The battle of the Droids??!

[eTiMaGo]

Originally Posted by Kioshi

how are you liking the Samsung Galaxy S?

hmmm so far mixed feelings... It's rather light, and I quite like the heft of the Milestone/Droid in comparison. and I do miss the physical keyboard.

But on the other hand, it's real fast and responsive (I'm using LauncherPro instead of the pretty-but-clunky stock Samsung home screen).

But the screen is the biggest love/hate. It's bigger, yes, the colors are amazingly vibrant, but it's just nowhere as sharp as the plain old LCD on the motorola...

oh well, I will play around with it for a few days, turns out 3G's a no-go as well

[tomato]

@ Thomas

1. KB : you will get used to it. I'm a bad example because I'm so slow when I txt but I can guarantee you that after a while, you don't miss the physical KB at all

2. Not having 3G is a little more annoying and would give me pause

3. Amoled is better indoors but not outside in the sun. I can see the EVO out in the sun much better than the N1 (in fact that was a consideration when I went to the EVO)

One more thing you might consider. Reviewers out here say that historically the Samsungs's skins are not as easy to upgrade so slower to get newer OS's (I can't find the link now and that may not apply to your carriers over there)

Myself, I find the Samsung Epic extremely attractive

http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/...pic-4g-review/

but now that I'm locked into a contract, whatever phone coming out is going to have to be a HUGE improvement over mine to make me want to trade.

Believe it or not, on occasion I still miss the N1 for some things (the KB size was ***IDEAL*** for one, I find it hard to type on the EVO b/c of screen size.. Plus, you could operate the N1 w/ one hand, not so with the EVO due to its size) of course, the N1 had straight FroYo, no carrier bloatware and/or blocks on it, plus a sim card so easy to swap, free tether ...

I guess what I'm trying to say is that your new phone may offer some new features that your Moto Droid doesn't have but if it's not a huge leap forward, I'd save my money and wait for something better if I were you. You know it's only a matter of months until something even better than the Samsung, EVO, etc. comes out and your milestone is still an excellent phone in many ways

[tomato]

Originally Posted by Kioshi

HTC Sense does suck....i tried it and it liked my contacts list w/ facebook....every info was on there. I turned it off and deleted it. Much better~

Are us Incredible users the only ones in the shadow for the Froyo update? Reading rumors of receiving the update in Sept.
Although I'm still getting use to this new OS...
And i did get Japanese support on here...a bit different than in the native land, but getting use to it slowly.
Thanks everyone!

Yes, it does that. You have to dig deep in the settings to turn that feature off. Try to go to settings applications and unsync everything there. There are 2 or 3 layers you have to go through before you can unsync it completely.

I know it did the same thing the day after my Froyo update. I sent a message to a business associate as I usually did, only it that time it went out with my FB profile complete with the "cute" name and "cute" picture I have on there... didn't notice until after I sent the message Doh! Embarassing... that's when I noticed that somehow all my contacts were merged. Grrrr.... Turned that off in a hurry!!

Did you pick up an Incredible? I thought you were still under contract with Sprint?

Originally Posted by Shroomster

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Mytouch 3g.....Tmobile put in their quarterly mag for mytouch users that we will def get the froyo but no eta.... at all...except for "by the end of the year"

Yeah, that sounds about right. It's because the my touch has some complicated UI on it and they have to make sure everything will work...

[Kioshi]

Originally Posted by tomato

Yes, it does that. You have to dig deep in the settings to turn that feature off. Try to go to settings applications and unsync everything there. There are 2 or 3 layers you have to go through before you can unsync it completely.

I know it did the same thing the day after my Froyo update. I sent a message to a business associate as I usually did, only it that time it went out with my FB profile complete with the "cute" name and "cute" picture I have on there... didn't notice until after I sent the message Doh! Embarassing... that's when I noticed that somehow all my contacts were merged. Grrrr.... Turned that off in a hurry!!

Did you pick up an Incredible? I thought you were still under contract with Sprint?

I went somewhere under settings and unsynced the Facebook Sense specifically since I didn't set up/login to my Twitter/Flicker, etc accounts.
I probably will end up deleting that app sometime in a few weeks?

I was almost done w/ my contract w/ verizon. And the plan was to switch to Sprint because of the HTC EVO. I played around w/ all three phones (EVO, Moto Droid X, and Incredible).
In my opinion, Moto droid X is a very thin phone but extremely big in Length and Width...it does not look like a phone to me.
EVO, a wee bit too big of a screen for me and a little heavy in my jeans
Incredible has a reasonable screen size and lightweight. Although no video chat due to missing front camera (1.3mp)

I like it. I wish some of these recent HTC phones had roaming capabilities overseas..but i guess thats what BB are for~

BTW, tomato - where is a good place to get covers for these phones? Any recommendations?

Shroomster - sorry to hear that man. Thats two of us then!
Like tomato said, they are probably working around the different US and want it perfect for the other phones, i suppose~

[tomato]

@kioshi:

1) cases: HTC Depot is good, has a lot of stuff. I never ordered from them but the site was recommended by one of the tech guys at HTC and in one of the Android forums.

http://www.htcdepot.com/

2) I like case mate myself. I ordered a rubber case that looked exactly like a piece of tire for my N1 and really, really loved it.





It was great quality and it looked really cool! They don't have much for the Incredible or Evo just yet but keep your eyes on them anyway, because they do make great stuff, stand behind their products, highly recommend them.

http://www.case-mate.com/HTC-Cases/HTC-Cases.asp


3) the best, sturdiest case out there : otterbox.

http://www.otterbox.com/htc-cases/

however they are still designing the case. I put my name down on the wait list so when something becomes available they will let me know by email. Probably well worth waiting for.

In the meantime, you could get an Amzer case. http://www.amzer.com/
I got a inexpensive one made of some kind of rubber, a little stronger than the silicone one and doesn't pick up any lint. It's not perfect but it does the job for now. without a case, the EVO rests on the camera lense so I had to get something right away.

one thing I did do right away, however, is to protect the screen with a ZAGG shield. I got mine at Radio Shack, same day I got the phone. It was pretty easy to install and well worth it if you're gonna put the phone in your pocket.

http://www.zagg.com/


It's all a matter of preference. Do you want sturdy, is it OK if its bulky? do you want something transparent / clear, do you want just a skin?

good luck with your decision. Hope the links above help some.

[tomato]

Originally Posted by Kioshi

I went somewhere under settings and unsynced the Facebook Sense specifically since I didn't set up/login to my Twitter/Flicker, etc accounts.
I probably will end up deleting that app sometime in a few weeks?

~

Well, here is the thing. I don't use the HTC Facebook app that came preloaded with the phone. I use another FB app that I got on the market. The day after FroYo, everything got exported over, just the same and my settings got overwritten

There some noise over that on the Google board as well, but I was so miserable without my push email that I completely neglected the FB issue. I'm not entirely sure what's doing it, whether it's HTC Sense, whether it's FB for Froyo, or whether it's Froyo itself. One more thing to figure out ;)

I got the EVO because you could turn Sense off without rooting (not so on the Incredible) but that was b/f Froyo.

[Shroomster]

I felt this post needs more than a "quote"

GET AN INVISIBLE SHIELD .... IF you're not hot blooded.

According to my wife I'm hot blooded/hot skinned

I had a Zagg/invisible shield on my Sony W810i. over the few years I had it, the protector deformed and yellowed. I finally took it off (the Shields are one time use) granted they have a lifetime warranty, but pulling the shield off was the scariest thing I did; the adhesive used on it felt to me like the screen was going to separate.


just my .02


short of the short: I vouch for Tomato's choice of the invisible shield, just be prepared if you keep it in your pocket alot and you sweat/have hot skin. this can probably be said for any screen protector but hey the one that came with my MT3G feels sturdy and has not deteriorated in 9 mos. use...

[Kioshi]

thanks for the helpful links tomato, appreciate it. I went and bought a silicon cover just for now till the covers are developed/produced from the link you showed me.

Shroomster - i am hod-blooded...or at least palms become sweaty in non-ventilated ares~
I went and bought a protective screen cover frm Verizon as I get discount form my work, so it wasn't too bad.

[nsmitchell]

I have a Moto Droid and I love it. Running Froyo 2.2 rooted. I love the WiFi tethering!

[tomato]

^ good for you!!

The case that looks like a piece of tire is called the Vroom case, btw. They make them for iPod, iPhones, and other phones. It looks really cool in person

[Kioshi]

^ i dont know HOW this happened but...when i took my 2 gig card out of my old phone and put into my Incredible...i was able to view the pictures for two days. But now it can't read my pictures on the card.
Further inspection, all the pics have turned into a .dir file.

Does anyone know how to get my pictures back w/ this scenario?really annoyed at the new phone right now...lol

[tomato]

Sorry, Kioshi, I don't know. Can't you download them and rename them? (always copy files first before messing with them) Worth a try...

Yeah, I"m annoyed with my phone too lately. They've blocked some of the settings I used to be able to access before.

Since you have HTC sense as well, let me ask you. When you type a sentence, do you get a period automatically inserted when you double space and is there a way to turn that off? It was an easy thing to do on the Nexus One but for the life of me, I can't find the damn setting on the EVO (and neither could the HTC guy).

[Kioshi]

Originally Posted by tomato

Sorry, Kioshi, I don't know. Can't you download them and rename them? (always copy files first before messing with them) Worth a try...

Yeah, I"m annoyed with my phone too lately. They've blocked some of the settings I used to be able to access before.

Since you have HTC sense as well, let me ask you. When you type a sentence, do you get a period automatically inserted when you double space and is there a way to turn that off? It was an easy thing to do on the Nexus One but for the life of me, I can't find the damn setting on the EVO (and neither could the HTC guy).

when i insert the mini SD in my laptop...they are all (.dir) files. I can click them then i have to choose a image viewer program to see them. I can not relabel them or save as jpeg or anything. The files are pretty renderless....I had a few images from my trip on them as nice wallpapers....really hope someone can chime in on this and help me out~

No i actually don't on my phone. I downloaded Simeji and when i go under language and keyboard settings....there are options to mess around with ie: capitalize after period, auto correct suggestions, etc.
My keyboard layout is in Simeji style with a toggle switch, so my settings are altered a little now.
You should be able to fiddle around w/ the English keyboard under language and keyboard menu.

Let me know, i have my phone in front of me (pissed off at it for corrupting my images) and i can follow up w/ you promtly...

Also, i have Facebook HTC Sense, but it is turned off or not in use. I was able to do that on my Incredible :)

[tomato]

thanks for the offer, Kioshi but I've checked all my settings already. There is nothing more to do. some of the stuff is grayed out / hidden from the settings menu and that's all there is to it.

I can totally understand why people root their phones

back to the google board, I guess. I'm sure someone else has noticed a similar thing on their unit. ugh.

sorry about your pictures, Kioshi

[Shroomster]

Originally Posted by Kioshi

when i insert the mini SD in my laptop...they are all (.dir) files. I can click them then i have to choose a image viewer program to see them. I can not relabel them or save as jpeg or anything. The files are pretty renderless....I had a few images from my trip on them as nice wallpapers....really hope someone can chime in on this and help me out~

No i actually don't on my phone. I downloaded Simeji and when i go under language and keyboard settings....there are options to mess around with ie: capitalize after period, auto correct suggestions, etc.
My keyboard layout is in Simeji style with a toggle switch, so my settings are altered a little now.
You should be able to fiddle around w/ the English keyboard under language and keyboard menu.

Let me know, i have my phone in front of me (pissed off at it for corrupting my images) and i can follow up w/ you promtly...

Also, i have Facebook HTC Sense, but it is turned off or not in use. I was able to do that on my Incredible :)

you can't drag and drop or copy paste them to another drive/computer?

if you can do that you can rename them or choose what to open them with....aside from that.....


try opening the containing folder on the card while tethered from the phone to a pc/laptop.

edit the name of a pic and type it as "name.jpg" <<<make sure to put the .jpg not just the name...


hope something helps....

[Kioshi]

Originally Posted by Shroomster

you can't drag and drop or copy paste them to another drive/computer?

if you can do that you can rename them or choose what to open them with....aside from that.....


try opening the containing folder on the card while tethered from the phone to a pc/laptop.

edit the name of a pic and type it as "name.jpg" <<<make sure to put the .jpg not just the name...


hope something helps....

THANK YOU!!

I renamed the files and add .jpeg and it turned them into image files.
Very helpful for someone like me who isn't big on computer knowledge~

I have 180 files to rename and transfer to my Incredible now, lol.

[Shroomster]

WOOT! Glad I was able to help!!!

[Kioshi]

Last but not least..question~

What email app is everyone using? I may have overlooked this if it happened to tomato or anyone else on here...forgive me >_<

HTC Mail default app can't hold my 1000 emails that i have stored on hotmail.
It says not enough memory on phone even though i have memory...
I read through this forum - http://forum.androidcentral.com/droi...tting-low.html
And here - http://androidforums.com/incredible-...available.html

I started using K9 mail app....but it has serious problems receiving new emails...and skipped emails from 2009 and downloaded from 2008 to 2006 for me...LOL.

I am just going into web browser and checking hotmail that way for right now~

I have emails from 2006 to reference back to, they come in handy thats why I'd like to be able to view them from my phone on the go.