Hey guys... I have to finally say goodbye. After a year of hanging around the forum, it is time for me to move on. My wife's Razr was almost trashed and I decided to sign a new contract with T-Mobile to get both of us new phones. I got a T-Mobile Shadow - yes, I'm addicted to Windows Mobile!
So for now my trusty old SDA will live life as a replacement phone. It's living with Nitro's great new ROM. Good luck to him, and to all the other users who are members of this forum.
People come and people go. Already there are a few new people who are proving themselves to be great additions to this group.
Remember, whatever you do, just don't brick your phone. That's the worst way of leaving this forum!
I will come around once in a while to snoop on things. Until then, farewell.
'til next time mate!
i hate when people go
It has been a pleasure having you bipinsen. Don't be a stranger.
Why, again, do you have to leave? You can still hang around and give and gain knowledge.
For the first time in almost ten years I'm driving a car that's not a Neon, and yet I still hang out on my Neon forum.
Stick around, homey - it's still Windows Mobile! And isn't the Shadow made by HTC, too?
Or are you just leaving the Tornado board because you're too good for us now...
Always people come and go. I know i will not go anywhere cause I have one SDA and one new Imate SP5, they both work great. Great job
I wish you a lot of fun with your new device
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Ok I signed up for this forum a little while ago but just started posting since i never had anything to say before but I feel that enough time has passed and I have done some reading where I might be able to say something that makes some sense.
Here is the problem, I have a ATT 8125 and I wanted to throw it away when the ATT 8525 came out but I did not falter then when the ATT 8925/Tilt came out I still didn't falter and I was so close with the announcement of the HTC Diamond and Touch Pro.
I decided to do some research about upgrades and here I am. I used to be a motorola fanatic back in the day but now HTC is my new home.
I did 2 days of reading with very little sleep before I attempted to upgrade my phone. The first flash went well and i had new features. Then I saw that there was another more recent flash with other features so I carefully re-flashed. One week later I have re-flashed 5 times with 5 different roms. I have a feeling that this isn't the end of this.
The only thing that is a problem is that my battery doesn't last anywhere nearly as long as it used to but my research shows that the reason is because now I have trouble putting the phone down.
So as it stands I could care less about getting the new HTC Diamond until the price drops significantly or they are giving them away with a plan upgrade but by then i'm sure HTC will have some new ground breaking technology.
So at the end of my rant and rave I find myself constantly checking the Wizard rom section to see if anything new has been cooked up by these awesome chefs. I hope the XDA forum doesn't burn into my lcd monitor.
Aah! Another flash-o-holic...
Welcome to the club!
This should however probably be in off topic
My mistake
I was contemplating posting in off-topic but it is technically phone related so I was torn as to where to post so i just decided to put it here. If its in the wrong section a mod could kindly move it to where it belongs.
I just wanted to share how much happiness this forum has brought to me and a couple friends that I have helped see that they are in the matrix.
It's a mods call on that...
For me, the flashing and the fun is one of the main things about WM for me... That's why I could never go for just an iPhone!
I have not heard any news on the progress of the custom roms. Has it become impossible to do?.
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This is not impossible per se, however the process is waiting on getting a HardSPL for both devices. cmonex is working on this, however is on holiday at the moment.
The thread at ppcgeeks has been locked, I believe its a lost cause. I guess we all should just be happy with what we have in this stock rom.
It won't happen any time soon. There are people working on it though.
Too less people got this phone and too less people will. Its overshadowed by the Pre and even that one is not doing too well. its not even out in Europe yet..
Face it, if a hard SPL will be made, only 5 to 10 people will be actually cooking roms and maybe another 5 will download and use them. Is it worth the effort? Specially compared to HTC Touch with thousands of people cooking roms..
I hope there will be someone who can create a HardSPL who don't care for the fame and glory and 100's of donations. Someone who will really care for us few treo pro owners
Too less people got this phone and too less people will. Its overshadowed by the Pre and even that one is not doing too well. its not even out in Europe yet..
Face it, if a hard SPL will be made, only 5 to 10 people will be actually cooking roms and maybe another 5 will download and use them. Is it worth the effort? Specially compared to HTC Touch with thousands of people cooking roms..
I hope there will be someone who can create a HardSPL who don't care for the fame and glory and 100's of donations. Someone who will really care for us few treo pro owners
Glad I didnt donate yet.
ro8in, ever think -possibly- that having a hardspl AND cooked roms will give the xda community an option for an awesome phone? They don't want to go to this phone, not because its not a good phone -- but because there's no community behind it.
So I believe your opinion to be retarded, and at best, overshadowed by the further options this beautiful phone will bring once win-mo 6.5 is brought on this little beauty.
I believe HardSPL and cooked roms for this phone will see a surge of interest.
Hard to say what would happen.
"Only 5 people cooking ROMs" - sounds like a good number to me. Thousands means too many options, and too much time trying to figure out what's worth trying.
True there may be only 5 or so to cook but not true about 5 people to use the roms. I know there will be more than that, possibly over 100 starting off, it will go from there...
Indeed once there is an option for custom roms the community supporting this phone will grow!
I do intend to donate as soon as I see progress, credit is due to those who make it happen!!
I don't think this phone is unpopular because there's no community support. How many people actually check community support before getting a new phone??
I think community support comes more from the fact that many people have a certain phone and once they get bored with it but are still on subscription so they can't get a new one. They start to play with roms etc.
If many people bought the phone then offcourse a bigger community will appair. Unfortunatly the palm treo just hasn't been sold as much as for example a HTC Touch pro.
I'm bored with my Treo and I would love to see some cooked roms for it. As i'm still on subscription and can't get a new phone yet. I agree that this phone will kick ass with WM6.5 I really like this phone.. By any means this phone has it all a full qwerty keyboard (blackberry style), touch screen, GPS Wifi HDSPA etc. etc. but I still don't think it will happend as the Treo pro is just too unpopular(I guess very very poor marketing by Palm). Here in Europe most phone stores didn't even heard of this phone ever. There was only one Vodafone store which by luck had a few laying around and not even on display (hidden in a closet)..
Hello!
Normally I wouldn't never post such a noob/trash thread anywhere on the internet... but not only am I excited to own this phone, I am scared to death of entering territory I do not know at all.
About three months after the original iPhone came out I wondered if it could be hacked onto tmobile... thats where I got my start and joined the dev team and have been pretty loyal since. (been kickin it with them since 1.0.1/2) and have seen Android come up in the background but dismissed it until just recently.
Yesterday after wrestling with myself for days, I took my iphone, as well as my girlfriends iphone 3g, into tmobile - put us on 1 joint plan and got us both mytouch 4g's.
After playing with it for about an hour in the stores - I AM SO IMPRESSED. Really, apple doesn't have much to offer other than a name, a stupidly thin product which, honestly, has a screen that is just too small for functionality purposes... and of course the small little deal with them constantly closing jailbreaking loop holes and making it a peice of crap to work with.
So here I am now, noob and vulnerable - but eager and excited to learn the ins and outs of android and eventually getting back to the prowace I once was with the iphone, but on android.
I have heard from my friend that the Desire does have an efuse like thing in it, but not to the detrament that those motorola droid users are facing....
my aims are to:
1) enable and have full control of my phone, like a jailbroken iphone.
2) be able to customize it however I want, with whatever I want
3) not be restricted into what apps I can and cant install, or uninstall (bloatwear)
4) truly say I love and know my phone, in and out.
Thank you for listening to this happy rant - I sware I've gone from my mid twenties to a 7 year old on Christmas.
long live android.
I'm finally out of the cave and can see the real world!
We are all hoping that someday, your wish list will be possible on this device. So far, only temp rooting has worked due to write protection of the NAND. Still hoping somehow the developers get permanent root down the road.
I will find it hard to settle for this one as is however, as I have your wish-list right now on a Nexus One.
Cool post. I say welcome.
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Cool post. I say welcome.
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+1.
I would also say that #2 and #3 are already achieved. You can install whatever you want and you can uninstall (hide, disable) whatever you want.
Welcome to our little playground. Don't be bringing any half-eaten fruits here
A quick background about me: I started looking at picking up a tablet around the end of December for my January birthday. I'm a huge Android fanboi, and have been toying around with/incessantly ROMing my rooted Droid1 for over a year now, so I wanted to step it up a notch and get a tablet that had a reasonably large development backing. And then I found out about the G-tablet. It seemed an almost unobtainable mix of top-of-the-line specs along with hackable software. I had to act on it. I convinced my mom that this was the ONLY thing I wanted for my birthday, and all that I asked for was a nominal (less than 1/4) assistance toward the purchase of the $380 device. She agreed, and I excitedly bought my G-Tab about a week and a half ago. Since then, I've been completely unable to tear myself away from this forum; the activeness of the development community here for the G-Tab is even greater than I imagined, and on an almost daily basis I find a new reason to spend more and more time here (hello Notion Ink ports/forthcoming Honeycomb ports!!!). You guys are seriously a wonderful and brilliant community. I'm sincerely thankful for the great group of people who are significantly smarter than me and are able to do incredible things with such an incredible piece of hardware. I got this device because it was about as hackable a piece of hardware as one could get, and while the development portion of that hackability could have led to a lot of frustration and disappointment, it has MORE THAN met my expectations. As a result, I've got a rooted, custom ROM'd device with a Hulu hack, full market hack, and Swype hack. I honestly couldn't have possibly extracted more value out of a $380 purchase in any theoretical world, and I attribute that all to you, the active developers here.
I know this is my first post and I'm a total n00b, but I really do appreciate what all of you devs have done here, and I wanted to let you all know that.
Thanks, sincerely.
Very nice first post and welcome to Gtab Android Heaven!
Thanks a lot :-D. I hope to one day contribute to this active and robust community. Cheers.
Welcome, not too many people ever say thanks, always *****ing about something not working. Some of these people here are scary smart!
If you have been molesting a droid for over a year, you are nowhere NEAR the n00b I was when I got my Gtab a few weeks ago. I had only seen a couple of droid phones in person, but I liked what I saw. Droid users I have shown my Gtab to have been really impressed with it. The most common comment is "damn that's fast!" (I am running Vegan and loving it.)
And you are so right about these fora, lots of sharp folks here with good instructions (if you are careful to follow them) for just about anything you might need to squeeze onto the tab. I also have yet to see anyone get ugly in a thread like you see in so many other places.
A supportive development community like this can change a lot of things and I am glad to have found it!
Nice post. I like you, was hardly active here at all until I discovered the g tablet. I have since been barely able to tear myself away from the g tablet forum here. A sincere thanks from me as well to the guys doing the hard work making these tablets what they are.
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LOL! So true.
If you got half a lick of sense and take the time to do your research (before asking stupid or repetitive questions) this community will bend over backwards to help you. I spent about a year researching tablets and when the g-tablet hit this site I realized it's potential and knew it was time to dive in. I've never owned an Android device until buying the g-tab Mid December and the amount I've learned from the smart folks here is phenominal, and i still feel like a noob. Each day is a new learning experience. Kick back and enjoy the ride!
Im Another noob who has purchased a G-Tab because of the fact that so many of you Devs are doing such a great job with this tablet and sharing your efforts with all the rest of us noobs.
Up till around 2 months ago id had basically no contact with Android other than i knew it was a mobile phone OS by Google. Had never seen it, basically knew nothing about it other than its name.
I had been here to XDA before as i used to own a Dopod mobile phone, and i was using a windows mobile rom from here.
So i was so happy to see that the ipad had started a great new tablet trend (not a ipad fan, but realise if it wasnt for the ipad, the current trend may never have happened). So i was excited when Tablets started kicking off, always wanted one. So i started searching for an alternative to the ipad.
The first tablet i almost bought was a "WeTab", a German 11.6 inch made tablet, it sounded great on paper, great specs, but after i started reading the user reviews, i decided that it wasnt the right tablet for me. Weak touch screen and poor software support put me off.
So i kept looking for the right tablet to get, after a while i settled between either the Gtat, or the Archos. I wanted a 10 inch and these both looked like great tablets. The software review for the G-tab were not good at all, but the hardware specs looked better to me than the Archos.
Since ive been using PC's for almost 20 years now i knew full well Viewsonic was a good brand name, and even if they didnt manufacture the products, it was the quality that went with the name that made me consider the G-tab.
But it wasnt till i checked XDA to see if you guys were doing anything with the G-tab that i realised that thanks to you guys the weak ended software side of the G-tab was not a real issue. That you guys had taken the G-Tab and made it a monster in the jungle
I ordered 1 from Amazon, which i learned i could by one from a thread here, and around 2 weeks later it turned up. Ive been having a ball messing with it ever since, Android is great, and you guys make it even greater.
Sorry if i rambled a bit here but i just wanted to say "THANK YOU" for all you guys have done for myself and the rest of us noobs
Echoing the thank yous as the community is the reason I got this tablet when I did.
Yeah, echoing as well. I bought the device only after I knew that you were out there to make the software issue into a non-issue. I use my tablet only a daily basis for both my work and my pleasure. I wouldn't be able to do either without the great stuff you guys have done. Much appreciated.
Another me to reply. Forgot where i first saw the gTab, but after reading here for a couple of weeks, i found mine at Sears for $379, plus the rebate for the free dock.
Without all of the tremendous resources on this forum, i would have missed out on this journey. I have tried all of the ROMs, and have settled on the Vegan 5.1b rom for now.
Thanks again to all of the developers,and to the non-developers, this would not have bee possible without your persistence in testing these roms and asking the what if questions.
I'll echo the same sentiment. Frankly I would probably not have bought the gtab if I had not come across this forum and all the people here who have been working to make it a better product.
Thx to all of you.
I also would like to add a big thanks for all this incredible info & apps.these dev have added to the gtab and other devices. Again Thanks, J.
Stock gTab.
Gonna go ahead and throw out my THANKS to the Devs here and those all around XDA. I have spent more time on XDA since getting my Hero a year and a half ago,then my Evo when it came out, and now wasting away on my G Tab. Wife loves the tab so much I had to get her one. Both of ours were rooted the day we got em.. entirely because this community!
I look forward to seeing what the next big rom is for the G Tab! (Running VEGAn now, hopefully someone releases a Honeycomb rom in the next couple weeks!!)
I hated my Cappy when I first got it. Sent 2 back in the first 6 months. Then a friend told me to stop complaining and join XDA. It's been a love, hate relationship from that moment on. It's been a true educational experience. The research, roms, mods, themes, googling, flashing, failures, bricks, long nights, and many many "you and that d*** phone" comments from the wife have all been worth it. I have learned so much. Hated it. But, glad I did. I now own 2 Cappy's. Neither of which have anything left untouched on them. One given to my daughter (in all its pink ICS glory) as a B'day gift. It's wifi only but we have netflix and hulu+ and she can play games and make calls. She loves it. Now it is time to pass along my Cappy to my wife. Funny, but she likes that d*** phone now. Anyways, I'm upgrading to the Skyrocket. For $20 and a waived upgrade fee I can't resisted. Atleast my babies are staying in the family. I am very proud of both of them LOL. I truely want to thank all the great Developers that brought this phone to where it is now. Simply amazing all of you. I can't put into words the respect I have for each of you. And I also want to thank this great Cappy community. I can't thank you enough. I'm sure I will keep up with the forum in case something pops up that a gotta have. But, WHAT A RIDE!
congrats
Skyrocket is a nice phone. Still has no ICS on it . But still - nice phone! he-he-he!