yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows Phone 7 General] arturobandini:
Unfortunately he is so right.

The more I use WP7 the more I realize how MS (probably fascinated by the iPhone commercial success) decided to stupidly mimic the iPhone: locked OS, no flexibility, no openness, no freedom, no USB drive, no file explorer, no way to import documents.... Only restrictions and limitations

I wonder when people here will open their eyes?
[Windows Phone 7 General] root beer:
With Xbox live in the phone I 100% want the phone closed. I don't miss it being open anyway, if you need the os to be open it is easy enough to choose an android phone.
[Windows Phone 7 General] The Gate Keeper:
i do see that it is locked down and closed. given my experience with the openness of WM6.5, i'm glad that it is a bit more controlled. It's still early days and it's really hard to judge what MS will do with the platform. MS needs to satisfy their OEMs as well as the end users, and who knows where things go with WP7.

But do you want to know the difference between MS and Apple though in all this? MS are actually willing to work with homebrew'ers, rather than try and sue everyone who tries to go outside of what their grand master plan is (Apple). We shouldn't really pass judgement till the platform matures a bit more. Perhaps this time next year we will know where MS really stands.

The reason for the closeness and control is to avoid all the fragmentation that WM and Android experience. All the Android people will say, but 70%+ are on 2.1/2.2... which may be true, but given it a few more years where people won't go out and rush to get new phones and you have everything ranging from 1.5 to whatever they'll be at then, and OEMs/carriers don't roll updates to old devices. At least with the Apple approach, you're going to be supported longer than the OEMs/carriers would have.
[Windows Phone 7 General] arturobandini:
Indeed, I certainly should have chosen Android. Honestly.

My weakness is that I'm a loyal customer. I always had WM6.5 devices, no Android, no iPhone.

But acually I did not expected the OS would be so limited and locked. It has never been MS' philosophy.

I am still very surprised to see that several xda members accept to be tied to a PC, tied to Zune.

Anyway, you cannot criticize if the guy in the shop tells you how much WP7 is locked. Because it's actually true, and potential customers should know.
[Windows Phone 7 General] vetvito:
Wp7 Xbox LIVE is a absolute joke. Wow I can edit my Avatar, and get some cheesy gamer points. Its partial Xbox LIVE at best.

I was expecting so much more.
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
If a salesman was to tell me that I would say "SWEET!" and proceed to immediately check out with it...hmmmm....come to think of it, that actually did happen! lmao

I much prefer the closed system approach and would have that Android salesman buying a WP7 phone.
[Windows Phone 7 General] solidkevin:
So From what I gather from this thread, you should go for WP7 if you want updates and streamlined experience, but Android if you want openness and more features but you may or may not get updates?

Im very conflicted here as I am a heavy android user and I do find that it can lag at times and its very annoying that I dont get the updates as soon as they come out, but imo the pros outweigh the cons in Android, I love how I can just connect it in USB mode and copy files, how I can use any Mediaplayer to copy my music (mediamonkey), and other little things, I really think I'd miss those features on WP7, especially the USB mode, BUT man its a beautiful OS and I would love to get updates as they come out, not a year later or even at all.

Very conflicted here, I really like the Focus but WP7 is in its very early stages and combine that with the SD Card issue, Im a little hesitant, on the other hand the Moto Olympus should be coming very soon and it looks to be great hardware wise....

argh.
[Windows Phone 7 General] The Gate Keeper:
what exactly were you expecting? games are slowly coming into place and sure a lot of them are ports from iPhone, which is expected. As for xbox live integration, you get all that is expected from the xbox equal, that is seeing achievements, seeing/messaging friends, and the game splotlight. on the xbox you get additional things such as the music/video market place which zune provides. so what exactly does it not have which you were expecting? maybe recommend it on the future updates thread as part of missing features?
[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
iOS and (now) WP7 phones (will) have a longer support lifecycle than Android phones, due to the nature of the operating system that runs on them, and the way the hardware spec is controled by Apple/Microsoft. Android users have the option to mod their phones up and [basically] self-support, but that only goes so far, you know, especially when newer android phones come out using conflicting hardware platforms (I wonder who's gonna be porting Nexus S ROMs to Snapdragon phones, etc.).

There is no SD Card issue on WP7. There's an issue of customer expectations and an issue of people having terrible reading comprehension.

If you want a phone with more storage wait for one to be released.

I would not rely on the [rather early] results of people on this forum who swapped memory cards.

Would suck to pay $80+ for a card and have it fail on you a some months down the road with all your **** on your phone, would it not?
[Windows Phone 7 General] vetvito:
How about actually doing what the name implies. I want real live multi-player gaming. Every other OS has it except WP7. I want the Xbox LIVE experience that we were promised, not this half assed POS. Microsoft had a huge potential with this.
[Windows Phone 7 General] FL5:
My experience at the AT&T store involved a guy with an iPhone who knew the minimum about android but nothing about wp7. He was a little negative on wp7 just because he wasn't a fan of how the UI looks, but then, I could see that.

Honestly though, my decision to get the Focus wasn't because of some sort of brand loyalty or because of a list of pros and cons. I walked around and screwed with the CSR by playing with everything in the store, and got the one that I liked the most. I have to admit that it was a close competition with the Captivate, and I understand that folk have had a good deal of success in making the Captivates faster, but after having to continuously tweak the bejeezus out of my tilt2 just to get it to be usable, it was really nice to pick up the Focus and have it work, and be fast at it, right out of the box. Sure, that's not gonna work for everyone, but I'm cool with it for now.
[Windows Phone 7 General] solidkevin:
I am leaning toward wp7 but I hope down the line some kind of app or hack can allow us to use the phone in usb mode, allow us to sync with other media players, an app that can play divx/mkv files, and jusr little things overall, hope wp7 can do well, just so much negativity I see about it...
[Windows Phone 7 General] nrfitchett4:
I don't know why anyone on here is suprised by wp7. It has been reported this way for months and discussed on xda ad nauseum.

As for the at&t CSR, I have seen the same thing at t-mobile and if I was MS I would be a little pissed off about it. They are happy to bash the "closedness" of WP7, but don't talk about the issues with Android (fragmentation, lag of the vibrant).
[Windows Phone 7 General] mrmomoman:
I love Android but the WP7 experience is very good.

Those who bash WP7 should wonder what it would be like if xda and forums like it did not exist. How strong is the actual carrier support or google support for. Android? Dont think free is actually free. It has a cost too.

To each his/her own but choice is good.
[G Tablet General] mmathai77:
Which one do you guys think is the most stable, fastest, and better?

I just got my GTablet, Completely NEW to Android, I did flash it with the TNT 2.2.0

I frking love this thing now, so happy I didn't buy the iPAD.

But on the TNT I do get some random, once in a while Force Closes (FC) and if I don't touch the system for a but, it just shuts off on me. Then when i press the power button thinking it'll come out of sleep, its a cold boot.

Whats everyones opinions of ZPAD, TNT, and CM verses each other? Which one is better in YOUR opinion.
[G Tablet General] h8rift:
I think a better comparison for you would be if we could list the Cons for each ROM. Each of the 3 ROMs have boat-loads of Pros (just saving space, not being a negative nancy :) ).
[G Tablet General] Hannigan174:
I have to say that TnT lite 2.20 seems super smooth and stable. CM and Zpad both had too many bugs for me when I tried them about a week ago. I would specify the problems, but I don't recall exactly for either Zpad or CM.
[G Tablet General] trscons:
Viewsonic told me that there is a major upgrade coming on Dec 19. The gTablet will automatically alert you to its availability for download.

--

Tom
[G Tablet General] mmathai77:
Major update is flash I believe
[G Tablet General] Nevermore:
Hi all,

I have an Apple Mini USB keyboard which is the perfect size, but it doesn't work. I tried a larger Dell keyboard and that works fine. Is there any way I can get the Apple one working?

Thanks
[G Tablet General] aaron19953:
(shakes head) maybe you're holding it wrong.. hahaha.. sorry couldnt help myself
[G Tablet General] Linuxslate:
Bump

I'm in exactly the same situation. I have the nice little aluminum Apple USB keyboard. It would be nice if it worked.

It's worked with other tablets in the past.

I'm not sure I like the idea of having to run out and buy a new mini keyboard just because the one I have is not supported.

A Dell USB keyboard works when connected thru the Apple keyboard, so the USB hub in the Apple keyboard is working, and it is not a USB host or power thing.

I'm using CM7
[G Tablet General] sjmoreno:
Do a search in the Accessories section

There are several threads with this as a topic since that is a pretty sweet looking keyboard. I believe a member named prescott1 has gotten it to work first but others have also gotten it to work with a few different roms on the gTab. Here is one thread but there are many others.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1019995
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] ronnie5:
Hello all, I listen to a lot of music at work using my XDA EXEC not a good idea on a fork lift as the uni gets knocked around a bit! Anyway the headphone socket has broken off the circuit board so now I have no sound and can no longer make calls and I'm getting cheesed off with looking at it to see if the amber light is flashing?

I have another XDA EXEC which is like new, I bought it off Ebay some time ago hoping it was the screen and battery that was dodgy but it was blocked so as good as dead!

So what I want to do now is take what ever I need to take off the motherboard from the uni that I currently use with no headphone socket and replace it with the blocked uni so I can make calls and have sound!!

But I don't know what I need to take off or what it looks like?

The reason I want to do this, is because my uni I use has had a hard life and the motherboard is a little brittle and I'm loosing buttons!

If anyone can help me out here so I can carry on using the old girl!!

Cheers..
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] orb3000:
Have a look on my sig link, there is the service manual on hot to dismantle the Uni

Good luck!
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] ronnie5:
Hello Orb, I have this PDF manual which I have used many times but what I want to know is what parts on the motherboard do I need to remove so I can get a radio signal from my spare uni as its blocked/Blacklisted. I presume its a chip of some sort? Where is it and what does it look like?? I can then make a good uni out of the two of them!
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] orb3000:
Oh! I get it, perhaps you can ask enigma1 as she is an expert on this matters

Haven´t seen her in long time

Good luck!
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] ronnie5:
Yes I remember enigma1 she was a very handy chick! I think she was around a few months ago?
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] orb3000:
Yep, try PM her, hope you fins your way soon!
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] -Jonny-:
Have you tried contacting your operator? I accidentally bought a blocked HTC from eBay, and after contacting Orange to see what was going on, they unblocked it with no fuss.
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] ronnie5:
Hello Jonny, Yeah I contacted O2 and they wasn't very happy that I had a blacklisted phone! I told them I bought it off Ebay but they had no intention of unblocking it for me so I didn't stay on the line long!
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] ronnie5:
I will do just that! Will need to search for her first I presume?
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] orb3000:
Here you can contact her

http://xdaforums.com/member.php?u=519072
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] ronnie5:
Cheers for that Orb saves me a lot of time looking! I will PM her when I have a bit more time on my hands!
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] orb3000:
NP:)

Let us know how all goes and good luck!
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] ronnie5:
Right have have sent a message and received a reply so I am going to copy and paste it here, Hope she doesn't mind!?

Hi, I had a quick read through the problem you have. I am not sure how the broken off earphone socket affects the main speakers or internal speaker altogether, there has to be some other underlying problem to stop the sound all at once.

Unfortunately, the only suggestion I can make involves soldering of the broken off socket/replacement of one with another socket. The entire board of the new Uni you purchased is of no use to you due to being blocked, however, I had some evidence that being blocked on one network will not necessarily mean being blocked on all, therefore you can always try it with another network's SIM. Of course you can take both apart and swap housing and LCD to make it into 1 device, the suggestion Orb3000 made is a sound one with regards to seeing the disassembly procedure, alternatively there is a HTC Universal Service Manual floating on the net that you can search for and download, it is very detailed and will lead you every step of the way.

ALTERNATIVELY, you can always try using your semi-broken Uni with bluetooth headset to make calls and listen to the music.... Even with mono bluetooth headset and Pocket Player you can do anything you want, from calls to MP3s and Voice Command - Pocket Player has an option of sending your music over the bluetooth.

My uni seems to have the sound back so hopefully it will stay on!
[JASJAR, XDA Exec, MDA Pro General] orb3000:
Glad to know that:)

Long live to Uni!!!!
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] lortens:
Hey.

Ive just tried to upgrade my milestone to G.O.T's Froyo rom.

When i tried to flash the sbf with the rsd lite i just couldnt hit start.

I had the same problem with the vulnerable rom but when i renamed it to something shorterd it worked.

I tried to do the same again but it didnt worked , i tried another sbf but it didnt worked either.

I already have the drivers.

Any one knows whats the problem is?
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] sir_shady:
rename the sbf file into a short name and put it into a short path.

eg:

C:\haha.sbf

it will help you :)
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] XtriFe:
EDIT: Wrong thread sorry.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] lortens:
i still cant click the start button :\
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] hefonthefjords:
this happened to me before. not sure what caused it but if you are in bootloader, reboot and let the phone boot normally then plug it into rsd and it should work.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] lortens:
now it say's FAIL and on the botton there is:

"fail flashing process. (0x7100); phone connected"
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] ackerchez:
I had an issue with my RSD Lite, here is what i did to solve it.

1) took the sbf out of any directory and put it straight onto the c drive

2) upgraded rsdLite to 4.6

3) opened RSD Lite and loaded the SBF -> previously i was connecting the phone first and then trying to load the SBF, apparently the order here matters.

4) connected my phone

5) hit start when I saw my phone appear in RSD Lite.

Hope this helps,

Jonathan
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] hungnuoc:
it works for me,thanks.
[Droid Eris Android Development] Nikolai2.1:
Yeah well apparently someone ported it to an MDPI phone.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=861737

Could we get this going for us?? I would try but i cant port a GSM phone to save my life
[Droid Eris Android Development] tazzpatriot:
im not sure but ill look at it ,, not promising anything im not that smart :D

downloadin now
[Droid Eris Android Development] Nikolai2.1:
Psh yes you are!! But thanks man if we could get help from you that would be amazing!!!
[Droid Eris Android Development] n2imagination:
lol... sure you are bro. if you can port this to us you will truly and finally be a god among men (not that your not real close to this now with your roms).
[Droid Eris Android Development] Nikolai2.1:
So tazz hows it going do yo have it ported yet!!??? If not then you have failed me ;)

jk bro take your time, but this would be a great break through for the Eris
[Droid Eris Android Development] tazzpatriot:
well i get it to boot but it goes back to recovery :confused:
[Droid Eris Android Development] T.C.P:
hmmmm...... this can be an awesome comback rom...... Tazz check ur PM
[Droid Eris Android Development] tazzpatriot:
lol i saw ur p,m now bro forget my reply i didnt see this post lool
[Droid Eris Android Development] Nikolai2.1:
Well thats a start!! Haha, this MIUI rom is gonna be something else.. i read somewhere that its based off of Cyanogen, is that true?
[Droid Eris Android Development] tazzpatriot:
well tcp just told me ands i looked for myself also , which i shoulda done first , but its not gunna work for us its hdpi
[Droid Eris Android Development] Nikolai2.1:
wait.,.., on the cyanogen mod wiki it said the streak was mdpi...
[Droid Eris Android Development] tazzpatriot:
well i opened some of the apps and saw nuthing that was mdpi:confused:
[Droid Eris Android Development] Nikolai2.1:
awhhh darn i just checked that.. yeah.. well sorry guys.. Cyanogenmod lied to me lol. I fail :(
[Droid Eris Android Development] Nikolai2.1:
Just so i dont make any more threads im posting this here.

Can we use this new hero radio?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=853868

or would that not work? I dont want to flash it and brick lol
[Droid Eris Android Development] roirraW "edor" ehT:
I've been using it for several days, so yes it's safe to flash.
[Droid Eris Android Development] Nikolai2.1:
Any difference?
[Droid Eris Android Development] brooon:
Bringing this thread back to life...this portingprocess is dead because of the non-published driver-thing, right? :(

EDIT: Wow, I haven´t seen that this thread is in the wrong section..
[myTouch 3G Slide Themes and Apps] tomtom1121:
What is the best rom with a cool theme on it. I was looking for something with red and black together. I am kind of tired of the blue. Some links would be nice.

Thanks!
[myTouch 3G Slide Themes and Apps] purple1:
Chromatic v1.4
[G Tablet General] rushless:
Seems this forum should be for dev efforts and not questions created in new threads. I can see though why people would post here, none the less. I think we need a tech help forum within Gtablet, since "General" by default is too... general.

It will soon be too hard finding actual functional software efforts made by the devs.

Ironically, this post adds to the convolution.
[G Tablet General] Elric W:
and thus you have been pulled into the world of suck that is infinite regression.

prop your feet up and have a pint.
[G Tablet General] rushless:
Nope! I will bust out of it with a polynomial ;)
[G Tablet General] theimpaler747:
Please report posts that are not in the correct section and I will action them ;)
[G Tablet General] rothnic:
One idea I had on this problem would be a separate forum category for FAQ. If there was an area where some of the people that have done a lot of the early on things that always get questions, we could eliminate a lot of junk posts.

Rules for a FAQ section:

Each post is stated as a "How do I" or "How can I" type question, then a guide to answer it in the post.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cCeT:
i partitioned my sdcard 1gb and installed a few roms.but after installation i ve seen that i only got 140mb on my phone memory.is that normal?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Moosterly:
Hi all,

I have a problem and can't seem to find a solution. Your feedback would be greatly appreciated.

I was running my I9000M on UGJK3 and just today I installed Kies onto my pc. Also inserted a fresh formated mirco sd card into the phone. I began using Kies to transfer some movies. I tried to send over a .avi clip that was only 2 mbs but it would freeze the transfer when the bar was nearly done. I ended up closing the application via. ctrl/alt/delete. I tried it about 2 or 3 times and no luck so I was going to try it again some other time. Now normally I would close kies by hitting the home button on my phone or disconnecting first with Kies on pc but this time I accidentally pulled the USB out before any of it. My phone is pattern locked and when i was pulling out my USB my finger touched the screen and even though it was the incorrect pattern, it still let me in. Mind you it was still scanning media. I thought it was weird so I pressed the power to off screen and tried to input my pattern to see if it would let me in. This time no luck and after a numorous attempts, still no luck. It asked for my google account info. which i put in and it would only be stuck on "checking" and the screen would fade and return to the pattern lock. With no luck, i tried turning the phone off and removing my ext. sd card, battery pull and rebooting. Now the screen will just go black after the fancy S symbol galaxy S intro screen. the back button and menu button light up but doesn't boot into home screen.

My 3 button still works and i tried to wipe data/factory reset and wipe cache...no luck. I used odin and booted up download mode and flashed JK3 in again and wiped data, wiped cache before even rebooting. Still nothing after the S screen. I noticed that in recovery screen, the bottom has yellow and red text saying

update media, please wait

E:Can't mount / dev/block/mmcblk0p1

(I/0 error)

E:copy_dbdata_media:Can't mount SDCARD:

your storage not prepared yet. please use UI menu for format and reboot actions.

copy default media content failed.

Does anyone know what may be wrong with my phone? Please help...

Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yiannisthegreek:
Your internal sd card is dead and u have to send ur phone in for repair.

There are hundreds of posts here about this.

Use search and u will find them...

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Moosterly:
Thanks for the reply. I did look up quite a few of the threads. Sorry for the repost as I paniced when it had happened.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yiannisthegreek:
Lol... Ya... I would have probably done the same thing truth be told...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] montrealcityboy:
you haven't told everybody the whole truth. if i understand what you say,you installed samsung kies today for the first time.

but how did you get jk3? odin right?

answer this survey as honestly as possible.

https://spreadsheets.google.com/vie...mkey=dDQ2RUlQMjlISUduaWRIZ25xckwxcWc6MQ#gid=0

and here is the survey so far,notice how odin seems to screw up most i9000m sd cards? coincidence?

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc...uaWRIZ25xckwxcWc&hl=en&authkey=CPvjpc4K#gid=0
[Wildfire Themes and Apps] TiiXiboy:
Plz upload your icon packs here or link me , I need a cool one ;)
[Wildfire Themes and Apps] kevin2516:
Why don't you search around xda for icons, there are plenty.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XQLPV3E5 - LPTiles

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VUHA6Y27 - Suave

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DQED4PND - IQcons

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=824656
[Wildfire Themes and Apps] Lord Sheep:
Cheers Kevin