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I have newest Shaps´s rom and + Memmaid and Pocket mechanic example.
I have also made many tweaks, but I don´t think so that tweaks causes this.
OS is fast and stable and there are lots of RAM free
Many games runs fine, but example my favorite game SkyForce not.
Slowing occur when game is CPU dependent and only then when I touch to screen. Example SkyForce streering is done by touching screen, so almost all time game running 3/5 from normal speed. Is this normal?
Edit: ATI patch not couses it.
Also example these games acting same:
Street Duel Underground Racing
Breakout 2
Dogfight
Skyforce reloaded
Siberian Strike
I have now clean pandora naked and same thing.
Please tell me is this "normal".
Yes, this is normal. It happens on all roms I tested too. It's really annoying.
you use the touchscreen to steet in skyforce? I use the D-Pad, but oddly enough, the D-Pad slows down the game too, but not the hardware keyboard.
I didnt use to have that problem before, but I had a 2 months gap where i didnt use a TyTN and the problem arised only when I bought a new one after 2 months.
So it might be a new OS/ROM issue (not custom ROM issue, but OS/ROM version).
I'd have to reload an ancient ROM to test, but im too lazy
As many of you have likely already seen, the Nook Color is available for 179.99 today only (factory refurbished) at http://1saleaday.com/
I've been looking into getting a tablet lately, mostly for play - things like games, reading, and netflix. It seems like the Nook is a great "bang for the buck", and the devs have done some amazing work on it. I have a few questions before I take the dive though...
1. Battery Life.
How is the battery life while watching Netflix? While watching a movie on the SD-Card (let's assume 720P encoding). I notice that the Nook is rated at 8-10 hours with WiFi off, does that mean Wifi kills the battery, or just shaves off an hour or two?
2. Speed.
I understand that the Nook wasn't supposed to be a full fledged tablet, but the Devs have gotten some great ROMs for it that make it so. How is the speed? I want to make sure I'd use the tab over my phone when I'm at home, but my phone is actually quite fast (Atrix 4G, rooted, unlocked, running Alien2 with the OC kernel). Videos of the Nook with CM7 making it look very smooth with everything which is a huge plus (MotoBlur sucks, all animations on my phone are clunky... waiting for CM7 which is in alpha right now).
3. Gaming
I use my phone for moderate gaming, but it kinda sucks. I think that this will be my main focus on the Nook. Using emulators on my Atrix is a lesson a patience... The touch screen times out after 30 seconds of a finger being on the screen, so in games where you have to hold buttons a while, the screen becomes non-responsive. Because my phone's screen is small, it also makes playing a lot of emulators difficult as the buttons are on the screen itself. How do emulators run on the Nook? It looks like games from the market run just fine, which is great.
4. Shared Google account
My google account is tied into my phone right now, if I use the same account on the Nook, will I be able to install all of the same apps / games off of the market automatically?
5. Text Messaging
The Nook is Wifi only, so I know that Gtalk will work. What about SMS style messaging? Is there an app (or native in a ROM) ability to send / recieve text messages from the Nook while its on? This would make it so that I don't have to switch between devices at home in order to play games / watch a movie / whatever and talk to my phones.
Lastly.. what do you use your Tablet for? I know that I will play with this thing non-stop for a while, since its a new "toy". But other than running "old school" console games for a while (and Heroes of Might and Magic), I'm not sure what else I'd use the Tablet for considering that I own a very high end PC for gaming / programming, a MacBook Pro which sits on the coffee table in the TV room, an XboX for netflix streaming to the TV, and my much loved Atrix. I know that the tablet will be awesome while I'm playing with it and flashing ROMs, but from the experience of others... is it a passing fad for fun, or do you get a ton of use out of your tablet? If so, what do you use it for?
Any comments / questions are greatly appreciated. I've been looking into this for a few days, but now I'm on a time limit to buy the Nook on sale today, or wait for the next sale of a tablet.
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1) Battery life is amazing with the newer releases of CM7. I'm running 7.1 RC and left the wifi on when I finished charging it. After 24 hours in sleep I was only down 5%. After an hour use to update apps, browse online, etc, I was only down a few more percent.
2) Speed is great and just seems to get better with releases. Most people clock theirs to 1200 or 1300 (stock is 800) and run it daily like that. There is a lot of room to adjust for what you need/want.
3) I don't do a whole lot of gaming, but running something like Pocket Legends isn't a problem. I know some people are able to get Honeycomb only games running without problems. I think some require Tegra 2, so it shows how well this little thing performs.
4) Yes google account is shared. You purchase an app for your account and you can download it to both devices. The new market is device aware, so you may be able to purcahse and download to your phone, but not the Nook (if, for example, the app requires GPS), but there are ways around this.
5) I know SMS can be done, but I've never done it. Can't help here.
I love this little thing. For the price I don't see how you can pass it up. I use it for a little of everything: media, web, email. Probably the most use for me is having a nice little device to carry around documentation for work when I need to reference it.
If you have the money, thought about getting a tablet, and can do without camera, cell connection, it is definitely a great device to have.
I already have a NC but I went ahead an ordered one for the wife. She is a little jealous of mine so I figured why not for the price.
I use google voice to sms (can't call though without network), if you don't have a google voice account already, you can set it up, and connect it to your own phone number.
I'd like to start a discussion on how to get Windows 8 running properly on a MacBook Pro (or in general any Mac that supports BootCamp).
Everything runs kind of smoothly, except since Apple doesn't "Officially Support" Windows 8, out of the gate I wasn't able to get a few things working. Unfortunately, the driver disc that Apple provides to you doesn't install officially because I was "not running Windows 7."
I am using a MacBook Pro, early 2010. 2.4ghz Core2Duo, 4gb of RAM and a 1tb HDD. (I can post an iso for these drivers later if needed)
Not working
Volume Buttons
Brightness Buttons
Eject button
2-Finger Scroll
I'll update later once I am out of class, but those are some things I've run into.
can't you get the drivers from the bootcamp program
if you have the exes of the files just run the programs into compatibility mode
alternatively use uniextract to extract the drivers and run the exes that way..
right click the setup file choose properties. Goto compatibility, and choose windows 7. Hit ok and run setup file..
works for me using the compatibility mode to install bootcamp using windows 7 mode
Well thanks guys! As soon as I read that I had a pretty big "DUH" moment. Everything is running much smoother now for obvious reasons.
Anyone had a freeze yet? When I'm doing intensive stuff it hangs and I have to manually shut it down.
I am also still missing a driver: Microsoft Device Association Device Enumerator.
I have an early 2009 MacBook Pro (13 inch), maybe that's why
Hi,
I have the same freezing issue on my 2009 MacBook Pro 13 inch, I have narrowed it down to the Nvidia graphics drivers (feels like Vista all over again with Nvidia giving us crappy unstable drivers again), if you go down to the built in Microsoft driver the laptop is solid albeit a little bit less smooth due to the loss of the Nvidia drivers and your laptops fans will be on quite a bit but it stops it crashing.
I have tried several different Nvidia drivers from laptopvideo2go.com and none have stopped the random crashing but other than that Windows 8 is rocking.
Thanks
James
james194zt said:
Hi,
I have the same freezing issue on my 2009 MacBook Pro 13 inch, I have narrowed it down to the Nvidia graphics drivers (feels like Vista all over again with Nvidia giving us crappy unstable drivers again), if you go down to the built in Microsoft driver the laptop is solid albeit a little bit less smooth due to the loss of the Nvidia drivers and your laptops fans will be on quite a bit but it stops it crashing.
I have tried several different Nvidia drivers from laptopvideo2go.com and none have stopped the random crashing but other than that Windows 8 is rocking.
Thanks
James
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Thanks for info James. Really helpful!
Sounds like the same issue for me. Did you find the missing driver?
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You might wanna try updating the PC. There's a driver being offered by Microsoft I think and I been running it since and haven't had a freeze yet. We have yet to see, but give it a try and let me know what you get.
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Thanks for info James. Really helpful!
Sounds like the same issue for me. Did you find the missing driver?
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You might wanna try updating the PC. There's a driver being offered by Microsoft I think and I been running it since and haven't had a freeze yet. We have yet to see, but give it a try and let me know what you get.
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Nope.. That didn't work either. I even tried 32 bits one with the generic driver.. I guess I'll have to wait for a mature build.
NFRCER said:
Thanks for info James. Really helpful!
Sounds like the same issue for me. Did you find the missing driver?
"Microsoft Device Association Device Enumerator"
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You might wanna try updating the PC. There's a driver being offered by Microsoft I think and I been running it since and haven't had a freeze yet. We have yet to see, but give it a try and let me know what you get.
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yes indeed... very helpful !
I have the same issue and I have thinking about the nVidia drivers also...
I hope it will have a better stability in Win8 beta... because win8 is absolutely amazing !
I got most of the things working except:
Screen brightness buttons
Volume buttons
Eject button.
W8 treats them like regular function keys, even with the option turned off in the bootcamp meny.
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I got them to work!
I installed bootcamp driver 3.3 for windows 8 and installed .net framework 3.5.1 from windows update, now the buttons work but it's not showing the symbols (for example: lowering the volume) on the screen.
Windows 8 have not (yet...) crashed on me.
thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
all of this works. you probably did something wrong.
Does multitouch on the trackpad work for sliding the screen rapidly side to side?
jasongw said:
Does multitouch on the trackpad work for sliding the screen rapidly side to side?
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I haven't tested that feature yet, I am also unsure on how bootcamp drivers handles multitouch (with more than 2 fingers)
koala996 said:
yes indeed... very helpful !
I have the same issue and I have thinking about the nVidia drivers also...
I hope it will have a better stability in Win8 beta... because win8 is absolutely amazing !
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Well I have a mid 2009 13 inch MacBook Pro too and had the freezing on DP, have the CP installed now and all was going well........... until it froze again!! Odd thing is it only ever happens for me when chrome is running.
Installed on my 2011 Mac mini, upgraded from Windows 7 and not a single driver issue at all. Running smooth and calm like it should be.
Massive win =D
Funny that it actually runs better on the Mac mini than Lion.. Only tidbit is that HDMI audio is still not working! D:
Perfect on my Air 11'' (2011) too. I've seen only one driver that doesnt seem to work alright : the automatic brightness sensor makes the screen turn black randomly when there isn't much light around. I disabled it and manage everything manually...
Rickythemaniac said:
I got most of the things working except:
Screen brightness buttons
Volume buttons
Eject button.
W8 treats them like regular function keys, even with the option turned off in the bootcamp meny.
**EDIT**
I got them to work!
I installed bootcamp driver 3.3 for windows 8 and installed .net framework 3.5.1 from windows update, now the buttons work but it's not showing the symbols (for example: lowering the volume) on the screen.
Windows 8 have not (yet...) crashed on me.
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bootcamp driver 3.3 for windows 8? like just the normal one or a special one? I can't seem to get it to work..
the only issues i got is with my lightsensor.
the driver are installed correct and it shows me that all is fine. but i can´t turn on the automatic mode so i have du set it manuel
Ok so my first and main question is, are people still using their old blackstones, if so what for?
I'm EXTREMELY interested. I don't want to be another consumer who throws redundant tech away every 18 months if I can find a use for it. Besides it feels like a part of mobile history, the last of the resistive touch screen era, the new windows phone is too tiley, rigid and related to the disaster that was and is windows 8 and as a techie I like to tinker with things as such windows mobile 6 is just nostalgically beautiful. I could even still see myself developing an app for it in the future even now if I thought of something worth having because it reminds me of my beloved iPAQ which unfortunately I no longer have!
At the moment I'm running a Note 3 which is brilliant and HIGHLY recommended, in between I've had an S2, another good phone so as a phone the touch HD's days are well and truly over, It is however still a fairly decent pocket PC with GPS so at the very least I could still keep it in the car as a backup tomtom.
I first got my hands on an iPAQ 4150 (my reason for joining XDA!) a decade ago, I was 15 at the time and I'd coveted iPAQs for years so when I finally got one I felt like the king of kids along with my 5 friends and younger brother who also had various flavours of pocket pc (his Axim X5 - ironically now worth about £5 is sat on the desk next to me). While I used it for many things including videos, playing monopoly, universal remote, bible, reading ebooks and taking notes in class its main purpose was as a fancy MP3 player with that wonderful bass boosting app called Pocket Music!
On this basis and for old times sake I've decided that I wish to resurrect my Touch HD as a Pocket PC and second mp3 player.
This brings me to my next question, whats the largest/fastest micro SD you've managed to get yours to recognise? I just tried the 64gb sdxc from my note 3 and unfortunately no luck there.
One thing that has disappointed/shocked me somewhat is how difficult it seems to be to find all the millions of programs that used to be, handango was packed, and I've long since deleted all the things I used to have fortunately I did manage to torrent a copy of pocket music! Wahoo! :victory: guilt free it was paid for a long time ago.
So far, I've removed my 6.5 Energy ROM and swapped it for Duttys 6.1 XT turbo for the sake of speed (it was the ONLY 6.1 ROM I could still find - the original orange one having long since disappeared from their (and seemingly any other) website. While the energy home was beautiful it was laggy and drudgerous to use (im sure its fine on LEO) which brings me to my third question.
Does anyone know how I can keep touchflo but still use the default windows mobile 6.1 start menu? I like the touchflo homescreen with the clock and I would still find the weather tab useful over wifi so I would like to keep that if possible but I haven't found a way to have that with default start menu on dutts rom. Alternatively, could anyone point me toward the Orange Rom?
Last question, overclocking, if I remember correctly 670 mhz is easily achievable but at the time I fiddled with this (many years ago) we could only do it while plugged in. I'm certain that has been answered elsewhere but while I'm here, I might aswell add it to the list. Is it now possible to have the OC running on battery power?
To summarise; I want a mininmalist almost iPAQ like OS, windows mobile 6.1, few fancy bits, no social media, no crap, if I could remove facebook from this version of duts rom and other things I deem unnecessary I shall, I want it as fast as possible (my iPAQ was fast and simple with a 400mhz processor so there's no reason this can't be), with the biggest SD card I can find. I want to overclock it, and I'd love to know if there's anywhere that we can still find all the thousands of interesting old apps and games that seemingly used to be out there. I've even toyed with the idea of asking about windows mobile 5 although I dropped the thought when I realised I'd probably lose camera functionality.
And remember first and foremost, I also want to know.. How do you eat yours? :silly::laugh:
Quick update, this rom looks absolutely delicious in 6.1 guise:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=460640
Download links here:
http://www.4shared.com/dir/elwe84Mo/Kwbr.html#dir=Lj5MJ7Y2
Had to sign up for 4 shared, flashing now.
Works brilliantly and after flashing 10 roms in a day its my favourite by a long way, only thing is that the weather function won't work via wifi (not tried gprs), any ideas anyone?
So from what I've been able to garner the Touch HD takes micro SDHC but is not compatible with the newer SDXC. While this limits us to 32GB it's still good news because the old walkman mp3 player I have been using was 16GB and these days the fastest top class 32GB micro SDHC card can be had for as little as £12.99! That means I can essentially double the capacity of my mp3 player for £12.99! Clearly, there's still life in the old phone yet!
http://www.mymemory.co.uk/compatible-memory/Mobile_Phones/HTC/HTC+Touch+HD_Memory_Cards
I still use mine as my mobile phone and for Tom tom and storing passwords. It's gone through a few batteries and a new stylus and a new screen. It constantly gives me the shixs because it's a slow ass phone. I'm just waiting for that perfect unicorn rainbow encrusted replacement phone. Thanks for recommending the rom, I'll try it out to see if I can be bothered putting up with this hunk of junk a bit longer.
joshwuk said:
Works brilliantly and after flashing 10 roms in a day its my favourite by a long way, only thing is that the weather function won't work via wifi (not tried gprs), any ideas anyone?
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weather works on mine with wifi.
Holy crap the touch hd is a slow phone. Everything takes at least 3 seconds to respond when clicking. THere must be a quicker rom... I did install the sense 2 version.
I installed the 6.1 weather one. and I overclocked it using http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=747813
The weather didn't work at first. I dunno what fixed it, but I turned off location awareness in settings on touch flo. then i went to weather deleted all the extra cities, then i updated and turned on location services when it asked and it worked. may be a fluke.
AvocadoBaby said:
I installed the 6.1 weather one. and I overclocked it using http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=747813
The weather didn't work at first. I dunno what fixed it, but I turned off location awareness in settings on touch flo. then i went to weather deleted all the extra cities, then i updated and turned on location services when it asked and it worked. may be a fluke.
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"all settings" fix in settings tab
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5507019&postcount=6328
geez the touchhd was a dumb phone. I still am using it because i'm too cheaparse to buy a new phone. But damn... iphone killer it was not. Slow piece of rubbish with a bad camera.
Spent ages trying different variations of manilla and boy are they laggy. A bit better with overclocking. so tried winterface, point ui, spb mobile shell, cHome. Finally the today screen with resco plugin is the quickest. I can't believe i've been putting up with spb and touchflo all this time instead of the today screen.
I bought my Touch HD in december 2008. I have been using it until september 2015. Reason for replacing it was a standy time of only a few hours. (I ditched my Motorola A780 for the same reason btw.) I bought a new battery, but that didn't solve the problem. I was running the WM 6.5 Energy ROM, which made it more touch friendly than the original WM 6.1.
The Moto X Play I have now looked ridiculously big at first, but now I am used to it the Touch HD seems ridiculously small .
I liked using it, but noe I have more reasons to not want the Touch HD anymore: speed (or lack of it) and the non-capacitive, scratch sensitive touch screen.
I am not into replacing a phone every one or two years. I think 7 years is a nice lifetime for a smartphone. So my Moto X Play has at least another 6,5 years to go.
I know I am kicking an old topic, but it's an old phone too. I wonder if there are still people who use it as their everyday phone.
It is permanently in my car always on the charger, serving as music player and backup phone.
I'm still using mine
I've tried the modern Windows phone and Androids but they just don't have the functionality that ~I need. I like being able to use my fingernail on the touch screen for better accuracy than a great big fingertip. I like having a full QWERTY keyboard like the Resco keyboard without constantly having to shift from numbers to characters to symbols. I like the drop-down menus and I like the fact that I don't have to search for the phone app to use my phone as a phone.
The only downsides are the reception in poor signal areas is not as good as my wife's Samsung and the OPERA browser doesn't work very well but then I have a laptop for serious work.
I somebody would bring out an updated version of this phone running Win 6.1 mobile then I'd bite their hand off and upgrade but as it is I'll stick to my Touch HD as long as I can keep it running.
Use all the time
I use mine every day for telephone, email, calendar/diary syncs with OUTLOOK, contacts, word, excel, as a clock, as an alarm.
I use it occasionally as a SatNav, read the Bible on it.
It's now getting a bit long in the tooth and with 2G/3G starting to get switched off I'm now looking for a way to migrate all my stuff including Win Mobile 6.1 to and Android phone. If anybody has a good way to upgrade an Android phone to Windows Mobile 6.1 then I'm all ears.
Hi guys!
First off, long time lurker, I've been hitting up this site for XP stuff since 2012, only joined today to ask something to pretty well the only still active XP community out there. Forgive me for this post that is almost certainly in the wrong spot and the wrong thing entirely.
Anyways, I bought a new XP a couple of weeks ago and so far it's been great. Only thing is, a few games don't work as well as they did back in 2013/14 when I still used this phone as my mainer.
Namely, Age of Zombies and Modern Combat 4.
Age of Zombies lost support for the control pad way back when and I remember being so bummed about it, but anyway, the demo hasn't been patched in a couple years and should still work with it, right? All I want is survival mode after all and that's in there. So I download the lite version off the Play Store fine and then it gets a black screen when I start it, every time. Full game works fine (touch screen only obviously though) which is why it's weird. I did the same thing with Minecraft too, full version lost support for controls (which is ironic since it launched there, but whatever) and I went back to the demo version, but that works fine.
MC 4 on the other hand, I've deleted and reinstalled the game countless times now, deleted and reinstalled just the patch, moved to SD, moved back to phone, even tried a couple of pirate versions after a while and nothing. It just crashes every time I launch the game. It will show the Gameloft logo and then crash to the menu every time without fail. I've got MC 3 running on it fine though which makes it even more annoying.
Anyway, I'm running normal old 2.3.3 with absolutely zero mods done to it (I forgot this poor sucker is stuck with auto brightness and an inability to take screenshots) and everything else is running fine. Vice City runs a champ, ePSXe is going strong, MC 3 as I said earlier, and so on.
Neon Shadow also gets the black screen, but my memory was lying to me when it thought that game supported the XP gamepad anyways so I don't care, runs fine on my Nexus anyways.
Anyhoo, any and all help would be greatly appreciated and hopefully it is something like me being too stupid to turn on an obvious option or something. Thanks guys!