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[EVO Shift 4G General] thehawdis:
I came from a moment and it is clear the shift is a FAR superior phone. It is super fast and smooth. It is a little frustrating to have to wait for development, but this phone, even with Stock and rooted is so far superior to so many phones we will just have to deal for now.

My gripes are minor but are: a)keyboard slider in my opinion is not as nice as the moment, its stiff and just doesn't feel right b)i hate how even when you dim the screen the 4 circle buttons still stay super bright c)volume rocker buttons are not in a good place for holding the phone d)signal drop when holding the phone has dropped a few calls.
[EVO Shift 4G General] herbthehammer:
My opinion about the nexus s isn't too good and I wonder why people are salivating about it. In my opinion, it is a repackaged epic. Take away the keyboard, curve the screen, run vanilla 2.3, worse camera, no micro sd card, and people have commented that it feels too light and cheap and plasticy, and the hardware is months old. Yes I have not seen it in person and tried it but from what other reviews have been saying, I am not impressed.

Maybe if someone loves their epic but wants aosp and maybe more updates, or if someone was upgrading from an old phone, then nexus might work fine for them.
[EVO Shift 4G General] sconig:
I came from the Hero and wasn't quite ready for 4"+ of screen space and after spending time with the keyboard I am starting to get used to it and beginning to enjoy it. It is much better then the horizontal on screen keyboard, atleast here you can still navigate. I figure instead of waiting 4 months or more for one of the CITA phones, I went with the Shift for this year and may trade it up after 12 months.

However my wife is wanting to get a new phone, moving from Blackberry to Android (score 1 for the good guys) so I told her to wait til after Mar 24 when they announce what is coming out this year. Maybe trade phones with her if they release a 3D Thunderbolt like phone, without the $300 upgrade price tag.

Or I might just get a tablet, especially if they put out a 4G one without the Samsung name on it.

Sent from Stock Rooted HTC EVO Shift.
[EVO Shift 4G General] nbunn:
Once your in the IRC, how do you find certain individuals channels? How do you get to the IRC? How do you find roms in it?
[EVO Shift 4G General] danaff37:
What I can't stand about the Nexus S is the lack of sdcard slot. Although we don't know for sure if the sprint version will still be that way, but I'm sure it will.

And I hate samsung's lack of updates... although that's a moot point being a google dev phone, but still...
[EVO Shift 4G General] sconig:
Check out this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=909398

Depending on what client you use, you should be able to browse servers and see the irc.freenode.net server and edit it or view properties in some way. It will let you put in a channel name or multiple channel names, just type in #HTC_EVO_Shift and connect. Or you can connect to the server and type /join #HTC_EVO_Shift, people will post links to Roms in there on occasion, it is much like a chat room. Also you can use the same /join command to join other rooms.
[EVO Shift 4G General] abanh:
Thanks, after fidgeting with some of the settings I have it set up now.
[EVO Shift 4G General] iczerjones:
Totally agree!! I was really considering just buying the Nexus outright and going with the cheaper Tmo plan, it being the Google reference phone and all. A coworker of mine got one a few weeks ago and after toying with it, I found it to be - basically - a Galaxy S with a hunchback. Granted, getting s-off is about as simple as it gets on there, but what a dramatic shift in build quality vs. the N1.

Once I played with it a bit, the choice was clear: G2 or Shift. I told myself that if Sprint made it easy and could eat the extra $10/mo, then I'd get the Shift. Here I am and couldn't be happier!

This phone is so damn fast! It makes me smile almost every time I use it. I know I'm still honeymooning, but honestly, I'm impressed. Thanks for another quality handset, HTC.
[EVO Shift 4G General] lilgrass71:
Don't regret the phone. I love it. Was waiting for a kb phone from htc to come out on sprint. The closest that came was the lexicon on verizon when it was announced and was thinking about hacking it to work on sprint but low and behold the shift was released before the lexicon....

Just patiently waiting for dev to release a true aosp rom... =D

Is there a book I can read to get into developing? A dummies guide or something?
[EVO Shift 4G General] ahager88:
In no way do I regret picking up my Speedy.

It'll get me by for the next year.
[EVO Shift 4G General] Double 0:
This phone mite keep me satisfied for two years.. it so reason why this phone shouldn't get the next 2 or 3 OS updates
[EVO Shift 4G General] 330d:
No regrets here. Thing is a beast. Great battery life, fits in my pocket, what more do I need?
[EVO Shift 4G General] rhodiggah:
Not a big fan of the keyboard as well but I am glad that I got this instead of the EVO. Especially, coming from a HEROC, this is definitely an upgrade.

Besides, is there a Sprint phone better than this at the moment?

EVO = old school

EPIC = plasticky

TRANSFORM = not enough power

ZIO = wha?

upcoming ECHO = seriously?

just my 2 cents...
[EVO Shift 4G General] crump84:
My First Android device, coming from a BlacbBerry.. I have absolutely no regrets
[EVO Shift 4G General] eigerzoom:
i've been having trouble with my bluetooth headset connecting properly

though i'm uncertain at this time if its the phone or the headset (backbeat 903)

often it will only connect for music but wont pick up calls

also it takes 40 seconds for wifi to connect...even on saved/stored credentials

these above are my pet peeves thus far

one good thing is the screen seems a little less sensitive than the epic

i prefer resistive over capacative screens for the feel...certainly capacative makes more sense technology wise, though the shift lcd does appear to sit well below the glass

i'm confused why...or maybe i'm just used to the samoled...i know the shift is capacative...what i'm getting at is wasted space
[EVO Shift 4G General] Avivator:
Have to agree here. Coming from an Intercept it's definitely a giant leap.. and I see no reason to upgrade to an EVO now after it's already 2 years old. I was leaning towards the Epic, but then saw "Samsung" before its name and that it still had 2.1...
[EVO Shift 4G General] zeropants:
I wish they left off the keyboard in favor of making it thinner.
[EVO Shift 4G General] JKILO:
-1 eww

Sent from my HTC Knight using telepathy
[EVO Shift 4G General] danaff37:
I love the keyboard for emulators and ssh. For normal use though, I almost never open it up. But now I would miss it
[EVO Shift 4G General] rhodiggah:
YES!!! That would've been great!!!
[EVO Shift 4G General] eigerzoom:
uh...buy an evo

dont buy a keyboard phone and then complain about the damn keyboard...

jeezumsinz
[EVO Shift 4G General] noskoviak:
I to was weary of the thought of the keyboard but when reading things its really nice to not have a soft keyboard take up 40% of the screen.

sent from my soon to be rooted evo shift.
[EVO Shift 4G General] noskoviak:
sent from my soon to be rooted evo shift.
[XPERIA X8 General] hnajdi:
Does anyone knows how can I read and write arabic/persian font in xperia x8
[XPERIA X8 General] DarkThanos:
Take a look here maybe it helps

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=471113

An other here but dont think x8 can handle it

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=618354

And there are some apps on the market for that.
[XPERIA X8 General] kimpoy1994:
try this rom..

it says support all languages

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=955467
[Xoom Themes and Apps] nbowes:
Do you know if/how well Evernote works on Honeycomb on the Xoom?

I sort of figure Dropbox works OK, but would like to know about your experience with that too.

Thanks!
[Xoom Themes and Apps] dougvan:
I've only used it lightly over the past 2 days but Evernote appears to work OK. No FCs that I can recall.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] Lars1967:
I use both and they work great!
[Xoom Themes and Apps] mroach52:
I haven't had issues with either application, both seem to work great and I have been using them extensively on the Xoom. Evernote updates rapidly between. My EVO and Xoom as well.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] bwcorvus:
Been using dropbox since i got the xoom...no problems at all.
[Xoom Themes and Apps] nbowes:
Thanks for all the replies everybody. I use both apps extensively, so it's good to know they'll work with the Zoom.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] klubipiff:
Hi!

I'm having a problem, that started quite awhile ago with CM RC1. Suddendly music widget didn't find any music from sd card and gallery no pictures neither. With file explorer I can find all the data and play the music and view the pictures. What could be the problem? Last thing today I wiped everything and installed nightly 14 to see, if the problem's gone but i's not :( Any suggestions?
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Meaple:
Unmount and remount within Android.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] klubipiff:
I have tried that several times, but it does not work...
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KnightRid:
Goofy problem but every rom I have tried will not update tweetdeck properly in the background with the screen black, except for xtrsense. Even the original stock rom does not work properly at doing this. Has anyone else had the same problem? Is there a fix?

I would love to be able to go to one of the 2.2 or 2.3 roms but i need tweetdeck to update properly on my accounts.

Side question - will there be a 2.2 or 2.3 for xtrsense?

Side question 2 - I am going to be searching for this but figured i would throw it in just incase I can not figure it out. I loaded the gscript for the apps2sd but I cant get any apps to the sd card. It is not even an option when I go to the manage apps. Like I said, I am going to search for this one but while I was typing I figured I would throw it in.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] doogald:
Tweetdeck is one of my key apps and I have no trouble at all with it on CELB Froyo or GSB. The only ROM I had an issue with was a later version of Nonsensikal. For some reason, that had an Autokiller-like aggressive memory setting and Tweetdeck would not stay open in the background.

Unlike many other twitter clients, Tweetdeck has no way to autostart and seems to have no server component to get updates, and aggressive memory settings will close the app when it is in the background. If you are using autokiller or something like it, using the optimum preset seems to work pretty well. Just vanilla GSB settings are just fine.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roirraW "edor" ehT:
Gscript for Apps2SD? I never heard of a GScript for that capability. There's an Apps2SD flashable zip which adds the Apps2SD script to your phone, if that's what you're talking about, but you don't use it in GScript.

Technically and completely literally, there never can be a 2.2 or 2.3 version of xtrSENSE because xtrSENSE is (currently) based on the July OTA 2.1, so it's a heavily modified version of THE official ROM for the Eris. There is no official 2.2 or 2.3 for the Eris, so there's no 2.2 or 2.3 stock ROM with Sense to base a new Eris ROM on.

Devs have worked on 2.2 and 2.3-based Sense ROMs based on stuff from other phones, but none of them are as stable and "finished" as the original stock ROM, or even xtrSENSE. Things don't work such as Wifi and Camera, and possibly some other difficulties. They haven't given up but they've been beating their heads against the wall for months for Froyo Sense. At this point, there's probably a marginally better chance that we'll ever have a port of a Gingerbread Sense which has everything working, over Froyo Sense.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KnightRid:
I use advanced app killer but i do not let that run all the time, I just start it when I want to manually kill apps.

It is just so weird with tweetdeck not updating in the background right, except on xtrsense. I just dont get it :(
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KnightRid:
Yes, he has a gscript script built in to xtrsense that you can just load and run to do it.

I will have to redo my sdcard again and see if that fixes it. I still like how 2.3 lets you move the apps though. It is a WHOLE lot easier.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] doogald:
That's not how it works with xtrSENSE. With xtrSENSE, you first need to partition your SD card to add an ext3 partition to store your apps. Then, as you noted, you run a gscript to activate apps2sd. This will move *all* of your user apps to the ext partition - you cannot choose to keep some internal. You either have your apps internal and not on SD, or you have your apps on SD and not internal.

The original post in the xtrSENSE thread explains this pretty well. The relevant portions are here:

Note the parts that I bolded.

It works fine for me on xtrSENSE. Try uninstalling advanced app killer for a while and see if tweetdeck works better. Also, run the gscript set_memory_balanced or set_memory_stock. I have had Tweetdeck work just fine in xtrSENSE4.6.5 with both of those settings.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KnightRid:
I did not explain well, I did do that but the apps still would not move over. I thought i had to manually move the apps after the ext3 partition and such but there must be something little I am missing. I will go back through the steps again and see what happens. I still like how 2.2 and 2.3 move the apps a lot better and I wish xtrsense would be based on 2.2 or 2.3 :(

As for tweetdeck, it DOES work right in xtrsense just not in any other rom even the stock rom.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] doogald:
When you run that gscript that I highlighted above (report_system_stats), does it say that you have apps2sd enabled? If it does, then you do. After you partition your card and run the gscript to enable apps2sd (called apps2sd), there is nothing that you need to do manually - the apps will move to SD. All new apps that you install will go to SD. You cannot pick and choose - apps are either on SD or internal.

To be honest, I think that this method is better. For one thing, you can back up your ext partition on your SD card; unless you use Clockwork, you cannot backup .android_secure. Also, when you connect your SD card to your computer, it dismounts the SD card from the phone, making those apps unavailable until you re-mount the SD card to the phone. Because you cannot dismount the ext3 partition (without trying really hard, that is), your apps are always available. Widgets can run from those apps. Lastly, there is no this app is internal, that app is on SD - they are either all on SD or they are not. Plus, of course, you don't have to move apps one at a time.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KnightRid:
Yea, it just doesnt move anything for some reason - Really isnt that big of a deal just would be nice with me being a packrat for everything so I wouldnt have to uninstall as often lol

Thanx for the help!

I am still wishing and hoping for xtrsense based on 2.2 or 2.3 though =)
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roirraW "edor" ehT:
There's an app called Link2SD which allows you to use old-school Apps2SD with the ability to only move what you want to move. Haven't tried it but reports are positive about it. Creates symlinks or some such for individual apps instead of for the whole data/app folder at once.

There's a couple of apps on the market, Dual Mount SD (used to be called SD Share, I think) and Multi Mount SD, which now, not only allow you to mount your SD card to both your computer and your phone at the same time, they also both have the option to auto-mount your SD card to your computer when you plug it in to the USB cable, which is now what I do. Multi Mount SD had that feature first, Dual Mount SD copied it just recently.

Also, Titanium Backup (paid, don't know about the free version) will allow you to batch move as many apps as you like to and from the SD card.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] doogald:
Good to know, but I still like the "old school" apps2sd kludge more than the official kludge that Google added with Froyo. I've had more problems with apps2sd (when I tried it) with Froyo than I ever had with xtrROM before cache2cache was added to that ROM.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roirraW "edor" ehT:
The absolutely only thing I don't like about, now that Link2SD is out, is that it's difficult to use the old Apps2SD under Froyo and beyond, requiring special partitioning arrangements, concerning where the particular partitions are and making it difficult to mount all the Fat32 partitions to both the phone and the computer, unless there's been progress in those areas I haven't been made aware of.

Even though there's some things which won't move to the SD card in a friendly way with Froyo's move to SD, almost everything will move if you use an app such as Titanium Backup to move them. As I said, there's still some apps it won't move but it moves almost all of them for me. I guess I wouldn't like it if I was stuck with Google implementation of it, but as long as there are third party apps to make up what it's lacking, it works great for me.

I also like that since I "only" have an 8GB SD card, that I don't have to partition it, the apps that are moved to SD will only take up as much space as they need to, no partition with space that'll never get used because I want it at least large enough to cover my worst case scenarios.

Off topic, it's unbelievable how much "crap" I get on my SD card, from all the apps I've stopped using but never deleted any respective folders for from the card. Mostly because I replaced the app with something better.
[Click Android Development] fra87:
Hi everybody

I have a little question. I want to connect to a wifi ad hoc network. With my PC everything is ok, but (obviously) my Tattoo can't find the net. I read about modifying two files (tiwlan.ini and another one). But.. How can I do?

I have the original ROM (1.6) rooted and with amon ra recovery.

Thank you

Regards

not development related thread CLOSED ask in the Q & A thread or general section
[Click Android Development] mensesneg:
Have you try to upgrade to Froyo or GingerB ?
[Click Android Development] fra87:
I'll surely try GingerB as soon as the devs will finish their work on the camera.. what i'd like to know is how can i get and put the files in this location and how should i modify them.

BTW, every Froyo and GingerB ROM can connect to ad hoc wireless networks and send files over bluetooth?

Thank you
[Click Android Development] feversanj:
solution

The G1 does not connect to ad hoc networks through the wifi manager but we can hack it to allow scanning and connecting to ad hocs. I’ve been trying to figure this out for the longest time. Before you begin, you need to root your G1 and be comfortable using the command line. We will be editing tiwlan.ini and wpa_supplicant.conf. I will be showing you 2 ways to edit the files. Using vi and adb.

Settings

edit tiwlan.ini to read:

WiFiAdHoc = 1

dot11DesiredSSID = HydtechAdhoc (or whatever name u want)

dot11DesiredBSSType = 0

edit wpa_supplicant.conf to read:

ctrl_interface=tiwlan0

update_config=1

eapol_version=1

ap_scan=2 (tells wpa_supplicant to scan hidden networks)

network={

ssid=”HydtechAdhoc”

scan_ssid=1 (for APs with multiple SSIDS)

mode=1

key_mgmt=NONE

group=WEP104

auth_alg=SHARED

wep_key0=”MyWepKey” (replace MyWepKey with your key)

}
[Click Android Development] fra87:
what adb commands should i use? I think that i have to

1) get the files (adb pull /directory_on_phone/tiwlan.ini tiwlan.ini)

2) modify it with notepad

3) set the system dir rw (

adb shell
$ su
# insmod tattoo-hack.ko
# mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

4) push the files on the phone.. but how? with adb push tiwlan.ini /directory_on_phone/tiwlan.ini ? Is this correct or when i type "exit" to come back to dos prompt the phone unmounts the partition?

Is this for every ad hoc connection or i have to modify tiwlan.ini and wpa_supplicant.conf every time i change SSID or WEP KEY? what if i want to keep more than one ad hoc network in memory?

Thank you a lot
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kronofile:
Having trouble wording the right query on this, so if it's been answered I apologize...it's also not really Eris specific, but you all seem to know your stuff so I'm posting here.

Anyone know if using GPS counts as "billable" data usage?

I ask because I'm driving to Canada next week and would like to make use of Google's Nav (for at least a bit of the trip). I realize Maps likely needs internet connectivity to function correctly, so may plan consists of:

Being connected to the web (either Mobile Data or WiFi) here in Jersey

Searching for the hotel's address and allowing Maps to "download" the route

Leave GPS on, but turn off Mobile Data

Do this seem terribly stupid? Assuming it would work, would the "connection" to the GPS show up on my VZW bill?
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mjb413:
maps does need the internet to work properly. the gps data does not count as data. there are several options including paid apps such as copilot that have maps stored on your phone. there is also a modified version of google maps that will download map data to the cache which should allow you to do what you were suggesting (set route and then follow). i have not used either personally. however, a thread for the modified google apps is here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=630887&page=245 with the newest version as the last post on this page. you can read the thread to see what all it can and cant do. it started out as modified by brut then was picked up by a different developer, but using the same thread.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alan Wolfe:
All I can tell you is that Nav Does work when driving through areas of No Signal. You have the blue line through a blank (white) background. I don't know if you lose the verbal cues or not. No signal areas I encounter are not in areas I need to turn, but just following a highway.

From my experience with Nav I think your plan is at least a valid experiment. If it does not work, on the way back just Get Directions and follow the written instructions.

Your GPS is on the phone. There is no charge to use it. My only caveat is if it requests Assistance data - that may cause data charges. It should only need assistance data to help acquire lock. Once you are navigating it should be fine without a data connection.

Please post how it goes.
[Droid Eris Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mjb413:
ok since you are the second person i have recommended the app i posted the thread link to, i figured i should probably install it. you have to uninstall you current map app. the new app has two things to do. in the settings menu of the app, there is a more button. in the more button there is a sign in to account option, this will sync it with your google account (starred places and such). the other part directly applicable to you is under the more button, there is a cache settings option, if you click that, then check the prefetch on mobile box, it should prefetch all of the maps when you program your route. one piece of advice is to toggle off your network and make sure the "international roaming" option in your phone settings is turned off once you leave the country. when i went to jamaica i was greeted by a text when the plane landed. a friend wishing me happy travels cost me 50 cents...lol. that will teach me to leave international roaming turned on. the nice thing was that where we were staying had wifi so i still got my email and voicemail/texts through google voice.