Good time to leave TP2? - Page 13

**horndoctor** · #**121** (**permalink**) 01-24-2011, 09:41 PM

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Originally Posted by vonnieglen

Thanks so much for the response. I have been very happy with my ppc-6700. It is quite amazing to me that a 5 year old device stacks up as well as it does against my friends' newer toys. I have been able to squeeze so much out of it. From a functional standpoint at this point it is just a tool that I use to get the most out of the old cell plan that we have managed to keep for the last several years. I sure hate to give up the free unlimited data and other benefits that the retention people have so generously given us over the years along with the plans advertised advantage - no real penalties for going over our alloted minutes.

I am hoping mostly just for a better internet browsing experience on the larger screen of the TP2 for those times when I don't have a laptop with me. But I am also looking for some new challenges. I started customizing the ppc-6700 the first day that I got it. I am sure the TP2 has a lot of hidden gems to uncover. I am also looking forward to messing around with running android from the memory card. That would seem to give almost unlimited opportunities for cell phone adventures.

The TP2 has a decent browser, but it's inability to link to youtube videos is pretty annoying(for a so called modern phone).

It also has a resistive screen similar to your 6700, but bigger and able to play encoded videos. It's much more of a powerhouse phone than your 6700, but the software is very bulky, and the swipe movement is slow. It feels like you're running a PC with not enough ram, rather than a smartphone.

you'll have much better wifi signal than your 6700, and you should use it as much as possible. Going to android from the TP2 would probably solve a lot of issues as well as create a bunch. Android does not natively sync with outlook.

Figure this, you've got a slightly higher power phone, and you're upgrading from your Windows XP desktop to your Windows Vista desktop. By most accounts, vista was a failure on the part of M$. Half assed product.

Welcome to the TP2, another M$ half assed product

http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/htc-touch-...ht=sleep+death

You are so wrong!
Blasphemy!!

chardog · #**122** (**permalink**) 01-24-2011, 09:51 PM

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You are so wrong!
Blasphemy!!

**Dr.8820** · #**123** (**permalink**) 01-24-2011, 09:54 PM

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I'm still on my first tp2, over a year old and no issues.

**Tinkerbell** · #**124** (**permalink**) 01-24-2011, 10:02 PM

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I'm still on my first tp2, over a year old and no issues.

Same here. I have 14 months on this little guy, no issues at all.

eric12341 · #**125** (**permalink**) 01-24-2011, 10:22 PM

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and all of those issues were in the stock 6.5 ROM which is based off the trash 21889 build,flashing to a custom rom with a newer build or even sticking with the stock 6.1 rom avoided those problems. i can watch YouTube videos just fine in IE on my TP2 with vins rom and i have been able to on every rom ive flashed except for blackout ROM. and the issues in windows Vista were fixed in the first service pack so wrong again. everytime u post here ur wrong and u only make urself look stupid everytime so stop corrupting our n00bs who are interested in this phone with ur ridiculous rhetoric.

chardog · #**126** (**permalink**) 01-24-2011, 11:32 PM

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and all of those issues were in the stock 6.5 ROM which is based off the trash 21889 build,flashing to a custom rom with a newer build or even sticking with the stock 6.1 rom avoided those problems. i can watch YouTube videos just fine in IE on my TP2 with vins rom and i have been able to on every rom ive flashed except for blackout ROM. and the issues in windows Vista were fixed in the first service pack so wrong again. everytime u post here ur wrong and u only make urself look stupid everytime so stop corrupting our n00bs who are interested in this phone with ur ridiculous rhetoric.

sprint shipped the phone with windows 6.1 and offers an upgrade of windows 6.5. That's how most users will have their phones configured, and the OS is crap in comparison to BBOS, iOS, and android. It's not subjective at this point. Windows 98 is vastly inferior to Windows XP, Windows 7, Ubuntu, ect. It's not subjective. Will you concede that the TP2 is a crap phone out the box, and even crappier with the factory update?

Youtube videos dont play on the browser or link to the player out the box. Quit trying to compare a custom rom with barely any users compared to the amount of people that own the device.

And your analogy with service pack fix for vista is crap. We never had a service pack fix for windows mobile. Windows 6.5, and 6.5.x came out, which were buggier than ever. Where's the service pack you were talking about? Go back to watching your justin bieber videos, you're talking amongst adults here.

**horndoctor** · #**127** (**permalink**) 01-25-2011, 12:38 AM

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Originally Posted by eric12341

and all of those issues were in the stock 6.5 ROM which is based off the trash 21889 build,flashing to a custom rom with a newer build or even sticking with the stock 6.1 rom avoided those problems. i can watch YouTube videos just fine in IE on my TP2 with vins rom and i have been able to on every rom ive flashed except for blackout ROM. and the issues in windows Vista were fixed in the first service pack so wrong again. everytime u post here ur wrong and u only make urself look stupid everytime so stop corrupting our n00bs who are interested in this phone with ur ridiculous rhetoric.

sprint shipped the phone with windows 6.1 and offers an upgrade of windows 6.5. That's how most users will have their phones configured, and the OS is crap in comparison to BBOS, iOS, and android. It's not subjective at this point. Windows 98 is vastly inferior to Windows XP, Windows 7, Ubuntu, ect. It's not subjective. Will you concede that the TP2 is a crap phone out the box, and even crappier with the factory update?

Youtube videos dont play on the browser or link to the player out the box. Quit trying to compare a custom rom with barely any users compared to the amount of people that own the device.

And your analogy with service pack fix for vista is crap. We never had a service pack fix for windows mobile. Windows 6.5, and 6.5.x came out, which were buggier than ever. Where's the service pack you were talking about? Go back to watching your justin bieber videos, you're talking amongst adults here.

I'm using the 6.1 shipped rom and it works great.
Operator error.
By the way, I have Vista Basic on my laptop and it works just fine.
Move along now!

**Dr.8820** · #**128** (**permalink**) 01-25-2011, 12:51 AM

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this thread is shaping up to be a classic lol.

**horndoctor** · #**129** (**permalink**) 01-25-2011, 01:15 AM

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this thread is shaping up to be a classic lol.

lmao!

chardog · #**130** (**permalink**) 01-25-2011, 02:11 AM

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I'm using the 6.1 shipped rom and it works great.
Operator error.
By the way, I have Vista Basic on my laptop and it works just fine.
Move along now!

From the perspective of a software developer, when there is too much user error, the application needs to be changed. Developers design applications to fit the need of the user, and not the other way around. Believe it or not, sometimes locking out features for average users is a good thing. Less chance of screwing things up, and less variables to deal with.

Claiming operator error as an alternative to crappy software is a copout (and it gets really old). How is it operator error if the phone randomly locks? sleep of death? corrupted registry?

it doesnt take a software developer to tell you that the TP2 comes with crappy software.

you might be fine with your vista basic laptop, and I am fine with my i7 win7 pro laptop. But there is no mistake which is the better system!

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