yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Captivate General] mechanical tool:
I found the yahoo app was terrible on stock 2.1 but once I updated to 2.2 and applied a lagfix it worked much better. still a little lag but very useable.

those of you using the yahoo app, how do you find your battery life?
[Captivate General] MobileNick:
No - you're cool! :) I've been using K-9 with an hourly polling and honestly it's not that bad. Push would be cool but not necessary.

cyco722, mechanical tool: So seems like 2.2 with lagfix is the best way to have the Yahoo app work smoothly. I'll have to try it out once I get there! :)
[Captivate General] derek4484:
Yes, you are correct. There is a little bit of lag in the yahoo mail app compared to the gmail app. It did get much better once I loaded an alternate ROM with a decent lag fix. Its manageable in my opinion.

I havent noticed any hit to the battery life using the yahoo mail app. It sits in the background the entire time using no resources, the push notifications come via googles cloud notification service (I believe this is only for android 2.2 and up, when I was on 2.1 I dont recall getting instant notifications).
[Captivate General] max_82:
Thanks. It works for me.
[Captivate General] majortool:
I found yahoo to be way too laggy, not be able to select multiple emails for deletion. had to actually open the email to then delete. And it wouldn't work over wifi. That all added up to a crappy app. I haven't tried it for a few months to see if they fixed any of these. I use k-9 set on hourly poll.
[Wildfire Themes and Apps] melvinchng:
Hey guys,

This is how i arrange my HTC sense

Thanks,

From Melvinchng

Wildpuzzle Rom 2.2.1 FANS...

HTC Wildfire @ 710mhz/768mhz

16GB Class 4 Kingston SD card

with 165mb phone momory.
[Wildfire Themes and Apps] melvinchng:
Please leave a comment =]
[Wildfire Themes and Apps] TiiXiboy:
You didnt have to make a new thread post this in "show your display"
[Wildfire Themes and Apps] Alex_GP:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=770711&page=77
[Wildfire Themes and Apps] kanye92:
Very cluttered :/
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] loon78a:
After the WP7 Rom upgrade my HD2, Malaysia MAXIS 3G internet doesn't work, wifi works completely fine but no luck with internet.

how and what should i setting at the apn ?
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] russpattaya:
There is a thread already with this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=7531561

Russ
[Galaxy S I9000 Accessories] lgkahn:
just thought i'd let you know about batteries.. every cheap one i have gotten from ebay.. looks fake and doesnt last like stock ones.

I have gotten a couple of stock ones directly from samsung but they are 39 bucks each.

At&t has batteries for only 29.00 each and you dont have to be a subscriber to order them...

in addition i got a skull candy headphone normally 30 bucks from att for 9 dollars a few days ago.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] ntonhd2:
[SINGULARITY] -

Singularity

Singularity (and the language of such Sing#) is a Microsoft operating system currently on codeplex as RDK 2.0 which is now core to this project - getting Sing# and Singularity to run on ARM (hd2) then can easily boot NT or anything and everything - essentially, NT will happen, but is irrelevant, as need to here first give MAGLDR an d HD2 ability to run Common Language Runtime AND Singularity (.ARM ver of .X86) -

GOAL= make ARM Singularity Kernel run on HD2 then run apps using this core as native apps or strap out onto whatever...

See update on last page of this thread.

anybody here capable?
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] ntonhd2:
to quote Da_G:

JTAG working now :).
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] RustyGrom:
Ummm expect to hear from Microsoft lawyers in 5....4....3....
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] ntonhd2:
Yeah i would be in breach of the non-disclosure-agreement i signed so removed.

But i am in inner city cbd wifi hotspot area and jump around unsecured cafe signals and other businesses and also use proxy servers and..... on top of that..... my own added tweaks for safe measure!

so, cafe+wifi+proxy, +other_anon, means there is absolutely no chance.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] ntonhd2:
reading your stuff on ce7. is this a bad idea you think? or not possible? no interest? i think it can be done.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] RustyGrom:
I just don't think it's possible or worth it to bother trying to port NT to ARM while Microsoft is doing the same already. You're not going to be able to put together the team required meanwhile hiding from MS. It's just a stupid idea imo and really has no benefit. I mean what's your end goal here? To run Win7 on our devices?
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] hounsell:
Judging from this and other posts you have made, I suspect the most "source" you have is the "Windows Research Kernel", which is the source for a portion of ntoskrnl.exe from Server 2003 SP1, approximately. That would be no-where near enough, and it's not even enough to compile "just a kernel". It actually has a number of pre-compiled parts that it just pulls in.

Not to mention such a project is just asking to get shot down in a legal firefight. The WRK is given to academic institutions for studying the world's most popular desktop kernel, and is done so under a strict NDA.

ntoskrnl.exe by itself isn't enough to produce a workable OS anyway, especially one from the Server 2003 era.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] snickler:
Sigh.. why don't people read before they make these ridiculous and thoughtless posts? Realize that there are people from Microsoft ON these threads. Also, RESEARCH IN DEPTH BEFORE POSTING SUCH A THREAD.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] ntonhd2:
There are more microsoft people on xda than most realize ;).
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] ntonhd2:
sure, sourcecode factor (nda) and secrecy/MS are complexities: but not as hard as people think here: it is TWO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THINGS TO TRY AND GET WINDOWS7-ON-ARM to what I suggested (NT-CONCEPT-ON-ARM-WITH-Native-CLI) and no I would not use WRK sourcecode (lol) as part of my daywork i have access to (not ce) full sourcecode.

see my last post here,

can be done :).
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] ntonhd2:
What does this statement really mean?

might be a bad idea on hd2, fine, accepted, but your comment at the end doesn't make sense to me. so, ntoskrnl.exe for wp7 or nt4 (another era than 2003 .net) would make a difference? that is silly. besides, i made it clear that a psuedo-firmware setup would be required to setup the datastructures that NTLDR would prepare (along with NTDETECT.COM, and bios+pci_bus+ACPI interaction, (plus system or setupreg.hiv)), etc: so what are you saying exactly? my point was to not run any win32 or win64 gui or subsystem. never even mention win32k, gdi, etc. I was very clearly talking about native cli (ntdll.dll) and a prompt- maybe usb keyboard- as ARM NT Conceptual. Please, enlighten me :). PS> yeah, I know the wrk and am fully aware of \prebuilt\ libraries and obj code: but, no, I was not intending on using this as base. I admit, hd2 nt prob bad idea: btw was ARM NT concept more than anything! and yeah, with the secrecy and legal issues it would be too complex and overwhelming to do so, accepted, but if I were truly to do this NO i would not use WRK lol :D.

And regarding Microsoft, yes, I accept that there are a LOT of employees on xda and it is crawled and watched for obvious reasons: covered that.

PPS> re WRK, no, would (if i were to try doing this that is) use what I already have access to as part of my work> under full NDA I have full source to a few different bases including all of 2003 and even HyperVServer and AzureOS trees. ;).

unfortunately I do not have windows phone 7 code access though! Thanks.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] ntonhd2:
Yep...... but there is a LOT of portability in the original nt4 and even w2k trees with alpha, mips, ppc, os2+posix, original softpc.new+ntvdm, and even newer, that would let this be done a lot easier than most realize: remember here that:

I AM NOT SAYING LETS RUN WIN32 ON OUR HD2: I AM SAYING LETS TRY RUN NTOSKRNL ON ARM.

big difference guys.

RustyGrom, I assume your talking about ARM-Cortex etc (msnt-2-arm)..... THIS is what i wanted to do but a much more lightweight and ms-testing-protocol-free-process; homebrew version in experimental state would ensure much speedier development: it is not that hard a concept to attempt to port over an earlier (nt4 or w2k) kernel FIRST then look at better (2003 & 7) memory management etc: the point here is PROOF OF CONCEPT NT ON ARM: that is it, like what you refer to. Read my first post: any remember tinykrnl.org? Alex Ionescu ? Reactos? it could be done a LOT easier than you all think!

only NT on ARM official stuff i am aware of is this (rumour/talk/concept/theory/design atm):

http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/Features/2011/jan11/01-05SinofskySOC.mspx

http://thecoffeedesk.com/news/index.php/2009/04/23/net-could-be-key-in-windows-on-arm-netbooks/

http://www.osnews.com/story/24165/Windows_NT_on_ARM_It_s_a_Server_Thing

If you know NT like i do- then you would see it could readily be done but yes, I admit I do not know enoug about 'phones'/ce-platform. That's why I started THIS THREAD HERE: to get some thought on the subject is all :).

what then would be major problems to overcome then and this is assuming concept of say:

0). hd2 power on

1). ipl/equiv

2). hspl.

3). magldr

4). dft leo70 rom

5). bsp/oal, bldr/uldr, OS.NB ->(NK.EXE).

6). remap, reinit, load and place (prep) data structures expected by ntoskrnl.exe (osloader, detect, pci, bios, etc).

7). jump to ntoskrnl.exe

?
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] ntonhd2:
For the record, a few years ago i did this exact thing: ported nt kernel over to another platform. myself and others re-wrote ntoskrnl.exe (+hal+drivers) and integrated osloader.exe(ntldr), and all data structures as would be passed to kernel from ntldr, registry system hiv, ntdetect, missing bios, missing interrupt+dma+pci-bus+acpi+power, etc into one (debug/xdk) single DEFAULT.XBE.

it only worked on XDK debug kit xbox consoles with serial+scsi+128mbRAM (and a custom lpc debug mod) but it worked. using code from intel and tianocore EFI/UEFI toolkits (and bits and pieces from here and there) and concepts such as PALcode as used by non-x86 osloader (.exe not ntldr) for simulacrum bios/firmware you can pass a predefined set of structures to ntoskrnl and ensure processor regs etc ARE ALL GOOD AND SYSTEM IS READY then call into KiSystemStartup, ExpInitializeExecutive, and begin modified phase0 of NTOSKRNL.EXE.

similar thing was done with CE.NET for Xbox - a default.xbe with linux code b4 NK.NB0

worked and works :).
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Cotulla:
anyway, how u wanna solve the next problems?

1)missing CL compiler for ARM with same set of features like CL for X86.

(CL version for ARM for WCE doesn't have all features supported and usually outdated)

2)this ARM compiler store exception info in other format (not SEH frames, but universal table for functions ".pdata")

3)which files u exactly wanna build for ARM? is it "ntoskrnl.exe bootvid.dll hal.dll"?

4)which final results u gotta got?

5)why u need touch WP7? u can just look to example code in Android kernel and implement something. so replace PC standard timer realization inside HAL.dll with QSD8250 specific timer code. it's much better to start.

how many ppl u have in ur team?
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] Cotulla:
I don't have big knowledge of Windows NT system, but I think it's must be enough to provide basic stuffs for kernel start up.

I guess NT using only int13 services for reading data from disk, int15 services used to detect memory configuration and int10 for initial boot mode.

Because it's embedded hardware, the devices in the system are fixed and limited. So it's enough to provide fixed values for kernel, like available ram memory range.

No need of using any complex systems with CE / Linux.

About CE, you can get almost full kernel sources in PB6.0, trial can be downloaded from MS site.

afaik it's enough to load kernel and dependent modules (drivers) to ram and then run them. after this action kernel drivers should able to run properly on hardware.

About Reactos, I appreciate work of involved people, but I doubt that it's stable :(

About this project, I don't know yet if I will contribute. I am looking how much it's interesting for me :)

I always have interesting different things in my hobby as well, so I have choose that to do :) As well, me is part of DFT team, I need discuss it with them :)

Now I am asking you to understand more details about your idea(s) ;)
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] orangekid:
my brain just straight up exploded.

thanks a lot.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] ntonhd2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKc_XGuvNIk :).
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] ntonhd2:
for the record:

so far without any errors have successfully been able to build the ntdll.dll, hal.dll, smss.exe, bootvid.dll, fastfat.sys, for ARM with no modifications at all, but not yet done a build on the LDR or NTOSKRNL.

just testing compiler here is all and not writing new: this is very early on and i have changed absolutely nothing.

once fill in gaps will give it a go on hd2.

attached.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] hyellow:
ok, i am being a noob in this area, but you are trying to boot an NT kernel/os?

I thought you were trying to load the newest WinCE. version 6 or 7, which one is WP7 based on? If we could boot WinCE it would create a lot of new posibilities.

I'd imagine a stable WinCE system, with phone functionality/drivers from WP7 and a very Powned XDA made UI. Something like that you're after? Except for the UI maybe?
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] ntonhd2:
Cotulla,

Doing as you said in PM:).

and......... seeing I need anyway for FPGA work, I am buying this:

http://www.lauterbach.com/frames.html?icearm.html !

Attached is demo- is incredible > lol, it makes your hd2 or arm cpu think you are GOD :D.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] sutt359:
I would love to see WP7 ported to x86 and seen to be booting as a tablet os replacement.

Please please please
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] ceesheim:
looks like a real bad headache :D
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] raven_raven:
Please do not interrupt/spam as some brilliant minds are doing magic here :). I can't understand one full sentence of what they are saying, but... it's beatiful. Something amazing could be born for this. And that said, please let them work in peace and do not interrupt in any way.
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] domineus:
If I am to understand you are using magldr and linux to hack a bios into tricking the hd2 that it is x86 capable and booting into desktop windows

unless I am missing something...if so good luck

I will bookmark this
[Windows Phone 7 Development and Hacking] ntonhd2:
Getting Singularity up on HD2 (ARM) to basicall give Common Language Runtime to MAGLDR then using Sing# code write boot loader for NT and whatever other projects that will come in future: Singularity is key for my as I can write so easy ANYTHING in Sing#. Then make NT strap. or whatever else. Even if NT project died or never worked or whatever, fact is, an ARM (hd2 etc etc) version of Singularity runtime (as in after singldr, ability to run Sing# code and use singularity OS primitives, structs, etc, and BE in managed environment used by Sing#/Singularity: executing .arm version of .x86) allows a lot of things to happen even besides on the HD2 - any ARM devices! so, then, will work on BARTOK compiler, PHXBRIDGE codegenerator, and basically just make SINGLDR into ZIMAGE then run. bring up to point at which WINDBG can tap into HD2 via USB if possible (serial? ether? kitl? usb? etc?). then just load a .ARM (.x86) singularity native app written in Sing#.

This app will use singularity runtime/os/kernel/framework/core (they are all the same thing - that's what Singularity IS- an OS and a framework/runtime in one ;).) and then strap hd2NT alive. Cotulla, thanks for last pm and all your help thus far-> doing that now -> anyway, can u pls c ur PMs & help me get this compiler working & run hd2 (core) Singularity. Am continuing Native-ARM NT but want to look at ths as matter of priority as opens up a lot of doors as you know.

Any-1-here can code for, or has built, or has built FOR, or knows a bit about Singularity???

If anyone else here can please download the Singularity RDK 2 and try build Singularity for ARM (edit out SetEnv.Cmd DISABLED REMarks etc) and look at those errors; please see what you can do from there to make it build. Thanks all. With Sing# & Singularity.EXE (.ARM version of .X86) runtime there = I will get NT and whatever else to run on the HD2 and+or any other ARM device period.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_(operating_system)

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/singularity/asplos2008_singularity_rdk_tutorial.pdf

And here - download ARM capable (but disabled without hacks I need! version RDK 2.0): please download and try build if your interested and think you can help get this up for ARM: that is key to all as once in Sing# land I will get everything and anything to work: but need to fix compiler bugs and remap x86 versions of Singularity HAL and kernel.exe.: download. Goal is to make bartok/phxbridge (maybe with use of MOSA, Cosmos, etc?), to turn msil/cil opcodes into direct ARM opcodes; for record anyone who can get close or help with this: I have Trace32 tool and full In-circuit-Emulation ability to control ARM processor, JTAG, etc 100% so can do everything :D.:

http://singularity.codeplex.com/

:)
[Legend Android Development] flynny:
Hi guys, had a perfectly working legend running CM7, been helping a mate root his phone so I downloaded a rom onto my phone (we had no sd card readers), swapped out my sd card into his and all was well.

Placed the card back in my legend and now:

Cant see the sdcard/phone on my computer when attached through USB.

The phone cant see ANY SDcard I place inside it (tried 2).

Phone cant seem to USB charge either on or off.

When I connect to the computer when its on, the charge icon appears and a minute later disappears no longer seems to register charging whilst on. But whilst off the phone displays the usual red led light for a minute, then starts flashing red and green led, wtf is going on?

Running adb I can get it to register with adb devices.

Running the R4-Legend recovery bat starts the process, then stops i cant see the error...

Cant get to cwm since i cant run the recovery program (above) i can get to the red triangle with exclamation mark screen..

WTF have I done? Have i physically broken it when i put the sd card back in?

Im not sure if this is usb bricked as I should be able to see the sd card on the phone right?
[Legend Android Development] bjohv052:
Try usb unbrick.
[Legend Android Development] tanujss:
I had the same problem and this is definately usb brick

The solution is in the following thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=751265
[Legend Android Development] pesaroso:
And if that doesn't work, hopefully you are able to flash back to a stock firmware? Mine started ****ing with me like that, and I got to restore it just before it fully started to reject all my SD-cards.. Shipped it in for service, got it back working perfectly. The reason was a faulty motherboard. I hope your phone is just USB-bricked, though! GL, mate!
[Legend Android Development] TheGrammarFreak:
Language...
[Legend Android Development] flynny:
Thanks for the help guys, trying to do this on the sly at work...

So far ive managed to get the android 1 drivers installed, adb sdk, hoping it works as its my pride and joy I know which phone im getting next but id rather not have to buy a poor nokia brick to get me by..

TheGrammarFreak, cheers for helping remind me to keep my own language in check... although a nugget of help might of gone amiss..

Hope I can get this sorted, running out of battery quick..
[Legend Android Development] TheGrammarFreak:
You have the advice you need.
[Legend Android Development] flynny:
Right well, the plot thickens. Following the USB Unbrick guide I can get as far as having the 2 files I need on the sd card but they cannot be read.

The sdcard cannot be mounted/read.

Gone into fastboot usb mode on the phone.

Used the fastboot devices via windows cmd shell: gotten a serial so i know its working and connected and usb charging seems to of been alleviated (although no usb drive is available when connected in windows).

Used fastboot oem enableqxdm 0 in windows cmd shell (multiple times ive tried so theres no sp) it says it works, then fastboot reboot but alas Still no sd card present when the device loads..

Im at a loss now.. will continue pursuing this
[Legend Android Development] flynny:
How rude, I didnt include my logfile... getting quite worried now.

C:\android_sdk\android_windows\tools>fastboot devices

HT03KNX0XXXXX fastboot

C:\android_sdk\android_windows\tools>fastboot oem enableqxdm 0

... OKAY [ 0.018s]

finished. total time: 0.018s

C:\android_sdk\android_windows\tools>fastboot oem boot

... INFOsetup_tag addr=0x60000100 cmdline add=0x9D

078D14

INFOTAG:Ramdisk OK

INFOTAG:smi ok, size = 0

INFOTAG:hwid 0x0

INFOTAG:skuid 0x22F00

INFOTAG:hero panel = 0x0

INFOTAG:engineerid = 0x0

INFOMCP dual-die

INFOMCP dual-die

INFOTAG:mono-die = 0x0

INFODevice CID is not super CID

INFOCID is HTC__001

INFOsetting->cid::HTC__001

INFOserial number: HT03KNX01884

INFOcommandline from head: no_console_suspend=1 console=null

INFOcommand line length =439

INFOactive commandline: board_legend.disable_uart3=0 board_legen

INFOd.usb_h2w_sw=0 board_legend.disable_sdcard=0 diag.enabled=0

INFOboard_legend.debug_uart=0 smisize=0 userdata_sel=0 androidbo

INFOot.emmc=false androidboot.baseband=7.05.35.26L androidboot.

INFOcid=HTC__001 androidboot.carrier=HTC-WWE androidboot.mid=PB7

INFO610000 androidboot.keycaps=qwerty androidboot.mode=normal an

INFOdroidboot.serialno=HT03KNX01884 androidboot.bootloader=0.43.

INFO0001 no_console_suspend=1 console=null

INFOaARM_Partion[0].name=misc

INFOaARM_Partion[1].name=recovery

INFOaARM_Partion[2].name=boot

INFOaARM_Partion[3].name=system

INFOaARM_Partion[4].name=cache

INFOaARM_Partion[5].name=userdata

INFOpartition number=6

INFOValid partition num=6

INFOmpu_nand_acpu_rw 8F2 1000

FAILED (status read failed (Too many links))

finished. total time: 0.911s

C:\android_sdk\android_windows\tools>
[EVO 4G General] jj22ee:
I really like sense but would like a five button rosie. Has anyone seen a theme with one?
[EVO 4G General] jj22ee:
I am currently using adw ex. I have tried launcher pro too. But on these my battery life is isht maybe just me
[EVO 4G General] sminker:
That's a big negative ghostrider. You have use either ADW or launcher pro.
[EVO 4G General] jj22ee:
Thought so but sometimes people pull stuff out of their arses
[EVO 4G General] nuvens:
The cyan dragon theme has a Rosie that gives the illusion of a five button rosie. But like other said having five buttons on sense not possible ...yet.
[EVO 4G General] jj22ee:
Thanks guys
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xriderx66:
- This is not a issue with ROMS, happens on both Nero and Axura.

soon as i reboot, and go on my phone, it opens up the GO LAUNCHER, when my default is launcher pro...

after its on go launcher, and i click home button it goes back to launcher pro... why does this happen every time i reboot? is it a problem with GO LAUNCHER?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amandadam:
I had the same problem and simply uninstalled Go.

ADWLauncher EX is very nice and worth the price.

I also have LauncherPro Plus and switch between the two.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xriderx66:
k i uninstalled go launcher, i'll see if its working good, and i have both of those, and i use launcher pro, but i bought EX just because a bunch of people said its awesome, so yeah lol