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[Windows Phone 7 General] vangrieg:
I guess it's safe to say that WP7 won't be a next Kin simply because of a much higher level of commitment, resources and funds from Microsoft. Whether it will catch up with Android in terms of overall market share - who knows.

Re apps, there are ways to check out whether the platform has the specific apps you need. You can use Bing visual search to browse through the Marketplace, install Zune software on your PC, and there's also some third party site that allows you to browse apps (wp7appslist.com or something like that). It doesn't really matter whether they have a billion apps or 15, they need to have the ones you need, I think.

The whole SD card thing is a real mess indeed. Samsung Focus seems to be the only phone where you can realistically replace the card, but there's a list of cards that work and a list of cards that don't here on xda, check it. I personally would prefer built-in flash as it's noticeably faster, but obviously 8GB is just ridiculous. There are some phones that are announced to have 16GB, don't know whether they are available for you.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Talys:
Zune: I like Zune WiFi sync.

MicroSD: If you must have removable SD, don't buy WP7. Even the ones for which you can/might be able to put in your own microSD, the card is locked to the phone and you can't swap out the card without reinitializing the phone.

Apps: WP7 is at 3,000 or something like that now. WP7 has many of the big title games that are on iOS that are NOT on Android; WP7 is insanely easy to program little apps for, and uses XNA for professional game development (same platform as Xbox). So, I think you'll see lots of high quality apps. iOS may have 300k apps, but TONS of the apps are useless garbage.

Who knows to what degree WP7 will succeed or fail? I am certain MS is committed to the platform. On the subject in general though, look how RIM and Symbian were king of the hill and how quickly have lost market share -- the same can happen to Android and iOS. People are not committed to their mobile OS in the same way they are on their computers.
[Windows Phone 7 General] solidkevin:
Yea I agree that we dont need a million apps, just the ones we need, Its funny because on my Captivate I only used about 15 apps of the 50 I had anyway, as for the SD Card issue, I dont mind that you cant take it out without resetting I just want to have at least 20gb's not a measly 8gb.
[Windows Phone 7 General] brummiesteven:
Over in the HD7 forum many people have replaced the 16gb MicroSD card with a 32gb MicroSD Card successfully (using the hidden micro SD Card slot, being careful not to void warranty) , as far as I know only Sandisk cards work though.

Also, you can use SDCards after they've been in a WP7 but you need to stick it in a Symbian Running Nokia to reformat it first. I would imagine after the next update Microsoft will come out with some sort of app for this.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Andrmgic:
My sandisk class 4 16GB card is working very well in my Focus.. no complaints so far.

As for your other questions..

The Zune software is very nice.. and wireless syncing is an option for music, photos, etc.

They are up to around 3,000 apps..

As for updates, the first big one is planned for January.. the carriers do have the final say on an update being released, but the delays (if they happen) should be nothing like android.. because OEM and carrier customizations to the OS have been limited to applications that can be uninstalled and special sections in the marketplace. Microsoft has supposedly set up duplicates of the carrier tests in their own test labs so they can preemptively test updates and know if an update is going to pass the carrier test or not.. and provide the results to the carrier.

Microsoft is delivering the updates either OTA or via the Zune software.. but the carriers still have the final say.

I don't anticipate any delays, though.. unless there are problems with the update. As the owner of a Samsung Vibrant.. I can safely say that I will not miss that aspect of Android one bit..
[Windows Phone 7 General] solidkevin:
Thanks for all the replys guys! The more I think about it, the more I want to get the Focus. I will admit, Ive been used to Android for a while now but it shouldnt be so bad, seeing as I have been using my bros spare 3GS, it does what I need it to do....but still just not a fan of how iphone is set up, and the syncing process is just....ugh....I just hope Zune isnt like itunes...
[Windows Phone 7 General] cloudpost:
i was also in your boat last week. I was an avid android user and recomended it to all my friends. i had the hd2 with 6.5 and it was meh to say the least, but my new HD7 is amazing and i now tell those friends to get WP7 phones.

the UI is great and intuitive, and for being the first version of WP7... it rocks!

The market is still beta, but give it time and im sure it will florish. Like Talys said, apps are super easy to make so its only a matter of time.

i also love zune. first time using it when i got the HD7. Wireles syncing is so convienient! keeps all my music fresh and different everytime i charge my phone.

I jumped ship and not looking back. WP7 is amazing!
[Windows Phone 7 General] solidkevin:
What about Playing Divx files? Possible?
[Windows Phone 7 General] solidkevin:
Excellent man! Awesome post, Ive decided that WP7 it is! Funny how things change....a couple of weeks ago I was telling my bro how Great Android is and how I would never get an iphone or a WP, Ive been literally all day though researching WP and like you said the things that are missing will come in future updates.
[Windows Phone 7 General] The Gate Keeper:
disclaimer (:-P): there is no guarnetee that the features you want will be coming in an update any time soon, but hopefully a lot of the ones you desire (and the rest of us) will. but all we can do is wait and actually see.
[Windows Phone 7 General] truffle1234:
there are so many threads like this on this forum.... i dont get it why ppl want to load Android on WP7 still...

the Memory card issue is to stop ppl loading Android on WP7 device... and i beleive its here to stay...

come on guys if you put your self in the shoes of Microsoft you will do the same thing.... why you should allow ppl to load some other OS on your device... when microsoft have spant time, money and effort in developing a new OS (i will not say good or great as i know time will tell what WP7 will do)
[Windows Phone 7 General] lqaddict:
Umm, did you actually read the OP???

The person wants to use WP7 as a WP7 device not to load Android on it.
[Windows Phone 7 General] solidkevin:
Ok.....next time try reading the thread first before responding:cool:
[Windows Phone 7 General] The Gate Keeper:
yea, he said he is coming from android and looking at windows phone.
[Windows Phone 7 General] aglowlight:
As an owner of several devices ranging from all 4 generations of the iPhone, Dell Streak, Nexus One, HTC G2 and my most recent device the Samsung Focus I must say that the OS is just plain slick. The OS is fast and very responsive. I struggled with the whole micro sd card issue to and just went out on a limb and purchased the Transcend class 2 32gb from Amazon.

I installed the card per the instructions and had a total storage of 36.90 GB after the format was completed. I have had no problems with the phone at all without a certified micro sd card.

The phone is great, my only problem is I have to get used to how easy the phone is to use. It's very intuitive once you forget that it's not android or ios. No looking back for me.
[Windows Phone 7 General] adesonic:
I have tried the lot, wm5, wm6, wm6.5, web0s, android and iOS (on an iPad). Wp7 is the best for me, even with it's current limitations.
[Windows Phone 7 General] gom99:
The memory card thing makes sense given what they're trying to achieve.

1. They want to make it simplier for the consumer, when the consumer installs an app they don't see Onboard/My Storage/SD Card. It's arcane to the general consumer; The consolidated space makes it easier to understand.

2. Allows flexibility to OEM to choose whatever storage mechanism they see fit eg: NAND, SD Card
[Windows Phone 7 General] robstunner:
Personally, the biggest updates i wanna see is an iOS style of multitasking, and copy paste. Everything else, like apps for example will just take time.
[Windows Phone 7 General] solidkevin:
LOL here is the olympus that was heavily rumored.

Looks like just another Android phone and again with a stupid UI overlay, I was holding out to see how the Olympus was but man Ive decided already, WP7!!!!
[G2 and Desire Z General] DemptD:
In normal phonebook i have set it to just show phone contacts.

But when sending a new sms and i open the phonebook everything comes up... phone, sim, facebook, sense facebook.

How do i make it show phone contacts only?
[G2 and Desire Z General] DemptD:
anyone know a solution?
[G2 and Desire Z General] steviewevie:
I wish I knew. I think it's this same problem that made my phone send all my Facebook contacts etc to my car head unit when I copied over the phone book via Bluetooth :rolleyes:
[G2 and Desire Z General] sh3lboi:
had the same problem. took me days and lots of research to finally figure it out.

i wanted to just sync my existing contacts in people app to their facebook accounts but ended up syncing everything. now all my friends in my facebook account appeared on my phone as well. i followed everything on this forum on htcdesireforum.com website. topic: how do you get rid of facebook friends from your phone list.! (SOLVED)
[G2 and Desire Z General] steviewevie:
This thread I presume ?

http://www.htcdesireforum.com/htc-desire-general-discussion/facebook-friends-in-message-list/

Here's the procedure they suggest :
[G2 and Desire Z General] andrewilley:
I have the same problem as the people on the other thread (http://www.htcdesireforum.com/htc-desire-how-to/all-facebook-contacts-when-ending-messages/).

i.e. I can remove "Facebook for HTC Sense" fine, and FB contacts are gone.

However when I recreate it, it starts syncing as soon as I go into that option, and it will only let me untick the Sync Contacts mode it once the first sync has already completed! Argh...

Andre
[G2 and Desire Z General] sh3lboi:
yes. that's the one. only facebook accounts for my existing phone contacts were synched.
[Windows Phone 7 General] benj0219:
Is it possible to see your google calendar subscribtions? I use weeknumbers often, and on my previous Android phone I was able to see the week number subscribtion.

Or is there any otherway to show week number?

Another thing that annoys me a bit is that the day is not written in the calendar in the day viewing, only the date ex: 1.december 2010 not, monday 1.december 2010.
[Windows Phone 7 General] The Gate Keeper:
haven't spotted anything for this yet. if you think these changes should be done, twitting windowsphone could be a good place to start.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
have anyone seen 7zip for Android?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MiMikri:
AndroZip handels 7zip
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] schmolch:
Unless it is pw-protected.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lovetide:
I've just compiled p7zip-9.20.1, it's the command line version of 7zip, if you still want it, you can download it from here:

http://dl.dbank.com/c0mtm6i3wa

(sorry, it's a file share site provided by Huawei company in Chinese language, outseas file share sites are blocked by "opening" China government)

$ uname -a
uname -a
Linux localhost 2.6.35.7-perf #1 PREEMPT Sat Dec 3 17:57:38 CST 2011 armv7l GNU/Linux

$ ls -l /system/bin/7z /data/local/bin/7za-9.20
ls -l /system/bin/7z /data/local/bin/7za-9.20
-rwxr-xr-x 1 2000 2000 1702540 Dec 26 03:37 /data/local/bin/7za-9.20
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 24 Dec 26 03:03 /system/bin/7z -> /data/local/bin/7za-9.20

$ 7z
7z

7-Zip (A) 9.20 Copyright (c) 1999-2010 Igor Pavlov 2010-11-18
p7zip Version 9.20 (locale=C,Utf16=off,HugeFiles=on,1 CPU)

Usage: 7za <command> [<switches>...] <archive_name> [<file_names>...]
[<@listfiles...>]

<Commands>
a: Add files to archive
b: Benchmark
d: Delete files from archive
e: Extract files from archive (without using directory names)
l: List contents of archive
t: Test integrity of archive
u: Update files to archive
x: eXtract files with full paths
<Switches>
-ai[r[-|0]]{@listfile|!wildcard}: Include archives
-ax[r[-|0]]{@listfile|!wildcard}: eXclude archives
-bd: Disable percentage indicator
-i[r[-|0]]{@listfile|!wildcard}: Include filenames
-m{Parameters}: set compression Method
-o{Directory}: set Output directory
-p{Password}: set Password
-r[-|0]: Recurse subdirectories
-scs{UTF-8 | WIN | DOS}: set charset for list files
-sfx[{name}]: Create SFX archive
-si[{name}]: read data from stdin
-slt: show technical information for l (List) command
-so: write data to stdout
-ssc[-]: set sensitive case mode
-t{Type}: Set type of archive
-u[-][p#][q#][r#][x#][y#][z#][!newArchiveName]: Update options
-v{Size}[b|k|m|g]: Create volumes
-w[{path}]: assign Work directory. Empty path means a temporary directory
-x[r[-|0]]]{@listfile|!wildcard}: eXclude filenames
-y: assume Yes on all queries
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ilbolza:
Hi lovetide. What kind of compression did you use?

I can't find a way to open it :/
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ilbolza:
Guys I found another working port of p7zip for android.

I Tried to post a link but becouse i'm a 'noob' here i'm not allowed to.

So you can search for "port2android" at google and you will find it :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lovetide:
It's not an archive file, it's an executable file, you can execute it directly. It's static linked, so it should work on most Android phones.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] krzych:
Link does demand to pay for it. Can you upload attachment on the forum?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DualJoe:
You have to click the link several times. It will work after some time.

But scroll down... Mirror is attached. :cool:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sherpya:
Here version 9.38.1 for arm-v7a, 7za is standalone, 7z needs 7z.so in /system/lib, 7zr a reduced version of 7za, Codecs must be in current dir for rar support (optional)

in the archive I've also added makefile.machine if you want to compile from source (you need to replace the one in the source directory, it needs to be edited for paths)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ultramanoid:
Thank you very much for this indeed. XDA won't let it download no matter how many times I try, would it be possible for you to post it in a mirror somewhere ?

Edit : Never mind, finally got it. XDA glitch.

Edit 2 : Shoot, this will not run in Android 5 and newer systems... ( Error: only position independent executables (PIE) are supported. )
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sherpya:
sorry but I didn't have an arm android 5.x to test it, I'm attaching pie build, I think it should work also on android < 5, but anyway there is still the old attachment in previous post
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ClawSpark:
Hey...

I think the Zarchiver app from the play store would just work.

Hit thanks if I helped you!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tag68:
Does it support being called via command line, from eg a bash script?

To the rest: did the PIE build work fine?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alecxs:
p7zip 16.02 stand-alone attached.

help needed. anybody know how to set HugeFiles=on? compiling with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE does not give expected result

- - -

edit: many thanks to superbeef150 @ XDA for solution!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LarappsOfDongle:
Does this work on Android 6.0?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] superbeef150:
Thanks for sharing! I'm able to get this to run on several devices, but for some reason it errors out when running it in TWRP (which is coincidentally where I hope to run it):

~ # chmod 777 /data/local/tmp/p7zip
~ # /data/local/tmp/p7zip
/sbin/sh: /data/local/tmp/p7zip: not found
~ # sh /data/local/tmp/p7zip
/data/local/tmp/p7zip: line 1: syntax error: unexpected word (expecting ")")

Has anyone observed this different behavior between TWRP and the normal OS occur with 7zip or any other terminal/shell/CLI apps?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] superbeef150:
I got this figured out in case anyone stumbles across this in the future.

The default shell in TWRP (in my case) is at /sbin/sh . From what I've read, it sounds like this is the one that is supplied with BusyBox rather than the normal one. When I ran 7z using /system/bin/sh I had a lot better luck.

I'm now running into issues with larger ISO files. It seems like ones over 2GB are the problematic ones, I can't extract, test, or list contents on them, instead I always get an "E_FAIL" error message.

Googling that in the context of 7z seems to indicate a space issue, but testing and listing contents should make that irrelevant. For the sake of trying I attempted this with the ISOs on an exFAT usb flash drive as well as an NTFS usb hard drive with the same results.

I suspect that the HugeFiles=off setting that [MENTION=7285913]aIecxs[/MENTION] mentioned earlier may be related, but unfortunately the only information on the topic I could find were on one of his posts on p7zip's SourceForge forum where someone suggested a few different compile flags that didn't seem to make a difference for him or myself.

If anyone has any thoughts on this I'd really appreciate it! Thanks!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alecxs:
maybe compiling on 64-bit machine will support Hugefiles
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] superbeef150:
I'm doing that currently, but unfortunately HugeFiles is still showing up as off :/
[Fascinate General] wisconsinated:
So I had dj05 and everything was working great - untill I installed voodoo5 1128 - I couldn't get into the recovery so then I reodin'd the phone back to stock- which everything is working - except when I change the homescreens and reboot the phone, the screens reset back to stock, all the widgets go back to stock and layout goes back to stock. What do i need to do to resolve this problem?
[Fascinate General] wisconsinated:
*fixed* - wipe data from settings > privacy menu -- somehow knocked it back into gear. Thanks to busta for the answer
[Vibrant General] kingrat:
I been having issues with Pandora and various builds with Axura and I figured out my problem was not with Axura (Apology to master) but with another program called "SuperPower".

If you updated SuperPower there is a default setting called "Screen State" which for me was turned on my default where if the phone screen is turned off (automatically for me) that by default it turns on the "auto data disable" so like me if you are listening to Pandora when that songs ends it will hang or error out until you go back to your phone it will start again.

Turning off this settings will fix your pandora and other apps if you were having problems.

Super Power app

Go to "Screen State" then disable "Auto data disable"
[Vibrant General] fflegend85:
There are exceptions you can set up so certain programs can keep using the data while the screen is off.
[Vibrant General] almyz125:
Its AXura not Azura
[Vibrant General] kingrat:
okey dokey... I updated it..
[Vibrant General] fujii13:
The problem with SuperPower (and Tasker and any of those application manipulating programs) is that this setting only works when the app is on screen. If you are playing Pandora in the background or through the widget, SuperPower will not override the data off switch.
[Vibrant General] joe.kerwin:
Not true. And there's a download setting. E.g. phone wont turn data off if you're downloading x amount of data per second.
[Vibrant General] fujii13:
Yes but if you're listening over bluetooth then it's still going to disconnect regardless of data.
[Vibrant General] randun:
Is Axura available anywhere on XDA since the thread has been closed. Thanks.
[Vibrant General] xriderx66:
its somewhere, but i found this...

http://www.devsforandroid.com/forum...brant-edition-▼△-devs4android-2-2-12-13-10.2/

thats where i download it.
[HTC Aria General] Kionic:
I switched back to 2.1 because for some reason i lost the andriod market .

I tried installing the rom but every time i lose andriod market .
[HTC Aria General] zervic:
what froyo ROM did you flash? If it was cyanogen that is expected behavior because you need to flash the gapps package...

http://android.d3xt3r01.tk/cyanogen/gapps/gapps-mdpi-20101020-signed.zip
[HTC Aria General] kaschenberg:
What device is this? We need all the details you can give us man.

What ROM?
[HTC Aria General] Kionic:
It was from rom manger . Cyanogenmod .
[HTC Aria General] zervic:
Don't use rom manager.
[HTC Aria General] Kionic:
Ok....so for gapps package do i flash it while on 2.2 or before ?
[HTC Aria General] zervic:
After you flash cyanogen, make sure you have the gapps package in "/sdcard" and then boot into clockwork by one of the following methods:

1. While phone is on and booted into CM, press and hold the power button, choose reboot, then choose recovery.

2. Turn phone off, when turning phone back on do so by pressing/holding power button and volume down button.

After you are in clockwork, choose install zip from sdcard, then select choose zip, then select the gapps package and install it.

Reboot and there you go :)

hopefully that should work for you...i've read a lot about people having issues using ROM manager to do things...
[HTC Aria General] Kionic:
Thanks .

It worked .

Much appreciated to everyone here for helping me .
[Captivate General] bnshrdr:
EDIT: FALSE ALARM, AT&T thinks I need an update.

I looked around the forum to see if I could find something about this and couldn't, maybe I missed it.

I have Cog 2.3B6 (Froyo), and I just got a text message from at&t saying:

AT&T is providing a free update for your phone. When asked to install the update, please select OK. Thank You.

What update could this possibly be, official Froyo?

Edit: Also when I was reading my message, my phone was also trying to connect to DM, whatever that means. Not sure if it's related or not.
[Captivate General] curti.nogg:
Probably just jh7.

Sent from my Captivate
[Captivate General] bames:
any update?

didn't think you would get a notice rooted on custom rom.
[Captivate General] xiaoali:
Ahh. You got my hopes up...

Just checked.. nada. Running Jh7 stock.
[Captivate General] ScottyNuttz:
Lots of people with custom roms get that. AT&T's notification sytem sees that you are not on what they consider to be the latest version.
[Captivate General] bnshrdr:
Ahh ok, thought it might be a false alarm. Thanks.
[Captivate General] tahoeski:
OP can you edit your post title so everyone doesn't come here and flame you... There should be some kind of MOD editing of these type of update posts that turn out to be false alarms. It think there are an average of 4 or 5 of these a day.
[Captivate General] cappysw10:
For sure. For the last time, most developers have it on good notice that this won't happen until Q1 2011.

If it drops before that, I'll eat my words but until then stop it.
[Galaxy Tab General] alias_neo:
Photoshop Express doesn't seem to find any images on my Tab, has anyone else had any experience with this?
[Galaxy Tab General] crazy talk:
Menu>settings>Uncheck "Show camera photos only in Phone View"
[Galaxy Tab General] alias_neo:
AH thanks, I totally missed that. I tried copying them to DCIM on both the sd and the virtual external sd.

Do we know what path it expects to see for the camera photos?
[Galaxy Tab General] Beards:
If you want tons more features and better control of your editing look no further than PicSayPro.

I used to use Photoshop Express but the second I found PicSayPro my photo editing became much, much more rewarding.
[Galaxy Tab General] alias_neo:
I have Picsay I don't like it, but PhotoShop certainly isn't better. Just thought is give PhotoShop a try but its pretty poor.
[Galaxy Tab General] Beards:
What is it you do not like about PicSayPro?

Compared to Photoshop Express PicSayPro has a greater amount of controls.