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[XPERIA X10 General] :
That's precisely my point. SE should be more humble sometimes. The success of their past phones have put them in a good position in the world's market, but that shouldn't make SE supercilious, no matter if they have a powerful backup like SONY.

As a musician, I can tell that if you do good things and have a nice performance, ppl begin to be interested on you; some will like you, some won't, but you're catching the attention of them. Ppl want you to be part of them, not an egocentric guy waiting for the praises of their fans and treating them like dogs, or even worse, like puppets (if some fans decide to act in this way, is their problem, but that's still wrong).

When you write a song, for example, let's say that 50 ppl like it, but there are 3 persons who don't; that doesn't mean I have the right to despise those persons, in fact I'd like to speak with them, explaining them how and why I wrote that song, and ask them why they didn't like it.

Same situation here, SE should put the face out and give an extended explanation what are the reasons for not upgrading. At this point, nobody have explained why SE 'thinks' stock Eclair is better than Vanilla Froyo. I thank to all those guys that have given their opinions why SE didn't upgrade X10, but I'd like to have the 'official' explanation of SE. That's all.

10% looks like a small number, but hey, after all is very important, the 100% couldn't be reached without it. And Im sure that 10% will grow, because ppl is learning that a smartphone is not only to make calls and text messaging. the demand in the market is bigger day by day, and SE shall be prepared for that.
[XPERIA X10 General] will.m:
I think the main issue here is that a lot of people spent a lot of money on this phone and those people see HTC, Samsung, and hell...even Motorola bringing newer versions of Android to phones older than the x10. Some posters will say they never promised anything more than 2.1 and/or it isn't profitable for SE, but former is not the point and latter is completely wrong. If SE wanted to be the android leader that they want to be, then they should know that firing all your devs, using the cheapest components possible, being a step behind other flagships, and not updating the core OS is NOT a winning strategy. Instead of focusing on quarterly statements, they need to really focus on long multi-year goals. A core component of that focus is to make sure you have long-term loyal customers that will buy your products. Going to newer versions Android on sufficiently spec'd phones is way to go about it. Adding new functionality is another way. Not pissing off early adopters is another way cause they're the ones that build hype.
[XPERIA X10 General] agentJBM:
That's what they are doing with the Arc, isn't it? The X10 isn't SE. It's one of their products that some, and I mean some, people aren't happy with their decision to optimise their customized 2.1 rather than join the ranks of vanilla/generic Android phones that don't have a special feel. I find that explanation adequate. They feel the unique experience X10 is a fair alternative to generic 2.2. They would have to compromise everything they feel makes this phone different to make a minority group happy. SE is listening, and has already said they will do better in the future. They couldn't have predicted this would happen, and it's not realistic to expect both. Besides, the x10 is far from being a failure without 2.2+ as you describe it, and those other phones have problems and limitations of their own. Nobody is perfect.

Would you abandon your unique music/artistic expression that the drew the attention of the majority of your fans just to make your music vanilla like all the other lame cover bands playing the latest trendy songs? If so, soon you'd just be part of that group with no identity of your own and no followers of your own. True fans will forgive you for one bad album.
[XPERIA X10 General] :
I don't say X10 is a failure, in fact I agree it's a great phone... thanks to its hardware specs, not precisely the software.

As I said in past posts, the goal of SE shouldn't be the same as others. SE shall look for being the leader in the market, and I think that must be technically the goal of all brands. Each company must develop strategies to achieve it.

I won't say HTC the most successful competitor in these times, but hey, this company is expanding faster than a virus. One year ago there were no HTC important phones in my country, and now they do their entrance with HTC Desire and more models will available soon. I know a lot of people here who are turning their heads and looking at this new phones. Hurts to say it, but X10 is being forgotten here and only few ppl is interested in this phone (counting me), meanwhile X8 is destined to be a failure and the minis are just one more option, not a big deal. And it isn't just SE's fault, the provider Telcel (the biggest one) has very arbitrary (and nasty...) plans and its ways to promote this new phones are just bad, but still, I don't see any strong SE's phone competitor here in Mexico. And I don't think very much ppl will be interested in Arc, I know this phone will cost a lot here and ppl won't want to pay that much for a phone without a front camera, they'll rather to buy an iPhone, Samsung Galaxy, or any HTC phone for the same price, or even lower. Perhaps some mexicans will go for it, for Neo or PlayStation phone, I dunno.

That's happening in Mexico. I wonder what's going on in other countries.

You can tell me that SE learned the lesson, and that's a vaild argument because every company has mistakes but they come back to the competence with new "weapons", and SE already have theirs, so we'll see what happens. Personally, I don't think Arc is great, so I don't understand the excitement of ppl about it, but it's about opinions. I think Motorola will score with Atrix, for example.

And about the music approach: that's the old discussion that the band and I have had always: trying to do something original but based in our influences and not selling ourselves with comercial, popular and empty music. We rather to do something that is born from our pure desire of making music, and we try to deliver quality in our songs. But that doesn't mean that we're stuck in a style, we experiment with new things and try something different when we make music, sometimes it works, sometimes we have very weird results :D

Now, I'd like that ppl answer to this questions without very much philosophy:

1. Is X10 really unable to run Froyo?

2. Is SE really unable to develop Froyo for X10?
[XPERIA X10 General] agentJBM:
Sounds like your band's philosophy is a lot like the X10. Provide a unique experience :) Yes it could run froyo, but the extra development and customizations required to keep it X10 is probably cost and time prohibitive. Look at how long they've been working on 2.1. They said the only way would be to strip away everything X10 and go generic/vanilla Android. Fully loaded 2.1 vs base model 2.2.
[XPERIA X10 General] :
We do rock in spanish, so I dunno if you'd be interested on listening to some of our material :D

Fully loaded 2.1 is good indeed, but they could work in a 2.2 version as good as the current Eclair.

Just my opinion :cool:
[XPERIA X10 General] agentJBM:
Just like you could fly me out to Mexico to check out your band, or maybe an attachment or a link your website will have to do. :-)
[XPERIA X10 General] :
We don't have a website yet :D

Edit: check your PM :D
[XPERIA X10 General] fiscidtox:
Wow some of you are the ideal consumers (a.k.a consumer sheep).. Take what you're given and expect nothing more. Huge companies must love your business, they can walk all over you.
[XPERIA X10 General] markksa1978:
Totally agree with you, everybody realise it
[XPERIA X10 General] loneLEE:
being "consumer sheep" at least make their lives better than "consumer kiddie whiners" like you. Always ask for more. Huge companies must hate you to the guts, they rather not have you as their customers =D
[XPERIA X10 General] pngface:
What happens when apple screws up? Steve Jobs comes public and tries to say that all his competitors have the same issue too (and when people prove him wrong he ignores them)
[XPERIA X10 General] stan.s:
There's another thread elsewhere where 'seinsider' has stated that according to his sources the bootloader is locked to the particular kernel of 1.6-2.1 and to update to later Android versions with the updated kernels would break the bootloader and the bootloader itself can't be updated. SE screwed up thinking that the kernels wouldn't be updated as quickly as they were and chose a check method that has come to back to bite them.

The developers need to sacrifice a couple phones to figure out/dump the bootloader and finally determine what it is that it's checking when the bootloader runs, there's a slight possibility that it's some string that simply says which kernel it is or something similar which could be faked if a different kernel is used (but something like that would mean that the kernel would never report it's version properly and some apps might not work thinkiing the api it needs isn't there, etc). At this point, no one is willing to sacrifice a phone to dump the bootloader.
[XPERIA X10 General] agentJBM:
Maybe this type of strategy is working. Complaints on twitter SE Brazil got this response...

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=938970
[XPERIA X10 General] totalundone:
Kind of a late reply but I wanted to throw in a couple drachmes.

The only way the X10 is going to get an official 2.2 is if SE gets some money.

Typically, cell phone providers have in their contracts that they will pay X dollars (usually per handset sold) for a major update (1.6-2.1-2.2) and Y dollars for minor updates (2.1-2.1.1, etc). Either the providers have decided that it's not worth paying any further payments to SE or SE has decided it's not worth developing 2.2 any further for the amount they would be paid.

We know SE has 2.2 (from what we've heard from SE employees and screenshots of 2.2 on the X10 during their keynote a month ago). I wonder how much it would cost to release the update for unlocked phones? X cents per phone @ maybe ~300k unlocked units (1-2 million x10 (9 million total), maybe 300k unlocked of those?) Anyways, it's probably a lot more money than any donation thread could raise, lol.
[XPERIA X10 General] wasiimabbas:
+1 :D.......
[General Questions and Answers] brett701:
I have the samsung sprint epic 4g

I've previously installed the clockwork mod i believe. It was a one click install type of thing. I dont know what it did to the phone and didtn really notice a difference aside from a few applications that were put onto the phone.

I want to go to FROYO. Am i currently rooted?

Do i need to unroot this clockwork thing to root to froyo? how do i do this if i need to do this step?

If i don't need to do this part can you direct me to where i need to be.
[Off-topic] Rouz.:
I have never been an iPhone fan, and i don't see that day coming simply because im not really into apple's products.

but, I dont have any reason to hate it so much; why many XDA users do?

If its because of the OS limitations, then we should probably hate WP7 too, but we all love that one ... (well, at least most of us do)

So, why hating iphone so much? Its just a question out of curiosity
[Off-topic] vbetts:
It's limited at first, but Ios is a very flexible OS. I love Ios, I wish it had more carrier support.
[Off-topic] flyboyovyick:
duurrrr!!!!!

windows phone and android forum?!?!?!?!?!!?

the clue ^^^^

windows phone and android are apples competitors!
[Off-topic] electrified:
I hate the iPhone just because people think that it's the best phone out there.

And, also, i don't like mobile/smart-phones without a hardware keyboard.
[Off-topic] orb3000:
Close redundant thread

There many threads like this one

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=314455&highlight=iphone+haters

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=855935&highlight=iphone+haters

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=739477&highlight=iphone+haters

Or perhaps you consider this as it´s a question different from the others:confused::eek:

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99.9% of the times we think on make a new super original interesting new thread it already exists!!
[Off-topic] vbetts:
But windows and Android are competitors... DUN DUN DUN!!!!!!
[Off-topic] husam666:
Maybe it's because apple devices are a piece of crap with only one button that does nothing
[Off-topic] vbetts:
There's 2 buttons on an Iphone...=[ And the home button takes you home...
[Off-topic] souljaboy:
why so many trolls ?
[Off-topic] T.C.P:
Theirs actually 4 buttons :p home, power, volume up and down
[Off-topic] vbetts:
That's a volume rocker, that doesn't count. :D
[Off-topic] daddyof3_101:
First off i think apple makes great hardware. But i hate itunes and ios with a passion. Itunes is slow and bug ridden. And ios is to resricted for my liking. If apple ever went open source i might change my mind. But for now apple sucks.
[Off-topic] thehobnob:
Apple are great at taking existing technologies and refining them, and they make some beautiful hardware. But whenever they unveil a product, they always seem to act like nobody has ever done anything like it before - which in most cases of course isn't true. I guess this annoys a lot of techy-types or "geeks" or whatever.

In the case of the iPhone, I think a lot of people feel like they aren't using their device to it's full potential - that Apple are purposefully holding features back for next-gen models that could be simple to add in software. Hence the explosion in jailbreaking etc
[Off-topic] husam666:
these are buttons!!? :eek:

I they were a flaw in design... :rolleyes:
[Off-topic] T.C.P:
Yes it does on iphone 4 their two seperate circles :p
[Off-topic] KiNG OMaR:
There's another awesome super duper button that only llama's can see, and what that button does is so amazing and cool that us human's can not even begin to speculate the awesomeness of said button.
[Off-topic] Mr. Clown:
You are correct. Thread closed.
[Xperia Arc General] xperiax10.awesome:
Hi All,

Please post once any1 receives any news/confirmation regarding the release date and price(specially) :)
[Xperia Arc General] xperiax10.awesome:
expected price USD750!!
[Xperia Arc General] freshprince2x:
here is a short test in german

http://www.netzwelt.de/news/85297-formschoen-sony-ericsson-xperia-arc-kurztest.html

you can use google translator ;)
[Xperia Arc General] vido.ardes:
UK - Expansys (These guys are usually pretty reliable)

Price: £449.99

Date: 29th March 2011

http://www.expansys.com/sony-ericsson-xperia-x12-arc-android-smartphone-unlocked-207784/
[Xperia Arc General] :
3rd april 2011, UK
[Xperia Arc General] TimMun:
Centralpoint.nl

Expected date that product is released according to this webshop is March 15.
[Xperia Arc General] louis0815:
According to this post it is available in Sweden since 21 Feb.

Current offerings in Germany are around 430 EUR.
[Xperia Arc General] PollPixx:
Beginning of April for black, silver shortly after....in Holland. Just came off the phone with a Sony employee. I just pre ordered a silver one.
[Xperia Arc General] TimMun:
Where did you pre order it? =)
[Xperia Arc General] PollPixx:
Hi.nl/verlengen

Silver for me and black for my wife.
[Xperia Arc General] :
In Singapore..there is no info available for the release date, checjed with Singtel n Starhub..
[Xperia Arc General] G4rcU:
There's an internet shop in Holland which says that release date is 04-03-2011 (meaning 4th of March) :) :)

I'm just a few clicks away from preordering it ^^

link: http://www.pdashop.nl/product/12367...r/sony-ericsson-xperia-arc-midnight-blue.html
[Xperia Arc General] PollPixx:
That would be great! I preordered already so it can be quicker than i expected.
[Xperia Arc General] TimMun:
Omg March 4th?! no Way! Pre-ordered! :D

Edit: Not to take away anyone's enthousiasm (including my own :D) but every SE device on our beloved CoolBlue webshop is available for pre-order and delivery date is March 4th for every device.. Perhaps a mistake? :$
[Xperia Arc General] PollPixx:
I think so... i really heard April...nevertheless i hope they are right and it will take just 2 weeks.
[Xperia Arc General] G4rcU:
2 weeks? It's just 6 days till 4th of March :-D
[Xperia Arc General] TimMun:
I contacted CoolBlue and they were sure that March 4th is the correct delivery date.

They are going to contact the supplier, just to be correct, and then they would send me an email (probably monday).
[Xperia Arc General] PollPixx:
Okay. Please keep us informed then, as hi says it will be April and i preordered there. Maybe it has something to do with kpn branded phone which i will get...
[Xperia Arc General] G4rcU:
I think that this may be the case PollPixx. I remember clearly that when I bought my X10 it took about 1,5 month for the Dutch providers to start advertising that they have X10 in offer - so I was already 1,5 month ahead ^^
[Xperia Arc General] PollPixx:
Well no problem, you can teach me by the time i get it :D
[General Questions and Answers] mobileseq:
Will rom flashing via parallels desktop on a Mac work? Ive noticed that it doesnt work at all. I did install drivers for my Samsung Epix on Windows XP sp3. It does work fine with activesync but not the Samsung Epix windows mobile 6.5 rom flasher application. Do you think its caused by low level drvers that require a real PC to work properly?
[General Questions and Answers] swangotp:
I am using vmware fusion and it is working fine. I am running windows 7 and I have the android sdk and everything works fine. To flash a rom you put it on your sd card and flash it. If you are trying to do it with adb than just put it on your sd and it should work fine.
[General Questions and Answers] mobileseq:
Hmmm, Windows mobile does not have an application to flash the rom on the phone like clockwork app on Android. The only way is to flash from a computer...
[General Questions and Answers] mobileseq:
VMware fusion didnt work at all with that one. I havent tested it with my Samsung Captivate to see the result.
[General Questions and Answers] mobileseq:
I tried it on a real PC, still no go. Im thinking the phone usb port is bad because it wouldnt charge when the phone is off. **** thar ****, lol. Its worth 20-30 for it.
[Samsung Mesmerize] phidelt82:
As per sageDieu's reques and with permission from thatdudebutch, I have ported the Fascinate's Super Dark Theme to the Mesmerize and the Showcase. All of the creative credit goes to thatdudebutch and you can see the original theme here.

Personally, I think this theme really works well with the wallpapers from the Black ADW theme and the icons from the Black Glass ADW theme. Both are free from the market. Anyway, just my opinion.

Here are a few screen shots:

The usual disclaimers apply. Make a backup before you flash anything. I'm not responsible for what you do to your phone. Disable lagfix if you have voodoo installed as a precaution. Flash this in recovery. This theme includes accurate battery mod, so wipe Dalvik and battery stats then reboot. Rebooting will take about 2-3 minutes. This is normal because you wiped Dalvik. Don't worry. If for some reason it takes more than 5 minutes to reboot, as usual, remove the battery and use three button method to get back in to recovery to restore.

Download for DI14 Mesmerize: Super Dark Theme for Mesmerize v1.0

Download for DJ20 Showcase: Super Dark Theme for Showcase v1.0
[Samsung Mesmerize] sageDieu:
:D yay! Thank you very much.
[Samsung Mesmerize] sageDieu:
Installed and booted... seems to work fine but it's amazing how slow everything feels without Voodoo, turning that back on ASAP. The only gripe I have is that I don't like the buttons and the highlight color. I think it would be a lot better if you could change them to like dark with light text (the buttons) and maybe something not so drastic for the gradient. I really like more of a matte feel instead of the glossy shiny feel this has on some parts of the ui. Like less white in the gradients and stuff.
[Samsung Mesmerize] phidelt82:
I'll look into that. I just ported it over as is with no changes. What I might do is take that suggestion to a new theme. We'll see what happens.
[Samsung Mesmerize] sageDieu:
Ooh yeah that would be cool. I like the general idea of the all-dark B&W style theme but it would look a lot cooler and more professional if it were more matte and maybe if some of the icons and status bar things matched the theme better and were less cartoony. I'd love to help you with anything you need for a new theme, I'm an intermediate graphic designer with some knowledge of Java and such.
[Samsung Mesmerize] phidelt82:
You will definitely be hearing from me, then.
[Samsung Mesmerize] sageDieu:
Sweet. this gloss is kinda growing on me but I love messing with stuff so I'll be warming up my Photoshop and eclipse.
[Samsung Mesmerize] i4get75:
I know it says to disable Voodoo while installing...but what about after? Can it be started back?
[Samsung Mesmerize] phidelt82:
Of course. It's just a precaution in case something comes up and you have to restore. I probably should have said that for people that haven't done this before.
[Samsung Mesmerize] i4get75:
Thank you! Here we go... LOL
[Samsung Mesmerize] i4get75:
It's great! So smooth. Thanks for the help.
[Samsung Mesmerize] afritchen:
Gotta say I really like this! Goes nicely with the ADW Black theme...

Couple quick questions about you screenshots:

1. What widget is that you use for you time/weather?

2. What are you using for an icon pack? I like most of the ones from y0rk's ADW Black theme, but some of your's are nicer.
[Samsung Mesmerize] wmedlin:
I had trouble getting this to work what did i do wrong i made a backup then disabled lagfix thats where things got weird i got a lot of force close on like all the apps then i tried to flash this rom and i just could never get it to work so i tried to restore my back up and i get the same thing wtf did i do and how can i fix it???? please help
[Samsung Mesmerize] phidelt82:
1. Beautiful Widgets: Beautiful Home Weather; using the Obsidian clock skin and i think standard skin for weather

2. Icon pack is Black Glass ADW Theme, just using icons for home screen not all icons.
[Samsung Mesmerize] phidelt82:
Just to make sure, did you disable lagfix before you made the backup?
[Samsung Mesmerize] thatdudebutch:
Looking good, couple images didn't port over but looks good. Hope you guys are enjoying it :D
[Samsung Mesmerize] afritchen:
Yeah, man! Lovin' it...thanks!
[Samsung Mesmerize] elijahblake:
Looks AWESOME on my showcase!!! Great work
[Samsung Mesmerize] Dikvega:
once again, Thank you, Phidelt. You are AWESOME :)
[Samsung Mesmerize] blue2107:
nice job looks awesome
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] shahzads:
My normal headset (headset with no mic) always worked with android or WM6.5 to take calls and use phone mic to speak but WM7 people can’t hear me if my headset is plugged in
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] mickfarr:
I was using mine and people could here me fine. My problem was when using the headphones to speak the sound would only come out of one ear, when listening to music it would come out of both ear pieces. It might have something to do with the installed radio version.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] hoss_n2:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=914485 post your problems here , that is why it is sticky , we don't need to open allot of new threads , for every problem
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] CrAzYiaN:
have the same problem, anyone got a solution?
[General Questions and Answers] freshkid87:
I have voice in my area but no data coverage. and i NEEd data to activate my mytouch 3g fender edition. if anyone out there has a heart and is willing to help me i will pay you via paypal to walk me through. i am not big on this rooting ...i dont wanna do a goldcard method if there is a way to bypass activation let me know ive tried everything.
[General Questions and Answers] Dirk:
Travel to an area that has data reception or use a wi-fi hotspot?