Pandora on the HD2 - HD2 General

It's quite possible that I'm the only HD2 owner who really enjoys using Pandora, but in case I'm not has anyone been able to? I've tried a couple different .cab's for it and I can seem to get the keyboard to pop-up when it comes time to enter my account information. When you tap on the text fields nothing happens. Am I alone on this one or has anyone run into it as well?

This may not be of assistance to you, but lastfm is similar and pocket scrobbler works for it on my HD2, if you wanted to think about alternatives.

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Drag scroll in Microsoft Contacts

Hi,
As anyone developed a plugin that would allow you to drag scroll the contacts list in the default contacts list? I've tried some other contact PIMs, but they tend to be slow to load, and less integrated.
Any thoughts or suggestions?
Cheers,
DS.
I've got something that might help. Let me see if it works. Tonight hopefully.
V
EDIT: sorry I misunderstood what you were after.
I had a program to do something else (multiple selections/drag selections) but I will be working on something that might help you out, but it's not finished yet. I'll post when I can.
V
Hi. Thanks for looking into this.
I have a 3rd party app which does this - Mobile Contacts - which looks and work great, but is rather slow to launch, and is less integrated.
I'm currently using MS Voice Command which again works very well, but is less good in public...
Check out Potala Telly. Never tried it, expensive, but looks ok.
http://www.potalasoftware.com/
V

Looking for a new ROM.

So after a month of issues with my Wing locking up anytime I try to use the keyboard, it apparently is an issue with the stock ROM. So here's what I'm looking for and cannot find ANYWHERE (yes, I've searched and asked before in another thread and got no where).
I want a calendar option where I can have multiple calendars on the phone. At work, I have 3 schedules/calendars I look at and would like one for personal use. My problems with the phone started when I tried to use the calendar for the first time and it only has been worse since. I'd like to correct that and give me the option to keep updated with multiple schedules.
I also do not want to give up MS Excel/PowerPoint/Word. I use the Wifi quite a bit, well did before I couldn't type anything without freezing, so I can't lose that or MMS/SMS texts. I need all the basic stuff but wouldn't mind trying out the slide to unlock or the cube as everyone says. My buddy has the Touch and the cube is kinda cool but it's not a must. Games, I'll take as many as I can get! I've tried using emulators for SNES games (Punchout rules!) and it just never worked right. I'm a solitaire junkie (84 seconds, beat that!) but wouldn't mind others like freecell, tetris, bowling, Hold'Em or whatever would be good "sitting on the john" time killers.
Can anyone here help me? The main thing is the calendars which I cannot find with searching for almost an hour at work today. haha!
oh yeah, and if something could overclock it for faster speeds, I'd be happy unless the new ROM is fast enough. The weather feature would be really nice as well. Any other cool features I should know about??
At the moment I'm using TTran's open touch biggy 4.0. I was using itje's touch it 2.3 before, and liked it alot, but that phone broke and when I got the new one I wanted to try something new. Pretty much everything you need is included in it, and it runs very fast and smooth. I highly recommend it.
So with that, I can have multiple schedules? Is it possible to relabel them?
Am I looking for something that just isn't made or does no one understand what it is I'm looking for? I'm trying to get this to work for my work but I need multiple schedules.
It doesn't exist that I know off... unfortunately, ActiveSync and pocket outlook will not allow multiple mailboxes/addressbooks/CALENDARs. I wish it did... but it doesn't. At least there isn't any way that I'm aware off.
Ugh! someone should get to modding! I bet enough people would use it to justify the time. Plus, I'll throw in $20. haha
screw it. I'm going to flash the Open Touch 4.0 Biggy in a day or two when I have time. My only question is, do I download the file to the computer and put it as it is on the Wing or do I unzip it then put the "MyFirstROM" folder on the wing? It just says d/l it then open. Open on which machine? Also, I did a backup of my contacts to the card but if I flash it, will reloading from the software give me all my contacts back? What do i need to do so I don't lose a TON of contacts?
I am assuming you haven't used Hard-SPL yet? You have more to do than just flash a ROM
I've read on here you don't have to Hard-SPL to go with a new rom unless it calls for it and the Open Touch 4.0 supposedly doesn't need it. Am I wrong?
I had the stock tmobile rom, and I updated to Open Touch 3.0 without Hard-SPL and mine runs fine. I think for other roms, you may have to, but usually the rom will specify it.

online radio

hello i am looking for a online radio much like pandora for windows or somethnig else of that nature a definate plus would be interenational music but if not its alright.
2.
3. Resco Pocket Radio .
4. Diamond TV -
5. PQ Mobile TV -
6. Internet TV -
7. Spb Online -
8. SelectRadio -
9. WebTV -
10. Spb TV -
11. Wi-Not -
12. xFM Radio -
13. theChanner -
14. iPlayer -
15. Kai's Internet TV.Net -
1. PowerRadio -
17. SPB Radio -
18. 977Music
i swear by wunderradio, love it
thanks i will check them out
Skyfire will stream internet radio, and works with soma FM.
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i swear by wunderradio, love it
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i concur. wunderadio is a terrific app!
testaccount said:
i swear by wunderradio, love it
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wunder radio doesn't like me. never been able to get it to work on my phone
ateam201 said:
hello i am looking for a online radio much like pandora for windows or somethnig else of that nature a definate plus would be interenational music but if not its alright.
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Kinoma FreePlay will bring down more options in streaming net radio than you'll ever know what to do with, it aggregates a bunch of different services and station networks to give you all kinds of choices. It also includes Orb, which will allow you to easily stream any of your media on your home pc to your phone.
There's a Pandora cab/app available here, but it has the drawbacks of lower sound quality on mobile than other options, and the ported interface in WM is a bit of a pain (buttons are too small, and give no visual feedback when pressed). There's also a WM version of Slacker Radio that is similar to Pandora, with better audio quality and UI.
Htcradio.com works very well i think anyway.
slacker on skyfire trouble...
Anyone else experience this? :
for the last 6 or 8mo., when I open slacker with skyfire, the text entry fields don't work. Login or search, eg. If I type in a field, when I close the sip, the text I entered won't stay. I've tried reinstalling skyfire, even tried reverting to old betas of skyfire, nogo. (slacker is the only site I experience this problem with). (hell, I'm typing this post thru skyfire) Ii'm using Diamond. Anyone else?
and where did someone find slacker for WM app? I can't find one.
thanks
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Anyone else experience this? :
for the last 6 or 8mo., when I open slacker with skyfire, the text entry fields don't work. Login or search, eg. If I type in a field, when I close the sip, the text I entered won't stay. I've tried reinstalling skyfire, even tried reverting to old betas of skyfire, nogo. (slacker is the only site I experience this problem with). (hell, I'm typing this post thru skyfire) Ii'm using Diamond. Anyone else?
and where did someone find slacker for WM app? I can't find one.
thanks
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We've got it right here in this same forum
HERE's the thread about it...be sure to read through it, but the newest version should be the one in the first post now.
wow
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We've got it right here in this same forum
HERE's the thread about it...be sure to read through it, but the newest version should be the one in the first post now.
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that was fast, thanks! I'll have a look (hopefully it's not the one that was at ppcgeeks too, but only worked 1 day before Slacker disabled it)
thanks
scottspa74 said:
that was fast, thanks! I'll have a look (hopefully it's not the one that was at ppcgeeks too, but only worked 1 day before Slacker disabled it)
thanks
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Shouldn't be...I think we've had 2 updates since Slacker pulled the plug on the first version that was leaked
slacker radio from the hd2 is a good app. i wish the pandora app for win mo was as put together as it is for the iphone.
The best one I have found so far is by far Slacker radio.
+1
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The best one I have found so far is by far Slacker radio.
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yeah, slacker by far better than pandora (even though I can't get it to work on wm- but thats another thread). just keeps telling my login is invalid, even though same login works fine on pc version, and on old bb, of course . thats cool, it'll work soon enough.

The rubbishness of windows comes through very quickly

I got a bit suckered by all the good reviews for this phone on so many websites and bought it yesterday. I've had a long time [misplaced] affection for windows phones. I say misplaced because every single model I've owned has let me down.
The sense interface is great. Windows is not. I've just made 16 attempts at trying to login to windows live, struggling each time to input a 20 char secure password on the dinky keyboard and when i finally got the password right, i succeeded in invoking the 'too many failed logins' mode of windows live. Nice.
why is this stuff so difficult for windows mobile phones? why does the phone not go into landscape mode for EVERY application? why is that so difficult to implement? Why did HTC not put a bloody switch for landscape mode? you have a wide screen which would make an onscreen keyborad far more friendly yet you're still stuck trying to hit the 'sweet spot' on a portrait-mode keyboard!??! Not only are you stuck in portait mode but you no longer have a stylus to help you hit those keys!
The initial WOW factor has disappeared for me and I've only had the phone for a day!
can someone help me with some tips on landscape mode? is there some way i can map one of the hard keys to be a landscape mode switch? or some software that does something similar?
thanks!
Install BSB Tweaks this allows landscape for any appplication
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=589305
I tried but didn't seem to work for me. maybe i was doing something wrong?
i enabled the tickbox for IE and after the soft reset i tried running it but it did nothing when i rotated the screen. Am I missing something here?
try using Gyrator .. It works on every application
aloms said:
can someone help me with some tips on landscape mode? is there some way i can map one of the hard keys to be a landscape mode switch? or some software that does something similar?
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I've just made an app that does just that. Have a look at PLToggle in my sig.
Calm down mate, trust me, windows mobile is by far the best OS out there for mobiles. The only reason everyone prefers the iphone is because of its usability, apart from that theres not much you can do but 'get an app for that', however thanks to this forum, you can do almost anything with a windows mobile device, especially one as powerful as the leo. You just need to get used to it, if sense is bugging you, get spb shell or another ui. And of course theres gonna be loads of problems with it, its pretty new, but its good points strongly outway its bad points (oh and might I add, you'll be getting all your tech support from this site, not htc, trust me), so just give it some time and you'll realise, after 'making it yours' how awesome a phone it is.
If the keyboard isnt doing it for you, download a new one! (thats the great thing about winmo) the two popular ones at the moment are swype ( a completely different style of keyboard) or finger keyboard. I personally like the one htc supply you with, heres a tweak taken from this thread which will lower the sensitivy of the screen which makes typing much easier. Alternatively, bsb tweaks can do this all for you from its menu.
Oh and about the rotate thing, on xanny tech's pandora rom, he has a little execuatable file in the start menu with rotates everything, and its mapped to a long press of the send key, so thats pretty useful, im not running his rom anymore but if you know anything about flashing, flash his first, its very good indeed and has lots of tweaks and useful stuff preinstalled.
Hope that helps a little, if not just ask
thanks for your help mate. having bought into a 24 month contract I'm pretty much stuck with getting to learn the phone whether i like it or not.
aloms said:
thanks for your help mate. having bought into a 24 month contract I'm pretty much stuck with getting to learn the phone whether i like it or not.
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I agree with [★]. Once you know it better, you'll get to love it. There's so much under the hood of this thing that yes, you'll find a few things that you don't like, but they'll be outweighed by the things that you do
aloms said:
The sense interface is great. Windows is not. I've just made 16 attempts at trying to login to windows live, struggling each time to input a 20 char secure password on the dinky keyboard and when i finally got the password right, i succeeded in invoking the 'too many failed logins' mode of windows live. Nice
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You, Sir, need to check out my thread, which would surely have come up if you had used the search function. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=5197442 Windows Live/Hotmail etc seem to only take 16 characters. Anything after that is ignored. But the Windows Live application on mobile accepts more than 16 and will try and authenticate with everything you type in. 20 character password will not work. Reduce your pass to 16 characters or less and it should work. Post back in this thread to let me know if this sorts your issue out.
If it's a keyboard you're after then try Swype. Have a search for it. I too had a lot of sensitivity problems with the keyboard and it would take ages to type a simple email. Swype solved that. It's a lot less sensitive than the native keyboard and I used SIP to make it my default. In terms of landscape mode, try using Opera instead of IE (although Opera lacks flash). BSB Tweaks will handle the rest although I don't use it myself.
Trust me, stick with the phone and, with a few tweaks to have it running how you like it, you won't look back!
Just return the darn phone, smack it to the floor and trample it good, or learn to use it since you've bought it. Please save yourself over a high blood pressure leading to a stroke, my friend. It's only a phone.. (but then there's always iPhones for usability's sake, whatever it means)
aloms said:
The initial WOW factor has disappeared for me and I've only had the phone for a day!
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Ok, you need to calm down a tad. Ok, the phone is not perfect. However, there is endless configurability for the phone. The best thing you could ever have done was to come to this site where there is a tweak for almost anything.
Sit down, fasten your seatbelt and take a look around. You need an open mind. The HD2 is no iphone. It's the iphone killer. Just needs a little tweaking that's all.
Alternatively, you could ditch it and join the bandwagon, I mean iphone!
Try Swype, best KB I hve used on a phone, my mate with an Iphone thought it was great and was going to look for it for the Iphone, once tweaked the HD2 is the best mob by far!
I was doubtful when I first had it like you say I thought I should have gone for the Iphone but now I am so happy with it
Windows is rubbish because of the HTC keyboard?? Ok...
Isnt the whole ADVANTAGE of winmo that if you dont like something you can change it?
The advantage of WinMo is the tweaking and Office Mobile My wife had a HTC Hero for 2 months and at the end she begged me to get her a new Windows Phone because the freaking Android won't open rich text format files (unfortunately in her job she is obliged to use rtf as standart file format) without great hassle even with all possible office replacements I cound find on the net. Not to speak of that, that even the enhanced HTC mail client for Android can't open messages that are sent from mail.bg (a very popular bulgarian web mail service). That was the end for Android
Hotmail mail on the HD1 was a pain, same on the HD2. Gmail is working perfectly though which is very annoying when like me, you use Hotmail on your desktop to access your Gmail emails...
aloms said:
I got a bit suckered by all the good reviews for this phone on so many websites and bought it yesterday. I've had a long time [misplaced] affection for windows phones. I say misplaced because every single model I've owned has let me down.
The sense interface is great. Windows is not. I've just made 16 attempts at trying to login to windows live, struggling each time to input a 20 char secure password on the dinky keyboard and when i finally got the password right, i succeeded in invoking the 'too many failed logins' mode of windows live. Nice.
why is this stuff so difficult for windows mobile phones? why does the phone not go into landscape mode for EVERY application? why is that so difficult to implement? Why did HTC not put a bloody switch for landscape mode? you have a wide screen which would make an onscreen keyborad far more friendly yet you're still stuck trying to hit the 'sweet spot' on a portrait-mode keyboard!??! Not only are you stuck in portait mode but you no longer have a stylus to help you hit those keys!
The initial WOW factor has disappeared for me and I've only had the phone for a day!
can someone help me with some tips on landscape mode? is there some way i can map one of the hard keys to be a landscape mode switch? or some software that does something similar?
thanks!
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First of all get rid of that IDIOTIC iPhone imitation keyboard and replace it with the divine fingerkeyboard from xda.
And then deactivate the utterly unpredictive xt9 "predictive" (more like vindictive) text input.
I did these steps and now I can FINALLY type.
An $800 phone and it takes a donationware sw keyboard to make it usable
Aloms - I had the same problem with my Ipod Touch in the beginning. Don't worry, you will get use to it. BTW HD2 keyboard is better especially in landscape
I will join this thread with my three questions.
I have converted to the dark side and bought iPhone 3GS after having gone through a lot of phones and OSes. I have given up on WinMo (using HTC Pro) basically because of 3 issues:
1. Phone app in the sense of its responsiveness. I mean, someone is calling - first 2 seconds the hardware buttons light up, next 2 seconds the phone starts to vibrate, next 2 seconds there is a sound. Is it happening on the HD2 too? How responsive is it? Plus does it have a good gsm reception? With my HTC Pro I had to keep on testing different radio roms and have not been satisfied ever...
2. When you use HD2 say 4-5 days or longer, does it slow down over time. I mean especially when you use contacts with 1000 entries etc, or is it instant?
3. On a brand new HD2 just charged, when you load in your 1000 contacts, does it have an instant search of a contact in the contacts app? Or an email address in the "To" section when you want to write an email?
Frankly speaking, HD2 looks very tempting, but I am afraid mainly of the 3 above areas and am thinking to wait for Windows 7 or something?
PS. HTC Pro is still with me, but in the drawer...
OliveUK said:
Hotmail mail on the HD1 was a pain, same on the HD2.
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I've had a Diamond, a HD, and now a HD2 and I can say with 100% confidence that I never had 1 single problem with Hotmail. I've seen a very small number of users on here with issues and every single one of them has turned out to be user error.
I suggest the same in this instance as it works flawlessly when set up correctly, which 99.9% of users do.

[Q] Photoshop Mobile Beta

Hey all, been doing a search on the forums, but haven't seen anything regarding my issue (maybe I'm blind, I don't know?? haha)
I was able to install the WM version of Photoshop Mobile Beta... and it appears to be running fine, execpt that I can't login to my photoshop.com account.
I get to the username/password screen, click on the username field and a white screen with a text prompt comes up. I'm able to type in the field, but clicking OK goes through without being able to type in a password, and clicking cancel well... cancels the only other option is to X out, which closes out the app.
has anyone else played with this app on the HD2? if so, have you seen this to... and/or do you know of a way around it?
I've thought about diving into the Reg. to see if there's a way to work it there... but I thought I would ping you guys first.
anyways, thanks for any help you guys can give!
have you tried tapping the password box rather than clicking ok? it should move the cursor to that box. and after typing teh password THEN click ok.
You actually can't.... (See Screenshots) I was hoping it was that simple
ok, found the answer... feel kind of dumb about it, but hey - live'n learn right??
In case anyone else tries the app/searching for the answer I figured I'd post it
"Hit Return on the kbd"
you may all laugh and tease the noob now!
hehe, defeated by simplicity.

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