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Hi all,
After spending 2 days with my vario my dreams of a half-decent smartphone are shattered.
I've got a C500 which hasnt really caused me any problems in over a year, now 2 days after having a vario i'm almost pulling my hair out.. can this phone possibly have been released in such a bad state or is it just mine?
For starters it crashes, not now and then, but like it's a hobby of the vario's, i dont think i can leave it for an hour, come back and find it hasn't hung in some form.
Sometimes i have to do a soft reset, sometimes, i can press the power button, get the screen to light up but can't do anything. Sometimes I get icons but when I click them i'm told the shortcut doesnt exist.
Ooh another thing it seems to like doing is randomly going into flight mode, and one really good crash was when i called it and the source phone could hear the ringing but the vario was just sitting there doing nothing.
So is it just mine or is this the most unstable phone the UK has ever seen? Is it worth me asking for a replacement, or just flashing the k-jam/qtek rom over the t-mobile one? Is there a way to backup my t-mobile rom and flash it back should i find the qtek/kjam rom does the same?
I've tried hard-resetting then cancelling all the t-mobile gubbins that loads from extended rom, but that didnt make any diference.
Any advice gratefully appreciated
Thanks
Personally, I'd say get T-Mobile to replace it! Unless you've installed a buggy piece of 3rd party software (but if you did, you wouldn't on here complaining about the phone you'd be complaining about the software, right?).
I also have an MDA Vario. I haven't touched the Extended_ROM (was going to, had a look and decided it was running fine so don't mess with it).
It's solid as a rock. As per a thread on howardforums asking how many times per day have I soft-resetted the phone and my answer was an average of zero.
I hard reset it on the day I bought it (after installing GPRS Monitor which knackers the backlight turning back on after sleep) and took the battery out after T-Mobile decided to disconnect me from their network (at their support line's request).
Anyway, it's on 24/7, never needs a reset of any kind, gets mobile emails via ActiveSync and is generally a wonderful piece of kit!
List what apps you've installed (even if they're T-Mobile supplied ones from CD) since buying the phone as there may be something buggy there. If not, definitely get T-mobile to replace it as it's certainly not a crap model (mine is absolutely fantastic).
Thanks Andy,
I've literally not installed anything, i'm just about to install pocketcommander but that will be the first thing i've actually installed. I've hard reset the phone this morning and it's already hung once on me (
I'll give tmob a call and see if they can send me another out today or something
Yeah, then you've definitely got a knackered phone. They should replace it (how long have you had it) without problems.
Hope you enjoy the replacement, they really are a great bit of kit
Well just had my first ever dealings with tmobile supoprt and it's as bad as the phone
They say because my contract/phone is only 3 days old i need to go back to the people i bought the phone off to get a replacement, problem is they'l want me to send the whole boxed thing uip and all the box etc is at home since i work away during the week
That's got to be faulty, like others have said.
WHen I bought mine, (T-Mobile shop in Leeds), I was told that if it was faulty within the first 28 days, there'd be a straight replacement issued immediately.
Don't accept anything less.
For what it's worth, I always try to be exceptionally pleasant when returning things rather than going in "all guns blazing"; it gets results a lot more often than the "I know my rights" approach. Of course, when it all comes down to it, the "i know my rights" approach might be necessary, but hopefully it shouldn't be.
The phone is superb, so stick with it even tho it is a bit of hassle for you.
good luck!
hi there no problems with my vario either. seems to work fine. no soft/ hard resets needed so far. have had it for 10 days. only thing is after the xteended rom instals there is a file called canned text in words which opens up in a crazy language. does not go on hard resets. but does not cause a problem either. any ideas on what this file is. have othar vario users noticed this file. please help.
_Belial said:
Thanks Andy,
I've literally not installed anything, i'm just about to install pocketcommander but that will be the first thing i've actually installed. I've hard reset the phone this morning and it's already hung once on me (
I'll give tmob a call and see if they can send me another out today or something
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may not be relevant to your problem, but if skype is installed on yours from the hard reset install, it may be worth removing, on the k-jam as soon as i removed skype, reseting stopped happening
My X1 didnt work as it should after around 6 months.
-the display got black when I slided the keyboard out,
-headphones jack did sometimes shov the headphones simbol on the top bar of the screen even when the headphones wasnt in the jack,
-in the center of display i had a grey spot. It was very visible if i turned on the camera and covered the elns with my finger. It might be from stylus or somethin. it made look X1 lcd look cheap and of bad quality,
-the on the keyboard if i pressed M or N key once it wrote MMM or NNN (multiple characters for only one press)
-and the last thing is that when i was having a conversation sometimes didnt hear anything. i had to slide open the phone and the close it and sometimes it healped but if it didnt I had to use the speaker. and it looks bad when you are using 500€ phone to have to use the speaker for all conversations.
then on 1.12.2009 I personaly got my X1 in the shop for repairs. I called afther 3 weeks... the phone was still not repired, so i call them in the beginning of January. the phone was not finished. I was starting to count down the days.
Dont know abouth other countries but in Slovenia (its next ot Italy) the law says that if a device is in repairs for more then 45 days (and that caunts in hollydays and weekends to ) you are entitled to equal NEW device. and then until february 2010 they were telling me that they are getting me a new X1. but last week they tell me that NEW X1s are hard or almost impossible to get. so the SE is getting me new XPERIA X2 instead. thats all I know for now. I still think that X1 was a better phone (it had personality that X2 has not) at the beginning of next week ill know more. today the man from the shop said that its possible to have it on tuesday or wednesday next week.
if nothing else i got from phone that was farly old and didnt work properly (dont know if id get 200€ for it) to a totaly new X2 (it came outh this january,it must be worth around 500€). Ill let you know if/when i get it and let you know how it handles.
is it possible for X2 to ROM it with some costom ROMS for X1?it has the same buttons, same resolution, same hardware... it would be nice to have cristians ROM or touchIT ROM on X2.
Sorry about bad spelling.
gbajzelj said:
is it possible for X2 to ROM it with some costom ROMS for X1?it has the same buttons, same resolution, same hardware... it would be nice to have cristians ROM or touchIT ROM on X2.
Sorry about bad spelling.
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No. There are no custom ROMs for the X2 yet. Have fun with that new phone. Im sure you will like it's. I don't know what my next device will be...
Well i got my new X2 last week on friday. first of all i have to say that im somewhat of a clean phone freak softwarevise adn in that regard X2 is awfull. it just has too much stuff on it. how can there be after hard reset (did it ubouth 3-4 times just over the weekend) only 80MB free. there is 260 MB available but only 80 is free.when I deleted all the panels that i dont need there was 140MB free but then manel manager stopped working.
then i hardreset it. on X1 hardreset and costumization lasted around 10 minutes. for a hard reset on X2 you need half an hour before telephone is ready to use.
then i wander in panel manager whay some panels are able to be deleted in panel manager but moste are not. yes you can delete them in settings but in many cases it says the panel was not deleted completle, you want delet it from the list?
i wanted to have clasic SE panels (1 and 2) i instaled SEpanel 1 from this forum, and panel manager stopped working again. HARDRESET
When I turned on X1 there was abouth 30% of ram used and 60-70% was free.
on X2 most od the time its 50/50 but usualy if you open application or 2 there is less then 50% free. and that affects on performance.
best thing would be to have X1 software on the X2 device. Or atleast X1 panel manager on it.
At first i dint like its START menu. scrolling up and down when the scrolling in not fluid its no eyecandy. and its not totaly usefull. then i started to like it when i figured out i can edit this start honeycomb menu. i added map called WEB another map called PROGRAMS i put al the stuff in these maps only the SE Xperia 2 green icons and settings are on the front level... and start menu was instantly more user friendly (by the way in file manager there is map WINDOWS/STARTMENU/PROGRAMS there you can edit START menu).
But still I have faith in this device. if the experiance was little more fluid or the CPU was better this would be a great device. it has a nice camera (video recording is not so good but that i got used to with X1 and SE never had great vodeorecorder cameras anyway) and there are 2 firmware updates planned one for march (WM 6.5.2) and one in may (6.5.3, cant wait to have START, X and OK buttons on the lower side of the screen).
Final words
I was mad abouth X1 from the momet i looked at it on gsmarena (february 2008) and then almost half a year when it came out i has HAPPY to have it.
now I have X2 only a month after it came out and its just OK to have it. its not good its not bad its just ok.
we will see.
my x2 is in cmonex's hands for creating hard-spl, but the x2 is a hard nut to crack, so we have no ETA on hard-spl for x2 unfortunatly.
But when its ready, im sure the cookin will start
Hello XDA,
I first off want to say that this site is amazing. Alot of good people on here making some great stuff and i just want to say thank you. Now, my issue...
I purchased the HD2 (T-Mo U.S.) the day it was released and ever since i have gotten the phone i have experienced nothing but issues. The first thing i noted about the phone was that the speaker was WAY too loud. Even when i turned it down it just seemed to be still be loud enough that people in the same room could hear my convo. After a while the speaker started to crackle and now the call quality sounds like ****..it's not all the time but most of the time. Another issue i started to have was that everytime i picked up a call the ear speaker would go mute. I would have to either put the convo on speaker OR hold the phone face down to active speaker, then whip it right back to my ear and it would sometimes unmute itself. You can only imagine my frustration when i called the tmobile store and they tell me i can get a replacement as long as i "wait for a new shipment"
So now to my software issues. As far as modding concerns i have not really changed much on the phone. I' ve installed HD tweeks + some games and my contacts. Now every time i exit a game...the OS either freezes...or it just starts buggin out on me. The bottom bar (phone / menu) will freeze or the whole OS will become super laggy and unresponsive. It has even happened just by using the SMS application at times. Also i find that i could be doing the simplest thing on the phone and for no reason...it wil decide to freeze on me. Sometime half the screen, sometimes the whole thing. I have to remove the battery to reset it when that happens.
Now i know about closing opened programs through the task manager and also about clearing sms's regularly and soon and so forth. If there is anything else you guys think i should consider doing i am ready to hear it. I came from a 1st Gen iPhone that i had since 2007, which i jailbroken for tmobile (the OLD way...lol) and in the 2 years i had that phone the HD2 has given me more problems in its 2 weeks.
Do you guys think i got a really defective phone?...or is WinMo really just that ****ty? I dont want to get another phone but as it is,..im really thinking about just giving up on it. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated and once again thanks!
I think you have a defective phone. My HD2 (from T-Mobile) doesn't have issues at all with the phone going mute. It could also be the HD tweeks, i would do a hard reset and see if you are still having this issue.
i would suggest try flashing a custom rom with new radio and c if that works i had the call sound problem flashed rom n radio now its crystal clear and runs brilliant
greg1fraser said:
i would suggest try flashing a custom rom with new radio and c if that works i had the call sound problem flashed rom n radio now its crystal clear and runs brilliant
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Oh really?...Can you give me more info on this and your previous issue?
my phone would occasional mute or hold the call without me relising and the call quality was terrible my friend in usa has t mob one and he had similar issue he read the stickies in the rom development forum and flashed a custom rom and radio and he thinks it solved his problem it solved mine if its new i would be tempted to take a new handset and see
hope that helps
greg
i wouldnt flash a rom. its a brand new phone do the factory reset first and if that doresnt work exvhange it. If you flash the rom you will void your warranty most likely. IMHO you're already on 2.10 rom which is pretty new and should have all the latest hotfixes
dipaolnv said:
i wouldnt flash a rom. its a brand new phone do the factory reset first and if that doresnt work exvhange it. If you flash the rom you will void your warranty most likely. IMHO you're already on 2.10 rom which is pretty new and should have all the latest hotfixes
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You won't void your warranty flashing anymore... the hspl can easily be taken off now with the same app that puts it on. You can try flashing a rom... it might fix it. Otherwise, flash back to stock rom, take hspl off, and then exchange it. I'm still on stock atm, and haven't had any problems people are complaining of. My only issue is T-mobiles crappy 3g coverage that doesn't even work inside my house. I have 1 more day to decide if I want to return it and go back to at&t... Save up and get myself an australian HD2.
Returning the phone today. Even with the issue of broken ear piece, i just cant take this anymore. Beautiful phone, great UI (sense) but the glitchy-ness of WinMo is just too unbearable. guess ill be getting a Nexus.
it is really up to you if you wanna return it back and get a N1. i bought this phone cause of this specs. and for me it do very nice. you can even buy a iphone also which also very easy to use and less bugs ofcourse nothing is perfect as in "Perfect"
not everybody wants to take risk and flash roms and other stuffs so i guess its your best decision. good luck... but if you need any help about HD2 please feel free to come by this threads...
yea i bought the HD2 hopefully i dont get those problem or else NEXUS one for me too.
Hi,
I have recently purchased my HD2 and its been a couple of months now since I'm utilizing it. Barely exploring my phone features, it hangs 20 times in view of the following encountered predicaments :-
1) Receiving 2 simultaneous SMS
2) Receiving an MMS
3) Pressing on any of the keys on the phone whenever receiving an SMS
Well, the list goes on and on. So, in resolving this issue, SIS (Malaysia) had agreed to change a new phone for me. And so they did. Tested it on the spot and everything was working fine, but just after a few days later, the problem reoccur itself again. This time, the entire phone hangs up. No keys can be activated, neither the phone can be turned on.
Firstly, its a brand new phone, so this kinda problem should not arise. Secondly, its no doubt troublesome to flip the back cover and press the tiny red button to perform a soft reset. Why in the darn first place the soft reset button isn't placed outside ? (just liky my old TYTN II)
So I have read a couple of forums with regards to this matter and came upon two conclusions in the end. One, the Manila.exe is the main culprit towards the hanging of the device and two, the HTC Sense application program has a flaw in between. Well, there's a temporary workaround though (that is if you do not want to flip the back cover over and over again), which is to leave the phone idle for 48 hours, let the battery drain itself off and then recharge back the phone again.
48 hours is a long time to wait though, and as a professional worker in my line of work, I really do not have that much of an ample time to linger around waiting for it to run out of juice. I'm totally very much dissapointed with the purchasement of the HTC HD2 as not only the technicians at the SIS (Malaysia) could not get to reproduce my predicaments, they cant even get to solve the hanging issue which I'd reckon, that's what I've been spending most of my time on my new phone (rather than to explore what is has to offer)
Is there a work around to the HTC Sense / Manila.exe problem ? Other suggestions would be to turn off the HTC Sense, but you know what ? Turning off the HTC Sense will be something like buying an Aston and driving it at 40kpmh all the way till the south of France !!! The phone's interface will be dull, and not to mentioned, it will be more a less pictured like my old TYTN II
I do not really have such problems for the HTC TYTN II though, not even one hang moment. Please XDA developers / experts, I'm indeed begging for a solution in resolving this reoccuring problem that somehow not only it will tarnish the brand HTC, it will also loose faith of the end consumers in the market.
why don't you ask SIS to change the phone again?
Just want to say one thing ... "Stock ROM's Suck" , hate to be that blunt but the stock ROMs they put on this beautiful hardware just seem to be time bombs, waiting to explode when you get them home ...
Should flash that sucker!!
To dan138zig
Well, that was my last resort to them, in order to solve it once and for all. I've been travelling to SIS to and fro for 4 times and yet the problem is still left unresolved. They've even tested it in their environment and it works fine (for the 1st two visits). But somehow, they manage to simulate the issue and they replaced the chipboard.
Now, replacing the chipboard was to the previous original phone, though even after the replacement, it still didnt solve the problem. So ding dong here and there, and after several "consultations" with their higher level managment, they agreed to change a new phone for me, off the hook (not undergoing formal procedures, whereby I'll have to wait for another two weeks)
So, getting a brand new phone I'd reckon my miseries will be resolved, but then the hanging problem reoccur itself today again. It seems that the HTC Sense is the main culprit though, after reading a few forums off the Net. And for a "premanent" solution (that is if HTC does not come out with any ROM / fixes / enchancements), I've gotta turn off the HTC Sense feature.
Well, buying a phone that cost 2K plus had already put a large damage in my wallet, now having to face this consequences after the purchasement is a real icing on the cake. What do you think ? If you're in my shoes, what would you do ?
To watcher64
I totally couldnt agree with you more. In my view, they should just have throw the Win OS away and put in the Andriod version of it. Its always windows version mobile phones that are giving the most headache to me when it comes to utilizing it.
http://www.htc.com/sea/supportdownloadlist.aspx?p_id=297&act=sd&cat=all
Have you tried getting a new SIM? Sounds like the problem only happens when its talking to the network, and as you've had 2 handsets, i'd give a SIM change a go.
On the plus side........... at least you get 48hrs battery life.......
Not much use though if your phone doesnt work I suppose.....
rp-x1 said:
Have you tried getting a new SIM? Sounds like the problem only happens when its talking to the network, and as you've had 2 handsets, i'd give a SIM change a go.
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Well, my SIM's working perfectly fine though, it does not give me any form of problem with my old TYTN II neither with other HTC devices I've checked with a few friends of mine. I do really suspect its the Sense that's the real culprit in the hanging of the device. Just really hope that they clear up this predicament with a new release of the ROM
conantroutman said:
On the plus side........... at least you get 48hrs battery life.......
Not much use though if your phone doesnt work I suppose.....
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haha, forty eight hours of baterry life ? well, I wouldn't bet on it. Have tried using it extensively and even before it reaches sunset, the battery is out. And guess what ? It's a brand new battery.
The phone's terrific, but sadly, the battery isnt. Its just like you are viewing a beautiful girl from bottom up till the next and the next thing you know it, viewing her face just makes you wanna vomit over and over again
So that's how I could sum up the HD2 as a whole. Most comparison commentators out there did place the HD2 side by side with the IPhone 3Gs. Both eventually also will end up running out of juice in 48 hours when you're performing your day to day call basis
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http://www.htc.com/sea/supportdownloadlist.aspx?p_id=297&act=sd&cat=all
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The HTC Support and Releases still does not solve the problem, mate. Its something that HTC R&D as well as the QA team needs to sit down and extensively test the entire device from bottoms up till all forms of problem is resolved thereafter.
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To watcher64
I totally couldnt agree with you more. In my view, they should just have throw the Win OS away and put in the Andriod version of it. Its always windows version mobile phones that are giving the most headache to me when it comes to utilizing it.
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hmm, well you did not get what I meant, but that is ok .. I meant the version of the roms suck .. I like WinMo, personally I think Android with is BigBrother Back door is just as bad as the Iphone ...
Dairy of A NRG rom HD2
Welcome to ramblings of a madman. This is a little diary i got an idee to start since i practicly live in my phone. In some ways this might be a life rewiev of a HD2. Its maybe not as entertaining as it is therapy for me Its not meant to be educational, but tips from my experience migh popup so who knows, maybe you find something usefull even. I do excuse any bad spelling. English is not native in Sweden, but very common.
I will try to update this as often as i can and if you like something or want to disscuss some of my ideas i have, feel free to post away. I can not insure i will do so much replying to answers, i will focus on updating my days mostly as i feel. With luck this post will be long and a distraction reading while your waiting for your next rom
Anyway hope you like it, and if not, read something else, you have already been warnd.
- Sunday the 5th sep 2010 (late night):
Just flashed latest NRG 6.5.3 rom, the clean version with only CHT. Time to try simple with this flash, have it as clean as possible with minimal installs. Im tired of having weird buggs happening, and they always seem to popup when i really need the phone.
So, last time i did a, stock rom, task 29, radio 2.12.50_2 and then my GTX regular cookie rom on 6.5.3. So this time i only clean up the SD Card a bit and decides to go straight to the sep 4th cookie 6.5.3 rom and do the magic trick.
.... ****, will i really stand it with the regular classic black looking rom now? Been using GTX for some time now and i love it, but always been annoyed i cant go pure white with no buttons on bottom and the theme doesnt really look that nice, wich is a shame, GTX is close to perfect. I love clean looks, its less confusing and the idea just pops in, why have non made a totaly black or white homescreen? Am i really alone feeling that for ex. A black wallpapper that covers from bottom to topp, no top bar, no operator text, no clock background, no bottom bar on slider, no buttons just text. And to make it perfect, large stock clock and appointments only on home.
Well well, flash is done, time for Zombie mode.
A hard resett, and wait..... On operator choise cancel, soft reset and wait.... Sigh. The wierd thing is while hating this, i also love it. Gives a feeling of a new device everytime. Also notice that the good old network missing startup message is there again in this rom, and dissmiss it.
I select Sweden on location settings, select 24 time format and ... Softreset again ... I really want everyting set manually since you never know what trash might follow so after setting Owner info and arrange tabs, manually selected windows connection and mobile operator and done the internet settings (gets the most stable internet selecting operator manually later, dont know why, but it works), i execute MyPhone and da daa. Time for the cookie monster settings.
First wierd thing happens when CHT have started ... I get no respons on screen. Hmm is it the classic "-i dont understand my own tochscreen"? and hits randomly around blank spots in CHT, and right, there it is, opens my notifications (the top right meny) and i have to wait untill phone lets me hit close. If i try to use the phone now without decicive action, it will soon come back. Only solution i found so far is turn of and unlock again, then do a screen alignment. Hope that does the trick.... Yes, there we go.
Calmly sets CHT to standard settings with no animation, 1 quicklink page etc. I have had my HD2 for almost a year now, i want it fast with no hockus pockus to annoy.
Hmm, twitter tab still dont work, well well, im down to bare minimal on tabs, maybe just as good, once again, speed is key. Weather is on though, strange since im atm permenantly sick and seldom goes out, maybe its a try to hang on to real life thing.
i feel the basics have been done. And i start with installing the basic must have apps for me.
Goes for:
- Copilot
- IM+ (best looking multi messenger)
- Pocket RAR
- Omarket (should be in the rom damn it)
- Sense Task (best there is, simple)
- WM Torrent
- Audiobox (music creation software)
After regestring my softwares i go browsing PocketNow and XDA Portal, got to stay up to date. Finaly some WM news, and a good one also. A camera activation app that could start it from sleep mode. I hit download and also sets a new Futurama episode on DL and returns to home page.... Mental breakdown. I cant use it as out beloved NRG god does it .. Removes all on home screen, sets big clock, black background and installs some X cabs to remove top bar etc, the clean look. To my dissepointment i now have buttons on the bottom i cant remove, but what the heck, looks better. Feels like my minimal install got a bit less minimal thou.
Tryes installing the camera lancher app .. doesnt work, and me whos even using default windows lock screen, what a let down. Well, time is 04:00 and time to get some shut eye. Gone drive a friend to the airport tomorrow at 15:00. Rembering i forgott to install G-Alarm i set regular watch to 13:00 and hope it does the trick, hope alarm on WP7 will be better. My soffa is not comfy, but i fall asleep.
- Monday the 6th sep 2010 (12:37):
Cat is hungry and with me being a softy, her will is my command.
Immidetly after seeing to her needs, i must check PocketNow, XDA Portal and HD2 rom threads. Checks out Shu's Cruzer rom and wonders if i dare to use a non NRG rom, so far his roms always been the most complete one with only the darn Parlingo client to annoy me. I decide to DL it, maybe will try it out later. I have a disturbing habbit on saving everything HD2 related, i think i have every NRG rom since release on my harddrive.
Well time to se if my friend and neighbour is up and about.
- Monday the 6th sep 2010 (14:15):
He is wondering how much weight he can have on his luggage, time to shine and snapps out my HD2.
Panik, lockscreen wont let go, can unlock the device and i keep talking as a distraction till i on my 3rd time gets the display to register my touch and unlock.
Surfs in on Lufthansa and gives the page some angry looks. Lufthansa app only for Iphone and Andriod, and on top of that, weight numbers are in "lb". Quckly thinks for a sec, must be pouns, opens Omarket and re-download myConvert, mish acomplished ... lets hope the pound to kg was right, or my friend will have to dropp stuff on the airport
- Monday the 6th sep 2010 (14:45):
My friends travel companion shows up late, but in good spirit and i take a pic on my HD2 of the travel feverish, wine drinking crazys. No lockscreen problem this time.
We jump in my car (a -93 Nissan sunny combi, and i connect my phone to the car sterio and try to calm em with soothing music, gets a push mail from Hotmail wich is news from a site i never have any intrests in, typicall, phone seems good to go. Of we go, drop this 2 of, home and surf some XDA again and finish typing up this.
- Monday the 6th sep 2010 (18:20):
While watching Futurama (on my HD2) i realized i havent presented my self in anyways so lets do a pre post thingy. My Name is Peder Nakazul Tjärnberg aka Nak'an and i live in Sweden Gothemburg, born and breed on the Swedish Northlands, moved to the big city 2000 (lol, i know, we dont have large citys in here, Gothemburg bragging on second largest where merly 900 000 peeps)
I been a Pocket PC user since back of the days, im not a young man anymore so there been some devices by now.
Started out with my first geeky phone somewhere around late 2000 or early 2001. Since the realese of the first GSM based mobile in the 90's i had marveld upon being able to make a call ... (and not get a bill the size of mount everest)... from ANYWHERE, i was totaly blown away and used various Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola phones and with me in the end having a Nokia 7110 (The matrix looking phone) , wich started out as a collaberation between Nokia and the Swedish mobile operator Telia as the first wap unit, i was amazed by it, surfing the web, almost, what if there was a mobile that had windows like my computer with all its feat.
Said and done, on my second 7110 and some years later, and after by accidently having dropped it in my bathtub (nooo, loved that phone, still does) and a friend talking about palms, i by accident stumbeld upon a store here in Gothemburg that was specialized in only Pocket PC's and palms and there, right on the spot, he sold me my first Pocket PC, a brand new Qtek 9090 aka HTC Blue Angel. My amazment lvl knew no boundrys, its almost like a real windows operating computer and it had it all. And with every talk about updates and the exiting future of Pocket PC's a dream of a phone being a full blown out windows computer started (Still does).
I started out with a 1GB card and people at worked gazed and was amazed, what a mindblowing amount of storage space and you have windows messenger!
Well, in love or not in the BA (Blue Angel in short), when finaly after much delay the Qtek 9000 aka HTC Universial arrived. Growin a bit frustrated at the limitations on the 9090 and it broke down, and seeing my vision of having a real computer in my hands i sold my soul, everything i could and bought one.
What a screen, what a performance machine. Themes poped up enabeling almost a authentic XP look and XPUScalar sent the processor flying. TCPMP started really to rock and it feelt as i had the world in my hands.
But after a while it started to feel unaccurate for my needs, as my media hunger grew, so did not the Universial so one day, i just sold it and bought me my next evolution ... The Flybook GSM. A mini PC before everything, the size slighty larger then a DVD cover, touchscreen, built in gsm phone, a screen you could rotate and fold i had reached nirvana. It had Windows XP Pro and built in HD and was *In that time( incredble fast. Wow what a geek dream. I could even install World Of Warcraft and just bearly play it.
Must have looked funny back in the days with me, having a PC headphone set with speakers on my head walking around with a small bag on my shoulder. Also dissmised the need for pockets. The device had pluetooth yes, but as i rememberd XP could not handle calls on BT back then, i knew for sure a small nice BT headset could not be used.
But technology grows better, and as my wish for what i wanted to do with my little Flybook slowly got halted due to the fact that the processor was seemingly usless, graphic card almost non existent and the ever haunting problem with touchscreens back then, the yellowish bad screens. My dream for the perfect portable device crumbled and finally crashed, i sold it and bought my self a Dell XPS M1710 computer and that was almost the end of my hi-end phone world days. I thought i was done with the buggy, laggy world of small devices.
Slowly the the small company Qtek got at least a little foothold in Sweden and i saw friends with HTC Wizards etc, but i never even glanced at them. But a technology awaited around corner forcing me to look a mobile pda's again. The birth of 3g.
Wow, i had been a growing resister of the use of Ericsson phones (wich is law to own in Sweden), and here, among the first 3g phones on the Swedish market was a Motorola. And the internet speeds should be great so i bought a Motorola A-920 and was now cruising on the wave of Symbian. If feelt kind of cool, but cofusing at the sametime. And Motorola released pretty shortly a device named A-925, and i thought, that screen quality, the colours, i had to change device .... and weeks or somthing later the Motorola A-1000 came out and a small glimps of my PDA days started to show, time for a change again.
Now the phone operator 3 was constantly a pain to use and there customer support wasnt even worth mentioning. And after a while i ditched the A-1000 also and went to samsung regular boring phone. My dissepointment had no boundrys. Still keept the A920 as i thought it to be cult (+it was bugg free!!! Havent heard of one) so its laying safely stored away in a bag nowadays with original box etc.
Now cameras started to intressed me more and more, and having it on the phone was practical since i always carried my phone with me. And LG came with a new device that seemd nice, divx support and all so there i go, i bought the LG Viewty and i must say, what a great phone. Simple to use, pretty nice operating system and i was in love. When a year or so later, when LG released the LG Renoir , now with 8mp camera there was no questions asked. Time to uppgrade. It was a nice phone and it could have been a keeper but for some reason it keept loosing the sd card, couldnt find it. And after several repears i saw a new device with a 12mp coming out, it was once again time for a switch. Sone Ericsson released the Symbian based device Satio. Wow this is it .... Or not. My god, i say it now and never again, put a bullet in Symbian, its been develovped to slow and is basicly crap if you dont have a Nokia phone. After 1 week of owning the device i was so frustrated by the slow responsing, laggy, totally unlogical device. Sure, i could take pictures so wonderfull i thought i burst of happiness, but my god the rest sucked. I started to look for a device to to it all once and for all, a high/end device that would do it all and that would be it. I went and bought a real camera and after studing the webb a long time .... The HTC HD2 was due to come out. I looked at Nokias N900 and this and said, the one that comes out first i buy. Keeping on reading on the HD2 on internet i changed my mind and pre-orderd it. And after delay i got mine 2009-11-09 and the wow effect had no boundrys. Now i had started to search for sites to give news, updates and info and stumbled upon XDA, PocketNow and here i am.
The HD2 is the best phone i ever bought, it satisfy my needs 24 seven. Sure, WM is buggy, but thnx to the XDA Community the device feels pretty perfect and stabile nowadays. What a journy its been. And will it end when WP7 comes out? Well, im on a tight budget, but i will do everyting in my power to keep it, i love it and its a keeper. My belives are that a device like the HD2 will not be released at launch so i have time to preper for a new monster device. WP7, im ready, i embrace you no matter the cost.
Btw all i write on internet, this diary is done frome my HD2.
Thanks for sharing, Peder. I will follow this diary....
Great Job!!
Nice work man!!
Hell of a job!!
Thanx for sharing ur experience with the phone and for the great effort on presenting it!!
Keep up the good work!!
- Thuesday the 7th sep 2010 (04:12):
So anotherday passes, i use my HD2 so much it seldom gets into lock screen. But went for a night stroll with my cat and had to use the flashlite on and of and only after a visit by my neighbour to post a question on XDA for him (he has tech lvl -10) i got 1 touchscreen bugg. Where i try to unlock but screen dont
Respond so i have to unlock device again. All in all a good HD2 day, only problem so far seems to be that unlock bugg. Played some StarCraft 2 and drunk some lite beer. Now to sleep with a movie on my torrent running in background. Lets se how much battery i have left when i wakeup.
- Thuesday the 7th sep 2010 (12:23):
Ohh, beer tastes great but the day after is never fun. Well i rests another 4 minutes before i have a look at the phone and... Battery dead. Not a big suprise, data connections is a killer for batteries so i call my battery testing a beer influenced idea.
Once back on i see i got 373MB down before it shut down. Phone seems as hangover as me and starts with a "oh noo, i lost my screen again" Darn this is annoying, and typing about it make me realise this happens quete often.
Well, a mail came in during the night, nice its from HTC. But the news is not so nice, i just gotten the answer from there lottery draw and i didnt win the HD2 (Only enterd the lottery in january so HTC seems to be doing lottery as fast as there upgradings). But there is another lottery now and i can answer basicly same stupid questions and choose a Desire, a Legend or a Wildfire. Well what to loose then exept time again, so does the qestions all over. I cant help to wonder how many peeps that will acctully pick the Wildfire next to these Andriod monsters. In my book not picking the Desire must be a proof that even dumb people buys HTC phones =).
Well ... That mail kind of drained my remaining energy so i fall asleep again.
- Thuesday the 7th sep 2010 (14:32):
I awake feeling i missed something ...aha, i did, a missed call from a buyer, hes intressted in some of my old Nissan S14 parts i have clammering up my storage. Calls him up and after we decided he will swing back later today we hangup and .... When i try to unlock screen it just blinks quickly and then it goes off again. Oh my, another old bugg to show its ugly face. Well, said and done, starts hitting the power button and simultaniusly hitting the other buttons to counter the lock screen. Takes a couple of times to fix , but eventully back in normal. Well, time to give the poor cat some ... Hey wait a min, i was tired but i got up and feed her in the morning, my oh my can i be tired or what. I have a headach now so falls back to sleep.
- Thuesday the 7th sep 2010 (17:23):
Yeah, i feel revieved and its time to surf the webb and do my morning rutine.
Startup wmTorrent check (Wy did i close it?)
Startup Opera .... Yes workes fast. I happen to live in a spot that go...operators forgott. Its really silly, i can move around in this suburb anywhere i want with great 3g coverage, but as soon as im home i have to crawl on the selfs and the walls to get mediocre 1-2 spots. What happend to antenna boosters!?
Anyways, opens favorites and klick XDA Portal and when it load loaded i remember i need to update my diary again so i startup word and try to press my doc. Nothing happens so i try again ... *sigh* sreen is dead again. On off and opens the document. Tryes to do a copy and past and .... No respons again... Aaaargghh. On off and does a screen alignment and tryes again. Screen aligment to sloppy re does it a second time and im back on track. Does some small typing and remember i forgott to read up on XDA news.
Ahaa, a new keyboard layout thats supposed to be better.... Oh and in GTX skin as standard (nooo Peder, nooo, dont flash, try to keep it as it is!) ... Okay, install it quickly and darn its nice. Great work by Boogiecornejo here.
I feel lucky, news from HTC, 2 HD2 news related posts, time to dust of my old WAD and se if the WVGA version of Windows SeVen is up to the task. Maybe will have to flash to a titanium if it is good but WAD and all the other skining softwares are old and outdated for a HD2 so i decide to try it out before deciding.
Disables Sense and get to work, install instructions is pretty easy to understand so it all seems done. Only instruction i cant understand what he really means is the last note on the numberd install list, but i do a guess and tryes it out.
- Thuesday the 7th sep 2010 (20:04):
Been trying out the new SeVen skin and try to get it all to work. As i suspected though, old skinning softwares are not very easy to use and seldom gets it right. Seems its been designed for the now old HTC universial. Guess its there it will work best then, because i had transparency buggs and other small issues. Being with wisdom from old skinning days i realise i can spend several hours now to try to get it working the way i like and work at all, probebly get it pretty decent, but it will only be that ... Decent and some buggs will popup here and there that i never had before so i decide its not worth the work. Of it goes, themes and all, and i restore Sense and cabs back to my usual liking. Phew, that was a couple of hours worth of nothing. Had some screen dropouts during this process also, seems the trouble is getting worse, so ....its close, i can feel it, my computer can feel it (wow, hes acctully gona start me again!)... Its time to download NRG GTX, but also do the hole 9 yards again, task 29 etc. But atm im also thinking that that Cruzer rom maybe needs a test spin before next NRG flash.
Also forgott to report that my guessing at pounds converting for my friend, who was to travel throu airplane went all right, no need to throw away stuff +) a kiss to the developers of mConvert?
Now all i need to do is step up to the challenge of starting my computer ..... will i play SC2 instead? Feels like my phone needs me more...aha, decisions decisions. Well, off i go.
- Wednesday the 8th sep 2010 (23:46):
Late entrence, been a slow day but finaly some words.
Well, downloaded my NRG GTX 4th sep last night and after that i installed Cruzer rom i had laying around.
Very nice rom indeed i must say, 6.5.5 Windows pure stock. It was painfully stock as it turned out. No extras installed, no owner info possibility, i mean stock! The wierd thing with all this stock was that in all this pureness, it had CHT. The thing that made my try to work with the rom was the theme work though. Darn i never seen such a nice skinned one, even the butt uggly CHT pointing arrow for hidden slidebar was great. The wallpapers was perfectly matched and it had the windows and ok/close key removed to hardware buttons.
Now with a nice skinned rom like this i tryed to help it breath. It was darn laggish and was in desperate help in performance enhancing. Its then i realize while having tons of software backed up on my sd card i havent been in need of a reg editor since all roms have them nowadays and i got a bit thrown of and in the end ....NRG GTX was back on..
Now after the new rom was finished and all the usual work to get it settled i realize there was a bugg on the clock. It was a emty line cutting the klock in half and the rom was behaving a bit strange so headed over to NRG thread for some info. Turns out there is a new version coming up soon and that the bugg is known by NRG already.
Now Dinik version was already up and on a new build so i thought i wait, and so i did.
I waited til i fell asleep and woke up and the change logg for GTX was up but still no rom ... So i waited, watched some movies untill finally, i could download it this evening.
This time it was a task 29, radio 2.10.50.28_2, and NRG GTX 24634 sep 8th. Hard reset, cancel operator setting, softreset. Started to adjust CHT and the screen started go stupid on me again so i Hard reseted again and did everything all over, and now everything went smooth as butter.
When all was setted, region settings, owner info, op settings etc, i came to a realization of depression. Maybe my soon to be 1 year old HD2 is somewhat defected!? I seem to have the same issues going around no matter the rom, and its always the losing screen problem. I know there are problems with the windows mobiles but im starting to belive its the hardware thats not functioning right. Everytime i had trouble now i try to squeeze the phone a bit and then does the unlocking and it seems to fix the problem somewhat. Maybe i need a new HD2, god know i have used it a lot and even though i protected it like a child, i have droped it several times here and there, used the flashlight in the night when a friends car broke down. (Thats why i drive Nissan, seems i only need to help others out =)
Well with that in my mind i went for the settup of softwares i do want.
So herre we go for my list of perfect must have apps (if not always, sometimes)
- CoPilot
- SenseTask
- IM-
- wmTorrent
- G-Alarm
- Pocket RAR
- Waterlevel
- Omarket
- mConvert
- AudioBox
- dwRuler (so simple, so briliant)
- MyStopWatch
- True Caller
- Keyboard fix from Boogiecornejo
And for screen mods its the Touch X remove top bar and BiGnAdAd transparent top bar as usual. Now as usual i leave BsB and Advanced Config alone and trust in the modds NRG does.
Now i belive there will have to be a big revolution like WP7 dumped for HD2 or somthing to ever flash my phone ever again. I need my phone in more then 1 way, i have no internet connection at all at home and uses the phone as a usb modem dongle. So this rom thingys is daarn inconvinient.
Well, time to se if there happend somthing special in the WM world and try to hope Iphone and Andriod news is minimal, its like a virus nowadays, just cant get rid of it.