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Just got the S730

I just bought the HTC S730 today
Where is the s730 forum here?
I have tried like a crazy person to get the 'built-in' gps to work, but i cant even find one satellite :-( Perhaps they have disabled it in the Rom...
Cant wait to hear from other users who have bought the final version of this phone and if they can get the gps to work..

Could you upload your HTC Home screen? I think a lot of users (including me ) are waiting here for this. Would you be so kind please?

martinbr said:
I just bought the HTC S730 today
Where is the s730 forum here?
I have tried like a crazy person to get the 'built-in' gps to work, but i cant even find one satellite :-( Perhaps they have disabled it in the Rom...
Cant wait to hear from other users who have bought the final version of this phone and if they can get the gps to work..
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As soon as I have time we will research it. If the hardware is really built in we will get it going some time (it *will* take time tho)

Got my S730 a few days ago. Loving it so far, except...
Couldn't find any satellites with Google Maps so the GPS does indeed appear to be disabled in the final ROM. I hope someone finds a "fix" for this soon. ;-)
Also, I can't get BlackBerry Connect 4.0.0.76 or 4.0.0.84 to connect RIM. My subscription is enabled (works fine on my BB Pearl) but I can't get a PIN on the S730. If anyone has managed to get this working, I'd love some help.
Cheers
HappyHammer

charlie42 said:
Could you upload your HTC Home screen? I think a lot of users (including me ) are waiting here for this. Would you be so kind please?
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I would be happy to. But i have no idea how to extract it from the phone?

Go to Application Data and the best is you copy the whole Home-Folder and upload it.

Here you go
Hope you can use it...
Can someone btw tell me how i can get more appointments to show in the HTC Home Screen?

Thank you very much! But not working on Vox, there are some missing files in system and plugin support.. I think the clsid is different from the Vox's one and it will be more difficult to make it work.. It only shows appointments I will do some researches
And your question - I tried to find it inside of xml, but not there.. HTC made a configurator to modify HTC home on PPC, so maybe for smartphones it also will appear.. I guess

GPS seems to be in HTC S730
I got my S730 today. Have tried with Efficasoft GPS Utilities for Smartphone v2.0 and Chartcross GPS Test Version 1.04. Both programs finds 0-1 satelliets, not enough for positioning, but there seems to be a GPS. But whay can't it identify enough of satellites?

martinbr said:
Here you go
Hope you can use it...
Can someone btw tell me how i can get more appointments to show in the HTC Home Screen?
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is there anyway you can get a rom dump... cus htc home files are in the windows dir.. and we also need the reg keys to make htc home work

pixelwix said:
is there anyway you can get a rom dump... cus htc home files are in the windows dir.. and we also need the reg keys to make htc home work
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Off course, if someone explains how to do it i will be happy to do it.

*If* the hardware is indeed enabled, you might want to extract drivers from a Kaiser rom. Whether the hardware is indeed present and enabled is hard to determine from the unclear statements in this thread...

jockyw2001 said:
*If* the hardware is indeed enabled, you might want to extract drivers from a Kaiser rom. Whether the hardware is indeed present and enabled is hard to determine from the unclear statements in this thread...
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Please explain how we can verify if the GPS hardware is present and enabled? I tested with Google Maps and adamwasta used a number of other tools, so what can we do to make it less unclear for you? Thanks.

HTC TYTN II ----or----- HTC s730
Can someone please help me decide between the HTC Tytn II OR the HTC S730? I am a heavy texter, sometimes check email, and want a fast phone. I'm worried that the HTC s730's keyboard is not comfortable -- can someone that uses it give me a heads up on how comfortable/good it is? Is the WM Smartphone's UI annoying? - i've been using pocket pc for a long time & I just want to know if its difficult to switch to a standard smartphone like the HTC s730? Thanks in advance for your feedback & comments - they are all much appreciated

Hmmm i havent tried yhe Tytn so i cant compare the two phones. But i had a Touch before i bought my S730 and i must that it was a step in the right direction text-typing-wise... The s730 is not as good to type on as an Nokia Communicator (imo the best phone for typing), but it's pretty good. And its great to have two options for typing : numeric with T9 and the qwerty inside...
About the smartphone ui....Grrrrrr it is a little bit annoying.. I hate that the settings are so locked. You have far few options in the settings compared to the PPC interface. But then on the other hand there are some features that works better on the smartphone than on the PDA.
All in all i am a very happy little piggy with my S730. I would not trade it for any other phone on the market.
Noura said:
Can someone please help me decide between the HTC Tytn II OR the HTC S730? I am a heavy texter, sometimes check email, and want a fast phone. I'm worried that the HTC s730's keyboard is not comfortable -- can someone that uses it give me a heads up on how comfortable/good it is? Is the WM Smartphone's UI annoying? - i've been using pocket pc for a long time & I just want to know if its difficult to switch to a standard smartphone like the HTC s730? Thanks in advance for your feedback & comments - they are all much appreciated
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I am also pretty happy with the S730... i used to have a vox and a wizard i must say I keep going to press the screen on the s730 because i was used to ppc but im sure it wont take long for me to get used to it..
one thing battery for me at least seems to be an issue.. fully charged at 7am this morning I had 1 bar left by 11am... Martin is your battery life the same?
the keyboard on the s730 is excellent very good i am already beginning to become a gun on it.. as for the kaiser my friend has one they are way too big for me i guess you need to ask yourself do you want a phone with pda features or a pda with phone features?

Brisbane_guy : I have not expirenced such lousy battery time as you describe. My battery last for about 2 days and i dont turn it off at night. So about 48 hours. But i have disabled BT and WIFI most of the time...

Many thanks Martin & Brisbane for your feedback I'm going to buy the s730 based on your positive feedback

Noura said:
Many thanks Martin & Brisbane for your feedback I'm going to buy the s730 based on your positive feedback
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You really should consider the Asus P750. It's only 130g, has 3g, gps (sirf3), wlan, bt2.0, touchscreen, WM6 Prof, 520MHz ARM, 256MB flash and 64MB ram.
On Modaco someone called it the kaiser killer.

jockyw2001 said:
You really should consider the Asus P750. It's only 130g, has 3g, gps (sirf3), wlan, bt2.0, touchscreen, WM6 Prof, 520MHz ARM, 256MB flash and 64MB ram.
On Modaco someone called it the kaiser killer.
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Hi Jocky thanks for the info - however I'm a qwerty keyboard lover and absolutely cannot live without one --- any ideas on a small phone with a qwerty keyboard that has strong specs, please let me know many thanks

Dear All-Need an Urgent help...

Hi,
Accidently my O2 XDA is broken, Now I want to go for another windows Mobile .Please help me, which one should i go for.
Which is the best Windows Mobile, within the normal range.
Thanx

vprince said:
Hi,
Accidently my O2 XDA is broken, Now I want to go for another windows Mobile .Please help me, which one should i go for.
Which is the best Windows Mobile, within the normal range.
Thanx
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I think my SPV M5000 is excellent - I'd go for that

vprince said:
Hi,
Accidently my O2 XDA is broken, Now I want to go for another windows Mobile .Please help me, which one should i go for.
Which is the best Windows Mobile, within the normal range.
Thanx
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I would say definetly another UNI!!!
But if you want to try something different: Toshiba Protegé g920, just google it

orb3000 said:
I would say definetly another UNI!!!
But if you want to try something different: Toshiba Protegé g920, just google it
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I think it is currently only device that could replace Uni all thogh it has not much improvement compare to Uni.
Here some pictures: http://forum.mypdacafe.com/viewtopic.php?t=18972
it seams it is already available in Malaysia and it cost ca. 880USD

Bulldog said:
I think it is currently only device that could replace Uni all thogh it has not much improvement compare to Uni.
Here some pictures: http://forum.mypdacafe.com/viewtopic.php?t=18972
it seams it is already available in Malaysia and it cost ca. 880USD
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thanx BullDog,
I have gone thru the pics and the specs it sounds so cute and better ,I have only problem it is not available in India.......If anybody can help me in shipping it to India ,I am ready to pay the ammount.

This one is better than UNI
try this one
http://www.gottabemobile.com/Willcoms+D4+MID+Running+Vista.aspx

This one is better than UNI
try this one
http://www.gottabemobile.com/Willcoms+D4+MID+Running+Vista.aspx
http://www.oqo.com/intl/

vprince said:
thanx BullDog,
I have gone thru the pics and the specs it sounds so cute and better ,I have only problem it is not available in India.......If anybody can help me in shipping it to India ,I am ready to pay the ammount.
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Sorry vprince, I cant help you there as I am not from Malaysia.
Anyhow I suggest you investigate further usability of this device. I still have one Big question in my mind about this device: As the screen cant be twisted and the external screen is to small or not able to show contacts HOW TO MAKE Phone calls from contacts?????

Bulldog said:
Sorry vprince, I cant help you there as I am not from Malaysia.
Anyhow I suggest you investigate further usability of this device. I still have one Big question in my mind about this device: As the screen cant be twisted and the external screen is to small or not able to show contacts HOW TO MAKE Phone calls from contacts?????
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thanx for ur reply

The Toshiba's have consistantly bad reviews and the advice at Modaco seems to be to avoid them at all costs!
I use an Athena now but do mus my Universal... There is nothing similar available.

Updating My 02 orbit to WM6.1

Im very sorry if this is in the wrong place. I have checked for a help section, but could not find one. Also there is no specific topic for my phone located on the main board.
Ok. I have recently purchased an 02 xda orbit. It has windows mobile 6.0 professional on it. Its fine, except unlike windows mobile 5.0 which i had on my old phone, it dosent seem to have a task mannager or 'the big clock' and weather options. Does wm6 come like that? Or is it because i seem to have an 02 plug-in pre installed? Is it blocking the big clock thing from starting?
I know i can download the htc plug-in to get the big clock back, it works and looks nice but i feel it slows things down. And i expect it to come as standard really..
I hear and see that wm6.1 seems to have fixxed these problems. If so, how would i go about getting that on my phone?
Thankyou very much for any professional help i may recieve.
Lee.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=378535

Rudegar said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=378535
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Thanks for the link. Still a little confused tho.
Im not sure how i would download and install this. Im new to installing roms and flashing etc.
There seems to be some debate to weather or not this is an english OS?
And is this 100% definately the rom/version i need for 02 ORBIT XDA?
Thanks.

i dont own an Artemis which is the htc name for your device
so you're better off asking your question in the forum where the thread
i linked was in

How Can install Mobile 5 or 6 into a GPS?

I have a Navman S50. It comes with a very simple Windows CE version. I would like to install a version with more features like internet explorer, messenger etc. Can I install any of those mobile Rom versions into my GPS?
How? Any tutorial around?
Need I to make a backup from the ROM por posible warranty issues?
Thanks for advanced.

I´m asking for an imposible? Please, tell me something.

Sure...GPS, phone. They are all the same thing, right?
By the way, can anyone tell me how to load a ROM for my calculator so it can be a portable television?
lagoausente said:
I´m asking for an imposible? Please, tell me something.
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I do not know if you are kidding, but I have heard about a guy who has Tv on his GPS. I hope I will can chat with him in next days. A friend saw it, and have internet and wifi.

My mother got a navigo satnav cheap from ebuyer, and I got tomtom and memory map running on it using instructions from this site: www.navsoon.org

lagoausente said:
I do not know if you are kidding, but I have heard about a guy who has Tv on his GPS. I hope I will can chat with him in next days. A friend saw it, and have internet and wifi.
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You may be able to find a pda rom that would work with your Navman but not a smartphone rom because your Navman do not have the hardware that makes it behave like a phone. You could try a pda forum instead of trying to find help here. It would need to be a rom for a device that has the same specification as yours and even that may not work. It needs to use the same update method/bootloader at least!

lagoausente said:
I do not know if you are kidding, but I have heard about a guy who has Tv on his GPS. I hope I will can chat with him in next days. A friend saw it, and have internet and wifi.
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i have tv, gps, and phone/data cababilities all on my xv8600 (Titan). So what? Why not just get a ppc6800 and be done with it?
i use it wil tomtom gps software, watch my home DVR/TV via slingbox software, use it to make/eceive calls with my blutooth headset, as well as send corporate and personal emails that sync up with my mail server....the xv6800 is the most powerful and expandable device on this entire forum, so just get one, and quit trying to ghetto-rig a GPS to make it what it cant be

have tv, gps, and phone/data cababilities all on my xv8600 (Titan). So what? Why not just get a ppc6800 and be done with it?
i use it wil tomtom gps software, watch my home DVR/TV via slingbox software, use it to make/eceive calls with my blutooth headset, as well as send corporate and personal emails that sync up with my mail server....the xv6800 is the most powerful and expandable device on this entire forum, so just get one, and quit trying to ghetto-rig a GPS to make it what it cant be
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Hello crobs808, I had a look to the ppc6800 at looks very nice, interesting the onboard keyboard. It´s an option but an extra investment I´m not sure if it´s worth. What I don´t like much are the 2.8" tft, seems quite small.
I´ll try to contact that guy that has his GPS working as a complete PDA. The good point it that the navman S50 has a 4.3" screen that seems more confortable to my eyes.
You may be able to find a pda rom that would work with your Navman but not a smartphone rom because your Navman do not have the hardware that makes it behave like a phone. You could try a pda forum instead of trying to find help here. It would need to be a rom for a device that has the same specification as yours and even that may not work. It needs to use the same update method/bootloader at least!
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wovems, do you know any forum you would recomend? I think It will be no easy to find the correct forum. The doubt I have is; if the rom doesn´t work, could return it to the original? or is the risk of damaging it? That it´s the only important. If there is low risk, o no risk, can look for a rom, and try it, but if I would be on risk, so It wouldn´t worth to try nothing.
The Navman allows to intall some little programs on the Flash card, or the Storage card, but I couln´t find no internet browser that can be opened. Maybe the Windows Ce version is missing some dll files (have read something about), but I don´t know, and it´s dificult to find info about how to install that optional dlls.

crobs808 said:
the xv6800 is the most powerful and expandable device on this entire forum
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just looking at specs, the kaiser seems wayyyy more powerful then the titan and seems like it can do a lot more as well. what does the titan have over the kaiser? and why did you point out just the verizon version, as far as i know they're all the same?

auto3251 said:
just looking at specs, the kaiser seems wayyyy more powerful then the titan and seems like it can do a lot more as well. what does the titan have over the kaiser? and why did you point out just the verizon version, as far as i know they're all the same?
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nah, no way...they have the same processor and all, but you cant get a CDMA version of the Kaiser, and EVDO/CDMA data rates are much faster than GSM model phones. I get 1600/800 on my verizon CDMA phone, so for that alone it's worth it...sure, if there was a CDMA Kaiser, then they might be on the same playing level, but I use about 8 email accounts with my phone, and need that speed to push/pull email all day long on all 8 accounts...cant be waiting.

Just got my Touch Pro

Just got mine finally (Vodafone version) but the youtube app does not exist. How can I get it?
Thanks
Regards,
Neil

rctneil said:
Just got mine finally (Vodafone version) but the youtube app does not exist. How can I get it?
Thanks
Regards,
Neil
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hmmm that's very strange....can't help ya with your problem ...but mine was allready on my phone... it's awesome btw....good luck searching!

Is yours a vodafone branded one? - If so then where did you find the Youtube app as I may just be looking in the wrong place

I have a (dutch) t-mobile branded version. Youtube is located under programs, where word etc. is located.

or you can try the internet tab on touchflo 3d

rctneil said:
Is yours a vodafone branded one? - If so then where did you find the Youtube app as I may just be looking in the wrong place
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No mine is not a vodafone branded one...just using my current provider....vodafone...
I have a dutch phone.. and the youtube player is under programs....but I bet ya had a quick look there already..?

yep, no youtube player could someone send me the cab file?

It's pre-installed in the ROM so there is no cab on the device. Maybe a search here on XDA can point you to a cab.

I gave it a go at rebuilding the package into a cab.
See how you get on with it. I havent tested it or anything but afaik everything should be there.

I presume Vodafone removed it to prevent people racking up excessive data-use charges... Unless they have a competing pay service they wanted to force people into using...

Thanks so much for the cab, works perfectly, how do you scroll through more videos when you have done a search? i tried flickking up or down but no effect at all