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[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Gustopher:
An Alternative View...

I can understand why some are worrying about this but MS tend to go after larger organisations and even then have been known to be surprisingly reasonable - certainly when compared to the Adobe and Oracle sharks - providing people are trying to true up.

So I doubt they would go after individuals - if they were that litigious there is no way they would dish out activation codes without a few checks and balances.

But here's the other view; up until about 24 hours ago I hated WP7 with a passion. it seemed like a half-assed retrograde step from 6.5.5 and I was sore at MS for selling out to the Apple business model.

I don't eat humble pie too often, but I'm just about to - WP7 is pretty good and it may even be a keeper. It's lively, reasonably good fun and works quite nicely. I even think that Marketplace is as good as and perhaps even better than the App Store - I was surprised how many apps it had, including good quantities of free ones and although App Store must have more, many of them are utter rubbish. The fact that Marketplace lets you try before you buy is a massive plus and should allow users to filter out the rubbish.

Had it not been possible to get the phone activated and were it not for the good XDA-ers (and others) who have helped to unlock the device I wouldn't even have tried it, but when most of one's personal objections are removed, it becomes worth a look at least. My only major gripe at present is the lack of a decent Sat Nav.

So whether they meant to or not, MS have probably ensured that my next device will be a WP7 device and I would have said there was more chance of me eating my own face than doing that up until very recently. And that's without the money I have spent at Marketplace today and what I will spend in future.

Sense on the part of MS - unlikely. Coincidence and a loophole that will be closed soon - probably. Humble pie for tea? Definitely.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] MatchedANDY:
well Microsoft UK have stopped giving out codes and ask you to call HTC instead. i cant see Microsoft proceeding with legal as it would seem to be more hassle. i think they will start asking for more information about your phone when you ask for a code
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] mike21pr:
IMO, why would they go so far as to go after individual users??? I believe they might contact DFT at the most. I mean, dont they want as much consumers using and experiencing their OS as possible, suscribing to Zune? Purchasing their apps???? I mean they should see this as more users getting to know and love WP7 and attracting more developers (since a lot of people hacking to these measures might be devs.) And maybe it will lead to users wanting a WP7 device as their next phone after being so pleased with the experience on their HD2... I mean, i doubt this would put a dent on WP7 sales overall since we are such a small # of users doing this. Just make it harder to get the code, and publically say "that they dont encourage/reccomend this and to get a real WP7 device yadda yadda yadda..."

Plus, we already have a license to use one of their OS's (WM6.5) so i bet they can be a bit more easy on us than to say... a port to an Android device

just a thought...
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Danation:
Didn't we already have a topic like this?

I think we got enough of an answer here: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=10601038&postcount=16
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Hojlind:
how legal/illegal this might be I am of the belief that microsoft is smart enough to not waste money by going after all us individuals. I do believe that they might try to block us from using wp7 by applying new securityfeatures just like apple does with jailbreak though :) As said previously MS just stopped giving out keys in the UK and even though they would try to check then your phone would show up as a HD7. If they dig deeper they may be able to see that you really do not own a HD7, but again i do not believe they are willing to spend that much time.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] mike21pr:
good enough for me if thats the case LMAO
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] adwencher:
May be we should try to write the public letter to Microsoft with request to give us a possibility to buy a license for wp7? Why they allow to upgrade XP to W7 and don't allow to upgrade WM6.5->WP7?
[Samsung Mesmerize] elijahblake:
Confirmed to work on Showcase & Mesmerize!!!!!

FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS IN ORIGINAL POST!!!

It makes the swype way better and less annoying..

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=867831
[Samsung Mesmerize] wulfeman:
Just wanted to let you know this worked perfectly on the Mesmerize.
[Samsung Mesmerize] afritchen:
Confirmed. Just follow the numbered steps on the OP and you should be fine.

Swyped (new version) from my SCH-I500 using XDA App
[Samsung Mesmerize] akellar:
Also worked for me. Very easy to do.
[Samsung Mesmerize] cloudstrife7:
Works great thanks for posting this. I almost bought swiftkeys. Still might. I love better keyboard.
[Samsung Mesmerize] elijahblake:
I'm still waiting for google to release blind type
[Samsung Mesmerize] sageDieu:
This worked great, thanks. I still prefer the feel of the Gingerbread keyboard and the prediction of SwiftKey... I haven't been able to find a keyboard that I really like.

Sent from my Galaxy S.
[Samsung Mesmerize] wmedlin:
It works and looks nice but i still have not speech to text wtf do i need to do to get that working?
[Samsung Mesmerize] elijahblake:
it works for me
[Samsung Mesmerize] the_scotsman:
Posting of Swype apk files is not allowed, so I'm closing the thread.

You can sign up for the Swype beta at http://beta.swype.com/
[General Questions and Answers] Eplayersline:
My qik is not working for me what do I do
[Droid 2 General] allyouhave:
Link To Tutorial Blog

Hear me out on this one--I think it's a swell idea.

I'm a huge advocate of having very well tagged, chronicled, and accessible information for technical items. Being a novice myself with hacking, theming, flashing, and all the like, I always appreciate it greatly when there are really solid quality tutorials covering exactly what I want to do myself. What is it that the general population of Droid 2 users want? How to root, theme, and flash. Even for tasks as simple as running a one-touch root, some users may be frightened to try it because they're not tech-savvy and think they may load a file to an improper location, press the wrong button with their single touch, etc... Well written tutorials with screenshots make the tech world less daunting for newcomers, and that's something I definitely want to help with!

Being biased to Tumblr since I freaking love the site, I'd like to suggest that a blog be started there. I'll be making a mock-up tonight of the design, or maybe even flat out creating the blog, but the Tumblr theme creation really makes it easy to make your blog look like a fully functioning website. What's perfect about it is that you can make any blog you create into a Group Blog, which is what I propose for this "project." Multiple users are allowed to post and edit posts on the blog, so we wouldn't even have to have a shared account on the site.

I'd like to open this up to serious tutorial writers only! Each tutorial should have a minimum of two screenshots or pictures of your Droid 2 going through important steps for each subject we cover.

I understand wholeheartedly if no one would like to volunteer until they see a tutorial from me first. Once I have the blog up-to-snuff with my own web design standards, I'll dive in to how to root your phone. I might even post a few tutorials for rooting, depending on how many methods I run into.

If you're interested, you can either shoot me an email to allyouhavetolose(at)gmail(dot)com or chat me up on Skype (username: misterivanovich). Don't worry, I totally won't get [fully] naked if we video chat.
[Droid 2 General] darkonion:
Make your way to Droid 2 Development where there are:

Directories on everything Droid 2 related, tutorials, and video tutorials...

And better yet, they are already stickied.
[Droid 2 General] allyouhave:
I did find a few nicely done tutorials, but that's just not quite the feel that I'm going for. While those tutorials are informative, they are very technical. If you take a look at Skull One's Overclocking 101 thread on droidforums.net, that's more along the lines of what I want to do (his is WAY more in depth than I care to get with my tutorials though!).

I have the beginnings of the Tumblr page done (which I will link to after I've posted 8+ times here haha), but I haven't finished editing my first tutorial just yet. Really, I'm going to be doing this half as a chronicle of my own learning, because I'm really not well versed with Android customization in any way--I've also been having quite a bit of difficulty getting familiarized with it because of the way that I learn and the way the tutorials are written. For that reason, I'll be writing my own tutorials knowing very well that there has to be at least ONE other person out there that will benefit from it haha. And if I can help one person, then that's kosher with me.
[Droid 2 General] allyouhave:
I have updated the first post with a link to the tutorial blog. Although it is incomplete in design and I haven't finished or edited the tutorial I have posted, you can get the general idea for what it is I'm going for. At least I think you can...

Again, anyone who feels like contributing, feel free to shoot me an email or get in touch with me on Skype or via PM here on the board. You are also welcome to give me suggestions for future tutorials, correct me if I've written something incorrectly, etc... All of which will be credited wherever applicable.
[Droid 2 General] darkonion:
Though I appreciate your good intentions, your blog/tutorial thing is... well... time not being put to good use. First of all, there are already tutorials on how to SBF your phone. I would know. I wrote one almost 6 months ago. And there are others out as well.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=770224

and/or here:

http://www.kimete.com/sbfrsd.html

I don't see why you are rewriting everything unless there is a need to. Now, if you feel like my tutorial is lacking in quality or quantity, I certainly encourage you to rewrite a guide, write an updated one, or whatever. But what you are doing is recreating stuff that ALREADY exists. Additionally, you didn't even write correct directions to SBF'ing the phone. Not only incorrect, but you have incomplete directions and procedures. In my opinion, your tutorial is incredibly misleading and very inaccurate and will throw a lot of people off.
[Droid 2 General] allyouhave:
Well, even if it's not time put to good use for anyone else, I will be benefitting from my own blog. I think it will help me to understand things a bit more if I'm writing it all--sort of like how when you lead a study session, you end up being super refreshed on the topic yourself.

I'm not opposed to, with proper permission and ample credit given where due, just following other tutorials that have already been written and showing screen shots of the process that I follow as outlined by someone else. Some tutorials have no real need to be rewritten, but do lack a visual element in my opinion. I almost want to be able to know what I have to do without even reading the post and looking at the pictures (almost... I realize that's a stupid goal to take literally).

I'll check out your guide for flashing an SBF and figure out what is so terrible and misleading about mine, then I'll fix it haha. I'm not looking to replace any of the tutorials that anyone else has already done--I simply want a super compiled and organized list of them, if only for my own use. But I'm pretty sure that at least one more person out there in the world, somewhere, may eventually one day sort of be happy that I did it. :p :]
[Droid 2 General] darkonion:
The reason why your tutorial is so misleading is because

1. You have no real knowledge of the topic at hand.

and 2. Because of number 1, your work is incomplete, and not

I have no problem with you taking my tutorial here on XDA and making edits and additions. Add pictures, or make additional notes, or what not. Of course, give credit where due.

But whatever you do, 1. Don't rewrite things that already exist, and 2. know what you are writing about before you write about it. My tutorial has gone through countless revisions. Additions, subtractions, rewording, simplifying the process for the end-user, troubleshooting of errors. EVERYTHING!

In all honesty, if you want to contribute, take my work, run through it on your own phone, and make additions and edits to that.
[Droid 2 General] allyouhave:
Well, I wouldn't say I don't know anything about the topic. I DID already flash a SBF to my phone before I wrote the guide, I just didn't read up more than I had to on the topic--I found out how to use RSD Lite, found the .sbf file, knew I would want to make backups first, then dove right into it. I can't say that I agree with you that my guide is really missing much as a general outline for flashing an SBF, but like I said in one of my posts already, I haven't even finished that tutorial yet! I just posted a link to it so that if anyone were interested in helping me compile it all on to the tumblr, they could see what the blog looked like and a very, very general idea of what a post would look like.

I'll certainly be going back to edit that tutorial plenty. That is, after I finish it in the first place. :p
[Droid 2 General] theecho:
I believe what the point here is rather than redo tutorials that have already been done, why not look into something new.
[Droid 2 General] allyouhave:
You know how if you read someone's phone number to yourself, then try to dial it the next day, you forget it entirely--but if you had written down the phone number, your chances of remembering it are significantly better?

It's kinda like that. Like I said, this is for my own benefit, I was just opening it up to the community to put all of the Droid 2 tutorials in one common space.
[Droid 2 General] theecho:
Do as you desire, however I was shedding light on DarkOnion's mindset as I see it.
[Nook Color General] conan1600:
Hi. Was wondering if there is a way to solve my problem. I rooted using 1.01 and all has seemed great for 2 weeks. However today for the first time i tried to purchase a book from the shop and all it will say is processing. Is this normal after rooting or have i done something wrong/not done something? Will i not be able to purchase from the BN shop?

Thanks in advance
[Nook Color General] dzigns:
I had that same problem before rooting. Try powering your nc off and then back on and see if that fixes the problem. I am able to purchase books through BN on my rooted nc. :)
[Nook Color General] huCarlisle1:
It is more than likely an issue with your barnes and noble account, not your NOOK. Log into the B&N website, go to "My NOOK Library", and see what it says for those books. It probably just didn't like your payment method.
[Nook Color General] conan1600:
Well looks like you were totally right. Rebooted and made sure i wasn't charged for the book already. I waited a few hours to make sure there wasn't a posting then tried buying it again and it downloaded.

Rooted nook color rocks. Thanks guys.

Can't wait for flash :) when i can watch netflix on my nook i shall be quite satisfied :D
[Nook Color General] Masterface7:
I was having this problem as well and the book wouldn't download until i set the nook home as default and then reboot.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johanaikema:
Hello everyone.

I think it's since the update to Froyo, that the video player is 'improved', with the back key being on screen since then. This is kinda bugging me, cuz every time I wanna exit a video, my first response is hit the back button, and only after pressing it 3 or 4 times realising that this doesn't work anymore. It surprises me that I've couldn't find an earlier thread concerning this, seeing the the low irritation threshold of some XDA users (yeah, me being one of em :D).

Anyone any thoughts, maybe an altered video app somewhere? (no, not a replacement, an altered version of the original I mean :))
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] urself25:
It's bugging at first but, it saves me from pressing the back button accidently during playback and having to restart the video and locate where I was in the movie.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] silverstorm:
I like the new system of pressing the on-screen 'back' button instead of the phone's softkey.

There were many occasions where I would accidently touch that area while holding the phone (easy to do on public transport etc) and then go through the hassle of re-loading the movie. Before I would press the screen lock key to deactivate everything and prevent this, but now with the newer version of the video player I don't need to.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] johanaikema:
Yeah, you both got a point there.

Also, with my previous phone, the i8910 (Omnia HD), locking the screen during playback would simply lock the screen, and the lock icon would fade after a couple of seconds, instead of the Galaxy, where it's staying the whole time. =.=

Anyways, way of topic, thanks for your opinion. ;)
[Captivate General] movielover76:
This seems like a really basic question, but I couldn't find the info elsewhere,

is their an app that exists that will tell me what frequency my 3G modem is currently using, I live in an area of mixed 850/1900 coverage and this kind of info may assist in determining what modem to use.
[Captivate General] ua549:
From the dialer enter *#0011# to see the current band being used.
[Captivate General] movielover76:
Thanks

Perfect, Thanks
[General Topics] bluezz:
Hi,

This website is claiming (and letting you pre-order) Motorola Atrix unlocked for $449.99. Is this website legit? How can the first phone with a gig of RAM, crazy high res display and tegra2 processor go out for so cheap? The same website has Nexus S for $899! :confused:

http://www.cellhut.com/Motorola-ATRIX-4G-Unlocked-Quadband-Touchscreen-GSM-Cell-Phone-30365.html
[General Topics] vapotrini:
Never going to happen.

The Nexus S price alone should tell you that.
[General Topics] Oniyuri:
Tbh, I remember doing research on that site last summer just after the Vibrant came out on Tmo. If I were you, I would search for reviews on it. I don't remember reading too many good reviews (or any good ones for that matter) on that site.
[General Topics] aaa:
That price seems impossible to me.

I Expect somewhere USD700-1000 for ATRIX without docking.
[General Topics] vbetts:
That's the one with the Tegra SoC right?

If it is, harharharharhar. It's Nvidia we're talking here, they made not have made the phone, but they made the SoC, which is gonna sky rocket the price.
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] kukuhlita:
saya punya XPERIA X1.. saya flash dengan HrdSPL dan sukses..

lalu updet by mSD juga sukses...

lalu hard reset..

tapi wakti sampai di logo winMO (826x), waktu di tap screen sekali tapi ga bisa lanjut....

bisa lanjut sampai di align screen g respon sma sekali.. saya yakin kalo touch screen saya g rusaak...

q lagi waktu hrdSPL...

sebelum jadi SPL-0.72.OliNex, keterangahn yg ada SPL-0.78.0000....

aka karena buka sama2.. 72
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] lumisab:
Hi

If you need help, than try to write in ENGLISH you d########
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] iamrv:
I need your help to understand ya :)
[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] Hakim Rahman:
You only need to hard reset the device and then reflash with the official ROM for your device

{Mode Edit : Anda hanya perlu mengatur ulang (Hard Reset)perangkat keras dan kemudian reflash dengan ROM resmi untuk perangkat Anda}
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] davados:
This is my ExtremeCyan theme for CM7 (2.3) nightlys. I will update this theme with changes to CM to keep it up to date. To apply the theme CM7 and the latest gapps must be already on the phone.

last updated:- 18/01/11

Download the the ExtremeCyan-V0.5.zip and place on your sdcard then reboot into recovery. Also I've done a MetaMorph version which is the attachment

----------------Please do a nandroid and Flash at your own risk----------------

This is the link to my ExtremeCyan-V0.5.zip http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12834035/ExtremeCyan/ExtremeCyan-V0.5.zip

Channel log:-

This is my weak point as i'm very lazy and forgetfull.

0.5

More framework edits

dividers, pressed effect, and a few more things that I can't remember.

0.4

Themed old music.apk as it is back in CM7 (no more music3)

small edits to framework

a few more edits to market removed heavy cyan border
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] jhenson496:
Sorry if this is an ignorant question, but where are you getting the CM7 nightlys? I have the latest nightly #318 but it is still based off of froyo. I love the theme though.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] davados:
I'm using alpha builds from fitsnugly a xda member that compiles them every day from CM source this is his thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=883605 the first two posts in his thread.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] jhenson496:
Thanx, I figured it out after a bit. I flashed your theme and loving it.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Lultima:
I flash the zip from recovery, but i had an infinite loop on cyano logo at the startup!!!:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] davados:
Sorry it was me being lazy it's updated now and working.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Lightning N1:
I just tried this on the MicroMod CM7 v3 Rom (based off of the fitsnuggly build) it worked great.

Only thing that I thought stood out as odd it the notification icon in menu is green?:eek:

attached a screenie so you can see what I mean.

Thanks for all your hard work:)
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] davados:
Cheers for the heads up never noticed it i'll update it very soon.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] davados:
Ok I've looked through all of my theme I still can't find them pngs. It might be because you are using a different home replacement my theme is based apon ADW. What home replacement are you using? maybe I could theme the home replacement you're using.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Gilg@mesh:
Nice theme but one thing I noticed is when you press something (in settings for example) the color is still orange not Cyan.. thanks!

btw is it possible to get the stock Android font?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] davados:
Cheers for the heads up on stock item press I will update this into my theme. I will add stock font into my first post but as a alternative to the current theme.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Gilg@mesh:
thanks :) one more thing if it's ok, maybe to much to ask but if you could keep the stock icons on launcher? I just like the status bar and other things (when you press items etc) to be themed, the icons looks nicer when they are stock, just my opinion ;) thanks
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] davados:
lol ok what i'll do is upload a metamorph of my theme so you can pick and choose what you want from it. It will be ready not long after the next nightly.
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] Nandorian:
Love the theme, but with the last couple of Nightly's I've noticed a horizontal cyan line on the top of the Sim password and Lock screens. Anything that can be done about that?
[Nexus One Themes and Apps] davados:
Cheers for the heads up ill give it the once over tomorrow it really needs a update. I'm a bit busy at the moment tho working on my latest app. Trying to get it ready for group testing.
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bledula:
Hi all,

Has anyone been able to succesfully use Cifs Manager or Mount Manager to mount a network smb drive?

I tried both but without a success. I am running Steve's 1.5.1 at the moment.

If anyone managed to get it working, would you mind posting a detailed how-to? In addition I wouldn't mind learning about what "Cifs" are or the cifs modules.

Thank you in advance.

Bledula