Android phones, apps and tablets

hmmmmn... would it be specific to the lead?

might have to seek out another lead.....

i haven't tried it with the lead supplied yet mind.

The leads definitely do make a difference - i.e. I get exactly the same if I don't use the lead supplied with the phone - with some other leads it charges but doesn't give the option to mount. I asked 31t®um if he was using the supplied lead and he said yes but it could be worth trying a different one.

I'd offer to lend you one but I'm in Holland at least till the weekend.

mine is.

there is a lot on the web about mounting and syncing your hero to a mac. it seems its not an ideal combo. that will hopefully be addresses in android 2.0 but there are ways:
http://discuss.gdgt.com/htc/hero/support/mac-support-for-htc-hero
for example.

So as a complete novice to all this please bear with me - The HTC HD2 is WiMo right? Why is that? So does that mean the Hero is pretty much the best Android phone out there? Apart from The Motorola Droid/Milestone are any others imminent?

android and mac, together ... soon ...

http://www.markspace.com/products/android/missing-sync-android.html#

thanks to mat on the twitters.

good stuff

but until then anyone mac centric just needs to pop the memory card out and transfer files like that and sync with google via wifi.

or try the tricksy methods in the forums above.

Samsung seem to have made a bit of a pig's ear over android with the galaxy:

http://androidforums.com/samsung-i7500/12184-samsung-firmware-updates.html

Basically it appears they have also locked it from over the air updates, instead relying on owners using that PC Suite software to do manual updates. I don't know how bothered you are 31t®um but as you are a Mac user it would seem you have no way to update your phone's firmware as they also don't offer mac support!!

PC support is/was non-existant too. The phone was on the market before the software could even support it. Luckily the community is pretty good and with Odin you have no need for useless Samsung and their non-existant updates.

For example, I flashed mine to II5 firmware using Odin and some firmware from another country BEFORE Samsung's own software could even talk to my phone!

I now run a totally custom Galaxo ROM on II5 firmware and have no need for Samsung at all.

right! hippy tell Mal i'm coming around for dinner friday night, you can sort it out for me

I'll sell you one of work's PCs.. :)

So as a complete novice to all this please bear with me - The HTC HD2 is WiMo right? Why is that? So does that mean the Hero is pretty much the best Android phone out there? Apart from The Motorola Droid/Milestone are any others imminent?

The Samsung Galaxy/i7500 is the best.
It's endorsed by hippy enterprises so it has to be.
But you either need to use it stock or be a bit of a hacker with it since Samsung support is useless.

It's always a good sign when a device-specific product release becomes the focal point of the XDA development community: it means you've got a winner on your hands. Not that anyone ever doubted the intense demand for Google's new turn-by-turn Navigation introduced exclusively on Motorola's DROID. No more. Brave souls have now tweaked the original code to run on the original Android device, the HTC G1 running on T-Mobile. Anecdotal reports suggest that it's working great -- a good sign that we'll see a cooked ROM unveiled just as soon as feverish fingers can package the new code.

Update: Photographic evidence has arrived. Enjoy.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/11/google-navigation-hacked-onto-t-mobile-g1/

JayElleStyles writes...
Is there any way to update firmware on my mac (if and when this update works)?
barring the possibility of a Mac version of the updating software coming out, you can download the SDK (or probably just the adb/fastboot bits) and do it manually from the commandline/terminal.
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/1301121.html

Just for you murtle...
http://androidforums.com/samsung-i7500/16764-galaxy-mac.html

Thanks Hippy, unfortunately I have absoluetely no idea what any of this means:

PC support is/was non-existant too. The phone was on the market before the software could even support it. Luckily the community is pretty good and with Odin you have no need for useless Samsung and their non-existant updates.

For example, I flashed mine to II5 firmware using Odin and some firmware from another country BEFORE Samsung's own software could even talk to my phone!

I now run a totally custom Galaxo ROM on II5 firmware and have no need for Samsung at all.

It would appear you are using all the wrong words in all the wrong order :)

The Samsung Galaxy/i7500 is the best.
It's endorsed by hippy enterprises so it has to be.
But you either need to use it stock or be a bit of a hacker with it since Samsung support is useless.

I am certainly no hacker, is it OK stock? Maybe I should stick with my W810i, though the internal speaker is bust, therefore I have to have it on loudspeaker thus looking like im an Apprentice.

http://androidforums.com/samsung-i7500/16764-galaxy-mac.html

already searched/found and tried that, no luck......Mal is still cooking me dinner whilst you update my phone to a fully custom ROM :)

I owned a Moto flip, W810, a K750i, a K810i and I really liked the Sony phones, since Nokias had turned to shit after the 8210.

If you just use the phone as a phone then a smartphone probably isn't for you. If you are like me, however, and can't be more than 2ft from Google then a smartphone is great. If you use any Google apps (and I'm using most of them to some degree) then it's beyond awesome.

Mapping, googling questions, reading emails, making appointments, finding bars/restaurants/race start lines, reading twitter posts, playing decent games, chatting.. all kinds of stuff you'd never bother doing or couldn't do on a Sony you can do on an Android phone. The camera on the Samsung isn't as nice as the K810i but probably better if a bit more fiddly than the W810i.

already searched/found and tried that, no luck......Mal is still cooking me dinner whilst you update my phone to a fully custom ROM :)

Did you see this?
"try to enable/disable usb debugging while connected and it will find your phone. You must see a notification on your phone then.Press mount and you've done the job. Now for updates your friend can use vmware,virtualbox(it works fine for me) to apply them."
Did it work?

So as a complete novice to all this please bear with me - The HTC HD2 is WiMo right? Why is that? So does that mean the Hero is pretty much the best Android phone out there? Apart from The Motorola Droid/Milestone are any others imminent?

bigbadad, there's the Acer Liquid A1 coming out as well as the excellent Sony Ericsson X10. These were mentioned in post 24 in this thread.

There will also be the Saygus V1. At the moment, I believe its for a US release, but Expansys and Clove normally get these in sim-free.

And in regard to Samsung's poor Android support - it appears that this may be totally reversed.

Android is in, Windows Mobile is in (despite rumors to the contrary), and Bada is definitely in for next year, according to Samsung senior vice president Don Joo Lee. Not making the phone manufacturer's cut? Symbian. Digitimes has it from the exec that its new proprietary mobile OS will be taking the place of the Nokia-friendly platform. Hey, all the phones to end a legacy on, the Omnia HD certainly isn't a bad swan song.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/11/samsung-dropping-symbian-for-bada-in-2010-says-senior-vp/

Or the Sony-Ericsson Satio I got days ago. :(

Ha! I'm mad, I am. :D

the htc hero won't mount on mac's either it seems. or mine won't. good job i'm all pc at home.

i can mount a Hero on my Mac, no worries. Have used DoubleTwist to transfer music and stuff several times, or just USB mass transport.

@hippy, do you think Bada will have a chance? I don't fancy it much. Its Google in the other corner, and I'll say this - that Samsung, doesn't look at all like David Haye.

As for Symbian, I think while Nokia are still their major adopters, then they're okay. But if Nokia ever swing to Android (they'll never switch to Bada), Symbian will be sunk.

GA2G I'm not even that into phones, I just got a bit excited by all this Android nonsense. New frontiers and all that. Android is still a clear winner though in my mind.
Why would I develop for Bada if it will only run on a Samsung whereas Android will run on most other manufacturer's devices? They'd have to do something pretty special.. REALLY special since they'd have to sway Sony, Moto, HTC, etc. who are already moving to 'droid.