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Tuesday, September 8, 2009, 12:55 am [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
From: SHAY
Message:
OMG.....I LOVE THIS LONG AZ SHYT..ITZ VERY INCITE-FUL AND INFORMITIVE.....I LEARN SO MUCH. AND TO THINK IF ONLI I HAD SEEN THIS WAY B 4 I WENT OFF ON A XDA OR A PPCGEEKS I WOULD HAVE SAVED SO MUCH TIME. Thanks for all your effort. You are really fun you kept it real and funni@ times ( not a gay funni) lol.. THANKS A MILLION
Subject: Re: (fuze relay) Cool.
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:12:13 -0400
From: Doug SimmonsShay buddy,
It's been a challenge I've struggled with, to maximize funniness without crossing the line into gay funni, so receiving your touching letter made me feel pretty and a little aroused. High five bro.
Doug
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 3:12 am [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
From: Scott Stedman
Message:
Just wanted to swing by and say thanks for all the help with my Fuze :) I've had the phone for about 6 months now and I never really knew all the potential it had. Anyways, I found your site to be, despite the simple layout, extremely easy to navigate, and the literature contained within, utterly hilarious. You're a great writer. I'm not one to give donations so I apologize for that, but I hope a nice comment will do. *Pats on the head*
Anyways, thanks a million. Great fun reading and obeying your site.
-Scott
Subject: Re: (fuze relay) Cool.
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:30:08 -0400
From: Doug SimmonsCongratulations Scott,
You're the first person to explicitly compliment my site's layout and navigatability (for lack of a real word) and I also appreciate your appreciation of the writing. It's a luxury (for which I worked hard to get) to have an audience, an intelligent one I suspect, from having made this thing on which it's all right for me to fire up the nutty arrogant alter ego real hard and write some slightly crazy shit like this. And it feels good to know that people are not only getting help with their phones from me but, at least some of them, are enjoying the writing.
Don't apologize for not donating. Man I hate that word, donating. Besides I have only donated to just a handful of developers myself (just about all the cash I got from the donation link, which was about sixty bucks not counting paypal's cut over five months) so since I don't really want to bother trying to collect forty cents or so a day and I definitely don't want to divert any donations that would otherwise go to developers, I'm removing the donation link. Okay there, it's removed.
Thanks for the head pat Scott.
Doug
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Subject: radios MF'ers
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:23:15 -0400
From: Greg
Doug:
Every now and then, when I feel adventuresome (like the time I put new crutch tips on my walker without reading the directions first) I need your help.
To flash a new radio from Vista is it the same procedure? I presume the radio file on the microSD card needs a name other than RAPHIMG.nbh (caps sensitive) [to literally use your words]? What's a rilphone.dll cab and do i need one, does it come in capsule or liquid form and will it affect my digestion?
I am currently running RRE's 6.5 ROM, radio 1.12.25.19 seems to be my radio of choice (see, I still read your site) , what radio are you running with da G's ROM?
On another note, I vote for Opera's 9.7b1 version, the turbo mode really is quick ("turbo" reminds me of the old Nintendo days). I did not have to remove the old version first, to get 9.7b1 to run/install properly, but the old version remained as 9.7b1 did not "replace" it, so I dumped it later.
I see a lot of Yankee games on TV, have not see anything like "Will you marry me xxxxx? Love Doug" on the scoreboard. How goes the proposing?
All the best from the residents at the old peoples home!
Greg
Akron, OH
Subject: Re: radios MF'ers
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:34:06 -0400
From: Doug Simmons
To: Greg
Greg,
These rilphone cabs contain something called rilphone.dll which, and I guess this is the best way to describe its function, tells your phone's operating system how to interact with the software (the "radio") that manages your phone's actual radio. A guy, a few guys rather, figured out a way to allow you to switch these drivers easily just by installing a simple cab whereas you used to have to do some complicated registry tweaks and depending on your rom you had to do some hex editing to unlock your phone's rilphone preservation mechanism. If you're using 1.12.25.19 already with a RRE (or Da_G or pretty much any other Fuze rom on XDA now) made in the past few months, I'd say stick with 1.12.25.19 and there are no additional tricks you need to do for that radio as the rilphone driver included in RRE matches that radio. But I've attached the cab that fires up this driver if for whatever reason you're unsure you've got the right driver and I also have attached the driver cabs for 1.14.25.05 and 1.14.25.35 if you're feeling experimental.
I've used all three and I can't tell the difference with enough confidence to recommend one over another simply based on my experience (versus the opinions of others) because at&t has very crappy network infrastructure around my office, total saturation. Full signal but horrible throughput I am assuming because a ton of people in midtown Manhattan are using their phones at the same time and AT&T is too cheap to beef up their network in this area which would confound my own test results which is why I'm sticking with 1.12.25.19 as the XDA crowd tends to agree the most that that radio is the best overall. There are plenty who say 1.14.25.35 is much better (most emphasis on gps) but almost as many people seem to say it sucks (most emphasis on battery with these complaints but other complaints include call quality and data throughput). But I'm going on a long road trip soon and need the best GPS (another thing I cannot really test too well in an urban area) so I may switch to that. But I'm bringing my laptop with me just in case I want to flash back. I can't believe I'm actually going to bring a laptop on a vacation partly in case I need to mess around with my radio software.... but I'm the blownfuze guy.
I'm still running Da_G's WM6.5 21731 which I "cooked" myself using his kitchen. FYI his current CE build is 21812. And I love it. So fast, stable, programs don't crash, almost never soft reset but, as I said on the site, you have to start from scratch to get it the way that you want which for a guy like me takes a long-ass time. Aruppenthal (the RRE guy) does a great job adding must-have apps without adding too much bloat, many of which most people will find handy, plus cosmetic tweaks. One big advantage to running RRE is that when you need help or want to see what others are up to with it to give you your own ideas of how to make it better, his threads are heavily trafficked whereas there are just a couple posts on Da_G's threads a day, many of which come from chefs like Aruppenthal and others who are inspired by the work Da_G does, which is mostly laying the foundation many other chefs use to doll up with their own tweaks and release it to their fans.
Turbo's pretty sweet. Crashes now and then but it's very fast with or without turbo enabled. I think they compress images a little too hard but I noticed while watching my server logs that they may be using the same compression servers and possibly the same settings for this Turbo beta that they use for Opera Mini which was more intended for phones with poorer resolution and possibly slower radios. I'll correct the line I said about needing to uninstall, thanks.
Opted not to do it in Yankee stadium. I proposed in a very small and very romantic Italian restaurant, one I had bookmarked to use for this purpose. Kept it traditional, shoved the table next to us away to give me some room and dropped down on my knee and asked her if she would marry me. I couldn't hear her so I had to say What? and she reached for the ring and said yes a little more clearly. Got back up, the rest of the restaurant was staring, probably couldn't hear either of her answers so I gave them the thumbs up. I think I should mention this on the site because all the other phone nerds out there could use a boost of confidence that if I managed to secure a yes, and again I am the blownfuze guy who spends a crazy amount of time writing about a damn phone in a nutty style, then maybe they can too. Maybe.
Take care Greg,
Doug
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Friday, June 5, 2009, 11:51 pm [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
From: steve
Message:
I have loved your site .I am dialed so in a way I dont need your site but I do appreciate your site and your opinions on shit very very much.you do rock ,but I would love if you would devise a way of making the recent updates super easy to see and download etc .I mean all new shit clearly posted or a new shit section and an old shit section .I currently am using the new att htc rom w/xbox mod rhod. man. added back my wizard old has 6.5 wm hasseb ? xda2? shit on it I put it there.
love the new fuze rom radio etc. I feel like I gotta work hard to find the new shit on ya site,but I love ya man you supply shit no one else does . kind of.
be cool
steve
Subject: Re: (fuze relay) Cool.
Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 12:19:19 -0400
From: Doug SimmonsSteve,
I know it's not easy for my repeat visitors to figure out what's fresh with my site's format. I do have a few mechanisms in place to help, first the updated date up top followed by the purple Updated! flags in the TOC followed by Update 6/1: flags in new paragraphs in each section in addition to the file list at the bottom which you can just drop to in order to see which files are fresh as more than half the time the filenames which I sometimes rename are somewhat intuitive and give clues as to the nature of the programs and then you scroll up to the section you think it might be in that has those purple tags.
Anything better (at least that I can think of) for this purpose, other than deleting obsolete entries which I need to do more of or adding another section that advises people of recent updates, would necessitate a change in site format, specifically to a blog format with RSS feeds. But you can go to fuzemobility.com for that which is what I often do when I want to update. Or get yourself an rss reader and subscribe to XDA forums like development and hacking and raphael software to see what hits the streets each day. That's the fastest way. If I add a What's New Bitches section, I'll have yet another section to modify every time I add something or post a new version and it's already tough to keep track of for apps that overlap into different sections (like my impressive xda developments section, the radio and GPS section, the What's Doug running section and Basic Apps and Tweaks. Sometimes I forget to change every section that mentions the same app and when that happens I end up serving old versions to people which is a disservice to my visitors and, more importantly, the developers who allow me to do this. A lot of them are reluctant for this reason. I try to help meet them halfway with thread links.
Basically what I'm saying is that yes, you're right, but I've got too much shit to do in real life to make that happen effectively and this crude one-page text only dump format, the only php involved being the date up top and the message submission thing and not wordpress or some blog and rss engine, is all I'm currently prepared and able to deliver. As it is I already have a tough time keeping up with new developments and am now averaging a little more than once a week. This site was originally, and sort of still is, intended to get people started, both newbs and vets who just reflashed alike. For the blazing latest I am not the best source, XDA and other sites like fuzemobility are. But if you prefer my site because it's so sweet and badass, I am afraid that, as you noted, you'll have to continue to work to find the new shit.
Tell you what Steve. In response to this email the next time I run through an update I will try to get rid of the old crap and reorder paragraphs in each section chronologically (currently they're all over the place). I will also consider adding another section for updates as there are probably a lot of others like you who could really use that *but* I need to make it clear that my content does not very well reflect all the newest developments that should be on my site. Takes time to catch up to that when you've got a twenty page packed with twenty chapters with nothing but text, up for just over half a year with more than 450 files added since. Not to mention I got to make sure my server's up and secure, that also takes time.
If this were a commercial operating and my day job, in addition to advertisements or more aggressive donation solicitations (so far I've had less than half of a single months' internet bill donated given by six people out of six hundred thousand visits since I put up the donation link), I'd work my balls off to make it perfect especially if I needed to pay my rent with it. But I'd need more traffic for that money so I'd have to stop the Fuze-specific motif and make yet another WinMo blog/forum site. And that creates problems because I'd be distributing a ton of new freeware constantly for profit, which ain't cool with a lot of developers whereas fuzemobility has to straddle between free and commercial ware and I don't want to do that either. I may change my tune if my company goes bankrupt, but for now, this is all y'all gonna get.
I appreciate your message, your compliments and your taking the time to throw me some suggestions so thanks, Steve. In light of the restrictions I outlined, if you've got anything else I haven't thought of to make this better, please tell me and have a good weekend.
Doug
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Saturday, May 23, 2009, 7:52 pm [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
From: Lindenmooch
Message:
I hope $1 is enough for a coffee. I owe a lot of them to a lot of people. The updates (although I'm running WM 6.1 right now so I don't really care) look pretty good. Just don't forget about us who are still running 6.1. Keep up the good work!
-Mooch
Subject: Thanks brotha. Re: (fuze relay) Cool.
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 10:28:23 -0400
From: Doug SimmonsHey Mooch I got the cash money. Thanks a lot!
Even though, like everybody else, I need money, I didn't put the link up for the primary purpose of getting more money in my bank account, rather because I wanted to see if anyone appreciated all this work I've been doing enough to deal with going through a paypal process which takes time, especially if you don't already have an account, and doesn't deliver a tangible product that you're not already getting (unless you count feeling good about being a do-gooder); time being greater deterrent to people paying for anything online like this than the money itself in most cases I'd say. Plus you have to go to a different web page and interrupt what you're doing.
Maybe that's why iTunes is so successful. You lay down a lot of money or even sign a two year contract to get your ipod or iphone or itouch in your hand, you're all psyched because you bought a colorful jogging armband for it too, but to get it to work at all you have to at the least install iTunes and if you don't know what MP3s and p2p clients are you need to sign up for an account but once you've done that you just double click this, double click that and before you know it you've spent hundreds of dollars filling up your iphone with music without even keeping track of the money. With paypal links on XDA, it could take fifteen minutes, you gotta whip out your wallet, worry about giving them an email link -- it's a schlep. But you and three others did it. Four people in four months (which isn't exactly mind-blowing considering I've had almost sixty thousand visits since I put the link up but I'll take what I can get and appreciate it). Maybe I can crank that ratio up a notch if I put this email on the fan/hatemail page because as I'm typing this I'm feeling pretty articulate and eloquent on this subject...
So sixty dollars or one dollar has the same effect pretty much my purposes. Thank you.
Doug
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009, 7:27 pm [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
From: Larstein
Message:
What's the deal? Why do you you assume we are all gentelmen....Love your site!
Subject: Re: (fuze relay) Cool.
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 19:38:43 -0400
From: Doug SimmonsFair enough Laura. Guess I shouldn't be so stereotypical. Reload the site, look up top.
... and thank you Christine and Elicia for echoing these sentiments (below)!
Monday, May 18, 2009, 3:01 pm [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
From: Christine
Message:
I'm not sure why I keep abusing my corneas by coming back to this site every day, but I must be addicted to it.
Why address us ladies and then go and take it back?!?!?
Be sure to keep us informed of the stand-alone YouPorn player. Keep up the great work and THANKS!
Tuesday, May 5, 2009, 8:30 pm [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
From: EliciaMessage:I love your site and my Fuze is now on the way to Awesome! BTW now you can say ladies as I have been told I have the correct body for that term.
Thanks! I love your site :)
Tuesday, April 7, 2009, 11:13 pm [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
From: what (burningpvc@gmail.com)
Message: Dude this site is fucking sick thank you so much for writing this all out. I got a fuze a few days ago and the default ROM was a goddamm joke. I couldn't send text messages and the ones I received showed up in TF3D but not the outlook inbox. I installed the REE rom and a new radio and the fuze is amazing. The wifi is still really weak though. Is this something that can't be fixed or are there reg hacks/patches to improve performance?
keep up the good work your site saved my ass.
PS. put up some google adsense. you could make some good money to pay for hosting costs.
Subject: Re: (fuze relay) Cool.
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:21:02 -0400
From: Doug SimmonsHey thanks man.
Not a lot out there on improving wifi performance, just one tweak I found which I doubt will make any difference in your case especially if you're on a recent RRE. Someone did however just release a new comm manager ported from the Topaz which you can grab in the freshly-updated Sweet shit ported from other phones section which may make your communication managing a prettier experience but I doubt it has some kind of protocol improvements in managing wifi. Did you try messing with the power versus performance thing? And have you experimented with different radios? Might get lucky if you're using the stock radio, make sure you're on 1.12.25.19 (in the Radios motherfuckers! section).
One thing I like about this site, one thing my visitors appreciate too, is the lack of advertisements, even subtle text ones from Google. I like standing out like that, I have ethical qualms about making ad revenue when I'm dishing out other people's work (though I did cave a little and put up a donation button), and even though I get a healthy amount of traffic, based on my experience with websites and knowing that my audience is savvy enough not to even look at ads (or even see them because they're running AdBlock), the amount of cash I'd pull in through something like AdSense would be nominal and not worth the trade-off of no longer being that guy who doesn't have any ads on his site.
Also there are no Internet bills to offset (and btw I host it myself on my own machine) as I stashed the server in my parents' apartment. My mother hasn't complained yet about bandwidth latency when emailing and checking her stock portfolio and one light bulb's worth of power for a headless server isn't going to take much of a toll on my inheritance. This is largely for fun, to help people out like people have helped me out, to help myself out when I'm flashing a new rom and need a resource like this and I get to look at the logs to see who's downloading what, geographic demographics and to impress myself that I can whip something up about a single cell phone, not porn, and get almost as much traffic as that DSL line can handle. I'm good. And I enjoy the feedback and compliments like what you wrote.
Doug
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Monday, April 7, 2009, 10:52 pm [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
From: Maxwell R
Message:
Doug I just wanted to say that your services model a convenient yet savvy future for winmo which has yet to come into mainstream. Since this is the case, it is therefore safe to say that your ingenuity has provided a standard, a launchingpad for successors in conquering that which is the highly skilled task of owning a winmo phone.
In all seriousness, You have made my search for high usability a ton easier, and I want to give you props. You will enjoy many good fortunes in the future for the good karmic deeds you have done here in terms of technology and helping people get the most out of their handy pda phones. If for nothing else, the good of the greater whole can be justified as more than enough principle for your hard work, and I only wish that more were like you in the field of ultra technical know-how.
Thanks again, and may our paths cross someday for the greater good of human productivity and benefit to all who dwell on this here earth and everywhere.
M
Subject: Re: (fuze relay) Cool.
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:06:40 -0400
From: Doug SimmonsMax,
Those are some strong and intelligently articulated compliments and they're making me feel good about myself as I near the 100,000 hit mark.
My father is often described as a genius but he has no idea how to turn on his Blackberry or a laptop without a refresher course from me. He had 1600 SATs, a PhD from Harvard, another from MIT where he was a professor, he's a bridge master, bought his first house on poker winnings; whereas I was expelled from a safety-school-caliber boarding school for running a porn website (it also had stock quotes...) and always had mediocre grades, partying my way through a party college.
Not that I'm in some kind of intellectual competition with my father, but it helps my self esteem, reading something like what you wrote, knowing that I have congruent qualities and did not in fact fall too far from his tree. A lot more people read my site than any of his academic work and they walked away not just with awe of what it took to put the work together but with some sweet cabs as well.
On the flipside, I may be a phone master, but when I use g-alarm set to make me solve simple math problems in order to shut it off, sometimes I give up and jam in the stylus to reset it and then go back to sleep so I suppose he and I come out about even, all things considered.
Thanks, Max.
Doug
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Monday, April 6, 2009, 1:18 am [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
From: Steven Bower
Message: Here that? That's the sound of applause!
Thanks for all the time you spent on this page. I can only imagine the work you put into it. If you got a little lady, she must not be selfish with your time.
Thanks bro,
Steven.
Subject: Re: (fuze relay) Cool.
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:46:45 -0400
From: Doug SimmonsShe's been a good sport about it.
I like it when I'm reminded from a message like yours that there are people who see the thirty-paged page and realize that whoa, God knows how many hours went into this from only one guy, I ought to write him something. Versus other people who ask me Hey man great site but can you go through the list at the bottom [of hundreds of files...] and write a quick short description or maybe a zip file of everything? And I'm thinking Just read the damn site and click, it's relatively concise, kind of organized and you're lucky I even list all the files like that (many of which I rename by the way to make the filenames less cryptic).
So, thank /you/, Steve.
Doug
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Thursday, April 2, 2009, 4:29 pm [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
From: Jobu
Message: Dear notorious d.0.u.g.(H.)
The H is there for street cred, since any stone-cold gangster, whether he's flashing fuzes or blasting fools, is always chasing the paper. It'll also give you some buzz to get that burgeoning rap/movie career going. It doesn't actually have to mean anything, but when the reporters ask you, you can always say "H is for the honeys"
Anyway, just wanted to thank you for having this incredible site, without which the fuze would suck more ass than the crapper on a cross-country 747. You make finding stuff easy, and I like easy. AT&T should pay you for having this site - it attracts new fuze customers. And, with big telco money, the pimp life would be that much better.
- Jobu
Subject: Re: (fuze relay) Cool.
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:54:51 -0400
From: Doug SimmonsJobu that was some poetic shit right there. When it comes to expressing your appreciation, Jobu, you's a mushroom cloud-layin' motherfucker, motherfucker!
Doug
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Sunday, April 5, 2009, 9:24 am [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
From: Joshua
Message: Hey, this site is great! It has everything I've been looking for to fix my phone. I spend way too much time fooling around with it, but I can't help it. I'm wondering though what you think about SPB Shell and Suite. I've been using them for a couple months and I really like the software. Do you know of a way to import/export the settings so I don't have to set it up manually everytime i reset my phone. thanks
Subject: Re: (fuze relay) Cool.
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2009 11:00:02 -0400
From: Doug SimmonsHey Thanks Joshua. You think you spend too much time on your phone -- at least you're not making thirty paged websites with three hundred files about about it.
In regards to Sbp software, if you look around my site you'll see that with only a couple exceptions the software on it is free, the majority of which came from hobbyists, not commercial outfits. I do that largely because I'm cheap and so is everyone else but I don't want to line my guests up into a shareware trap and I want to put pressure of some of the hobbyist developers to keep developing to get, for instance, imap-idle working rather than plugging mail2web and SEVEN. If I put up something like Sbp Shell, even though by most if not all accounts I've read it's superior in various respects to TouchFlo 3D, I want to lean on xboxmod and friends to keep it up with TP2 TF3D.
It's not that these guys are constantly going to my site and thinking Hey I'd better get back to work so Doug will write more stuff about my project; rather because I've got a sizable audience and I lay out thread links, the result is more people on those threads and elevated popularity of the software to the developers and it becomes more apparent to them so they work a little harder and continue to be prolific. It gets me psyched to see someone mention my site on their xda signature or blogs. Outfits like Sbp that are very commercial do not need that added incentive, nor do they need "props" from blownfuze. But mostly because I'm cheap like most of my visitors and I don't want to clutter up the site more than it already is. So long as there's an adequate free alternative, I'm going to avoid mentioning the nonfree equivalent unless it's really superior.
That said, I haven't tried Sbp Shell, I just read some reviews and just now watched a video. I'm tempted to fire up the demo but I am in deep messing with the newly ported Rhodium Manila, a major update for which is due to hit the streets today, and I don't want to hit pause on this to take a journey into Sbp Shell. Not yet.
On the other hand, for the first time I just posted a link to a site that, unlike pretty much every other nonfree software, does not offer even a trial version (though it's only two bucks). I had to do that because it's just so damn impressive, this fart suite, and it was put together buy someone with a young-sounding voice, not a small business, even though he's raking in some cash from it.
Exporting and importing after a flash or hard reset... that's a bitch. I know that's a bitch. Look at all the shit I run and how frequently I flash, I know that's a bitch not just to reinstall everything but to tweak the settings. Some programs like Flexmail let you export and import fully. Actually that's the only one I can think of off hand. But something like BeeLineGPS, though I can import waypoints and track data, I have to redo all the display settings and with that thing I'll spend a solid twenty minutes minimum getting everything mapped out just right.
There are some options here for the frequent flasher. Sashimi lets you set up on your chip an automatic installer of all your cabs including program data and registry settings. I don't have it on my site because the author doesn't allow redistribution and, more importantly, I think it's over my audience's heads, but watch the video. Another option, apropos to your question about my thoughts on Sbp software, is Sbp Backup. I used that the last two weeks (the length of the trial) to make the fullest backup it allows but never bothered to try to restore them so I don't know if the 30MB backup it creates is of my programs, programs and data, programs, data and registry settings (of just the programs or the entire registry) or if it makes an image of the entire phone. And let's say it did do one of the last two things I said; when I flash a new rom, because new roms often have different CE builds and registry settings to improve performance, I don't want something like this overwriting those settings with older inferior or incompatible ones. So because of that, just like why I don't export and import AdvancedConfig settings, and because it's not free, I don't mention that one either. Maybe I should.
So, to answer your two simple questions concisely, I haven't tried Sbp Shell and you should to try Sashimi.
Thanks again, Joshua. Glad you like my site.
Doug
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Monday, February 9, 2009, 6:37 pm [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
From: Angie
Message: Doug,
Truly amazing work. You have given me a good, solid start to de-crapifying my phone. You really should have a donate button - then you could use the cash to buy the GF flowers and she wouldn't be so pissed :-) .
Can't thank you enough for all of your hard work!
This is the sweetest of many emails I've received over the months suggesting or somtimes demanding I put up a "coffee" link even though I didn't develop the software. So here it is. I caved. In the words of Aruppenthal faced with the same ethical dilemma, donations are not required or expected (though appreciated). And Angie my dear, I'll spend whatever few bucks I get on my girlfriend. Big big plans for her and no credit history. And I'll have all of you know the first thing I did with this new paypal account was donate to Aruppenthal (the RRE guy) -- in order to test it and make sure it worked. :)
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Subject: Flowers from blownfuze
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:43:18 -0400
From: Doug Simmons
To: angie
Dear Angie,
Wow, that's a hell of a donation you gave! Thanks! Thank you!
As agreed, using my freshly tweaked assisted GPS settings and Google Maps to track down the nearest florist which was around the corner from where I was standing, I turned your donation into this thing.The nice lady at the store, who seemed very relieved to finally get some business today (thanks for stimulating the suffering Manhattan Korean Florist economy by the way), suggested this would fit my parameters of not needing much water or light, not going to die too quickly, being in some kind of glass thing that would be short enough not to block our view of the television and with a girlfriend as the intended target, costing in the neighborhood of your donation.
So I'm going to clean up the apartment, maybe do the dishes and deal with the trash and position this arrangement appropriately before she gets back home and the next time she's watching Jon & Kate + 8 and I'm at my desk working on the website she can, while fast forwarding through the commercials, look at (and smell) what my website produced so far, thanks to you, and not break my balls as much as she would otherwise.
As per your instructions, I put the button on top of the Bigass list of files section which is where a lot of people skip to first who are too lazy to read my brilliant and captivating commentary -- as well as people who've been to the site before many times, checking for new files, who are more inclined to spot me some cheddar than the average visitor who starts reading from the top. So it's still subtle though potentially effective in this spot I think.
Again, thank you.
Doug
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 1:45 am [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
From: Jeremy
Message: Hey-
Bring back the old color scheme, man!
Cheers,
Jeremy
Subject: Re: (fuze relay) Cool.
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:50:30 -0400
From: Doug SimmonsYou got it Jeremy, done. Refresh your browser.
Thank you for settling this once and for all.
Doug
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Sunday, March 22, 2009, 2:11 am [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
From: Oilcitymo
Message: Hey, a couple of things you may want to consider. For the push service, there is an ongoing beta called System Seven. Essentially you register with them, they give you beta software (which has been beta forever and is consistently updated). Apparently they develop software for carriers based on the beta.
The great thing about the software is, just like ImapPusherService it uses imap-idle. The difference being, this is much more polished, overcomes a bug that sometimes occurs regarding mail notification on some phones, pauses the service during a phonecall and restarts it once the call is done.
Another piece of software that I love is from a guy at xda (completely forget who) called KforTouchPro. Basically, for games and emulators, we can't keymap all of our keyboard buttons cause of something related to t9. With this program you can switch between the (native) mime and t9, allowing you to map keyboard keys properly with games such as Call of Duty and emulators such as Picodrive, etc.
Subject: Re: (fuze relay) Cool.
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 15:40:21 -0400
From: Doug SimmonsOilcitymo,
I put KforTouchPro up in the fun section after the NES emulator. Thanks for the tip.
As for Seven, I don't want to put it up for a few reasons: First, I don't think I can legally or practically as they have brutally long eulas and they like to collect identity information including your email and your cell number so they can text message you a link which may give you a custom cab as it knew my phone number when I tried to start (it crashed, rebooted, got a little further and is hanging on signing in). That's too weirdly commercially aggressive for my taste regardless of any dollars that may or may not change hands with the "beta" version. Granted, it may indeed be better than FlexMail which is also commercial and does cost cash (but not a subscription) after a few weeks, but at least with FlexMail you don't have to give out your cell, the most sensitive of information. I'd rather give my credit card than that.
I can't post the cabs, I can only link to registration processes that take a long-ass time to complete before you're at the email configuration screen on your phone. No thanks...
Also I get a lot of traffic including the developers of the software here. I just gave the author of Outlook Email Scheduler an account on my server to get his software matured enough to declare victory over imap-idle integrated into pocket outlook. If I spread the word out about non-underdog commercial outfits too heavily, well, it rains on his parade. If it weren't for the xda community spirit, I wouldn't have made this site. Not entirely about pimping phones at all costs, I want to help the developers too without diluting the attention with commercial operations that don't need my help and so long as there are almost-working alternatives, or at least non-invasive shareware, I'm holding off. Also I gave them one email address on the registration form but when I stupidly banged in my primary address into the configuration I later got an email from the SEVEN team to that account, not the registration account. Now my email address is on a list driven by a mass mailing thing. Great. And they truncate after 50K. On the other hand it's working.
So I'm meeting you halfway and putting a small mention of Seven, mail2web and vgsmail without cabs or links. I guess that's a third of the way.
Thanks Oilcitymo, I don't get a lot of messages that offer solid tips like this, the type I already put into my site while I'm reading and replying.
Doug
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009, 1:00 pm [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Whack.
From: urmom (blowme@[fake].org)
Message: Did you learn HTML yesterday?
No, Blowme, learned it in 1992. In pico, not notepad. Introduced to flash and java several years later. That's given me just enough time to conclude after having designed and served and studied the logs of dozens of sites, some fairly heavily trafficked, including blogs, corporate and porn that with the web design, the less distracting sizzle you pour on, the more appetizing the steak is. But I invite you and anyone else to attempt to repackage my content, which consists of about thirty unbloated pages of descriptions for hundreds of files plus links, in a way that captures visitors' attention spans long enough to get a good chunk of the material (before they stop clicking and mouse-overing animated translucent menus). And have an impressive portion of those visitors come back frequently.
By the way people, if you want to write me shit like this you don't need to use a fake email address. I don't get why some of you do that. No matter how much you break my heart I swear on my mother's eyes I will not give out your address or your IP. If you criticize me or the site you ought to give me an opportunity to respond to you and not just hope you come back and click the fanmail page to read my response. This guy gives a fake email address and I still obfuscate it. Douche.
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Sunday, February 22, 2009, 12:15 pm [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
From: Dan Galietto
Message: Hey Doug,
Thank you so much for doing this. I've been lost, looking for many of these features but not wanting to spend a lifetime reading threads. I didn't imagine that one person would put up a site with all their research and post it for free. If I want to know more, I just follow the link or download it and try it...
Who the hell does this? On their own time at their own expense? and asks for nothing but feedback in return.
You're awesome and very humorous. And now I can spend more time with my girlfriend instead of reading threads. =)
Thank you!!!
Dan
Subject: Re: (fuze relay) Cool.
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:09:10 -0500
From: Doug SimmonsDan,
Those my friend are questions for my shrink. But I'll try to answer them myself as he's too expensive to use for fielding fanmail.
One thing, in addition to the feedback, that I do get out of it is I get to see how much demand various programs generate relative to the others. Opera and TodayAgenda are the two favorites along with MyMobile and CABviaActiveSync and a few others but when I drop something like LocateCaller on the site, a very cool application that someone worked pretty hard on who may not realize what he's sitting on, and it's immediately the forth best seller traffic-wise out of about two hundred contenders, I can give him a heads' up that he may want to position himself to go commercial one day like Chainfire did with WMWifiRouter (check this out) because on his little thread he's got very little idea of what kind of market there is for his software whereas I look at my parsed logs with the pie charts or just do this through a terminal from my phone ---
root@blownfuze:~# cat /var/log/apache/blown-access.log|grep LocateCaller|wc -l
512
--- and see that it's being used by hundreds of people after being up less than a month, well ... it's valuable information I have access to thanks to my website, the audience the cabs and my general style has attracted and finally the server I run it on (my own, not some large ISP virtual hosting setup). I'm also curious from which countries my visitors are (over a hundred a month). And now that I've had over fifteen thousand people go to my site, I feel kinda cool knowing that there are a lot of phones out there that are a being further taken advantage of as a result of my work and I also feel cool knowing that all these developers out there are touching a lot more phones than they would otherwise be had they just relied on an XDA forum thread. And maybe that brings a few dollars their way when people check the threads I like or brews a base of popularity should they decide to sell out to the man.
But that's still not enough of a rational incentive to make a convincing argument of why this is worth my time. I think the final straw to convince a jury is that once college was over, I lost my audience (my professors) for my edgy writing and had no one left to appreciate my unbridled panache. So I buy a domain for nine bucks, one thing leads to another, and now I have hundreds of people a day tuning in. I guess you could say all of this phone stuff is really a pretext for releasing my creativity. And the feedback, a little datamining there too as every so often one of the messages, like yours, jumps out as having been written by someone with some extra intelligence and perception, asking good and refreshing questions (versus Can I use your site for my Sprint Touch Pro), and then I grab that person as an isolated target for more writing.
I don't suppose you were signing up for a long-ass response but those were difficult questions to answer. I'd better spend some time now with my own girlfriend. Enjoy yours, don't let the phone take over the relationship. Girls don't like that and they usually don't know how to parse httpd logs, not as well as they know how to break balls.
Doug
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Thursday, February 19, 2009, 1:56 pm [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
From: Ray
Doug,
Fantastic site...your work has been and continues to be greatly appreciated. Your humor more so. Old guys like me need to laugh at stuff other than our increasing number of gray hairs and diminishing sex drive. You're ass is bookmarked on both of my computers and please keep the updates coming.
All the best bro'...
Subject: Re: (fuze relay) Cool.
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:06:40 -0500
From: Doug SimmonsHey you got it Ray!
I study my web server logs pretty obsessively to try to get an idea of my audience. Basically I know their general location and their sleep schedules but this message you sent was the first clue into the age demographic. It's nice to see that my site's universally helpful (and enjoyable) for most people who splurge on this phone and wind up on this website.
Good night buddy.
Doug
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Sunday, February 8, 2009, 1:18 pm [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
From: Brian
Message: absolutely amazing. Very few sites do I regularly visit often. XDA is cool and all, but really its a mess to navigate and half the time its people bitching about this or bragging about that. I dont want to read through 45 pages of a thread, to find the answer I needed was on page 37. No, instead I found your site. I check it every day. I have gotten all my CABs and have been messing around stock, and am about to flash ROMeOS for the first time, pop my flashing cherry. I credit you and your site with the knowledge i have. I recommend it to EVERYONE I know who has the Fuze.
Thanks for taking the mess of XDA, the good and the bad, and compiling it in to one BAD ASS site. I appreciate your effort.
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Sunday, February 8, 2009, 12:26 am [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
From: Gennifer
Message: very sweet! thanx =)
Subject: Re: (fuze relay) Cool.
Date: Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:55:16 -0500
From: Doug SimmonsYou're most welcome Gennifer!
And congratulations on being the first person to my knowledge not to land into my presumed gender demographic! You'll forgive all the foul language, just trying to sound all macho...
Doug
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Saturday, January 31, 2009, 5:55 pm [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
From: ATT FUZE fan
Message: This is an awesome site...I wish I had the free time you have to help everyone take full advantage of a phone that puts apple's iphone back on the tree to rot....thxs
Subject: Re: (fuze relay) Cool.
Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:09:49 -0500
From: Doug SimmonsI appreciate your sentiments buddy.
The iphone has its place I suppose, it makes its buyers happy out of the box but the consumers don't realize how much better it would be not to be locked down to an operating system that forces you to pay for programs that Apple authorizes on their brokerage operation. A lot of good programs get developed by professionals and hobbyists but don't make it onto the iStore or whatever not because they suck but because Apple may not, for example, want their customers using the iphone crappy equivalent of WMWifiRouter. They don't want to complicate things and confuse their customers. They don't want to let their customers run wild on a site like mine or XDA not just because I could theoretically be giving people evil stuff but because I could also try to make money off of it -- and that's their job, or how they wish to do it. HTC has a different stance and it turns out there is a sufficient demographic to fill the market. Apple feels they have to be in control in order to maximize shareholder wealth and as a result, for people like you and me or anyone who's combed a place like XDA before, when they take control of the phones they sell, we lose control and I for one want full control.
I also want a keyboard, I want a battery I can replace and storage I can replace.
Take my site - I'm one guy with a day job and a girlfriend and a guitar and every now and then, either after my girlfriend falls asleep to Leno on a Sunday or maybe even at work, I scope out various forums and soon find something I like and, if it's cool with its authors, I toss it on my server and add a brief description. Given my time limitations and my own personal taste in software which is also a limitation to what goes on this site I'm kind of just scratching the surface of what's out there to pimp your Fuze as concisely and as efficiently though as thoroughly as possible. Or I won't hunt for software and try to organize the existing content better. When I find something better than something I already have that's similar, I remove the other program; so I'm not just adding and adding bloat to my site, I'm just getting closer and closer to covering everything meanwhile more people develop new apps and tweaks and ripped video drivers and radios so I'm in a losing race to catch up perpetually -- and if you hit print, my site would take up damn near fifteen pages and counting even though it's condensed, packed with text, not a single image, java, flash, no Google Adsense, no logo; just pure high quality content with upwards of two hundred files most of which I've used or use regularly, all of which I had at least done my due diligence on by reading the threads and other websites with just one exception, Skype. People who try to do this professionally, like fuzemobility.com, that site's over 500 web pages, God knows how many paper pages that content, which I would characterize as excellent by the way, would take up.
You won't find that with the iphone, these resources which are often free and in my case don't even advertise. Just sharing the love is all. But if I had to pick either the iphone or the Diamond and use it only as-is out of the box, well, that would be a tough decision. I suppose somewhere in between all of this is Google's G1 -- but no stereo a2dp bluetooth? C'mon.
Thanks for visiting, thanks for writing.
Doug
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Thursday, January 29, 2009, 5:55 pm [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
From: Imunalia
Message: I like your no BS take. No if only I can find a CDMA version LOL.
Subject: Re: (fuze relay) Cool.
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:27:10 -0500
From: Doug Simmons <doug@eastwind.mobi>
Thanks for noticing, Imanualia.
Glad my blend of pseudoarrogance and hypomania is apparently working. I don't know if it's my alter ego, my actually being hypomanic most of the time I write on this site or if I'm honestly unintentionally stealing Maddox's style, but as you can tell at least in some of my responses on the fanmail page it's not who I am, at least not full time - but it does make for a more amusing and therefore trafficked website without, I think, detracting too much from what my goal which is, partly, to pimp everyone's Fuze to a highly pimp-tight degree with maximum efficiency. I appreciate your remark.
Regarding your little deviant channel access method issue, if you want to use my site you'll be safe so long as you stay away from anything involving flashing (bootloaders, radios and roms). Those are of course critical components to pimping your Touch Pro, but that ain't my department
Doug
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009, 5:40 pm [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
From: kd8dns
Message: Nice work you fuck. well done. This is the type of shit that everybody needs to read. Fuckin simple to understand and easy as hell to use. Dont feel bad about not spending time with the old lady, the least SHE could do is sneak under the desk wile your working on this shit.
Subject: Re: (fuze relay) Cool.
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:08:20 -0500
From: DougDear kd8dns,
Thank you for your thoughtful note you cocksucker! And very fucking insightful suggestion regarding the old lady.
Doug
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Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
From: Taha Khan
Message: Hey Bro i must say you did Absolutely Awesome Job!
i know 30,000 people must have written better comments than i am writing now but yeah one thing just to tell how much impressed and happy i am for your work.
I have never ever in my whole life written a comment or appreciated anyone ever before because no one has ever impressed me this much!
Keep it up! if i can help you in any way do let me know :)
regards,
Taha Khan from Saudi Arabia
Subject: Re: (fuze relay) Cool.
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:56:29 -0500
From: DougTaha Khan my friend,
Though I have received my share of comments, most of which were flattering and / or entertaining, yours was the first to note that until now you hadn't ever been dazzled enough to bother to bang out a message of appreciation before. That characterizes pretty well to me that I'm doing a good job. And I appreciate that.
Anything you can do to help? Well, if you find something on xda or a site like fuzemobility.com whether it's a program or a registry edit or a trick to add all your company's Exchange/LDAP contacts to your phone, please let me know so I can put it on the site. I want to keep people coming back for more so if they see a steady flow of new high-grade Fuze material then they'll bookmark my ass.
Thanks, Taha
Doug Simmons
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Monday, January 19, 2009, 5:26 pm [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
From: novice
Message: excellent summary, collection and remarkably clear presentation, unlike the messy xda page.
looks like you appreciate that a smartphone user is not necessarily an IT expert. (and dos not want to become one, either)
compliments,
novice
Subject: Re: (fuze relay) Cool.
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:50:19 -0500
From: Doug
Hey thanks Novice, that was both flattering and insightful.
That's the angle I tried to take, to gear this site toward the guy who has both heard of xda and therefore has a basic understanding of the phone and just laid down some heavy cash for this nice device and wants to maximize all the phone can produce. At the same time, I try to get this single page to accommodates the veterans who just reflashed another rom and want to put everything back together quickly and while they're at it grab some programs they didn't know existed.
There are other very impressive sites out there like fuzemobility, a site on which multiple smart people work hard full-time, but I like to take care of the people who don't have the attention span to chug through a blog/forum/podcast/tips and tricks site with by Google's count almost 500 pages. That said, I do fit their apparent demographic which is why I just added it to my pRSSReader's exported channels file for people to download and import (a lot of people use that file, btw). When something fresh hits the streets, whether it's a new app or softkey mapping trick, decent chance you'll find it on that site.
Likewise there are many remarkably unimpressive sites like freewareppc. Yeah, if you're looking for something in particular or just want to fart around for a few hours, they'll get you what you need but it won't exactly be an efficient and informative process and you'll be subjected to flash ads and pop ups and they don't even mirror the files anymore and give you a lot of dead links once you're all psyched to download something. They do have a lot more shit than I do; problem is, my shit is less likely to be shitty.
Thanks for writing.
Doug
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Saturday, January 17, 2009, 6:41 pm [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Legal.
From: Bug
Message: sweet site. Is your girlfriend hot? does she have an htc phone?
lol I have a tilt and my buddy went and bought a fuze and now he wants me
to put all the sweet apps n stuff on his. Its just not the same tho haha
peace
Subject: Re: (fuze relay) Legal.
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:07:12 -0500
Thanks for the compliment, Bug!
My girlfriend is very beautiful -- unless you don't dig Orientals. And no,
no HTC phone for her, she's happy with her Blackberry Pearl, no Internet
plan. We're very different.The Tilt's a great phone, not as good as ours of course but it does have
some advantages like a better radio, better GPS and more buttons. Also the
Tilt's screen tilts.My site says Fuze on it but almost all of the apps on my site work on any
htc phone. Glad I could help both you and him out.I appreciate your dropping me a line, Bug. Keep checking back, more dope
shit to come.Doug
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009, 11:30 pm [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
From: Alex Child
Message: Fucking rock bro! Awesome repo and tips! Congratz on the very informative and entertaining site!
Subject: Re: (fuze relay) Cool.
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:43:57 -0500
Fuckin' right Alex! Thanks! My shit's the bomb, I know, but I like hearing it anyway because I'm insecure and have self esteem issues. :)
Doug
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009, 8:15 pm [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
From: Nick W
Message: Hey Doug,
You've got to be the coolest guy on the net. Thanks for all your help and even responding to my questions. I do have a huge favor to ask so I just bought a Fuze about a week ago, and I'm debating wether to have them send me a new one or not.
Because the audio quality sucks big time, I used to be with verizon it seems like the call quality sucks but I'm thinking its the speaker/ear piece in the phone. Is it just my phone or is it with all the Fuze phones. Like when I'm speaking to someone and if they are talking at a semi loud level not really loud but a decent level it seems as if the ear piece speaker raddles a little bit its just not very good. So ya I'm wondering if I should xchange it or if all the fuze phones have poor audio quality coming out of the ear piece speaker. It seems to be the same if I was playing music out of that little speaker. The one on the back isn't all that great either.
Also 1 more question. I notice there is a feature to record the call when I'm on a call and press menu. Where does it save the call to? I can't seem to find where it does.
Thanks for all your help!! I know it will just come back 10X of what you've put into it.
- Nick
Subject: Re: (fuze relay) Cool.
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:18:41 -0500
From: Doug SimmonsThanks for the compliment, Nick. I try.
The speakerphone speaker is lousy on the Fuze. The call quality however, with the phone up to your head or with the right wired earpiece or a good bluetooth earpiece, should be pretty decent though that depends on a few things like where you are and which radio you're using (see the radio section on my site). If it's a volume issue, there are tweaks you can do with Advanced Config, Diamond Tweak and audio boosting cabs also on my site.
There's a big CDMA versus GSM debate (just google gsm versus cdma quality). I think the consensus is that in optimal conditions and locations with the best coverage CDMA is superior but not dramatically so and that there are redeeming reasons to want GSM (like compatibility in most locations). But in your case if you went into a Verizon or Sprint store and tried the Touch Pro on their network I doubt you'd notice much difference (unless there is a defect in your phone).
How does the quality sound if you plug in good headphones to listen to music or your voicemail? If the answer is that it sounds better versus the speaker of the speakerphone or the ear speaker, that it sounds clear, then it's not the radio that's to blame. And again you can improve the volume with those tweaks but only up to an extent as the speakers can only handle so much power.
Regarding whether or not to exchange your phone, you had better go into your local AT&T dealer and have them test it.
And regarding recording calls, I believe you can only record calls when using the speakerphone though I see one guy claiming on a blog that it can be done with Resco Audio Recorder -- but I doubt it. Worth googling to download the shareware. Otherwise I suspect your calls get recorded to the My Documents directory if the Notes program is what's doing the recording. Check that out.
Doug
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Tuesday, January 13, 2009, 3:35 pm [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
From: Dan
Message: Awesome site. My Fuze should be arriving tomorrow and this site has helped me out a shit load trying to find all the cool things I can do with it! And to those people that hate, fuck em!
Subject: Re: (fuze relay) Cool.
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:30:21 -0500
From: Doug Simmons
Thanks Dan! I put a copy of activesync in the first section just for you in case this is your first HTC/WinMo phone.
Regarding the haters, yes, fuck 'em. Whenever they talk their shit, like you shouldn't do this or you should change that because that's gay or that I should learn how to use Flash, and I respond to them thoughtfully (not hostilely) saying Well I need to do this like that because of whatever but based on this and that what would you suggest I do? And they don't respond (at least the ones who don't give me a fake email).
Those parameters by the way include that the page be phone friendly which means easy on the bandwidth, no images, no navigation bars; also I want this whole damn thing to be on one page for better or for worse because in my experience of designing many different kinds of websites and analyzing the logs, if you make someone click somewhere (like to a GPS section), the odds are higher that they will download and install the lag fix and go test their phone out and not go through the rest of the site. It's an attention span thing. Also I want this site to be a condensed one-stop depot to pimp your phone and I like the idea that it's one page. To make this tolerable I have the TOC links so people can bounce up to the table of contents and then back down to where they want to go. I think that's good.
Also I like a dark background with a light gray foreground because it just has an oldschool vibe and makes this site stand out from all the others (which it already does in its content) and depending on what kind of screen you have it may even save a little electricity. Or if you have a girlfriend or a wife who's asleep you can read the site without lighting the place up as much. Whatever, I just like it.
So those are pretty much the parameters that I'm insisting on but one problem I admit is brewing is that there is now too much stuff on the site and I need to start trimming fat and stop offering people so many different suggestions. Maybe not, I don't know. What do you think? Do you want me to say Hey man use pRSSReader because it's my favorite or Hey man you can use pRSSReader VGA or QVGA or RSS HUB or BeyondPod and so on? Or somewhere in between?
Congrats on the phone, hope it shows up! If I were you I'd take some sleeping pills now to make the time pass. Thanks for writing, Dan.
Doug
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Sunday, January 4, 2009, 9:46 pm [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
From: Eric
Message: Nice. Between you, arrupenthal, and mskip I was able to find the balls to flash this device before ever putting my SIM card in it. I enjoy this shit a ton, and wish to put my money where my mouth is. How could I go about tossin you some cashish for your efforts? Your time isn't free, right? Let me know.
My only complaint is the white lettering on the black background. Am I the only one whos eyes freak the fuck out after about fifteen minutes of this shit?
Anyway, keep up your hyperactive ways. My Fuze can only benefit.
Subject: Re: (fuze relay) Cool.
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:02:19 -0500
From: Doug SimmonsEric,
You're the only one in roughly ten thousand to have both the realization and appreciation for how much time I might have been putting into this pretty damn good site /and/ the class to actually offer to throw me some cash in spite of my not soliciting donations (and even bragging about that on the top of the site).
That made my night, your message, some solid validation which I showed my girlfriend on our way to dinner ("You see baby?") that I can put something together that's not porn related and the people will flood in and appreciate it, and now to this extent with what you wrote -- at the expense of my being glued more adhesively to my computer than to her.
My time shouldn't be free, the product frankly is excellent (aesthetics notwithstanding), my internet connection and electricity isn't completely free, bandwidth is always a resource as I host other sites on the machine and I would say my phone and this site together put a strain on my relationship for the sake of my visitors so yes Eric I am due some cash money *HOWEVER* I cannot in good conscience accept any monetary compensation as this site's chief operational component is a collection of software designed by people either for free or for donations and I don't have any arrangement with them to feed them cash I get and keep a cut for myself, nor am I inclined to try that. I have a day job, I'm doing okay, this is fun to me and the responses I get, yours especially, make it all worth it.
I like your style Eric, you're good. Thanks.
Doug
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Saturday, January 3, 2009, 1:14 am [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
From: You May Address Me As God
Message: This is a great page. Please host it somewhere besides your basement so that it may live on forever.
Would you like me to chisel it into stone for you? Someone told me that's great archival media.
God
Subject: Re: (fuze relay) Cool.
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 01:33:34 -0500
From: Doug SimmonsDear God,
I am humbled to have helped improve Your cell phone. While stone would indeed make a great archival medium and whereas You have limitless amounts of stone to house all the cabs, stone does not yet support PHP so no thank You. My regards to the other members of the Holy Trinity.
Humbly,
Douglas
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Friday, January 2, 2009, 7:53 pm [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
From: Luke
Message: I just want to thank you for your kick ass site, and especially all the work you did putting it together. It is not just putting it all on the site, but testing and using the dozens of apps to gain an opinion. I just bought a Fuze a couple weeks ago and it is my first WM/Smartphone. Your site laid out everything I needed perfectly. I totally agree with you about the ROMeOS Rom, I am using the conFUZEd edition and it rocks. It is fast, smooth, clean, and 10x better than AT&T's Rom which seems like it was developed by a 2nd grader at times. Thanks again for the cool site, I'm always checking back for new stuff and if I come across anyone else with a Fuze I will definitely point them your way. Keep up the good work!
P.S. I enjoyed your sense of humor on this site, it made it enjoyable to read, it definitely was a lot better than the many bland sites on the web which just plainly lay things out. Oh, and don't worry you're not the only one with an annoyed girlfriend because I too have spent countless hours messing with my phone instead of hanging out with her. The good news though, seeing the cool stuff I can do with Fuze it has convinced her to buy a Kaiser. I know it is not a Fuze, but it is the next best thing without having to drop $300.
Thanks again,
Luke
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Friday, January 2, 2009, 2:16 pm [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
From: Matt
Message: I like that you're very opinionated here. I don't agree with all of your opinions but it's a lot better than all of the completely objective crap that is incredibly difficult to find on the forums. Thanks for all the work. I have this site bookmarked and I'll be sure to check in for updates. This is the first place I'll send friends looking to get the most out of their Fuze.
Subject: Re: (fuze relay) Cool.
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:42:53 -0500
From: Doug SimmonsRight on, Matt, thanks.
In a resource-for-beginners-through-experts site like this where, using the rom section for example, you've got a handful of good directions you can tell people about, I think it's better to boost them in one particular direction, even if that direction might as well have been chosen almost arbitrarily as the visitor is more likely to move forward with a major procedure with their new phone and will now do so with greater confidence of the results rather than just scrolling down to the next section and leaving their stock rom intact. Though I do try to hedge that the other way a bit by offering links to other popular roms. Speaking of which, I am about to flash either to the new romeos or Da_G's and I'm thinking of just flipping a coin -- to characterize my thoughts on rom flashing almost always being a can't-lose situation.
And any bad opinions there and throughout the site don't have much of a pernicious effect on those who aren't total novices (like you) and have their own preferences which they know to work for them (and the total novices wouldn't notice the difference as pretty much anything is a step up from the default software). That compounded by my flip arrogance suggests that my remarks should be taken with a grain or two of salt, at least in some places. Also, not confining myself to vanilla objectivity like you'd find in an XDA sticky written by a moderator but instead having a little fun with this gives the site some personality that keeps people engaged through most of the sections and makes more people learn more things and have more tools to maximize their new investment, doing all of this with high efficiency, yet at the same time offering the pertinent XDA thread links when appropriate. As you said, I want and have designed this single web page to accommodate those looking to get the most out of their Fuze with the fewest amount of clicks possible. And the veterans too; this site will soon accommodate me when I flash that new rom.
I appreciate your telling your friends, your bookmarking the site and I appreciate your message as there have been a few critics sharply to the contrary and I am glad to have on paper at least one person in my camp on how to run this show.
Doug
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Friday, January 2, 2009, 12:42 pm [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
Message: I was a bit cynical before I clicked on the link to your page, as there were many other personal CAB repositories out there. I'm glad I did click on the link Doug. I don't think I'd have been able to find some of the stuff there had I not been to your page. And those are some really cool stuff - not just some randomly selected ones.
Thank you very much for your effort and I do enjoy your writing style. Have a nice day and take your meds bro ;-)
From: Kelvin
Subject: Re: (fuze relay) Cool.
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:52:45 -0500
From: Doug SimmonsKelvin, feels good to get a message like this because yes I did put (and continue to) a lot of effort into this to make sure it helps people quickly and thoroughly and in a mildly entertaining manner but I rely on external feedback like yours to make sure my idea of a good website for a phone does not radically deviate from everyone else's taste.
But how am I supposed to have a nice day if I take my meds? ;)
Doug
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Friday, January 2, 2009, 9:27 am [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
Message: Thanks for taking the time and doing the research to produce this useful repository. Noobs may have to do some supplementary reading, but medium skill people like me find your work very valuable. This will reduce the time it takes for me to find what I need. I have been using xda for over 2 years, and have spent countless hours scouring threads. I especially appreciate the section on how to restore the stock AT&T ROM. I have the Fuze and plan to flash one of the xda ROMs soon, but I want to have the AT&T ROM (and other stock items) saved away on my own little hard drive before I jump in. Stock GPS sucks, so I may follow your advice and flash the ROMeOS ConFUZEd. Final comment -- I love xda. Best online techical community I have encountered, with excellent developers with a wonderful sense of self-management. xda is not exactly an open source community, but its values are similar, and its results are outstanding. Thank you for adding to the value with your summary.
From: Rick
Subject: Re: (fuze relay) Cool.
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 09:47:29 -0500
From: Doug Simmons
Rick that was a very thoughtful and well appreciated message you wrote me. And insightful. I'm with you on XDA, good people, invaluable resource. Just thought I'd try to share the love and open this site up only to the xda community without seeking too much in return other than the occasional letter like yours (or even the opposite, those are fun too).
Roms.. sounds like you know your shit so don't confine yourself necessarily to a rom with Fuze in the title but consider any Raphael rom. Go on the rom thread and look for the most recently posted ones, compare which Windows build number they are then skim through the threads starting from the last page back to see how many people are arguing about bugs. I'm in the mood to flash for the first time in a few months so right now I'm trying to make my mind up between ROMeOS 1.60.2 (dec 29) and Da_G's 2.03. Note that they're both 20954 though ROMeOS will require an item or two like the fuze keymap, the at&t settings cab which you can get on my site or bang them in manually etc. RRE and NATF also have big followings so consider those too (and like Da_G, they're also Fuze-targeted).
Hey Rick thanks a lot for writing that. You the man.
Doug
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Thursday, January 1, 2009, 8:51 pm [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
Message: Very INFORMATIVE! My wife has been giving me a hard time about spending too much time tweaking my fuze. Just a couple ?'s. What would you recommend using to back up your device? Would you recommend a particular ROM over another? THANX
From: mykwalkr
Subject: Re: (fuze relay) Cool.
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:05:39 -0500
From: Doug SimmonsHey thanks mykwalkr. I hear you about the wife, imagine how my girlfriend feels with me not only going nuts with the phone like you but making a damn website about the thing! I'm on thin ice.
For backing up, use PPCPimBackup, fifth sentence of the first paragraph of my site or scroll down the file section. This program is very handy and does not need to be installed to run, you can just run it off your chip, and it backs up your emails, text messages, phone log, appointments, contacts, whatever you want but it does not back up registry or program data. If you plan on doing heavy flashing every time there's a new beta of something, you may want to get SASHIMI which lets you package up all your cabs and installs them all at once. Let me know if you need help tracking that down if PPCPimBackup doesn't do the trick for you. For a full image backup like if you lose your phone and get a new one and want everything restored exactly, well off-hand I don't know, maybe sprite backup (nonfree)... if that's what you want let me know and I'll track something down for you and subsequently put it on my site.
For roms, I don't really know your level of general phone intensity so go on the Raphael ROM thread and skim through the threads for roms posted within the past week, like ROMeOS, Da_G, NATF and RRE and see which one suits you the best. I haven't tried it yet but I've heard nothing but good about Da_G and though I myself love ROMeOS, a handful do not. So to give you the short answer, Da_G, longer answer, comb through the threads and choose one yourself.
Take care buddy,
Doug
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008, 3:36 am [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
Message: I would suggest that you try Melaril or Haldol. The thorazine is obviously not working :)
From: Ninja
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008, 4:17 pm [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
Message: This is brilliant. I can't believe the amount of time you can spend wading through threads and tracking down cabs. I'm just upgrading from a Kaiser and this is a godsend. Thanks very much.
From: nagusia
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Monday, December 29, 2008, 5:45 am [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
Message: Your site is fucking BADASS. Keep up the awesome work! Thanks for linking all of the files directly rather than shooting it to another page or thread. That saves an assload of time and frustration.
From: Jordan
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Sunday, December 28, 2008, 11:11 am [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
Message: Thanks Doug. This is really awesome. I've got my fuze working well. XDA has great info, but it's such a pain to sift through all the posts. This site was mad helpful. And pretty damn funny.
Thanks,
From: Dan
Subject: Re: (fuze relay) Cool.
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 15:25:59 -0500
From: Doug SimmonsDan my man,
Helpful and funny was exactly what I was aiming for and I am glad to have saved you what would have indeed been mad time. I appreciate your writing me.
Doug
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Sunday, December 28, 2008, 10:46 am [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
Message: you're great man. =) chill bro.
From: mongue
Subject: Re: (fuze relay) Cool.
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 15:26:14 -0500
From: Doug Simmons
Mongue buddy I got like three megs of Klonopin me spiked with a dash of Trazadone (just got off a flight to Miami) so I assure you I am indeed chilling. Hopefully not too chill to drive to Key Largo. I appreciate the compliment.
Doug
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Sunday, December 28, 2008, 2:20 am [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
Message: thanx for postin all this shit on your own server! i was gettin tired of rapidshare/4shared since i do most downloading and postin on my phone.(like this post) finally pimpin my shit where the kaiser left off. damn,wish you had something like this for that old tank! gotta go my lady is starting to play with my dick! late..(no lie)
From: chuy(chewrawka)
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Thursday, December 25, 2008, 4:12 am [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
From: alex
Message: Holy fuck! ive been looking for a site or thread on all the programs and shit i need for my TP! Thank you so much you solved everything! my phone is running smoother than any other one ive had! you deserve major props for this site it has saved me so much time and effort. You have everything on here i need [almost, ppcwarez covers the rest] haha but i just wanted to let you know how much i appreciate the time and effore you put into all of this. Fuck yeah man! Oh and do you know any good vzw roms for my Touch pro? cause im running a custom one i cooked.
Much love,
Alex
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2008 14:42:47 -0500
From: Doug SimmonsSho'nuff, Alex! Thank you for the props. So I get up this morning, Christmas morning, and I couldn't find my phone. Concluded that I left it in a cab coming back from some Catholic midnight mass thing my girl dragged me to and that this was the Protestant God striking down upon me for receiving communion outside of His church. Tore the house apart, gave up, opened presents doing my best to stay happy, I stand up, bam it's on the coffee table. Fuckin' A.
If you're already cooking your own custom CDMA roms I don't think you need me for thread links because I'm a GSM guy -- however you might want to check out ppcgeeks.com in addition to the cmda Raphael xda forum as, judging by the hits I get from them from one post someone put up in a long thread, they get a lot of traffic. Also they are located in the west coast not the Netherlands so they are more likely to cater to a larger CDMA demographic. One thing I do not know is if there are any key hardware or radio differences between Sprint and Verizon phones that necessitate separate breeds of roms or if a CDMA TP is a CDMA TP.
Thanks for writing brotha, this goes up on the fanmail page.
Doug
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008, 12:36 am [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Whack.
Message: One word....AWESOME! I'm bookmarking this page as my #1 resource for my Fuze! All the cool software, with links to XDA discussions?!?! I think I just nutted!
From: davidusr
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Sent: 12/27/08, 19:40:42
Subject: (fuze relay) Whack.
From: Sammy
Message: I guess this ok for retarded users, but a normal person wouldn't benefit from this. Also you seem to lack basic understanding of WiFi (802.11 B/G not 801G dumbass) Also, you should not be recommending radios as that orange radio you mentioned will knock out 3G on a Fuze.
Subject: Re: (fuze relay) Whack.
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 20:27:15 -0500
From: Doug Simmons
To: Sammy
I hear you on the wifi thing but fyi the orange radio as long with every other radio I list works just fine. I am using .28 and pulled in a megabyte at 1720kbps, similar performance with the 20m radio. In short, you're right in that I don't know much about wifi and you don't know much about cellular radios or probably what 3G even means.
That said, what would you have me do to make this site better accommodate those who aren't retarded in addition to retards? I am about to put in an expert section which will include for example packet sniffers; is that a start? Or is this site doomed to be a piece of shit from where you're sitting?
Thanks,
Doug
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Subject: (fuze relay) Cool.
Tuesday, December 23, 2008, 4:30 pm [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
Message: Awesome, f*&$in beats searching through 45 years of forum to get what I found in 5 minutes on yours. Thanks.
From: blackshirt
Subject: Re: (fuze relay) Cool.
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:59:06 -0500Motherfuckin' right, my site is lookin' kinda tight!
I appreciate your taking the time to bang out the thank you and compliment and I'm glad I saved you what really is an extended and excruciating pain in the balls, setting these phones up from scratch relying on a bunch of cluttered and disorganized forums and shitty commercial operations. I actually use my own site myself when I flash or exchange a phone so I have that additional vested interest that whoever runs freewareppc.com so clearly lacks to continue to make it as effecitvely and efficiently helpful as possible to both novices and experts. Bookmark my ass.
Have a good night buddy.
Doug
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This one's tough to read if you're on your phone, sorry. It's about my first hatemail and I get a little sensitive:
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Sunday, November 23, 2008, 10:15 pm [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
Message: Your web page is absolutely amazing and has everything and
anything anyone would ever want. I gotta admit I'm kind of a noob when it
comes to adding all this stuff to phones. I mean, sure i can install the
programs, edit the registry and all that good stuff, but i'm hella
cared.
My last phone was the Cingular 8125 and i never actually managed to
install a ROM on it... I think if i wanted to do this I would need some serious
help... I also think I need to do a HardSPL before I do anything... You
seem very intelligent, is there a very easy guide to do all this so that
I don't mess up my phone...? Any help would be very appreciated, the only
thing I can think that I have to offer is that i'm the best Samus player
Super Smash Brothers Brawl... a long shot lol but I would love to get
some
help on this stuff, i would be so happy ^^
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Doug wrote:
Oh wow the 8125. That takes me back.
Getting HardSPL on there is relatively safe to do but keep in mind once you
put even HardSPL on it you are technically violating the terms of your
warranty so if you flash anything like that and one day your phone breaks
be sure to restore the original AT&T rom before sending it back. There are
threads on how to do that.And once you get HardSPL working, next move is to fire up a rom of your
choosing. They're all pretty good, you can't go wrong; typically the posts
with the most views are the "safe" bets --
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=440.Some ROMs have a lot of goodies on them, some are bare-bones designed to
maximize performance, ram and space and then you add what you want. Some
roms come in two versions, light, full, or you install light and then get
the extended cabs you want one by one. RomeOS does is among others.Where exactly do you think you'd need help? I'd be happy to provide it;
sorry I took so long to reply.Have fun man. Don't drop the phone.
Doug
Response to my response 11/29:
Wow you're a great guy! Thank you so much for responding, I am very impressed. I am going to spend a lot of time working on this and do my best to read every possible anything so that I do not waste your time when i do ask questions (or run into problems I can't seem to find a solution for). I really appreciate you offering to help if i have any questions, so I will show my appreciation by trying my best not to ask any ^^
Thanks again dude, I would cry if I dropped this phone!
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Saturday, November 29, 2008, 12:42 am [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
Message: two words for you my friend,
"great job!"
thanks.
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008, 3:52 am [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
Message: awesome repository, I enjoyed reading your 'narrative' on each program.
thanks for the recommendations- my Fuze is as happy as could be now :)
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008, 3:27 am [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
Message: Seriously, take your meds. This is a great site.
You might want to add a browser section: PIE will soon become "Six on Six" which is currently dogfood at M$. It might suck. Then there's Opera, Skyfire (now in VGA), CoolIris, Minimo (hopfully replaced by Fennec sometime soon), and NetFront.
Also media players: VLC works well for audio. I wish they hadn't stopped development now that we have a really powerful device. MPlayer just crashes, which sucks, because I can never get WMV9 support for this mms:// stream of BBC World I love so much. Going to try Core Player with it since I found a regged version.
Also, to SIM Unlock your phone, just call AT&T's after-hours number, pretent you're in Tuvalu and just bought a local sim-card, you're calling the US at 3 AM on Skype, and they'll give you an unlock code. Pop in a T-Mobile SIM card from a friend, enter the code, and you're good to go.
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008, 12:26 am [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
Message: Thanks for all the info man. I have a touch pro coming tomorrow from verizon (scored it for 25 bucks), and you've helped alot already.. i think. lol. I'll be sure to comment and let you kno what happens since i'll be working on a pro from verizon. Thanks for being so down to earth and cool.
If you ever need some things confirmed from the verizon end let me know.
~Nat
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 5:42 am [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
Message: Great job, I'm really impressed by your work. Keep it up!
Bookmarked for sure!
Now if only we(and by we, I mean you) could find a way to get Diablo II:LOD (or any other classic PC games) working @ 640x480 landscape...
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Sunday, November 23, 2008, 10:15 pm [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
Message: Your web page is absolutely amazing and has everything and anything anyone would ever want. I gotta admit I'm kind of a noob when it comes to adding all this stuff to phones. I mean, sure i can install the programs, edit the registry and all that good stuff, but i'm hella scared. My last phone was the Cingular 8125 and i never actually managed to install a ROM on it... I think if i wanted to do this I would need some serious help... I also think I need to do a HardSPL before I do anything... You seem very intelligent, is there a very easy guide to do all this so that I don't mess up my phone...? Any help would be very appreciated, the only thing I can think that I have to offer is that i'm the best Samus player in Super Smash Brothers Brawl... a long shot lol but I would love to get some help on this stuff, i would be so happy ^^
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Saturday, November 22, 2008, 9:04 pm [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
Message: I've been on XDA for years and I never had anyone give it to me straight! Good Job!!!
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Saturday, November 22, 2008, 6:34 pm [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
Message: dude, this site is GREAT!!!! please please please add more!
(one suggestion though, try re-ordering things so that everything is bullet-pointed. makes it that little bit easier to read on a phone!)
keep it up, and if you need any assistance, with regards to donations to keep your server running or other site suggestions, dont hesitate to ask!
cheers
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Saturday, November 22, 2008, 11:14 am [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
Message: Thank you for the assurances that there is life on the fuze after ATT. I'm still looking, but this site gave me the nudge that I can make it do what I want.
Thank you!!
Saturday, November 22, 2008, 10:35 am [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
Message: great fuze rant broham, laughed my ass off... tx for all the fish!!
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Saturday, November 22, 2008, 1:34 am [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
Message: i was ready to return my fuze after 24 hours, but found this site and installed the romeos rom and a bunch of these apps and now i am stoked, i like this phone now, thank you so much. i feel sorry for the people that buy this phone and have to deal with the awful performance and crapware that comes with it out of the box- RIGHT ON BROTHER
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Friday, November 21, 2008, 7:56 pm [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
Message: Great job - outstanding even! Thanks to you I'm having a much easier time moving to WM6.1 from the PalmOS devices I've used for years. If you do find that keyboard auto popup disable setting and it isn't bullshit, tell your girlfriend to relax and take some time to add that in here too. Awesome collection!
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Friday, November 21, 2008, 5:23 am [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
Message: nicely collected. very funny tone. keep it up(dated)!
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Friday, November 21, 2008, 4:54 am [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
Message: This is awesome, it is everything that I wanted when going through xda for all the files I'm looking fo. I have a few requests - I've been having trouble with 3G speeds and I've seen a number of fixes. Can you post up what you believe is the solution for the stupid proxy/hsuda/whatever the fuck it takes to get more than edge speeds on this fuckin phone?
Also, can you post up a compilation of themes and today screen stuff? Furthermore, I think you should add the HTC task bar so the user has the option to see what is running - romeos2 by itself doesn't have the option to that I know of, and if so, please let me know. I've been rebooting my phone like crazy because I never know what is running when.
One last question - what are the exact settings used by your advanced config file?
One more suggestion - zsirc is a freeware and (what I believe to be) superior app to what you have listed.
Finally, thank you for your dedication to compiling all this. It is much appreciated.
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Thursday, November 20, 2008, 6:18 pm [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
Message: Thnx for this :D
i've bought my Touch Pro today :D
maybe you can help me, i have a simlocked KPN branded dutch TP. does the simunlockcode from Ollipro works you think?? and after that i just can HardSPL it and install roms but no radios from blackstone or diamond?? are they that better or i can stick with the touchpro roms??
thnx alot :D
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Thursday, November 20, 2008, 1:34 am [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
Message: Fantastic Collection even better iteration of what the apps do :) Good work, and thank you for an entertaining read....
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008, 11:12 pm [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
Message: My fuze kinda sucked at first, I was very dissapointed. Then I tried out some of these fixes, and BAM! The iPhone can suck it. Thanks a lot man!
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008, 10:41 pm [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
Message: This jank is the shit! Good write dawg! I've been looking for that damn keyboard fix. Holla!
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008, 8:20 am [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
Message: hey this is totally off topic...i got stuck trying to redo my company's website and i dont have a ton of html/css knowlege other than what i can piece together...
can you share the technique you used for the username and password in some way that i can easily mimic that on my site?
thanks man...LOVE the Fuze and your explanations of the programs..nice contribution to the xda forum
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008, 1:19 am [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
Message: Great info! you consolidated hours of forum browsing into a simple read for the new Fuze owners. Thanks for your hard work. I'm looking forward to my fuze and your future entries.
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008, 12:02 am [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
Message: hey man,
thanks a lot for this. got my fuze last week and got some of these cabs already, but found a lot of new stuff. enjoyed the monologue too. thanks again.
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 9:54 pm [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
Message: Thanks for the time you spent on your site, it really helped me out alot.
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Monday, November 17, 2008, 12:08 am [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
Message: nice website. i just got my fuze this weekend and started tweaking it. this page is a great place to start and pretty much has all the programs i spent the last 2 days looking for.
keep it updated and cause i'll keep coming pack looking for more.
you could possibly add this file, AEBPlus.CAB, its the button reprogramer progam that i used to remapp the PTT button.
also, thanks for not asking for a donation.
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Sunday, November 16, 2008, 3:15 pm [EST]
Attention: (fuze relay) Cool.
Message: Kickass site as well as great sense of humor.. fun to read...
Thanks for putting it together. Makes a lot easier than cruising all the boards. Just got fuze for my b-day.
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Go back to the cabs, back to the XDA thread or you can drop me a line yourself.
