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HTC to release ROM update for TyTN II with improved graphics drivers - For real?

Hey!
A friend of mine found this link concerning HTC releasing a ROM update for TyTN II which will include new graphics drivers...
http://msmobiles.com/news.php/7334.html
Anyone knows anything about this?
Sorry if I got you all excited for nothing, but hopefully there's something in this..
Noam.

its been posted a few times, nothing has come of it yet though..

Sorry!
Admin- please close/delete this then.
Thanks.

s0undw4v3 said:
Hey!
A friend of mine found this link concerning HTC releasing a ROM update for TyTN II which will include new graphics drivers...
http://msmobiles.com/news.php/7334.html
Anyone knows anything about this?
Sorry if I got you all excited for nothing, but hopefully there's something in this..
Noam.
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THATS OLD NEWS

He apologised already - give a guy a break!

captainsensible2002 said:
He apologised already - give a guy a break!
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Look at the time signiture, he was typing as the other guy was apologizing. Give the guy a break

I wonder if this will come out on the very last day.. I also wonder if it will be usefull. My real concern in all of this is the lag that I get after sliding the keyboard out. I can type a sentence before it gets half way done.
Another thing I wonder is, will this forum crash when the update is released. There might be so much activity that server bogs down.
F5 F5 F5 F5 F5 X infinity
All the noobs will be posting redundant threads,
*** DID YOU SEE THE NEW VIDEO DRIVERS ARE OUT****
**WILL THIS WORK WITH MY TILT****
****CAN THIS WORK WITH MY VODA PHONE*****
***** CAN I STILL USE TOMTOM*****
*** DOES HTC GET THE BOUNTY*****OMG VIDEO DRIVER FTW****
*****AM ARE DRIVERS OF DA VIDEO .EXE .CAB****
*** HOW DO I UPGRADE MY VIDEO DRIVERS I DONT WANT TO SEARCH AND I HATE THE WORD WIKI/STICKY*****
Then there will be people like me (forum whore) making snide comments here and there, testing things and reading everything...
Lastly there will be folks like Mr. Tater (the local Celeb) and Dutty, making things happen.. Cooking and making new apps
I can see it all now.. Thats when the servers heart gives out.. Too much joy (from the driver release) and just being overworked will kill it.
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Pinging xda-developers.com [82.94.251.230] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

denco7 said:
Look at the time signiture, he was typing as the other guy was apologizing. Give the guy a break
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He's a slow typist then.
Whatever, been getting a bit up himself if you ask me.

ChumleyEX said:
***snipped the useless post***
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As a senior member (or "forum whore") you should know better ...

Than what? To add useless comedy to a useless sinking post. At least I added a possible chuckle or entertainment to this thread.
But your post, yes your post was the most usefull post i've read all day.

I'm afraid i might disagree... i can understand when a webserver goes down due to the workload... and i can imagine this happening to xda-developers.com.
What i can't imagine, is a webserver taking a whole machine down with it (as in.. not replying to ping). That is weird.
In any case... you Seniors... should calm down please! You're the example WE Juniors should follow

Well I don't really think the machine will go down but I do think the connection might bog down. I think it's happened before on this server about a month back. This is a pretty big site. ...
Please follow my example, search, help, have fun, be funny etc etc.

these drivers will neverrrrrrrrrr come

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Well I don't really think the machine will go down but I do think the connection might bog down. I think it's happened before on this server about a month back. This is a pretty big site. ...
Please follow my example, search, help, have fun, be funny etc etc.
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Have you guys ever worked with webservers? If you have multiple sites on one server. I could totally cause the machine to go down. Also, yes, it could suck up all the bandwidth and prevent connections to any sites on that machine. Let alone, improper coding Could peg out the CPU causing issues for the other sites. That is why I say dedicated or co-locate if you have a big site.

I remember ping flooding people on dialup. Create a batch file that pings over and over. Most of us don't know how well this server is built and what it's connection is. If all the tilt/kaiser/voda/etc/etc users hit at the same time, I'm sure there will be problems.
The drivers are a myth.

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I remember ping flooding people on dialup. Create a batch file that pings over and over. Most of us don't know how well this server is built and what it's connection is. If all the tilt/kaiser/voda/etc/etc users hit at the same time, I'm sure there will be problems.
The drivers are a myth.
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The drivers are a lie.
Yup. But webservers are just fancy computers so they are vulnerable to anything.

WifiScan - Developer Says always free then charges for app

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Screenshot took with G1 screenshot app, sorry its sideways ;\
This is extremely upsetting, I have attached WifiScan that was said to be free forever
He is charging 2.99 in the market, it may be worth it but I wont support a developer that doesnt keep there word

That's life. $ always wins.
Dunno how old you are, but you remember a certain President saying "No new (or raising existing) taxes". What happened later?. Yeah, raised taxes! yay Just because someone says something doesn't mean they will keep their word.

@OP:
If you have the App already downloaded [i.e. have the .apk file on the phone] you have nothing to worry about.
Which makes me wonder... If you can send someone an .apk file (for instance, an application that is now "paid"), you could give it to them for free, no?
That'd be pretty interesting, considering many of the apps I have are now paid or removed and transfered to paid only.

free -> pay transition
I had all my apps backed up(via astro) on a black g1 I bought on day 1.
I wanted white but but on the first day all they had was black and a few bronze, the wifey wanted 1 in black so I got a white one then swapped my sd card to the white one and downloaded astro to the new phone (after rc33->29 downgrade->JF RC33 upgrade) and installed them all 1 by 1[OT](hey astro dev cant we get a check all on the restore like on the backup)[/OT]
I went to check out the new stuff at the market and all I could see is PRICES, all the good apps got a slight name change and a price tag, how is it protected, my wife would never use most of the geek apps I had on it(i wiped it for her) so would those apps be locked to her imei and I would have to rebuy all the aps I'd want for my white one?
just a tip, to whomever controls this "IF you screw this part up, piracy will be rampant, it has to be fair to the end user and the devs"
bhang

bhang said:
just a tip, to whomever controls this "IF you screw this part up, piracy will be rampant, it has to be fair to the end user and the devs"
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Agreed!

defconoi said:
Screenshot took with G1 screenshot app, sorry its sideways ;\
This is extremely upsetting, I have attached WifiScan that was said to be free forever
He is charging 2.99 in the market, it may be worth it but I wont support a developer that doesnt keep there word
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Just a question about your screen, sorry to go off topic but what is that icon at the top with the little android guy & the red number?

I beleive that if an app was free, but now dev is charging for it, we should be allowed to share app since it was not cracked if you have original apk. My opinion.

Beast84 said:
Just a question about your screen, sorry to go off topic but what is that icon at the top with the little android guy & the red number?
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Twidroid. Its a twitter app and is probably the best one you'll find on the market.
johnowa636 said:
I beleive that if an app was free, but now dev is charging for it, we should be allowed to share app since it was not cracked if you have original apk. My opinion.
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I think we should be allowed to share the version before it went premium considering that version was released for free and thus there's no basis for claiming losses with the DMCA regardless of a lack of proper DRM protection.
Honestly stuff like this is making me backup a lot of my apps. I have no problem paying for an app that is worth the money, but when there is little or no changes from the original free version it feels like I'm being back stabbed for my support when I see a $4.99+ price tag on some apps. Its also not helping the situation where Google banned dev phones and anyone not on the T-Mobile network from purchasing premium apps. Between Google and this, some people are just setting themselves up to be targeted by pirates.

http://strazzere.com/blog/?p=185
A little adb pull/install will allow you to get the "protected" apks and reinstall them when/where ever you want.

johnowa636 said:
I beleive that if an app was free, but now dev is charging for it, we should be allowed to share app since it was not cracked if you have original apk. My opinion.
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Sharing the free apk isn't a problem. The one posted is not the paid apk file -- so this should be fine. The problem is, the free one will most likely not be updated if he introduces new features.
As of now they are the same, other than the "will always be free" has been removed.

aad4321 said:
thats gay. hope no one buys it
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I agree. It's totally (term applicable to aad4321 and used in a negative context) that the dev did that. I've noticed quite a few apps that I have in My Downloads that have "updates" that aren't any different except for the name.

play world of warcraft (pics inside) would be neat to get tweaked

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The photo is dark because i used a rc29 android g1 and we all know there camera app sucks!
anyways the graphics aren't half bad! with wifi it keeps up maybe 3-4 seconds lag time. Almost all keys are operational except im having a problem moving with keys "w,s,a,z". Other then that i can press enter and type or o to bring up friends list. if we can edit the app i used im sure we can get things running perfectly! Would work with many other games to.
NOTE: THIS POST IS NEW I DELETED MY OLD WAY OF PLAYING WOW SO DISREGARD MOST REPLIES BELOW.

Whoa... nerd.
Nah Im jk, this would be sweet.

Well this would be cool. I used to just VNC in. But isnt there a G1 app that let you install J2ME stuff? Wouldnt this still work on the G1?
Now give me a app to play FFXI and Im all over that. ^^ But still I may fiddle with this later tonight see if its workable.

I know Blizzard is very strict about third party type software, so be careful. I remember reading they were banning accounts running WoW through linux using wine emulation, picking it up as 3rd party software.

tekkitan said:
I know Blizzard is very strict about third party type software, so be careful. I remember reading they were banning accounts running WoW through linux using wine emulation, picking it up as 3rd party software.
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But that was also disputed and forgiven. I know I run WoW in ubuntu without issues.

Mysticales said:
But that was also disputed and forgiven. I know I run WoW in ubuntu without issues.
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Yes, but that doesn't mean it won't happen again Just a warning

Meh Ive been in this battle since Ultima Online and still have it, FFXI "Windower" is a 3rd party tool, WoW same things. The key element that even internal staff has told me is that if your not trying to get noticed, you wont be harmed. Long as you dont try to make it so obvious your using something different.. or trying to script kiddie and be a idiot while doing it wrong... then yea.

Mysticales said:
Meh Ive been in this battle since Ultima Online and still have it, FFXI "Windower" is a 3rd party tool, WoW same things. The key element that even internal staff has told me is that if your not trying to get noticed, you wont be harmed. Long as you dont try to make it so obvious your using something different.. or trying to script kiddie and be a idiot while doing it wrong... then yea.
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That's fine, but like I said, I am just warning people they could get banned. Whether it is temporary or not, I really don't care. I am just warning people. No need to be so defensive.

Im not, but btw, I was looking at something called TurboVNC Not sure I understand it fully but it seems to be a better opengl streamer for vnc.

i updated my post.

So you got it working basically? Did all the steps work or what.

Ok.... so can you tell us how?

I think I figured it out...but I decided to give it a shot using Diablo 2 instead of WoW because of the lower requirements

can u tell us how?

Crap...I completely messed up the joke. When I said "but I decided to give it a shot" I meant to put shot in italics as it's just a picture snapped through the camera. I'm still waiting on instructions again from the OP on how he got it running since he edited his post.

someone should make a thottbot application for the android

I used phone2pc. If we can get a developer to edit this app or maybe an app like it, I am sure we can work out all the bugs. Most of my keys work I can talk to people I can press a few of the quick keys like "o" brings up your friends list... I can tap the screen to exit out of things and start spells... but i can't walk. Some one should be able to figure this out and maybe even make the response time quicker.

lol you answered my question as I was posting it. phone2pc

bob50963 said:
I used phone2pc. If we can get a developer to edit this app or maybe an app like it, I am sure we can work out all the bugs. Most of my keys work I can talk to people I can press a few of the quick keys like "o" brings up your friends list... I can tap the screen to exit out of things and start spells... but i can't walk. Some one should be able to figure this out and maybe even make the response time quicker.
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Did you mean PhoneMyPC? I can't find anything named Phone2PC.

DroidWall - Android Firewall (iptables front-end) [v1.5.5] [Dec/01/11]

I don't have an unlimited data plan, so I was quite frustrated to see that my G1 was consuming lots of megabytes in the background (also draining battery too fast).
To solve this problem, I wrote this iptables front-end to block undesired applications from accessing the network.
DroidWall - Android Firewall is a front-end application for the powerful iptables Linux firewall. It allows you to restrict which applications are permitted to access your data networks.
This is the perfect solution if you don't have an unlimited data plan, or just wants to see your battery lasting longer.
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IMPORTANT: Root access required
Project home:
http://code.google.com/p/droidwall/
or
http://droidwall.googlecode.com/
Download from the Android Market:
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I hope this will help other people.
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I'm sure a lot of seople will find this useful, however you should move you post to the games and programs forum. This is for rom delvelopment. Not trying to be rude, just a PSA before the mods move it.
On the top righthand side of you post you will see a triangle with a exclimation mark. Click it and ask a mod to move your thread to the appropriate forum.
If I ever have to drop my unlimetd plan I will be looking for a program like yours. Keep it updated and good luck

I like the idea, I'm going to install it right now!

nice idea.. might even increase some battery life by preventing apps from accessing the net behind your back

RIght on, gonna give it a shot, tired of my dead battery all the time

ubernicholi said:
I'm sure a lot of seople will find this useful, however you should move you post to the games and programs forum. This is for rom delvelopment. Not trying to be rude, just a PSA before the mods move it.
On the top righthand side of you post you will see a triangle with a exclimation mark. Click it and ask a mod to move your thread to the appropriate forum.
If I ever have to drop my unlimetd plan I will be looking for a program like yours. Keep it updated and good luck
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Sorry for the wrong place, I have already requested it to be moved to a more appropriate forum.
Thanks.

best ever project, I had the same idea with you, but currently I don't have much time to action.
Will folowing your project.

rodrigo.zr said:
Sorry for the wrong place, I have already requested it to be moved to a more appropriate forum.
Thanks.
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A very nice first post. Welcome to xda.

very nice can't wait to see more development from this.
hope i can save on my battery also lol

can I just download the apk file click and install instead of pushing through adb?

Sounds like a great idea! Unfortunately I can't install this on Cyanogen's 3.6.8.1
"Droid Wall could not be installed on this phone."

Okay just a heads up you dont need adb to install this i can be done using package installer on the phone and its seems simple and easy to use I have the full data plan but im hoping it save my battery will definatley follow this for updates and keep you all updated on the battery life

shotad said:
can I just download the apk file click and install instead of pushing through adb?
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yeah.
im likin it, havnt had enough time to notice battery life, but having the say in what accesses the net, daddy like.

senab said:
Sounds like a great idea! Unfortunately I can't install this on Cyanogen's 3.6.8.1
"Droid Wall could not be installed on this phone."
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I'm not sure why it won't install on Cyanogen. The only restriction for the application is android:minSdkVersion="3".
If anyone gimme a clue on this I'll surely modify it.

To the dev, if you don't have a market account I will gladly upload it using mine. Of course it would be as a free app (DUH! lol). I have an account that I don't use from buying my ADP1. Just mail me @ (email removed, author already mailed me) if you want it.

Geniusdog254 said:
To the dev, if you don't have a market account I will gladly upload it using mine. Of course it would be as a free app (DUH! lol). I have an account that I don't use from buying my ADP1. Just mail me @ [email protected] if you want it.
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That would be nice... I'm sending you an e-mail.
Thanks!

This does NOT work on hero it blocks all web based apps without selecting them including the browser LOL love the idea though

r_dub said:
This does NOT work on hero it blocks all web based apps without selecting them including the browser LOL love the idea though
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Droid Wall is white-list based, so you have to select the applications that you want to unblock, not the ones you want to block.
E.g.: to allow only the browser to access the internet, mark it and the click on "Apply rules".
Please let me know if it works on Hero since I have no oportunity to test it.
Thanks.

rodrigo.zr said:
Droid Wall is white-list based, so you have to select the applications that you want to unblock, not the ones you want to block.
E.g.: to allow only the browser to access the internet, mark it and the click on "Apply rules".
Please let me know if it works on Hero since I have no oportunity to test it.
Thanks.
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OH okay i will try this again thats going to be kinda Important you should put that on the OP and i will gladly test this on hero any way to save battery is great for me

You talk about this as blocking ONLY data on the cell networks and NOT on wifi.
I suggest that it would also be good to be able to configure blockages on the wifi network, e.g. for semi-untrusted apps -- i.e. ones that want to communicate with homebase even though they work fine without it or ones that want to load ads.

Need a hack or app to quickly select and copy text on browser

Hello,
After much reading and thinking and debating between the HD2 and the Nexus One I finally placed an order for a Nexus One AT&T and can't wait for it to arrive.
I do however have a question about the browser. From what I know (correct me if I am wrong) to select text on the Nexus browser you need to first press the Menu button, then select More, then select Select Text, and then highlight the text to be copied. Too many steps in my opinion. I wish there was some way, a hack, a tweak, or maybe an app that will let you just do a long press on the screen that will automatically take you to "select text" mode?
Thanks.

I'm also interested in this. Coming from the iphone, it's a kind of a pain just to copy text since you have to go through all those steps and then use the trackball for an accurate selection. And when recieving an address in a text message you have to copy the entire message, paste it in maps, and then delete everything else that isn't part of the address. For example when I get a text like "Ok, my address is 123 N street 90000. Be here by 3." I have to delete everything before and after the address after copying/pasting the entire thing. It would be nice to just copy the address.

I will vote for a mechanism to do this as well. Please

me 3
10 charecters!

Just longpress on text and two markers will appear in the form of green dots with pointers. Move the first one to the beginning of the text you wish to copy, and the other to the end. All text in between will become highlighted green and three options will appear...copy, share, and magnify. No need for hack or app imo.
Edit: depending on which ROM ur running.

Moved as not Android Development.

a19 Desire rom.

the holding the text only works in the desire roms because its part of rosie. what we need is a dev that understands the framework to port it over to the stock 2.1
This is one of the only reasons I miss the Sense rom but I'm waiting my full 14 days so if anything happens to my phone. Even though the last one had no problems

Didn't Android implement copy and paste before the iPhone? Apple took a good idea and improved it surely Android can look at something that's better and adapt the concept without being sued. I would use copy and paste a lot more if it were at all practical. I don't want an iPhone but when a competitor does something well the only shame is in NOT learning from it.

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Didn't Android implement copy and paste before the iPhone? Apple took a good idea and improved it surely Android can look at something that's better and adapt the concept without being sued. I would use copy and paste a lot more if it were at all practical. I don't want an iPhone but when a competitor does something well the only shame is in NOT learning from it.
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Once again, stop whining Maverick

Dolphin browser, you can long press on text, then go to the page option select text, you can either use your finger or trackball to select it, if you need to be precise, go into landscape mode. Not perfect, but it works.

Paul22000 said:
Once again, stop whining Maverick
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I think I like that. But is it the method from a Rom as described above, or can my phone do that?

Paul,
Is there anyway I can have that feature ported to my Nexus ? That is exactly what I am looking for.
Thanks

Jonndz said:
Paul,
Is there anyway I can have that feature ported to my Nexus ? That is exactly what I am looking for.
Thanks
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Id really rather not root my phone. do you think there's any chance that method could be in an update if it turns out Android is in fact still in the mobile software business? I really need to copy and paste but I don't know how the current method was ever considered usable...thanks

I doubt it, and waiting for any features in an update, you could be waiting any length of time.

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Id really rather not root my phone. do you think there's any chance that method could be in an update if it turns out Android is in fact still in the mobile software business? I really need to copy and paste but I don't know how the current method was ever considered usable...thanks
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This from the guy who was absolutely adamant about Jailbraking his iPhone? Haha
Anyway, have you tried Dolphin Browser, Opera, xScope? It's nice to have five different options eh?

Paul22000 said:
This from the guy who was absolutely adamant about Jailbraking his iPhone? Haha
Anyway, have you tried Dolphin Browser, Opera, xScope? It's nice to have five different options eh?
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I've never had an iPhone and I don't really know what jailbreaking it means.
I do have opera though, which I do like, so ill try kits method.

DMaverick50 said:
I've never had an iPhone and I don't really know what jailbreaking it means.
I do have opera though, which I do like, so ill try kits method.
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Oh, from all your iPhone is better posts, I thought you did. /shrug
Anyway, many many many people have posted here that HTC has serviced their phones even when unlocked and rooted, so I wouldn't worry about that.

def can't complain about android features if you are un-willing to root your phone.....rootings part of the game, such as jailbreaking.....