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[Windows Phone 7 General] emigrating:
I highly doubt your scenario applies to doministry as he's in Europe where they have highly subsidised healthcare - I also very much doubt he's old enough to have kids ;) Point taken though. Although I would argue that if you have kids (or a wife or any other family member) with serious health issues your best bet would be to use a USB stick anyway, not just because you can't easily get the information onto your phone but also because you are more likely to misplace or have your phone stolen and it's way easier to get a random healthcare person attaching an innocent looking USB key to their computer rather than your smartphone. I just think a lot of the people who are up in arms about no mass-storage support are doing so because they're used to it from WM or Android, not because there are no alternatives available.

Open wifi, even completely free from a random provider with "I will steal your money" as a SSID wouldn't stop me from using it. If all I'm doing is some web browsing while waiting for my burger I could care less who snoops my traffic, if I'm doing something that I wish to be secure I will go over SSL (I know, it's still not 100% secure - but what is?) or even an encrypted VPN connection on the computer. That said, Microsoft obviously needs to start supporting VPN connections and a whole host of other issues.

I've never said it doesn't - if you look at my post history you'll find that I have very openly voiced my opinions on said shortcomings. The point here is that my comments you took offence to were clearly aimed at a business user - there was no discussion of consumers at all. As a business user you can have full access to your documents.

But you are - everything I have said about Sharepoint was aimed directly at the previous poster who said he was mainly a business user and then went ahead and listed no mass-storage as a reason not to go with WP7. I've never said to store your personal documents on the corporate SP server.

I haven't given any indication on whether the OP should or should not go with WP7 - I said I have friends who's made the same move he was considering and they are completely happy, I further went on to say that in the end he [OP] is the only one who can really answer the question.
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
I vote go for it. As long as you use the things WP7 offers, you will be a happy camper. Stuff like the browser and the people hub are a real pleasure....the browser especially. The keyboard is second to none...the best there is. The whole system is pure luxurious refinement. WP7 has a few bugs right now, but updates should exterminate them.

And for the record, I vote the HD7.
[Windows Phone 7 General] Jim Chapman:
Not sure that's quite fair: the procedure for side-loading MOBI books onto your Kindle account is pretty standard practice, and it works for the WP7 Kindle app, just the same as it works with regular Kindle.

As for LIT, I'm afraid it's basically a dead format, but you can use Calibre to re-code it into MOBI (for the Amazon reader) or EPUB (for other reader programs such as ABookReader or Freda). Did you try either of these?
[Windows Phone 7 General] hboos:
I think most of you are forgetting one big important factor:

Just now is the worst time to buy a new phone. The next-gen devices for both iOS and Android are coming out in a few months but the current gen are still full price!

OP, keep your iphone 4 which is still a very good device and given that you have been using it well and it seems to fit very well with your user profile save for zune pass (don't sell your zune yet) it makes sense to wait for the next gen devices.

Then you have 2 options after comparing the competition

1. decide to get the WP7 which will have old hardware compared to the competition and therefore should be a little cheaper

2. decide to get the better hardware.

If you can't be bothered waiting that long, I would suggest at least waiting until the WP7 update (the first one) is rolled out so that you don't have the hassle of waiting to see if your carrier has indeed blocked it for one cycle...

But I would warn that sat nav isnt available in most WP7 devices and storage is still relatively limited unless you want to tinker with the device.

So don't jump ship yet!
[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
After using my HD7 for most of the day.

My Vibrant is dead to me.
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
You see, WP7 experience is kinda strong.

Really satisfying.
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
I thought you already got rid of your HD2? Congrats on the HD7! It's a sweet one!

BTW...wait until the screen breaks-in. Using an AMOLED won't mean so much then.
[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
Had 2 HD2's.

2 people on family plan here, we usually get the same phones.

@ Others before you: My negative comments about negative aspects of the OS never had anything to do with me preferring one OS over another. I'm as OS-agnostic as it'll get. I just have my opinions and dissenting opinions doesn't make you a hater or an iOS/Android fanboi. I have been saying for months that I've been spending a lot of time in T-Mobile Corporate Stores and was going to get an HD7 - Use search and see :P

This is why it's hillarious when I get plummeled by people who think I'm just here trying to troll WP7 because I'm some random Android fan.
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
Need to give you a heads up about cleaning the screen of the HD7. I believe particulates can get under the screen at the top and bottom of the glass plate, where the mesh pieces are. Because of this, be careful about wiping the glass. Use a sideways wipe and try to stay away from, or use less force on, the top and bottom areas.

One of the faulty HD7s I returned had particulates under the plate, on top of the LCD.
[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
Yea, I'm gonna look for a case for it soon. I use a cleaning cloth to clean my screens.
[Windows Phone 7 General] mKTank:
Oh, so you're one of those people who prefer their music sounding bloated and unlike what the artist meant for it to sound like. Should have just told me. EDIT: Just read through the rest of the thread. So the Quantum is to blame, eh?

Also, I ditched my iPhone 4 for a Samsung Focus before I made that post. Yeah, I'm a hater alright. :cool:
[Windows Phone 7 General] manlisten:
I felt the same way about my Captivate after picking up my HD7, but I'm honestly starting to miss Android a bit. :o WP7 is great but my inner-geek misses tinkering with my phone. :D

Agreed. I criticized the screen myself when I first bought it but it's actually quite good. Not sure if it's my eyes adjusting or what but it is delightful now.
[Windows Phone 7 General] intruda119:
Same here buddy.

It got to the point of modding my phone everyday was not fun anymore. Either fixing dev mistakes or samsungs just got boring eventually. I truly believe that android is the new windows 6.5 where oem are messing up a great device. It was fun and ill probably be back but I told myself I needed 3 months of change.

Been using my hd7 for 3 days now and Im only missing the screen and my desktop remote program.
[Windows Phone 7 General] brummiesteven:
Just to add the Sound Quality of the Samsung Omnia (and presumably the Focus too) is quite disappointing in comparison to the Zune HD and HD7.

(Before anyone suggests I have beats, so the earphones aren't the problem).
[Windows Phone 7 General] doministry:
I must say LG Optimus 7 is very good in this regard.
[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
The HD7 should ship with Sound Enhancer pre-installed and set to Dolby Mobile by default. The default setting gives a bad impression XD
[Windows Phone 7 General] nickdog670:
Planning on selling my Vibrant, iPod Touch, and PSP to get some cash either for a Dell Venue Pro or HD7. I heard people talking about the bad sound quality on some devices as for music playback, do the Venue Pro and HD7 sound good when listening to music through headphones? Thanks!
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
I can't speak for the Dell, but the HD7 sounds outstanding. But I use high-end canalphones and use a higher quality MP3 format. (Lame MP3 @ v0).
[Windows Phone 7 General] z33dev33l:
The HD7 is second worst only to the Surround. The battery life is bad, the washed out colors are an annoyance, and the overall build quality just feels cheap. Watch the comparison videos you'll even see that the HD7 is slower than the DVP. If theres a choice then go DVP all the way...
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
You should direct your comment to the specific poster. You won't have even a spark of a chance convincing me the HD7 sounds bad or is as you say in any respect.

@nickdog670 - I have the HD7 and it isn't anything like z33dev33l described. I don't know what his agenda is, but there are other HD7 users among us who will testify to te quality of the HD7.
[Windows Phone 7 General] z33dev33l:
My mistake, I did intend to but just quoted the wrong post. It is not a bad phone per se but by comparison to the Dell Venue Pro it's thoroughly unimpressive.
[Windows Phone 7 General] manlisten:
The sound quality is good, but a noticeable step down from my iPod touch (1st gen). It is also worse than the Captivate I previously owned, which I believe uses a similar audio chip as the iPod touch. It's not bad, just not as good as I had grown accustomed to.

I am speaking of the HD7, I have not had a chance to try the Venue Pro.
[Windows Phone 7 General] z33dev33l:
The DVP is much better in all regards... As long as you get the 8 gig and upgrade to a 32. It does much better.
[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
The HD7 isn't slower than the DVP.

The DVP's battery is only 170 mAh more than the HD7. That probably adds like 2 hours at most to the battery life with moderate usage - most probably less.

They use the same SoC and the DVP IIRC uses an internal SD Card for storage as well.

Doen't the DVP have 256 MB RAM? If that's the case, it will affect performance when multi-tasking is added to the system.

The only thing better on the DVP is the screen.

The DVP's camera is trash.

The DVP is made out of plastic as well. It just "feels" better.
[Windows Phone 7 General] The Gate Keeper:
also of note is that with HTC devices, the sound goes a long way with the HTC app "Sound Enhancer". For earphones, I suggest not using any audo effects, but for loud speaker, i would suggest Dolby Mobile. After some testing i found that adjust between them depending on the purpose really improves the quality of the sound from HTC phones.

This is based upon HTC 7 Trophy.
[Windows Phone 7 General] nickdog670:
I like the HD7 and was considering it, but after being seeing the SAMOLED on my Vibrant I don't think I can ever go back to normal screens hah! I would get the Focus, but I have TMobile.
[Windows Phone 7 General] z33dev33l:
The DVP has 512 mB of ram, it has been addressed by dell that the app that shows otherwise is purely a mistake.

The camera isnt trash, you do have to be a bit more steady however the flash is better and theres no pink hue.

the overall build quality is better regardless of materials, you dont have to pry the back off, it doesn't feel ready to fall apart at all times. If they'd gone with the build quality of the HD2 it'd be 1000 times better.

It is faster, watch any comparison video. I'm not sure exactly why taking into consideration the hardware is pretty much identical but it is faster.

The screen is beautiful, it doesn't have the blue tint of SAMOLED and it doesnt have the grayish washed out background of HTC devices.

I own both devices and any time I use the HD7 (strictly for netflix) it feels like a gargantuan step down. It's still a good phone but by comparison... well theres a clear winner.
[Windows Phone 7 General] MartyLK:
To the OP, I have to say, the HD7 is a purely gorgeous phone and I am always pleased when I glance at it. The black'ish chrome really sets it off. Plus the screen is larger. As for the "looseness" of the body, there isn't any. The battery cover pops off differently and that is likely what another poster is referring to about the looseness. But I can clarify how well the battery cover remains in place. I have never had the BC come off accidentally.

Anyway...I put Velcro on the backs of my phones to stick them to the dashboard of my car for navigation purposes. With the HD7, I didn't deviate from where I put the Velcro. I put it right on the battery cover. In all the time I had it on there and stuck to the dash of my car, it never fell off. Even when pulling the phone from the dash, it feels sturdy and remains together...but I do grab the edges of the cover as I pull it. And I don't drive on perfectly smooth streets. I live in pothole central.

Nevertheless, when I got my HD7, I too was concerned about the cover. But my concerns have been eliminated with time. The HD7 feels solid in the hand and is not loose feeling.
[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
That part was phrased as a question.

The DVP probably has the worst camera out of all the WP7 devices.

My HD7 doesn't have any pink hue issues.

Maybe I should just generalize like you and say "The HD7 doesn't ship with defective SD Cards?" It certainly doesn't display the light bleeding at the screen edge like the DVP (which is extremely annoying when using it in a dark area). Yep, exceptional build quality, there...

My phone doesn't feel like it's about to fall off.

Plastic is plastic is plastic. Making one plastic look prettier than another plastic doesn't change the fact that they're both plastic.

Most people will put their phone in a case, anyways. Even if the phone is built well, a phone with a scratched up out-casing typically resells for less than one that is in mint condition.

It's not faster by any factorable measure. There's nothing in the DVP that makes it magically faster than the HD7. You're experiencing a placebo effect or looking at reviews where the reviewer's finger touched the DVP before it touched the HD7.

But it's just as bad when viewed in direct sunlight and the AMOLED screen uses more battery when displaying whites, especially.

Lol @ gargantuan step down. Whatever.

Another thing is Dell has terrible QA, and I didn't feel like playing Russian Roulette with another phone purchase.
[Windows Phone 7 General] N8ter:
have the Vibrant, HD7, HD2 and the loss of sAMOLED is a very small concession for running a phone that actually feels like it has a 1GHz processor in it, instead of feeling like a Blackberry Curve hardware running Android.

That's just my opinion.
[Windows Phone 7 General] z33dev33l:
I meant mine as nothing more than an answer, no hurt feelings here :)

That is the most notable issue with the cameras. Aside from that the DVP does admittedly require a more steady hand. The auto-focus sucks. I do hope that can be fixed but either way it's certainly not bad enough to be a deal breaker.

At that point I was stating that you have to pry the back of the HD7 off. I for one had to use a coin to pop the back off the first time because it bent my fingernails backwards just trying to take the back off the first time.

It is true that a lot of us use cases, however the fact that they are of an entirely different quality does not change because they're both plastic. The laser etched finish, the ergonomic curvature, the widely regarded curved gorilla glass finish, the chromed edges (granted they're just painted plastic), hell even the capacitive buttons just look better.

I feel I'm one of few who can truly measure side by side at all times. I just tested; Bye Bye Brain, Bejewled, Assassins Creed, Ilomilo, and Iblast moki side by side. The biggest difference was about a 6 second difference in the bejewled load time. It's not massive but it's there.

Heres a few videos for funsies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz-kjpDUZ_8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PGNOvAANjg

I mean the evidence is there and it's likely that the 8 gig just uses a better memory card by default (The 16 gig models are a screw up due entirely to the memory card used)

In direct sunlight I can see well enough to dial on my AMOLED I dont think there's a very discernable difference, slight but I think its there.

Another thing is Dell has terrible QA, and I didn't feel like playing Russian Roulette with another phone purchase.[/QUOTE]

Initially that was understandable though being a frequent XDA member like yourself I'm sure you personally would know to pick up an 8 gig model and just upgrade it yourself to a 32 gig :).
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hotpocketdeath:
Long story short, I installed Midnight's 3.3 Rom on my phone because I was tired of waiting on sprint.

While opening up apps and things to make sure everything was working, I opened my camera up and noticed immediately it was trying to get a GPS signal. Odd since I have GPS turned off within the phone settings, the camera automatically turns it on. Bothersome.

So I think, ok, I'll just turn off the "store location". Easy enough and there are many guides with a simply google.

But here's the kicker. The option to turn off "Store location" is no longer available.

So now we have a camera that automatically turns on GPS and imprints the location onto each picture, and no way to disable it. WTH. People take their privacy seriously and this is something that should not be missing.

How do I fix this?
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drakkahn:
Unfortunately, the only answer I have seen to this is to turn off gps when using the camera.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hotpocketdeath:
Unfortunately, that doesn't work.

As I said, the GPS was turned off in the phone, but the camera is either turning it on, or attempts to use the "mobile network" to get a position and will still tag any pictures with a location.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] musclehead84:
Mine doesn't.do that. When I have Gps off and open camera it wont turn it back on or do anything.

Sent from my Evo Killer!!!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] drakkahn:
Try going to menu, settings, location & security, turn off use wireless networks and use gps satellites. That would probably do the trick.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hotpocketdeath:
Looks like that's the only way to stop it. have to shut down all location services, ie mobile networks and gps.

What a nuisance to have to have to toggle the services on and off depending on what I want to do when it would have been so much easier to just turn the feature off in the camera app.

I hope this get's fixed at some point.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maghig:
Anyone got an update on disabling this? I'm surprised there weren't more threads about it when I did a search. It doesn't seem that most people care too much.

I read one guy that flashed the 2.1 camera back on, I don't know what features that removes but I would do it if I had a 2.1 camera apk still.

Currently I'm uploading to picasa and stripping the location values from there before I give them to anyone. It's rather annoying as I am using it to post pictures on a personal blog now.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] havikx:
hello hd2 forums. i'm tryin to get video calling workin on my g/f's hd2. specifically, we are trying with tango cuz its the only one that seems to work. well..did. once...

her problem is she is unable to register. the txt she is supposed to recieve doesnt get recieved so her number cant get verified.

would this be a direct effect from runnin on T-mo prepaid data plan? shes payin 50 a month.

i wonder because the t-mobile visual voicemail app doesnt work either. it works, like tango works, but it would appear her number is not verifiable?
[Optimus One, P500, V General] DonNaWaF:
Hi .. Iam tired from searching for solution for me .. I have Lg P503 and it does not have market .. and I want to ask is Lg P500 roms and recovery works for Lg P503 .. and what is the easiest way to root it plz help me ..
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Jaylapeno:
They're the same model for different countries. P500, P503, P509 are all the same phones with different firmware/operator ROM

The easiest way to root is to use an app called z4root, but it is only compatiable with certain software version, so make sure you check before you use it.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] Ginger555:
Making the P503 more "English"

I have used the z4root tool on my P503 Chinese and it worked fine in Permanent mode. You can also Un-root after if you want.

I have attempted to install a number of P500 systems onto the device and each one fails. The device re-starts after the update you get LG screen ... then LG slash of Colour screen ... then the Android logo for about 20 seconds and it then freezes.

Good thing is though you can install the P503 file back ontop and the device returns to it out of the box settings and functionality.

As for the UK Android Market ... I am working on that one ... at the moment the only thing that seems to work is the factory installed Go Market in Chinese.
[Optimus One, P500, V General] DonNaWaF:
z4root does not work for me i cant even install it .. the same apk I installed it on htc hero .. and for examble if I tried to flash DarkMoon v02 rom it will not break me device .. and how can I do install the P503 file back ontop ?? .. sorry for my Q .. but I need the market and thank you for repley ..
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] || Acer ||:
Mod, please delete this thread.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ianoob:
So, now that Tazz and Shed both have a stable CM7 GB ROM (v5 and v1.4), what are the differences? I loaded the same settings on both and played around. I ran Quadrant on both, the same. Very similar battery (tough to tell tho). Shed has less steps to set up and more built in themes, but Tazz offers ADW launcher as well as Launcher Pro. Has anyone found any other differences?

BTW, great job to both Tazz and Shed. Thank you for sticking with it and giving us two great choices! Also, thank you to everyone who helped them along the way!
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] moos3y:
Both are built under Cyanogen Mod 7 Nightly so performance wise you won't see any difference they both run fast
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lygris:
i believe GSB v1.4 can run ADW now.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ianoob:
Yep, I've ran both since v3 on tazz and 1.2 on shed, wondering if either cooked anything extra in as far as features that I haven't noticed?

Yep, and you can get the extra themes from the market too... just saying Tazz choose to bake it into his version.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mjb413:
right now they are very similar as the developers were trying to get stable fully functional roms. as time progresses they will probably start to have more differences.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kaze06:
ADW always did work for me on 1.2 but that's just me. It does indeed work on 1.4 and 1.4 is incredibly fast and stable. I'm not going anywhere as far as ROMs go for my	Eris. I'm happy with GSB.

Swype'd from my GSBv1.4-ERIS using XDA App.
[XPERIA X2 General] TexUs:
Anyway this will run on ATT?
[XPERIA X2 General] RJH57108:
I have an X2A that I have been using with AT&T since April ... works fine and it is not recognized as a smart phone needed a special data plan ...
[XPERIA X2 General] Hakim Rahman:
Maybe you can learn from http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=680555
[G Tablet General] switt:
Looks like the Malta is coming out w/ a IPS Tegra2 tablet.

http://armdevices.net/2011/02/15/malata-releases-new-tegra2-tablets/
[G Tablet General] jasco13:
Looks like that has the screen we've all been looking for. hope it will fit in my gtablet.
[G Tablet General] roebeet:
It's not a Tegra 2 - it's Cortex based, problem similar to what SmartQ is coming out with.

That IPS screen is 4:3, not 16:9 - it's the same as my R10 and will not fit into our GTAB. :(