I am on the fence as to wait for the X10, wait for CDMA version of nexus one (if one comes out), or just get the Droid.
I know HTC phones have a great hacking community here, and the Droid, due to its popularity will most likely have one for awhile as well.
I really like the X10 phone alot, but I really want to be able to root it and install more modern Andoid OS versions on it because the one thing I fear is being 6months to 1yr behind due to SE's slow updating process with such a customized UI.
Thanks in advance for any information regarding this.
Cero
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We dedicate only to HTC devices.
I don´t think this will happen and has been asked many times before
Not here on Xda, but maybe some other far away galaxy
www.se-nse.net has had a reliable sony modding community for many years maybe you will find more info there
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I don't own a backflip but i think we need a forum to try and speed up the rooting process. Not because we need to, but because it needs to be done to do the phone justice. I don't think it's a BAD phone, the keyboard to me is pretty nice compared to the droids keyboard, but come on. This limits the phone to idiot teenagers when it could probably do so much more.
+1 this is actually a good device that really only needs a decent ROM.
I also agree on this as I already pm'd my request to the admins. please consider. THX
Agreed, I love my Backflip.
I agree as well... I love the device itself, just need to sharpen the ROM.
The Droid or Cliq never recieved a forum and I doubt this will. I'm all for supporting none HTC devices but don't get your hopes up.
I doubt that the backflop (even the g1 running android 1.0/1.1 can do more things that the backflip) will get its own forum. You can post things in the android section though.
http://www.modmymoto.com/cmps_index.php
You should check out this site for your moto needs. Like this forum is for htc devices and modmymoto is for moto devices
"Backflop" LOL!
UberMario said:
I doubt that the backflop (even the g1 running android 1.0/1.1 can do more things that the backflip) will get its own forum. You can post things in the android section though.
http://www.modmymoto.com/cmps_index.php
You should check out this site for your moto needs. Like this forum is for htc devices and modmymoto is for moto devices
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I'm going to call BS on the G1 doing ANYTHING better than the Backflip. I owned a G1 and there is no comparison from build quality to the design and features. The Backflip has a couple of minor issues, otherwise it is a great phone. The issues are very minor and you can get around them easily enough.
Well as far as the moto droid, meh about it. The keyboard is meh which ruins it to me.
The reason we need a backflip forum is because this is actually one of the first solid Android phones for quite some time as far as phones with a keyboard (I just took a shot at the droid again. Go ahead, sue me.) It's also ATT's first android phone, and it needs to have some justice done for it. It's also just an interesting design which probably deserves it's own forum to me ;P
I think just having a Motorola Android forum would be just as good. BTW, I have a Droid for work and I much prefer the Backflip.
I would like to see a backflip forum as well. Seeing as its the only android phone ATT offers, I think we should have one.
I want to see a backflip forum. I got one and it is a great phone. AT&T just has too much crap loaded onto it that keeps autorunning itself (AT&T Navigator anyone?). I feel that this phone is way better build quality and has a lot more to it than a g1. I have owned 5 g1's and this is my first backflip.
Then again. I would also be just as happy seeing a "motoblur" section. This is one of my favorite android forums and I would hate to have to join another community.
Agreed. I've used these forums for the past two years for my Kaiser. Loved every second of it. Now I've upgraded to the Blackfip and I friggin love it. Albeit, there are some issues with it. My biggest gripe being that I can't get rid of the AT&T bullhooey (second being I don't have root ...yet). Let's at least have forums for each of the major brands/carrier whatever.
Either way, gotta love XDA-Devs!
First off, my apologies if this isn't the right place. I didn't see a "general hardware" forum and by my reckoning, this was the best place for such a thread.
Anyways, I'm looking to upgrade into a smart phone. I'm not a texter, and I don't want or need a data plan so I'm not looking for a particularly high end phone. So I'm looking at sub $200 Android phones. So far I've come up with either the Xperia X8 or Huawei U1850. Both older, and therefore much cheaper. The U1850 can be had for $140, the X8 for $40 more.
I've been searching on the forums and looking around but to be honest, there are simply too many threads and too much info for me to all compile together.
Hardware wise the X8 comes off much better, with a superior screen in size and res and a beefier processor, so I'm liking that. But my main questions are about third software support. I know the X8 is EOL and Sony Ericsson doesn't update it anymore, but community support seems to be strong and thriving. The U1850 seems to have a large community behind it as well. Basically, which phone can have more stuff unlocked and which one would still have people working on it in another year or so.
From what I've gathered, both phones can be overclocked, the U1850 can be made to work with multitouch while X8 development is stalled on that matter. 802.11n can be enabled on the X8 while the U1850 has it enabled stock.
Thanks guys.
Hi guys,
I am newbie to Android smartphones and tablets modding/hacking/ROMdeveloping and I am looking for the correct starting in this experience to optimize my learning curve.
What device should I pick? I am looking for the best compromise between these different factors:
-Large community support availability
-Hacking easiness (meaning a device most open as possible)
-Detailed guides availability
...
Every single advice is appreciated.
Regards
Okay, let's reformulate the problem differently.
Which devices has best community support on xda developers?
A thread in our forum stated that Samsung fascinate has good community support. Could that device be an appropriate starting point?
I appreciate your help xda developers!
It depends on what carrier you're gonna go with. The sprint evo probably has the largest community, looks like the evo 3d will be pretty big too. Not really sure about at&t and T-Mobile. Verizon hasn't had much lately that's been big, the original incredible has a pretty sizeable community, looks like the thunderbolt isn't bad either. Currently the phone to beat is the Samsung galaxy s2, it can only be used on at&t currently but should be coming to all carriers on the next couple months.
No money, i would recommend the sgs and if you have money to spend the sgs2.
Both are awesome devices with a huge and active community behind them.
I appreciate your help K_nivesout and Dark3n.
I gonna process this choices and come back to comment on them and choose one.
Probably this experience would help some people in the future
My story starts earlier this year, around the end of July. I am on the Three UK network, and received a Sony Xperia U as an upgrade for my slow and decrepit HTC Wildfire. With a Wildfire, the world of ROMs and development was fantastic. I obtained S-OFF through AlphaRevX when it was released and I was always spoilt for choice on what to flash next to make my phone even better. When I first got my Xperia U, I was so excited. With much more powerful hardware than the Wildfire and an update to Ice Cream Sandwich in the works, things couldn't look much better in my price range.
Then came it.
Bootloader Unlock Allowed: No
This meant 3 things:
No root access
No custom ROMs
A very unsatisfied customer from a development standpoint
I must say, the Xperia U is a brilliant phone regardless of this. But I love the freedom and customization that root brings. Sure, there have been probably upwards of 100 threads on this issue, but not 1 solution.
I recently updated to ICS on my phone, and it is a major improvement. Best of all, it can be exploited for root access, which was probably the first thing I did after the update. But I still feel that I don't have full control. I speak for many when I say;
When there's a will, there's a way.
We can surely bypass this system without paying to get it professionally unlocked. Not just on the Xperia U, but on all Sony devices across the board. It would really be a breakthrough in the Xperia development sub-forums and would spark the community to create more ROMs and experiment more with their devices.
The reason I'm posting this here is because it seems the Xperia sub-forums don't see too much professional developer input. I'm no developer myself, but I will be the guinea pig to anybody if they feel they have a solution.
(bear in mind that fastboot is inaccessible with a locked bootloader)
Anybody who enjoys a challenge, here's your stop.
well if moderators if i am doing this wrong then take down this threat. i don't know its a bit off topic ques but still its kinda important for further development
Well this is sort of a calling back for the devs those are working in their part time and full time for making android such a wonderful community. XDA and Android has gone very far in bringing the best experience to the users and using android a fun..
well now coming on the request.
I am from a small community of HTC Wildfire Buzz. its a small android phone that was came on 2010. it was a low end device but got great potential in those days. well at that time the our famliy was big 1 and we had such a number of developers. i myself not a developer, but i can say we had such a legend phone. we never been able to gain kernel 3 for our phone but still without GPU we been able to get 4.0 of android working properly on this phone. even HTC has retired this phone from 2.2 but still running 4.0 flawlessly without GPU without that much lag is such a remarkable thing. i don;t know that much people had achieved this thing on other phones. now we are running out of devs people bought new phones and we just have ports. and from source we have few devs those are working on with this phone. so i want mainly devs to visit the threat of development of this little willy and make give some of their valuable time so that we can have the last spark alive. because i know this little fellow phone deserve some more time.
so leaving in hope that i will get good response from devs.. :good: