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[Atrix 4G General] s.m.knipe:
That's how I feel as well, although I do prefer "vanilla" over all...
[Atrix 4G General] PixoNova:
I can see why some people might prefer the vanilla/stock android experience. But I always hear how Blur can be laggy on phones and such. I haven't experienced any lag (Moto FlipSide)

I do kind-of like Sense. Only if it's on a nice sized screen, unlike the Aria. But I most likely will be keeping Blur, as I like all the widgets available.
[Atrix 4G General] owenbeals:
YES!!!!
[Atrix 4G General] nkd:
I have tried droid x. Blur sucks. Even with the latest update the system was laggy. However it will work great sometimes but had sudden lags in launching browser. Sometimes it would hang and take a few seconds to go back to home screen. I returned it and will be getting thunderbolt when it comes out. I went back to att for 2-3 weeks until thunderbolt comes out. i will be porting my number back if I decide to get thunderbolt. I like htc sense specially the newest version that is in the inspire 4g and will be on the thunderbolt as well. It is snappy as hell. It might have to do with the second gen snapdragon processor.
[Atrix 4G General] johnnydeathmatch:
I haven't used it yet, but the only thing I can see hating about it is the contact button (along with only having a three icon dock, but I could deal with that). Why the hell does there need to be a contact button? If you open the phone app you can go to your contacts right from there. I'd much rather see messaging or the browser. Some kind of central messaging app that pulled in all of one's SMS, emails, facebook, twitter, etc would be cool, I suppose. Better than contacts, at least.
[Atrix 4G General] beazie0885:
That's a damn good idea a centralized notification button... But I guess it would have a big similarity to the notification bar tho. Still think that's a good idea tho
[Atrix 4G General] dbam987:
At first I was OK with blur but once you try out other options like Launcher Pro or ADW you might change your mind. Granted, Blur does have decent widgets to supplement it but it left me wanting more.

Now I'm using Launcher Pro + Beautiful Widgets and am loving it.
[Atrix 4G General] thunderpack:
Blur contacts works differently than standard android contacts, as it integrates with the social networking. I'd give more detail, but I haven't touched my backflip in a month and haven't had it on a stock ROM since ~november so I don't remember all the specifics. (Used a "deblurred" ROM someone at M3 cooked up till I got a free Aria)

The messaging app does provide a universal inbox. the one one my backflip would pull everything but my gmail into it, and I'm sure I could have set it up so that it pulled that too.
[Atrix 4G General] opensourcefan:
Okay please state why you like Blur better. I've never used it but am trying to keep an open mind. I just love Sense and as of now am not sure I can function without it so lets hear it. Obviously it's a personal thing but is there anything in particular...?
[Atrix 4G General] shapiro1234567890:
lol

yes you are
[Atrix 4G General] sdlopez83:
looks so simple and ****ty
[Atrix 4G General] PixoNova:
Pretty much the style. I don't hate Sense, like I said, it comes second IMO. Overall, through general usage, that's how I determine if I like it or not.
[Atrix 4G General] LockeCPM4:
As far as moto blur is concerned, IMO it works just fine as a launcher.

So here are the Pros and Cons as I see them

Pro

Simple Layout

Decent Widgets

Unified inbox

Motoblur.com (find my phone, contacts back and edit, remote wipe etc...)

Cons

Does not have a polished look or feel like stock or Sense

I feel like it was an interface designed for teens

Cannot customize the shortcuts on the launch bar

Only 3 shortcuts on the launch bar

Occasional lag when launching apps (this could be that I have only used blur on low-end to mid-level android phones)

No option to bypass motoblur account setup

Overall, it comes down to personal preference and how you feel about it. You won't know until you try it. So far, I have used launcher pro on every android phone I have ever owned, but I always started with the out of box experience before I made the switch each time. I like that LP is customizable, and fast, and you can make just about any device look similar to stock/vanilla android id you want. The only problem with LP is that when I tried it on the Inspire 4G it disabled all of the kick butt HTC widgets, but there are alternatives such as Beautiful Widgets.

My nervousness falls around the screen resolution. I tried Laucnher Pro on my galaxy tab. and it didn't look right with that screen resolution. The resolution on the tab is high enough to have 5 shortcuts on the home screen side by side, and LP only has 4 so things looked oddly proportioned and stretched...
[Atrix 4G General] alphadog00:
Blur itself has some good features - namely remote wipe and the news widgets that you can set to sync over wifi only - if you want.

If you are really into account integration you get to mix them all into one interface...

twitter, myspace, facebook, photobucket, linkedin, picasa, etc.

I prefer to just use the apps for these products and not do the MotoBlur integration - and you can do this - just don't set them up in MotoBlur. If you don't use Motoblur widgets, then you never really see MotoBlur. Change the launcher to ADW and you are done.

Compared to the captivate and Touchwiz, Motoblur is a lot less intrusive. Calendar, Contacts and Email work the way they are supposed - and are easy to use. I bought my captivate for specs, but the software mods on calendar and email suck.

The only MotoBlur thing you can't turn off is the sync of contacts and settings that are done on the phone. So if you create a new contact on the phone it is also created on the Blur server as backup - you can't turn this off.

On the good side, if you wipe your phone and you have to set it up from scratch, using the same blur account, it recreates most of your settings and widgets and email accounts.

As for Lag - people complain about it, but I have had Droid X and Bravo and they run fine. But, again, i only use the news widget and no social network accounts.
[Atrix 4G General] stoli412:
Exactly! The great thing about Motoblur is that if you don't like it, you can turn it off almost completely. You don't have to set up your social network accounts, you can install an alternative launcher, etc.

This why I dislike Sense (and most other custom UIs): they make so many modifications that are so deeply integrated that you can't get away from them unless you install a custom ROM. If you like them, that's great. But if you don't, you have to go to a lot of trouble to not use them. Motoblur generally let's you use it as much or as little as you want.
[Atrix 4G General] BlackOtaku:
Another one of the 'Blur-likers' here. Be quiet about it, lest we get burned at the stake!

For me, it's a lot less intrusive than Sense or Touchwiz. And I have never liked the look of Sense.
[Atrix 4G General] dunn32:
I like Blur.... I think.

the only time I've had it was on my Cliq. And since the cliq only had a 512mhz processer Blur really slowed it down. But the functionality was nice. Especially the widgets.

I think with the AWESOME specs the Atrix has Blur will be usable.
[Atrix 4G General] TheBassman369:
My friend has a Droid X and it lags horribly even just when scrolling home screens. It's the only UI that was laggier than TouchWiz. If I get an Atrix my first app to install will be ADW EX.
[Atrix 4G General] MeX_DK:
1: Launcher Pro

2: HTC Sense

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10: All the others >_>
[Atrix 4G General] MeX_DK:
Thats not true. I have the HTC Desire with Sense, and I install and use Launcher Pro and I dont see any sense stuff anywhere so that argument is moot

You can change the settings of LP so that it allows 5 shortcuts, I am pretty sure of it. Just not sure you are wanting them. Because I have 5 shortcuts in the bar at the bottom. And I know it supports the options of allowing 5 shortcuts in width on the actual main screen.

The option is at: Preferences - Home screen Settings.

Number of Coloums would be the "height" and number of rows would be the width. This way you can either have more widgets/shortcuts pr screen or just stretch your widgets to take up all the slack...

Ehm, the Android OS does this by standard. My HTC Desire syncs all my contacts etc to my Google account. Meaning that if my phone needs to be reset, then it will restore all my contacts from Google the second I add the account to the phone. So this is not a MotoBlur only feature, but on the HTC Desire you have the choice to turn it off ;)
[Atrix 4G General] stoli412:
It's very true. Aside from the launcher, Sense drastically alters the experience of just about every core app of the phone: Contacts, Dialer, Email, Calendar, Gallery, SMS. If you happen to like Sense, that's great. If you don't, then you have to find replacements for all of those apps or install a custom ROM.

I'm just saying that with Motoblur, it's a great deal closer to the stock Android experience. Take away the launcher and the widgets, and it's a pretty stock experience otherwise. The only big changes are to Contacts to integrate social networking (but only if you choose to), and to SMS to make it look more like iOS chat bubbles (which I think are pretty ugly).

I don't want to start a UI war. Everyone will have their personal preferences. I'm just saying the Motoblur gives you a bit more flexibility to use it as much or as little as you want. It was laggy in the past. Hopefully the new version coupled with a faster processor has cleared that up.
[Atrix 4G General] MeX_DK:
Well I actually like the fact that Facebook actually integrates with my contacts in that I get their email, phone number etc under one "Contact" as well as their profile picture :)

But thats it really. I have gotten rid of HTC Mail, And is slowly removing most of their other stuff :P
[Atrix 4G General] Mr.Kakarot:
Hmm, I like sense and some people are saying its better then that? I'll like it, lol.
[Atrix 4G General] DumIam:
I used Blur on my old Backflip, and personally liked the fact that I could use as little as I liked. TouchWiz was the first thing I ditched on my Captivate. Didn't like it in the least. I like the flexibility offered by LauncherPro. The Backflip was laggy anyway, so I don't know if Blur made much of a difference any how.
[Atrix 4G General] BlackOtaku:
Fix'd. +10char :p
[Atrix 4G General] scaronscar:
Yep gave it five minutes and then put launcher pro plus on my atrix today
[Atrix 4G General] supraman89:
No you are not the only one, i had the motorola cliq and i loved it, but i hated the lag that the slow processor had, i upgraded to the vibrant and im one of the very few that like touchwiz, i love HTC sense. I am probably the only one that hates stock android, i like android but the stock experience seems to dull, nothing to really get your attention.
[Atrix 4G General] snlu178:
Normally the Facebook and Twitter apps do this natively on Android. MotoBlur actually breaks this and replaces it with their version which also removes the setting to sync only a few Facebook contacts versus all. It is actually a worse service.
[Atrix 4G General] illini71:
Im a fan of blur also. I like the news feeds, and contact widgets. I dont know why all the hate either.
[Atrix 4G General] shanghei:
yes you are the only one
[Atrix 4G General] illini71:
What do people hate about blur? I have noticed using launcherPro widgets are a drag on the battery. Blur widgets are great on the battery. JMHO
[Atrix 4G General] Man_of_Leisure:
I like blur. I've tried launcher pro but I'm not a fan of the tiny dock icons. I like to run my phone with one hand, and they're too tiny to thumb select. I try it again every few days who knows maybe it'll stick :)
[Atrix 4G General] eatkabab:
yes you actually are
[Atrix 4G General] resin99:
I like blur. The atrix is my first blur phone and the widgets are cool, along with the vanilla dialer. Same as everyone I'd like the ability to change the bottom buttons. Seems the widgets are available in launcher pro but they don't all display correctly. Beats sense in that aspect at least, since its widgets only appear with the stock launcher.
[Atrix 4G General] Beach_Head:
You're not. I love Blur! It's too bad that Motorola doesn't want to update the features that it provides...
[Atrix 4G General] yokozuna82:
I don't know I like it sure it slows down the system just a little bit ....this phone is perfect for me in every way has the speed, great sound, great gps , camera with flash and front facing camera, led notification, led buttons stay on asking as the phone is on unlike the captivate finger print verification the only thing is when typing the system is not that sensitive but I can live with that.

Htc 8525

Htc8925

Moto q9h

Htc fuze

Bold 9000

Moto backflip

Torch 9800

Captivate

All had something I didn't like about them
[Atrix 4G General] irenic:
I just wonder why my motoblur doesnt want to sync facebook or twitter account..

is there any step or setting to make social networking works?

for now I have to install separate apps like facebook and twitter which means Motoblur is useless for me.. :(
[Atrix 4G General] snlu178:
I was talking with a friend and realized the issue with MotoBlur.

Its not the widgets or the launcher. Those are fine and can be used rather than the normal Beautiful Widgets or Fancy Widget I would put on my phone.

What makes MotoBlur the worst thing ever on a phone is what they do to the menu system and settings. MotoBlur Accounts feels like it was designed in 1998 for a bad corporate backend. The moving of stock settings to strange places also confuses me.

Coming from Vanilla Android on the N1, I promise you MotoBlur is making Android far less functional than stock. And that is why I hate MotoBlur with a passion.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aago1254:
We need to get the ball rolling again by the looks of whats going on with cricket they are discontinuing the phone.. This means no update will be available to the zio cricket users. Cricket dooped us to thinking a rom update would be available to clear out all the inventory of the zio. This way they can make more room for new phones they dont have to pay to upgrade.

i know we as a community had successfully had a sprint 2.1 rom on the 1.6 cricket phone. i know there are compatibilities that are not the same but the phone is doomed to 1.6 and by the looks of how cricket is playing this they keep saying dates so they can keep the customers from returning the phones. so now we are stuck with a phone without any updates and now wasted our cash on a phone that could have been so much better.

The sad thing is the cricket users were the ones burnt here not cricket. lets get the project rolling again thanks.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mattpedigo:
I agree. I'm not into the technical aspects *yet* but I am willing to experiment.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Spz0:
Looks like someone bought a Jump to Conclusions mat...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deen347:
sanyo-zio

I was not wanting to hear about cricket discontinuing the Sanyo zio, but not suprised. Gonna need tips on creating phone space for more apps, currently running froyo update n loving it.
[Off-topic] abprie:
ok guys,

actually, this is not really off-topic following the line "Anything not related to the phones."

my story is, that i started with my father's mda III (back than, that was something fancy for me, switching from a lg black chocolate - yes, windows mobile 6.1, flashing included). later, I bought a touch pro 2 (as the mda III was really kind of slow and had no physical keyboard) and now am running a desire z (nice phone btw).

my idea was to sell the tp2, after buying the DZ, however that didn't seem to be such a good idea. the device is about one year old, in good shape and the original price was about 500€ (something around $550?) in the beginning of last year. now, ebay will yield around 200€ (~$240).

looking at the economical situation (sorry to go into such "depth"), i noticed, that many people around me are not that much well provided from their jobs (sorry - don't know how to say the words properly), though @ebay i won't find "good" prices for the tp2 (imho, the tp2 is till a good phone, though a drop of more than half the price is a really big one within one year). contrarily, looking at the signatures, many members show there history of owning devices, which is not that short, actually. so I am wondering, where the money goes... where's the issue on that one - many people having lesser money, though not selling their devices and yet letting the selling values drop...

what do you think? am I wrong about this one...?
[Off-topic] avgjoegeek:
There like computers...they drop there value fast due to the speed of newer/better devices always coming out.
[Off-topic] souljaboy:
yeah , they really should just make One really good phone and never again after ... it would have plenty of software and not loose price !
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tailsthecat3:
I cant seem to find any information about broadcasting video to the web from the qik video app.

How do we broadcast to the web and how do i know what addy to send my viewers to to view my live broadcasting video?

thank you thank you
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tailsthecat3:
looks like it could be qik.com/username

can anyone confirm if this is where people can view live streams??

thank you
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lehalter:
Not much help here. Why not try to set up an account and try it. When you figure it out, come back and teach us.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] swyecso:
*edit

Didn't mean to open a new thead sorry haven't posted too much from the xda app before

Please close this thread
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] scariola:
Ask in the q & a forum. This is for roms.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VeryCoolAlan:
So is this processor better than tegra2?

Anyone have knowledge for this against Hummingbird

Will i be able to overclock or will only 95% be able or the other 5% not like me and my galaxy s vibrant.

Sorry for asking this on wrong forum?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] geoffcorey:
Are there any production samples of the Orion or exynos yet? You need those first to be able to get that specific of info.
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oka1:
Here is the specs along with a pix of the layout

Network

HSPA+ 21Mbps/ HSUPA 5.76Mbps

EDGE/ GPRS Class 12

Quad band GSM 850/900/1800/1900

Quad band UMTS 850/900/1900/2100

Application Processor (SoC)

Samsung Dual Core Application Processor*

Exynos 4210 Dual-Core Cortex A9 CPU @ 1Ghz with Quad-Core Mali-400MP4 GPU

Dimensions

125.3X66.1X8.49mm

Display

4.3″ WVGA SUPER AMOLED Plus

Memory

1GB RAM, 16GB/32GB

MicroSD (up to 32GB)

Camera

8MP AF with LED Flash + 2MP Front

Connectivity

Wi-Fi a/b/g/n

BT v3.0+HS

USB 2.0 OTG

Connectors

MicroUSB, 3.5mm Ear Jack

Battery

1650mAh

OS

Android OS Gingerbread

Message

SMS/MMS (OMA v1.2)

Email (POP3/IMAP/SMTP, SSL/TLS)

Exchange ActiveSync Email

Audio

MP3, OGG, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+, AMR-NB

AMR-WB, WMA, WAV, MID, AC3, IMY, FLAC, XMF

Video

MPEG4, H.264, H.263, WMV, DivX, Xvid, VC-1

Recording & Playback 1080@30fps

Image

JPEG, PNG, GIF, WBMP, BMP, AGIF

GPS

A-GPS

Sensors

G-Sensor, Digital Compass, Gyroscope, NFC, Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor

Convergence

Easy Set-up (WPS PIN/PBC, Wi-Fi Direct)

AllShare (DLNA1.5)

4 Hubs

Social Hub / Readers Hub /

Music Hub / Game Hub

Others

TouchWiz

Google Mobile Services

Voice Recognition and Translation

Samsung Kies 2.0, Samsung Kies air
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rakeshchn:
No HDMI out?
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VeryCoolAlan:
Im already saving money for it. Im gonna buy the european one
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ucantak3dis:
ok so let me get this straight, its got a dual core cpu and a quad core gpu? hmm thats and interesting turn out
[Vibrant Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arkasai:
Lack of HDMI does stand out...it'd be neat to find out they did something with wireless display, like that 60Ghz spec + wi-fi direct or something. Things might change between now and release.
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pirates Revenge:
I have the US locked Streak running 1.6 . I paid full price and never activated the AT&T sim. I only use wifi. I am getting ready to update to one of the 2.2 roms here, probably Steves. I have seen some posts that lead me to believe there may be some problems with the wifi. Am I wrong about this. Sure hope so.
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marvin02:
I had WiFi issues with 1.7.0 and there have been other reports of WiFi problems.

I went back to 318 with the perfmod installed and it works with no issues.

YMMV and lots of people don't have any problems with 1.7.0.
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fone_fanatic:
On Dj_steve's 1.7.0 and no issues with wifi. i think if you do "volboost" in the install.txt you might have issues (as i did with one of the betas) and steve explained that volboost uses an old/bad kernel. So don't know if that was only in the beta or not but i use wifi all the time to tether my laptop to my streak (as i'm doing right now actually)
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rptw:
which kernel are you on fone_fanatic? im having wifi problems when switching between data and wifi, i need to reboot everytime i switch connection types. im currently using 2.6.39.9-DJ-Steve-BFS-CFQ-KG2L2D-Vol-OC but i didnt select volboost when i installed 1.7, i did have it on 1.6.0 though and i didnt factory reset when going to 1.7
[Streak 5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chunkd:
having the same issue as rptw...
[Captivate Android Development] chuby007:
Hi Guys I'm planning to make a small software to make installing a rom easier than it is right now, ( gonnna make it easier to do the first steps, you know, after you flash back to stock to root it then to CWM , etc ) just make things a tad easier.

Of course the program will be free, the only thing I do not know is if it is worth it, Meaning that if people will use it or everyone finds flashing a rom so easy that a program to make it even easier would not be used by anyone.

So if I make this it will be a windows program, I just want to know how many would actually be interested, if noone is interested I won't waste my time... so please any feeback is apprecialoved !!
[Captivate Android Development] wonner:
Something like this? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=944418
[Captivate Android Development] bugity:
It could not be easier already, i have an update.zip that flashes clockwork straight from the stock recovery allowing a rom to be flashed without even having to boot the stock os. I think its common knowlege and available but if not i would be happy to share it.
[Captivate Android Development] opcow:
I'm not sure how it could be any easier.

copy the ROM to the sdcard

reboot to recovery

install

reboot

I suppose if your app adb pushes the ROM and then sends the adb reboot recovery command it might make it slightly easier.
[Captivate Android Development] chuby007:
Ok I see there's a program that already helps new people, so maybe this is not required, thanks for the feedback, ttfn
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dunemessiah:
Trying to backup my stock rom before flashing another, but I can't seem to make it past the beginning of backup in clockworkmod. It goes to "Backing up system..." and then the file it's backing up and just stops.

The phone isn't frozen because it responds when I press the power button, but it seems to be just stuck on the early stages of backing up.

I have almost 5 gb left in my sd card and I'm running clockwork 3.0.0.5. Any ideas?
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] remy2501:
i've been getting some weird **** like that since going to 3.0.0.5 .. id freezes on some stuff like wiping data and dalvik.. and had the backup freeze too..
[Droid Incredible Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dunemessiah:
I'm trying to downgrade back to the previous version.. will report back if it's better