[HD2 Android SD Development] shamez23:
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I never had that, but then again I never used the latest build but one 2months old.

I've read about the sound problem several times now, so you don't seem to bee the only one. It's not everyone though.

I've used ACA ever since it was available and its predecessor aswell. That means I've updated many times. All versions had one or more issues, after all it's a work in progress and the HD2 is a winmo phone that never was meant to run Android. So far so good. But aside from those issues that happened to everyone, I sometimes had bigger problems going as far as the phone not beeing usable due to constant FC's of all sorts or not booting up at all. Doing a fresh install, sometimes 2-3 times in a row, always helped. It seems to me, that the installation process is a very delicate thing. If there's one little thing amiss, it will lead to problems.

I know that's not solving anything but that's my experience.

And it goes for all problems you might have, so I won't repeat that every single time.

If something doesn't work, try a clean install and I mean clean. Format the SD card, install the build, nothing else on your SD but the Android folder. Let it create a new data.img, don't use the old one. Check if your problem is still there. If not, something was wrong with your last install or your old image.

You can try to use your old image after that little test to determine if it was the image. But if you do that, you won't find out if it's one of the apps you used or something that happened during creation of the image file. Still worth a try.

If the old image brings back the problem, erase it, use the fresh one you created and restore your files using a backup tool like titanium backup. If that again brings back the problem, it's one of the apps, that is causing it.

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I don't think I ever owned a device be it a phone, a walkman, discman, radio, stereo, whatever device that plays audio, that had a clear sound at full volume. There is always distortion if you go to the limit.

Can't help you with that.

3

When you are in a call, the volume rocker will work for the call volume, when you are listening to media, the rocker will change the volume of the media you are listening to. I never tried if you can change the volume of the ringing sound, when your phone is ringing.

There is no tab like you are used to in winmo. It's not winmo, it's Android. iOS might do it differently again. Different systems, different philosophies.

You can go to settings and preset a lot of things and there are also apps and widgets that make it easier or faster to reach those settings, some of them giving you the chance to set up profiles. Some of those even work with your gps, using predefined profiles in certain areas, like going to silent when youare at work, etc. The possibilities are almost limitless but you have to try that yourself. I can't help you with that, aside from telling you, that I don't know of any way to make Android act like winmo. But then again, that would be stupid. If you want winmo, use winmo and not Android.

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That's something that I experiened before myself. I think I solved it by changing the CPU frequencies. But I'm not sure anymore. Either it was that or a fresh install.

You can use setcpu to do that or go to settings->cyanogenmod. Somewhere in there you can tell your phone what you want the lowest CPU frequency to be and also determine the way it will step those frequencies. Try different governors. Maybe the one that is preset scales the frequency too low while you listen to music.

And you can also try different music apps. I prefer winamp.

One advice to save battery. Always go back to the homescreens before you send your phone into standby. Never leave the app open or your phone won't go into real standby and drain your battery. That goes for all apps.

5

data connection is more or less flaky with all Android builds. Not much you can do there. If you really need full coverage all the time, use winmo or buy a new phone.

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Jap, probably the way you use your phone. Although there may be other issues. Some people get a constant drain of 60mA in standby. Use current widget from market to check if that happens to you, too. There are several reasons that can cause that. Come back here, if you have 60mA drain and we'll see if we can help it.

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Had that before, but not all the time. Don't know the reason for that.

But you should try not to use the hardware buttons all the time, especially the "End Call" button. If you do, you might brake it. Not the button itself but there seems to be a design flaw. There have been quite a few users that broke there digitizer that way. The touchscreen won't respond anymore if that happens.

You can use any button to end standby. Then there is also an option in the cyynogenmod settings, that is called tablet tweaks. Check them out. You can use them to get software buttons, so you won't have to use the hardware buttons all the time.

You can also use them to get the statusbar down to the bottom of the screen insted of having it on top.

Takes some getting used to but it will make it easier to handle the phone. You'll be able to slide up the statusbar with your thump, without having to use two hands or screwing up your fingers to reach it.

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You could try using a boot manager. That way your phone will boot into Android without you having to do anything and it may also be fast enough to do that, before winmo downloads the waiting message.

If you don't want to use a bootmanager, activate flight mode in winmo before you shut down your phone. No connection, no received message, no blinking LED.

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The random starts and stops probably result in your flaky data connection. You lose the connection, skype goes offline. You get your connetcion back, it goes online again.

I hate skype. I hate all apps that can't be shut down by the user. I can accept the Android inbuild Apps, like the market to be active all the time although I don't hink that is necessary either, but 3rd party apps ? No way. Skype didn't use to do that but then they decided to update it and ever since skype can't be turned off. You can kill it with a task manager manually and it will still come back.

I erased it.

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As I've said, I've been with this build from the start and this is not the only forum I'm active in.

There are people using forums that are just too lazy to find things out for themselves. And then there are people that are new to forums and just don't know better.

That doesn't mean that it's ok to assume that the "nerds" here, that have been born with all answers to all questions and have nothing else to do but give their knowledge for free, beeing available all the time, will pamper you and be gladly of service to fulfill all your needs and wishes.

The 42 hours you are not willing to spend on reading every page of this thread? I spend that time and more. I was new to all this once, too.

I know which questions have been repeated again and again. Sometimes the same question comes up 2 or even 3 times on the same page because some users can't even read the last couple of posts that have been made. They didn't use the search function, they haven't tried to solve the problem themselves.

Hell, some don't even read the first page.

I don't mind if you don't want to read the whole thread. You at least make the effort to solve your problems yourself. I'm willing to help users that do that, users that show a little commitment but some users just blunder in like this is some take-what-you-want-and-ask-for-more-it's-free- wonderland. It is not.

Do you think the devs of this thread, that have spend countless hours on this build, in their spare time, for free, aswell as beeing on the forum, helping users, answering questions, wrote down all the information you can find on the first page for fun?

This is xda. The stuff you can find here is mostly about flashing phones and other things that void the warranty and can brick your phone into oblivion.

One should think it would be prudent to at least read the first post with the instructions and warnings of the devs before even thinking about doing anything else.

Well, some users don't and they expect the nerds to help them out, when they get in trouble because of their recklessness. I don't support that kind of behaviour by taking such users by the hand.

Spaqin took the time to answer and pointed the user in the right direction. What else do you expect? He wasn't rude at all, although the user that had asked could have solved the problem easily by using the search function.

But that answer wasn't enough and instead of using the clues that were given, he asked Spaqin to give a step by step guide.

The user wasn't waiting for someone else to give a better answer, no he asked straight away for a guide.

Spaquin wasn't willing to do that and replied appropriately, telling the user that he wouldn't give step by step directions and that he should at least do a little work himself. What's wrong with that?

And language. I'm not an english native speaker myself. I manage to get by.

I don't speak french, so I'm not in a french speaking forum, or japanese or chinese. I'm sure there are formidable forums and sources to be found on the net in those languages. I can't use them and I don't try.

I use the sources I can find in the languages I understand. Language is not an excuse for laziness or stupidity.

You don't need correct grammar or fancy words to make yourself understood. Here it doesn't matter if you have shakespears skills. No one wants you to write a Pulitzer prize winning essay. It's the content of the question that is important. How you react to other people and interact with them.

No one gets mad at you if your spelling wasn't correct. Hell, most users that are willing to help don't even mind if they have to ask back to clarify things.

But most users understandably react in a bad way, when they feel that they are beeing used.

The people that make this forum feel that way too, hence the 10 post limit and other stuff they introduced lately to keep "spam posts" at bay.

This is a forum for advanced users. That doesn't mean that newbies aren't welcome but they should at least make an effort to obey the rules. Not only the rules of the forum but those of common sense.

If all you can do is ask why? why? why? over and over again, you're in the wrong place. That's why children go to kindergarten and later school. You don't find them in advanced science laboratories or in executives chairs in a meeting room.

Have a look at this:

http://www.youtube.com/user/xdadevelopers#p/u/48/JmvCpR45LKA

I don't want to start a war her. I wrote this just to clarify my point of view.

I can see, that you think differently. So I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on this.