[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] xanderpokefan:
Hi folks,

Just want to share my ups and downs with my HD2.

I’m an average kind of guys who just likes to tinker with stuff and to be honest I’m still not 100% familiar with the terms used here and there (flash, roms, port, kernel, etc.). Wanted to post just to share some info and maybe help those in similar situation

CURRENT STATE:

Hardware – HTC HD2 (Asia version)

Winmo Rom – Stock? (I mean orginal, no custom roms whatsoever)

Android – MCCM SE V3.4 FroyoStone Sense

Stability – Almost PERFECT

HISTORY:

-Bought HD2 when first launched in Singapore (can’t remember exactly when)

-I don’t like the iPhone so I was soooo pleased about the positive reviews it was getting vs the iPhone

-But then the ‘freezing’ happended… argh… I’m a windows lover but dang the thing always freezes!!!

-Went thru several hard resets, pulling battery out, contain-my-frustration cycles…

-One thing I learned is that you can never be impatient when dealing with anything 'windows'

-In contrast to iPhone, Winmo is soooooo much more complicated and needs to be handled with care

-Anyway, moving along…

-Found Cookies Home Tab and voila!!!! It’s like a whole new phone!!!

-Loved the customizations plus new apps brought to you by O-market!!!

-Had reignited passion to make this the best phone ever!!!

-Must have apps (in my opinion)

- CleanRAM

- BSB tweaks

- Flip2mute

- Data Controller

- FPSCE

- ClearTemp

- TreeSize Mobile

- mmReset

-So, was crusing along enjoying my revitalized HD2… when…

-along came ANDROID on HD2…

-and there there was BLISS….

-Seriously, the feel was so awesome I couldn’t describe it

-Finally a great piece of hardware in HD2 found its perfect match!!!

-Of course, finding the bliss was no easy journey… here are a few of my ups and downs

- Bluescreen on start-up/stuck on htc – Hoping it went away fully already!

- Random reboot – I think lots of the folks here having the same problem

- process.android.acore not responding

- O M G. This is the worst!!!!

- All contacts are deleted!!!

- Can’t touch the phone!!! This acore thing cannot be force closed!!! Keeps coming back again and again

- No choice but to start from scratch

- I finally figured-out what was causing this on my phone after several miserable days…

- If you’re interested to know all you have to do is ask

- com.htc.bgp (or something like that)

- not nearly as annoying nor fatal as the acore stuff but still annoying

- figured it out for my phone as well so problem gone

- market app gone missing – this is because of Titanium back-up messing it up!!! Grrrr…

- fixed by simply recopying the build to sd card again

-Anyway, those were the downs… so I’m looking forward to the many ups!!! ‘coz I think right now it’s as stable as can be!!!

-BIG BIG THANKS again to Darkstone and MCCM and everyone else who loves their HD2 and cared to share their info on the net for others to enjoy and follow!!!!

-Must have apps on Android on HD2 (in no particular order – I’m just looking at my screens and writing them down)

- Days Until widget 1X1 (18 days before Xmas on my screen right now – so simple but love it!!!)

- Current Widget - informative

- pFinance (for currency conversions)

- Gesture search – amazing

- Vignette – for camera lovers

- Birthday Assistant Pro (Birthday widget, Ebobirthday and eGreetings all in one!!!)

- Yahoo mail and Yahoo messenger – staples for me

- App Manager/App2SD

- Music Downloader Pro

- Cleaner Pro

- Snowfall Live wallpaper

- Barcode Scanner

- Instant Heart monitor or something

- Friendstream (part of Sense)

- Notes widget (part of sense)

- Titanium Backup Pro – Lifesaver so many times

- MyPhone Explorer (forget about HTCsync!!! This is the best sync tool ever!!!)

- Angry Birds – nuff said

- Live Holdem Poker

- AppBrain

- Daily Strip – for comics lovers

- ES File Explorer

- First Aid – live saver in the future

- Desktop Remote (awesome!!!)

- Document Scanner

- DroidEmuLite

- GoChat

- JEFIT

-iphone ringtones

- Metal Detector

- Overclock widget or

- SetCPU

- Quadrant (my highest ever was 1761!!! Take that!!!)]

- TubeMate

- Task Killer

- Y5 Batter Saver

WOW – long list!!!! And I can come up with more!!! But let me leave it at that and for you to discover what more great apps are there. Btw, at first I had this principle NOT to buy anything… but I fell in love with Snowfall Live Wallpaper … and well… that is the start of the snowball I should say. Anyway I’m happy to support those awesome developers! More power to you…

For those who got to this part, wow… thanks for reading!

I still have a few issues which I’m hoping MCCM or any of you knowledgeable guys can help me with:

1) ORIENTATION/G-sensor issue

- Not a biggie for me but I’m still puzzled by it

- I have the typical HTC leather case to which I attached a Braun Buffel money clip with a STRONG magnet (don’t ask why)

- Anyway, when I’m on Winmo – the magnet causes NO ISSUES – meaning the auto-rotate and flip2mute kind of apps are working fine

- On android HOWEVER, the magnet interferes with the G-sensor/compass, such that it’s just stuck there, not moving. Can anyone explain to me why?

- Anyway anytime I need to, I just take it out of the case, but would be awesome if there is a fix to this

2) Facebook birthdays not accurate

- Still can’t figure this one out, but again for me it’s no biggie

- For some reason when Facebook for Sense pulls the data from FB some of the birthdays are off (earlier) by 1 day

- Funny thing is that other apps such as Ebobirthday does the same thing

- Only Birthday Assistant has everything correct (hence no biggie for me ‘coz then I just rely on this app)

- But of course if someone could explain and fix would be great!

3) Battery life

- Still looking for a way to manage battery effectively despite wanting to use internet all the time and use live wallpaper Care to share your battery consumption setups?

- Anyway I think the ultimate solution is an advance in technology that will give us 10 days of battery life in this awesome device!!! (dreaming on – yes) I really hate the bulky extended batt!

Well, that’s it for me!!! What a long post!!!

Please forgive as this maybe my first and last. ‘coz I’m really not a writer and I’m really a lazy person.

Hope I was (or will be) able to help/inspire some souls.

Peace!!!

Xander