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[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
Symbian has way better Exchange functionality than Windows Phone 7. WP7 may not be thoroughly suitable for serious business use until Q3/Q4 2011. It's not the device/OS to get if you want great Exchange support. An HD2 or Blackberry Torch would be optimal for business use (assuming you like Touchscreens, otherwise a Bold would do).

There is no comparison between WM6.5/Symbian and WP7 when it comes to Exchange support. WP7's support is actually kind of embarassing considering it comes from Microsoft, TBQH. It's better than Android at least, and maybe on par with iOS, or perhaps a little worse than Apple, even - at the moment, at least.

Yes, the N8 isn't the best device, but it works well. Nokia will be patching Symbian the same way MS will be patching WP7. If you can deal with Windows Phone 7 and its functionality gaps, etc. then I don't see why anyone can simply discount an N8 when it's not out of the realm of possibility that it too can/will benefit from updates from Nokia.

Symbian also supports the ActiveSync Protocol, more Media formats, more DRM formats (including Windows Media DRM for syncing ZunePass subscription content to the phone).

The worse thing about Symbian is the user interface and the Screen Resolution of their touchscreen phones (what an odd choice of resolution, IMO).

I'm not even gonna continue. I've gotten my point across by now, hopefully.

The Samsung Focus is available for 79 bucks on contract at the local Wal-Mart here. The 8GB storage is a showstopper, though. I'm not playing SD Roulette with a phone. 16GB is the bare minimum I can put up with. The build quality isn't all that great. The back cover pulls off like a cheap hooker's bra.

TBQH, the only WP7 device I feel is worth buying is the Dell Venue Pro. Fortunately it's on T-Mobile and I get Corporate Discounts from Dell, so I'm sort of thinking about it. It's a shame the HD7 has such terrible build quality with such a bad LCD on it... Thoroughly pissed me off...

But I'm going to wait until CES. Maybe an Android device from a decent manufacturer will come out and I will stick it out here.

Judging from what Microsoft is saying, it's gonna take them a year to really get WP7 functionality up to par and judging form my experience with this phone... I simply don't have the patience for that...

I also want to see if RIM will come out with a decent Touchscreen phone soon with a more refined/better OS on it, as well. We'll see at CES. I'm holding off all purchases until then.
[Windows Phone 7 General] solidkevin:
Well while I AM enjoying the focus at the moment, I am waiting for CES as well, I want to see what everyone offers as far as Android and Hopefully Nokia shows what it plans to do with Symbian because if it gets a revamp, I may have to get the N8, I will have a lot of money to spend, because I sold the extra focus I had (buy one get one free ATT), so If I want something else I can sell this one as well. But yea hopefully theres some interesting things at CES, really just Android and Symbian are what interest me though.
[Windows Phone 7 General] daleski75:
Isn't it just Nokia now who are actively developing Symbian?
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
Symbian will be ditched to midend and Meego or however it's called will be used as highend platform. Known for months.

Symbian development is over for me. Nokia has a reeeaally hard time to give really competitive hardwarwe. I would forget it.

And yes, only Nokia does Symbian. All of the rest kicked it out, significant move.
[Windows Phone 7 General] nrfitchett4:
Sorry, gotta disagree about the dvp. It has already been recalled twice due to issues. How can you be confident that you will get 2 years out of it?

Coming from the hd2, the hd7 screen is fine. Maybe coming from a vibrant, its an issue, but I have seen more complaints about oversaturation and color banding of the focus screen then I have of the "washed out" look of the hd7.

I was a little worried about the back of the hd7, coming from the brushed aluminum back of the hd2, but since I'm not having to constantly pop the back to reset the phone, the back is no longer a worry and the texture is nice.

I've owned 4 HTC devices and overall the phones have been great. The best of them all (the hd2), is the only one that I had to replace due to failure. I consider that pretty good.

Maybe some early adopters will be frustrated by CES, but I doubt it. There haven't been many leaks of newer wp7 devices on the horizon. I think it might be fall before the next Gen wp7 devices hit, a full year after the hd7, which is about normal for new devices.

Sent from my HD7 using Board Express
[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
I had an hd2 before this. I'm not blind and pretty much every review said the screen was pretty bad.

Dev has a warranty. Ill get enough time out of it until I get a mew device, if I get it. It a better phone than the hd7, in every imaginable way.
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
N8er

So now after fighting with everybody and proving WP7 is the best,

you say it basically sucks?

Hard to believe.

And apparently you don't have WP7 device?
[Windows Phone 7 General] wheresmybeaver:
It's all well and good comparing feature lists, but really when you are talking about a smart mobile phone, it comes down to usability.

I put up with the quirks of WM5, 6.1 and 6.5 for a few years. While it did technically have a lot of features, it was slow and a pain in the ass to use. And if anyone not familiar with the phone used it they were immediately lost.

Now I'm using WP7 (HD7) since October and it just works. It's fast and everything is intuitive and makes sense. And oddly enough I am only very rarely missing some advanced features. For example, I thought I'd be crippled without tethering, but as it turns out I am using my laptop via tethering much less when I'm travelling because the mobile browser and mobile apps on WP7 are so much better than any previous mobile browsers I'd used, so I'm more likely to use it rather than just getting frustrated and dragging out the laptop to use the "proper" browser. The great WP7 keyboard has a lot to do with this.

And if I lend my phone to someone else so they can make a call or check their email or whatever, they can use it! WP7 passes the idiot test! I would actually get this phone for my father!

A few days ago I met a techy friend who's a nokia die-hard, he had just purchased the N8. We swapped phones for half an hour to test them out, and the look on his face afterwards was proof enough that MS is on to something. My initial impression of the N8 software was that Nokia hasn't changed their OS since 1999. There was an impressive list of features for sure, if you could find them, as the menu system and shortcuts confused the hell out of me. And fonts were tiny everywhere. Maybe I'm just spoiled by WP7 now, but the experience of using the N8 was dreadful.

TLDR; You can compare a list of features as much as you like to see which is best; but you have to experience it to appreciate it. And WP7 seems to have the edge in this regard at the moment, even above iOS and Android.
[Windows Phone 7 General] JamesAllen:
Focus

"over saturation and color banding", I have no idea what you are talking about. I have had the focus for a week now and the screen is amazing. I don't even use my laptop any longer, just IE on the Focus. I was an HTC advocate for years (8125, 8525, FUZE) and switched to the Focus after careful consideration and will never look back. I have heard these criticisms of the screen and quite frankly don't see any of it. Am I just lucky? I have been to three ATT stores and played with 3 different Focus's before buying and did not experience these screen issues.
[Windows Phone 7 General] nrfitchett4:
the reviews I've read, had the screen as the "worst" of the wp7 phones, but due to bigger color range of wp7, the screen looked better than the hd2. Being the worst of the wp7 phones, is like saying the worst between a lcd, a plasma, and a dlp t.v. They are all perfectly acceptable, some people like lcd, some like plasma, I like dlp because it looks better for sports.

As far as the dvp begin better than the hd7, what are you basing this on? Hardly anyone has been able to get their hands on one. You can't go to a store and try it out since its only coming through dell and MS.

HD7 has a bigger screen, and more RAM.

Hell, even engadget can't get a review out because their demo units keep breaking...

We get it, you hate the hd7, but I don't think the dvp is any better.
[Windows Phone 7 General] nrfitchett4:
http://www.mobiletechworld.com/2010...nding-issue-microsoft-could-partially-fix-it/
[Windows Phone 7 General] vbetts:
when I had my Moment, even with just an Amoled screen it had that issue.
[Windows Phone 7 General] efjay:
I still have my HD2 and had the HD7 for two weeks before I returned it. The HD7 screen is the same as the HD2 and its poor, for all the reasons already stated. The HD7 all round is a piss poor device, to the point it reproduces a bug from the HD2 (pink camera tint), same crappy battery that lasts hours and a lower level of build quality. As for the DVP, the only "recall" was a replacement of faulty devices bought from MS stores, and while the device has been shown to have more bugs than usual I would still take it (and have, its my current device) over the HD2.5 HTC released, and after doing the same A-B comparison yesterday with the DVP that I did with the Focus, I will take the oversaturated AMOLED screens over HTC's 4.3" of washed out LCD crap.
[Windows Phone 7 General] shubh.27hd2:
Great stuff but symbian really sucks..
[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
Qft. Hd7s are basically repurpused hd2s.

And overpriced at that, considering u get Dvp from dell for 50 less (with 16gb storage) - a much superior device.
[Windows Phone 7 General] vbetts:
Kind of sucks that their build quality is bad, it would be pretty sweet having such a huge screen on WP7.
[Windows Phone 7 General] nrfitchett4:
actually, first recall was for WiFi not working, second was for phones not reading SIM cards.

Sent from my HD7 using Board Express
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adarshmk:
Hi,

I have a Indian HD2 and I want to try MAGLDR 1.11. But i have the official 3.14 rom with the 3.03 spl and the HTC website doesnt have any older official Roms. My S/N is not accepted in other regions ("Sorry, this software download is not suitable for your device."). My questions are:

1. Is it safe to flash the WWE 1.66.405.2 official rom using gold card method even though the website says its not suitable?

2. If not, How do I go back to older version spl so i can install HSPL?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shubh.27hd2:
well can help brother.. jus go to the site shipped roms.com .... goto the leo section select asia india 1.48... rom.. and flash it... then do this hardspl 2.08 and the radio thingie... i did 2.14 one and then flash magldr ...... do thank me..... and i did it ... indian hd2 works cool...
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shubh.27hd2:
well any prob give a mssg.. happy to help indian guys.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adarshmk:
Downloading now :)..

Many thanks brother!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shubh.27hd2:
My pleasure buddy..and yr hardspl aur radio jarur se kar lena..
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shubh.27hd2:
Well after a hard day struggle.. did make out a way.. and dont flash dft android go for.. mdj and ne problem cl 9549777882 my no. Love my hd2
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adarshmk:
It worked :)... Thanks so much
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shubh.27hd2:
yo... bro cheers...
[Desire General] lvnatic:
As you may know desire has a built in feature that monitors when you do need 3g connection and when not, so when you do not need it it automaticly switches to 2g. I have also read somewhere that this feature consumes less battery then being always on 2g. Is that true? I still heard a lot of people that are most of the time on 2g while they do not browse the internet, reporting decent battery lives.

So, as the title says, which is better?
[Desire General] mercianary:
2g uses less battery than 3g. Use 2g when not using data for the best battery life.

Whoever said that 2g and sometimes 3g uses less battery that 2g only needs to go back to school, its mathematically impossible if 3g uses more battery.
[Desire General] crapula512:
are you completely sure about that? my phone seems to be always in 3G as long as it is available and switchs to 2G if it cant get a 3g connection.

anyway, 2G is the best option battery wise.
[Desire General] f4kill:
there is a video from google i/o 2k9 talking about this. I think it's this one : http://developer.android.com/videos/index.html#v=OUemfrKe65c
[Desire General] bluesax:
I have used both modes for some weeks, but i didn't see any difference.
[Desire General] lvnatic:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=688492

How about this? Does it apply to desire as well? I am curently using gsm only when im not browsing the net.
[Desire General] themaddoc:
2g only will use the least battery.

Auto is great but the issue is that it will preferentially seek 3g. To seek 3g more power is required. (Now this is a negligible amount on its own). However if comparing the battery use in only a 2g area the 2g phone will last longer.
[Desire General] Robert A:
if you have signal i recommend to use 3g. the cells needs more power to have/transmitt fast data connections like hdspa and in that case the cellphone need less battery to connect to it. in Romania the network it's kinda new hardware, because we use cellphones later than anyone else and the tech was envolved when we first install the network, but remember if your cellphone go from 2g to 3g often, this will consume a lot of power.
[Desire General] lvnatic:
So you recommend wcdma only? Even when I don't use the internet? Its true that I have signal most of the time, but I am on "gsm only" all the time, switching to wcdma only when I browse the net.
[Desire General] olivierlee:
I would recommend GSM auto (PRL) from the testing menu ( *#*#4636#*#* ) then in phone information. Your phone will still use 3G but only when the signal is strong. Otherwise it will prefer 2G.

WCDMA preferred will try to force 3G even when the signal is weak. Consuming more battery.
[Desire General] erklat:
2G only uses the least power.

3G only uses moar power.

Constant switching uses the most, it peaks at 600mA battery drain in the process.

3G only will only give you signal outages, therefore I would not recommend it. It is not widespread as GSM signal is.
[Desire General] lvnatic:
Oh I finally know how to acces PRL options, thanks. But regarding this, I found this thread on the nexus one section, which says wcdma prl is better. Any of you know how accurate that is?

Edit:

Nvm, it wasn't battery related anyway. And I found what I needed. Thanks a lot.
[Desire General] lvnatic:
Im back to gsm only, gsm auto prl didn't seem to be better in terms of battery saving.
[General Questions and Answers] squire23:
A ridiculously stupid question but one that is annoying me none the less. Can anyone tell me why when in this video the guy adds a widget only the widget itself comes up with a 2ndary screen for the options & not all options? ie. You have to press Desktop Visualizer to get all available options. Mine (Legend w/ Stock 2.2) just shows all options which makes it very cluttered. Any help appreciated.

[YOUTUBE]33GO5f0[/YOUTUBE]
[General Questions and Answers] DJ Carpenter:
Is this what you're looking for? I saw your post on UltraLinx.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=780828
[General Questions and Answers] squire23:
GENIUS!!!!!!!!! Thanks man
[General Questions and Answers] DJ Carpenter:
Yeah, no problem.
[General Questions and Answers] squire23:
FYI - while this installed no problem and did exactly what it was meant to it keeps Force Closing all the time. It turns out from reading the thread for the App that you have to move the app to /system/apps rather than install. To do this you obviously need Root access (which I don't have). I'm assuming this is the issue. Thanks anyway!
[General Questions and Answers] DJ Carpenter:
Yes, you have to place it in /system/app. I assumed you were rooted. It doesn't force close at all once it's moved to the proper location and everything. Have you considered rooting? I've been rooted for a quite a while and it opens up a whole new world for you.
[General Questions and Answers] squire23:
Since I've started customizing I've certainly being 'tied down' by the fact that I'm not rooted but rooting for the Legend with 2.2 is not easy as you have to downgrade the ROM. To be honest other than having it for this & WidgetLocker customizing I'm not really that anxious to do it. Plus I haven't a fricking clue either!
[General Questions and Answers] DJ Carpenter:
Yeah, I know what you mean. They haven't created a root for the Legend running 2.2? Haha yeah, I had no idea what rooting really even was when I did it, I just wanted it. Especially after 2.2, my phone got...so...slow. It was ridiculous. I didn't know there were two recoveries either.

(there are two for the Droid 1)
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] lufc:
Kanttii put these together over in Android Themes HERE , and i have added a few more to it

It Is the Sounds off most of the Android Devices both mp3 & ogg 1235 in Total

Update 5.2.2011-2: Added new audio files, big thanks to kanttii and bypass23 and cvitur1 for the system dump of Optimus 2X!

Update 1.4.2011-3: Added 221 new Ringtones

Update 6.4.2011-4 Added over 200 audio files thanks tokanttii

Details:

- 1235 files total, both mp3 and ogg & mediacenter_intro.mp4

- 123 alarm sounds

- 282 notification sounds

- 711 ringtones

- 77 ui sounds

- 1 alert sound

- 1 boot sound

- 6 LG Electronics base sounds (?)

- Optimus 2X power toggle sound

- 25 camera sounds

- 5 indicator sounds (Verizon Extended Roaming Indicator)

- 1 midi

- Taken from Samsung, Sony Ericsson, HTC, Motorola, LG (Optimus 2X plus others), AOSP, Meizu and many different ROMs which included audio files, like CyanogenMOD, MIUI and more.

To use just :-

1. Download & unarchive to your SDCARD's root folder

2. Make sure the folder path is /sdcard/media

Download from HERE :)

Mirror HERE Thanks Marvin02 :)
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] lufc:
94 views

downloaded 63 times

Strange every one is to shy to say anything :)
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] stoney73:
'tis odd isnt it?

Will download and give it a bash.
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] aSquard:
What UI sounds does the Streak have? o_O

Some lock/unlock sounds would be prime though...
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] nightworker-nn11:
Hi just downloaded, nice pack of tones etc but maybe I'm being silly but how do u actually change the ui sounds?
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] Spectre51:
Check out mabilo in the market. Has a bunch of good sounds.

Sent from my Dell Streak
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] Speedy350z:
works great thanks!
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] nickshertzer:
Glad to find so many great ringtones and notification sounds. Thank you for sharing! :D
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] ABD33D:
thanks

thanks but what do u mean with " Download & unarchive to your SDCARD's root folder "

do u mean i should extract the 4 folders " alarms , notifications , ringtones and UI " inside sd card\media ??

i did that ...
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] lufc:
Yes mate unzip it and copy the file over to your sd card :)
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] gogoduck:
Thanks a million mate, start downloading now....;)
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] Krad:
Awesome! Amazing

I always wanted to do this for ringers and notifications.

You rule
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] Krad:
personally I prefer to load them in system/media/xxxxxxx

I hate keeping sounds/ringtones on sd card.. had issues in the past with galaxy s phone.. especially with mp3 playback taking more then a second to play.
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] kanttii:
Thanks!

I added these and more from some people to the original thread also :)
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] lufc:
Thats where i prefer to put them but not every one does but on the streak the internal memory is soooo big we can afford to:)
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] Krad:
Missing Droid noises
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] Twiztidmf:
Thanks

Thanks for putting these together. I will give them a shot
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] fone_fanatic:
are these preloaded into streakdroid?

When i extracted the .zip and put the files into sdcard/media i get a bunch of duplicates when going into settings and attempting to change a ringtone/notification.

Some are there 2 times, some 3x, and some are 4x!

never the less, thanks for the share!
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] kanttii:
Some of them are, yes. As I and lufc & other people collected these from different phones, ROMs and such, it is obvious there will be duplicates in device internal memory.
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] VinceT3:
Nice!

Thanks, love the reggae & old spice tones.. lol
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] RavenY2K3:
I've stuck these in the /system/media folder but aren't showing up? Any idea what could be going wrong?

Using 1.60
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] lufc:
Would not recommend putting them in your system unless you know where to put them best bet is on the SD card :)
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] RavenY2K3:
It took a couple of reboots, but they're showing up now :o) deleted them off the SD card to make sure they're not being picked up off that, everythings all good now.
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] bel4_20:
how do you utilize the UI sounds? sorry for the stupid question.:o
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] lufc:
Its not a stupid question but it does say what to do in the first post

To use just :-

1. Download & unarchive to your SDCARD's root folder

2. Make sure the folder path is /sdcard/media

Then they will automatically show up when selecting ringtones or alarms and so on

Hope that helps mate:)
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] bel4_20:
thanks that worked well now the ui sounds how and where can i use those? examples?

tia again
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] over2land:
How about a mirror? Because apparently I can't DL the entire 48 or whatever Mb at one shot, and it makes me wait a half hour to try again.
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] marvin02:
I have mirrored the file. See the opening post for the link

Edit: removed old link.
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] lufc:
No its ok bud i only have hotfile so thanks for the mirror:)
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] marvin02:
If you want to add the additional link to the first post go ahead.
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] kanttii:
Original thread updated: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=10240282

lufc, please add them here too :)
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] lufc:
Thanks mate will do :)
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] blackviper71:
Thanks for the download! Sure is nice to have a wide variety to select from.
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] marvin02:
I have updated the mirror with the new file. Link in OP post for the mirror will DL the updated file.
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] lufc:
Thanks Marvin :)
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] bel4_20:
hey guys do you go in and remove the old file then install this new one or just extract this new one in the same folder as the first one? /sdcard/media

thanks
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] besony:
That is a mighty collection!

thanks a ton mate!

care,

Sony.
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] kanttii:
It's best to remove the old collection and put the new in, because that way you won't get any duplicates - especially when you're doing it on your phone.

I once just put new audio files in and soon saw I had 7x every file...
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] bel4_20:
Ya I don't want that just a shot in the dark but all the sounds from the first file are in this latest one to right?
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] kanttii:
Yes.

I recommend you to turn off your phone, take the card out and replace the media folder. This way your system will not panic :)
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] bel4_20:
As usual worked like a charm! Thanks everyone!
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] Braunstonbruce:
Incredible list. Many thanks
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] davybass:
thanks so much. man, i love android :D
[Streak 5 Themes and Apps] dto555:
Thank you for your sharing ^_^