I'll be picking up the HD2 tomorrow morning. It'll be my first windows mobile phone. I only use a macbook (os x) and I was wondering if this would be a problem for having a wm device. Before it wasn't a problem for me since I primarily used android or iphone(s).
welcome omer1112
I normally use double twist for getting itunes data onto the phone with no problems and when I have serious work like flashing a new ROM I use virtual box running windows 7 in 32 bit, works a treat. My phone was imported from the UK therefore the euro plug does not work in australia without an adapter, however I discovered that my iPhone wall plug is the same spec as the original HTC charger and have been using that with no problems.
P.S. all apps mentioned are free.
there's a program for syncing other date. think it's called sync-mate. i purchased it as i wanted the other features but there is a lite version.
it runs a small program on the hd2 so you can run over wifi and BT but I have a feeling it kills battery life. recently had to do a hard reset on phone and never reinstalled the app. I used to get barely 18 hours on my phone but now get 2 days
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I had a problem with my Mogul, so I sent it to repair, meanwhile I switched back to my old phone Samsung SPH-A940 or sometimes it is called MM-940, I know it is not a Windows Mobile phone, but back in the days I had purchased like more than 20 games and applications that runs on the the phone which I think runs on Java, my question is:
Is there any way to extract these games so I can try them on my Mogul when I get it back? Or there is no need to bother they will not work!
I downloaded the driver from Samsung web site and I do not see the phone or any indication that it is connected to my PC except the sound of a new hardware being connected and disconnected!!!
I tried to send them using blue tooth but the phone does not give me the option of doing that!!
I am guessing that they might work sice the mogul has Java installed!!
any ideas?
Hi,
I have recently obtained a T-Mobile MDA, I currently own a Diamond and I thought this would be a good introduction into WINMO for my younger brother. I initally wanted to flash the ROM with a Manilla 2d ROM however I can't even connect to my Device Center! (using the USB cord - which still charges the phone BTW)
I run Vista Ultimate 64 bit (which i thought could be the problem) but when I connect any other WM phone it works fine, it installs the software & shows the icon of the phone. With this "Nike" it does nothing, I can see MyMobile trying to connect over & over again but once again nothing! I've even done a Hard-Reset to try and rule out possibilities...
Does anyone have a solution/suggestion as to the cause of this problem? If I reconnect the Diamond straight afterwards it works perfectly!
I've tried to like it, i really have, but it's defeated me. The under two hours battery life for one. Now i was going to buy a tekkeon external battery pack, thats how much i wanted to stay with the Shift, and give the project time to come up with a rom. But i'm over it. The device was alomost there and i gad dreams of using it for days on the windows mobile side and occasionally switching over to vista. But i can't access the wifi from windows mobile. I can't access the SDcard from windows mobile. And for the life of me I can't get the GPS to work.
Even with the Roms available on the site now there's too many issues. The usb tool for one. The thing is just too unreliable. It drops out connecting to vista, it fails to sync outlooks emails if you have lots of them. Turn on high power and it's better but then vista lasts for an hour and a half.
It's almost the best UMPC I've ever owned but the compromises are too great.
I'm going to buy an Advantage and sync it to my LG P100 and that's replace the machine the Shift almost was.
mactablet said:
I've tried to like it, i really have, but it's defeated me. The under two hours battery life for one. Now i was going to buy a tekkeon external battery pack, thats how much i wanted to stay with the Shift, and give the project time to come up with a rom. But i'm over it. The device was alomost there and i gad dreams of using it for days on the windows mobile side and occasionally switching over to vista. But i can't access the wifi from windows mobile. I can't access the SDcard from windows mobile. And for the life of me I can't get the GPS to work.
Even with the Roms available on the site now there's too many issues. The usb tool for one. The thing is just too unreliable. It drops out connecting to vista, it fails to sync outlooks emails if you have lots of them. Turn on high power and it's better but then vista lasts for an hour and a half.
It's almost the best UMPC I've ever owned but the compromises are too great.
I'm going to buy an Advantage and sync it to my LG P100 and that's replace the machine the Shift almost was.
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I understand your frustrations. I did this with my ASUS R2H+Tilt for good number of months, but I moved to Shift because ASUS R2H is heavier than Shift and carrying two devices is much painful and also the power consumption is not that greater than Shift. I still own ASUS R2H and Tilt. I also have an Everon with Novatel 3G, I installed Windows Mobile 6 Emulator on that and played for a while, but it is like turning on the system completely forever, but the power consumption is much much better than R2H or Shift. I had Q1 before and a Vega but I retired them from active duty.
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I can also understand your frustration...still, for now, I like it and cannot see me moving away until something else with a fully functioning trimmed down version of an operating system (plus Win7 or something) comes to fill the void. I have no issue with the USB Tool...I'm using i00 rom and XP tablet.
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I've tried to like it, i really have, but it's defeated me. The under two hours battery life for one. Now i was going to buy a tekkeon external battery pack, thats how much i wanted to stay with the Shift, and give the project time to come up with a rom. But i'm over it. The device was alomost there and i gad dreams of using it for days on the windows mobile side and occasionally switching over to vista. But i can't access the wifi from windows mobile. I can't access the SDcard from windows mobile. And for the life of me I can't get the GPS to work.
Even with the Roms available on the site now there's too many issues. The usb tool for one. The thing is just too unreliable. It drops out connecting to vista, it fails to sync outlooks emails if you have lots of them. Turn on high power and it's better but then vista lasts for an hour and a half.
It's almost the best UMPC I've ever owned but the compromises are too great.
I'm going to buy an Advantage and sync it to my LG P100 and that's replace the machine the Shift almost was.
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO dont leave us.
its cool mate, sometimes using gps on the shift can take up to 15-20 mins to lock, sometime its bloody straight away. I have also come close to shopping it off but right now im still holding out for SD card access on the WM side. For me that's the one thing that will make this device truly wanted.
all the best with what ever decsion u make!
I keep going back and forth myself.
Despite all of my research, I can't believe all of the near deal-breakers I didn't discover until I had it in-hand. Specifically, the lack of SD card access and wi-fi in Snapvue mode.
I could honestly live without Vista--I was just hoping for a WinMo device in this form factor (large touch screen) with the slide out keyboard. Having to swap my SIM card and/or live with the horrible battery life & performance under Vista is proving to be a pain in the rear.
tjkraz said:
I keep going back and forth myself.
Despite all of my research, I can't believe all of the near deal-breakers I didn't discover until I had it in-hand. Specifically, the lack of SD card access and wi-fi in Snapvue mode.
I could honestly live without Vista--I was just hoping for a WinMo device in this form factor (large touch screen) with the slide out keyboard. Having to swap my SIM card and/or live with the horrible battery life & performance under Vista is proving to be a pain in the rear.
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agreed. I'm seriousl looking at the Viliv S5 with a touch HD for the Windows mobile solution. Paired with my stowaway BT keyboard and mouse the two units will do what the shift promised I think for the same weight or less, more power, more features and more functionality.
Viliv S5 + Touch HD
# Wake up to XP in 5 sec, wakeup to phone instant
# 6 hour video playback - > 5 hours solid computing useage, 50 hours plus internet and WinMO useage.
# 200 hours Standby Time + whatever the HD has
# GPS X 2, S5 has awesome GPS
# Touchscreen X 2, on screen keyboard X 2, full touch typeable keyboard for both (stowaway works fine on both devices)
Viliv Navigation on Shift
Hi,
here is the link to the navigation software used on the Viliv. (http://www.streetdeck.com/DownloadTrial.aspx)
I am downloading both the 20MB and 1.7GB free trials right now onto my Shift w/W7 RC.
If I get it all working, I'll post back the results (maybe even a video! )
tjkraz said:
I keep going back and forth myself.
Despite all of my research, I can't believe all of the near deal-breakers I didn't discover until I had it in-hand. Specifically, the lack of SD card access and wi-fi in Snapvue mode.
I could honestly live without Vista--I was just hoping for a WinMo device in this form factor (large touch screen) with the slide out keyboard. Having to swap my SIM card and/or live with the horrible battery life & performance under Vista is proving to be a pain in the rear.
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Why not try Windows 7 as a last ditch effort? The battery life improves, it isn't called Vista, it has a lighter feel to it, it isn't called Vista, and it is pleasantly surprising!
The upgrade was simple to do and the license is good for the next year
I've thought about Win 7 but it tanked badly on my tablet PC. I believe the touchscreen probs have been sorted for the shift. But there's no over coming the no wifi on windows mobile side, no SD card access.
You have an advantage so you'll know what I mean when I say about ahving a little unit you can take on the road that does 90% of the job of a laptop but runs for days. I travelled with the Advantage as my only "laptop" for weeks doing presentations and email etc all via 3G or when in airport lounges the wifi. 4 in 1 cable allowed access to all my pdf's docs, ppt's on a thumbdrive.
I want the Shift to be that unit. Run winmo 90% of the time without Vista running at all. Then if you need a full blown laptop you fire up vista and you're away. But I doubt it's going to get there anytime soon.
mactablet said:
I've thought about Win 7 but it tanked badly on my tablet PC. I believe the touchscreen probs have been sorted for the shift. But there's no over coming the no wifi on windows mobile side, no SD card access.
You have an advantage so you'll know what I mean when I say about ahving a little unit you can take on the road that does 90% of the job of a laptop but runs for days. I travelled with the Advantage as my only "laptop" for weeks doing presentations and email etc all via 3G or when in airport lounges the wifi. 4 in 1 cable allowed access to all my pdf's docs, ppt's on a thumbdrive.
I want the Shift to be that unit. Run winmo 90% of the time without Vista running at all. Then if you need a full blown laptop you fire up vista and you're away. But I doubt it's going to get there anytime soon.
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I know what you mean.
The Advantage is great. I use it mostly like you just said. With the 4-in-1 and WM 90% of time. Then I use RemoteDesktopConnection via Wifi/3G to do some more PC based work. My only problem was I could not use it efficeintly so thats why I Opted for a Shift.
My wife and I like to travel and carrying 2 work laptops, plus the advantage is a bit crazy and airport security makes travelling harder. The Shift + Advantage is a good combo for us now. I agree I could not live with Shift alone, but it has come along way, the people here are making strides that no one else has been able to do.
I need WiFi and more memory on WM to use the programs I like better, but once SD card access is opened, you can have a 32 GB storage card for programs and that really nice big screen! (WiFi should be coming soon too, but with #g it is at least manageable for now. Storage is the biger issue)
BTW- W7 on shift is (in my opinion) much better than Vista. I love it. It works great, battery is much better, and I can't say enough good things about it. I'm also considering the 600MaH battery for Shift...that should give a real nice bat.life to the Shift on W7.
But, to each their own, everyone has thier own business/personal needs.
Also, you may want to look at HP TouchSmart tx2z series. I was looking at this as anther solution before the Shift and doing mobile internet via Expresscard slot & bluetooth . (Not cheaper, but close)
Hope that helps!
Bradaland said:
Why not try Windows 7 as a last ditch effort? The battery life improves, it isn't called Vista, it has a lighter feel to it, it isn't called Vista, and it is pleasantly surprising!
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Yeah, I did that a couple days ago (when the public RC was released) and it appears to be a device-saver. The Shift is 100% better with Win7 installed.
sorry if I'm posting in the wrong place...
I'm very new to android, but I recently played with a friend's G1 running Android 2.1 and fell in love with the OS, and now I want to put Android (don't really care which version, anything is better than WinMo 5) onto my Palm Treo 750 on the AT&T network. what would I need to know in order to accomplish this?
Because my contract is up in a little under a month, I do not mind if I brick my phone that much - I can just switch back to my old Treo 650 until I can get a new phone dirt cheap when I renew.
I'm even willing to try out an experimental code that someone is trying to debug.
My one restriction is because I'm running 64-bit Windows 7, I can't directly sync my phone with my computer, I have to be able to run the upgrade to Android from a 2Gb Micro SD card.
So any suggestions?
and thanks in advance,
Odin
You could try to download and follow the instructions on: AndroidOnHtc.
I had luck just trying to HaRET.exe on different versions.
I wouldn't however ditch the CE 5.0 just yet. Without official handset manufacturer support it is unlikely to get all the features working.
Here is a List of features I have seen not working on some devices:
WiFi (actually on most)
GPS
Sound (for example on the touch pro 2)
Bluetooth (not that I care)
Screen resolution (especially if just using a Bundle designed for a different device.)
Let us know how you get on. So far I have only seen it running on HTC devices. So good luck.
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WiFi (actually on most)
GPS
Sound (for example on the touch pro 2)
Bluetooth (not that I care)
Screen resolution (especially if just using a Bundle designed for a different device.)
Let us know how you get on. So far I have only seen it running on HTC devices. So good luck.
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Don't use WiFi, GPS, or Blue Tooth, so all I have to really worry about (other than bricking) is sound and screen resolution.
As for only working HTC phones, from what I've read, the Treo 750 is essentially a re-packaged HTC phone - though I cannot remember which one they cited.
Thanks, I'll check out that link and keep everyone appraised is I manage to get it up and running.
Odin5061
Hey guys, not sure if there are many people here but I'm looking for some help. I recently bought a shift off ebay because I like the cool sliding form-factor and collecting old palm tops in general. When I got it it had vista on it. It also had a lot of garbage and porn on it from the previous seller who claimed it was mint... that's another story. I ran into some problems with it and tried to reinstall vista. Then I decided to throw windows 10 on it instead thinking it would make it run better.
Unfortunately windows 10 has slowed it down to a crawl. I can't get anything done on it. It's using up a lot of processing power to the point that the device gets hot and abruptly shuts down. I don't know what I was expecting really, it only has an 800mhz proc. Have any of you guys gotten 10 to run smoothly? I'd appreciate any advice. Thanks.
Hi,
There are a number of Windows 10 performance tips in the thread titled "[GUIDE] Installing Windows 10 Technical Preview on the HTC Shift, especially in the final couple of pages.
I'm running Windows 10 on my Shift, and despite my best efforts, it still runs very slow, but good enough for running efficient applications such as Evernote, OneDrive and Word.
My Shift gets hot but it has never suffered from overheating. Perhaps your fan is faulty. Can you hear the fan running?
Hi guys, i was always fanatic for ultra mobile pc´s, i had some vaio P, and now i bought a HTC shift, just spent 50 euros in it, so it is a bargain
I have some questions here:
1- guy who sold me told me that wifi don´t work in windows 8 ( os installed), it needs some driver to work in windows 8/10? or it´s not possible to enable wifi?
2- when i receive the shift should i format all partions and make a new install of win 10? the owner told me that hd is 60gb and have 2 partitions
3- so for what i understand, there is the windows mode and then the windows mobile mode? they are installed in diferent partitions? how does this work?
thank you
i made a clean install of win 10, win 10 is very slow for shift.... all was working less wifi, it wasn´t detecting my home network
made a clean install of win 7 home premium, all smooth and quick, fast boot time, all things are working including touchscreen and wifi
in windows 7 i cant acess 3g dont know why
another problem is that when i press windows mobile key, i only get a black screen, what is the problem?
thank you
ps. for browsing i recimend slim jet browser, really fast and smoother, and very good to use with finger
I take it by now that you have learned that only the windows side uses the HDD (and bluetooth and the SD card). The Windows Mobile side is not connected to any of these (although it is connect to Windows and so can potentially access them if Windows is running).
If 3G is not working in Windows 7, have you run the "Shift Control Centre" to ensure that "Modem" is ON?
When I installed Windows 10 on my HTC Shift from a bootable USB drive created with the "Windows Media Creator" application, I performed a new installation after first deleting all of the partitions on the hard drive. This included the factory default Vista recovery partition, which I will never need, and I'd rather have the extra Gbs of storage.
There was a 2GB RAM module you could buy for it. Also, could you put an SSD inside it to speed it up?
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There was a 2GB RAM module you could buy for it. Also, could you put an SSD inside it to speed it up?
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You can buy a 2gb module in eBay but they are very expensive
About SSD you can use it, dont know wich modelo, but its possible, but this laptop have slow processor and bad graphic, so, i dont recomend this investment at all
I've got two Shifts. One with liberated Snapvue, 2GB Ram and 128GB SSD.
Had Windows7 installed, but then tried Win10. The first Beta versions made shift run like a charm, but with each update it became slower. I then returned to Vista with AeroDesign and 3d gimmicks disabled. Now runs pretty good, fast enough and stable.
The second Shift also runs Vista. Unfortunately i'm not able to liberate its Mobile side, as it refuses to receive emails although 3G is working fine. Strange thing: though not liberated, Vista is able to use the 3G modem.
windows 7 runs ok in shift, for me it´s the best os
Running Windows 10 on my Shift. I disabled certain things such as background apps, superfetch, and Windows search.
I wonder how much impact the future Meltdown and Spectre mitigation updates will have on my poor stock HTC Shift...
Wow! Started reading this thread and I cant believe I fired up my Shift. Running Windows 8 on it. It took 30 minutes for Windows defender to update . Updating Windows now. ANyone know where I can find an inexpensive battery?
Thanks
try ebay
search for htc x9500 or htc shift
btw
win 7 is the best os for this machine
Battery
Search htc shift in ebay and some will appear. Not cheap cicra £20-30 but probably not a deal breaker either.
I have used kingspec 1.8 inch 128 gb ssd's in other devices and they work well. Their speed depends upon the interface required, if ide then this will be the bottleneck. As for the original hdd they are one of the slowest ever made and were redesigned for media player usage!
Slow down windows 10 on a 1 CPU 800mHz 1gb or 2gb?
Answer this question first!!!