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[Windows Phone 7 General] The Gate Keeper:
just to supply correction...

multitasking is only capable at present for particular applications including zune (music/video), web (internet explorer), and a few of the other built in things already on the phone. there is no official word from MS as to if/when multitasking will be available, but there have been rumours (not from MS) that they have been working on some form of it, and it could be seen as early as the first update (but highly unlikely).

and now to your questions...

multitasking = covered above

essentials [apps] covered = well it's best if you tell us what your day to day use of your current Android phone is, and we can help in giving you the information available. At present though, the current APIs do limit the development and release of some of the more desired applications, but a lot have come on board, whether that be through MS doing the leg work, or the companies getting excited about it.

windows getting sales = well they (MS) are still "mum" on it (not saying), as it's still early days. i don't believe MS is out to sell as many as iPhone/Android straight out of the gate, but they have said that they're committed to getting this really going (windows mobile had 4 people employed for it's development, windows phone (it's current form) has over 400 people employed for it's development... you do the math). in terms of it being abandoned, i don't see it happening with their level of commitment. as more people get on board, it will encourage others (devs/companies) to as well.

latest/greatest phone = depends on where you live and what you're after. this is the just one of the best things about windows phone. there are several different flavours from the music/entertainment (surround/hd7), to the expandable memory [read up on this first before jumping into it] (focus), to the picture taker (mozart), to the general use (trophy/omnia 7/optimus 7). of course there are plenty more reasons for each model, but these are just examples of how you could see the phones. the experience is close to the same on each device, so you just need to find one that meets your day to day needs/desires.

hopefully this gives you a bit of insight.
[Windows Phone 7 General] lqaddict:
The multi-tasking will most probably be included in the updates. there is no definitive list of what is going to be included in the first update besides copy and paste.
[Windows Phone 7 General] vardman:
Thanks so much everyone - all very insightful replies.

I'd be clicking thank if I could!
[Windows Phone 7 General] tiwas:
My take, after getting the Trophy just for having a look at the OS is that it is indeed worth it. I've actually been on of the people moaning about the change of direction and claiming to desert and go to the Android camp. However, even though this is all very new and scary, I think I'm starting to like this new platform.

I will still install Android on my HD2, but my main phone will be the trophy (until I can get a good phone with SAMOLED :) )
[Windows Phone 7 General] jhughesy:
My gf is jealous of my relationship with my Samsung Omnia 7. Enough said. hehe
[Windows Phone 7 General] jz9833:
i love my HD7, but i wish the Omina 7 was here in the states :( .
[Windows Phone 7 General] Omega Ra:
I have a feeling it will be coming to Verizon eventually. They had the previousl Omnia's and Samsung is going all in on WP7 so I think a LTE Omnia 7 may be in the future.
[Windows Phone 7 General] jz9833:
I'm not so sure about an LTE WP7 device. The reason why HSPA+ is on the HD7 and Venue Pro is because the processor didnt support it. I believe this will also be the case for LTE.

If it is on LTE then I might be going back to verizon even though I said I'd never do that again :o
[Windows Phone 7 General] Omega Ra:
well perhaps with the Gen 2 Chassis it will have a processor that will support it, I hope at least.

EDIT: though I would be happy with a version of the focus with 16GB and 512MB RAM. (card slot too)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] rickytenzer:
Chat *****es!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] touchpro247:
http://theandroidsite.com/2010/12/1...pdate-now-brings-chat-and-push-notifications/
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] BrotherG:
I for one am exited about this.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] jimbob_me:
Just updated. So glad chat has been intergrated finally. Android has really cleaned itself up over the last few weeks with some big apps receiving important updates. Good stuff!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] doalittledanse:
Is anyone having problems with the new push notifications not coming through?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] negroplasty:
Excellent, I can finally get rid of the third party app I had to use for chat.. Nimbuzz, if anyone was curious.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] baseballfanz:
Push notifications work fine here.

Chat is very fast, testing it between phone and PC
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] SamUserInterface:
Do the push notifications work better than f-plus? I'd be happy to switch.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] martin0285:
+1, working like a charm!! Can we all say "about time" or what?!?!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] mortal300:
Yeah not working for my im on CM6.1 :(
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] G1-evolve:
what does push notifications do?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] baseballfanz:
I'm on CM6.1 stable and it's working fine.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] mortal300:
Push notifications aint working...someone msgs me and it doesnt come to my phone. Only comes when the app pings the refresh interval that I set it at...

I deleted and reinstalled Facebook...still same prob...
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] ck_looi:
how do you make it working?

i read that a lot of CM user fail to get the push notification working...
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] AbsoluteDesignz:
just realized push notifications are not working for me...no bueno.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] baseballfanz:
When you get a notifications on FB, it notified you in the status bar.

I didn't do anything special. Update to the latest from market.

Starting getting notifications.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] shotta35:
I think push is only supposed to work during Chat as those are "pushed" instantly as they come.

Well i haven't gotten any messages or anything yet so maybe that's why i don't get those "pushed" but i don't think normal notifications are gonna get pushed. Like when someone replies to something you have commented on, i'm not sure if those are supposed to be pushed or not (but they don't for me :D).

(didn't get messages pushed either, tested from my gfs account to mine)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] baseballfanz:
I'm getting notifications when someone replied to a thread I have commented on.

Also when someone send me a message notification get pushed as well.

Not sure why some peoples are not able to get it to work, hope you guys solved it soon.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] shotta35:
Ok well i did get it like 5 mins later but i'm not sure if that's just the schedule sync that was supposed to happen (set for every 1hr but not sure when was the last one) vs actually being pushed - not perfect signal here so maybe that held it up?

Anyways, guess we'll see some more later.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] kornball:
Does anyone know how to disable push notifications? I have 'Refresh interval' set to never and Notifications inactive, yet I'm still receiving them in my status bar.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] baseballfanz:
Have you tried un-checking the "Notifications" box?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Bloodflame:
Would someone mind pulling the APK? My custom ROM won't let me update it (the existing Facebook APK was themed, so I'm assuming it has something to do with that) I'd be happy to manually push this update though :) Thx!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] kornball:
Yes, they are all unchecked and greyed out since I have notifications unchecked and set as inactive
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] mortal300:
Does Chat have to be on in order to receieve push notifications...???
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] baseballfanz:
http://uploaded.to/file/tlgezp
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] G0belet:
I had Chat enabled all day, and it didn't use too much battery. It probably uses C2DM, nice!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] baseballfanz:
Something is definitely weird. My notifications stopped working as of about an hour ago. Been working since last night and this morning.:mad:
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] baseballfanz:
Just talk to some friends who had out working and theirs all stopped working also.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] mortal300:
:) welcome to the club!...I think i narrowed down the problem somewhat.

The FACEBOOK process in our running services runs upon booting the phone.

After opening the facebook app and using the chat feature, once you leave the APP the process dissapears from the list...idk!
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] SubyWill:
I'm not getting push notifications anymore :(

Anyone else having that problem?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] xManMythLegend:
How sbattery life ?

Mine went from 99 to 30 in about 5 hours.

I uninstalled the updates but like 15 apps updated so no clue where it stems from.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] baseballfanz:
Mine worked at first, than stopped working yesterday.

It started working again this morning but not as fast as the first day.:D

Facebook is down anyway for me both phone and PC:D
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Matt1408:
Good to know that I'm not the only one who's push just stopped working.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] wiggey1337:
im still using the latest version of "bloo" chat seems to be so much better on that, and the battery life considering ive set it to check for notifications every 2 minutes. and thats REAL notifications. not just friend req's, messages, and chat. i will use the new one for the places app that actually works however. really happy they finally integrated it. if they fixed notifications so it recieved ALL noti's and checked quicker than every 30 minutes i would be in love!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] RonH54:
I have the z4root app on my Captivate phone and it has it rooted but I was wondering if the "1 click root" I have seen talked about here better or is there any advantage of one over the other?

Thanks
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] oriundus:
Hello, considering root is some sort of super access to your device I doubt that there is one better than the other. I think the way you try to root your device could be easier by using 1 click root. Both programs achieve the same goal.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NXUS:
I'm not new to this but seems if I have a problem wiping dalvik cache with Clockworkmod recovery.

Every time I try and select that option (recovery->advanced->wipe dalvik->then takes me to the screen asking if I want to do it and it gives me an error. Its a mounting error

E:Can't mount/dev/block/mmcblk1p2

(Invalid argument)

or

E:Can't mount/dev/block/mmcblk1p2

(File exists)

when I press yes it takes me to main menu instantly. Usually (on my nexus) it would take a little while to wipe.

How do you guys wipe it, and do you get that error? If not, how do I fix it?

I have tried reinstalling recovery, fixing permissions, still gives me error.

Edit: included error, formatting and spelling

Edit 2: ive done more research, and it appears to be "a benign error, more or less referring to an SD-ext partition on your SD card for apps2sd. You don't have it formatted for it, so the recovery cannot find it and thus gives you that error. It should not effect the install, and should still clear dalvik."

http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/topic/8255-coming-from-sense-roms-stuck-at-htc-incredible-white-screen/

is this the case? is it still wiping my dalvik cache?

EDIT 3: SOLUTION ,some more digging around:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=8728693&postcount=1823

Sent from my HTC Vision
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ddgarcia05:
I just have the Rom Manager app take me into recovery. In recovery i scroll down to advance and wipe the dalvik cacah with no problem.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vandam500:
I also get this same error. I don't know why. I think it not completely wiping dalvik was the cause for my faulty restore from nandroid a few days ago. Anybody know a fix for this?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vandam500:
Thanks for the solution! Will try it and report back.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NXUS:
so ya, its not really a problem, it still wipes dalvik cache. That was all i was looking for. im not going to bother creating another partition on my sd card. But, you are welcome.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] slayer69:
Slayers Clock Mods:

Due to the overwhelming response to some of the clock mods I have done for Riptides theme I have decided to release 2 sets of clocks that are not theme related. The Glass Digit Clocks and Flame Digit Clocks.

Thanks goes out to Stoney666 for his enthusiasm for the flame digits.

My Evo Application Fund Group!!

Thanks Much, and welcome to "The Group"!!!

Mich2Ga, DeathBySnuggles, romannsjr, rileyd5, dadoc04 X3, TREmp77, dpilcher, skyfox99, firestetz, ifly4vamerica, islandreamer

NEW****Slayers Clocks!!!!

The one I use in my theme is CYN. I have fallen in love with this look for the clock....Just want to share with all of you out there....

Thank RipTide9 for the kick ass glass base....Thank me for the rest!!! lol

Files:

1. Glass_Clock_BlueBack

2. Glass_Clock_CYNBack

3. Glass_Clock_GoldBack

4. Glass_Clock_GreenBack

5. Glass_Clock_PurpleBack

6. Glass_Clock_RedBack

Enjoy! :D

The Matrix 3D Flip Clock

HTC_FlipClock_Matrix

Flame Digits with no background - Added 12-14-2010

I have added a full suite of colors for these digits. ENJOY!!!!

There has been a great deal of action with these flame digits thanks to Stoney666 and some of the work he has done with these. See his work Here.

I can do requests for these but will put donation users first.

NOTE: THESE are not and cannot be animated...... (I know it will get asked)

Files:

1. HTC_Flame_clock_Blue

2. HTC_Flame_clock_CYN

3. HTC_Flame_clock_Gold

4. HTC_Flame_clock_Green

5. HTC_Flame_clock_HotGreen

6. HTC_Flame_clock_Orange

7. HTC_Flame_clock_Purple

8. HTC_Flame_clock_Red

9. HTC_Flame_clock_Silver

10. HTC_Flame_clock_HOTCYN

Glass Digit Clocks - Updated 12-8-2010 with Simi-Transparent Glass Colored Digits.

Screens:

Oogle Clock:

Files:

1. Glass_Clock_NoBack_Blue

2. Glass_Clock_NoBack_CYN

3. Glass_Clock_NoBack_DarkGlass

4. Glass_Clock_NoBack_Glass

5. Glass_Clock_NoBack_Gold

6. Glass_Clock_NoBack_Green

7. Glass_Clock_NoBack_Purple

8. Glass_Clock_NoBack_Red

9. Glass_Clock_NoBack_White

10. Oogle_Clock - My Version of the beautiful widgets Oogle Skin :D :D

Instructions for install

These clocks will replace the standard HTC Clock in a sense Rom and should work on most roms that run Sense.

1. NAND BACKUP (I will not be help responsible if you brick your phone)

2. You must have your HTC Sense Clock installed on one of your home screens before flashing.

3. Download Desired clock.

4. Place the zip file on the root of your SD Card.

5. Reboot into recovery.

6. Flash Clock Zip

7. Reboot.

Thats It! Enjoy! and have fun deciding which clock to use....I know I do!!!!

:D:D:D:D
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Stoney 666:
FIRST OFF, THANK YOU SLAYER FOR THESE SICK GRAFX!!

CLICK ON IMAGE FOR DOWNLOAD, IF YOU GET A BLANK PAGE, RIGHT CLICK ON IMAGE THEN CLICK OPEN LINK

THESE ARE HD FLIP CLOCKS. ONLY FLASH ON SENSE ROMS WITH SENSE ROSIE LAUNCHER. WILL NOT WORK WITH SENSE RUNNING LAUNCHER PRO!!! FLASH LIKE ROM.... 4X5 AVAILABLE IF REQUESTED (THANX AAMIKAM FOR THE HOOK UP)

THESE ARE SENSE NON FLIP CLOCKS. SAME RULES APPLY WITH THESE. SENSE ROMS ONLY!!

THESE ARE FANCY WIDGET CLOCKS, COMPATIBLE WITH ANY ROM OR LAUNCHER. THESE DO NOT FLIP!!!!
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] slayer69:
HAHA no you can use this space to add some of your mods if you would like!!!! glad you grabbed it!!!!!!
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Stoney 666:
dope!!!! i'll bring some flame 3D's....
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] DeathBySnuggles:
Rock and roll. Slayer. Kerry Kill rules. Ha-ha. I made a custom clock for myself using yours and stoney's other files. I'm assuming I can grab the cyan digits and do the same thing? Will the digits need a file rename first? I haven't pulled it down yet.

Great work.

Get to duh choppa!
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] slayer69:
These are all clock mods so if you pull the digits they will all be named correctly. You can use them till your harts content. Just make sure to post screen shots so that we can see the work you have done and praise you on it!!!!!
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] slayer69:
Added a Hot Cyn.....a little brighter and well hotter!:D encase you are interested.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] DeathBySnuggles:
Dammit! I just rebooted my phone with the clock I just made. Hang on. I'll post a screen shot of this one, then use the hot cyan and post that. Gimme a few.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] slayer69:
lol you should see how many times I flash in a day......I mean I had to screen shoot each clock soooo....yea I understand lol
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] DeathBySnuggles:
Ok here's the regular cyan digits on the warm 2D background. The wallpaper is light grid pro so the squares are constantly fading to black. It's pretty awesome.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] slayer69:
Oh wow thats very nice!!!!!
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Mich2Ga:
I came to shop--->:D
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] DeathBySnuggles:
Now here's the hot cyan digits. I like! Great work! I'll leave this one. I was going to make one with the weather shelf but the blue wouldn't match the cyan, so I'll stick with the 2d.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] slayer69:
Give this one a flash ;) I said Donation customers get first mods....woops....I mean pull the base out...should be close to the same color.

HTC_Flame_clock_HOTCYN_DeathbySnuggles
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] DeathBySnuggles:
Gotta love a file called "CustomDeath"! Would you like me to post the zips of the ones I did or mail them to you so you can keep them in a depository?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] slayer69:
Sure! I already have a folder for that mod....if you send me yours I will put it in there and add the base.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Stoney 666:
Bump!!!!! Added to 2nd post!!!
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] DeathBySnuggles:
I'll email em to you.

Looks pretty hot! One slight request. How about just a little something behind the numbers so they don't get lost. A glass frame with the slightest smoke tint to it, sort of like the weather deck.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] slayer69:
yea I have already been thinking up ideas for a background for them.....Will message you with the first release. You can pull the weather base from my zip and add it to the one you had with the black background and that should work.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Theghostwolf:
Will you be adding clocks modified to display right on there 4X5 Rosie? These ones get cut off on there bottom a little.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] DeathBySnuggles:
I'll stick with this one until you're ready. I'll just tone down the color of the wallpaper so the numbers stand out more.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] DeathBySnuggles:
And if you're thinking of ideas for the backgrounds, perhaps a glass background with smoked bevelled edges and rounded corners for the enhanced 3D effect.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] slayer69:
We will see about this. I think Stoney might already have some clocks and I am sure he will slide the file my way (or I will just download it) and then add my mods to them

Damn man these are nice!!!!

Working on it tonight.... hopefully will have something soon. :D:D
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] slayer69:
Hmmm just playing around with this one...What do you think?
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] slayer69:
3 more options

Here are 3 more options..... lol

1.

2.

3.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] DeathBySnuggles:
Too hard to choose. They all look awesome. Throw up some links when you get a chance.

Get to duh choppa!
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] slayer69:
1. DarkGlassOnly

2. ClearGlassBlackSmoke

3. DarkGlassBlackSmoke

4. CynGlass_BlackSmoke

Have Fun Deciding haha...I was thinking a CynGlass with no smoke might look *****in too.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] DeathBySnuggles:
And here I was thinking that today, just maybe, I might not flash anything on my phone for the first time weeks! haha. The no smoke might look sweet. Curious to see how these look juxtaposed against the cyan wallpaper. Let you know in a few.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] slayer69:
HA!!! not a chance....I will have the last one I suggested up in a few....flashing as we speak!
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] DeathBySnuggles:
The black smoke looked the best with my cycling wallpaper so that the numbers didn't get lost. The cyan smoke looked awesome, but there was a legibiliy issue. The cyan smoke with a slightly tinted glass background would be boss.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] slayer69:
Cyn Tented glass no smoke
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] DeathBySnuggles:
Here's the cyan smoke digits on the tinted glass clock:

Trying your new one now.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Stoney 666:
Damn that looks ****in sick!!!!!
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] DeathBySnuggles:
Yeah that's a winner C-Dog! Here's with a flat wallpaper and the cyan live wallpaper. Looks awesome with both. The still image for the live wallpaper doesn't do it justice at all.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] DeathBySnuggles:
Just realized that latest clock is not a flip.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] slayer69:
yea I saw you stuck my digits on your "real" flip clock.....so what I just did was took your flip file you sent me and added the cyn base to it and it should flip. You cant do transparency with the flip because the numbers jumble up and do not refresh properly.

Here is the latest:

HtcClockWidget-2Dhotcyan_warmNewBase
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] DeathBySnuggles:
Well somehow my phone got borked. I flashed a clock and rebooted. The weather part was missing so I reflashed the clock. Same thing. I removed it an readded and got an fc about the 2010/10... widget failed. Please try again. Tried flashing the clock and it was now missing. So I restored a nandroid from 2 nights ago and it too is missing the weather portion of the clock. If I hit where the weather is supposed to be, it opens but shows 0 degrees. Any ideas before I'm forced to reflash the whole damn thing?

Get to duh choppa!
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] slayer69:
Mine goes away all the time after the first boot... usually before it syncs the data or while syncing. It comes back though if you wait...or goto the weather app and do a force refresh. Mine has always acted this way even before themeing and I think is pretty normal. Try force refreshing.

Edit: Wait!!! mine is doing the same thing now too...and force refreshing is not working....let me see if I can fix it before you go restarting......hmmmmm

Edit #2: It could be that the weather service is down right now.....I flashed a clock that I know works and its still not showing.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] DeathBySnuggles:
Sweet. I'm not alone. Yeah I reflashed a clock I know works and it does the same thing. If I go into the weather and select a different city, the weather itself shows fine just not in the clock. It's like the local weather service isn't working. Also, try adding the clock to a different screen. Tell me if you get the fc for 2010/9/17 widget.

Get to duh choppa!
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] slayer69:
Yea I just checked with my wife and her weather isn't working either so this is a service issue.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] DeathBySnuggles:
Yup. Confirmed with my wifes phone as well. ****, I nandroid restored for. Nothing.

Get to duh choppa!
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] slayer69:
Thanks dadoc04 for the Donation!!!!! I will add another notch to your The Group!!! status!!!!!
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Stoney 666:
Bump..... just because.
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] jbeezybaby:
Hey Stoney I was wondering if I could get the silver clock with the black background to be a bit transparent or maybe another effect other than the solid black. Not sure if it would lose the flames or not. Here is a pick of my set up. Your work is awesome brotha!
[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] DeathBySnuggles:
Slayer, I got something I'll throes up a little later. The black flippers were letting me down so I made new ones. I'll share in a little while.

Get to duh choppa!