Android phones, apps and tablets

I had one tonight, Ed. Next time.

Alright, will let you know next week, cheer!

Good news. It appears that France will be getting the Motorola Droid X and Droid 2 by Christmas.
If thats the truth, then the rest of Europe will also.

*chomping at the bit*

Yes! I've only had my droid a month or so, but I'm defo buying the droid x asap.

Im getting rid of my dell streak....

Its locked to o2 so i cant use my orange sim.. bought it thinking it would get unlocked quickly but cant wait any longer... is it appropriate to put up for sale here?

Also i need a replacement... i like android... so either galaxy s or desire... missus has a desire and its pretty sweet mainly due to extensive widgets... desire seems to have better hardware specs... but main think for me is how well they are supported by developers in the community etc...

anyone?

Ah man you were too quick to sell I was going to ask a mate who was getting rid of his iphone who was interested in that streak.

Nevermind!

Ah man you were too quick to sell I was going to ask a mate who was getting rid of his iphone who was interested in that streak.

Nevermind!

ah sorry, i didnt thyink it would sell that quick to be honest... tell your friend if he is interested and doesnt mind the size then thats the phone to have its awesome....

i have decieded to get the galaxy s... so Ga2g if it sucks then you have to buy it off me at double price.

If you dont like it, I'll swap you my Desire.....as long as yours is either unlocked to all networks,
or on the T-Mobile network. Seriously......and you have the forum as witnesses to this offer.

ok, deal, if its no good then ill swap with you... im on orange but i can get it unlocked im sure... that said im sure its a good handset...

Apparently I sent 72 picture messages last month. o.O and my internet useage was inculded in my price plan so I didnt get charged that just the picture messages.
Im scared.

Instamapper

www.instamapper.com

Free app that provides real time GPS tracking - sort of like Google Latitude but more accurate.
You register your device with you account and when running in the background on your android (or iphone) it will send a GPS co-ordinate every x seconds (which is adjustable)
It does cane your battery if you don't use it wisely, but you can also send SMS's to it to remote fire the app and provide a location.
Have been playing with it for a couple of days and it's not bad for something that's completely free

http://cdn.cs50.net/2009/fall/seminars/AndroidAppsWithAppInventor.flv?play

from http://cdn.cs50.net

seminar for Harvard students, building android apps with the app inventor. Also loads of other stuff on the website, javascript etc etc etc.

(urgh, I, like, hate americans)

You all hate americans. Nothing has brought me closer to my north american brethren than the anti-americanism I've discovered in London.

Australians can fuck off, though.

You're off my xmas list.

I wouldn't, like, mind, if they would, like, just say what they, like, meant, without, like, punctuating every sentence with, like literally, hundreds of, like, likes...

[/sarcasm]

You're off my xmas list.

I didn't say anything about Kiwis?!

^Plastic 'merican

I like Texans.

So tried rooting my Desire last night and it failed and returned to a stock build, fucking annoying.....

Sucker! :P

No, really, what happened? How did you try to do it? What OS were you using? etc?

I have to say that 2.2 w/ Sense has lots of little nice features that you don't immediately notice. I'm liking it very much. Upgrade asap.

I want 2.2 :(

Your options: flash, wait, buy sim-free.

Looks like I'll have to wait.

I would really like the tethering though so I can use my laptop as soon as I move house.

You could just get a 3g dongle. They're pretty cheap I think. I borrowed a mates when I moved.
Or you could flash with one of the custom roms.

I've said it before, but: 2.1 already works as a 3G dongle (i.e, while connected via USB) out of the box. You just need to install the syncing software.

Assuming you have Windows 7: http://www.kuanhoong.com/2010/06/02/how-to-tether-htc-desire-with-windows-7/

I've tried 2 seperate methods now on 2 different PC's - a Windows 7 32bit and an XP and neither method is working - so fucked off now

I've said it before, but: 2.1 already works as a 3G dongle (i.e, while connected via USB) out of the box. You just need to install the syncing software.

Assuming you have Windows 7: http://www.kuanhoong.com/2010/06/02/how-to-tether-htc-desire-with-windows-7/

Will be using that soon as I update to 2.1

Sucker! :P

No, really, what happened? How did you try to do it? What OS were you using? etc?

I have to say that 2.2 w/ Sense has lots of little nice features that you don't immediately notice. I'm liking it very much. Upgrade asap.

I used the following process(s)

To create Gold Card - http://android.modaco.com/content/general-discussion/305672/creating-a-goldcard/

For bootloader version 0.80.xxxx or below - http://android.modaco.com/content/htc-desire-desire-modaco-com/307365/14-jun-r6-riskfreeroot-htc-desire-rooting-guide-now-with-hboot-0-80-and-os-to-1-21-support/

Both of the above on Windows 7 32 bit

Tried this on XP - http://rootmydroid.co.uk/guides/desire/howto-root-your-htc-desire/

Gonna start afresh with new SD card tonight, I think that's where the issue is