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[G2 and Desire Z General] collins521:
Here's how I think about the whole rom development thing...from the roms I have tried that are available most of the aside from maybe 2, they are all fairly stable and work good as a daily driver. Now with that said I wouldn't want a bunch of other roms out there that are crap that when one comes out I'd want to load it and be dissappointed on it.

If you want a different look then you can use the UOT Kitchen and change things around with just about any rom that's available for the Z/G2. I get bummed that there aren't many different options for roms but honestly there is only a few different looks that Android can do so why complain about what we have when what is available is pretty good. Sense UI has been working great for me ever since I put it on my G2 for a few months now, granted there are a few small minor issues (screen wake etc) but that isn't enough to hate the development.
[G2 and Desire Z General] dustrho:
Couldn't agree with you more. I owned the MyTouch3G and briefly the MyTouch4G, and I'm thoroughly happy with the variety of ROMs for the G2.

+1
[G2 and Desire Z General] KCRic:
Try owning a MT3GS, compaired to that one this phone is outstanding (not the devs fault btw). For over half a year we didn't have s-off, and rooting was insane (G2 rooting was so easy a caveman could do it - same with s-off). This phone is the fastest one currently available imo, it has a hard keyboard, looks sexy, and numerous other things. The dev support so far has been excellent too. Stop your complaining, making a rom takes tons of time and you're not the devs whole world - believe it or not, they have jobs, families, need to eat, ****, drink, and get some sun. If you want something that bad then you make it. Learn the skills to do it yourself or stop *****ing. At the very least, ask nicely and maybe some one will do it. Have you even attempted to contribute anything to the G2 community other than farce complaints, idiot rants, and threads that make you sound like one of those whiney 12 year olds on call of duty?

To everyone else and the devs, keep up the good work. We love everything you do here. Some of you sacrifice a lot to mess with Android (Enomther) and we appreciate it more than you know but remember to take a break - we'll still be here when you return.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Gunlance:
Well said.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Carloswithac:
I just stick to what works. CM7 ftw!
[G2 and Desire Z General] DeoreDX:
There isn't a huge quantity of ROMs out there compares to some of the other phones but the ones available for the G2 have for the most part all been very high quality, stable, and work great. I'm not sure why you would want a ROM that would have a new version out every 2-3 days that do nothing than fix a bunch of bugs instead of having less but more stable and high quality ROMs.
[G2 and Desire Z General] amitks:
+1

and a shout out to the devs for the great work they have done. hear hear!
[G2 and Desire Z General] troby1986:
HTC makes high quality stuff. You would be insane to think otherwise.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Biffy:
I'm sorry but HTC don't make true high quality devices, they are just high quality compared to most other manufacturers.

A high quality device is something like a Thinkpad, or although I hate to say it an iPhone.

I've owned lots of HTC devices before and using Android have both the Desire and Desire Z. The Desire had to go back because of a faulty motherboard, but HTC were good at fixing it.

The Desire Z hasn't had to go back but the screen flickers on lowest brightness setting, doesn't maintain screen sensitivity when laid flat and has much poorer wifi than my Desire did (using latest radio). It also suffers from hand of death with how I hold the phone affecting the wifi signal greatly.

I still love it though thanks to the keyboard and XDA community improving the software. But it's only because of lack of competition that I have gone for the Desire Z.

Oh and the cameras are awful on almost all HTC devices afaik.

Also, look at their pathetic attempt at releasing an Android tablet. They are too focused on Sense and maximising profit by using older hardware imo. Even cutting out things like lanyard holes, probably to save a few cents.
[G2 and Desire Z General] enp82003:
I seen more Dead Iphones then any other phone out there, maybe that's because so many people own them. From setting houses on fire from exploding batteries to dead screen's apples hardware is no where near HQ sorry they are just not. They are just expensive people get confused by that. I have had 2 htc phones G1 and G2 the G1 i bought with a broken screen on ebay because i didn't have enough money for a new one. It worked fine even with cracks and till this day still works amazing even after being beat up by its last owner and used by me for about a year. My G2 is a beast that's all i really have to say :p
[G2 and Desire Z General] redpoint73:
Completely agree. Half the people I know with iPhones have had major hardware issues. My wife's 3GS has a improperly functioning GPS (she researched, and this is apparently a fairly common issue). A friend had an iPhone whose radio just stopped working one day (the store swapped her SIM into another one, and it worked fine, so definitely a hardware/software issue, and not a network issue). Another friend had the battery fail after about a year (and of course, the battery is not designed to be user replaceable).

HTC's quality control is not perfect, but show me a manufacturer that is. Their build quality is generally excellent, and much better than the plasticky junk a lot of other manufacturers are churning out.
[G2 and Desire Z General] Biffy:
OK I take back the comment about the iphone. I've never even used one and just assumed they must be higher quality because of their high cost and being so 'designed'.

I stand by thinkpads, but then they're not a phone lol. I didn't meant to slate HTC too badly, they're overall a good company but could do a bit better and then be great.
[G2 and Desire Z General] GhostZini:
yo biff, get off apples d@#$!!! iphones blow and my g2 is a perfect beast. wouldnt trade it for any other phone.

G2 meXdroid rom with ExtraHotSauce v0.2
[G2 and Desire Z General] redpoint73:
The cost of an iPhone is comparable to other smartphones with similar specs, when they are released (Apple just refuses to drop the price of the current model, only their "last generation"). So I don't follow the logic.
[G2 and Desire Z General] caseycreeper:
This is the most stupid thread ive ever seen ahhhh there are no other phones that can beat out the g2 imo. mytouch 4g sucks I just sold mine and there are even less roms for that thing! g2 is the king atleast til the dual cores come out! I love the design of this phone super sexy :p great keyboard, vanilla android, what more could you want?
[G2 and Desire Z General] bhang:
So true, viva HTC
[G2 and Desire Z General] dunbar28205:
Virtuous on my phone is smooth v 0.9.5,but cm has always been my favorite
[G2 and Desire Z General] dunbar28205:
I couldn't agree more
[G2 and Desire Z General] romdroid.:
i also found out that the keyboard is not for me, the loose hing is annoying me and now i am gonna sell it...no lose here, will probably get the 2x or SGS II
[G2 and Desire Z General] GhostZini:
G2 rocks tha house, your lose pal.

G2 with meXdroid GingerMex Habanero
[G2 and Desire Z General] romdroid.:
nah the keyboard annoys me and i dont need it, i thought it was hard to type with only touch but thats not a problem anymore

if anyone wants to buy desire z pm me
[G2 and Desire Z General] androidcues:
to the OP

Compared to the G1 -- the G2 comes nowhere near the volume and quantity of ROMS that were developed for the Dream. But you need to remember the G1 was THE phone for a long time and preceded the explosion in different phones. The more phones made, the more developers have to choose which phone to develop for. The G1 had so many dev's working on that phone at once. Since then the developer pool has grown, but the numbers and types of phones released has exploded that the dev pool gets spread thinly over an exploded platform.

But the Vision is a fine piece of shizzle. hTC is the BEST manufacturer. In car terms I would put hTC = BMW motorola = ford and samsung = Saturn. The attitude of Motorola pisses me off to no end I will never ever buy a moto device... theyre total assholes. hTC does lock down.. but its a game to them... they really want you to hack it... it just makes security stronger down the road for everyone.

Also... you have to kind of remember that CM has implemented so....many....settings...and....features into Froyo and Gingerbread -- that it is almost useless to even try to create an entirely different rom that is not based on CM source -- it can and will be done but there is less need to... because he's cornered the market on all the latest and greatest features. So why bother? Choice is nice... but why isnt anyone developing a non-CM based vanilla rom? Because they know that they will need to reinvent the wheel... think Plato's Parable of the Cave...

hTC Sense is nice... but nobody other than hTC can really perfect it because its locked down in proprietary code and theres little to no joy in reverse engineering that because it defeats the whole purpose of open source. Personally I dont like Sense because it is more geared towards the social hillbillies... friendstream facebook twitter etc... its too mushy and feels more like Im in a sterile hospital or ammonia riddled warehouse.

Now that Tmobile has joined the open-source game with its theme engine... that can only mean really good things....to come.

Remember.. the iphone... what you see is what you get. you cannot change anything and if you jailbreak it, you cant really change enough to warrant wasting your time jailbreaking it!
[G2 and Desire Z General] OoTLink:
The only thing I'd trade my G2 for is an iPhone if I could afford it. Go ahead, get mad. XD
[G2 and Desire Z General] mputtr:
If you're complaining about the hinge, do a quick check on the first page, there are several methods to "fix" this problem and they're not that hair raising.

the keyboard though, is a different story. that is a point of personal preference. If you want a new phone, I would suggest getting the atrix if you want to go keyboardless. My friend tested it out the other day and he was absolutely in love with it.

EDIT: forgot to mention, this friend of mine is an iphone user from day one. he's now very tempted to switch to android for the atrix.
[G2 and Desire Z General] TJBunch1228:
The Atrix? Yuck. If you are going to be stuck with att you should atleast get the htc inspire. Bigger screen, better camera, more support, better mfgr. Motorola sucks taint. The accesories for that phone are too expensive and don't work well enough yet. Dual core will be nice in about a year, but for now our single core phones and can do everything we need them to do.
[G2 and Desire Z General] mputtr:
Oh, I'm not saying the Atrix is the best or anything like that. I'm simply stating what my friend told me. I am in no way shape or form responsible for his comment :).

But I did get a chance to see one of my classmates use one, and it seems to be pretty amazing, but it's just an eyes on, not a hands on.
[G2 and Desire Z General] TJBunch1228:
I hear ya, I mean it is nice. Ffc and 1ghz, 5mp camera w led flash. It's honestly just annoying that they included motoblur. Motorola is bad enough about updates when their devices aren't dripping in proprietary bloatware.
[G2 and Desire Z General] mputtr:
oh motoblur how people hate it so much. I'm also not a fan of motoblur, but on the spec sheet, it is pretty awesome. but since i'm getting my desire Z, i could care less about it. I hate using a phone without a keyboard :P
[G2 and Desire Z General] tooter1:
I have been using Virtuous ROM 0.95 and, it has been great for me. Smooth, fast, responsive. It's great.

I even overclocked with a different kernel, still works great for me.
[G2 and Desire Z General] romdroid.:
if anyone wants to buy my htc desire z send me pm :)
[G2 and Desire Z General] jojo_16:
Just so u know there are some ROMs currently porting to our G2 right now some are liquid, miui and I saw one said 2.3 gbread sense ROM from Incredible

Fly like a G2
[G2 and Desire Z General] MajorTom_:
there's other great roms besides sense one. cyanogenmod and liquid metal are both awesome ones. in my opinion sense sucks but if you like it that's cool maybe in the future a better one will come out or virtuous will be improved on
[G2 and Desire Z General] Indysignz:
The G2 is a kick ass phone. If your really bored that quick then get another phone but personally I'll use mine for a while. I could care less about sense at this point but in the end whatever is gonna make you happy.
[G2 and Desire Z General] moblo:
To be perfectely honest, phones are very much down to personal preferance. It is unfair to say someone is stupid for not liking a phone, but it is also unfair to 'diss' a person for liking the phone. On this forum, the majority of people like the features and build of the desire z, and love the features provided my custom roms. I am one of these. I dont like the fact however, that a whole thread has been created to say a phone is crap, and for there to follow 6 pages of discussion. Everyone is entitled to a valid opinion.
[G2 and Desire Z General] jonathann0222:
Well there's alot of phones out there with a honeycom rom and the g2 can't seem to get one going.anyway g2 is just perfect.
[G2 and Desire Z General] tackleberry:
I have both the mt4g and the g2. Ill admit the g2 is favored for call quality, and its keyboard. Battery memory and screen are losers in comparison but are acceptable at best.

Sense....you can keep it. Really. I cannot stand overlays all it means is more resources. Sense is a coverup for the truly stupid that need eye candy. Android in stock for is simple enough... sense just puts all the dummy features on top for the dingbats. Some people just like the look of it. And thats fine but stock android rules all.

If the g2 had the mt4g screen, memory, and front camera and hardware keys it would be an unbeatable device.

From my permarooted 1209mhz G2 with CM7 nightly 6
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BeerChameleon:
Ok so i finally got my phone in an all working state after it crashing and being weird do to wifi tether and now i dont receive vm notification and my visual voicemail wont verify my account,

Any suggestions??

Thanks
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BeerChameleon:
Ok another question concerning this:

What system apk have to do with the voicemail settings maybe ill, uninstall thenreinstall?

Anyone?

Help??

Thanks
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d00kiejones:
Check the epic wiki for a list of the stock .apk's that may help you.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BeerChameleon:
i looked there and didnt see the voicemail one there...
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d00kiejones:
Search XDA for new voicemail .apk you should see it in general section .apk is on second page. I would also reccommend checking the bonsai page add ons. Please search for yourself from now on it only took me 2 mins to find it I read the whole wiki .apk list before I searched.

Google is your home boy for this kinda stuff.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BeerChameleon:
tried reinstalling it and still didnt work, hopefully its just the voicemail server is down or something and will work by tomorrow. :(
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d00kiejones:
My voicemail is good just downloaded one in fact so I dont think its the servers. (viperrom 4.0.3 EXT4 DK28) Have you tried doing hands free activation again?

(check the wiki for how to) Maybe stop the voicemail service before you uninstall and reinstall. Other than that app2sd and re-flash the rom.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BeerChameleon:
What's the code for activation? And will that erase my data if reactivate it.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d00kiejones:
Check the wiki I only search once per idiot.........
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] musclehead84:
Wow there dookie you've contributed alot with your 34 posts there. Amazing.

Sent from my Evo Killer!!!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BeerChameleon:
Lol thanks musclehead, I was going to comment on how much of a **** this Guy was being but I held back and just ignored his ****..

Sent From My Bonsai Epic 4g
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mictek:
I was having issues with my VM today as well. I didn't realize it until about an hour ago and rebooted. Working ok now.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fury15:
Visual voicemail is down nation wide for sprint right now... most devices have the issue some do not
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BeerChameleon:
Voicemail came back today... yay!!!!

Sent From My Bonsai Epic 4g
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dr_gibberish:
Thought this was just me, but I found a fix that seemed to get it back up and running:

1. Ok, open your voicemail program, it will likely show the "No voicemails" screen.

2. Hit Menu>compose then click in the "To" field at the top to bring up your keyboard.

3. Type this exactly: activate@vvm.sprint.com

4. Hit record, then hit stop.

5. Hit send.

Cant take credit for this, I found it on an Evo forum. Took a minute or so for the vm's to show up but they did.

By the way, I am running Nebula 1.07 and was having the same problem...
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BeerChameleon:
Ok good tip, but apparently the cm server was down and all is working great, however I will try this next time its down, also ill hit thanks for u once I'm at a computer..

Sent From My Bonsai Epic 4g
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dr_gibberish:
For some reason mine did not come back until I did this. Rebooted and everything and still vm did not come through.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BeerChameleon:
Mine fixed automatically weird...

Sent From My Bonsai Epic 4g
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] p3dr0maz:
Yeah i had the same thing happen after i flashed Bonsai and I went crazy blaming the ROM. Ended up just working after a bit on it's own. I never looked into it but i bet it was just issues on sprints network with the VM server. Keep getting E30 and E503 errors. Then they just went away on their own.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] bhloo:
Have been seeing some very nice ROM created by great chefs.... wonder if there is any created for TP2...
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] FeareX:
Can you show us examples?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] bhloo:
This kind of rom http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=562773 that can Read, Write and display chinese characters...:)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] jedah:
Have you tried flashing one of those roms, then installing the appropriate fonts and IMEs? I have Chinese working perfectly on my Tilt 2 on the ROM you linked to.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] bhloo:
Thanks

Can you please show me which ROM you have installed and whick fonts and IMEs you have installed that have worked perfectly on your Tilt2?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] z174522:
find Traditional Chinese ROM?tp2

Excuse me!!!

Where can i find Traditional Chinese ROM for Touch pro2 (Taiwan)

Rom 28244 sense2.5+cookie2.0

Thank you Sir

PS.Sorry my English is bad
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] jedah:
Sure, man.

ROM: Energy 28244 2/12 Dink

Font: sunglobe

IME:

ngn4's EZInput (basically the HTC IME)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=622054

The above setup is what I use now. If you have a Tilt2, you will need to use Tarkim's keyboard controller to remap the hard keyboard back to its stock setting after installing EZInput. Otherwise, you should be set.

I have also tried qq and sogou (formerly plumsip). Both work okay, but for qq, I couldn't figure out how to turn off Chinese; and I don't use sogou because it did not do traditional (or I couldn't figure out how).

Do a google search for the cabs above. You should be able to find them. If you can't find them, you can pm me.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] bhloo:
Thank you once again
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] opatim:
question:

can you just flash a ROM from say HTC Honk Kong? i have the offical ROM from the HTC HK site; will it work on a TMOUS TP2?
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] bhloo:
THank you

Thank you everybody for your great info... I tried the above recomendations and works great on my TP2. One issue is the memory on my device seems to run from initial 53mb down to around 20mb after awhile, anyway to prevent that from happening???:p
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] Wild Child:
That would be an issue with the rom you chose to flash, I would suggest using one that isnt full of bloatware and adding only what you need....The cab mentioned in the link above is for those who dont have a rom compatable or made for the Tilt 2....There are a few that were made specifically for the Tilt2 and no outside cabs for hardware are needed....Chinese language would be your only obstacle to overcome....

Regards,

WC
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] jedah:
You're welcome, dude. I can only take credit for pointing you the right direction. The real hero is the guy who made the cabs available for everyone.

As for RAM, the Chinese input does use up a little extra ram at initial boot, but definitely not 23 MB. At 53MB startup, it sounds like you're using one of Energy's Cookie Roms w/ the stalk start menu. Memory usage has been discussed to death in that thread. Do a search for memory or RAM, and you'll probably find several ways to save RAM. So far, the one that yields the highest results seems to be to replace the start menu. Also, consider using cleanRAM (you can probably find here in xda or in OpnMarket)
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] bhloo:
Thank you once again, I tried installing HTC Clean RAM but this ROM won't allow me to do that, any great RAM Cleaner software out there??
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] jedah:
That's strange. What ROM are you using? I didn't have any trouble installing it on an Energy ROM (or any other ROM). Is this the cleanRAM you were trying to install?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=514333

Some other ram cleaners include Ram Sweeper and Memmaid. I didn't use them much, so I can really only vouch for cleanRAM.
[Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile ROM Development] bhloo:
Yes this is the cleanRAM I installed but of different version, this one seems to work just fine, thank you once again....:)
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jamiegoldsworthy:
I was gonna post this in Development, but im a new user :p

Basically, I recently rooted, and s-off(ed?) my HTC Desire HD, and then proceeded to flash Android Revolution HD Rom to it.

How can I get a custom boot screen? I have an animation and stuff, but apparently I need Eng s-off? How can I get Eng s-off from my custom ROM?

Sorry for my noobishness :D

Cheers fo any help

Jamie
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Saluco:
i am new to but i think i can help..actualy is very easy....

First of all...if you didn't allready did this, instal Rom Manager from the market and flash ClockWorkMod Recovery

second...from the Android Revolution page

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=840040

just under the Themes are the "Extras" and in the extras sections, first ones are the "boot animations" (you actualy have some screenshoots there, and this is the link to download the first one

https://www.dropbox.com/s/qlrf5p3hw1dwr7h/bootanimation.zip )

download the "*.*.zip" files and put them on the SD card

after that ...reboobt on the recovery mod and choose from the menu...to install the specific ZIP file..flash it, reboot

and thats all :)
[Desire HD Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jamiegoldsworthy:
Sorry, don't know if I was very clear on my first post :P

I have already got bootanimations, and was looking to do a splash screen (the bit before the animation) but need a way of getting ENG S-OFF from a custom ROM.

Thanks for teyna help anyway :D