Hey guys, haven't really seen much Telus rom representation on these forums, just curious if anyone can verify it's not just me having these problems with my handset.
Basically, landscape mode for SMS/Email is ****ered. It'll work fine the first time after a soft reset, but anytime after that the screen orientation will change, then the app will minimize to manilla (or the phone app sometimes) and revert back to portrait on it's own. This happens both with the hold-call-key method AND gyrator2. I'm fairly certain it's a rom issue (that's unlikely to get fixed, sadly, because it's outside of "normal use") but I figured I'd throw it out there and see if anyone else with a Telus HTC Diamond can tell me if theirs does the same thing.
Cheers
I've got a Telus Diamond as well, and yes, using landscape orientation is buggy at best. Gyrator 2 kinda works, but as you've mentioned in some apps when I change the orientation it'll kick me back to manilla.
Unless Telus/HTC issue some sort of official software or ROM upgrade - which seems unlikely - your best option is to flash the phone with a custom ROM like this one. I'm planning to do it myself once I work up the nerve and once I find the time I'll need to reinstall a bazillion programs.
hey yea i have a telus diamond as well, its started with my opera not wanting to rotate, and after trying Gsen and the rotatescreen app, same thing keeps happening. that juicy rom does look good.
hell yeah! didn't know 2.7 came out, i'm all over this. thanks
Update: Juicy 2.7 rocks, fixed my landscape problems and seems to be quicker for GPS locking.
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I looked in the forums before posting this and only found one or two threads that sort of helped. lol.
Long story short, I have tried ROM after ROM after ROM, the first few weeks they all seem fine, but 2-3 weeks after a new flash they all turn flaky. Since I use my phone for SMS, MMS, email, internet, and obviously the phone itself, I need something that can encompass all those features but REMAIN stable. My biggest issue I usually run into is my constant switching between landscape and standard mode causes my phone to lock up and my screen to go all white or criss-cross and stick showing both landscape and standard modes about 5-6 times a day. This has happened on every ROM I have tried.
I need a WING ROM that has all those features, a decent page pool size, 6.1 based (or has threaded SMS), and preferably does NOT have the cube lol. I am not a fan. If anyone has recommendations for me, please let me know and either provide a link or the version and author of the ROM you recommend (so I know what to search for). It's been awhile since I have been on this site, or any ppc site, so I am not up to date on what's the most currently cooked ROMs.
Just as an FYI, I am currently using Open Touch 4.0
I use the same rom, and constantly IM, use the phone, MMS, Internet, and Text. Whatevr rom you have the phone will go slow while switcing from Portrait to Landscape mode, its slow when you are on the stock rom. The only adive is to just download whatevr programs u need if u want more, or try to cook your own rom. Open Touch 4 is very stable and is a very good rom, although i dont understand what u mean by they become flaky after 2-3 weeks
I know the switch is usually slow, the speed isn't the issue, it's the fact that my phone will completely lock up and require a soft-reset if I switch between views too often/quickly. Aside from what comes stock on Open Touch 4.0, I have only installed iContact, Yahoo2Go!, and Slick.
As far as the become flaky part... after a few weeks of use it seems the performance of my phone takes a HUGE dive. Things start locking up far more often. I will start getting odd messages/error messages I never had pop up earlier (and I don't install anything new or mod the phone in any way after I flash to a new ROM and install the 3 previously mentioned programs), the phone will randomly reset itself, my email and MMS will stop working, it will have sudden issues with EDGE (and when I call T-Mobile they say everything is fine), etc etc. lol. I think my phone just may be possessed! I was actually thinking of switching back to the stock TMO ROM and just upgrading. I don't know if that would work better for me or not. lol.
AsaSpades said:
I use the same rom, and constantly IM, use the phone, MMS, Internet, and Text. Whatevr rom you have the phone will go slow while switcing from Portrait to Landscape mode, its slow when you are on the stock rom. The only adive is to just download whatevr programs u need if u want more, or try to cook your own rom. Open Touch 4 is very stable and is a very good rom, although i dont understand what u mean by they become flaky after 2-3 weeks
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take the phone and go to the latest tmboile rom that was released. this should resolve any minor issues that may have happened during previous flashes. Next try itspapadiamond rom. it is not HTC home based and is battery status based. It has so far been the most stable rom i have been using. You must also remember that messages take up space on the phone and if you are not deleting the messages you will inevitably fill the phones memory up with texts and also clearing your browsing history every week is also helpful. i filled my phone up with that garbage and it ran TERRIBLE. third what programs do you have running in the backround when your switching from portrait to landscape.
The only things I have running usually are Messaging and ActiveSync. Do you have the links for the lastest TMO ROM and the itspapadiamond ROM? If not, I will find them. I just don't know if there are specific version numbers and if so, those would be useful so I don't come across a thread saying it's the latest ROM and it in fact... be outdated lol.
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take the phone and go to the latest tmboile rom that was released. this should resolve any minor issues that may have happened during previous flashes. Next try itspapadiamond rom. it is not HTC home based and is battery status based. It has so far been the most stable rom i have been using. You must also remember that messages take up space on the phone and if you are not deleting the messages you will inevitably fill the phones memory up with texts and also clearing your browsing history every week is also helpful. i filled my phone up with that garbage and it ran TERRIBLE. third what programs do you have running in the backround when your switching from portrait to landscape.
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use the RC5 rom - its more stable than the RC5.3...
see post 5...
follow the directions with setting up your weather for Batterystatus, and thats really it... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=396036
Just wandering because I have wanted a Diamond from the very first time I set eyes on one. I am not into messing with it as much as I see most members are here. I surely would like to have a better, faster, stronger Diamond but not at the expense of having to reboot every other day, or having it do some weird thing just when I need it the most. I need to know, should I get one, given that I probably am too chicken to mod it? My main uses would be basic phone functions, camera and GPS. I am not really into music and surfing is really too slow and costly, except over WIFI, which I never seem to get when I really need it .
Thanks Wayne.
My Orange ROM is fine. No branding. Fast and stable. Does everyting you want
Installed a few extra apps like Tomtom and S2P (music player)
I have the NAM version available at best buy. No problems at all with the stock rom. Its fast stable, and the radios, gps, etc all work fine. Cant see flashing a rom when I have no problems with the stock rom and no performance issues. Fiddling is a different story. IMO the diamond needs some tweaking to reach its potential. An example would be that on mine at the tf3d home screen there is a soft button for phone which performs exactly the same as the hard button for phone. Cant figure out who thought it would be a good idea but I used advanced config to change the softkey to contacts.
I am happy with the phone, especially its compact size. I haven't flashed any ROM yet, just using the Telstra stock rom for the last 5 months. Very stable and no hard-reset so far. Though I think I would flash some other ROMs soon as I just can't resist the temptations and the excitement of playing with the phone.
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I have the NAM version available at best buy. No problems at all with the stock rom. Its fast stable, and the radios, gps, etc all work fine. Cant see flashing a rom when I have no problems with the stock rom and no performance issues. Fiddling is a different story. IMO the diamond needs some tweaking to reach its potential. An example would be that on mine at the tf3d home screen there is a soft button for phone which performs exactly the same as the hard button for phone. Cant figure out who thought it would be a good idea but I used advanced config to change the softkey to contacts.
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I have the US Version too, I got it from Ebay last week, and some tweaks via Advanced Config it's running like a champ! The only issue I have is every once in a while, TouchFlo 3F will freeze for what seems like forever, then start working again okay, I'm not sure if it's just normal or something is conflicting somewhere.
Using stock rom since first day i got my diamond, only hard reset once since, and thats the first day i got it
the only thing that irks me is the meager amount of device memory available
Looking through all the custom roms, doesnt really find one that suits me, so.. stock rom for me then
Stock Sprint ROM here... no issues, other than the phone's lack of device memory as stated above. Not much I can do there, and I like the look of Sprint's TF3D, so I'm keeping it.
been running stock UK ROM for six months and working fine. Would love to take some of the apps out that came with phone to free up memory such as IE and MSN, but can't do that without using a cooked ROM, and my need does not take me past the point of having a bricked phone to do it! I have installed some other programs (mostly games), but if you are using the phone for what you say you will have no bother at all with memory.
The only bad things about the phone is the battery life is rubbish with the stock 940 battery. I have upgraded to the 1340 one and that has solved all my problems, so I would say try and get one with the bigger battery with it (bear in mind it does make the phone slightly wider and the back cover is matt not gloss that comes with the larger battery).
Hope this helps.
Yes best phone i ever had
Very happy with the stock 1.93 ROM. I only reset maybe once every month, and the phone is on 24/7. Best thing I did was to disable TouchFlow 3D and install SPB Mobile Shell.
o2 German Stock Rom 1.93 with small reg. Tweaks. Runs fine and i am happy.
Wow, that's great to hear. I think you get too caught up in all the negative stuff when you do any kind of search on electronic devices. I am not apposed to flashing a new rom it is just that I know with every good thing there is always attached some weird and wonderful "bug". I am also not apposed to tweaking as I have done so with my Touch. Do any of you have any issues with the GPS? Again, a lot of negative stuff out there, especially about position lag. I just tried a CDMA version at Telus in Toronto, Canada and while playing with the Tflo 3D I noticed some lag at times. It was fast and smooth then it would not move then it seemed to catch up but I had already tried to move it again so it was all over the place then it would be okay. I am waiting for Rogers to get it and if not I might bite the bullet and get an unlocked one.
Thanks for all your replies it is nice to see that I do not have to flash a new rom to be happy.
Dhatw.
A happy one here too with a german stock ROM...
i love my stock rom, i have changed the www europe rom with the eastern Europe stock rom, foundit on an Romanian site.. basically is the same, and i have tried custom rom but they wore not of what i expected so i'm happy with my stock rom, until i learn how to cook mine
I love my diamond, stock unlocked US 3G.
Running stock WWE 1.93 ROM with minor tweaks, cant remember the last time I had to reset & on 24/7.
Top phone, best I've had yet !
Yes,yes,yes,yes,yes,yes,yes,yes,yes,
hapy too with my 1.93 htc rom
the only suggestion I have is
A) Flash the .08 radio (much better for gps easy and no hard reset)
B) use diamond tweak to customize your phone
C) disable quick gps (with diamond tweak)
i did a little bit of theme modding to get rid of most of the stinky T-Mobile branding, other than that everything is running fast and smooth.
would probably be faster and smoother by running another ROM / Radio, but i'm not bothered enough to tinker about that much, not yet anyway.
battery life is a bit crappy when you've got the heavyweights running (GPS/WiFi) but then you'd expect that. phone also gets very hot when charging or in heavy use.
keeps me warm in winter.
overall, i'm definitely happy. if ever i doubt getting this phone i'll put my sim back in my MDA Touch for an hour to remind myself of why i needed a new handset.
At first I was bothered by the battery life but now I either charge overnight or leave it in a cradle at work so it's not an issue, unless I go camping or something
I realised within a few weeks that I didn't like TF3D but, having got rid of it and the HTC Dialer & Volume Control, the Diamond is a much better device now.
I'm unsure if I'll get another HTC device but I'm hoping within the next year-and-a-bit they can come up with a device the same size with a better battery and TV out!
Edit - Oh yeah, not a stock ROM!
I have managed to get M$-Voip working, but when the screen goes black so does my call. Also, when the screen goes black no amount of touching keys will bring it back from standby, but if I slide the keyboard unit it will come back out of its crypt ( i think the wifi drops). I had initially installed SPL-1.00-OliPof or what not, and upon discovering that is an old piece of software I upgraded to HardSPL-3.29 [through jumpspl-1.5x] hoping that this would relieve my issue. The SPL upgrade was after a radio upgrade, and the radio upgrade [er downgrade from a 1.7x rom to a 1.6x rom made the camera and phone work ]. At this point, I'm not sure if this is a OS rom issue, or Radio Rom issue. My oem setup had 3.57 within a version number if that is any thing I believe it was for the OS rom, other than that I cannot be sure of anything else. Bringing me to ask, are radio roms for the kaiser dependant upon minor hardware alterations between kaiser models, or are they more dependent on the alterations contained within the software side of things ( SPL's, Os Rom's )?
(I have a at&t tilt 8925 (kais 100) )
Also any suggestions in getting this phone where it should be would be greatly accepted. I am hoping to get the best graphics I can, the best speed I can bargain for, while maintaining the native voip capabiltiy unless someone can recommend a good voip client that integrates well into the phone I tried fring but it doesn't have a keypad [WTF?!] (i.e. your in voice mail and need to press 2 to hear your mail, no keypad makes me feel impotent at such junctures)..But yes right now my main issue is this display-standby problem..
Thank you!
Ty
You could use this DontSleep to stop it going to sleep add it to a hardware button for quick access "Start\Settings\Buttons", you could try and use advanced config but not sure if voip calls are the same as voice.
Yeah maybe I will look into that for an extremely temporary workaround. But, I don't want kill my tilt by pulling the keyboard in and out to see whats up. Seriously it just dies black and stays that ways. so uncool.
tyler51773 said:
Yeah maybe I will look into that for an extremely temporary workaround. But, I don't want kill my tilt by pulling the keyboard in and out to see whats up. Seriously it just dies black and stays that ways. so uncool.
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Sorry i was under the impression that it only does the black screen during VOIP but your actually having this issue all the time when the phone goes into sleep.
Been a tilt owner since Late dec/Early Jan '09, and only recently have I reflashed the 3rd party rom that came with my phone (bought it used). After some reading and research on this forum I'm proud to say that my tilt is running 95% exactly how I want it to - 5% accounting for an odd bug and some menu stuff I dont want lol.
My main reason for the tilt was its built in GPS and the qwerty kb. the rom that was on the phone was laggy in all sorts of areas, but now its super fast and clear type font works in landscape mode too
my setup:
Ruu_Signed_Duttys_WM6.1_5.2.19700_Hybrid_V2_1_65.14.06_CubeV2_
KAIS_RADIO_ONLY_1.71.09.01_CustomRuu
iGO8 GPS (Nav n Go)
SPB mobile Shell
now my GPS works, landscape switches over fast, keyboard works fast, I love this phone
Thanks everyone here on xda for all the great posts and info!
Good to hear when someone took the time to get to know their device and make it how they want it instead of complaining about the issues of the stock roms!
Just curious, what exactly are the issues that fall in your 5%?
part of the 5% is just lil bugs like running mobile shell + dutty rom, when viewing the missed calls menu, its missing the "calls in, out, connected" menu bar at the bottom at times, but reappears after a reset.
or stuff like when using a b/t headset, with my ringer on, sometimes it doesnt ring, when my old rom used to.. just lil things to figure out when i have time to play around with it more.
my most prized accomplishment is the gps, one of the sole reasons i wanted the phone
i've got the Tytn 2 as well, perfect pocket PC for me, Qwerty kb, Built-in GPS.
Everthing i want is in it, only the cam (3.1MP) is not enough.
But there is a lot of information on this website, i will thank everbody who has worked on it.
Now is wanna flash the ROM to install WM 6.5 beta, but its difficult cause there is so much info.
I think i can do it, with a little help.
Greetz
my touch screen was crazy when I get my phone out of my pants. I did not touch the screen but it still automatically run the app and drag the taskbar up and down .........
nobody is like me???
care to share more details and/or what ROm you're running? 2.2?
it happened randomly to me too, with any rom 2.1 2.2, but I still didn't figure the reason out yet..
Same for me.I have cronos 1.6.1 on phone with adw launcher.But happens only ones or twice.
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You guys probably overclocked it too much damaging the touchscreen.
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You guys probably overclocked it too much damaging the touchscreen.
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this makes no sense mate. The overclock affects the cpu and not the touch screen. Anyway I didn't use any extreme overclock, beside using for a while the Telus Lite with 1.1ghz oc stock. And well I barely played any game, just a lot of emails and surfing on the web, very few calls. I noticed it happens when i move too much, like dancing or when i leave it on the shelf for the night and by the morning it acts crazy
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this makes no sense mate. The overclock affects the cpu and not the touch screen. Anyway I didn't use any extreme overclock, beside using for a while the Telus Lite with 1.1ghz oc stock. And well I barely played any game, just a lot of emails and surfing on the web, very few calls. I noticed it happens when i move too much, like dancing or when i leave it on the shelf for the night and by the morning it acts crazy
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I used to have that issue with stock 2.1 roms.
CM6, Sense mod, fastest Eclare and now MIUI does not bring that night mare back to me.
Also, if you charge using a 2-pin socket [the one without the earthed pin, popular in Asia], it'll show up.
OP needs to be a little more clear, but let me say my results.
Ever since flashing 2.2.1 SBF and then applying a few Froyo Mods and even goign back to ECLAIR,
I noticed that multitouch screws up. Sometimes it things I have a finger on the screen already, so by putting a finger on, it does a pinch zoom on me even though I only have 1 finger on it. Then sometimes it doesn't let me press an icon on my screen insisting my finger is elsewhere. Other times the notification bar starts getting pulled down randomly.
Perhaps Kadalban can explain his Multitouch fix, but for me it seemed to solve a lot of issues. Granted it was only pushed out in CM6 12/4/2010, which gives me 1 day to test so far, but some of those freak-incidents have been disappearing. You'd have to give me 3-5 days to conclude anything, but for now it seems to have done the trick.
i have issue with eclair 3b and CM6....it crazy when i I get my phone out of my pants....
is it FW error or HW error? in my country, in my country there are many like me.and we do not have a solution for this problem rather than the touch screen
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duytrum444 said:
i have issue with eclair 3b and CM6....it crazy when i I get my phone out of my pants....
is it FW error or HW error? in my country, in my country there are many like me.and we do not have a solution for this problem rather than the touch screen
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Update to the new CM6. 12.04.2010 solves it for me.
i'm using it....and now,i don't have issue again. i testing it.
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how did you fix your screen.my homebutton does not respond
I just changed to some mod roms and the problem disappeared for me.
Some of my friends got really big issue with the touch panel and when they came to Motorola service point, the technicians said there is a known issue with the panel they used but not all customers are affected (hence some people are OK after trying different roms).
So if one experiences it then just needs to go to Moto and they'll change to a healthy-guaranteed panel obviously, if you're still under warranty, it's free!