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[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] dharvey4651:
I had a similar situation come up once as well.

I walked into my local T-Mobile store to check out the HD7 - Just to see what WP7 was really like. I sat my phone down on the little ledge by the phone and began to play with HD7.

About 2 minutes later, a sales rep walked up to me and started trying to sell me on WP7. He noticed that I had an HD2 sitting there on the ledge and proceeded to start comparing all the "new benefits" that WP7 would offer me over WM6.5.

To my surprise... He actually picked up my phone and said "Here let me show you something" - Like I was some kind of moron or something and turned on the phone. He saw the unlock screen and said "What the...".

I said yeah that's no normal phone there. That's a SUPER PHONE.

He laughed and asked me where I got the cool theme from. I said "What theme?". He said "Come one man.. I know this is an HD2. I have one at home and I sold the last 2 of them we had in the store this morning. They come shipped with WM6.5 on it so this has to be a theme."

With my phone still in his hand, he walked over to the MyTouch4G and started comparing this "theme" with their display device, clearly trying to sell me this new phone since my Android theme was so realistic. Though it was a little different, he soon realized that my phone was the real deal. Then I said "So... Can I have my phone back?"

He sat there and played with my phone longer than he let me sit there and play with that HD7. Naturally, after almost 10 minutes I got irritated and said "Dude.. Give me back my phone... If you really like it that much get , go to xda-developers.com, read the forums, follow the directions and install Android on your OWN phone..."

He said "I just might do that..." As I was walking out the door he said "WAIT!! What's your user name so I can find you and you can help me?".

I turned around and told him "Just read the damn forums man..." and walked out the door.

2 days later I walked back into the store to pay my phone bill. That same salesman was there again and this time, was using his HD2 instead of his HD7. He said to me - "Hey it's you!! Man I really owe you one. You and that forum brought new life to my phone and I'm actually returning my HD7 tomorrow!!"

That's it for my story. Not exactly an Ah-ha moment but it definitely taught that sales rep a thing or two.

LONG LIVE XDA!!!!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Metastable:
Lol, owned.

I hope you told him to read the forums before posting questions lol, we have enough of that as it is.

All good stories btw, hoping to have a similar one! Now I just need to flaunt my phone out more, haha.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Pac-Man:
oh buddie, great story haha
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] playaz:
This is one fab story (just popped up on my twitter) - i gotta say all the devs here are amazing, not to mention the average tom, **** and harry who help other users with all sorts of issues. To say this is one of the better forums on the internet is a massive understatement!!

Long Live XDA and all the Devs on it!!!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] B4PJS:
Good stuff fella :) always good to pwn the opposition (Dont get me started on the Carphone Whorehouse)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Utorrent76:
Awesome!

Great story. Xda + Android= ORGASIM FTW! **** WinMo.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Zepiii:
Amazing story :D
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ayekhine:
Same story happended for me too. I did show off wm6.5, android and ubuntu. They blowed away!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Nikola G.:
An inspiring story, one which I assume will happen way more often than before.

We owe to XDA so, so much. Thank you!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] commodoor:
Great story really can't stop laughing haha i also have that kind chats in tmobile.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Hawiak:
people who sell you a hd2 and 2 months after they yell you need a other suck

great job :p
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] TonyCubed:
Let he HD2 invasion begin!

But seriously, someone should load up Ubuntu, Android and WP7 and go into a phone store and show our new multi-purpose/operating system phone, lols!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Slicerwolf:
LMAO, I did this to a guy at the T-Mobile Store and at Radio Shack. Imagine the look on his face when they were tolsd this by a 14 year old!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] uxu:
Wonderfull Story...HD2 rocks! :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] SyLvEsTeR20007:
Dont forget the bonus of an extended battery :D

I love it!

The amount of people who drain my battery while trying to come to terms with my phone running android is simply shocking, Just bought the extended battery for my phone, yet another 1 up on the desire HD, WP7 HD7 and not to forget, the iPhone.

As for the performance, when I showed a guy in Vodafone the quadrant benchmark results while running at 1.5Ghz he was stunned and I quote "Its such an old phone, how is it so much faster than the new models? Can you do this to my HD2 please?"

I have just given his back to him on monday, obviously I made some money off him lol, im still shocked he gave me the phone and have my payment and let me walk out of the shop on trust.... Hes lucky I'm such a nice honest person.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Krendelrus:
xda developers are the best developers :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] maevro:
Haha, tons of idiots work in phone stores, especially high end

Stores.

When I was a sales rep at Mobile City Online, most staff knew nothing about

GSM vs CDMA.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] evolutionqy7:
Ah just another dumb phone salesman. I wish they stopped employing people who have no clue about phones and beyond.

I work in CPH and im the ONLY one in the whole shop that actually knows something about phones and whats the difference between various models and etc...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] chrsada:
What were you doing walking around with your HD2 switched off? :p
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] xjomulkerx:
Nice story

Sadly in my country (Dominican Republic), all stores are about Blackberrys, the population might be like 70% Blackberrys, 20% Iphone's, 9% Random Non Smartphones, 1% Android/WinMo Devices.

So no one knows what the hell i got in my hand :P, everytime i show it they are like "IS THAT AN IPHONE" *see it closer* "oh no is bigger, is that a copy?" makes me so mad :mad: haha but at least i know inside me i got the best phone in the world :cool:
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ultimatepichu:
It is anybody's Godlike day to boast in that situation.

That's enough to make me laugh for a whole long day.

And that's why I love xda-developers. They make us happier than wifes or girlfriends do.

okay i exaggerated. ;)

HAH!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] chazam:
Great thread.

Great community.

Makes me want a hd2 to play with now! :D
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Becksman:
Did you at least get that cheapo charger or an SD card for free? ;)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] housert:
Which I assume is going to the developers as a donation, right? :)

Btw, good story from OP!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] wileykat:
Great stories here.

Loved this one.

Good to see the little geeks showing some people up too.

EXCELLENT!!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] derrick4tech:
Happened with me too..

I went to buy an adapter for my 'crappy hp' laptop... The guy there saw my magic & started showing me wildfire and blah..blah, At tht point i was running cm6.0..I showed him tht i hv froyo and tht it's working perfectly... he looked shocked at seeing magic running froyo...

The next thing he asked me was if i could work there to root phones!!!!:eek:
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] deolarte:
Lol that has happen to me a couple of times now, its hillarious because I put android on my htc touch pro, when it first came out thru haret, people at best buy were like what the ****, trying to sell me the hero. I always wanted the touch pro 2 but best buy never sold it so I was going to wait for the hd2 sprint never got it, and then I fell in love with the evo. People are simple blown away with simple things like wifi tether or booting into recover to load another rom, they think Im a hacker when all im doing is booting into cynogen to play sonic with my wii remote. They are blown, but it is all thanks to the xda community which is amazing and filled with geniuses. All i have to say is **** the iphone. LOL
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] SyLvEsTeR20007:
In compleate Honesty, I donated to Cortulla on day 1 of the Magldr release. I have a great deal of respect for these guys and they deserve the drink money.

:D
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] mafiasx:
same to me .... i live in greec and i was with friends (me hd2 ,friends omnia iphone ....) i was the master :) (:)hd2 winner )then the time pas ,htc magic-desire appears ,i then install android in sd bat , you got it .... :mad: then i read about nand i was very happy i can say ,i maybe the first in greec how made the install :confused: the next morning i go to a coffee shoppe and 1 of my friend as to see my phone :( :mad: (to laughing) bat my phone was a king :rolleyes: and i was the best for one more time :cool: <sorry for my bat english>
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] cooolone2:
Hahahaha, great story, would'a been priceless to see his face of bewilderment once that phone began to boot up! Lol...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] alphadeeto:
lol'd all over this thread! :D

gotta try tomorrow on nearby phone shop.. but I think they won't offer me anything.. :p
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] sathara:
same like happened to from a HTC service care from Bangalore, when i go for repair of desire . i didnt tell any thing about it.. he asked me for a look HD2 , then he rolling menu up and down and he said this is android , i only replayed google xda developers .
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] chris_ah1:
Actually, kudos to a chap at the O2 in Holborn, but when I was looking at the HD2, he told me to come to XDA and sign up so I could install a custom WM rom that didn't have the text message bug which came with the stock ROM.

But yes, I've had fun in a couple of stores with Android. Needless to say a few techie and non-techie friends (because I suddenly appeared on whatsapp for instance) have been very impressed - sadly, the Desire HD screen is nicer, and so is the AMOLED on the Desire :(

If the HD2 had a better quality lcd it would be purrfect.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] antonymilo:
Great story!if you were here in greece,at a phone's store and you try to tell the assistant that your hd2 runs android even from sd card he wouldn't never believe u because the most assistans don't know anything further from the spects and the features that the store "teach' them to say!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jelliottz:
I always loved going into TMO stores to ask them about upcoming phones. Then they ask if I want to upgrade? Pulling out my HD2 I let them know I'm good. They make a comment about WinMo and I let the fun begin.

Thank you XDA!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] antonymilo:
pame mori arostia elladara!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] franzmeister1989:
i share the same situation with xjomulkerx. here at my place (Cebu, Philippines), just saying it's an HTC would need an explanation. most of the people here doesn't even know HTC. it's just a few weeks ago that stores here started to sell HTC phones. when they see my phone (since i always hold my phone whether i use it or not; it's my habit; i do it with my other non-smartphones of the past), they always ask "is that an iphone?" or "is that an iphone 4?". then i tell them, "it's HTC HD2". they ask "what's the brand?". then there goes the explanation. then i tell them about the native OS and the other ROMs that the devs cooked, how i could run different OS's (since im not using NAND ROMs. i miss the 'original HD2' feel from time to time). i also tell them how the devs here at XDA are doing their best to port every OS out there. at this point, they're all pretty much geeked out. i'm sorry for them though. i get too excited when it comes to these sorts of things. like non-geeks out there, i'd be really sorry for my purchase of the HD2. thanks to the devs here at XDA, they polished the rough HD2 into a shining gem fit to for a king! Long live HD2! Long live XDA Developers! >_<
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] marp-es:
hahaha

something similar hapenned to me with my evo

is very funny when u see their faces. (ahh)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] steviewevie:
You made the front page ! :cool:

Great story :D
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] ptsite:
funny...

you would have taken the photo with his jaw dropped :)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] unknownrebelx:
I love stories like this! I always wondered how many of these genius devs on here got hassled by the wage jockeys at Best Buy and cell phone kiosks in the mall who have no idea what they're talking about.

I remember I was in Best Buy checking out the dummy phones and this lady comes up and starts trying to sell me an iPhone 3GS because it's "one of the most powerful phones out". Then she asked what kind of phone I was using at the moment and when I said "Nexus One", she had a blank stare on her face and told me that I should upgrade to an iPhone. WHAT!?!?

Anyways, great story man. I thoroughly enjoy these!:p
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] leluloota:
Nice one :)

Cheers...
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] liljom:
awesome story :D

If I could be there :D
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] nw86281:
I would LOVE to have seen the look on his face. Like one of those mastercard adverts - accessories = overpriced, salesman = clueless look on said salesman's face when being proved wrong = PRICELESS. :-)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] FuRoRR:
I just had a thing like that happen to me!Lol it really did felt like i was a god!I intentionaly pulled out my phone and checked my twitt and facebook as i was waiting in the line to pay my bill.Then started angry birds.One of the salesmen sawme throwing the birdy,came to me and called his 2 coleagues.They all just sat there while i was explainig how i installed it how fun it was and things,then one of them pulled out a stock DHD from his pocket ,and i beat him at loading a webpage,ad just browsing.Saved them the fact i had overclocked it.Then i told them about the forum and left,1 hour later i realised i had forgotten to pay my bill and had to go back^^:D
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] piaqt:
Your wives and girlfriends fell the same about you, and about XDA. :p
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] kevinniven:
Same Here

I was in my Tmobile store showing the guys my HD2 with Nand and they freaked. lol

Asking me to bring in my notebook and flash thr phones. They are using the Vibrant but when I left they jumped on craigslist looking for a used HD2. I did notice that used HD2's have gone from an average of $150 to $250 now. Guess word travels fast. I got mine from a lady at Tmobile store wanting to trade hers in. I paid $50 in like new condition. Love It! Its my Tmobile EVO:)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] cwallen18:
I had the opposite experience at Best Buy here in the States. A clerk saw my HD2 and recommended I visit XDA.

That's when I showed him the darkstone SuperRam, to which he said, "How can it be so fast?"

Thanks to everyone, Devs and testers.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Brau0303:
Love It!

I Can only say this one way, Outstanding!!!!!!

Cheers

BR
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Rataplan:
Thanks for the story,

Greetz,
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] xtremesv:
Could some dev port Windows 7 on my Captivate? I'd love to show off.

LOL
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] xda_addict:
I work at Phones4u myself and yeah most consultants are pretty clueless about what the phones do. I have a few people who walk in with the HD2 stock 6.5WM ROM, I usually show my phone with android on and they are like " WTF how do you get that, I want that! !!!appointslment card with xda website promptly follows, I had one Guy demand that I do it fo

Do it for him haha.

Respect to the devs for everything....... HD2 for life

Darren
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] stopa46:
Hi. I'm glad that I am a member of this forum. I have a HTC Touch HD "which is quite old:)"with WM 6.5... CHT2.0 and when my friends see my "phone" I see how envy some of them are. Before, I knew very little about mobiles, ppc etc ... God, I thank you for the XDA Developers and all the wonderful people on this forum. Cheers

p.s.

sorry for poor english
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jonny68:
Indeed it is quite funny to see some peoples reactions, people who work in mobile phone shops who think they know it all but in fact know very little, i had a guy in a Meteor shop talk to me and i showed him i had Android and WINMO (no more WINMO after today though) on my HD2 and he was astonshised at how it could be done, i ended up educating him in the end :D
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] QUEDRO:
haha!! Great one!

I got to say....I love to kill associates' KnowBetterThanYou spirit at BestBuy, Tech Support etc
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] M..N:
I had a different encounter, I went to the cex store with my friend as he wanted to buy a hd2 after I told him about it. Well we went to the store to get the hd2 and as my friend was paying the guy at the counter said for an extra £20 ill put android on there with a program I created. I was wtf, in the end I ended up saying I can get you the program for free and we left :p
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] SefEXE:
Haha!

That and the rest are amazing stories. :D I wish I could have an opportunity like that. It'd be great to show off some knowledge of what phones can do, even though I'm pretty new to this stuff, myself.

Although... I've got a Mytouch Slide, so I doubt I'll be impressing anyone, hahaha. :p
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Slicerwolf:
Sad...

Sad thing is I live in the U.S. and they still do this, "Is this an iphone?", "Is it a droid, My brother had a droid x", and best of all " I don't care what it is the iphone is better." Answer to all of them "NO, go to xda-developers and feel the revalution."
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jigners:
this should be a classic! :)I've had this similar experience sometime over the

Christmas period, the guys over at C Warehouse were just so busy to be

bothered about it:)
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] alphadeeto:
Lol. You reminded me of this youtube video about HTC Evo vs iPhone4 conversation between a guy from the shop and an iTard fanboy.

"but that's not an iPhone4". lmfao

Well, in my country blackberry is still the hype, but android is getting bigger.. and the HD2 is one of the most wanted device of the geeks.. but everytime people see mine, they keep saying "is that a desire hd?".. oh, well yeah, at least the build is based on that device.. :p
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] jaidedfocus:
BEST HD2 Story!!!! I had the same thing happen to me except the salesperson knew about Android on the HD2 and was skeptical about telling his friends to try it.

Went in to the store really to look at a HD7 since the store near me had the phone ripped out and stolen and they hadn't yet replaced it. So I'm just perusing the home screen when the salesperson comes over and starts explaining things to me. I bascially just told him I was looking and that I was thinking about getting the MyTouch 4G which he said was a great phone and that I would love Android after upgrading from Windows Mobile 6.5. Well, casually I mentioned it was already running Android and I showed him my phone which was running tytungs stock Froyo at the time and running as smooth as would be. He loved it! So much he went and got the other salesperson so he could look at it too lol.

Needless to say the conversation about Android on the HD2 went on for about 15 more minutes with him saying he might recommend it for a friend since it was running so smoothly and he notices in my apps I had PDAnet and I told him it worked better than my wifes phone for tethering :D. And I could switch builds as often as I changed undies (everyday)

That made me decide even more that maybe getting the HD2 was not such a bad idea:p
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] dcheng11:
hahaha i love xda. i get the whole "is that an iphone" or "that phone is HUGE!" thing a lot, but i've never had a straight lol experience. i can't wait.

on a side note, sd cards are expensive in stores.. well, any type of memory is. i'm in the states, and a 8gb class 2 runs about $20 (sorry, don't know the conversion to pounds). i could get a 16gb class 2 or a 8gb class 6 for less than that off of newegg.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] stcardinal:
Happens all the time at the mall when teens holla at me to get me to buy a new phone. Great story none the less!! Thank you XDA!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] phoenixtraveller:
Happend to me in a TELSTRA (telco) shop !!!

Tried to get me to "upgrade". Said are you kidding me? Besides fact I have wp7-Mozart which sucks (not mozart but wp7-gui etc not that good - although I am hacking it with chevron, xbmod, xap-dll-signer, touchxplorer, regedit, debug-view, register-edit. etc etc etc. but still HD2 is IT period.

HD2 is the ONLY PHONE IN EXISTENCE with THIS kinda modding and raw power IMHO and why Magldr was/is made for IT.

ps: Telstra SUCK. Just got my $5000 bill waived due to 6 months of haggling and over-charging but they have monopoly here and best network.

I also think 850mhz Australian HD2's have better silicon or SOMETHING because they get much higher on quadrant and other tests than tmous/eu. ???

Feels great: Ubuntu booting does their heads in even more so!

Sent from my Magldr+Darkstone(SUPERNand)+Recovery_Clockworked_ HD2 that has running @4000+ Quadrant score (no over clocking). Experimenting with OVERCLOCKING! Cant wait for Ubuntu to work Magldr properly and for wm6-sd.

HD2 is IT.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] phoenixtraveller:
Slap em one.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] sameer1211:
Lol welldone!! I do the same but on purpose! ;) nice story...