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Im not new to WinMo and I'v had the HD2 for about 3 days now but coming from Android like most of u, and was wondering what solutions you have found for software. To me the Windows Market SUXs big time right now. nothing good worth downloading (free anyways) and i have noticed theres not manny, to no choices when it comes to photo editing or manipulating software
where can i get some software to make the phone more usable. seems very limited right out of the box for me and i wanna "Android it up" a bit if its at all possible... and i dont mean install android apps
i miss the:
photo editing apps in general, not just android ones
googlesky - i know, i know, its a google app but something similar should be out there.. no?
googlemaps - (see googlesky note) (winmo doesnt have turn by turn on the included googlemaps...). however, i dont blame google for the limitations, it is their software.
extra messaging apps
a working barcode scanner - very useful app
any type of flash?
so whats everyone doing/using??
thank
rlee
Take a look here for what you need, this is the real marketplace for WM 6.5.x!
For Flash Skyfire browser helps, and Smaberg has a version of Opera 10 with flash enabled.
I know there are several barcode readers, don't use it, but they're available, as are alternate messaging apps/UIs.
Don't know about photo editing apps, but I'm sure they must be out there too...
Windows mobile is a far easier platform to get software from. You just search the internet, as you would for PC software. You can always look on xda too, and remember that if you do a search in the HD2 forum, you're only searching a very small portion of the site. You're better searching the whole forum. Wacky.banana kindly posted a thread about searching. It's stickied in this forum.
Hi, You could try http://freewarepocketpc.net. It also has it's own app that you can install on your HD2 to download applications directly to it. Yes the WinMo apps are fragmented all over the place with no single point of download. A lot are crap, but the same can be said for Android and iPhone. You hear stories that developers are giving up on WinMo 6. For bar codes i use i-nigma and Mobiletag but they are far from perfect.
Not sure about your impression that most of the HD2 users come from an Android background, interesting point of view A lot are interested in porting Android to it though
NZtechfreak thanks for the replies, trying out the skyfire browser right now.
johncmolyneux, im far from a windows noob, but for this phone i have searched the web, both through yahoo and google, have searched through forums and all the software i find either isnt compatible or i dont find what im looking for exactly. As i posted above, picture editing software should be common but there is not one single app available that runs properly.
rlee
cMMY69 said:
Hi, You could try freewarepocketpc.net It also has it's own app that you can install on your HD2 to download applications directly to it. Yes the WinMo apps are fragmented all over the place with no single point of download. A lot are crap, but the same can be said for Android and iPhone. You hear stories that developers are giving up on WinMo 6. For bar codes i use i-nigma and Mobiletag but they are far from perfect.
Not sure about your impression that most of the HD2 users come from an Android background, interesting point of view A lot are interested in porting Android to it though
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Thanks for that link - installed the appstore from that site. Cool
As someone moving from Android, I've been a little disappointed thus far too.
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Not sure about your impression that most of the HD2 users come from an Android background, interesting point of view A lot are interested in porting Android to it though
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i didnt mean all but alot of us jumped onto the bandwagon in hopes that android will be available to us in the near future
and i wouldnt say im disapointed with the HD2, in fact i think its awesome! its just different from what i've been using for a year and a half. but this phone has features that would make it hard to go back to android hardware so lets load up the sofware and see what happens!
rlee
rlee008 said:
...but this phone has features that would make it hard to go back to android hardware
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So you've not seen the HTC Evo then?
johncmolyneux said:
So you've not seen the HTC Evo then?
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yeah i have seen the evo but that's coming to Sprint not to t-mobile so my options are a bit limited cause I'm still under contract with them. i got hopes that the evo will help with the development of Android on the HD2.
rlee008 said:
NZtechfreak thanks for the replies, trying out the skyfire browser right now.
johncmolyneux, im far from a windows noob, but for this phone i have searched the web, both through yahoo and google, have searched through forums and all the software i find either isnt compatible or i dont find what im looking for exactly. As i posted above, picture editing software should be common but there is not one single app available that runs properly.
rlee
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Resco Photo Manager - not free but not expensive either and has reasonably good photo editing capabilities. Certainly enought for mobile devices, given the assumption that hardcore editing would be done on a PC
I just read this thread at Android Forums and confirmed it with my wife's Captivate. Usually in TouchWiz, the homescreen defaults to the far right until you get to 4 screen, then it's always #4. The captivate now has a little home icon so you can set the center screen regardless of how many screens it has.
Did I miss something or did we just not get that option? If not, can it be ported to the Vibrant?
If anyone knows how to do that and needs a file or package to look at, let me know which one and I'll upload it.
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I just read this thread at Android Forums and confirmed it with my wife's Captivate. Usually in TouchWiz, the homescreen defaults to the far right until you get to 4 screen, then it's always #4. The captivate now has a little home icon so you can set the center screen regardless of how many screens it has.
Did I miss something or did we just not get that option? If not, can it be ported to the Vibrant?
If anyone knows how to do that and needs a file or package to look at, let me know which one and I'll upload it.
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This is touchwiz30launcher.apk from captivate. It is modified by GTG in the captivate forum.
modified twlauncher
I have tested this on my girlfriend's vibrant, and it is working, and eugene has also incorporated it into his jpo froyo rom. Since this works, theoretically any captivate TouchWiz30Launcher.apk should work on vibrant.
Cool, thank you for that.
I still think it's lame that Samsung didn't provide the same features to every Galaxy S device. I wrote them an email. That'll show 'em!
Dur. This doesn't work on 2.1 I guess. Force closes all around. Good thing I'm obsessive about making backups.
Mod Edit: As stated by forum moderator jerdog in post 814:
FORUM RULES:
"Encouraging members to participate in forum activities on other phone related sites is prohibited."
The issue here is that directing traffic elsewhere is against XDA rules, and while there is no requirement to actively support your development efforts here at XDA, saying it probably won't be supported at XDA and that they can get support on your forum is kind of low and has been removed after requesting LBS do so - to which he did not after 2 days.
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will test this one. thanks
on v1.6
update 6.20.2011
~watching youtube on app and in browser are hit or miss, you should work on it to be more compatible
~so far so good though, thanks
update 6.21
~facebook FC's
will update this when i find more problems, when i find more time
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will test this one. thanks
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cool let me know what you think so far and if you let me know what the things are you missing the most and really need besides Flash. LOL but yeah I want to make this a Honeycomb that is a well rounded Android. So i want the advice of new features and such they have heard about.
Checked out the youtube video, looks pretty sweet. Will try it out tomorrow to see the improvements with hardware acceleration etc.
Edit: Let's see some benchmark comparisons between BoS and Illuminate.
Make sure you do the following
Unzip recover.zip and move recovery folder to /sdcard folder
The recover.zip file can be found in the Roebeets thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1078897
Regards,
Kenny N
Humm -- I got stuck with the boot loop . I am updating from 3588 stock recovery
Regards,
Kenny N
After half an hour struggling, I am able to load your HoneyComb edition. I am going to play around with it.
To make everyone's life easier.
Make sure you nvflash your device first using the following nvflash image
http://www.mediafire.com/?g7vorg66iiq29vm
1. Download the nvflash image above.
2. Download the recover.zip from (http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=596319&d=1305415712 ) and extract the recovery folder to SD root
3. Download this honeycomb image and rename it to update.zip and copy it to your SD root
4. nvflash the nvflash image
5. Reboot with Power + Volumn up. This should bring you to the new bootloader
6. Flash the SDCard external update.zip
7. Wipes
9. Restart
G'd luck . Thanks linuxboxsolution for his contribution. I will comment later.
Nice -- OpenGL is working perfectly. The benchmark from Quandrant is 1780. Not great but can't really complain
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Last Update 6/6/2011
NOTICE: Flash still not currently Working please see
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That's funny, I could have sworn you claimed previously to have "fixed flash" too!
Does enabling OpenGL break the stock browser? Or have you done something to work around this issue?
Is the main difference from Roebeet's HCAdam and Vegacomb mashup that is Bottle of Smoke that you have enabled opengl?
This looks very promising, currently running BoS 3.3 and was about to jump to 4.1 but I might have to try this first. My apologies if this has already been covered but what exactly is the difference between this ROM and roe's BoS? How were you able to get hw acceleration on here while BoS lacks it?
Thanks alot for your contribution, and I'll be sure to post my findings later today.
just wondering
so if the opengl is fixed, how come flashed is still hasnt fixed?
i believ robeet said the opengl is what makes flash doesn't work
OpenGL is enabled but not working.. it lacks on driver and without flash no OPENGL.. note on that..
and one more thing.. BoS has HWaccel and working, like gingerbread... the only problem is video HWaccel HD playback..
BoS 3.3 or 4.0+ boot quickly too, smooth UI like that, so i can't really tell what's the difference between the two, except for bootanimation.. LOL
I, for one, appreciate your efforts
Going to start posting in XDA's GTAB forums, at least sporadically. I think enough time has passed and things have changed around here (ie a lot of 1.2 mods are popping up, which I think is a good thing). Plus I'm not really seeing the moderator "changes" that were heavily present in April. So maybe things are back to normal. Maybe.
With that in mind, I wanted to say that your efforts are much appreciated - the end goal is to get a good working HC ROM for the users out there and if you have the ear of some people to make that happen, then that's what counts. I already mentioned in Slatedroid that I plan to pull back a bit after this month with modding the GTAB, so any extra dev / modding work is ALWAYS appreciated, imo.
Thanks again.
Looks awesome, will flash once I get my new PC built >
Thanks roe
So first of all thank you for your work.
But this is different from bottle of smoke because it enables OpenGL right?
Any other changes?
I hate to be a Richard but, can we get some screenies fam?
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I hate to be a Richard but, can we get some screenies fam?
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Not quite sure what that means, but if you want to see what it looks like, you can watch the youtube preview. It's at the bottom of the OP or here.
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I hate to be a Richard but, can we get some screenies fam?
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Rich, there is an almost 9 minute video in the first post.
Now that we know that 4.5.91 is the "official" gingerbread build for the Atrix, I thought it might be helpful to have a thread where we can list things that we feel could be tweaked/improved on the ROM.
I'm not sure if anyone will find this thread helpful, but it it does go anywhere, I'd like to point out on this OP that the idea of this thread is NOT to report bugs in the stock, or any particular custom ROM, nor would I like to see it become a place to post generalized complaints such as "My battery life isn't as good as it should be."
What I am hoping to accomplish here is to list specific things that could be better, or where functionality could be added, in the hopes that some of the Devs around here, if they agree of course, will decide to pick up some of the ideas and make them happen. They could do it in future releases of their own ROMs, or as individual flashable ZIPs, or even just instructions on how to make a tweak. The choice is theirs, and I'd like to thank them in advance!
Now that Official GB is out, I'd like threads like this in the correct section.
I know it's somewhat poor form to reply to one's on thread, but here's another post to start off a list with two small items.
1.
I think it would be great if the dialer AND address book would rotate to landscape orientation. I use the stock Google Car Home app with my phone mounted sideways in the car, and if you click on contacts, or dial someone, the address book, contact pages, and dialer all remain portrait.
I'm not sure how it behaves if you actually have the motorola car dock (I'm just using the universal one), but I have tested launching the motorola car dock application, and when I launch the above, it's a little bit better, but still not right. If you launch contacts from the motorola car dock app, the contacts list does display in landscape mode, but when you dial someone, the dialer is still portrait. Again, that may be different if the phone is actually docked. I am not sure.
2.
I think the consensus out there seems to be that everyone thinks the CRT shut screen lock animation is cool. But I think I also speak for a lot of other people when I say that I don't use it because in order to have it, you have to turn on "all animations". It seems that "all" or "none" are the only options, and I find that the rest of the animations give the phone an unnecessarily clunky feel.
I'd like to see the ability to have the animations off, but still have the CRT animation. Doesn't really matter how this one is implemented. This is covered somewhat in an old thread (for the HK leaked ROM), but I am including it here again just to add it to the list and for testing on the AT&T ROM.
Thanks!
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Now that Official GB is out, I'd like threads like this in the correct section.
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No problems here. I guess I just thought that it would work here since it was sort of a request thread for developers and development.
If it belongs somewhere else and a Mod wishes to move it, I have no objections. Please accept my apologies.
This should be moved to General. Also I would probably take the word "gripe" out of the title. It has a negative connotation to it, and the tone of the OP wasn't what I was expecting after reading the subject.
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This should be moved to General. Also I would probably take the word "gripe" out of the title. It has a negative connotation to it, and the tone of the OP wasn't what I was expecting after reading the subject.
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Title changed. If someone would like to move the thread, that works for me. I don't believe I can do it myself.
Again, sorry for the clutter in the Dev forum if that's what this is, and thanks for the pointers.
AVRCP 1.3/1.4 support! (Bluetooth metadata - i.e. song information)
I just want a reboot option, is that so much to ask?
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I just want a reboot option, is that so much to ask?
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Unfortunately, that became increasingly difficult with Gingerbread. I'm sure DesignGears or someone else can figure a solution eventually.
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I just want a reboot option, is that so much to ask?
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Quick Boot from the Market..?
Dual core compatible rom, gentoo honeycomb themed webtop,hdmi mirroring, with or without dock, aosp, with cm7 adaptability and changability, music player volume change tracks control, flash that works properly, and a great OC'd havs bfs kernel, for the cherry on the top.
Plus what the other guy said ;-)
Hope I'm not being too demanding
Swyped from 'mount' Olympus
my main request, true HDMI Mirroring (landscape).
I posted the request at the moto forums:
https://supportforums.motorola.com/thread/54380
Thread locked, post in the correct sections.
Edit- Reopened it after talking with OP. Keep this clean.
1.- Improved battery life!
2.- Better battery life!
3.- Battery life improvements!
Notifications via bluetooth headset.
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Dual core compatible rom
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Well, that is one taken care of. Both the froyo it came with and GB are dual core compatible roms. Feel a little better?
-wake on volume keys
-less flaky bluetooth (sometimes AVRCP seems to stop working, sometimes audio just stops working and have to turn BT off/on)
-notifications via BT, right now for some reason BT audio cuts out and notification is played on speaker
-native SIP
A true Gingerbread kernel not the tricked out froyo kernel Motorola is shipping with Gingerbread
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Diviance said:
Well, that is one taken care of. Both the froyo it came with and GB are dual core compatible roms. Feel a little better?
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Well technically froyo was "dual core optimized" not really dual core compatible that's why our quadrant scores were so crappy. I can say though with 2.3.4 I am getting a consistent 700 more than I was on 2.2.2 (used to get roughly 2600 am not getting about 3100)
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A true Gingerbread kernel not the tricked out froyo kernel Motorola is shipping with Gingerbread
sent from my Atrix 4G
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really? didn't know that. What are we missing out on?
i realize this is a general XDA Forum question but since i hang here i thought i would ask if "its just me?"
on my N3 and Tab Pro 10.1 or really any of my mobile devices when i use these forums with Chrome it just jumps all over the place making it very difficult to select a Section. i have tried checking and unchecking Request Desktop and it doesnt seem to help.
the site comes up and then loads then i scroll down to sections and it like reloads and then moves around making it a challenge to use and very frustrating.
just wondering if there is a fix i am not thinking of?
anyone else experience this?
thanks for any help
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i realize this is a general XDA Forum question but since i hang here i thought i would ask if "its just me?"
on my N3 and Tab Pro 10.1 or really any of my mobile devices when i use these forums with Chrome it just jumps all over the place making it very difficult to select a Section. i have tried checking and unchecking Request Desktop and it doesnt seem to help.
the site comes up and then loads then i scroll down to sections and it like reloads and then moves around making it a challenge to use and very frustrating.
just wondering if there is a fix i am not thinking of?
anyone else experience this?
thanks for any help
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It's been like this for several months and it's frustrating, every other site works fine but there must be something wrong with the site itself. Try contacting one of the admins.
I know this isn't going to help you, but FWIW: I do not experience this behavior on XDA website. Running Chrome browser on my Note 3 DE, with CM11 ROM. And also on my LG G Pad 8.3 Google Play Edition. Possibly the difference is AOSP ROM on both?
Edit: Scratch AOSP hypothesis, based on airmaxx23 response below.
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I know this isn't going to help you, but FWIW: I do not experience this behavior on XDA website. Running Chrome browser on my Note 3 DE, with CM11 ROM. And also on my LG G Pad 8.3 Google Play Edition. Possibly the difference is AOSP ROM on both?
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The same thing happens to me on my Nexus 7 running AOSP.