^you mean dragging any files i want and dropping them onto my phone's sd card using windows explorer? no additional software needed and goes as fast as the phone can write it?

10/4/2010 11:54:43 PM

^ because that does a great job of grabbing your album art, creating smart playlists, and generating genius playlists...

And it's funny you are complaining about speed, when iOS does pretty much everything WAAY faster than Android. I bet you spend more time navigating your phone than performing sync operations.

[Edited on October 5, 2010 at 12:07 AM. Reason : ]

10/5/2010 12:05:27 AM

Quote :

"because that does a great job of grabbing your album art, creating smart playlists, and generating genius playlists..."

Actually, every album I have on my DX has album art. Adding songs to a playlist from the phone is also incredibly easy. I've never used a genius playlist or even care to.

And it certainly doesn't take 4 hours to add 2 songs like my iPhone did on Friday. The only thing I use my iPhone for now is music in my car (because of a 30-pin installed before I bought it) and it can barely handle that.

10/5/2010 12:14:02 AM

Quote :

"Actually, every album I have on my DX has album art. Adding songs to a playlist from the phone is also incredibly easy. I've never used a genius playlist or even care to. "

That's great.

None of that impugns iTunes as a bad music manager in any way. iTunes does all of this, and makes it very easy to do, easier than trying to hand-create it on a phone UI.

And if your iTunes is taking 4hours to add 2 songs, then something else is wrong with your computer.

And most of the songs i have on my Droid have album art too btw, but that's largely because iTunes put it there for me

[Edited on October 5, 2010 at 12:20 AM. Reason : ]

10/5/2010 12:18:33 AM

Quote :

"And it's funny you are complaining about speed, when iOS does pretty much everything WAAY faster than Android. I bet you spend more time navigating your phone than performing sync operations."

Not sure what phone you're basing that off, but I don't spend much time "navigating my phone" unless I play around with it to try to find something I haven't seen before.

10/5/2010 12:22:16 AM

This guy sure is a big Apple fan to be carrying around an Android phone

10/5/2010 12:37:20 AM

^^You don't ever launch a browser or a calendar or an email client or a game, or photo gallery or take pictures and stuff like that ?

10/5/2010 12:39:50 AM

I was happily texting away today when all of sudden my screen died.

10/5/2010 2:05:36 AM

Quote :

"You don't ever launch a browser or a calendar or an email client or a game, or photo gallery or take pictures and stuff like that ?"

Browser, calendar, and email can all be gotten to from my home screen. A game is easily found within the app tray, since I don't play them often enough for me to want one on my home screen. Camera is a dedicated button I can use to get to it from any screen/app. There's nothing I can't get to within a couple seconds. I never spend much time "navigating"

10/5/2010 2:15:02 AM

Not to mention we can actually add a calendar widget to a home screen as soon as we take the device out of the box and set it up without having to jailbreak it and install Winterboard.

10/5/2010 8:25:15 AM

Quote :

"^ because that does a great job of grabbing your album art, creating smart playlists, and generating genius playlists..."

HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA

iTunes can't get proper album art to save it's life, not to mention how it grabs different album art for multiple songs on the same album.



Oh, and don't get me started how one artist shows up twice in the artists list on the phone and then their album proceeds to show up twice underneath one of those headings, despite them being named exactly the same. The fact that the software isn't smart enough to figure out that "30 Seconds To Mars" and "30 Seconds to Mars" are the same band is also beyond idiotic.

10/5/2010 9:01:43 AM

I like it when iTunes fucks itself (while its library file) and you have to rebuild everything

10/5/2010 9:48:12 AM

I'll admit, I've been partaking in small doses of the Apple Kool-aid in the past couple of years, but I can't imagine how many gallons you'd have to drink to start defending any part of iTunes to anyone, much less Android fans.

Not being shackled by iTunes is the one DEFINITIVE advantage Android users have over iDevice people.

10/5/2010 10:13:51 AM

supposedly the new update (not froyo yet though ) is supposed to start rolling out for the epic again. It came out last week, but they immediately stopped the release due to a glitch. Now it is being circulated again, and it fixes alot of silly problems the epic has had (and supposedly fixes alot of the GPS problems!!)


Still waiting on froyo though :-/

10/5/2010 11:24:09 AM

10/5/2010 11:58:45 AM

I wouldn't expect Froyo until mid to late November. The European version is supposed to get the update in late October so it'll probably get to the US after that. Not to mention Samsung is notoriously slow in rolling out their updates but I'm sure it'll leak out for the others like it did for the Captivate.

10/5/2010 11:59:22 AM

oh, there is already a leak for the epic, but I don't trust myself to not mess it up

10/5/2010 12:38:13 PM

ATT just announced 3 crappy blur phones. I'd link, but none of them even have hardware accelerated graphics.

10/5/2010 4:43:54 PM

Motorola Spice: It looks like a Palm Pre, but it runs Android. Nice.

Available Q4 2010:
http://mediacenter.motorola.com/Fact-Sheets/Motorola-SPICE-Fact-Sheet-3448.aspx

(Uh, I hope this is a type: 3.0” 240x320 QVGA TFT") ... 240x320, really?

It's nice to see that I will have a qwerty portrait-slider choice for Android ... now I have something to fall back on if HP can't revive Palm and this whole WebOS 2.0 business goes belly-up.




[Edited on October 6, 2010 at 12:21 AM. Reason : .]

10/6/2010 12:14:06 AM

^I wouldn't expect too much out of that phone if I were you. It probably has very similar specs to the Flipout, which really aren't impressive (720MHz TI OMAP, no hardware accelerated graphics, shitty resolution and screen size)

10/6/2010 1:38:26 AM

Ah, I think you might be right.

Someone make a high-end portrait slider please.

10/6/2010 2:08:28 AM

I don't think you'll see that. Things are trending toward touchscreen only, and most of the ones with keyboards, even the lowest end options, tend to be landscape.

Sidenote: I'd love to see Moto do something balls out and make a top of the line version of a Defy (Specs of a fictitious phone I'll call the Droid X+1 for the sake of this post)

10/6/2010 2:58:23 AM

Would the Droid Pro fit your bill for a vertical portrait phone? (Even though it isnt a slider)

http://phandroid.com/2010/10/05/motorola-announces-7-android-phones-bravo-citrus-defy-droid-pro-flipout-flipside-spice/

10/6/2010 7:49:13 AM

my evo's seidio extended battery is fucking amazing. this thing will last over a day now, EASILY without a charge.

and i actually like what the extended case does for the feel of the phone in my hands

http://www.seidioonline.com/product-p/bacy35hev4-bk.htm

i suggest if you were on the fence about battery life and have tried juiceDefender, setCPU, and even the horrendous task killers, fuck it all and for god's sake got an extended battery. i bought two of the slim ones as soon as i bought the phone (1750 mAh) but even they didn't last a full day for me - half a day at best.

10/6/2010 7:54:36 AM

Quote :

"Someone make a high-end portrait slider please."

There's a Dell one coming out for WP7. I mention this only because the touchscreen only version of that phone is headed to Android and I am jealous.

10/6/2010 9:10:02 AM

^^I like the look of their cases... I might upgrade later, but i want to see what their extended battery does. This super amoled screen is a battery killer on my epic


speaking of which, I just did a little searching for a good explanation of how super amoled is different and what makes it special (other than that it looks great!), and I found this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-iP-4PzMS0&feature=related

it is a little redundant, but the little korean guy explaining it makes it worth it!

[Edited on October 6, 2010 at 9:46 AM. Reason : sverwv]

10/6/2010 9:40:06 AM

^^^^Good point, but I really don't want the keyboard always exposed like that. If it came down to it, I probably would take that over a landscape, though.

^^Didn't know that, looking it up now so I can be jealous too.

10/6/2010 1:09:55 PM

Dell Lightning = hotness

10/6/2010 2:18:07 PM

Anyone with the 2.2 on their DX having trouble getting their gps to work? I have launcher pro on top and a few days ago my latitude widget was updating my location nicely, but now I can't get the gps to grab my location even when I want to use the navi.

Similar problems, anyone?

10/7/2010 10:40:42 AM

nope

10/7/2010 11:09:49 AM

i've been having trouble getting my droid x to do anything well since upgrading to 2.2 but i also haven't really taken much time to try to figure out what might be making it so fucking laggy, unresponsive, and an all around piece of shit but at least the battery life is better

10/7/2010 12:40:42 PM

I've had no problems with my DX with the leaked 2.2 (and then FlyX). I put the same setup on my roommate's DX and he's not had any problems either. I have a friend with the 2.2 OTA that has been complaining nonstop about it. He should have just gotten the leak like I told him to.

10/7/2010 12:43:42 PM

still running stock 2.2 rooted like a champ.

10/7/2010 12:56:41 PM

^^^Myself and the few friends of mine with 2.2 all got it OTA and have had no problems. (I asked around about the GPS problem too quick). No idea what is causing that for you:/

[Edited on October 7, 2010 at 4:14 PM. Reason : ]

10/7/2010 4:13:40 PM

I got my LG Ally today and love it so far. Now I have a Droid X for one line and the ally for the other. Bye blackberry!

10/7/2010 9:29:15 PM

I just rooted my Incredible for the first time and I'm starting to screw around with ROMs. Which ROM would you guys recommend? I've seen a lot of recommendations for CyanogenMod of course and ShadowMod. Also, is there a stock 2.2 without Sense available for the Incredible?

10/7/2010 9:36:15 PM

installed FlyX earlier. pleased thus far. any particular themes worth looking into?

10/7/2010 10:12:15 PM

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/bgill55/83920-invertnito-incognito-dx.html

Icognito and Invertnito are pretty good. They are probably the best themes out but for some reason I can never get used to them and always revert back after a few hours.

In the ROM Manager under Onix Concepts there are several versions of their theme with a couple color variations. I've had a few issues with the latest version and had to revert back to the one before it. The new version is a more complete theme but for some reason I couldn't send outgoing text messages, I could still receive them. It didn't really make any sense but as soon as I went back to the version before I could send them.

Always make sure to backup your current ROM before installing a theme.

10/8/2010 9:39:43 AM

Anyone know of a good place comparing the various Android UIs? My only experience has been with TouchWiz.

10/8/2010 10:42:37 AM

^UI, custom ROMs, or Launchers?

for UI's I like:
http://slidescreenhome.com/
http://www.myflyscreen.com/

for OEM UI's there's this:
http://androidforums.com/android-lounge/182579-my-depth-comparison-android-uis.html

[Edited on October 8, 2010 at 11:15 AM. Reason : .]

10/8/2010 11:13:58 AM

So like I mentioned a couple posts up, I rooted my Incredible last night and I was screwing around with different ROMs and whatnot. Well, today I decided to go back to my original ROM (official 2.2 with SenseUI and rooted) so I restored to the earliest backup I have. Well, whenever I install apps from the market now, they force close every time I open them (note: this doesn't happen on any of the custom ROMs I've tried, just my "factory" one). I have to uninstall and reinstall them in order to get them to work and then they work just fine (same goes for updates to apps). So... I guess I screwed something up but idk what. Having to install every app twice is pretty annoying. Any ideas as to how to fix this? I have no problem doing a factory reset and re-rooting/installing crap again as long as it will fix my problem. I noticed that there is a factory reset option both in the HBOOT menu and in the ClockworkMod menu. If I have to go the factory reset route, which of those should I use?

10/8/2010 10:41:06 PM

well my droid x came in yesterday. I can't believe how huge the difference is between this and my old piece of shit eris. It's awesome to not have to deal with the browser on my old blackberry as well. Unfortunately now i have to train 5 other people at work on how to use a smartphone a well. Should be fun.

10/9/2010 8:23:06 AM

^^ If you wanted to go back to the original, why not just use Virtuous ROM instead? It is pretty much the stock (factory) rom but improved a little bit and with all the bloatware removed.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=765447

10/9/2010 6:40:17 PM

^Ah ok. I didn't know about that one. I'll check that out.

10/10/2010 10:19:52 AM

I'm about to pull my hair out trying to figure out why I can't get attachments through gmail. Apparently there's 50,000 people with the same problem but I can't find any solutions. Has anyone here run into that problem?

I'm using Droid X running stock 2.2. PDF attachments in gmail result in "Fetching Attachment.... Please wait" that just sits there and churns until you hit back. No option to download either. This was when it was brand new and with Adobe Reader installed. Any ideas?

10/11/2010 10:47:31 AM

^ fixed it. If anyone else runs into this, I had never opened any PDF files. I downloaded one from Dropbox and opened it. That launched QuickPDF (I think that's what it was called) and brought the register screen up. I registered, cleared GMail's cached, force stopped GMail, & then restarted it. Now it will actually open them up. There must be 300 threads online about this. It seems that every one of them has people just accepting that it doesn't work instead of people finding a solution.

10/11/2010 12:15:43 PM

Just installed Voodoo lag fix and there's a noticeable speed increase in pretty much everything. Definitely recommend for any rooted Fascinate owners.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=804317

10/11/2010 4:14:29 PM

So I'm planning on switching to Verizon in a month or so and it looks like the Droid 2 is the best option to upgrade from my good ol' G1.

Is the Droid 2 the best keyboard phone in the near future? I've never really liked virtual keyboards and I'm not a big fan of the blackberry looking android phone.

I like the power of the what was it, Fascinate, but without a keyboard thats almost dead to me.

WHAT SHOULD I GET!!

10/13/2010 3:15:40 PM

man up and learn to use the virtual keyboard!!

nah, I have no problems with the d2- I just like the samsung the best (I have the epic, which is sprints version- which actually has a slide keyboard, but again, is sprint

10/13/2010 3:28:57 PM

Get the Droid Pro if you can, it's like a better Droid 2. I have no idea if it's out or available or whatever.


http://www.droid-life.com/2010/10/13/droid-2-only-a-penny-droid-x-only-99-through-amazon/

10/13/2010 3:56:21 PM