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[Nexus S General] akafaze:
do yourself a favor and get the g2. i switch from the nexus one and i can't believe how awesome this phone is. the hardware is one of the best out right now and its stock android. root it and you'll be set with updates from cyanogenmod. the 1ghz needed to upgrade to gingerbread is a myth, its already said phones with froyo can upgrade. the nexus s doesn't even have anything on the g2. trackpad? led? hspa+? keyboard? great quality build? 720p? external sd card? only thing it has is gingerbread...and i'm sure cyanogenmod team won't take long to have a release candidate out like he did with cm 6.1. go with g2!
[Nexus S General] lokto7:
how about gyroscope?
[Nexus S General] mprziv:
G2 is not stock android, it is loaded with tmobile bloat.

G2 hinge design is flawed and flimsy.

G2's screen is terribly washed out compared to amoled, i'm sure s-amoled will look even better.

The G2 is very thick and bulky.

The G2 has no front facing camera, or NFC.

The G2 is not a developer phone like the nexus s, and will not have anywhere near as much dev support as it. It will also not receive future OS updates as soon as the nexus line.

I'd rather have the faster iNAND internal memory over a swappable microsd any day.

720p, if not available...will be a simple software tweak away.

HSPA+ offers 14 Mbit/s max dl, and HSPA offers 7.2 Mbit/s. I've never seen or heard of anyone getting anywhere near either's max...having a ceiling of 7.2 Mbit/s on my cellphone is plenty.

Oh yeah...t-zones internet access for $5.99 is hard to beat too, which is impossible on a tmobile branded phone like the G2.

Sorry for the rant, but I bought a G2 when it came out and was utterly disgusted with it.
[Nexus S General] Halabeaster54:
get the hd7 best out of all of them the nexus s is the same as a vibrant your on here anyway you might as well mod your vibrant and save a butt load of cash, the g2 is good but its not that great all it really has going for it is the 4g and the hd7 has the biggest screen extremely responsive so cool and its getting a huge update in Jan they might as well call it wp8 apparently
[Nexus S General] tekkitan:
love it :)
[Nexus S General] dantheman_:
Well, I'd have to disagree with you on just about every point you made.
[Nexus S General] jroid:
Or a 4" contour Super Amoled Display?
[Nexus S General] azzeh3:
Id have to agree 100 %!! G2 been there done that! Its not a stock phone by far its a lie. The underlying story is that Tmobile has their hand all over it.

Want proof? What about the inability to tether out of the box or root might I add. Its a freaking joke. I cant believe I bought one thinking its going to be updated by google. The truth is in the upcoming weeks, if the G2 gets 2.3 then come back and through this post back at my face.

You better hope im jinxing my self for your sake hahahaha

Oh and sorry for bashing but I got my heart broken by it so please have mercy on me =D
[Nexus S General] CaliLove310:
Same here. I returned the G2 after using it for a few weeks. Mine was full of problems. The faulty hinge, sporadic signal loss with no fix but a reboot. Also a few times the G2 completely shut off while replying to a text or browsing the web. No matter what I did, the G2 would not turn on. Only thing it would do was flash the orange led light if i tried connecting it to the charger. I would just let it sit and try after ~30 min. It did always turned back on though. I was eager to try out the HSPA+ since I'm in an area where it's been turned on for a while, but I never experienced any high speeds. My N1 and G2 would average the same. So tomorrow I will be picking up the Nexus S. I don't see any deal breakers for me specs-wise.
[Nexus S General] ztm.000:
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this.

Nexus S FTW.
[Nexus S General] ericc191:
I agree, I was thoroughly disappointed with the G2 and will never go back to it again. I also owned the HD7 for 2 weeks and it was a good phone, not great. The speaker on the HD7 was much better than the G2's as well as the camera/720p. It did have some pink tint issues, however. Why did I return that phone too? I missed all the flexibility of Android and kind of preferred a smaller phone. Will I come back to WP7 in the future? You bet.. once a few updates have rolled out.

So basically, the best phone of the three you listed is the Nexus S. I think you know this too, otherwise you would have posted this question in either the G2 forum or HD7.
[Nexus S General] MacaronyMax:
Well... My hero can run it and thats a 512mhz crappy thing :p
[Nexus S General] :
Don't touch the HD7, it's terrible.

Battery life is laughable, it feels like it's going to break in your hand, speakers are rubbish.

Nothing wrong with the OS mind, it's pretty good.
[Vibrant General] Vanilla gorilla:
I want to know if it is possible to use my vibrant as a screen to play on If I hook it up to my ps3
[Vibrant General] xtone:
try and find out? lol why not just use a regular TV instead of 4inch screen..
[Vibrant General] sarge363:
Like remote okay?

Sent from the future......
[Vibrant General] Vanilla gorilla:
I think it would be cool and my phone looks better than my tv sadly..
[Vibrant General] mr.orange303:
I can honestly say my tv kills my phone. Even avatar cant compare. I have a ln52b750.

Its a sammy and the phone can play movies on it. Not the other way around though.

I just dont think it works without a video in feature.
[Vibrant General] Vanilla gorilla:
Thnx I want to play black ops in my comp room when all the tv's are being used hays im sad I know..
[Vibrant General] smashmouth:
No I dont believe the PS3 is capable of sending video over wifi or Bluetooth to your phone. I know through Samsung media share you can start vids on your computer and have them play on your TV via PS3 or through all share, turn on Bluetooth have PS3 scan media and BAM any movie accept Avatar cause it's DCF "SD card" will output on your PS3 through Bluetooth.

you can rip any dvd to the proper phone format, place it on your phone via Bluetooth PS3 will see it, choose it via PS3 media, and BAM on your TV.

"That was way off topic" I think. anyway, a little info never hurts.
[Vibrant General] uwishurocked:
I'm not sure if you're able to stream the video to your phone from the PS3.. but I do know that the PS3 is capable to stream the video over wifi... (I use my PSP from time to time to play on my PS3 in a different room)
[Vibrant General] brian_v3ntura:
wait what? o.O you can do that with PSP? i know you can see the ps3 XMB with a psp but i didnt know you could use the psp as a portable screen to play ps3 games...unless im reading it wrong
[Vibrant General] xriderx66:
Before anyone gets pissed I even asked this... I currently do not have access to a computer and when I search for threads involving stock froyo it takes more than 5minutes to load and its not the results I'm looking for so can Someone link me to a thread about stock froyo and Also on flashing roms for noobs
[Vibrant General] cundiffr:
sorry but your gonna get flamed.

this is the best ive found by far

good luck.
[Vibrant General] xriderx66:
Yeah I know ahah

Umm.. there's no link on your post.
[Vibrant General] cundiffr:
lol yeah sorry i just realized that

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=832532

here you go
[Vibrant General] Sport:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=857974

go on youtube and enter how to root and load custom rom on the Vibrant that should help you out
[Vibrant General] xriderx66:
Thats all I needed thanks guys!
[Android Software Development] nixomose:
I'm having way too much fun getting things to compile and run on my g1.

I just got joe (my favorite editor) to build and run. It doesn't work quite right if you adb shell to it, but if you ssh to it, it works fine.

I was wondering if there was a centralized place where people upload stuff like this so others can make use of it without having to reproduce the same effort...
[Hero CDMA Android Development] drewski3420:
I'm running the newest Cyanogenmod 6.1, coming from a Fresh ROM. I've had the same Recovery image since I rooted the phone, RA-heroc-v1.2.3.

I'm trying to use the ROM Manager included with my new ROM. In order to do so, I need to have clockwork as my recovery image. I've flashed both the Clockwork recovery image 2.5.0.1, as well as an updated version of RA's (v1.6.2) using ROM Manager. In each case, the process appears to complete successfully.

However, when I boot back into recovery using Home+End, I continue to get my original RA recovery 1.2.3 menu.

is there something I'm doing wrong that's preventing me from updating my recovery image?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] KBizzle:
I had the same issue the other day. I think its a rom manager problem. If you can find the clockwork recovery img file for the hero, you can try manually flashing using terminal emulator on your phone or through adb.
[Android Themes] cameltoe752:
Not sure if this is the right place for this but I want to add a shortcut to my home screen without an icon, any way to do this? Or do I need to have an icon that is blank & if so can anyone make me one? I use launcher pro & bettercut but it doesn't seem like it's possible unless I'm missing something.
[Android Themes] gkenny1991:
i think u have to need a transparant one.....

here i made one :D 1px you wont see it :D

leme know if this helped you :p

edit: when i upload it , its so small you cant see it lol so here is a link to it => http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/1582/transparentz.png

hope this helps you
[Android Themes] cameltoe752:
Worked great, thank you!
[Android Themes] gkenny1991:
np, so it worked ? :D
[Android Themes] cameltoe752:
Yeah got exactly what I was looking for, I like the minimalist look but wanted one app on my home screen, just didn't want to see it dirty'n up my layout
[Android Themes] gkenny1991:
i wanted the same so i made custom icons ( yust text ) and i disabled app labels :D

result =>

ps words are in dutch
[Android Themes] cameltoe752:
Yeah I use all text also with labels removed makes for a nice clean look
[Android Themes] cameltoe752:
I'm gonna have to try my hand at making some icons
[Android Themes] cameltoe752:
Here's a screenshot of mine my invisible app is in the red triangle :)
[Android Themes] cameltoe752:
not sure why the first screenshot i posted was distorted
[Android Themes] gkenny1991:
lol image to small ? :( cant see it :D
[Android Themes] cameltoe752:
lol I know, I posted that from my phone then did it again from my computer, can you see the second one?
[Android Themes] gkenny1991:
yea not bad , i made another dock image for mine , will show it when im back home again ( at school atm :rolleyes:)
[Android Themes] gkenny1991:
here is mine :D
[Android Themes] cameltoe752:
Nice work.
[Defy General] CSharpHeaven:
As you might have already read over the internet LG was behind the rumour that minimum hardware spec for Android 2.3 a.k.a Gingerbread is 1GHz. I just read that LG pulls back the claim and considering updating their mobiles to Android 2.3.

This is a good time for us Motorola Defy owners to kindly request Motorola to reconsider their decision and give us Android 2.3 instead in 2011.

I'm sure Motorola people are monitoring this board so let them hear us loud and clear if you would also like your next Defy's release update to be Android 2.3. What do you think?

Thank you.
[Defy General] bschuele:
Yes, yes, yes, ........

I totally agree with you!!

sent from my moto defy with taptalk
[Defy General] xtian63:
with the Milestone OC working for the defy the 1ghz req for 2.3 is now no longer a problem
[Defy General] Jt612:
wouldn't it be better to make this thread on the Moto forums?
[Defy General] paulle:
i agree 2.3 for defy
[Defy General] aikidoka90:
If motorola announced officialy 2.3 for defy, they would sell veeeery much more...because many people dont buy nothing of motorola cause they hava supported the milestone, that wont be updated to froyo...
[Defy General] jk1234:
Doesn't 2.3 come out before the Defy even gets 2.2?
[Defy General] Jt612:
yes 4char?
[Defy General] yyhoney:
I couldn't agree with you more!

but.....motorola don't agree with you.....
[Defy General] danbutter:
Hehehe, yeah. Probably true.
[Defy General] xela19115:
Not Motorola's Fault

I would like to point out a rather complex issues in regards of what version of OS the phone gets released with, as well as the future upgrades. Motorola started development of the Defy long before Android 2.2 was released. And my guess when T-Mobile signed off on the phone it was tested by Motorola as well as T-Mobile with Android 2.1 only. From the product delivery point of view the fact that 2.2 came out while Defy was going through T-Mobile test cycle is irrelevant. Neither T-Mobile nor Motorola would've stopped the testing and go back to square one to change the OS to the latest and greatest version. Anybody who says otherwise has no clue on the way the product deliverable works.

Other point is that Motorola already may have a 2.2 or even 2.3 done for Defy but it has to go through the carrier's internal SI&T and QA process and get approved by T-Mobile. And if T-Mobile does not want to get Defy upgraded to 2.2 -- well guess what? No one will see the 2.2 running on Defy officially. Motorola cannot go over T-Mobile's head and release 2.2 to Defy customers without compromising the business relationship with the carrier.

Just my $0.02.
[Defy General] dornellasrj:
It would be incredible for now to develop a retail firmware wt Froyo. The 2.3 still a dream LOL
[Defy General] jellydonut:
Seems like a no-brainer to us - but apparently manufacturers have zero interest in supporting their devices after managing to con people into buying them.

If it weren't for the Defy being so cheap, and ruggedized, I'd have bought an HTC without looking twice.
[Defy General] SteveChou:
DEFY will coming soon with 2.2 in China（except for Hong Kong and China Taiwan） So I think 2.3 is possible.

here are the link and pictures

http://bbs.gfan.com/android-360725-1-7.html

sorry i don't know how to post pic here, maybe you should register first before you can see the pictures.
[Defy General] dornellasrj:
and in Q1 2011 in Latin America (Brasil)
[Defy General] jk1234:
What about Europe?
[Defy General] SteveChou:
Q2 in 2011 official https://supportforums.motorola.com/community/manager/softwareupgrades

maybe we should support the thread

https://supportforums.motorola.com/thread/41186
[Defy General] Higgsy:
You buy the device with a particular version of Android, the manufacturer doesn't have to give any upgrades, if they do its purely a bonus to the owner. IMO never buy a phone on the hope that it might get upgraded, and don't believe any dates published on the internet about when an upgrade is going to come - even if its from "official" sources.
[Defy General] CSharpHeaven:
I agree with you 100%. However, providing Motorola can fix the speaker phone issue soon enough then Defy would become their best selling handset. Over seventy pages of forum posts (by Germans) shows the level of demands for Defy.

I'm also sure Defy would eventually be their best new selling unlocked handset as well and I hope then Motorola cease the opportunity to do something good. Those with unlocked version of Defy are not at the mercy of any carriers.

Please people, as much as you like Motorola's Defy they also like your money too otherwise how Motorola can pay its directors crazy salaries? We can always encourage Motorola to do something good for us rather than acting as spokesperson of Motorola that nothing good will ever come out of Motorola in relation to its customers. First for everything! : )
[Defy General] :
Please see Motorola's official software update news about Android 2.2 here
[Defy General] Higgsy:
Yeah I'm well aware of that it was a general comment.
[Defy General] xela19115:
I hate to burst everybody's bubble but Defy is a past tense as far as Motorola is concerned. Motorola's product development moved on to better, newer devices. T-Mobile is the one that has to want to get 2.2 or 2.3 on the device. T-Mobile (or pick any carrier) is usually a long pole in which software goes on the device. Read up on 2.1 update for Xperia X10a. By the time a device exits carrier's testing and validation it's basically for the lack of better term technically obsolete.

Motorola (like any other manufacturer) sells millions of smartphones to carriers instead of retail at full price to the end-users. Thus they will do as a carrier says not what a select group of enthusiasts wishes. Also for 99% of the Defy customers that got their phone for a subsidized price it is absolutely irrelevant what Android OS version is on the phone.

With that said we may or may not see 2.2 update for the Defy. My guess that Motorola already has it done and delivered to the carriers but it is up to T-Mobile USA to get on with a test cycle and commit to schedule for when it becomes available.
[Defy General] Step666:
Whether or not the Defy gets Froyo has pretty much nothing to do with T-Mobile US.

So please, stop posting such misleading information.

Updates go Google > Manufacturer > Network > End User if the handset is network-locked. If it isn't, they go Google > Manufacturer > End User.

So even if T-Mobile US decided they didn't want their customers to receive Froyo, that would not stop other networks around the world authorising the update for their handsets and it certainly wouldn't stop people like myself who have unlocked/unbranded handsets from receiving it because no network has a say in that situation.

Motorola have stated that they will be releasing Froyo and until they say otherwise or miss their self-proclaimed deadline, it's only fair and reasonable to take them at face value.

The idea that the Defy is 'past' whilst it's still in stores is a bit ridiculous, not to mention abusing or neglecting current customers will only lead to Motorola losing business further down the line so it would be far from sensible for Motorola to go back on their word in this situation.

That said, personally I feel our best hope is by way of custom ROMs, not only is there a significant chance we'll receive updates quicker than waiting for Motorola or after they see fit to stop providing them but we'll also likely be able to get blur-less ROMs as well.
[Defy General] aikidoka90:
Do you know that LG will update the lg optimus one to gingerbread because they have received many complaints about this?

We have to do the same with motorola. Write saying that if they do not update the gingerbread to defy, we wont never buy anything from motorola ... etc etc
[Defy General] wyxpark:
Software is as important as the hardware, if it's not more so. Moto needs to keep pushing amazing updates to both new and old machines, so that more consumers will come for it
[Defy General] mattisekholm:
im on! go gingerbread!
[Defy General] rbeier1221:
I would definitely like to see Gingerbread on this device! While it may not be necessary for a phone to be updated, it is good for business, especially with Android phones. And Moto should know this by now after the Cliq fiasco. They lost a lot of customers with that.

BTW, there is a thread on their forums as well and according to one of Moto's employees they plan to do better with updates on T-Mobile. We shall see if this is true or not.
[Defy General] Sorensiim:
No doubt we'll get Froyo, but if Motorola listened to what people say on forums, do you think we'd still get Blur?
[Defy General] xtian63:
2012 will come, the 4 Horsemen will ride in, a Comet will hit the Earth causing the extinction of all living life... and Motorola will still shove Blur down our throats while those things happen
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nguyendqh:
I think this is the right sub forum to post in.

I just wanted to share a thought about swype.

I love how it works and it makes one hand texting so much easier

I just wish it would automatically hit "space" after each swype completed.

Wouldn't that be so much more convenient than having to press the spacebar each time?

I space more than I backspace to retype a word.

Just thought I'd make a comment about that.

Anyway to hack that and make it work that way? =P
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ArcticWolf91:
....You don't have to hit space. Just swype the next word and it will automatically add the space.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ethutch:
Maybe not. He might not have the setting right.

On the main SETTINGS page select

Language & keyboard

Swype

Auto-spacing

There's other good stuff in there too. Like the ability to turn off the modestly annoying vibrate function.

And you can have my vote too. SWYPE TOTALLY ROCKS!!!!!!!

My only concern with the MT4G was lack of keyboard. I had the original Vantange but got a Raphael b/c I couldn't effectively use the poke me keypad. Since that day I've missed the thin-ness of the Vantage. MT4G and Swype have returned harmony to my world :)
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] p1natic:
help me guys, i import my contacts from my sim but when i got to phonebook>contact, it says, no contact. cannot read sim.

can you help me guys. please.

thanks.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] phoneguy 4567:
I know if you export your contacts to the SIM from a Samsung phone another phone may not be able to import them, are you copying the contacts from a Samsung phone?

You could connect the phones via Bluetooth & transfer them that way.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marcoplo:
Have you got problem in xperia or samsung?

Did you do any back up

In xperia you can back up you contact in you memory card!!! in contact press content menu andand then " back up contact" and then save " memory card"

those contact are save as a vCard
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gordonx10i:
Had a similar problem where I could not import my sin contacts I think its a bug within sonyEricsson Rom .

Solution

I flashed my phone with asop 2.1 or 2.2.1 Rom sorry can't remember think it was 2.2.1 then exported contacts to sd relished to se Rom and imported . . .

Hope that helps
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] p1natic:
thanks for the respondes guys.

first of im using xperia x10.

second is i dont see any "contacts" option from the main menu which is kinna weird. the selection goes, browser, calculator, calendar, camera. but no contacts.

third is i dont know how to flash.

is there any other way?

thanks for the replies.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] epinion:
Just click three people icon at the top left of your phone book and you will see in 2.1 we're not only have one phone book but multiple phone book, and it will be more as you using other service like facebook , twitter, yahoo messenger, etc. you should be able to found your contacts by enabling other phone book.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marcoplo:
1 option

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=866473

1Download one of these but do not install

(download biggest one)

2 unziped to the new folder

3 in this new folder go to the /system/app/

4put "phonebook.akp" in the sd and intalled in the phone

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2 option

just download the attachent

place on the SD and instaled

(assume you got the file explorer

if not got to the market and install astro)

_________________________________________

when you install this app "phonebook.akp"

in the phonebook got to menu content (first hardbuttons in the left )

and import the contact from sim or memory card
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] p1natic:
i saw it now. thanks much for the reply people.

I really appreciate it.
[myTouch 4G Themes and Apps] VolcanicSkunk:
Downloads here!!!!

Also the stock splash screen.

Had a request for a pink myTouch 4G screen for all the ladies here on XDA.

The last one I found while searching for HTC logos. It looks awesome as a splash screen!

TrueBlue_Drew also edited the HTC Special. He made it blue and added "rooted" to it. Really slick! Grab it from post 235.