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software solutions... what are users using to get by

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.

cMMY69 said:
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

Spydroid!?

i'm not android user, never been a fan really but i was just checking on the days tech news and saw this. Somehow my curiousity has been stunted a little.
Boys and girls be carefully google is watching!

M3PH said:
i'm not android user, never been a fan really but i was just checking on the days tech news and saw this. Somehow my curiousity has been stunted a little.
Boys and girls be carefully google is watching!
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You are being very misleading with your post. Google does collect information they always have.
but this article is targeting the apps and the developers for crappy tactics.

That is one of the reasons I don't like using Android to browse web or use Google when searching for many things... they have everything you do on the internet logged. That's why I'm glad that I still have winmo on my phone and plan to keep winmo on my phone, other than the fact I don't see a reason to downgrade my multiple OS-booting powerphone into just a buggy Android phone by flashing it to nand when its ready. I hate the idea that everything I look at on the internet is logged and saved by Google while using Android, even if I'm using public WiFi hotspot. Not that i do anything wrong or that could be used against me, ofcourse. ;-)
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What's wrong if Google observes u, just be careful, that's it no matter to prolong this discussion.
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Walmart Family Mobile

I think this is the best forum section to post this in but feel free to move this post if not
I've done some extensive searching and not quite finding the correct results on this issue so here it goes ...
I recently started a new account with Walmarts Family Mobile powered by tmobile (i know not a lot of people know about this service)
I am running a tmobile usa hd2 with chuckys Rom and Android 2.2 (mdjfroyosense-=revolution=-)
I got some apn settings from a service rep with WFM and put them in and all a sudden my phone went crazy rapidly downloading an mms and within like 5 seconds tried and failed to download about 10 times then finally downloaded .. I tried to tweak the settings and now mms just don't work period .. also my data is only 2g even tho the theory OS that if u use a 3g tmobile device it'll do 3g on WFM cus of the same radio frequency and towers and such (their qlickxt runs 3g)
So the question is, has anyone tried this new service provider? With hacked hd2? What kind of apn settings do you use? And is it one apn for mms and data? Or separate, because the mms actually runs from your data plan with this service... and any ideas on 3g?
Thanks

takeda240 said:
I think this is the best forum section to post this in but feel free to move this post if not
So the question is, has anyone tried this new service provider? With hacked hd2? What kind of apn settings do you use? And is it one apn for mms and data? Or separate, because the mms actually runs from your data plan with this service... and any ideas on 3g?
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So this thread is a question thread? If so then this is clearly not the "best forum section to post this in" because we have a dedicated forum for HD2 Android related questions.
From now on, please think before you post a thread about which forum really is best.
General conversation goes in General Discussion. Questions go in Q&A. Development threads go in Development. It's very easy to post in the correct forums and it seriously cuts back on the amount of work that I have to do when users just post where they should.
Please post in the correct section from now on. Please note that I'm not intentionally trying to sound like a jerk. It just gets kinda frustrating when all I do all day long on my day off from work, on New Years Eve, is move threads to the correct forum.
THREAD MOVED.

Wow that was helpful a simple wrong forum, this is more accurate,moved.. would suffice the way I worded was friendly not know it all... so are there still helpful people on this forum ? I havnnt really seen any since the kaiser tytnII... lol
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Dharvey is quite a jerk, don't let him get to you. He's just a mod on a power trip on the the internet.
Anyway, I was thinking about switching to family mobile so im interested in this also. Bump
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takeda240 said:
Wow that was helpful a simple wrong forum, this is more accurate,moved.. would suffice the way I worded was friendly not know it all... so are there still helpful people on this forum ? I havnnt really seen any since the kaiser tytnII... lol
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Dharvey is quite a jerk, don't let him get to you. He's just a mod on a power trip on the the internet.
Anyway, I was thinking about switching to family mobile so im interested in this also. Bump
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lol, you guys are some serious retards.
learn how to post a topic ffs and also stop calling mod a jerk simply because hes honest enough to say hes sick of idiots like you to.
I completley agree and would be pissed of If I was a mod, hell im pissed of as a user as im sick of seeing **** in wrong place or retards asking such n00b questions when there is clearly a abundance of information and guides and especially when the question is a FAQ.
Posting stuff wrong sections just clutters place up and mods are the ones who have to clean it up.

Ah..the spirit of the holidays..guess it didn't reach everyone..lol!
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Ok soo for those who think they are some kind of "internet veteran" and can talk to people any way they want. I wanna let you know ranting about me and me replying to it is all off topic .. I know other people will be asking similar questions and I have searched a lot for it and get waay unrelated results so anyone who has a valid suggestion to help the community pls feel free to comment (on topic)
This is the point of xda
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What are your current APN settings?
Have you tried to use TMOUS settings?
I'm not on Wal-Mart's plan but I'd like to know if they use different servers.

My search results told me to just use tmobiles apn and it worked briefly than stopped soo I asked a family mobile rep what they are and he gave me some other ones ill post in a bit .. but they only seem to be working for data ... there seems to be no clarification with new service yet
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Still need to get 3g working on edge I can barely get mobile pages to load... mms kinda working .. on tmobile apn right now
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I use a TMOB branded HD2 on Walmart Family Mobile. I use the stock WM6.5 ROM (most current third generation) that is flawless. BAttery life is amazing with the newest ROM and I have yet to find a bug. Have 70% left after 8 hours with light use. I also run Android off the SD card daily for surfing and aps. I didn't have to unlock my phone or change any settings. Everything just works if you use a Tmobile device.
Love the service!!! Saving $40 per month over Sprint. I use wifi most of the time but even when I use 3G it never amounts to more than $0.25 per day as long as I don't stream music.

So your apn is the same as with tmobile and your getting 3g in Android? Cus I wont touch wm with a ten foot stick ...
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takeda240 said:
So your apn is the same as with tmobile and your getting 3g in Android? Cus I wont touch wm with a ten foot stick ...
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I'm no wallyworld employee, but after looking at the website for all of 5 seconds the pages indicates its powered by t-mobile. So it stands that all tmobile APNs would work IMO.

I also have the single plan for $45 a month but really gets me is that, I had the 500mb webpak and i use it when i watched netflix.....afterwards I've been watching movies and online downloading and everything at no charge, at least it seems that way. I'm using MIUI 1.7.2.2 and the only thing I think is blocked on my plan is picture messages. I thought it was the mms settings but I switched it to WP7 and the same thing happened. Still this is a good plan with 3g function and i sent this on a laptop using my mobile hotspot.

scortareo said:
I also have the single plan for $45 a month but really gets me is that, I had the 500mb webpak and i use it when i watched netflix.....afterwards I've been watching movies and online downloading and everything at no charge, at least it seems that way. I'm using MIUI 1.7.2.2 and the only thing I think is blocked on my plan is picture messages. I thought it was the mms settings but I switched it to WP7 and the same thing happened. Still this is a good plan with 3g function and i sent this on a laptop using my mobile hotspot.
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Mysimplemobile.com
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TMOUS My Account working for Android now

For those of us TMOUS users running Android and was to use the My Account app, It should be working now. I twittered to T-mobile and asked if they could add us users that use Android on out phones to be able to access and use the app. They must have thought it was a great idea, because now, I can use the app. Talk about a speedy response, specially with the CES going on.
Have fun and happy 'droiding.
bodyman

...not to bust your bubble there...but we have been able to do this for quite some time with the proper version of Android.

oh, I had problems with all tbe roms I have tried. But, they said they were going to add it
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A question for devs, about the lack of find in Rom manager.

Maybe its just me, but I'd like to see Rom manager properly used for our device.
My friend has the ego 4G and when using Rom manager he early goes to xda for his updates or a new Rom because for the Evo devs have it set up so their Rom populated the download section of Rom manager. Also this way when a Rom is updated you get a notification that there's an update.
This would benefit the users of the mt4g because a lot of the Rom downloads and mirrors are not always mobile friendly.
Was just wondering why none of our devs take use of this feature.
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shadowmike said:
Maybe its just me, but I'd like to see Rom manager properly used for our device.
My friend has the ego 4G and when using Rom manager he early goes to xda for his updates or a new Rom because for the Evo devs have it set up so their Rom populated the download section of Rom manager. Also this way when a Rom is updated you get a notification that there's an update.
This would benefit the users of the mt4g because a lot of the Rom downloads and mirrors are not always mobile friendly.
Was just wondering why none of our devs take use of this feature.
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10 char

Me and RK have been talking about it. I dont know if it will work with the multiupload links, so we need to see how his server is gonna be able to handle the load.
- We do a lot that you guys dont even have a clue we're doing.

option94 said:
Me and RK have been talking about it. I dont know if it will work with the multiupload links, so we need to see how his server is gonna be able to handle the load.
- We do a lot that you guys dont even have a clue we're doing.
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i dont doubt that a bit! option, and team royal, are always busy behind the curtains! just thought it was a bit odd that the mt4g roms arent on there... but yall recomend that we do a full wipe every time and ppl may also try to flash via ROM manager rather than recovery and doing a TRUE full wipe as advised... so i can see both sides as wellits all good in the hood homie, just wanted to put in my 2 cents

We could make it work with rom manager, at this point its just a matter of hosting bandwidth and such.

2 things:
1) Load balancing (deals with server issues)
2) How much bandwidth?
I happen to have 3 dedicated servers in EU(London), USA(NY), and USA(CA) and may be able to help. Servers are used for work (not just idle), but it may be enough...
These are windows servers btw.