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[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cruzer1:
I say go Omnia7. The only form of tinting I notice is when a totally white screen slightly goes darker or 'grey', I think its for battery purposes.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuestK00306:
Has to be the Omnia7 or HD7. I dwindled my choices down to those two:

Omnia7:

+ AMOLED

- 8Gb

+ NAND

HD7:

+ 16Gb

-/+ SD Card (whatever way you look at that. Slow, but BIG and expandable)

- Washed screen colours (compared to Omnia)

That's the basic jist! Everything else is almost the same. So do you want storage or screen? :)
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nehvada:
save your money and buy a trophy. i know, its not a common opinion, but besides the smaller screen it is capable of all that the other devices can do. only downside for me is if your are looking at the screen at an wider angle it sort of bleeches out, colors do lighten up. but why would you do that? during normal usage there is no problem at all with the screen.

besides the screen i do not see anything "midrange" here.

i like my trophy, no need to upgrade.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuestK00306:
Trophy is also 8Gb with, as you say, smaller screen. It does everything all other WP7 devices do alright, but it offers no advantages to buy it over the HD7.

HD7 is also cheaper (sim-free)

edit: Quick Google. Well, it's £380 on O2 over here, while the trophy is £350 unlocked. Not much difference :)
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tarakini:
Not topic, but why not LG Optimus 7 - not available?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] doministry:
That is what I get.....
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nehvada:
the LG has hardware keys which i found too loose, no good build quality here. i would allways prefer hardware keys over touchpanel, but this one didnt make a good impression.

the HD7 with 8GB here in germany is an average of 70,- € more expensive than the trophy, the 16GB version a few bucks more. i call that a noticable difference.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zukа:
the only thing that made me not choose the LG was I used one in a shop and didn't much care for the screen. it was still a great phone, but it didnt seem as bright as samsung and htc
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MartyLK:
Depends mainly which carrier you use as to which phone you ultimately get, but the HD7, in my opinion, is the creme of the crop. It isn't saddled with the low-quality AMOLED and it has the largest, superior quality, LCD of them all. The physical appearance is the most pronounced with black-chrome accents and elegant styling abounding. The silver mesh inserts at the top and bottom aren't just for show, either. They actually funnel sound from the rear speaker. The high-quality kickstand is a must for this super-sized LCD, for watching movies with too.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] HD2Owner:
when i got my hands on this device (in a local shop) it felt really different compared to what i expected from screenshots and videos (in a negative way).

if a device is as big as this one it !HAS! to feel smaller than it is (like HD2/HD7 for example, it shouldn't "feel" that bulky).

This was a really nice phone in my opinion until first realtime-contact.

cheap plastic materials and it feels more like a prototype device than like a retail phone (sorry @ samsung).

another thing that got my attention after i had a look at the device was the screen.

as you may know, amoled screens are good when it comes down to display pictures/videos and color gradients (lockscreen wallpaper etc.).

but as soon as you take a look at the plain color tiles on homescreen, you can see quite a difference between LCD/SLCD and AMOLED.

The pixels on a amoled are not as "dense" as on lcd/slcd (means boarders of sub-pixels take more space).

it felt like a interlaced picture when i was watching the tiles (i had the hd2 and the mozart on me to compare side-by-side (believe me, both are superior).

simply said: major downside for metro ui (amoled) and it felt much cheaper than i expected.

i got myself a mozart (for free with contract) and don't regret it at all. best wp7 device for me. alu-unibody rocks!

i also had a chance to take a look at this device. to make it short:

this is one of the cheapest phones i ever saw from htc (not bad compared to LG but not the kind of quality htc is delivering usually).

if you really want a 4.3" phone, my advice would be: get yourself a hd2..

i don't see any benefit in using such a big screen for wp7 (well not for now; for wm6.5.X i do of course). if you really want/need wp7, my advice is: take the mozart.

my opinion:

if you want a beast of a mobile-computer with phone-capabilities and much more (Android, HTC Sense, custom roms etc): HD2

if you want a phone with some media/social capabilities but no "personal-computer-feeling", get yourself a WP7 device (i hope you can get my point).
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KraFT_mk:
Check this.

HD7 vs O7
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Cruzer1:
Just to clear things up, the Omnia 7 actually has a metal body, glass front, and some plastic parts for the top and bottom of the device.

I can compare my Omnia 7 (4in screen) with my older Touch HD (3.8in), which also has the same screen tech as the HD2/HD7 (since they don't use SLCD) and considering the Touch HD has a higher pixel density than the Omnia7/HD2/HD7, I really can't see how you can say the HD2 was superior considering its the same resolution at a bigger screen size. The Touch HD was JUST noticebly sharper than my Omnia 7, but nothing major, I fail to see how HD2 can look sharper than my Touch HD, making you say its easily superior to the Omnia 7's screen.

I would believe you if you JUST said Mozart regarding its sharpness, considering it has a smaller screen at 3.7in, same resolution and has SLCD, but the HD2.... really?

btw considering the Omnia 7 has a bigger screen than my Touch HD, i actually find it feels smaller in the hands due to the curved back, than my Touch HD. The Omnia 7 took a while to getting used to cus its curved back mixed with a metal body equals a very slippery combination ><
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] naplesbill:
All the slamming on SAMOLED is unwarranted. Especially in the case of the Metro UI on WP7. SAMOLED really makes the UI stand out. This is mostly because there is so much use of black backgrounds and borders. The highly vivid color saturation is also very noticeable. I imagine if you were to hold the screen an inch from your face and squint, you might be able to notice some minor difference in pixels.

We don't get the HD7 on AT&T, but the Surround has the same display. The Surround display does not hold a candle to SAMOLED in most ways. Yes, it should have sharper text of SAMOLED, but nothing that is bothersome or really even noticeable, unless you are searching for it.

For the record, I am an HTC fan over Samsung 99% of the time. But in the case of WP7, SAMOLED wins.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nrfitchett4:
and what videos can you play on your hd2, that I can't play on my wp7???

And I have netflix....

For the OP, there is no right phone. I picked the hd7 because I loved the hd2 and didn't want to get a smaller screen. This whole viewing angle thing is overblown. I can show someone a video on my phone and watch it from the side just fine. Videos can't be beat on a 4.3 in screen for a cell phone.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zukа:
I had a chance to play with everything bar the HD7 today, gonna post my thoughts in case anybody else is in a state of indecision like I am

Mozart: This is a really, really great phone. top notch build quality, absolutely stunning display (IMO, better color reproduction than SAMOLED, but I'm not trying to belittle it) and I quite liked the camera too. Again, still unsure about the goofy triangle pattern on the back

Omnia 7: I can see why so many people are in love with this handset, but two things made me not want it. First, the metal back was purple. Didn't realise that from any of the photos but I'm not keen on owning a purple phone. Second, the SAMOLED screen went dim grey every time white came up on a webpage etc. I'm sure it's for good power saving reasons, but that would get annoying over time for me

HTC Trophy: this was weird. the touchscreen on the trial version in the vodafone shop was completely screwy compared to the HTC Mozart. i don't know if they had a faulty handset or if the trophy has a much less sensitive screen, perhaps it was the oil on my fingers or something (sometimes my HTC legend struggles with that).
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 'Tron:
Good thread.

What's the key difference between the Samsung Focus & the Omnia 7?

To date, I've played with the Mozart & the LG slider. My current mobile has a slide out keyboard, but I found the on screen keyboard on the Mozart worked so well that it pretty much renders a slide out keyboard superfluous.

I really like the Windows Phone 7 UI. Yeah, I know all the geeks are bemoaning it’s lack of features, but what it has works really well.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The Gate Keeper:
at present the focus is only available in the US (AT&T) where as omnia 7 is available elsewhere (e.g. UK/Germany/Australia). focus also has an expandable memory slot, where as omnia 7 doesn't.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] astromex:
Side by side the Omnia's scrolling is slightly more jerky than the HD7's silky smooth action. Still nothing to moan about though.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drleospaceman:
This is the biggest problem with the focus/omnia 7 screen. It constantly counts the number of white pixels on screen, and if that number is above a threshold, it dims the screen significantly. You can't disable it.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zukа:
I noticed that on the device I tested - really noticable in the web browser, as most sites are still predominantly white. Color banding, too, is a big drawback of AMOLED screens.

http://www.mobiletechworld.com/2010...nding-issue-microsoft-could-partially-fix-it/
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boogeyman:
Its a quality question

so the answer is:

LG Optimus or Samsung Omnia.

salut

boogeyman
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 'Tron:
I had a play with the Omnia in the weekend. Yeah, it's a super nice phone - bright screen and light. But the phone is pretty wide which may make one handed txting tricky i.e. increases the risk you may drop it.

Of the three phones I've played with my pick is the HTC Mozart - at least for the time being.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BlueAnt1958:
100% Agree

Took a few weeks to grow on me but I'm also loving my mozzie :D

Extremely slick interface.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zukа:
thanks for all the recommendations guys - just to be completely contrary, after playing with all the devices i decided to go with the htc trophy.

i liked the screen the most, i liked the camera actually better than the omnia and the mozart (despite the reviews saying it was crap, i thought it produced better shots, at least in good conditions) and I don't really like aluminium unibody designs (i live in a low reception area and metal is no good for that)

thanks for everybody that voted. ironically, i'm buying the device with the lowest votes. hidden gem or stupid call? we'll see
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] The Gate Keeper:
lol, i know what you mean. i got the trophy on contact cause it was the only one available. and my sister bought the mozart. in the hand, the trophy just feels nicer. it's got that perfect fit for me.

you'll find the camera in the trophy works great in well lit places, but it's probably worst performing in low lit, but aye, if you anticipate that, bring an actual camera with you.

but yea, welcome to the trophy ranks, hopefully you wont regret it.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] doministry:
LG Optimus E900 here, great phone.

LG lol, but looks a bit better than SE X10 (!)
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zukа:
Just bought the Trophy, it arrives in 5 days.

Can't wait
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Marvin_S:
You can switch this off by deselecting autobrightness.

Atleast this fixes the issue for me. I hate it anyway when brightness levels change automatically
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brummiesteven:
Everyone goes on about AMOLED but coming from a HTC Desire I couldn't really tell the difference between that and the SLCD on the HD7, infact at first I thought the HD7 did have AMOLED.

The increased screensize is a welcome addition.

Of course, I'm biased since I have a HD7 and haven't really tried anything else.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zukа:
Got the trophy today, sooooo awesome. Highly recommended.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ballekom:
I love my omnia 7, I didnt go for the hd7 coz Ive already got a hd2, and frankly the screen on the omnia is beautiful.Really black blacks, And its stopped me whining about a hd2 wp7 rom too,

plus the hd2 pouch fits my omnia 7 .
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zukа:
The trophy really is an excellent device, but I got sent a dud. Seems like the GPU fails when trying to access complex rendering on internet explorer - I get multicoloured static and a complete lockup when trying to use IE or Bing. The phone then won't start for about half an hour.

This is very much a hardware issue and it's my third HTC in a row to fail. Not massively happy.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alkemi:
I'm running Kaosfroyo v38 with CFS 2.6.29 kernel. I'm using LauncherPro. Most things are going well (battery is still a little iffy?!?). Battery dropped today to 70% in 2 hours...moderate use.

My problem right now is with the cooliris gallery. Every few minutes, I get the message that Gallery has stopped unexpectedly. I tell it to Force Close...but inevitably, it comes back. The camera is working fine...unless I try to go to the gallery...stopped unexpectedly message again. I have also tried going to Manage Applications and Force Closing. It seems to not be running. I have cleared data, cache and defaults.

I don't know if this has anything to do with it...but the timing is aligned. Today, I tried to add a Picture Frame widget to a home screen. I was not able to add it. My phone went funky for a minute, then went about it's business...only to start giving me the unexpected message a little later.

erm...help?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Redsz:
I'm sure this has been asked before however, no amount of searching has led me to a solution.

I was messing around earlier with the android.policy.odex & android.policy.jar files on my phone. I made a backup of these files to my phones sdcard however I failed to back them up to my PC as I was "sure" my changes would work.

1. Need to pull the contents of the backup folder from my sdcard. A few hours later I can't remember the name of the folder...yes..apparently I am this dumb.

I had thought that I would be able to do something like this...however that results in a opendir failed, permission denied

adb shell
mount /sdcard
ls /sdcard

2. Push the original files to system/framework. Assuming i can grab the original fiels i'm good from this point on...

gah...silly me.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snapper.fishes:
you don't need to mount adb shell in order to pull files. Just use adb pull.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noahgray:
For some reason the capacity of my internal memory is showing as 2.25GB. I have tried formatting it, and there only seems to be one partition, so what's going on? It's been this way ever since I flashed 2.2. Any suggestions appreciated.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] All~G1:
Do you have a lagfix installed? If so you may want to remove it, or redo it. Worse case scenario odin back to stock w/ re-partition enabled.

Make a back-up first, you may get your internal sd card wiped.
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] samuride1:
I am having an issue with my phone shutting down on a full charge! I have searched the forum about this issue and it seems that it is an app causing it. I have un installed all apps but the phone still shuts down. I found the captivate keep alive app but had rather try to resolve the issue instead of patch it. Most of the posts Ive read were about rooted phones but mine is still stock. How do I back up my apps to my sd card and do a master reset to try to resolve the issue?
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kangi26:
I don't really know of a way to do a app backup on a phone that isn't rooted/modded. Normally I use Titanium Backup, but you need root to use that, and you don't want to send your device back rooted
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] i@jim:
Anyone else having trouble sending gmail? All messages I try to send remain stuck in the "Outbox" folder, and each one is marked "Sending..." in red. Any help appreciated!

Jim

--

sent from my

rooted little heroc

runnin cm6.1 and deca's uncapped #43

usin tapatalk pro
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] baldwin69:
have you updated the version on gmail you are using? i remember hearing a month or so ago that this was a common problem and was fixed on an update
[Hero CDMA Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] i@jim:
Wow, yeah. I just updated and...I think it's now sending. Thanks so much!
[Fascinate General] xjedi:
I downloaded the mac files from xda and followed the instructions in the readme.txt file but whenever I plug in the command line:

# /data/local/redbend_ua restore /sdcard/zImage /dev/block/bml8

Goes through the blurb but then I get:

failed to read from /sdcard/zImage (Bad file number)

Thought I might have a corrupt file or something but I've downloaded it 3 times with the same result.

Can anyone help please?
[Fascinate General] xjedi:
Anyone?

Anyone?

xjedi
[Fascinate General] xjedi:
Nevermind. Got it.

Nevermind.

After wrestling with it for so many days, I got it to work by

cd /data/local

# chmod 755 redbend_ua

# ./redbend_ua restore /sdcard/zImage /dev/block/bml7 - Instead of this

# ./redbend_ua restore ./zImage /dev/block/bml7 - I changed it to this

and so the same with the other command for the next reboot for ..../block/bml8 as well

Now I'm happily doing backups and going to flash a new ROM. Woohoo!
[Fascinate General] alxb577:
I'm in a similar situation, have a mac n im trying to install cwm but I cant figure out from the instructions in the download. Can you please tell me exactly what you did and what you typed in the terminal box?
[Fascinate General] beeblebrux:
I followed this same procedure on my mac. I seem to remember running into this, but was able to get it working after trying one or two times.

Here is my suggestion. Learn how to use a linux command line (which is basically what the mac terminal is). I am quite familiar using the command line, so that knowledge along side the mac instructions for clockwork made this much easier. If you learn the basic commands (ls, grep, cd, chmod, etc), you will understand what the instructions are telling you to do much better and have much more success getting this to work. And with time, you'll find these tasks are more easily completed on the mac. No need to screw around with drivers or clunky tools (sorry, I don't like odin).

Sorry I can't be of more help, but I can tell you it does work. If I remember correctly, you can't paste into the terminal. So, if you are typing the commands manually, double check all your spellings before entering them. Good luck
[Fascinate General] Chuban7:
my advice is to boot camp your mac
[Fascinate General] NOsquid:
Boot camp is best, you want Odin around just in case
[Fascinate General] will survive:
There's also a pretty good tutorial somewhere in here on how to install ClockworkMod using a Mac. But also not a bad idea to use bootcamp or some virtual machine to install windows on a Mac for Odin purposes... now if I can get my lazy butt to fry's and buy windows 7 for my Mac... lol
[Fascinate General] xjedi:
@alxb577

These are the instructions I used but with the little changes I did to make it work for me.

Copy zImage to the root folder of your SD Card

Open Terminal

$ cd (path to android sdk)/tools

$ ./adb push (path to redband_ua)/redbend_ua /data/local

$ ./adb shell

$ cd /data/local/tmp

$ chmod 0755 rage.bin

$ ./rage.bin

(username)$ ./adb shell

# mount -t rfs -o remount,rw /dev/block/stl9 /system

# cd /data/local

# chmod 755 redbend_ua

# ./redbend_ua restore ./zImage /dev/block/bml7

--Phone Reboots--

$ ./adb shell

$ su

# cd /data/local

# ./redbend_ua restore ./zImage /dev/block/bml8

--Phone Reboots--
[Fascinate General] tswtech2:
i keep getting "n o such directory" on the first command. i know i have the directory because i copied sdk to it so i could have a shorter path name.

username$ ./adb push /androidsdk/tools/redbend_ua /data/local

-bash: ./adb: No such file or directory

am i entering this correctly. been up all night working on this because i cant use odin on any of my three different xp machines. i keep getting floating point error r6002 when i try to opin odin on those eventhough i just used odin two days ago to flash my galaxy tab.

can anyone help me with these commands or help me fix my floating point errors o nmy xp machines? do these adb commands work in windows as well?
[Fascinate General] Kevin Gossett:
When in terminal, type "cd .." a couple of times, then "cd and*" and that will change your directory to the android sdk folder. Then "cd tools" to point it to the tools folder. Try your commands after that
[Fascinate General] tswtech2:
Thanks for the help but, I ended up just running those adb commands in windows and it worked!! Good to know though incase I have to whip my hackintosh back out when I get another fascinate.

A side note, can someone point me to info on fixing the floating point error r6002 i got on all three of my xp machines when trying to run odin? This was the whole reason i was trying to install cwmod with my mac.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Paramount X:
One click root coming soon? Is it possible
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nguyendqh:
Honestly (and I'm completely new to android and rooting) the number of guides, threads, replies, AND videos ---(i used this method) out there make rooting about as easy as if you were to just "one click root".

I used this guide here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHrtVzlsA_s

All credit goes to Mackster248.

He made it simple.

Try it and good luck. I got it on the first try no problems.

Did I mention I've never done this kind of thing before?
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mwelliott:
Perhaps this is something entirely different - can't you use something like Visionary? That's 1-click...