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[EVO Shift 4G General] Scaryghoul:
I can feed you two different opinions. Stock or rooted/custom.

I, am one of the firm believers that a phone's true potentional is never stock. Therefor should not be judged on stock.

I will not speak about the epic 4g in terms I do not know, so there will be more opinions on the shift.

Everyday, I hear how small/slow the development is going on the epic.

The epic, without a doubt has a better GPU.

Development, will continue to be pushed on the shift for the next few years no matter what. Think about how long it took the epic to get 2.2, now there is gingerbread and honeycomb....The shift already has gingerbread. Every major release, will come to the shift. While the epic will either not recieve it at all(mixture of samsungs support and the devs dying down, no offense).

In real world performance, there is nothing the shift can't handle right now that's out there that the epic can.(In my opinion, nothing to back this up since I don't know everything that's out there).

The shift, can get fairly incredible battery life, it took me 27hours to hit 31%, using it quite a bit on 245-1.5ghz conservative on the 1.8ghz kernel.

It took rytesyde a lot longer to hit that low on the 1.5ghz kernel(undervolted farther). Point being, if you want to use your phone for a full day, it's fine. If you forget your charger for a weekend, your phone will make it if you don't use it much(Mine drained around 1% an hour when not in use, my overall average was 2.9%/hour on fairly heavy usage).

I know what you mean on the amoled screen, but I really haven't had much of a desire for it unless I was in the bright sun.

I would go with the shift because it has more development and support.....

Although, I would honestly go as far to say the epic has better hardware.

I would say more, but it's 6am and I'm getting sleepy.

edit: Oh, just looked at the froyo epic update. It seems that the update was buggy(surprise from samsung?). They're not very good at updating their devices. It really comes down to, what you want. No one here would discriminate if you went with the epic.
[EVO Shift 4G General] foxsdaddy67:
as a former samsung and moment owner. personally i will never own a samsung phone again. the shift just works out of the box. and the devs on the shift just keep making it better. all the deving on the moment couldnt fix all the problems it had. to me the epic isnt anything but a huge moment lol. and from i am reading sprint has already yanked the OTA update to froyo. imagine that lol
[EVO Shift 4G General] JKILO:
HTC > Samsung..that's all..no comparison
[EVO Shift 4G General] NoahVail:
The Keyboard Settled it for Me

I've spent a couple of days on the same question. I finally settled on the Shift.

I stopped by my local Sprint store to get each in my hands. The Epic's keyboard had awful tactile response. I handed it to my son to get his opinion and he handed it back shaking his head. He said he couldn't feel the keys, couldn't tell if they were depressed.

That clarified what I was thinking. The HTC model also felt superior, even w/ the funky keyboard slide. I can't put my finger on why.

The Shift keyboard was much better, even with only 4 rows. I'm coming from a Touch Pro. I'll have to cope w/ missing the 5th row.

It didn't help Epic's cause that I kept coming across threads (ie AndroidForum) about Epic dropping/adding keystrokes.

Epic clearly has a superior GPU. However I wouldn't take advantage of it; in my regular use.

Epic's 1GHz Hummingbird and EvoShift's 800MHz Snapdragon look like a pretty even match; despite the clock difference.

I'd wish for a larger screen on the Shift; but it isn't to be.

Of course I'd also wish for a Dual Core Processor - as long as I'm wishing.

Like the above poster, I don't give the stock ROM any weight because it isn't sticking around. I found a lot more development for the Epic than I would have thought - and less development for the Shift than I would have hoped. But the Shift is recently introduced. It likely needs some time for the chefs to work their magic.

I tried to find reasons to prefer the Epic. But holding actually holding an Epic and a Shift in my hands almost decided it - all by itself.

Looks like I'll be Shifting in a few days.

NV
[EVO Shift 4G General] herbthehammer:
Want an easy answer to your question? Go over to the epic general section of this forum and read about the latest fiasco and read the general section in the evo shift and compare what the people are talking about.

For example, the epic people finally got an official version of froyo, but to many people, it's worse than the last official version update.
[EVO Shift 4G General] foxsdaddy67:
yeah there are reports of it bricking their phones:eek:
[EVO Shift 4G General] xiaNaix:
The Epic 4G may look like a better phone, specs wise, but Samsung clearly has no idea what they are doing when it comes to software updates. The Froyo update they pushed a few days ago is another in a long line of disasters for them. It was also the last straw for me. I dumped my Epic and went with the Evo Shift. Best decision I ever made. Yeah, the screen is smaller and the processor is a bit slower but, trust me, the Shift is a much nicer experience.
[EVO Shift 4G General] alher591:
Number wise the processor is slower but performance wise it can meet with the humming bird prossecor or beat it
[EVO Shift 4G General] DWake014:
Where did u get the pro of the epic having a better battery than the shift? I highly doubt it as I very heavily use my phone and still get an easy 15-17 hrs of use out of it before it starts to get close to 20%
[EVO Shift 4G General] foxsdaddy67:
and i doubt the epic gets better battery life than the shift. i doubt it gets better battery life than the POS moment i had
[EVO Shift 4G General] xiaNaix:
The battery life on the Shift is definitely better than it was on my Epic.
[EVO Shift 4G General] DWake014:
I'm considering blowing up my old moment.
[EVO Shift 4G General] foxsdaddy67:
Lol yeah a block of C4 and my moment makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside :)

sent from my EVO Shift 4G :)
[EVO Shift 4G General] noskoviak:
I got the battery info from phone arena but I'm sure they use advertised statistics rather then do there own testing... I figured on the shift myself.. honestly I went there and messed with each for like 15 mins.. shift felt better all around.. I posted this on the epic forum as well.. some there suggested waiting for next round of android phones before upgrading. What do you guys think? Is sprint coming out with something worthy of my patience this summer.. I've been using this hero for about 3 years.

sent from my hero aosp2.2 cause aospcm7 2.3 was not as fast or stable for me.
[EVO Shift 4G General] westicle:
ummm, 3 years? You sure about that?

Scent phrum mie fone!
[EVO Shift 4G General] noskoviak:
EDIT: My bad 2 years and three months I have been using an android phone that was designed with 1.5 in mind. Started a T-Mobile plan for the mytouch. in between there I did try out webos and even rim again. Sorry westicle you were right for the most part I didn't mean to exaggerate... just feels like forever with all the newer better phones coming for less. When I can still buy this old trusty turd from sprint for more then a shift.

sent from my hero aosp2.2 cause aospcm7 2.3 was not as fast or stable for me.
[EVO Shift 4G General] westicle:
The hero was released october 2009. That's less than 2 years ago.

Scent phrum mie fone!
[EVO Shift 4G General] illwafer:
i'm still using my opening day touch pro, and hittin f5 on every mobile site trying to find out if i should wait or get something. it's brutal.
[EVO Shift 4G General] eigerzoom:
well i traded my epic for a shift days before the official froyo came out for the epic

i was a little weary giving up the 'more expensive hyped' device for the shift despite a generous cash supplement w/ the trade

but oh baby...now that i hear the epic froyo is failing i am happy to be off the samsung failboat

my shift came loaded with a 1.5ghz rom so i never tested stock htc

the battery life of the shift was underpar to the epic at first

but now that i am running bcnice kernel with mikshift i am easily surpassing the epic battery performance

i liked the shift more from the moment it was in my hand regardless of all other factors

and now its running faster/smoother/longer than the epic ever was

my biggest pet peeves of the shift:

1) no number row on the hardware keyboard...you have to double press the fn key

this is a huge pain in the ass as i enter numbers all day with lots of spaces in between...logging error codes on the machines i service...uhg...

i'm slowly migrating to the input panel but i hate input panels mostly

if i was an input panel fan i would have bought an evo...duh

but you cant have everything

2) the volume buttons are a little close to the center of the phone

had to remap the volume down to 'nothing' because i was always pressing it

all i really hope for in the future is that htc releases an android version of the old wm mogul...i loved the rocker switch/scroll...and no other phone has ever replaced that devices satisfaction with 13 hardware buttons in addition the hardware keyboard...and dedicated hardware wifi switch...please HTC wake up and smell success

HTC M3 - Android dual-core qwerty phone w/ rocker switch,5-row kb & endless buttons

yes please
[EVO Shift 4G General] Jeezimus:
Both my dad and sister have epics, as does my room mate who let me play with it to root it for him. I have a shift.

The epic's video processing is AMAZING. I mean...its ****ing ridiculous compared to anything the shift can put out. Quadrant's video tests run at like double the fps on the epic.

However, the shift is a great performer relative to other current gen phones, especially when rooted and overclocked. I play emulators on my phone on a regular basis and it can handle playstation ROMs more than adequately. My room mate actually runs Quake on his G2 (same processor) with a wiimote + classic controller hooked up lol.

Samsung's software support is the main thing to loathe about the epic. I had a moment before as well, and I can attest that samsung has no idea what they're doing with software. If you don't mind being stuck a couple gens behind and having zero support and constant bugs...then sure get the epic. Otherwise, stick with HTC.

Epic also has the front facing camera.

All in all, coming from someone who has used both, the Shift is the superior phone. I couldn't be happier with my decision.

P.S. Gave my moment to my Mom. Better or worse than blowing it up? ;)
[EVO Shift 4G General] Telion007:
This is an interesting contrast as I too came from the moment but it was the similarity in size with the combination of 4G ability that led me to the Shift. I was aware that the Epic out of the box was/is better but it was also bigger. I was willing to see past this knowing that I would not keep my phone unrooted for long. But in the end at least for me the question was about size and gaming I play very few videos or games on my phone and loved the size of the Moment so i made the shift.
[EVO Shift 4G General] herbthehammer:
My real life tests between epic and shift were simple ones. It seemed like the battery was discharging slower and I had to recharge later in the day when compared to the epic. Also, I could use and charge the shift and it would be able to handle both. The epic, I needed to either shut the phone off or let it sleep while charging in order for the battery to actually charge. It seems like it takes less time to charge the shift. I could periodically check the level on the shift and it was going up noticeably. If I did they same with epic, its like watching paint dry, bumpers rust, and grass growing.
[EVO Shift 4G General] eigerzoom:
^^^ there are two charging modes on the epic...not sure if its the same for all devices

but you can for instance use a car charger and the phone will connect incorrectly as data and not charge as fast...
[EVO Shift 4G General] wireless.praying.mantis:
HTC EVO & HTC EVO Shift 4G

Here's everything you'll need for comparing and contrasting the HTC EVO along side the HTC EVO Shift 4G.

http://developer.sprint.com/site/global/devices/handsets/handsets.jsp
[EVO Shift 4G General] grandebob:
I had an Epic for 2 weeks and returned it for the Shift, which i have kept. They epic was a nice phone, but felt light and a little cheap. When closed there was still a great deal of play in the slider. The battery life was acceptable. The screen is brilliant and is the one thing i kind of miss. I had read far too many stories of samsung burning customers on support and updates, and I was tired of waiting for it to only be one version behind current. currently, the Epic has more ROM's available for it, but it has been out much longer then the Shift. I used the front camera once, just so I could figure out how to turn it on. Camera performance between the two is about the same.

The shift is a bit heftier, yet smaller. It feels way more solid, and the slider mechanism is firm. The battery life is way better then the Epic's. I find I accidentally hit the volume buttons a lot, but that's just a mild annoyance. You can get the Shift for half the price of an Epic.

The choice is up to you, but I don't regret trading in for the Shift. The Epic price dropped about a month ago to $200, and the Shift dropped a couple weeks ago to $100. Get them from BB so you don't have to deal with the rebate.
[EVO Shift 4G General] jervelljc:
I'll take 2 . . .

HTC M3 - Please inform me when this device is available for purchase.
[EVO Shift 4G General] Ranger093:
Overclock the shift to 1.5 ghz and it scores in every open GL bench and game the same as my epic when the shift isn't overclocked it gets raped.
[EVO Shift 4G General] burndog79:
Compare

I have owned both phones. currently using a rooted evo and a rooted evo shift. Epic was fun for a minute, but what has been written above is sadly true... the Epic in terms of support is a rotten turnip. Evo Shift all the way baby. Evo shift and Evo are a better comparison, regardless of the cosmetically different features. Both Evos get much love from their manufacturers as well as OS Support from Google seems to be light years ahead of Samsung.
[EVO Shift 4G General] noskoviak:
Thx for the responses guys I got the shift and never looked back.

sent from my cm7 #40 speedy in progress.
[Vega Android Development] HunteronX:
You can get it from here:

http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=ke...;hb=refs/heads/android-tegra-2.6.36-honeycomb

This is thanks to Koush, who posted it here:

http://www.koushikdutta.com/2011/02/motorola-xoom-rooted.html

One thing to note though, is that he said this:

"Unfortunately the kernel was not available in the Android repositories. At first, I tried using the Harmony kernel, since they are both tegra 2 250 chips. That turned out to be major fail. As soon as I was about to give up, I noticed that AOSP had updated their tegra kernel repository with some new tasty branches for stingray. Kudos to these guys for being so on the ball! I was able to compile that up and get a working recovery to obtain root, and then get Superuser on the device."

I'm sure someone tried the same thing, and the harmony kernel didn't work on our Vega tablets, either. Hopefully this should work with little changes to implement.

But, it saves us having to wait for Advent to try and create a honeycomb rom in the future.

EDIT: Here's a changelog for the kernel source too.

http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=kernel/te...id-tegra-2.6.36
[Vega Android Development] jastonas:
Good luck!
[Vega Android Development] 318vert:
Anymore news on this or if anyone else is looking to port honeycomb to the vega?
[Vega Android Development] Lennyuk:
Work is not being done at the moment as far as I know, for 2 reasons

Google AOSP has not released sources for Honeycomb yet

And its likely that a lot of backporting will need to take place for it to work on the vega (this will be assisted if the vega or a clone get an official honeycomb rom soon). Backporting is hard work and can take a lot of time.

It is likely we will see Honeycomb, but don't expect anything soon.
[Vega Android Development] rferrett:
I must say I rather thought the AOSP would have been released by now. I wonder what the hold up is....
[HD2 Android NAND Development] ralphsancho:
Im not a dev, but I can use a text editor

Here is the honeycomb boot animation to play with as we wait for our tasty honeycomb.

Just replace bootanimation.zip in system/media/ either by reflashing the rom of your choice or by any other means you might know.

once again im no dev but I did this to for myself and thought it was really cool and wanted to share.

enjoy!
[HD2 Android NAND Development] rasumia:
A screenshot would be nice...

Thanks...
[HD2 Android NAND Development] ralphsancho:
screenshot?

its an animation but here are some images
[HD2 Android NAND Development] Conet:
thank you~:p
[HD2 Android NAND Development] rasumia:
Looks Cool!

Looks cool. i will give a try...

thanks...
[HD2 Android NAND Development] saftazeen:
cool ... thanx man
[HD2 Android NAND Development] SlyRder83:
This is great thanks!!
[HD2 Android NAND Development] johnsk:
i trieed to make my own boot animation,i have some nice gif images,

but i dont know how to make this :)
[HD2 Android NAND Development] john_duff:
this hexagonal grid reminds me of WM6.5 apps screen...
[HD2 Android NAND Development] ralphsancho:
you don't need gif images, you need png images

you could simply download the zip file and resize your images to 800x480 and rename them with a numerical order and replace all the images included, zip it back up and done
[XPERIA X2 General] tnfsmith:
I am synchronized my Contact to both Sony Sync and Microsoft My Phone for backup and I deleted all my Contact on SIM. First, I edit and delete all duplicates phone numbers and using Microsoft My Phone to sync all contact number to my phone. Second, but I only received empty number on Microsoft My Phone web account (I prefer that the copy all empty contact on my phone to web acc) so only once place on Sony Sync. I afraid that when I sync and my account on web Sony empty again, but I can export all contacts to Vcard file (format .vcf).

I do not know how to restore my contact from Sony Sync to my phone from Vcard file (.vcf). Any idea help me solve this serious problem?

Thanks so much!!! :confused: :confused:
[XPERIA X2 General] artemisbd:
send them to nokia phone than install and send back to s.e. by bluetooth :)
[XPERIA X2 General] milepan:
try this

..........

Open Vcard file (format .vcf) with " Microsoft office Outlook" , then sync. your phone whit computer

Good luck!!!!!!
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Desure:
Apparently it seems like there is no download link for the Clockworkmod Recovery 3+ for HTC Desire( or rather, i cant find it).

ANyone here able to find it? If so, post it here please? Thanks and sorry for ignorance in modern-day tech :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TMSsecret:
download "ROM manager" from the market, or isn't that your question ?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EddyOS:
Look harder:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=839640
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] portis24:
I remember I could only get 2.5.0.7 version by ROM manager.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Meaple:
There is no official version of CWM 3 yet, that is why. I've asked CWM why not but there has been no reply yet. I don't know though. Mods are prob just as good.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zobat:
just downloaded the .img from this link:

http://www.multiupload.com/P7MFUFPXIF

flashed it with fastboot and it worked :)
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mustang-gx:
Yeah, just installed ClockworkMod 3.0.0.5 from that link and everything is just fine.

PLUS, the font is orange which is MUCH easier to read :-)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Goldie:
Here are some boot screens I did for Darkys rom and for a couple of themes etc....

Some which have CWM in the title can be flashed via cwm and bootanimation.zips shpuld be copied to system/media with system mounted as rw or to data/local :)

Feedback Welcome :)

Sound is working on the latest GB kernels so here is a sound for you as well.....

Download the sound below, rename to android_audio.wav and copy to sdcard/sgstools

Open SGStools and use the modify bootsound to select it.

Darth Sound:

http://www.multiupload.com/M8S6RL860T

Thanks to laurie9300 for the photobucket space :)

Thanks to Andrew Kramer for his tutorials.

Thanks to Chromax for the evil android guy logo

Sparks

Download:

http://www.multiupload.com/JBG7FSIQ9B

Simply Honey:

Download:

http://www.multiupload.com/S5VVZT085M

Paul Diddy Remix:

Download:

http://www.multiupload.com/GOIAVA7KFG

Juwe's ROM:

Download:

http://www.multiupload.com/3WDYZH4D9Y

Dancer:

Download:

http://www.multiupload.com/56FJZWM97C

Insanity:

Download:

http://www.multiupload.com/6OQAO581SM

Green Blueprint:

Download:

http://www.multiupload.com/MDFJKQMW9K

Red Blueprint:

Download:

http://www.multiupload.com/7EKJRVZ1H1

Blue Blueprint:

Download:

http://www.multiupload.com/BRR351556L

Green Gingerbread:

Download:

http://www.multiupload.com/FHK0SPZ5JI

Red Gingerbread:

[/URL]

Download:

http://www.multiupload.com/XQY0MS6BP5

Blue Gingerbread:

[/URL]

Download:

http://www.multiupload.com/B9QWMDO5VI

Crumble Android:

[/URL]

Download:

http://www.multiupload.com/ZXGL0FXTI1

Crumble Darky:

[/URL]

Download:

http://www.multiupload.com/D0DG71LMQ1

Extreme Edition Blue:

[/URL]

Download CWM:

http://www.multiupload.com/C5H2D4GC71

Extreme Edition Red:

[/URL]

Download CWM:

http://www.multiupload.com/VP2HOOX44Y

Extreme Edition Green:

[/URL]

Download CWM:

http://www.multiupload.com/L2XAK92DGG

Poison Green:

[/URL]

Download:

http://www.multiupload.com/D3VRT6BRLU

GingerReal:

[/URL]

Download:

http://www.multiupload.com/1Z5PV0761J

SteelBlue:

[/URL]

Download:

http://www.multiupload.com/F57QIQJMOW

Blue Generation X:

[/URL]

Download Blue Generation X:

http://www.multiupload.com/ATGMH1MJJM

Electro:

[/URL]

Download Electro:

http://www.multiupload.com/NAOQ0RJV2A

Simple Green:

[/URL]

Download Simple Green:

http://www.multiupload.com/A9920FEPF2 Green

Explosion:

[/URL]

Download Explosion:

http://www.multiupload.com/F78UVCCUPG Explosion

Retro:

[/URL]

Download Retro:

http://www.multiupload.com/4XYC99KPMW Retro

Retro Green:

[/URL]

Download Retro Green:

http://www.multiupload.com/B9SW479N0V Retro Green

Retro Blue:

[/URL]

Download Retro Blue

http://www.multiupload.com/YW292EMDZR Retro Blue

Fire:

[/URL]

Download Fire:

http://www.multiupload.com/ZUOHYVKWSH Fire
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] wanam:
Generation X doesn't work for me with Darky9.3 b3
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Goldie:
When you say doesn't work what do you mean? Black screen, no change or something else?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] dlegric2:
Great bootanim Goldie. Could u please re-up the retro green one. It appears to be same as the plain retro one.

Thks again for your work.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] wanam:
After reboot it stucks on Samsung Logo.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Goldie:
It shouldn't do. Did you just place in system/media?

I don't know how it would cause it not to boot. Even if something was wrong with the file you would just get a blank screen
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Goldie:
Updated link :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] dlegric2:
thks.:D love the old style movie countdown.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] wanam:
No I installed it from zip file in recovery 2e.should i juste copy zip file to "system/media"?
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Goldie:
Yes. Mount system as rw with sgstoolbox first.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Darkyy:
Thanks for sharing Goldie!

I try the electro one :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] wanam:
Thanks for your replay.

System is mounted as rw, I try now to move the file from sdcard to "system/media" using Astro, it seems like i don't have right to paste the file is system neither system/media, the paste menu is disabled.
[Galaxy S I9000 Themes and Apps] Goldie:
You can't do it with astro. Download supermanager app from the market.