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[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gol_n_dal:
Hi,

Apologies up front: If this is the wrong forum sorry. Just I have a Desire and reading many posts form many of you, you know your stuff ;)

I currently have a HTC Desire, more info in sig below. Now I have a dilemma and I wondered if any of you learned folks have any advice :confused:

My son's birthday is in a couple of weeks and currently wants an iPod Touch, as his elder brother has one. He also moans about his phone all the time as being old and not having a touch screen.

I think I'd like him to have a touch phone that plays music and games, it might on occasion be required to make a phone call but ....

I've been looking at two options:

i) Buy something like a HTC Wildfire for him (I'd unlock and root etc.);

ii) Buy myself an upgrade and give him my Desire after a thorough clean etc.

If I go for option ii) what phones should I consider (e.g. Desire HD, Samsung Galaxy S) or is there simply very little difference between a Desire and some of the newer phones. For reference mine has a SLCD screen. If this is the case I'll revert to i) above. However I'm not convinced about the Wildfire due to its screen side being smaller (in terms of pixels) than most Android phone. As a result I don't know if the standard games such as Angry Birds etc. work well on it. After many years using graphics screens on a variety of systems I'm well aware of screen real estate, more is usually better.

I'm not familiar with the current set of phones as they've probably moved on since I last trawled for information. If there are any better bets than the ones above then I'm probably not aware of them.

I'm reluctant to go into the local Vodafone shop as in most cases they don't know their arse from their elbow.

So any views gratefully received.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EddyOS:
1. Why would your young son need to be rooted?

2. The Wildfire won't play AB, laggy as hell

Might as well get him an iPod Touch or give him your Desire and get an upgrade (I'd wait until the Mobile Conference thingy in February and see what's coming out)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gol_n_dal:
Thanks for the quick reply.

I'd root so to get a more similar ROM to myself so I can help, also to unlock and debrand the Vodafone bloatware. As a young lad he's going to install a million free apps on it and fill it up in no time flat, so using some of the non Sense ROMs and possibly repartition will give him the opportunity to install a fair amount. I know that the Wildfire internal memory is smaller and the processor slower than the Desire but that's just down to a cheaper phone.

Having not used a Wildfire and your comments above I thnk you've put me off one, Laggy and no Angry Birds kills it.

Hmm.... perhaps the iPod Touch is back in the frame. An 8GB one is approx the same price as a Wildfire.

I'll do some digging on new technologies for the Conference, that's a good call.

Thanks
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chichoko:
As EddyOS said, Angry Birds on the Wildfire is a no go! You can go to a Vodafone store and check it out yourself.. Its a pitty since it is a very nice phone over all..

Now, my 2 cents would be that you buy him an iPod touch since the Apple store has all the "fancy" games he might want since he deffinately saw them from his brother.. But if you want to save some cents and get yourself an upgrade, the best thing to do now is just wait.. The dual-core phones are just around the corner and you can get something really worth the upgrade because luckily the Desire is overall still able to handle everything for the moment (except Dungeon Defenders..) If, on the other hand, you want an upgrade now, I would say shoot for the Nexus S. Its your best choice and probably the best investment because you will get updates for a year or two to come. And ofcourse give the Desire to your youngling, rooted and all so you can put in every game he asks for "the other way around" :cool:

So a small summary of what I said..

a) buy your kid-o the iPod touch and keep the Desire.

b) buy an upgrade, give your son the Desire, rooted so you can easily put games and apps he wants..
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gol_n_dal:
Thanks folks for the input.

I managed to get into a CPW shop today, blimey they guy I spoke with was ok and almost knew his stuff.

I have to agree after playing with one or two (top phones), there's almost nothing to distinguish the other phones from the Desire. OK 4" vs 3.7" screen (same res though), Super AMOLED vs SLCD, roughly the same processor ....

So I'm convinced it's not worthwhile changing my (nicely tweeked working) phone for a different flavour of the same stuff.

I like the Wildfire as a phone (too small for my fat fingers though) but your comments and the CPW shop guy said the same, slow and small.

So it'll be iPod Touch for laddo I think.

Thanks again for the input it helped.

Ahh, the CPW dude mentioned GSM Arena to look at future trends, I'll look at that later.

Thanks and take care.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Vermik:
I love this phone but I need a new upgrade for this year :D

it is a best choise?! nexus S?
[G2 and Desire Z General] setspeed:
If I were to replace my DZ, I'd want to wait for something significantly better, like one of the dual core monsters coming out this year, such as the LG Optimus 2X. And even then, I'd wait to see if it got any dev support first.

Having said that, there is a benefit to having the current Google dev phone, ie. being the first to get OS updates.
[G2 and Desire Z General] KoolKidsKlub:
Yeah, but it is Samsung that we are talking about, right? From what I have heard about what they are doing to the vibrant, I would NEVER go to Samsung. Did you read the article on AndroidSPIN about what their tipster said? Heres the article http://androidspin.com/2011/01/12/b...samsung-is-holding-the-android-world-hostage/ . After reading that, I don't think that I will ever buy a Samsung phone again. But I did read on another site that the Nexus S is by Google, Samsung just makes the hardware but Google makes the software, and that the Nexus S is Google's Baby and that they will get all the latest software updates first.
[G2 and Desire Z General] wileykat:
also check this out.... http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=913045 (but do not take as fact as no1 can confirm anything)

But yeah, as SETSPEED said you will/should get updates 1st,... but that is about the only benefit I can see.
[G2 and Desire Z General] ionic7:
I came from a vibrant and there are issues that still have not been fixed by samsung like the gps on the phone, so if there is one screw loose in the nexus s I would avoid it at all costs since their current track record for repairs is not that great. BUT it will be a developer phone if I remember right if not correct me, so as far as software updates go it seems like it would be the first to get them like the nexus did before it just do some research first man im a lil pissed at sammy still gonna be a long time b4 i get another samsung phone
[G2 and Desire Z General] Vermik:
i don talk about vibrante...only nexus S
[G2 and Desire Z General] stratax:
the vibrant is even better than the nexus s in ways. lol
[G2 and Desire Z General] userfriendlyme:
Why would u want a Nexus S? Have you not seen the phones coming in 2011? Nexus S is nothing but a vibrant with a front cam. Id hang on to your G2 and wait for something dual core coming later this year.

Sent from my CM7 powered G2
[G2 and Desire Z General] legendary1022:
Yeah, to me its not a good move at this point but to each his own I guess. I would say to at least wait for MWC in February before making any phone decisions, which will give you a good idea what to expect in the first half of this year. I'm an early adopter to a fault as well and even I think that is crazy.

Sent from my HTC Vision
[G2 and Desire Z General] Nospin:
First of all, can't believe someone is already tired of a phone less than six months old. But you definitely need to go dual core, and stay far away from Samsung.
[G2 and Desire Z General] immune15:
I wouldn't get a Nexus S. I bet as soon as I got one a "Nexus S 4g" would be released.
[G2 and Desire Z General] TheBiles:
I went the opposite way, and I can't be happier. The Nexus S was just a trashy phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jonataclayrton:
Hello, I have one SGS I9000B, made the update via Kies for Froyo VJJPD, and yesterday I tried to install a battery icon mod, via an application I found the forum (sgs battery icon mode 2), after choosing the version of the icon, made the installation and the unit was restarted, but then he started more Froyo after screen presentation of Samsung, the phone was hung on a black screen with a mouse pointer on the top left ...

after that, rebooted the machine using power+volumeUp+center and did a reset factory, but also decided to format the internal SD-card too...

Now the device is booting, but when you get the home screen of Android, with the initial settings and keyboard, etc., show dozens of errors like this

"was not found somewhere that any optional package ..." and

then says Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; u; android.com.android.phone)

applewebkit/533.1 (khtml, like gecko) version/4.0 mobile safari/533.1 "

and I can not leave the initial configuration screen ...

what can I do to recover the phone? reflashes?
[Windows Mobile Themes] aditzahouseru:
Hi all!

I came up with the idea of a widget that opens Widget Manager in Throttle Launcher 1.2.1 on Omnia i900 with WM 6.5. The reason is that i want to delete the bottom bar of the Light3D skin but i don`t know from where else to open Widget Manager after. I made it but after i select it, it doesn`t show..

Can please somebody take a look in the widget.xml and tell me where i did wrong?

Also if you know the exact path of widgetmanager.exe or however is called, would be great.

Thanks

Adrian
[Windows Mobile Themes] Trekfan422991:
you forgot to close the second event...

no biggy

dont foget to "thanks" me lol
[Windows Mobile Themes] Trekfan422991:
i just realized i didnt add a way to get to the widget manager... but i did fix aproblem with the xml that would keep it from working..

i will try to code a way to the widget manager... for you easist way would be to code a link to a button on the page instead of using a widget..
[Windows Mobile Themes] aditzahouseru:
Thanks dude! It works perfect now!

I took this code from the bottom bar that i just deleted: <event type="Click"><action execute=":EditWidgets" parameters="Widgets"/>. I couldn`t find anywhere any .exe that would open widget manager..
[Windows Mobile Themes] Trekfan422991:
no prob ... that is correct there is no program that launches the widget manager... just a command

glad it works!!!
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] soldiers33:
I want to modify the chompsms app but when ever i convert the xml to a readable one and convert it back after compiling it it wont install on my phone. Why is this?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] AndroidPhilip:
Blank post
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] hellcatt:
why is anyone gonna pay for whats free. this forum does an excellent job
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] oooitzalex:
Yeah that should be free. This is a free community you noblet.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] toyota67:
i thought this was suppose to be a help and free forum get a life
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Tung_meister:
Hi guys, I'm having an issue in that zune and the market place seem to be misreading the capacity of my phone. If I try to install any more apps from the market place it states that I've reached the storage limit and when I connect to my PC It states that I'm using 1.37GB with 0MB spare. If I go to the about screen in settings it shows total storage as 1.69GB with 327.98MB spare, anyone any ideas what's causing this?
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] lupotto301:
Iys possible activate a tethering on the wm7?

thanks
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] agarp:
Although MS says its carried dependent

Its NOT possible yet

wrong section please move to Q/A
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] tfouto:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=10762879#post10762879
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] TheATHEiST:
Wong forum, this is development not Q&A.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] lupotto301:
thanks

thanlks for the info
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] kcpoh:
anyone can help, after flash W7, unable to flash back to andriod, i did format my sd card to fat 32, but not working the error code as below:

Error happen

Read below for more information

Error Description: send partition data failed

Info: .\RSPL\RSPL.cpp (802)

Error Description:

Info: .\RSPL\RSPL.cpp (545)

anyone can help me to soft this matter ?

i am still using imilkas_hd2z_nand_v0.2, i did copy the data2sd and the config file to the sd card, but the error alway come out to the above??:mad: whole day at home busy for this phone :p.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] DimensionSlider:
Have you tried to flash WM 1.66 and flash android from the very begining?
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] joshk1025:
How much free space is on the SD card? Are you on aTMOUS or euro hd2?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stig109:
Just a quickie, I can now update my o2 UK handset, I have had the notification. I am currently on o2 .504, so I guess the update is to .24? Anyway I need to know if it will be possible to root the handset after update using z4root, or any other easy method?

Cheers.
[Android Apps and Games] Jarrod666:
Hi all,

I would like to find an application Lock Screen but with a fonction where it's possible to have a different wallpaper as the office wallpaper, do you know it ?

Sorry for my poor english...

Thank you.
[Android Apps and Games] bioan:
WidgetLocker.
[Android Apps and Games] Jarrod666:
Thank you very much, it's exactly what i need.
[Android Apps and Games] melorib:
Thanks, I just got it...

Nice, dont need most of the features, particularly the extra "HomeLauncher"

But does what I wanted, a different wallpaper on the lockscreen...
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] rudey4:
Hi,

I am unable to boot in to recovery on my Voda HTC Desire HD:

Build-Number: 1.39.161.1 CL278886 release keys

I was notified that i could update to 175.161.2_R so downloaded the upgrade and was all set to install the phone reboots goes to white HTC screen then starts to do the upgrade then drops out to the picture of the phone with red triangle exclamation mark.

I removed root et al and tried again with the same issue. Tried a few different things (Rom Manager, Bootstrap, manual recovery on phone and abd shell) all resulted in the same red triangle screen.

I then hard reset (restore factory settings) and tried the FOTA update which failed same result as before. I have re-rooted (visionary.r14, s-off etc).

So now i am a bit stuck and would gratefully accept any advice on how to get reboot recovery working....

Thanks in advance
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] naresh9876:
if you want to do﻿ custom roms, then buy elsewhere, we’ll continue with our strategy

guys check this out http://phandroid.com/2011/01/19/motorola-locked-bootloaders-stay-you-can-go-elsewhere/

motorola was found saying this in their youtube comments

i guess we better start doing what they say we should do
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Backdraft11:
Lol this is the kind of mindset that will kill Moto again.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] vennstrom:
and now they are trying to cover their a**

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/21/...-sweet-love-to-rom-devs-and-rooters/#comments
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] alijs:
I'm going to do that, I'll give milestone to wife and get me Nexus.
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] refthemc:
Main reason why I got a Droid1 and not a DroidX :)
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Borszczuk:
That's why so many wont't even consider Xoom no matter of specs
[Motorola Droid and Milestone General] Heinz Willy:
Unbelievable!

Seriously, how can companies dare tell their customers stuff like that?

Reminds me of S. Jobs "Just avoid holding it in that way."

Basically what both of the above mentioned are telling us is: "Customers, go f. off!"

And I won't buy products from a company that tells me to f. off!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nereme:
I have looked in the other forums for help with this but was unable to find anything related to my problem.

I am trying to install the clockwork mod recovery in recovery mode on my HTC desire as installing it from the market does not seem to work. I just install it and my recovery mode is still android system recovery 3e, not clockwork recovery like I should be getting.

So i got the clockwork recover zip file.. put it on my SD card and am attempting to install it myself in recovery mode. With apply SDcard:Update.zip

Now when I do it the install starts as it should then it fails to verify while-file signature and aborts the installation.

Any help would be great.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davebugyi:
Your phone must me Rooted an S-OFF to install recovery in a way like that.

Unless you don't have those requirements, try unrEVOked to flash clockworkmod.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gol_n_dal:
Hi,

Are you trying to also root and install a custom ROM ? or sticking with the Desire ROM as supplied by the carrier.

If you want root etc. then have a look at:

http://unrevoked.com/

It'll root and install ClockworkMod.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nereme:
Ah that will explain it..

The problem I am having is I am unable to sucessfully root my phone using Unrevoked it keeps failing when it reboots the phone. I thought if i could manully install clockwork mod it would work. I guess I was Wrong.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davebugyi:
Use unrEVOked 3.21 (not latest on their site - if that's a no go) - that's working for the most people. And make sure you have installed the HBOOT drivers correctly!!! (check android developement forum for that).
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nereme:
Tired using a verison of 3.21 and it did not work either.. It was unable to get past the NAND lock.. it would install the root say sucess then say error failure to unlock NAND flash..
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davebugyi:
Follow THIS guide! It should work.

And make sure the modified HBOOT Drivers are installed correctly!
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MattSkeet:
Just a quick question.

Do you experience any lag on your dhd? Example when scrolling through homescreens or typing txt msg? I get occasional lag and have to fc some applications like SwiftKey (it drains about 150mb of ram)
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sahirhussain:
enable usb tethering from settings and disbale htc sync (its a piece of junk anyways). doing these did the trick for me.
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MattSkeet:
Cannot enable usb tathering unless phone is connected to PC. And I don't have HTC sense set up at all
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sengork:
Enable USB debugging, it could be the /INIT bug.
[G Tablet General] smakcc:
Hi

I have noticied that the word completion is missing all words. When typing only my contacts are shown as sughestions. Previous versions did not have this issue. Btw i have my kb set to auto complete and if i add my own woeds they show.
[G Tablet General] jasco13:
this is a known issue with no easy fix yet. Use the tnt keyboard if you want auto complete, but it has no sound on key press.
[G Tablet General] smakcc:
How do I switch between the two KB?
[G Tablet General] sjmoreno:
You long press in any textbox until Input Method comes up and then choose the keyboard you want to use.
[G Tablet General] EddyHopper:
While in a text entry field do a long press. Select the option Input method. All installed keyboards will appear.
[G Tablet General] palagai:
If the long press din't show the keyboards you have like swype or thumb then you have to enable them from settings->keyboard to be shown by the long press.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Genesis_Tryst:
Hey guys,

I'm trying to play Dungeon Defenders on my SGS but it is quite laggy exspecially at the labratory... the demon appears and the cutscene is very smooth, but after the cutscene it is laggy as hell !

also the labratory itself is laggy if i run everywhere, rotate the camera etc. some places are quite smooth other.. a little bit laggy

Now i tried: Darky's 8.0 and 8.1., 2.2.1 stock, 2.2.1. + hardcore kernel (everything tweaked and lagfix on) etc. but no chance...

The game is stilly laggy when there are more than 10-15 mobs =(

so, how does it run on your devices ? and which firmware do you use ?

I want to play this game without lags ! :D

p.s.

Sorry for my bad english.
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] catttman:
question answed ;)
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] gksmith:
To each their own I guess. I'm not impressed.
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] catttman:
question answed
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] gksmith:
True, but to me it's an ugly clock.
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] catttman:
I not trying to sell it to you...

Just showing to the whole world the

3.0 Honeycomb clock

Have a nice day... good bye
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] jpmi23:
What is this thread even about?
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] theimpaler747:
Thread closed, as there is no content in it.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] bhagyashree:
Hello ,

I want to find IP adress of a computer on Android Emulator.

plz somebody help

Thank you.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djr83:
Is it safe to root, lagfix and flash roms when I have a JIG? I have tested it and it goes into download mode.

I guess I dont actually need to use the JIG unless something goes wrong?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oggy059:
yea, it seems so...if you can get into download mode, then there is no need of having JIG, but in case that your SGS totally bricked, the JIG is really your SGS savior...but it can only functions if your bootloader still intact, means that you can see the GT-19000 on your screen when you switch it on...if your screen stays black and nothing coming out when you boot up your SGS...there's no hope then...so just don't flashing any ROM you found although SGS is quite hard to be bricked(unless yours are branded model)...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djr83:
I only get into download mode with the JIG. I mainly want to update to stock roms but with Odin since Kies is a piece of ****.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oggy059:
so, how's it going?I prefer to not uninstall my Kies even though I've no use of it as it allows me to connect my SGS without usb debugging mode...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djr83:
I've only installed lagfix without any problems at all, so I've really havent needed the JIG yet. Haven't had time to read about how to update the rom.

I would like 2.3 but for now I'm thinking about 2.2.1. Is that available in swedish? I've heard Samsung pulled the 2.2.1 update, in Sweden at least.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Best method would be to flash via CWM no need to use download mode . Use Rom kitchen build your own choose your own specs CSC kernel etc .

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=817703

jje
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djr83:
Looks interesting! Thanks!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djr83:
How do I know if my SGS is branded? I bought it through my operator (Three) but I cannot actually see any branding in it.

How do I know what modem to use? JPY or JPX?
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] o0k00l:
Hi recently I realized that google search Widget had stopped searching my phone it directly goes to web search ..

Any way to get it back ?

Sent from my X10i

,,,,

Sorted .. Thanx
[XPERIA X10 Themes and Apps] o0k00l:
Mods please delete this thread

Sent from my X10i