Whats up guys
Is anyone interested in developing an app that will automatically update your wallpaper to show your location on a map? Specifying the interval and everything.
Would probably eat up battery..what do you guys think?
Joe
Interesting idea, but some observations:
You need to have the map at least for the home city and be able to locate your coordinates.
As you mentioned, battery life may be drastically shortened.
While in a building you won't be able to get a fix.
It may interfere and periodically slow down other processes.
Quite honestly, putting a map as a wallpaper is not exactly attractive.
I usually know where I am
Ahhhhhhh, where am I?? Whew, thanks wallpaper! Just kidding, cool idea, your better off just using GPS Today, it has a plugin that can obtain a fix at set intervals and display the info your looking for, including direction and speed. You can also pull up the map from the plugin, and see how far you are from the closest contact.
Hi everyone, I'm having a bit of trouble with my devices time keeper....
Ever since I changed the home tab clock, the regional settings don't seem to work. I like my clock to be in 24h format but all I get is bloody AM/PM!
I've tried to uninstall .cab and soft-reset back to original to no avail, and just wondered if anyone else had this problem or an idea of how to sort it?
Thanks in advance.
Time format...
What time format do you have set in your 'Regional Settings'? If they are set the way you want, but the time still displays in another format, the developer has coded the format within the application, so you won't be able to change it from the device settings
I have it on UK regional settings, when bought it was on US settings, but, having changed backwards and forwards it does'nt seem to like either.... I'll try with a few more regions and see what happens....
Sorted now.... for some reason it started to work when I changed the settings to another region, switched back to UK and all was fine
Today my Sprint Snap 511 popped up a dialog that asked me if i wanted to accept or reject a new firmware update. I'm happy with how the phone has been performing, so i rejected the update pending some research.
anyone have an idea what this was? is it winmo 6.5? some sort of minor update? how do i even get back to that dialog if i want to accept the firmware update?
I have the same question. Noone knows anything?
dougmwpsu said:
Today my Sprint Snap 511 popped up a dialog that asked me if i wanted to accept or reject a new firmware update. I'm happy with how the phone has been performing, so i rejected the update pending some research.
anyone have an idea what this was? is it winmo 6.5? some sort of minor update? how do i even get back to that dialog if i want to accept the firmware update?
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i got the update it seem'ed to have improved battery life i have not charged my phone since the update, about 48 hours ago .... maybe
Firmware Update for Sprint Snap--->DO NOT DO IT!
I installed it, and while the phone seemed to work well at first, it does one thing that will render your phone almost useless.
You can no longer change your default ringer, even to one of the pre-installed ringers.
In fact, I cannot even set the phone to vibrate.
HTC will tell you to do a hard reset but it will not fix the firmware problem.
So DO NOT INSTALL THE FIRMWARE UPDATE!
It is not a WM6.5 update.
I saw someone post in another forum that after they did the firmware update they could not change their ringer and they also could not receive text messages. They could send text messages though. I'm definitely going to wait.
Does anybody have any of the old firmware that they can upload? this new firmware is just ridiculous.
I agree with Dr. Gizmo. DO NOT download this new firmware.
I have been noticing something odd with my yahoo! email service on my Snap. I used to be able to attach multiple pictures into one email message. Now, I can no longer attach pictures in my email message. If I want to send an image via email, I have to locate the file in my album, then click 'send in email.' This is extremely frustrating, as I can only send one message with one attached file at a time.
I thought by doing a reset of the factory settings this would remedy the solution. I was wrong! After backing up my files and defaulting all of the settings, now my ringer is stuck at the default option. I can change it from silent, to work, to normal. However, I can make no changes to the actual ringer, ie "standard2, melody, drums, etc, etc."
I was half asleep when I pressed "accept" when prompted the firmware update. I wish I had pressed "Decline."
DO NOT accept the firmware updates.
Does anyone know a work around? Is there anyway we can reverse the firmware updates?
I have the same problem as all of you and I feel like an idiot for accepting the update when it popped up on my phone on March 24. I cannot change my wallpaper to a picture of my own or change the main ring tones. I called HTC support and they told me they sent NO firmeware updates out and that I should hard reset the phone. Do not hard reset the phone as this DOES NOT correct the problem...which really scares me because if a hard reset does not work then what the heck will.
Does anyone know if there is a way to disable the update or undo it?
Also, if HTC did not send out the update, it might have been an update that windows sent out and they are to blame. This needs to be addressed and fixed soon. By the way Sprint, please don't tell people to hard reset the phone...That DOES NOT fix this error.
Please help anyone
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PirateTD,
You should be able to change your homescreen background image (wallpaper) from the menu at the bottom of the htc homescreen.
The ringer won't change from anywhere
SnapJoeSnap
Nope..changing wallpaper overall is not working.. try to change the wallpaper to one of your personal pics and it will say "Unable to set picture as Home screen wallpaper."
it will say this no matter what picture you try to change it to and this DID NOT start until the windows update.
If you go under settings and click on homescreen and then change it under where it says background image, it will change it but it will not change it to what you select. I have selected multiple different images under here and it either stays the same or changes it to something TOTALLY different from what you selected and i have no idea but it wont let you pick a wallpaper now.
Please try this everyone and let me know what it does to ypu
Anyone have any idea how to get the old ROM prior to the update and how to install in on the phone..
Any help would be appreciated
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SnapJoeSnap
Nope..changing wallpaper overall is not working.. try to change the wallpaper to one of your personal pics and it will say "Unable to set picture as Home screen wallpaper."
it will say this no matter what picture you try to change it to and this DID NOT start until the windows update.
If you go under settings and click on homescreen and then change it under where it says background image, it will change it but it will not change it to what you select. I have selected multiple different images under here and it either stays the same or changes it to something TOTALLY different from what you selected and i have no idea but it wont let you pick a wallpaper now.
Please try this everyone and let me know what it does to ypu
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Funny thing, this win mobile is... I went through start>settings>home screen and I CAN change the picture setting to whatever I like (it does not give me the error) BUT the image displayed won't change. If I go back to settings>home I can see that the change stuck, but the picture won't change even thou it looks like the wallpaper is 'refreshing'. I was sure I could and did as I rechecked before posting and I would get the "error..." message from settings>homescreen but not from HTC Home sliding panel AND I saw the diff pic in the wallpaper.
EDIT: Wait just a minute... I can't insert files into emails!!! What the...???
PirateTD said:
Anyone have any idea how to get the old ROM prior to the update and how to install in on the phone..
Any help would be appreciated
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Yes it would be. Can anyone help us guys out?
Sorry I can not help you with uninstalling the firmware update, but I can tell you this the update if from neither HTC nor Microsoft it is a Sprint Firmware update. The word is the update that has caused problems for our phone was released in part to put an end to the practice of using the phones data services on our laptops. As much as I do not agree as to how Sprint has handeled this I understand their reasons with some people taking advantage of this ability to hog bandwith with torrent downloads, watching movies... So if you are one of these people thank you very much and as a Sprint user I do not want to see Sprints service affected like ATT's with not being able to make calls because everyone is using their IPhones. Get your self an aircard!
Ok I have found a few work arounds to the main ringer and the home screen picture issue.
The first work around the Home Screen Picture - thanks to the update above and a locked registery the settings panel no longer works... But if you use the Picture and Video app (included with the phone) to set your home screen back ground picture. Just open the image you want to use with the app and with the use of the "menu" you can set your home screen image there.
The main ringer is a little different but along the same lines. Making this change requires something along the lines of a ringtome manager that allows you to change the main ringer in it, and the phone does not come with one. However I did a trial version of Photo Contact Pro that had this ability. Now I did not care for Photo Contact Pro after trying it out but still it allowed me to change the main ringer while I had it on my phone. Now I can no longer change my main ringer because I uninstalled the App but then because it was a trial version it did not cost me anything. So if you really need to change your ringer once here is an option, however if you are one of those who wants to change their ringer on a regular basis, you will then have to find an app that will allow you to did this or wait until a fix is released.
As far as an email issue someone wrote about here you will need to double check your email account settings. I had problems sending emails from my phone and found the auto settings were not correct for the smtp (out going mail) server and I had to set them manualy...
Sprint finally released an update to the Snap s511, you can find it on the website. It fixes all the problems that the bad update caused
Hello,
How does one control the homescreen weather app (new verizon imagio)? I live in Raleigh, and have set the cities to figure out current city, Raleigh, and London. But for some reason, the homescreen app is displaying information for Secunderabad (high of 109, low of 80), which must actually be somewhere in BFE...so WTF?
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I live in Chapel Hill, down the road from you, and I sometimes have it tell me I'm in Chisnau (no idea where this is-Google Maps is telling me Moldova), but I wonder if it has anything to do with the GPS maybe not getting signal, or sufficient signal? Happens when I'm at work more than not, inside a metal building.
Good luck!
Travis K.
I've had my 16GB DVP since late Dec 2010. I have generally been very pleased with it so far. I haven't had any of the crashing or freezing problems that so many other people seem to be having with their DVP. Like everyone else, I have been dealing with the usual WP7 bugs and glitches, but nothing I would call phone or DVP specific.
The only major annoyance I have had is with the weather apps and their live tiles. I have tried them all numerous times each and the Live Tiles just will not stay updated. They will work OK for a day or two, but then lock up and fail to update for days at a time. Eventually, I just uninstall the app and move onto another one.
Today was the final straw. I bought the new Weather Live app for $0.99 because of its' supposed excellent Live Tile features. I installed it at 11 am ET. It is now almost 2 pm ET and the Live Tile has not done a thing. Of course, I have enabled Live Tile in the settings, set it to update Hourly and turned on the GPS Location. Launching the app gives me the current weather conditions just fine, but the Live Tile remains unchanged.
This leads me to believe my Live Tiles are just hosed and I should probably do a Hard Reset to see if that helps. I have no problem doing that. I really don't have anything personal stored on the phone. I've sync'd with the Zune software on my PC, and all of my emails and contacts are backed up on the cloud.
The only thing I am concerned about losing are my call history and any loose phone numbers that aren't associated to any of my backed up contacts. I'm not sure if any of these are saved to the SIM like the old feature phones used to do.
So my question is, has anyone ever done a Hard Reset and lost anything they thought should have been backed up? Is there anything I should make sure to back up manually? Any other tips or advice? TIA.
Advice? Yes, don't waste your time!
I just did a hard reset yesterday. The only thing I reinstalled was the weather channel app and another app that uses toast notifications. Those are the only 2 live tiles that I have running on my device for 24 hours now and the weather tile has only updated once.
I've now given up on live tiles and am waiting for mango for the fix. Don't bother hard resetting and losing all your information.