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DOES **GPS** Work On Hermes?

I have a cingular 8525, and theres people talking about loading tomtom to there 8525, is the GPS function working on it? seems like there is drivers on here for it? and people trying to get it to work? Anyone can give me any info without me going over 70 pages of peoples comments?
Thank you.....and a Thank you for all the people cooking the ROMS...Lets see at ATT/Cingular ROM with Windows Mobile 6.......

Come on man, just read the last few posts out of the GPS threads and you will know. It does not work yet, the software is there (supposedly) what is needed now is an antenna.

If you're not willing to familiarize yourself with the GPS threads, then please just go out and buy a bluetooth GPS and save everyone some time.

thank you
I expected this response, But allot of people have the same question this just makes it simple......Who wants to carry their brick looking hermes and a brick gps module? NO ONE.... but thnak you for the replies....it is very appreciated

If you can't be bothered to read the threads than any attempt you make at enabling gps is likely to result in a brick. So why bother ask?
Maz
http://maz.net.au/

I think this is a great question as I have been a member of xda for a while now and I don't feel like reading through all 70 pages either simple question why not answer the question without making him feel like a d!ck not working yet man when it does work it will be added to the stickys

insanenyc said:
I think this is a great question as I have been a member of xda for a while now and I don't feel like reading through all 70 pages either simple question why not answer the question without making him feel like a d!ck not working yet man when it does work it will be added to the stickys
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Pfff then we would get this question everyday. people should just read the last pages! Or else we get stupid questions every day.
btw. is the proton rom out already?

insanenyc said:
I think this is a great question as I have been a member of xda for a while now and I don't feel like reading through all 70 pages either simple question why not answer the question without making him feel like a d!ck not working yet man when it does work it will be added to the stickys
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With the PM's he sent he deserves me to really let loose at him. But I won't.
so..
Hi, how do I flash my hermes?
why are the roms not on the ftp?
how do i find my arse?
oh no, I've forgotten how to breathe!
Maz

Gentlemen please. You know what I like about XDA-Dev, compared to some other places, is the generally very helpful and polite manner of the posters. Sometimes something can really wind us up and showing a bit of irritation is fine but now we've shown that let's think how we avoid this problem in future.
Firstly if there is already a thread on a subject it should be used to post a relevant question. So a question about GPS should not be in a new thread like this one.
Secondly, I agree with the above poster who said - you only need to read through the last few posts , not all 70 pages, to know roughly what is happening.
Thirdly, you may get away with far more slightly cheeky things if you ask politely and with a measure of humour.
Lastly, as someone above said sometimes it's just easier and more peaceful to give a very short answer to a "cheeky" question whilst perhaps also pointing out that next time the person might do a bit more work to get the answer.
Peace and Love
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"With the PM's he sent he deserves me to really let loose at him. But I won't.
so..
Hi, how do I flash my hermes?
why are the roms not on the ftp?
how do i find my arse?
oh no, I've forgotten how to breathe!"
I can manage to Flash my arse - if that's any help?? Last time I did it though someone gave me a boot up it which made me **** a brick. So I guess you might say I got stuck in bootloader mode and ended up with a brick!!!???

@mikechannon: good point. nice pic. very amusing.
Maz
http://maz.net.au/

You all are right probably... but why are there 3 threads???
And why are there 4 threads about WM6???
Both my favorite subjects, so I always have to read 7 threads...
Yeah I know, I don't have to if I don't want to. But I want!
But still: maybe some more moderating???

Worth a haiku I think.
V

what do you guys say

right guys ive been off here for a year or so last time i was here the touch por was the in phone to have, since then i have been on a iphone.but iam thinking of geting a hd2. now what i wanna know is are they worth it. with android etc coming out for it. is it a good buy.

You might want to read more. Android will not be truly ready for a long while. Sure it might boot now but with it crashing with in minutes it's still not really usable. Then there will be the issues with it not being able to use all of the hardware. So I would never look at Android being able to be an everyday OS for the HD2, just something to play with on the side.

if your in the USA and you want Android why not buy a EVO

I came from a touch pro to the HD2 and have mates (many) with iphones and also a few with android phones... I reckon it all comes down to;
1. whether the phone does everything you want
2. in a way that pleases you
3. with a good ownership experience
All my apps I take from phone to phone are obviously WM based and I must have outlook sync-ability as the phone's used as much for work as play so I've never been tempted to jump to android or iphone...
But I have to say the HD2, in a long line of WM based phones, is the best I have ever used, is quick and fulfills my needs with aplomb and poise never seen before...
Every time I grab my HD2 to use it I am pleased I have it...
Whether its a good buy is determined by how much you want to spend on it and whether it meets your needs...

i had the touch por as a phone and a toy to play with eg android on it, now i can change my iphone for a hd2 it will cost me a extra 30 quid.i have never had any issues with xdas,but iphone is a problematic phone with signal and not getting txt.so far i have had 11 xdas and loved them so think this will be the right one, i just wanted some advice and yet again you guys have said wot i thought. so thank u all.
tmorro night i might have a hd2
happy times.
ps yes i know about android not being right yet but iam willing to wait for it

Hi
I have always used windows mobile devices, i love it, but a lot of people hate it. Its like marmite i guess. If you are in the love camp then the hd2 is by far the best device yet. The sense interface is great, adding speed to getting to what you want to get at. The only thing i would say is a custom rom based around wm 6.5.x is a must. It adds the needed finger friendless, 6.5 still feels like it needs a stylus. Come on HTC i now you are reading, Bring us a official 6.5.x update!!
So if you are down with windows mobile and love the ability to tweak it the way you want it (but with hours on xda dev) Then The HD2 is the way to go! I love Mine
If you hate it by a nexus one or desire.
Peace

Get an iPhone 4... It will stop you posting questions outside of the Q&A section and people won't have to give you opinions you should make yourself .

NeoGreendawg said:
Get an iPhone 4... It will stop you posting questions outside of the Q&A section and people won't have to give you opinions you should make yourself .
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Ouch ... Harsh .... True, Very True, but Harsh ....

Sausages... Toulouse... lololololololololololololololol
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all i was asking was a simple question, and thank you to who replyed. and i now have a hd2 and bye bye iphone, ohhh and look i now have bars and can use my phone in my house inlike with apples issue phone lol lol.
rather harsh comment there. i have been here for years as a member but not been on since iphone. i had trouble finding the thread "should i buy a hd2 or stick with the iphone".
now time to play again right rom time.

sausagedog said:
all i was asking was a simple question, and thank you to who replyed. and i now have a hd2 and bye bye iphone, ohhh and look i now have bars and can use my phone in my house inlike with apples issue phone lol lol.
rather harsh comment there. i have been here for years as a member but not been on since iphone. i had trouble finding the thread "should i buy a hd2 or stick with the iphone".
now time to play again right rom time.
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Congrats on the the HD2 ....
I really think all NeoGreendawg was trying to say , in his gentlest of ways, was , "There is a sticky at the top of just about every forum(except this one of course) that says, "Please Post Questions in the Q&A Section" or something like that, to be honest not really sure what would qualify as General ...... ...
But I digress, Again Congrats on the HD2, and Happy 4th!!

Things like this is one reason why people are migrating to htcpedia which is a shame because it is nothing on XDADEV. If you have nothing helpful to say about a perfectly sensible question, then why post?
There is nothing wrong with your question. As watcher64 pointed out there is no sticky, so there was no harm in asking.
We are all here to help each other, i thought that was the whole point of this forum.
Hope you are happy with the HD2.
Peace.

Why is the DEV section for the Epic so shi**y?

is it due to not a lot of people having the phone ? inexperienced devs? even the roms that exist have one thing or another that doesnt function properly...there only seems to be one solid rom for sure and the rest are just ehh...just trying to figure this out im coming from a device that had so many roms i didnt know what to do and on this side theres really only 3 or 4 choices. is this a froyo deal?lack of people with the units or what?

My best guess would be most devs are waiting for froyo to drop since it should be soon.

pyroswithoutfire said:
My best guess would be most devs are waiting for froyo to drop since it should be soon.
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i was hoping this was the case

twoeleven99 said:
i was hoping this was the case
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Its tuff to dev something knowing froyo us coming. I started my theme to be used on my rom but decided not to cook a rom. It well be easy to port my theme for use with froyo. A 2.1 rom ported to 2.2 us hard. It would be easier to start from scratch with a froyo build
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twoeleven99 said:
is it due to not a lot of people having the phone ? inexperienced devs? even the roms that exist have one thing or another that doesnt function properly...there only seems to be one solid rom for sure and the rest are just ehh...just trying to figure this out im coming from a device that had so many roms i didnt know what to do and on this side theres really only 3 or 4 choices. is this a froyo deal?lack of people with the units or what?
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Its the same thing that happened with the moment, almost no dev support. 1 because its a Samsung, 2 because it was the second 4g phone, 3 because its $50 more.
The Evo community is thriving though.
Look at the Moment forum on sdx-developers, then look at the Hero forum here on XDA. Same thing for the Epic vs Evo.

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i was just asking a question...thanks for the answers fellas

I really hope people will develop for Epic, I really enjoyed the ROMs on Evo. But I liked this one better, hope I didn't make a big mistake! Oh well, I haven't even rooted this one yet, maybe Ill just give it a rest for a while. I know my wife will like that. Don't mean to insult the devs, you're all we got, just wish more people had this phone.

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I really hope people will develop for Epic, I really enjoyed the ROMs on Evo. But I liked this one better, hope I didn't make a big mistake! Oh well, I haven't even rooted this one yet, maybe Ill just give it a rest for a while. I know my wife will like that. Don't mean to insult the devs, you're all we got, just wish more people had this phone.
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I concur, in a perfect world this phone (which I am getting tomorrow) would be so great that I wouldn't flash rom after rom for little things such as percentage battery mod or something. I would flash roms because it looked slightly different than the previous. and always felt like something was missing. I hope i can just be satisfied with the roms and such that are available for the Epic.

Don't worry u will have plenty of devving for epic. It will not be as much as evo though as evo has much more devs and is more popular and has been out longer. But we will have quality not quantity and after froyo we will see more devving. Most devs don't wanna waste time if the update is coming in less than a month (hopefully).
Sent from my Epic 4G

Kernel port Galaxy R?

Is this possible to port Samsung Galaxy R kernel? This is the same Tegra, but there is 3.1 kernel

Run. Fast.
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Should we tell him? It would be unfair to have a lynching without telling him why.
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I got the bucket of water to put out the flames. In case you haven't realized, this has been covered before MANY MANY times. Please use your search function.

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I certainly hope you guys don't plan on flaming him for this
From what I can see, he is a software developer and is coding that Fallout game for android
so he's not a technical moron, I think it's an honest question

againareku said:
I certainly hope you guys don't plan on flaming him for this
From what I can see, he is a software developer and is coding that Fallout game for android
so he's not a technical moron, I think it's an honest question
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Well...I think dev or not he have to read the threads beafore asking...
from the (m)ATRIX...

Oh man, do I miss the atrix forums!
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againareku said:
I certainly hope you guys don't plan on flaming him for this
From what I can see, he is a software developer and is coding that Fallout game for android
so he's not a technical moron, I think it's an honest question
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What's that got to do with anything? If anything, that makes matters that much worse - if he's so tech-savvy, he should know about using the search function before opening ANY new threads.

well, after use "Search" I've found many threads w/o answer. So I just would like to know why, just ont one, simple answer.

I kind of agree with him, there is the need of a sticky thread that clearly states what and why cannot work, and what instead is needed, and why.

ovitz said:
well, after use "Search" I've found many threads w/o answer. So I just would like to know why, just ont one, simple answer.
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You should know better than that. Opening a new thread when one already exists on the same subject is a big no-no on XDA. Opening a new thread KNOWING one already exists just makes it worse.
Anyway, I'm sure there's a good reason a Galaxy R release doesn't help. The devs have no obligation to explain in great technical detail why this is not possible, if they say this won't work you should be able to trust their expertise and experience on that. If you need solid proof and reason, maybe you could try extracting the drivers and making them work on the Atrix yourself.
shadowed87 said:
I kind of agree with him, there is the need of a sticky thread that clearly states what and why cannot work, and what instead is needed, and why.
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Like I said above... This is a hobbyist community, everybody here works for free in their spare time. Not necessarily because they are such good people but because they enjoy doing it. (Sharing what they've done is what makes them good people.) Nobody here has any obligations towards others, and IMO it's wrong to ask or demand such things. Be grateful for what you got.

ravilov said:
Like I said above... This is a hobbyist community, everybody here works for free in their spare time. Not necessarily because they are such good people but because they enjoy doing it. (Sharing what they've done is what makes them good people.) Nobody here has any obligations towards others, and IMO it's wrong to ask or demand such things. Be grateful for what you got.
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I am a hobbyist myself. I wasn't demanding. I just exposed the possibility of the need of a summary thread, to avoid all these useless posts. It's an opinion I expressed, sorry if it sounded differently. I am very grateful.

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Answering a light-hearted joke with seriousness and implied offence? Lol. Maybe folk just are too used to the cold, boring world of online, where everything has to be factual, sensationalist or intellectual, or it's thrown out as "invalid" or stupid... LOL
Ahh, ya know what? I think people should lighten up and learn to have a laugh. Why are geeks SO serrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrious? Sheesh, smile - life isn't all straight-faced serious business - got to learn to have a giggle
Still unhappy? Have a look at this:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-is-everyone-on-the-internet-so-angry/

Why did you edit your reply? Don't get angry pal it was a light hearted joke back. Maybe take your own advice might be a start????

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Why did you edit your reply? Don't get angry pal it was a light hearted joke back. Maybe take your own advice might be a start????
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^ accusing me of anger, whilst simultaneously posting in an overtly obvious passive-aggressive tone? Sheesh, have a cup of tea and let your cares dissolve
It takes a huge amount to anger me - I'm a very calm person, but also very passionate - don't confuse the two - one can be happy and passionately expressive, you know?
If you think replies from strangers online are going to take my contentment and peace, you're confusing me with someone who gets angry... someone else... and I can surely tell you that person isn't me. I hope I didn't make you angry, with my joking around?
Have a hugggg...
Lol.
PS: I ain't dog food...
(although admittedly, dogs are cute )

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Answering a light-hearted joke with seriousness and implied offence? Lol. Maybe folk just are too used to the cold, boring world of online, where everything has to be factual, sensationalist or intellectual, or it's thrown out as "invalid" or stupid... LOL
Ahh, ya know what? I think people should lighten up and learn to have a laugh. Why are geeks SO serrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrious? Sheesh, smile - life isn't all straight-faced serious business - got to learn to have a giggle
Still unhappy? Have a look at this:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-is-everyone-on-the-internet-so-angry/
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http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(Internet)
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Saylin said:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(Internet)
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You think a light hearted injection of humour is "trolling"? It never ceases to amaze me how so many people turn into simple-minded robots when they're on forums - if a situation arrives which their minds cannot compute or sense the subtlety of, they feel the need to HAVE to categorise the person who made the comment, by pidgeon-holing that person into an extremely simplistic, black or white "box"... such as calling me a "troll", because I was having a laugh.
You are just too miserable to understand humour, it would seem, like most other internet nerds who just want to talk in binary black and white, like the machines they mess about with all day long. Yeah - I am also a geek, but LIGHTEN UP - haven't you got any sense of humour AT ALL?
Autistic? I am - but I also have a laugh... maybe you guys could try it...
Would I suddenly, in an about-face of attitude, become your "friend", were I to be the first person to capture and upload the OTA for all devices? Yeah - I bet I would - that's how quickly people snap out of their name calling tantrums....
I've been here 5 years, you've been here 5 mins... I don't think you need to make people dislike you, kiddo.
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Incredulous...

Off-topic
I don't even know why this thread has created in a device forum to begin with. This clearly has nothing to do whatsoever with this device, neither does it add anything useful to this device's forum. These kind of threads are off-topic forum material, next time, please post it there.
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