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Phone function, do we have it or not?

After reading a lot of threads i am quite confused with the "phone" issue as it is not clearly described anywhere.
Ok, i've understood that phone functionality is possible but...
Can we make calls?
Does it work well?
What issues do we have with making calls?
Is it fully working?

Josasp said:
After reading a lot of threads i am quite confused with the "phone" issue as it is not clearly described anywhere.
Ok, i've understood that phone functionality is possible but...
Can we make calls?
Does it work well?
What issues do we have with making calls?
Is it fully working?
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Yes, yes, none, yes.
Only problem is that you cannot use any headset.

thaihugo said:
Yes, yes, none, yes.
Only problem is that you cannot use any headset.
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Can we make calls in a phone-ish way (device to ear) or do we need to use speakerphone?
Forgive me if my questions sound stupid but i dont have a shift yet.

There is no internal speaker
WHen using the HTC Shift to make calls, you must always enable speakerphone (some roms do it automatically)
So there's no way of having a private conversation with your Shift,
unless you really are alone in the room, train, planet.
There were some people trying to get the earphone working, but since
GSM calling was released, nothing happened above the surface.
The headphone + mic is important as it completes GSM calling feature.

phoneless almost
Josasp said:
After reading a lot of threads i am quite confused with the "phone" issue as it is not clearly described anywhere.
Ok, i've understood that phone functionality is possible but...
Can we make calls?
Does it work well?
What issues do we have with making calls?
Is it fully working?
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so the answer to this becomes yes, no, some, no

DalvuS said:
so the answer to this becomes yes, no, some, no
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Too bad would really to use it as a primary phone.
Where are we on headset connectivity?
Do we have any clue on how to implement it?

Josasp said:
Too bad would really to use it as a primary phone.
Where are we on headset connectivity?
Do we have any clue on how to implement it?
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I was working on it, but then some kind of bounty bounced for doing this, so I gave up to leave the team of bounty hunters work for this.
Seriously, I might have some time for this in september.

Is that really a reason you stopped ? If so , I will put out a bounty to stop all other bounties... So I'll pay everyone off to let you do your magic

lucid said:
Is that really a reason you stopped ? If so , I will put out a bounty to stop all other bounties... So I'll pay everyone off to let you do your magic
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No, I just started a huge project for work that I'll finish in two weeks.

I can do it all!!!
Hey i could make calls, using a headset, and even using a bluetooth headset!!!
My Shift takes no more then 400mb ram and can even play back 720HD movies.
Music sounds great on it and the battery! well what can I say, the battery lasts for 9 hours on a single charge!!!!!
I am also using the SD card on the WM side and running Tomtom7!!!!
oh wait
then i woke up with a wet patch on my PJ's damn it was only a wet dream!!!!!!

thaihugo said:
I was working on it, but then some kind of bounty bounced for doing this, so I gave up to leave the team of bounty hunters work for this.
Seriously, I might have some time for this in september.
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Any news on this thaihugo? I'd slip a fiver into your paypal account if you got this working!
EDIT: Ok so bounty at the moment is:
vinokirk: £5
Josap: £5
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Total £10
Come on Thaihugo, imagine that £10 burning a hole in your paypal account!

word, same here

Josap, maybe you can change the title of this thread to:
'Headset phone function, do we have it or not? !!!Bounty now £10!!!'
or something!?

last time there was a bounty, I decided NOT to work on the subject
I would hate seeng someone grab it before me...
Seriously, I have no more time for this anymore, But if somebody makes a breakthrough, I can help.

Well in my case could donate you for the work you put in and promise i woulnt give it to someone else

thaihugo said:
last time there was a bounty, I decided NOT to work on the subject
I would hate seeng someone grab it before me...
Seriously, I have no more time for this anymore, But if somebody makes a breakthrough, I can help.
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Could you at least tell us how far you got?
Do you still have your Shift?
So let me get this right. At the moment we can:
a)Use the loudspeaker of the Shift to hear people, and
b)Use the mic to speak to people.
Basically its like a regular phone on loudspeaker, am I right? Can you plug in headphones and hear the person your speaking to and talk to them with the mic
And the ultimate goal would be to either:
a)get a wired 3.5mm earpiece+mic working,or
b)get a bluetooth headset+mic working
Now some questions:
1)Thaihugo when you said 'i might have some time for this in september', were you going to look at wired or Bluetooth headset conectivity? Where were you going to start looking?
2)Is the 3.5mm socket a plain 3.5mm socket that will just outputs sound or is it the special type that also allows the input of audio?
3)Is the 3.5mm socket useable for audio output on the WM side? i.e. if you listen to an mp3 thru WMP on the WM side, can you hook up some headphones and the sound will come out.
If you could have a look at my questions and answer them to the best of your knowlege that would be great! I havent got my Shift yet but I am serious about trying to improve it. The main thing for me is SD card access. I woud like to know as much info about that as possible, to find out where people have got with it.

The connector supports a mic/headset as it is also included. However it is only usable on Vista side for apps ie Skype.
SD access is unlikely but in the unlikely event that it would be possible we would most likeley get WiFi too since as it is a SDIO card.

As I said in another post, I still have the shift but no time for this. And also, I'm not part of the people who received more than 3000$ for this job. And no, I don't want any bounty, I'm just fed up to take the interim for a shift project that never delivered a think, and just complained when I released anything before their supposed "nearly ready" roms.
If you start a group of your own, and make signficant breaktrough, I will happily jump in it and help. But searching alone, for Saiweb or me, has it's limit. Cmonex is not a rom developer, she is more on the SPL radio side, pof seems to be off the shift forum. This product is aging. Try and think if you really want to involve in it's customisation.

I've posted some other post recently where I state that Shift team has delivered beyond expectation. Reading this, I'd say : Due to many efforts from many people , the Shift got functionality beyond expectations. Dunno who's who anymore.
The Shift deserves SD access and BT. Like BattleStar Galactica deserved a remake.

thaihugo said:
As I said in another post, I still have the shift but no time for this. And also, I'm not part of the people who received more than 3000$ for this job. And no, I don't want any bounty, I'm just fed up to take the interim for a shift project that never delivered a think, and just complained when I released anything before their supposed "nearly ready" roms.
If you start a group of your own, and make signficant breaktrough, I will happily jump in it and help. But searching alone, for Saiweb or me, has it's limit. Cmonex is not a rom developer, she is more on the SPL radio side, pof seems to be off the shift forum. This product is aging. Try and think if you really want to involve in it's customisation.
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Yes I am sure i want to start developing for the Shift! Imagine if I and other said the same thing you did about old cars, take my dads 1949 Cadillac Coupe DeVille, if we had said that about them then there woud be none left!
Could you perhaps PM me how far you got. Were you looking at the bootloader, hardware etc. Seriously any help would be appreciated

HD2 Diagnostics (for 2nd hand HD2)

Hello, guys
I ordered a 2nd hand HD2 and it's gonna arrive any time now. Could you guys tell me how to diagnose the phone to know that it's still in good condition with no errors? Thanks.

Switch it on and use it?

dan138zig said:
Hello, guys
I ordered a 2nd hand HD2 and it's gonna arrive any time now. Could you guys tell me how to diagnose the phone to know that it's still in good condition with no errors? Thanks.
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It will without a doubt come after being hard reset, so the OS will be running as new when you recieve it.

I am guessing the OP is referring to the hardware subsystems like the camera etc.
the best way is to go through one by one and check for correct functionality.

thanks for all of the advice, guys. yes, i'll check the functions like camera, wifi, gps, etc. but beside that, what are the quirks or bugs that only happen to some people? i read about overly sensitive screen, sms sent wrongly, etc.

dan138zig said:
thanks for all of the advice, guys. yes, i'll check the functions like camera, wifi, gps, etc. but beside that, what are the quirks or bugs that only happen to some people? i read about overly sensitive screen, sms sent wrongly, etc.
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There are an absolute plethora of dodgy problems people seem to have with the HD2, just turn it on and give it a go for a couple of days. If you aren't happy with the phone as it comes do a bit of research and look at installing a custom ROM.

and don't forget that even if it's 2nd hand, you still get the remaining warranty period, so as long as the seller provided you with a valid proof of purchase you can send it back for servicing in case something's definitely wrong with it.

Summer madness, I bought an X2. ;-)

I read all the complaints and this was one of the main reason.
I'm too curious, and I'm used to not buy the devices that everybody owns.
It's too easy
So I want to see how this phone can evolve.
The HW is more than decent, the keyboard is awesome, the form factor is perfect, the design is sexy, the battery life is really good.
So I hope that we can improve this phone greatly, maybe with just few tweaks.
And remeber what's happened with many many devices.
The milstone, the storm, the imate 8502, the xperia x1 and so on, they were all crappy phones initially, now they are all usable and enjoyable, so let the same happens for X2 !!

Heh, it's not SUCH a madness
Well I made it usable, I mean I do alot with it.....
Without any tweaks, just by uninstalling not needed Panels....

doministry said:
Heh, it's not SUCH a madness
Well I made it usable, I mean I do alot with it.....
Without any tweaks, just by uninstalling not needed Panels....
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Yes I already read the (few) suggestions already in the wild.
Atm I'm just seeing what of the sw I used in other wm devices works.
I tried navigon demo which works flawlessly (but a bit outdated), while I
can't get working IGO8 or any newer Navigon version's.
Also aebuttons plus doesn't works reliably to map the volume rocker as scroller.
I'm just a week or so to see what else is wrong, before starting to kill the sonyericsson's addons.
ATM I'm not unhappy, and my milestone is a bit jealous...

The Solutor said:
Yes I already read the (few) suggestions already in the wild.
Atm I'm just seeing what of the sw I used in other wm devices works.
I tried navigon demo which works flawlessly (but a bit outdated), while I
can't get working IGO8 or any newer Navigon version's.
Also aebuttons plus doesn't works reliably to map the volume rocker as scroller.
I'm just a week or so to see what else is wrong, before starting to kill the sonyericsson's addons.
ATM I'm not unhappy, and my milestone is a bit jealous...
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The only MUST HAVE is SD card fix.
It will prevent from memory card corruption.
Other than that device is kinda treat to use, besides it
occassionally get's unstable.

doministry said:
The only MUST HAVE is SD card fix.
It will prevent from memory card corruption.
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I manually edited the related registry values, my X2 has made errors on SD filsystems just few minutes after the unboxing (and few minutes before the MR2 update).
But I'm afraid this fix is not bulletproof, I saw the disappeared SD after MR + SD fix.
I hope in a bugfix from SE, even if they doesn't want release an MR3 firmware.

I think all is OK if you got it as a toy for a good price
Does anyone has a contact to someone responsible in SE so we know for sure they already dumped the phone?

Biges said:
I think all is OK if you got it as a toy for a good price
Does anyone has a contact to someone responsible in SE so we know for sure they already dumped the phone?
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Well they just took this off the shelves in SE store here!
And replaced with Aspen.

doministry said:
Well they just took this off the shelves in SE store here!
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Here (in Italy) the phone starts selling now, Sonyericsson (as usual) is the best phone manufacturer with the worst marketing team.

after almost 8 years of owning only SE phones this is my last one
as soon as Samsung Epic 4G comes here I'll buy one
I almost made the mistake of buying an HD2 and tried of reasoning that owning a decent qwerty phone is just a dream,but i just played with the I9000 on which the Epic 4g is based and it's pure madness...it has huge frames,dwonloads torrents with 500-550 k/s it's awsome
SE u lost another stupid customer that payed 600$ on a piece a garbage nice looking plastic box with an 8mp camera that does poorer pictures than an Blackberry...
Good luck anywas with your project of seeing an X2 running at least 3 days with any lockup,making a decent picture without manually adjusting everything and more than 13-16 fps in the menus.
Kind regards all and i'm sorry i did not read throughtly all of the x2 threads before buying it !

I still have a tiny hope that one day X2 will be completely fixed. Aspen looks like an interesting phone, but one of many, while X2 has quite unique design.
Anyway I ended up ordering LG eXpo from the USA, hope it will work without problems (it should).
F*****g SE can't assign a few people on fixing X2? Damn them! One thing is when phone is not working as it should, but when a fix is planned, one can look something forward to.

mrqro said:
frames,dwonloads torrents with 500-550 k/s it's awsome
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I got 6,7 Mbps (800+ KB/s) with every HSDPA7.2/HSUPA I've tried in the last couple of years, and about 8Mbps (1MB/s) whit some modern handsets like the N900 or the Milestone.
So what is the awesomeness in getting 500 KBs (I suppose do you mean kilobyte/sec) in a phone released now ?

I'll be eternally grateful if you can find a registry fix for irregular text message alerts.
I suspect it has to do with power usage settings. Typically after a reset, the alerts go fine for the first few, and unfailingly fail thereafter. It will come back on upon charging the phone, without any reset. Leads me to suspect it has to do with different power management profiles kicking in, but that's quite a shot in the dark.
Good luck with the project, i hope you'll not join me and everyone else shortly as another SE hating zombie lol.

Disable - Tap To Click - Not the entire trackpad. Please help...

Hi I'm sure this is been asked before. I have searched for threads on this and there are a couple but they are mostly a couple of months old. From what I can gather in the 3.2.1 or maybe 3.2 Asus killed this feature to disable it in the Kernel? So there was an app floating around that would let you do it but now it doen't work. Am I missing something. Tap to click is the only thing keeping my tranformer from being a full fledged netbook replacement. I have tried and tried but I can't get use to tap to click. I ten to jump between mouse and keyboard a lot so having to enable and disable the entire trackpad with the shortcut button just doesn't work for me. Any help would be great. Anyone know if maybe Asus will add a disable tap to click option in ICS?
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The guy just asked disabling tap to click. Some of you TF owners are so defensive lol.
To answer, the functionality was there before the most recent updates cannot do it. I too find the tap to click very annoying when I'm trying to take notes.

Op, hopefully they bring that feature back, I also don't like the all or nothing operation of the track pad. its nice being able to just disable the tap to click component and still use the track pad without moving the cursor around constantly while typing.
Sent from my Infuse... Love it!

I do understand your points, out gets old hearing the same crap, complaints etc... But, I tend to just ignore them and move along where you tend to antagonize to each there own.
On a side note, there is nothing wrong with trying to consolidate your equipment. In many cases the TF with the dock is getting pretty close to a netbook replacement. Asking these questions and striving to challenge these devices to be better than they are currently will be the catalyst that will eventually make them a netbook replacement and possibly a laptop/desktop replace.
after all, forums such as this are meant to seek advice and info as much as give it. but to each their own.
Sent from my Infuse... Love it!

Thanks for the useful reply... it really is a shame Asus has dropped the ability to turn this off... its kind of a waste of a nice trackpad.
As for the other poster who apperently has nothing better to do then go around insulting people I'm sorry you feel this is something you have chosen as a second job from the sound of it. The point of XDA is to ask questions and hoepfully get an answer. Usually I will search and search for an answer before asking something that has already been covered to death. To answer your question I DO prefer a netbook but I would like it to run Android. It's a shame that nothing like that exists so the Transformer is the next best thing. The trackpad was something I was wondering if I could find a quick answer to and maybe consolidate equipment as mentioned above. But hey if your really that bored and insulting me makes you more of a man for your girlfriend by all means go right ahead. I work in Hollywood for a pretty huge entertainment show so I have developed pretty thick skin. I choose not to get an iPad by the way because I don't want to be another sheep like everyone else that works in this business. But to each their own... To the poster who give me the real info thanks again. I hope maybe Asus will add this function to ICS. To the other guy... Happy Holidays.
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Apologies. Lately I've found myself more and more bothered by whiners. I used to ignore them. But its getting harder and harder to ignore them. I guess with the latest whines about the kindle fire (only 7 inch, no cameras, no market... exactly everything amazon told people they would get with the fire) I'm getting this much closer to a breakdown.

No worries brother. We all have bad days.

I want the notifcation LED to blink when screen is on!

Hello, new S7 Edge owner who came from a Priv (and a long line of BB's before that)
I've searched high and low the last 2 days for answer but can't find an easy one.
Is it possible to have the notification LED work while the screen is on?
I've come across another thread here on XD that suggests I can use Tasker to do it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/s7-edge/help/led-notification-aod-off-t3367365
Before I invest my time (and possibly money) into Tasker, is there a simpler way of doing this?

That's silly
Sent from my Blackberry Bold

Brava27 said:
That's silly
Sent from my Blackberry Bold
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Why is that silly? As a Bold user you should know and appreciate how useful it is to have the LED come on even when you are using the phone.

This actually annoys me so much that I might root my phone over this.
My knowledge of hardware/software is pretty low, so don't laugh when I ask this.
Is this a TouchWiz/Samsung driver thing or do you think that it's actually baked into the hardware/firmware of the S7 so that even if I root it, it still won't do what I want it to?

MikeRotch said:
This actually annoys me so much that I might root my phone over this.
My knowledge of hardware/software is pretty low, so don't laugh when I ask this.
Is this a TouchWiz/Samsung driver thing or do you think that it's actually baked into the hardware/firmware of the S7 so that even if I root it, it still won't do what I want it to?
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Rooting in itself will not activate the led to come on while the screen is on. I am almost certain that this is baked in and that the led permission cannot be changed.

amar95353 said:
Rooting in itself will not activate the led to come on while the screen is on. I am almost certain that this is baked in and that the led permission cannot be changed.
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Thanks for your reply. I guess I'll just have turn on Repeat notifications.