Anyone happy with Sprint 2.1? - Hero CDMA General

I've been on vacation and get back to see HTC has the 2.1 update and was surprised not to see more talk about it. So many threads about release dates and now its quiet. So who is using it and what are the pros and cons?

It's all about Froyo now.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=686893

d12bn said:
I've been on vacation and get back to see HTC has the 2.1 update and was surprised not to see more talk about it. So many threads about release dates and now its quiet. So who is using it and what are the pros and cons?
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No ones talking about it cuz its some bs. The official update didn't really do much. It is really fast and does fix some issues but nothing really. You lose root if you run root so if you want to try it use damages untouched version

abcdfv said:
It's all about Froyo now.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=686893
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lol!!!! HURRY UP AND PORT IT OVER DEVS!!!

So far I'm not.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=686908

I don't know what people were expecting, we've had 2.1 for months. My wife thinks it's cool tho, but she has a stock Hero and came from 1.5. The biggest change that I didn't realize was weather animation, I didn't know 1.5 didn't have them......
Everybody has been drooling and crying for 2.1 and now that its here all they can do is whine about wanting 2.2....there is just no pleasing some people........................

chfields said:
I don't know what people were expecting, we've had 2.1 for months. My wife thinks it's cool tho, but she has a stock Hero and came from 1.5. The biggest change that I didn't realize was weather animation, I didn't know 1.5 didn't have them......
Everybody has been drooling and crying for 2.1 and now that its here all they can do is whine about wanting 2.2....there is just no pleasing some people........................
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It's not that at all 2.1 was supposed to bring us live wallpapers, faster browser and so fourth but it didn't do any of that. It's ridiculus. And in the back of everyones mind we know that the only reason that sprint didn't deliver that was so everyone would choke up the money and get an evo or the less popular hardly heard of I1

After I installed the stock 2.1 ROM, my phone won't receive any calls. I can make calls, but not receive them. I spent over 2 hours yesterday with Sprint Customer Non-Service, and they were no help. I'm headed to the Sprint Store now to get my phone replaced, hopefully to a 1.5 so I can root that bad boy like I should have in the 1st place.

How come so many people thought we were getting live wallpaper and other advanced features of 2.1? Everything I read before going with a custom ROM was that neither moment or hero would get them because of weak specs.
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2.1 is ok, it is pretty fast but im not seeing a ton that was implemented. Froyo is the next big thing i think.

smixxxxer said:
shut the **** up ******
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You sir are a nonsensical, unintelligent, preposterous, unreasonable, ludicrous, simple-minded, irrational, meaningless, mentally incompetent, harebrained, platitudinous, plebeian, unsophisticated, feebleminded son of a *****.

I waited until 2.1 was released before I rooted so I'm extremely happy.

smixxxxer said:
shut the **** up ******
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I see the troublemaker is back..................

Why dont you guys just ban his host and be done with it? hell just ban his city isp and wash your hands with it.

Not really that crazy about it. My BIGGEST complaint is the com.htc.bgp bug. Phone runs great and then that crap kicks in and brings it to a crawl. Just installed Darchdroid AOSP 2.1 and i'm not looking back.. It's super fast and stable.

smixxxxer said:
why thank you very much
ahh but if it were that easy you see im using a method that essentially relays my signal all over the world which prevents sites from learning my ip address or my physical location... so at any moment i could appear to be in France China England Italy or anywhere hahaha good luck banning that
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OMG! gasp! you dont mean.....A PROXY!? oh noes!........... Not my first rodeo kid.

smixxxxer said:
this is way more than a simple proxy son put it this way a proxy is a skate board this is a stealth fighter
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LOL Regardless you are using all that senseless brain power for what? to annoy a few people who dont care about you on a online forum? Do you realize that? do you understand that i will go to sleep tonight and you will not even be on my radar? You will not even matter in any kind of existence what so ever. Your sole purpose as of right now is not even comprehend-able on this online forum. How does it feel when you get off your comfy chair at night and go to sleep knowing that you did absolutely nothing to contribute to any society what so ever. Im not sure you understand anything that goes on around you. Some people on this forum go to sleep thinking about their phones, some think about the next update or how they can contribute to this society...But no, not you, rather than say something useful you feel as if this society owes you something and we don't.
So go fly your little stealth fighter in your lonely world. Stay the **** out of ours.

smixxxxer said:
LMFAO ur way more riled up than me u just wrote a novel about how i dont bother u meanwhile im just sitting here laughing my ass off
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LoL i didn't realize i wrote a novel. Well I guess by your standards it would be a Novel since your vocabulary consists of "Bestiality", "Midgets" and "Man on Man". I must admit I am a sucker for amusing people I love making people laugh and I'm glad I stimulated your feeble minded intelligence. Have fun sleeping in your "Single wide on cinder blocks that there Earl." Tell Eminem i said hello.

smixxxxer said:
O dont worry i sleep fine just ask your mom especially after she blows me
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Are you that lonely in life that you need to hide your real IP address so that you can continue to get on here and try to stir up sh1t?
Or are you partaking in some illegal activities online that you don't want it traced back to your house.

Powers16 said:
LoL i didn't realize i wrote a novel. Well I guess by your standards it would be a Novel since your vocabulary consists of "Bestiality", "Midgets" and "Man on Man". I must admit I am a sucker for amusing people I love making people laugh and I'm glad I stimulated your feeble minded intelligence. Have fun sleeping in your "Single wide on cinder blocks that there Earl." Tell Eminem i said hello.
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seriously man. You had to disgrace eminem. Eminem has some of the most incredible metaphors and he sets up an incredible vision in the mind of alot of people. lol i joke i joke i kid with you. i do like his raps though.
but anyways man just ignore this smixxer guy. You cant win with people like this. and we need to stay on topic. he will go away.

Related

Lil Wayne fans looks like he uses a mytouch 3G link below...

http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhSM664fNZ8475cc2h
look when the video starts he is holding it in his hands and twards the end he is talking on it...
Lil Wayne one fugly monkey.
It's a mytouch..
Wonder if he has rooted it?
But anyway I don't like hiphop.
The *****es and hoes these rappers are hiring are getting younger and younger everyday.
I know it's probably his daughter or little sister, but whatever
that was the reason I went out and got one, I call my hoes on it too and get my swag on. I gots da case to match ma grill.
And who ****ing cares what kind of mobile the celebreties use ?
Does it make my mobile any better ? NOPE!
Does it make it more cool to have a Magic ? Think NOT!
Did you concider that its just another publicity stunt ? Think SO!
Who are they?
Damn those fools are f*cked up.
Magic or not Im down with one of those bottles.
@ronni:
Weather you'd like to admit or not, the more people that have our phone the better for us (as Devs), and the more Celebs that are seen with our phone the more people would buy it(not all but most). Im just happy hes not holding an Apple.
Silo45 said:
Damn those fools are f*cked up.
Magic or not Im down with one of those bottles.
@ronni:
Weather you'd like to admit or not, the more people that have our phone the better for us (as Devs), and the more Celebs that are seen with our phone the more people would buy it(not all but most). Im just happy hes not holding an Apple.
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Sure thing, my statement was just more like i dont really care if this fool got a magic or not
I agree that it's a good thing when when it comes to devs, and the more people the more interrest in making apps for Android. BUT: i dont like the idea about filling up the forum with crap like this so thats the reason to my negative response
haha like people going out to get sidekicks because T-mobile paid Paris Hilton to be seen with one.
I can sure come up with more than 20 better reasons to get an Android mobile than Lil Whine using one
in real life they all use blackberrys
ronni.rasmussen said:
I can sure come up with more than 20 better reasons to get an Android mobile than Lil Whine using one
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Thank you lol : )
ronni.rasmussen said:
Does it make my mobile any better ? NOPE!
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Wrong!

im sick of the slowness!

the hero is a nice phone but damn is it a slow device, im about ready to sell this thing. im trying to hold out until the nexus comes to sprint but anymore im ready to just give it up. anybody else tired of the slowness of the phone?
i mean did htc cripple this phone or something? even running a custom rom it's slow for me.
fixxxer2008 said:
the hero is a nice phone but damn is it a slow device, im about ready to sell this thing. im trying to hold out until the nexus comes to sprint but anymore im ready to just give it up. anybody else tired of the slowness of the phone?
i mean did htc cripple this phone or something? even running a custom rom it's slow for me.
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Mine's pretty darn quick on DC...
regaw_leinad said:
Mine's pretty darn quick on DC...
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well i hope 2.1 fixes the lag issues but as ive said, im about fed up. as much as i love android im really getting turned off here.
fixxxer2008 said:
well i hope 2.1 fixes the lag issues but as ive said, im about fed up. as much as i love android im really getting turned off here.
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what rom are you running?
I don't have any lag... I'm running Pancake (1.5) without Sense. It uses Gbhil's custom kernel with pretty nice settings, so I always have about 60MB free (no lag). I also put the Darkstar theme on it, so it looks nice even without Sense.
fixxxer2008, you've started so many threads about how you're tired of this phone or how you want something new and you just seem like you complain a lot and you want fulfillment from others and agreement that they feel the same way. You're a senior member and all, and you've been here for a heck of a lot longer than I have. But that doesn't mean that you can whine about your phone this much. If you want to sell it, then by all means sell it. But this is about as good as it gets right now for phones. There's a little bit of lag, yeah. There are weird hardware instances where the phone bricks itself. Hell we can't figure out how to change the color of the time in the toolbar.
But the HTC Heroc/ Droid Eris won the about.com award for best smartphone 2010. It's the best phone available on sprint right now, and it heralded in the debut of Sense UI for android.
If you don't like it, then stop complaining and do something about it. like sell it. or make your own ROM for it. or smash it against a wall, post it on youtube and let us all see. Words are just that; Words. They don't really do anything in real life
I'm not trying to call you out of offend anyone here, I love this community. But posts stating 'i hate my phone cuz it's not perfect' don't help progress move forward at all.
Damage control couldn't be any faster. The title says it's lighting fast and from what I've seen t literally is that. I haven't seen ASOP run any faster on my phone. So if DC is any indication then the 2.1 release will be pretty quick, or the ROMS built off it at least will be as fast.
For what it's worth my wife also has a hero, and she's on stock 1.5. It's slow as hell. I reflashed mine to update my PRL to fresh 1.1 and IT was slow as hell (though much faster than stock). Then I went back to DC 1.0 where things are instantaneous.
So yes, if you're still running 1.5 then it's likely going to be slow. Also try and remember that it's one of the first Android phones. It's going to take time to work the bugs out of the OS and the 2.1 ROMs do a damned good job of speeding up the operations.
Yeah I saw if you want FAST, got to DamageControl. It's just ridiculous
rt1oo said:
fixxxer2008, you've started so many threads about how you're tired of this phone or how you want something new and you just seem like you complain a lot and you want fulfillment from others and agreement that they feel the same way. You're a senior member and all, and you've been here for a heck of a lot longer than I have. But that doesn't mean that you can whine about your phone this much. If you want to sell it, then by all means sell it. But this is about as good as it gets right now for phones. There's a little bit of lag, yeah. There are weird hardware instances where the phone bricks itself. Hell we can't figure out how to change the color of the time in the toolbar.
But the HTC Heroc/ Droid Eris won the about.com award for best smartphone 2010. It's the best phone available on sprint right now, and it heralded in the debut of Sense UI for android.
If you don't like it, then stop complaining and do something about it. like sell it. or make your own ROM for it. or smash it against a wall, post it on youtube and let us all see. Words are just that; Words. They don't really do anything in real life
I'm not trying to call you out of offend anyone here, I love this community. But posts stating 'i hate my phone cuz it's not perfect' don't help progress move forward at all.
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I completely agree with everything that was just stated, and applaud rt100 for taking the time to do so.
it's cool..to each their own..ive just put it up for sale im afraid.
when the nexus comes to sprint ill hop on it!
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fixxxer2008, you've started so many threads about how you're tired of this phone or how you want something new and you just seem like you complain a lot and you want fulfillment from others and agreement that they feel the same way. You're a senior member and all, and you've been here for a heck of a lot longer than I have. But that doesn't mean that you can whine about your phone this much. If you want to sell it, then by all means sell it. But this is about as good as it gets right now for phones. There's a little bit of lag, yeah. There are weird hardware instances where the phone bricks itself. Hell we can't figure out how to change the color of the time in the toolbar.
But the HTC Heroc/ Droid Eris won the about.com award for best smartphone 2010. It's the best phone available on sprint right now, and it heralded in the debut of Sense UI for android.
If you don't like it, then stop complaining and do something about it. like sell it. or make your own ROM for it. or smash it against a wall, post it on youtube and let us all see. Words are just that; Words. They don't really do anything in real life
I'm not trying to call you out of offend anyone here, I love this community. But posts stating 'i hate my phone cuz it's not perfect' don't help progress move forward at all.
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QOUTED FOR F_____ TRUTH!!!!!!
I've been saying this to him for weeks, but when I say anything opposed to his point of view, I get called a troll...
Sell your phone and stop the pity party...
fixxxer2008 said:
it's cool..to each their own..ive just put it up for sale im afraid.
when the nexus comes to sprint ill hop on it!
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How much??? and where?
azyouthinkeyeiz said:
QOUTED FOR F_____ TRUTH!!!!!!
I've been saying this to him for weeks, but when I say anything opposed to his point of view, I get called a troll...
Sell your phone and stop the pity party...
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unlike you guys i have no desire to make or learn to build roms and themes, i just install. look i payed a ton of $$ for this phone and i want to get my moneys worth. you guys know the hero has been known for the lag and slowness and im not the only one complaining about it...just do a google search. god forbid i give my opinion.
Hum im running fresh 2.0b and couldnt be happier..fast runs great..I agree regardless if your not happy.. by all means get something else.. but since u have had just bout every sprint phone in the current roster..then maybe a dumbphone whileu wait for the N1 may be in order..lol but im sure by the time the N1 comes out u will find something else wrong with it.. so not really sure what to tell u.. find a phone and live with it.
I hear the iPhone is pretty fast
DamageControl fixed all the issues I had with speed. You really should try it.
rt1oo said:
fixxxer2008, you've started so many threads about how you're tired of this phone or how you want something new and you just seem like you complain a lot and you want fulfillment from others and agreement that they feel the same way. You're a senior member and all, and you've been here for a heck of a lot longer than I have. But that doesn't mean that you can whine about your phone this much. If you want to sell it, then by all means sell it. But this is about as good as it gets right now for phones. There's a little bit of lag, yeah.
I'm not trying to call you out of offend anyone here, I love this community. But posts stating 'i hate my phone cuz it's not perfect' don't help progress move forward at all.
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Thank you!!
I saw a thread where you listed the phones you have owned in the past year. It's more then obvious you can not be pleased by any means or you have out of control ADD (me too) But I channel it into making my phone better, rather then starting pity party posts.
Then there is this classic uh oh... im getting bored with the hero
Not to mention all the replies that you posted threatening to return your Hero because of dust under the screen.
Please please just sell your Hero. Then move on to the next forum with a new laundry list of complaints about <insert phone name here>
so how much you want for it
so since this thread really doesn't have a point...
Did you know that chocolate PEZ doesn't really taste like chocolate?

Samsung Moment gets 2.1 official???

I just read as I googled "Sprint 2.1 update" I get all kinds of, Sprint releases Moment update 2.1, I thought we were getting the "official bits" first?
Why is it I always pick the phone that takes forever to get anything done on, lol...
Thank God for XDA!
I think you need to re-read your google links, as it was a leak.
Something that we've had a few times now for the 2.1 roms...
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better to just leave it alone..
sorry op... forget I said anything..
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better to just leave it alone..
sorry op... forget I said anything..
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Egg-Sacktly!!! And who the hell cares about the Moment?? This forum is for the Hero, not the Moment.
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Egg-Sacktly!!! And who the hell cares about the Moment?? This forum is for the Hero, not the Moment.
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Its Ed Zachery.
Yea but as seen by the endless Evo threads here,
Not many users understand the role of seperate device forums...
Just lazy end users.. lol..
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Egg-Sacktly and Ed Zachery are both great... !!! lol
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Yea but as seen by the endless Evo threads here,
Not many users understand the role of seperate device forums...
Just lazy end users.. lol..
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Egg-Sacktly and Ed Zachery are both great... !!! lol
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I would prefer Evo threads. LOL Its HTC after all....
azyouthinkeyeiz said:
Yea but as seen by the endless Evo threads here,
Not many users understand the role of seperate device forums...
Just lazy end users.. lol..
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Egg-Sacktly and Ed Zachery are both great... !!! lol
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i know im so using those =P
and on topic, the moment will probably get the update i think first, its plain android and its much easier to port android 2.1 1:1 like that.
Im aware this is the HTC Hero thread, and I dont care about the moment, other than that fact that it seemed, and Im correcting myself I did not see anything that was officially stating that it was official, I was mearly stating that everything I saw, was saying that Hero would get the bits first, then moment,.
Im sorry if I posted this in the wrong place, but Im a hero user, and it urked me.
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Im aware this is the HTC Hero thread, and I dont care about the moment, other than that fact that it seemed, and Im correcting myself I did not see anything that was officially stating that it was official, I was mearly stating that everything I saw, was saying that Hero would get the bits first, then moment,.
Im sorry if I posted this in the wrong place, but Im a hero user, and it urked me.
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That wasn't to you specifically.. Just a joke about the forum.. Don't worry about it.. You can post whatever you want, this place is for you to learn...
All I can say is that it's about damn time. I've been loving 2.1 on my hero for the last couple weeks while my wife's moment has been crying itself to sleep. Looks like they've already rooted it over at SDX, so I'm gonna probably flash that whenever I get home from work.
Of course, what would be *really* nice is if Sprint put out something official for a change.
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All I can say is that it's about damn time. I've been loving 2.1 on my hero for the last couple weeks while my wife's moment has been crying itself to sleep. Looks like they've already rooted it over at SDX, so I'm gonna probably flash that whenever I get home from work.
Of course, what would be *really* nice is if Sprint put out something official for a change.
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Has sprint ever officially done anything
This is crazy...
Just for you narrow-minded people...
Just because it is not "officially" released on your schedule, doesn't mean anything negative to a company...
Just look at Verizon and the Storm 1.. People kept hounding and hounding Verizon for updates for the phone, but when the update wasn't what they expected, go crazy that they should have done better QA...
It is Sprint's responsibility to make sure all issues are addressed and taken care of... Do you have any idea how many thousands of issues are brought in the testing phase???
Do you know how hard it would be to guarantee a million phones for retail, from a single demo(test) device??
Have a just a tiny bit of understanding and stop complaining....
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Has sprint ever officially done anything
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I completely 100% agree.... why do I sell phones for them?
Looks like the hero is set for the 16th now.
http://www.ozcarguide.com/technology/cellphone-pda/2599-htc-hero-android-2-1-update
Roman G said:
Has sprint ever officially done anything
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Oh yes, They OFFICIALLY suck.. lol
azyouthinkeyeiz said:
This is crazy...
Just for you narrow-minded people...
Just because it is not "officially" released on your schedule, doesn't mean anything negative to a company...
Just look at Verizon and the Storm 1.. People kept hounding and hounding Verizon for updates for the phone, but when the update wasn't what they expected, go crazy that they should have done better QA...
It is Sprint's responsibility to make sure all issues are addressed and taken care of... Do you have any idea how many thousands of issues are brought in the testing phase???
Do you know how hard it would be to guarantee a million phones for retail, from a single demo(test) device??
Have a just a tiny bit of understanding and stop complaining....
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Narrow minded? Is that would you consider Microsoft? They release software that has no business being in the market place, only to patch it every tuesday when admins like me all over the world find bugs and exploits, and errors and problems. Just release the damn thing, and do incrementals as needed. Take the M$ route and get us what we want!
lol
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Looks like the hero is set for the 16th now.
http://www.ozcarguide.com/technology/cellphone-pda/2599-htc-hero-android-2-1-update
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I would take that with a grain of salt, if I had a dime for every article I saw that had a date in it, I'd have enough money to buy Google and get 2.1
It'll be out whenever Sprint is ready. It doesn't help that they are dragging their feet, most likely for their proprietary apps. I'm not holding my breath.
muzz3256 said:
if I had a dime for every article I saw that had a date in it, I'd have enough money to buy Google and get 2.1
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you've seen 1.5 trillion articles about this?
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you've seen 1.5 trillion articles about this?
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pretty dang close

Forum demographics (male or female)

I must be wrong, but every time I see someone in this forum, I assume he is a guy. I must be wrong. Are there any girls here?
(sorry for the trivial question, but I just think it can't be true).
everyone knows there are no girls on the internet, sheesh.
ha ha ha ha. they don't care about their cell phones like us.
Not as many girls on this one as some of the other android forums but yes there are a few of us .... I'm mainly on SprintUsers.com but most links refer to here so decided to see what I can do over here.
Girl? What is this, Girl-thing, that you speak of? I'm intrigued...
LOL
LoL. I have had to explain at least 3 times to my girlfriend why she doesn't want to get the purple LG phone with flowers on it and the $70 unlimited data plan.
She is a pHD.
I don't foresee her joining this forum in the near future.
my girl couldnt even use the evo touchscreen. she just kept hitting it with her nails or something awkward *facepalm*
back to the razr she goes.
i once saw a girl on a linux forum and she schooled everyone.. it was one of the hottest things ive ever seen.. but at xda, i dont think so.. plus its probably better that i dont find out cause then i would only come to xda to answer her questions as soon as i found out cause even if she is butt ugly i can find the inner beauty in a tech gurl.. gawd, tech gurls are such a turn on
let me know if u need anything sasha
nenn said:
everyone knows there are no girls on the internet, sheesh.
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ROFL!!! this just made my day! well done!
nenn said:
everyone knows there are no girls on the internet, sheesh.
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hilarious
10char
I've been checking out XDA since way back when I first got my FUZE. So much great info here. I rooted my FUZE and was very happy with the results. Now I'm enjoying the EVO. It's nice to see that there's at least 1 other girl on here! LOL.
My gf has a Evo too (She switched from a iPhone) and she is in love with Android and loves having her phone as she says "hacked" but we know as rooted. She doesn't know about XDA though, I just install the cool stuff for her
(Didn't like my post and regretted it...but had to wait till now to delete)
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gawd, tech gurls are cool
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yeaaaaa... i agree.
My ex couldn't even figure out my iPhone, yet somehow my 62 year old mom figured out how to use her evo and start texting, too!
But other than that, I don't think very many girls know what a forum even means, much less how to find one. Haha.
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But other than that, I don't think very many girls know what a forum even means, much less how to find one. Haha.
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sweetheart, comments like this is why so many girls have not posted. BTW, putting a HaHa on the end of a sentence still does not make it funny.
There are some woman here. Not sure how many though. My wife has my old hero and is eying my evo for when I grab the next best thing in a few months.
my grandma jus got an EVO she rooted it all her self......maybe i should bring her to this thread and to u guys dont u guys think so...........
j/k
I don't believe that hacking phones is a "girly" thing to do. or is it? I do wonder about some of you guys though.....
Just like you wouldn't really expect alot of girls to be drag racing. There are a few. And these girls are one of a kind.
I don't mean to stereo-type any women here....but it has been my seeing that most women prefer more of a girly like life sytle.... very rarely have I ever met a women who care about how fast a phone is.. how many gigahertz it has, how much RAM or the difference in kernels or software let alone all the technical b.s. we throw in between. But it is nice to see them around. For example... I serve the country in uniform, and while yes they are here in uniform. They don't much care for technical details of there job. They just show up and do what is asked of them. Nothing more. And again while most are wrapped up with clubs and fashion and what have you there is a small handful of them that do surprise us.... glad to see at least there are surprises here.
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A Homeless Guy in the Park says I should keep Froyo

He said Froyo is a great version.
I just bought a used Incredible,and I know that many people now have Gingerbread.
Do I have to do anything special to keep Froyo? Are there any kind of automatic or OTA upgrades I need to block?
This is my first droid.
I think the gingerbread update got pulled. So you are probably safe there
Sent from my ADR6300
Juan Handed said:
He said Froyo is a great version.
I just bought a used Incredible,and I know that many people now have Gingerbread.
Do I have to do anything special to keep Froyo? Are there any kind of automatic or OTA upgrades I need to block?
This is my first droid.
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You really should not talk to homeless guys in the park, even if their named Einstein.
Moving to gingerbread was best thing I have done since i moved out of the park and got a house not built out of cardboard.
There are a few reasons I miss froyo, but on the whole gingerbread is superior.
For one, tasker never really worked the same after gingerbread. Google changed how apps could interact with the system rendering some of my secret agent-y profiles useless. I also had a phone finder profile that will no longer work as well.
Then there's the navigation-music volume issue. I've not had this issue since I switched to using Google music, but almost all third party music apps would not play nice with navigation volume.
Aside from those two issues, gingerbread is better.
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Juan Handed said:
He said Froyo is a great version.
I just bought a used Incredible,and I know that many people now have Gingerbread.
Do I have to do anything special to keep Froyo? Are there any kind of automatic or OTA upgrades I need to block?
This is my first droid.
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If a ota update message pops up just cancel or decline it and you can keep froyo forever. If your phone is rooted you can dissable the update check by editing the build.prop file in /system.
cmlusco said:
If a ota update message pops up just cancel or decline it and you can keep froyo forever. If your phone is rooted you can dissable the update check by editing the build.prop file in /system.
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in a lot of ways froyo is better, but as a whole development has moved on to gingerbread. So you will typically end up with better ROM's and overall performance from upgrading.
Not to mention that froyo has a couple security leaks that were patched in gingerbread. Nothing major or to be concerned about, but it is out there.
I love it that a homeless guy gave you smartphone advice I'm running a Gingerbread rom with some sense 2.1 mixed in and it runs amazingly well.
Don't take advice from a homeless man unless you need to know which bridge is the safest to sleep under.
GB > Froyo.
You would think the patched security flaws would be enough to upgrade, not to mention the performance upgrade. I guess for some people that's not enough, hell my one buddy is still running an old ass version of Froyo on his Droid 2. As soon as the devs got Gingerbread on this phone I switched and never looked back.
Azag Thoth said:
You really should not talk to homeless guys in the park, even if their named Einstein.
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phaze one said:
Don't take advice from a homeless man unless you need to know which bridge is the safest to sleep under.
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Jeez - the close-mindedness of people these days!
I get my smartphone advice from the local homeless population, car advice from the 7-11 cashier, my medical advice from the guy who sells bottled water by the interstate on-ramp, and relationship advice from the guy in the park who yells at dogs.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to boot up Eclair, pour some windshield-wiper fluid into my transmission, swallow half a bottle of Airborne for my aching knee, and fling poo at this girl I like.
byrong said:
Jeez - the close-mindedness of people these days!
I get my smartphone advice from the local homeless population, car advice from the 7-11 cashier, my medical advice from the guy who sells bottled water by the interstate on-ramp, and relationship advice from the guy in the park who yells at dogs.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to boot up Eclair, pour some windshield-wiper fluid into my transmission, swallow half a bottle of Airborne for my aching knee, and fling poo at this girl I like.
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you get car advice from the 7-11 cashier too?
small world.
wayneb02 said:
I think the gingerbread update got pulled. So you are probably safe there
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Dang was it really? HTC is slacking!
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byrong said:
Now if you'll excuse me, I have to..swallow half a bottle of Airborne for my aching knee
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Wait a second, what are you trying to say? LOL
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Wait a second, what are you trying to say? LOL
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I'm saying that according to the expert who sells water by the interstate, Airborne is nothing less than a revolutionary breakthrough in medicine. DUH!
Of course, it should never be confused with US Army Airborne School, of which you are a graduate, correct? I don't know a whole lot about that. I'll have to go ask the woman who scrubs toilets in my office.
byrong said:
I'm saying that according to the expert who sells water by the interstate, Airborne is nothing less than a revolutionary breakthrough in medicine. DUH!
Of course, it should never be confused with US Army Airborne School, of which you are a graduate, correct? I don't know a whole lot about that. I'll have to go ask the woman who scrubs toilets in my office.
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Yes, I've been accused of that. What got me was the fact that most paratroopers, those who jump a lot, get bad knees and ankles from all the constant impact. And she probably does know a lot about the school. The military in general, with the exception of the Air Force that I noticed (I think it's the fact that there are few toilets on planes), is a firm believer in toilet scrubbing complete with the pine oil smell. We did have to get up at 0300 to clean restrooms that we rarely used. Fun times.

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