's not as up to date.

But while that guy takes most of development from XDA, he must work a lot on tweaks, therefore XDA should take something back ...

I'll try cleaning the other SD and check what happens.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] BigOnes69:
Installed on extra card. Rhodium 400 . It is fast. Boots quicker. The initial setup screens are very friendly. Power off and other buttons work more like winmo. Bluetooth will not turn on. Phone works. Data does not work. Have to use WiFi for data. USB while in Android does work (sweet). Key board backlighting not working. I am going to reinstall with bluetooth enabled initially in winmo.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] d0nate110:
Neopeek SuperFroyo Repack into system.ext2

Here it is, a repack of SuperFroyo in system.ext2 file.

http://narod.ru/disk/27385762000/system.zip.html

I didn't test it yet. But if some one want to try out - please download and report back !
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] BigOnes69:
reinstalled Bluetooth not working. Rhodium 400

Only things that could make improvements to XDA android are Speaker phone is working. USB in android does work. Buttons function as they should. It works with SIM card installed. Speed. Boots faster. Screen adjusts to right profile on start lockscreen.USB headset works without line in startup.

Still not working

Data does work but have to manually set APN. Headset does not work ( Does work with line in Startup and calling during boot). Problems with the market downloading.

Does work tethering. pretty much everything

One nice thing is they have a seperate install folder so if your system is corrupted you just reinstall with file manager in winmo. It reformats the ext2 partition on the card. I assume the sizing of partition is in place of the sizing the data.img file on the card.

Being open source borrowing a few items should not be considered crossing a line.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] [ACL]:
wait a minute.. you didnt test it and are spreading it like wild fire ? :eek:

before you cry wolf, at least pretend you saw one .. :cool:
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] d0nate110:
First Full Day Of Testing

I've tested this strange build a whole day today... I must say...I'm confused...

First of all I charged my battery to full 100% in WinMo. Then I've just replaced old system.ext2 with this one (my other files incl. kernel were untouched) and booted a clean Haret and saw, that this Android Learning Demo just didn't want to go on if I taped on it...

My device was locked and I must reboot it...then I delete my data.img file and tried again... success - SuperFroyo booted well.

- Bluetooth doesn't work as pessimistically expected :)

Other stuff works same like in our Froyo Reference.

- flash 10.1, loudspeaker, camera, usb connection and headphones don't work

- sleep_mode=1, wifi, phone, wake up on call and Market are working.

But Battery life was little better according to JuicePlotter... and I had a feeling, that all the system works little bit faster... I don't know if it is just placebo effect, but I thing its true...

I'll keep testing it for another 3-5 days and report back... and BTW you can test it too. :)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] [ACL]:
I'm on nand, so i cant run that abomination. However i did run the real cyanogen and it was a lil faster. But it took too many changes to the rootfs to get it to run.. i havent tried it since..

Also im not sure why neopeek isnt using our rootfs structure so you can swap the system.imgs easier .. maybe you should ask him :-p
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] BigOnes69:
too buggy things would work then stop working. I could plug in a usb headset have it work in a call or music unplug it then plug it back in and it does not work. Many other things like that. Same with the 3.5 jack trick it would work sometimes then sometimes not. If u left it stock it works great and is very fast. Diamond users were happy. I have a diamond that I will try it on sometime next week, but it is not good for rhodium. It did something to the usb on my Rhodium in winmo would not work so gave me a chance to jack in energy rom like that so far.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] sad0felix:
Sorry for silly question, but what do you mean with "being on nand"?

And, lol, why abomination!?!?!?

It's clearly taken from FRX02 Xdandroid build, but tweaked to be more speedy.

These tweaks are something that Xdandroid should port back to main project.

I have only one crash a day with Neopeek's FRG83.R5, while Xdandroid FRX03 is not only slower on my TP2 rhod100, even with around 100Mb ram free, but keeps slowing down even more while using, so that I have to restart.

In the last week this led to process ".acore" crashing almost immediately after boot, with no solution known to me except reinstalling.

That's once a day.

Neopeek did this only once.

Still have to understand what leads to ".acore" process chain crashes.

I would prefer to use Xdandroid FRX03, because it's more up to date and standard compliant, but, strangely, it's not as stable as Neopeek's FRG83, on my phone.

Cheers.

EDIT:

uh, oh, d0nate, I think we are messing it a little bit here. I am testing FRG83.R5, not SuperFroyo.

They are 2 different builds.

What are you effectively testing?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] d0nate110:
Sorry about that

First of all I AM NOT Donate - I'm donatello written with numbers :)

I don't want any donations and hate money :)

Second I apologize, but I can't implement FRG83.R5 to use without formating my SD-card thats why I use a SuperFroyo. The member DmK75 gave me this link to system.ext2 file with SuperFroyo release in it...

I try though to repack FRG83.R5 also in system.ext2 file later... I just don't have the know-how yet...
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Android Development] [ACL]:
Ahh you poor soul.. nand meaning i no longer have wince so i cant run his installer. Abomination is a strong word.. so i take it back :-). But i do think it's wicked and it's not a child of xdandroid like you think. The main chunk of the project comes from cyanogen. The only parts that were pillaged from xdandroid appear to be some of the roofs files (including the hardware libs). And of course, our kernel runs the whole show.

Now why would i run some hacked up version if i can run cyanogen directly? Plus cyanogen has everything open, so we can easy work and modify it as we need. I have not seen anything shared by neopeek, so i dont feel its fair to the xdandroid team since we pretty much share everything.

If it's stable for you.. awesome.. maybe there is future for it.