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[Windows Phone 7 General] domineus:
as brandon pointed out in yesterday's podcast, the big announcement is tools with CDMA support. This kills a few rumors already - that there will be 3 upgrades, one that brings cdma separately and one that brings little support for next gen processors. Both of these are rolled into the update with copy/paste and optimization fixes. On the OEM side, a lot has changed with camera, application stability, and general user experience. At the very least, we get support for the new snapdragon processor which does bring flash, IE9, silverlight, and hopefully dual core at the very least by mango. The podcast was short and I honestly wish that user q n a were discussed carefully; above the whole issue he had with wmpu...which a lot of people have problems with surprisingly o.O

Actually this is good news for xda because if we find a way to unlock emulator, it stands to reason when the update does roll out, we may not lose huge functions like chevron or the impending jailbreak
[Windows Phone 7 General] vangrieg:
Flash and IE9 weren't even supposed to come before this mythical Mango thing, were they?
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
Ok so this is the info coming from this podcast?

Looks kinda brighter, I mean you say Mango will bring essentially all of these things?
[Windows Phone 7 General] BIG-Stan:
I really dont think that it will be march... What is ballmer suppose to talk about in 2 weeks? And it would be a little bit emberassing to talk about a new update when the 1st isnt even out yet.

Since this c&p update doesnt change much for the devs there is hoping that it wont take that long to pass the update to the consumers.
[Windows Phone 7 General] slighmd:
It would be a whole lot better if MS could release smaller patches every couple weeks before the big ones once a year. Without updates and without information it seems as if microsoft is thinking about killing the system. Maybe initial sales were disappointing and MS cut back on resources for WP7? Maybe MS does not believe in the future of WP7? In that case why should customers and developers believe in it?

And on another note, after this C&P update arrives, are we looking at another 5 or 6 months for the next update?
[Windows Phone 7 General] The Gate Keeper:
why do people speculate so much... from CES they said that the major update will be in august/september, with several updates in between to fill the gap.

MS has placed a lot of money on the OS so i highly doubt that just after 3 months they're going to abon ship already. this isn't the KIN.
[Windows Phone 7 General] FiyaFleye:
People also underestimate the giant that is Microsoft. They essentially lost every penny on the 360 with the RRoD situation, and still flooded it with the needed resources to turn it into the most successful gaming platform... They took Vista, performed maintainence on it, and created Windows 7 which the world loves... This is the same company that has been successful in almost everything they've done, including the launch of Windows Mobile. WinMo was at one point a solid selling phone, it just became obsolete and filled with potential for 'nerds' rather than the average schmuck that used to love flip-phone Razrs... Which is why Windows Phone now exists. The initial release was fantastic, the sales were solid contrary to the opinion of every 'expert' on this board, and LG of course. For a fluid experience for the average, random consumer the OS is fine. These updates will do more for the power users and enterprise users than it will for the average consumer. I honestly don't care when the update comes, as long as it comes prepared.
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
At this point the only thing I care about in an update is fixing the bugs and making it work better.
[Windows Phone 7 General] phoneguy 4567:
Is the 360 profitable yet & hasn't the PS3 caught up to it? When the update comes it will have bugs they all do regardless of platform, & when they pop up people will wonder why the update took so long.

A Samsung, Sony etc. are not software developers that's not their core business, so when their slow to release a patch they have an excuse. MS on the other hand is a software company so what's their excuse for not coming out with updates quickly? Maybe it's because they are a giant & giants are slow to react :(.
[Windows Phone 7 General] amtrakcn:
Really looking forward to this update...

BTW, is supporting CDMA ASAP such crucial to WP7? Add multilanguage support and push it to the rest of world would be much more helpful.
[Windows Phone 7 General] slighmd:
^This one should really be a priority
[Windows Phone 7 General] vangrieg:
Yes, and although I'm not an impartial Observer, checking Google Trends shows that there are countries where consumer interest in WP7 is much higher than in many of the ones where WP7 is launched. Plus they don't have to deal with those pesky operators.
[Windows Phone 7 General] emigrating:
It's been profitable for a rather long time already, but yes - even actual console sales are now making a profit. The PS3 was outselling Xbox360 for quite some time (mainly due to the initial RROD issues) and the Wii still may be but the Xbox is the highest grossing console/platform on the market today - and was so even before Kinect.
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
Well this must be a joke.

In fact WP7 is fully functional in few countries. In most not.

It desperately needs marketplace support in all countries, bing maps support, national language and keyboard support. These are basic things which stop any success beyond UK, US, Germany and I don't remember other fully supported ones.

In all other not supported it actually a phone for "Nerds!"

As for features I still think that adding them is important. This is one of the elements which build other platforms. Not the only but important.

Honestly I await this one and I'm sure it's late already.

They should also release fixes for most annoying bugs.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Audio:
Well, the official Windows Phone 7 Backstage forums are closing tomorrow (February 10th) with a "special video goodbye". I wonder if this will announce the release of the update (or at least give a confirmed date).
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
Yeah I'm curious too.
[Windows Phone 7 General] FiyaFleye:
I feel the same way.

Unlike Apple, Microsoft has multiple devices and carriers to cater to in these updates, which I believe creates a slow down in the process, even if it comes directly from them. They still must ensure the experience is consistent on every carrier on every device, which may be more difficult with the different screens, memory, etc.

Took you long enough to show up, and like I continue to tell you, you are never positive about a single issue. The marketplace may not be entirely Microsoft's fault, it may also be the fault of the policies, currencies, etc... Imagine had WP7 had native Twitter support and you were using the device in Egypt, one of it's native features would be crippled at the moment. I can agree with constructive criticism from users who understand the positive and realistic path of the platform, but your comments are consistently negative and you expect instantaneous results from every personal request you make...

I do agree that the platform needs these features, but I won't remove it's positive aspects because of features I may never use... I think I used navigation once on my HD2... Once. I understand users are all different with different needs, but I'm pretty sure other features are more of a priority at the moment...
[Windows Phone 7 General] vetvito:
uh oh, Microsoft police. Looks like we can't express opinion on a open forum anymore.
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
Give yourself a break and get off my back.

If you want "positives" than make your own happy thread.

This is forum not a place for collective Nirvana.

I am the user and I see what I see. Holes in the platform without any significant information from MS about doing anything about it besides C&P. I have no idea - and others too - what is the roadmap.

I look everywhere to find this info to give MS a chance because the initial thing is good. But it's a time to move on and everybody here agrees on that.

And please, deal with your problems alone. I don't ask you to be what I want. So leave others in their freedom. Maybe forums are not for you. And read the topic.

And to your answer: Marketplace is not MS fault?! So who to call? Maybe Apple? Ah, I get it, it's those Android bastards...

Man please, be serious.
[Windows Phone 7 General] FiyaFleye:
Please, don't place words in my mouth, I clearly said what other issues may factor in. There is also a difference between criticizing with helpful, productive information, and the way you rant and troll in almost every topic. You attempt to kill off whatever positive feelings people have about anything in this section, THAT is my problem. Moving on or not, you insulting developers and options with terms like "crapware" really add nothing to the forum experience. You're more than welcome to share your opinions, you just use incorrect methods and avenues... Specially with calling things you don't agree with a joke.
[Windows Phone 7 General] stylopath:
I totally agree on this one!

There are several features that are missing for no reason (at least it seems so):

- National Keyboard Support: C'mon, it's not such a big thing, even if the glyphs for the new Fonts used in WP7 have to be designed first.

- Bing Maps Support: Microsoft already has the product (and the maps), but why do they release them only to customers in certain countries?

- Spring folders: The most annoying (absolutely senseless) missing features if your phone is NOT english. If I set my locale to English i can use spring folders in zune, if i set my locale to french or german i can't - WHAT THE HELL?!?

- local search: Again, this feature is available if i switch my locale to english - the phone even has the needed information (point of interests) for my location, but this feature is deactivated as soon as i set a german locale!

additionally, to me it doesn't seem like a smart move not to offer other payment methods beside credit cards - At least here in europe where lots of people don't have one.

You can buy xbox360-dlc without creditcards, but as a wp7-user you're f*cked up without one. As long as this persists i won't even buy one 99ct app on the marketplace - simply because i can't.

What drives me crazy is the fact that these are issues that are there for no reason - As it seems the executives at microsoft just don't think before they make decisions.

Features like spring folders or local search could be easily activated (because they work). The marketplace could support other payment methods easily (paysafe,paypal, wire directly into the bank etc) - It just looks as if they are really far away from reality (at least from what reality is like outside the US) - instead of spending 500millions on advertising they should have spended 1 million on one of these points - I'd bet that would've been better for the success of the platform.
[Windows Phone 7 General] hboos:
Dude, I don't know who you think you are but you can't just come to our happy clappy WP7 adoring commune and spread your negativity, man.

It doesn't matter that I agree with everything that you said and it's true, you just can't spread bad chi around..

We all love your inner being and WP7 loves you too.

embrace the love
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
Haha, I don't know whether you were sarcastic or not,

but just like that post! Hi!
[Windows Phone 7 General] vangrieg:
WP7 supports Unicode and has seems to have all the glyphs. It's just the keyboards that are missing and translation. These things surely don't need 9 months to implement, especially in countries where MS have huge offices and tons of outsourcers that translate things for them in no time. Support for Right-to-left scripts is a bit tricker though.

I don't know about where you live, but in most countries Bing Maps is absolutely useless. Coverage is miserable, and POI databases are virtually non-existent. So I guess this isn't an easy one. That being said, it seems that features are limited even with countries with decent BM coverage. Also, Bing Maps has all kinds of APIs, and there are tons of providers for POIs, so this seems to be an organizational challenge rather than technical one.

What's a spring folder?

This is certainly silly.

I absolutely hate XBox/Zune "points", they are a layer of complexity that has zero justification. That being said, prepaid cards are a viable option. Except they'd better have real money nominations than these silly points.

One other thing that's puzzling is Marketplace availability. I understand that expanding it to new countries is difficult for lots of legal and tax reasons, but I see zero reason for not making it available in countries where WM Marketplace is!
[Windows Phone 7 General] stylopath:
I don't know if this is the correct word for it, sorry! What i mean is the behaviour that the contact list shows when you click on one of the big letters (A,B,C) - for example.

Usually (which means if you're living in the US) lists of Artists or Titles (in Zune) show the same behaviour - With Certain locales it doesn't.

I really, really hope the guys at MS get on this.
[Windows Phone 7 General] vangrieg:
Ah, OK, it's called "Jump Lists" in WP7, IINM.

Reverse translation is a hard thing, isn't it? :)
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jblade1000:
Hopefully someone can quickly help me this. I do NOT sync my contacts with gmail. Period. I dont want to sync with the cloud when not necessary.

I backup my contacts via the export feature in the contacts app, at least i did in 2.1 (and also on my nexus s). It creates a .vcf file and works perfectly for me.

With KA6 on my vibrant, I do not see this feature under the Import/Export button after selecting it from the menu. The only three options i get are import from SIM, export to SIM, and send Namecard via. Did they take the .vcf feature out or do I just not know where to find it now:confused: Please help. thanks.

*Edit* nevermind: i've just now realized that if you dont have the .vcf file when the phone is booted up it doesnt show up as an option. I had my contacts.vcf on an external sdcard that wasnt in the phone when i booted up (as a precaution if i had to wipe/factory reset). So note to others, that almighty sdcard scanning it does is important!
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bsugatan:
Ok I'm a noob to rooting and Tom's, my friend said the villain rom was a good idea, so I got it. Should I get the cm7 nightlies instead? Will that rom remove my overclockin?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheBiles:
Go for the nightlies. They're more up-to-date. They also are overclockable by default.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Khitsule:
I personally prefer GingerVillain over the nightlies, I'm not sure what I will do when CM7 is stable. Probably try them both, but gingervillain is a mix of cm7 source and stock gingerbread. I have the thinks from cyanogen 6.1 I love (all of them).

Try it out if you wish, it was the second rom I flashed. The first being CM6.1

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=893933
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheBiles:
So far all of the nightlies have been extremely stable. I've actually been very surprised with them.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lennyuk:
GV 1.5 will be out today.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bsugatan:
When will it be out and how do i update it?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bsugatan:
is nightlies using 2.3? and what happens if i dont update it "nightly"?
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] egzthunder1:
Thread moved to Q&A.
[G2 and Desire Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheBiles:
Yes, the nightlies are Gingerbread with the very latest changes straight from the CM team. Nothing will happen if you don't update it nightly... You just won't have the latest updates. Most people update every couple days or every time a good change is made (it isn't heavily modified every day).
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] Mrhorology:
I tried to search for this, but I don't seem to be having any luck. I noticed

the google maps 5.0.0 does not have the 3D feature or the 2 finger rotate.

Is there any way to get these working??
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] tcrews:
Only the Cyanogenmod rom has gotten it working on the gtablet so far. Install that or wait.

Sent from my Viewsonic 10" GTab...
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] Nospin:
Will need to wait a while longer for cyanogenmod. Tried to get it working on the other roms, but for some reason the tab doesn't want to enable it.
[G Tablet Themes and Apps] thebadfrog:
Do you just not understand how the search button works or do you just like starting threads.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Beedo34:
so i saw this new feature that allows at&t subscribers to bill apps to their phone bill, but i'm not seeing the option when i try to purchase. It says that I have ver2.2.7 but i'm also running Z's froyo rom with x10iuser's greenglow theme. is this just an issue with att recognizing my rooted 2.2 device? any hope for a workaround?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] batman_112:
I think you need to be running AT&T's branded firmware to take advantage of this feature.
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aperson88:
A couple of months ago I decided I was going to enable wireless N on my Dinc. I've been rooted for a while and I followed the directions on a Youtube (by mejdam) video I found and failed miserably. Since then I have been unable to turn on the wireless and only get Error when attempting to turn on the wireless. If I restore the phone back to factory with latest updates it works fine. Once I put my nandroid backup back though I get the same error.

Please help!!
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] RMarkwald:
Sounds like you hosed the rom you were running. Try reflashing that rom from scratch and see if it happens.

Sent from HTC Incredible
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bomber889:
well.. if a different rom works, and your nandroid doesn't, you probably screwed something up when you were running that rom and made a backup, or your nandroid got corrupted. reflash the same rom, or flash a different one.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] deke997:
Okay so I went and got the latest working updates from everything and put it in a convenient package for you.

One Click Root Apk: Version 0.1.0

Radio: 2.42.02.10.29

HBoot: 1.47.0000

Kernel: 2.6.29.6 (up to 768 Mhz and its stable :) )

ClockworkMod Recovery: 3.0.0.5

CynanogenMod: 6.2 - No longer needed

S-OFF

Step by Step Instructions below.

The instructions are only for people running CynanogenMod and ClockworkMod recovery.

Unzip everything.zip to your sdcard

Also put Kernel.zip on your sdcard

You HAVE to install these in a specific order otherwise some things won't work.

Flash CynanogenMod 6.2 if you havent already. It has the latest kernel in it already which goes up to 768 Mhz. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=731659 here's the new link

Install Rom Manager and flash ClockworkMod recovery

2.5.0.1

. Now you MUST backup with it.

Run the ruu included in the zip. this will give you the latest HBoot.

Boot into hboot mode (volume down and power button) and look to make sure it installed HBoot 1.4.7.0000

reboot

install heroroot010.apk

run heroroot.apk and it will give you darchstar's recovery and put a file on your sdcard called rootme.zip

reboot

reboot into Darchstar's recovery

flash rootme.zip

reboot

you now should have root and should have the super user app. if you dont then something went wrong and you should try again.

if you have root, download rom manager and flash ClockworkMod

2.5.0.1

restore your backup with ClockworkMod recovery

reboot

reboot to recovery

flash radio.zip

it will tell you to reboot after it is done.

this boot will take a while so be patient

reboot again

reboot into recovery

wipe dalvik

flash kernel.zip

reboot

reboot recovery

warning: there is no hboot s-on for the cdma hero YET. they are working on it though.

flash S_OFF.zip

reboot

you now have hboot s-off

reboot into recovery

plug phone into computer

run the following code in adb:

adb shell

mount sdcard

flash_image recovery /sdcard/CWMR3.0.0.5.img

exit

adb reboot recovery

reboot

done!

Update: Heres the link to Everything.zip and Kernel.zip: http://www.mediafire.com/?tj5a734t7n6gi

Thanks to jcase for the root apk

Thanks to theimpaler747 for the new radio

Thanks to Whosdaman for the ruu with the new hboot in it

Thanks to Decad3nce the updated kernel

Thanks to regaw_leinad for the S-Off

Thanks to aosp and ClockworkMod for the recovery
[Hero CDMA Android Development] AboveUnrefined:
Thanks for all the info Deke -- is there some sort of package that is included with this? I don't see anything...
[Hero CDMA Android Development] deke997:
yeah sorry. im having troubles uploading it. it will be on here as soon as posible

Edit: Everything.zip is now uploaded! enjoy!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] PTown599:
CynanogenMod: 6.2 ?

When did this happen ?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] deke997:
bout a week ago
[Hero CDMA Android Development] sirmx:
6.2 has been around since mid to late December... if not earlier.

P.S. You may wish to give people credit where credit is due.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] AboveUnrefined:
You're a hero with a hero -- saved me boat loads of time!
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Squiggy45:
I don't see anything named cyanogenmod 6.2 in the zip or the provided link...
[Hero CDMA Android Development] AboveUnrefined:
Isn't there a lot of places that can be found?
[Hero CDMA Android Development] Squiggy45:
A lot of places? I have 't found one. The contents of everything.zip is:

CWMR3.0.0.5.img

heroroot010.apk

Radio.zip

RUU_Hero_C_Sprint_2.31.651.7_signed_release.exe

S_OFF.zip

No cyanogenmod...
[Hero CDMA Android Development] AboveUnrefined:
Here's at least one CM 6.2 build

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=731659
[Hero CDMA Android Development] il Duce:
You really need to credit the people who made this stuff in your op unless you want to get infracted or banned. Also this is a pointless thread as these things can be easily found by searching. And you haven't developed anything here so this should be in another forum, not development. Seems like you just keep making threads in development of other peoples work for no reason. Way to go.

sent from my hero, which no longer sucks ass
[Hero CDMA Android Development] deke997:
i didnt put it in everything.zip cuz i didnt have time. I put the wrong link.. sorry. i just updated the link so try it now.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] deke997:
Im putting on the credits now and this is just a package that has everything in it so people DONT have to search for it so it saves them a lot of time plus it has step by step instructions 4 people who dont know how.. and there is no where else to put it otherwise i would.:)
[Hero CDMA Android Development] stayclean:
Q & A would be a tad more appropriate since nothing is being developed here.
[Hero CDMA Android Development] deke997:
kk. will do next time. and if u guys want anymore of these packages pm me da details. itll be in q and a from now on
[Hero CDMA Android Development] EGOvoruhk:
Since when is there a CM 6.2? The last stable release is 6.1. Anything else is unstably/nightly/unofficial

http://forum.cyanogenmod.com/files/category/17-htc-hero-cdma/
[Hero CDMA Android Development] deke997:
its been out for a while dude. just look at the link i posted. completely stable. idk why they havnt updated they're site yet. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=731659
[Hero CDMA Android Development] EGOvoruhk:
That's not 6.2, that's some custom build. Don't know why it's called 6.2, as there never was a 6.2, they went straight into 7
[Hero CDMA Android Development] stayclean:
Some phones did get pushed to 6.2, the jaybob build was synced with basically the last of the 6.x Hero source.