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[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] andrusca:
1. How to make that everytime when i enter in the CamRecorder, to have 720p already ON? (everytime i must switch it from VGA to 720p, when exiting the app)

2. How to fix the autofocus from the Camera (not Camrecorder). Its really annoying to change to camrecorder, to let it focus, and then switch to camera and make a photo.

And one more question

3. I have installed all the unlocks, fixes,regions, etc. Created and activated my Live ID, called Microsoft they gave me an activaton code. I entered both of them, and marketplace gives me an error like : Cant get this info right now. Check back in a little while.

More questions laters, maybe)
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Juno-First:
Even a proper HD7 you have to set 720p everytime, maybe one day someone will find a regkey to change this?

Ive never had an issue with focusing camera or camcorder, its amazing the camcorder focuses whilst recording unlike anything else Ive seen :)

There are threads to help get the Market working, basically after setting the CustClear.provxml the phone should say HD7 in Zune.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] BsB|oVeR:
i'm having the same focusing issue with the camera too. hopefully someone will find a solution for it..
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] andrusca:
What reg fix i need to put in custclear.provxml that zune will say it's HD7..

I have HTC HD2 , and he cant autofocus on CAMERA, just only in camrecorder.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] andrusca:
To make the marketplace work, i need this ?

?
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] wahwka:
yes, but you have to do that

before

you activate it.

here is a step by step guide => http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=911579
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Kailkti:
Camera has no auto focus, end of story.The camera in WP7, not just ours, is built in a way where WP7 phones have a button which when half pressed it focuses, and when pressed fully, it takes the picture. That is why microsoft requires every WP7 phone to have a shutter key.

What he means by camcorder and camera is that use the camcorder to focus on the picture, and then quickly switch to camera and take the picture while the camera is still focused on the scene.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Juno-First:
Ahh yer you're right. The camera does not focus at anytime & uses what the camcorder was last focused at.

So to focus the camera, just press the camcorder button and let it focus then switch back to camera, this may not work in a night-club, lol.

Or pre-focus with the camcorder until the camera is used, best on infinity?

Whats needed is another button to act as the HD7 shutter button does when pressed half way to focus, or force the camera to maintain autofocus all the time like the camcorder.
[Max 4G] denis0007:
Hello all,

i want to ask if there is a way to change the language from English to Italian of a MAX 4g yota ?

Sorry for my bad english.

If somebody can help i'll be happy.

thanks.

p.s i have two yota's max 4g , one is with italian menu, one is with english menu, the difference between the two telephone is that one have 8 mpx fotocamera and the other have 5 mpx. Maybe there is a way to copy the italian menu from one to the other.
[Max 4G] Hakim Rahman:
to change language, you need to instal t9 Italian and do some registry tweaks --> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\MUI\CurLang and change the value 409 to 410
[Max 4G] denis0007:
Hello,

thanks for the help , but this dont't work for me.

I try to set the registry value with Total Comander, after that i turn off the telephone and when i turn on again, it was with the same english language.

Also i try to see what value is on the other "Italian Yota" and i try to set this one too, but nothing change, English remain.

Also the program for the t9 italian , after instalation said that is incompatible with my version and may be not work correctly.

What is wrong ? Thanks for any other answers of all.

P.S. I try to change also this registry value, coping the values from the italian yota

* HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\MUI\SysLang

* HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\nls\DefaultLCID

* HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\nls\SystemLCID

* HKEY_CURRENT_USER\MUI\CurLang

and the result was that the telephone don't want to start now. It arrives to point that i can see the windows mobile logo and it restart himself again and again. I don't know how to make a hard reset, with soft it don't work. Can somebody help?

P.S. 2 I try to press Red and Green phone button and also the reset button all togheter. After i do that my phone display an immage with a hard disk and there is written " Downloading " , after few second the telephon reset himself again, but the result is the same, the telephone don't work, maybe i made badly the hard reset ? Some Idea ? I never do that before, i have to connect the telephone to the computer ?

Thanks a lot.
[Max 4G] Hakim Rahman:
This way to soft or hard reset

HTC Touch HD Soft reset

Resetting Your Device

If you experience some sluggishness with your HTC Touch HD, you can perform a reset to shut down all programs and restart your device.
To perform a HTC Blackstone soft reset

1. Pull out the stylus.
2. Remove the back cover.
3. Use the stylus to press the RESET button located between the SIM card and storage card slots. Your device restarts and displays the Home screen.

HTC Touch HD hard reset

You can also perform a hard reset (also known as a full reset). A hard reset should only be performed if a normal reset does not solve a system problem. After a hard reset, the device is restored to its default settings—the way it was when you first purchased it and turned it on. Any programs you installed, data you entered, and settings you customized on your device will be lost.

Only Windows Mobile® software and other pre-installed programs will remain.

*Warning! Your device will be set back to factory default settings. Make sure that any additional installed programs and/or user data have been backed up before you perform a hard reset

To perform a HTC Touch HD hard reset

1. With the device turned off, press and hold the VOLUME UP and VOLUME DOWN buttons, then briefly press the POWER button.

2. Continue pressing the VOLUME UP and VOLUME DOWN buttons until you see this message on the screen:

3. Release the VOLUME UP and VOLUME DOWN buttons.

4. Press the VOLUME UP button to perform the hard reset, or press any other button to cancel the reset.

Touch HD Clear Storage

You can also use Clear Storage to reset your device back to factory default settings.

1. On the Home screen, slide to the Settings tab and then tap All Settings.
2. On the System tab, tap Clear Storage.
3. Enter “1234” and then tap Yes.
[Max 4G] mapsunico:
Htc yota max 4g from russian to english

Hello To All,

I want to know if theres a way to change a this phone from russian to english.
[General Questions and Answers] johnny quest:
Ok, I did search the forum and still haven't found a concrete answer. Here's my question: HOW do I open xml files thats in the apk file? I've used notepad++ and nothing. I even went to Avabox and did the smali.batch and still.

Is this a white unicorn where no one unless you're a programer can open these files? The reason I ask is because there are some apk that have a great format I want to see the codes on this to see if I can alter or create my own style.

Please, Please help thank you.
[General Questions and Answers] T.C.P:
decompile them with apk manager and then you can edit them

link

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=695701
[General Questions and Answers] johnny quest:
thank you I will try to do this way
[General Questions and Answers] johnny quest:
Ok, I downloaded the apk manager app on my computer. I extracted it and opened it up. I tried to run script but it keeps saying "ADB was not found, you will not be able to manipulate the files on your phone....press any key to continue......."

I don't know what I'm doing wrong, please help me I am going in circles trying to find out this process. Thank you for taking the time.
[General Questions and Answers] Michael_robert:
Hi,

The formats of “Xml” are hex or binary. You need to convert or extract it into raw format for editing them. You can edit them with a hex editor if you know what a certain string means in it. For example “a 08 00 00 1C” string is for text. The four octets after it are for the actual color code FF FF FF FF would be white.

If you know about “Hexa” and “Binary” then you can use “apktool”.
[General Questions and Answers] johnny quest:
oh yeah I've seen this with HxD. didn't understand it so I just left it alone. I'm trying to see if I can use the apk manager but its the adb thats missing and don't know what I'm doing wrong.
[General Questions and Answers] faber78:
its gonna drive me nuts.

got the status bar and all that figured.

how do we change the main text color in a theme in android....where is the hidden xml or whatever?

im going banana's banana's i tell you .... lol....
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DarkAngel00:
i've decided to s-off my desire after reading some post here and search in google only because i want more space for app and i don't want to use ext partition on sd (i want to cange my sd freely and if it broken up i don't want to lose app or a phone not working), but i doesn't found any information about restoring the phone to s-on, it is possible?

the procedure is : download and use alpharev 1.8 to s-off after this i have full access to my system partition (so i can use root explore to move app to system without using adb)

next step is changing partition table, in my case using oxygen to have 300mb free for app

3rd step is reflash the rom (oxygen)

i'm right?

there are other things that i've to say before starting?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroHero:
yes you have that all right, you can return to s-on with stock partition tables just by flashing a ruu :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DarkAngel00:
tnx a lot!
[Nexus S General] dudeimgeorge:
with the most recent accusations of Samsung holding back OS updates and supposidly charging for carriers aquiring Foyo i cant help but feel like this bad press will be a good thing for us all because Samsung will be force to issue some quality control on OS pushes as well as firware updates. so all this negativity can turn positive, they have to because there is an onslaught on all tech sites talking about the customer reactions and all this crap. word to your moms
[Nexus S General] ravidavi:
Google provides operating system updates to the Nexus S, not Samsung. Samsung simply manufactured the hardware; Google provides Android updates. This has been reiterated many many times now.

That is one of the main reasons why anybody bought this phone in the first place ... because we DON'T have to worry about Samsung handling software updates.
[Nexus S General] dudeimgeorge:
my bad, i mainly meant in generality regarding all samsung devices getting os updates. but regarding nexus s, samsung firmware updates, if any, are needed.
[Nexus S General] distortedloop:
I don't think even other devices will benefit much from a little bad press for a couple of reasons.

#1 Samsung was the #1 seller of Android devices in the world last year, DESPITE a reputation in the geek community of being slow/poor about software updates. Why should they change? Whatever they're doing is working for them!

#2 The vast majority of people who buy Samsung phones, even state of the art ones like the Galaxy S line, aren't geeks, don't read geek sites, and don't even know what eclair/froyo/gingerbread are. They don't know what a software update is, and they don't care. The mainstream press doesn't cover this stuff, so most of Samsung's consumer market is oblivious to any of this. It's a bit of a tempest in a teapot..
[Nexus S General] dudeimgeorge:
well this outlook of yours i thought about, and to be honest i feel that samsung is going to have a dreadful following year. If not in general, definently in our geek community
[Nexus S General] distortedloop:
What percentage of the Samsung consumer base is made up of we geeks?

I doubt they'll have a dreadful year; perhaps not as good as last, but they still have the absolute best screen tech available, and they're pushing it out on a wide range of phones from 3" to 4.5". SAMOLED and SAMOLED + will sell a lot of phones alone, even to geeks who know that they'll eventually have a nice ROM from cyanogen or others eventually.
[Nexus S General] onthecouchagain:
Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? I mean, where in the world is the 2.3.2 update for the plethora of bugs and glitches in GB, Google?
[Nexus S General] DKYang:
Unless I misunderstood the bold statement. Samsung isn't doing any updates whatsoever on the Nexus S. It's all done by Google. Everything. Since there is no such thing as free hardware updates, Samsung's only involvement with the Nexus S and manufacturing it.
[Nexus S General] ravidavi:
You are correct. ALL software support, including firmware, is Google's responsibility for the Nexus S. THIS IS GOOGLE'S PHONE.
[Nexus S General] rashad1:
How many is a "plethora"? 5-6? You sound as if the phone is unusable.
[Nexus S General] distortedloop:
Since plethora isn't defined beyond "excess", I guess it depends on what your tolerance threshold for major bugs is.

Some people are finding the phone unusable, at least unreliably usable, because of a couple of major bugs:

1) Random reboots with no rhyme or reason.

2) Reboots during a call, randomly, no rhyme or reason as to why or when.

3) Reboots while being charged.

4) SMS bug where someone other than the intended recipient gets the message. (OTA out soon for this one per Samsung.)

5) Ringtone assignments randomly changing, resulting in people not hearing the phone ring or missing SMS notifications (because sound randomly picked can also be "none").

So there's at least 5 I can list off the top of my head. Perhaps the guy you were responding to has a different list.

I've only experienced #2 and #5, and there's a work-around for #5, so the phone's "usable" for me, but it's been a bit of a nervous experience being on phone call wondering if it's going to reboot.
[Nexus S General] RogerPodacter:
i'll tell you one thing google forgot to ask samsung for, or samsung didnt give to google, and that is the browser GPU acceleration fix that was given to the galaxy phones on 2.1.

so there's an example where samsung, the hardware manaufacturer, has a specific driver for their very specific hardware. it perhaps may be something that would take google too many months to build from scratch on their own without technical insight from the hardware vendor.
[Samsung Mesmerize] elijahblake:
Check out the OP!!! I flashed the AlteHaasGrotesk and love it....

300 Flashable Font Packs

Be sure to give thanks to the OP!
[Samsung Mesmerize] Sc0tt777:
Can't seem to get them to install. Where is the option to change fonts on the Mesmerize?
[Samsung Mesmerize] elijahblake:
i updated to a new link... and can confirm that his instructions work....
[Samsung Mesmerize] hyelton:
Thanks:) Fonts make such a difference on it
[Samsung Mesmerize] elijahblake:
Yes, they do!!!!

There's some really cool ones on there!!!
[Samsung Mesmerize] bdemartino:
Agreed, thanks for posting this elijah!
[Samsung Mesmerize] elijahblake:
no problem..

hey check your PM
[Samsung Mesmerize] aph:
AlteHaasGrotesk is good, much more readable than Helvetica CE 35 Thin (REVOlution Font 1.1r2) at small sizes.

I noticed the kerning (space between pairs of characters) is off on AlteHaasGrotesk. I tried a similar one called MgOpen Moderna but it has some issues in Handcent.

There are too many to sort through by clicking individual screenshot links (why not embed them?) Anyone aware of similar fonts?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] number16:
Hey guys,

As the battery on my HTC Diamond is dying, I'm in the market for a new phone, and I am down to either htc Desire or Samsung Captivate ...

Why HTC Desire?

- Love HTC phones, my last 4 phones were all HTC's

- Love Sense, hate TouchWhiz

- Slightly smaller, so it would fit a little better in jeans pocket

- Availability of development and cooked ROMs

Why Captivate?

- S-AMOLED screen is the best screen available now

- Hummingbird > Snapdragon

- 4.0" screen is better than 3.7"

- Have concern about Desire's battery life ... vastly disappointed with Diamond's battery though I know 1400mAh > 900, but many people still complain about Desire's battery life

- Captivate seems to be better at video playback, smoother, more vivid colour

- Captivate seems to be snappier with web browsing

What do you guys think? Anything else I should know about these phones?

Like I said, the biggest appeal of the Desire is Sense ... I think it's a great UI and I'm almost temped to pick the phone just for its UI. That said, I have concern about Desire's battery life. The Captivate's S-AMOLED screen is also something you fall in love with.

Any suggestion or advices is welcome!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroHero:
sence is awsome and android isnt the same without HTC Sence trust me ;) ..... as far as hummingbird vs snapdragon goes ..... sure adreno isnt the best gpu, but neither is powervr now the nvida tegra 2 chipset is out :D and snapdragon as a cpu easly surpasses hummingbird or any other omap/arm cortex based cpu. agreed the samoled screen is gawjus and the colours are great, but i recently upgraded my amoled desire for a slcd Desire HD and the diffrence isnt that much... end of the day, if you get a desire you wont be disapointed, guaranteed, but buy a capitave and you may be :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] number16:
Thanks for the reply.

I'm on my 4th htc phones and haven't been disappointed in any of them yet ... my only complaint is battery life ... but I just keep my car charger in my car all the times.

I've got a similar thread at the Captivate forum and it seems the Captivate, with the existing Samsung ROM (and all the cooked ROM's based on it), is pretty buggy. People have complained about self power off, GPS not able to lock as some of the more annoying problems.

Does the Desire have any quirk or anything you guys aren't pleased with?

BTW HD and HD2 are nice, but I think 4.3" is too big to be 'pocket-able' ... 4" is as big as I'd go
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroHero:
the gps works really well on the desire, samsung software is notoriously buggy. dont get me wrong the galaxy s series are great phones, they just dont have that htc level of polish, there was a random reboot issue with the desire at one point, but htc addressed it :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sudkcoce:
IMHO, don't even think about Samsung. Get the Desire and I guarantee you won't regret it. Above all, don't be fooled by specs sheets. It's mostly the software that makes the phone great or not these days....
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Baghdadification:
I'd go for the Desire, simply because I feel it has a better community behind it.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] number16:
btw, I got a quick question ... do all the Telus Desire (in Canada) have SLCD screen instead of AMOLED?

Is it a biggie? Is AMOLED better than SLCD?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] donverse:
well about the battery life...

i got a custom rom on my desire (the newest miui) and i easily get 2-3 days under normal use (screen on ~1-1.30 hours, browsing web, playing games, having internet turned off when screen off).

if you play games and browse the web a lot it may die within one day, but i never had issues with the battery life.

if you are able to charge it over night (even better in your car too), this will not be a concern for you..

seriously ;)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ak29:
I was really close to getting the captivate which I was able to get from my own carrier but instead I went with the desire and bought it outright from telus.

Their were a number of reasons that made me choose the desire.

The captivate has a rated 5 hour talk time versus the desire which is 6.5 hours

The captivate seems to have an antenna gate issue that is similiar to iphone 4. except in this case I didnt see any remedy like using a case.

The captivate's power button is on the right side not a major issue but started to add up for me.

The captivate doesn't have a flash for camera/video camera desire does.

Here is a good review of the desire and the captivate. Hope it helps you make your decision.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2370844,00.asp

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2366803,00.asp

For me there's only two negatives with the Desire. The battery life which can be solved by rooting, installing custom roms and/or getting an extra battery. The other problem with the Deisre is the app memory. You can always root it and install a rom that supports apps2d+.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ajftl:
Without reading all the crap here no doubt desire. Make sure to get the A8182
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] k9plums:
my dad and 1 of my best friends have the galaxy s, and I have desire, the lcd screen on my desire is beautiful even when you put it next to the super amoled of the sgs, and its only when they're sat next to each other that you can actually notice any difference, also the sgs battery is no better than the desire, granted i do have to charge mine every day, and I am quite a heavy user, but every time my friend comes to my house the first thing he says is " can I steal some electric please mate".

The sense UI is awsome just the whole layout of the phone is so much nicer and more functional than the sgs too. so all in all its a win for the desire.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jprosen1:
about that gorgeus AMOLED screen, i've noticed that colors are a little more vivid but quite unrealistic... I've comared both phones before buying and I prefer colors on the desire ;)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] number16:
Thanks for all the comments guys. I picked up a Desire over the weekend ... it's been rooted and S-off'ed ... but still undecided on which ROM to flash :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ldn.sti..hf:
I like senseUI, so i'll go for Desire.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mactavish:
i love desire just because of sense...it is so beautiful...
[XPERIA X10 General] go3asy:
Dispite my clear letter that described the problem that has plagued the phone for months and recently got so bad its almost un-usable other than texting they returned with FW update! I pointed them to their thread on SE support problems with all the x10s with overheating/reboot issue and explained the problem started during 1.6 through over 4 FW updates and I had already returned the phone to factory before sending it! even left it to play the setup menu when they turned it on! so 2 weeks wait for nothing. Anyone know any way to get though to them to either replace the handset or the board? Im not sending it back again for the same. If I had a laptop with faulty hardware they wouldnt return it with a re installed OS! Very annoying they clearly didnt follow what I wrote on replicating the issue, easiest way is try use any type of GPS nav the phone cuts out within 1min and wont boot back up for 5min unless the batterys been taken out!

They also flashed back to Orange FW when I had global generic on the handset lol
[Captivate Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reinbeau:
I have read over and over again that you hold down both volume buttons, and the power button, and it'll boot into recovery - but it's never worked for me. Last night, by accident, I let go of the 'up' volume button, only the 'down' was down along with the power button and low and behold - recovery mode. Is this proper procedure maybe only for certain phones? I was so frustrated, all that would happen with three buttons held down is the AT&T logo screen would flash on and off. I guess I'm just looking for affirmation here.