[Q] HTC and Beats audio - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

so i have been wondering this for a while now. why can only HTC phones run beats audio? my hp pavillion Dv6t has it also but you never see it on any motorola or samsung phones or dell or toshiba computers. anyone know why this is?
Btw i have a MT4g so i have the pleasure of being able to run beats and have eargasams all day long.

Because HTC has a licensing agreement with beats. Beats is garbage anyway..

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[SARCASM]Beats is garbage anyway..[/SARCASM]
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I strongly disagree. But that still doesn't answer my question. You are posting on a site that is dedicated to, "hacking". That generally implies that we don't follow the rules.....
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It can be sorted out..But it depends on the devs if they can actually figure out what needs to be ported over to the phone of choice

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HTC Flyer and Beats Audio

Hi from an happy new owner of the amazing HTC Flyer....by now I can notice only a little "issue": the absence of the beats audio equalizer...that I had on my previous HTC Desire HD with RCMix3D ROM.....
Could this little feature be added to the Flyer so I can enjoy fully my new tablet with my beats SoloHD?
I tried and failed. It had been mentioned before. I do not think it is a very simple task.
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I shouldn't be so difficult to do....I think....it's only necessary to take the code from the htc audiomanager from a rom that has this add-on and port it to the flyer's audiomanager.......I think that here we have a lot of good devs that can do this...it's only that they need some "motivation" from us.....
read this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19834867
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I read the thread but apart from the files that needs to be edited it doesn't tell me nothing new......yeah someone told at first that it didn't worked in HC but then nothing more.....I still think that if a very good dev( and here we have a lot) will work seriously in this he'll find the solution....they enabled phone calls.......however i think that the biggest problem is HC.....has someone tried on GB( that is the platform the add-on has be designed for)?
I guess I should of linked the post from Lee Droid but he is an experienced Dev. His comments in the thread suggest that it is not as easy as you may think and that by following the instructions in the link you would have the app but that it would not actually do anything. In order to actually get it working is much more involved is my point
I think we should move the discussion to the Dev's thread and see what they say...
Looks like the divorce of Beats from Monster may leave HTC holding a $300 million bag of smelly stuff.
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Beat...ir-separate-ways-leaving-HTC-in-limbo_id26000
DigitalMD said:
Looks like the divorce of Beats from Monster may leave HTC holding a $300 million bag of smelly stuff.
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And how is that different than before Beats and Monster decided to split?

Desire HD User want your advise

hello everybody i'am from Desire HD Forum and i want your advise...
i'am thinking to change my DHD with EVO 3D ... but i didn't use it before so i haven't any experience about it only his Specifications,photos and videos.
just want to know is there is a big different between them in performance?
and what about the 3D tech in videos, photos and games is it really interesting ?
Hiya m8,
Having a Desire HD, i know what you mean, and i always wanted an EVO 3D from the off, but since having it i'm finding the development a little lacking, there's some great dev's here don't get me wrong, but opposed to the DHD, it's just not a comparison, the DHD got a lot of attention, something which you'll miss if you make the switch to EVO3D, sorry to put it to you like that, but it's true.
It's up to you at the end of the day and i wouldn't swap my EVO i just thought i'd tell you what i think of it.
Personally given the choice i would go for the XE Sensation. Or wait for the ville, which i believe is going to be heavily developed for.
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Hiya m8,
Having a Desire HD, i know what you mean, and i always wanted an EVO 3D from the off, but since having it i'm finding the development a little lacking, there's some great dev's here don't get me wrong, but opposed to the DHD, it's just not a comparison, the DHD got a lot of attention, something which you'll miss if you make the switch to EVO3D, sorry to put it to you like that, but it's true.
It's up to you at the end of the day and i wouldn't swap my EVO i just thought i'd tell you what i think of it.
Personally given the choice i would go for the XE Sensation. Or wait for the ville, which i believe is going to be heavily developed for.
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Now I wouldn't say development is lacking here in anyway and honestly don't get how anyone says that ever. What is there not offered here?...
Now besides the point if it were me this time of yr would be the worst time to get a phone. New stuff will be out within a few months that's even better. Also I wouldn't buy a non LTE device right now either less you were okay being on short stick in future...
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Now I wouldn't say development is lacking here in anyway and honestly don't get how anyone says that ever. What is there not offered here?...
Now besides the point if it were me this time of yr would be the worst time to get a phone. New stuff will be out within a few months that's even better. Also I wouldn't buy a non LTE device right now either less you were okay being on short stick in future...
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The problem is the 3d camera! plain and simple, it's going to cause developing problems, problems which don't seem to be troubling the sensation thread, nor the DHD thread. That's what i mean, plus developers like Coredroid and RCMIX, and P3D are not present on the EVO3D, plus most of the threads are still on release one.
The one's which aren't haven't moved much, they're trying, they really are, but there's usually a lot more dev's on the phone's that i've had that's all, not having a go, it's just a fact.
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The problem is the 3d camera! plain and simple, it's going to cause developing problems, problems which don't seem to be troubling the sensation thread, nor the DHD thread. That's what i mean, plus developers like Coredroid and RCMIX, and P3D are not present on the EVO3D, plus most of the threads are still on release one.
The one's which aren't haven't moved much, they're trying, they really are, but there's usually a lot more dev's on the phone's that i've had that's all, not having a go, it's just a fact.
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Umm take those 3 devs and ill give you many more here that do magical things!!! Only thing sensation has over the 3D is the build leaks it gets and all...
Most threads on release one? Now I know your not looking. What do you mean by not moving much? Makes no sense at all. Again I'm not seeing anything that isn't offered here that you could want besides fully working ICS/CM9 but that will come with source as always anyways...4G doubtfull but everything else will come along.
I might have to retract that all if ur talking about gsm version only as I don't follow that side as much and know there are not as many threads there, so if that's the case then so be it...
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dladz said:
The problem is the 3d camera! plain and simple, it's going to cause developing problems, problems which don't seem to be troubling the sensation thread, nor the DHD thread. That's what i mean, plus developers like Coredroid and RCMIX, and P3D are not present on the EVO3D, plus most of the threads are still on release one.
The one's which aren't haven't moved much, they're trying, they really are, but there's usually a lot more dev's on the phone's that i've had that's all, not having a go, it's just a fact.
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who the **** cares about 3D anyways? seriously.
and to the OP, are you CDMA or GSM?
all the threads are on RLS1... well lets see.... off the top of my head the first one that comes to mind is myns warm ROM.
....which had about 495 updates through a nightly vpn before being "released".... d3rp
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Once official ICS is released for out phones, things like like 3d and 4g will most likely get sorted out.
okkie said:
hello everybody i'am from Desire HD Forum and i want your advise...
i'am thinking to change my DHD with EVO 3D ... but i didn't use it before so i haven't any experience about it only his Specifications,photos and videos.
just want to know is there is a big different between them in performance?
and what about the 3D tech in videos, photos and games is it really interesting ?
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i myself was a dhd owner ..now using 3d. and must say i like it alot. plus 3d pics+dual core+better resolution+1gb ram. for day to day use this is the best. but if you are interested in roms then its still a good choice but not better than sensation as the guys covered it had more ruu leaks and doesnt suffer from developing the 3d function. but i love the 3d
thnx very much guys for your advises...,
i think Sensation XE will be better choice,
in my country both of them at the same price.
i wan thinking about the sensation too, but i'm afraid because i read in some reviews it gets hot and here in summer i guess it would be a real problem
as for the performance i guess both the sensation (xe or not) and the evo 3d are almost identical
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i wan thinking about the sensation too, but i'm afraid because i read in some reviews it gets hot and here in summer i guess it would be a real problem
as for the performance i guess both the sensation (xe or not) and the evo 3d are almost identical
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I think the EVO 3d has more ram
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I think the EVO 3d has more ram
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yes 1GB vs 768MB
but is it noticeable ?
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yes 1GB vs 768MB
but is it noticeable ?
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Not when sense gets 65% of it
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[MOD]Beats Audio for all apps

I hadnt seen this posted anywhere here. I found several threads where the OP had pulled this or links just went bad in other forums. From what i can tell, the first guy to make this happen was RockoDev. I dont know if he made this or if someone else did based off his work..just trying to give credit where credit is due.
That said , I have A/Bd this with the stock music app that uses Beats Audio officially...i then had the same song queued up in Play Music where i could multitask and hit play on both players that way i didnt have any pause in audio for my ears to readjust. And in my honest opinion this is the real deal.
I tested on a pair of Beats Studios , Yamaha NS10 monitors, as well as M-Audio BX8A reference monitors. Also tested in my car audio setup which isnt too shabby.
That said .. yeah guys this pretty much is just EQ . BUT , having a rather extensive background in audio engineering , i think there is an added component that doesnt get enough credit.. I believe they use some sort of software compressor that rolls off the highs as the source becomes louder , which helps reduce distortion at louder volumes and keeps that "full" sound even at capacity.
Well thats my two cents ... flash it .. bash it .. whatever
Take care guys .
Sweet. Gonna try it out
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thank you sir wil try this out! I like the sound with Beats but I also added some 'custimization' using DSP manager to make it sound even better.
is this compatible for all Rome or is there limitations to this?
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*SHOULD* be compatible with all roms on all devices running 2.3 and up.
I have tested it on
Rezound, Fascinate , Charge, Galaxy Nexus, OG Droid , and Droid 3 ... seemed to work on all those .
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*SHOULD* be compatible with all roms on all devices running 2.3 and up.
I have tested it on
Rezound, Fascinate , Charge, Galaxy Nexus, OG Droid , and Droid 3 ... seemed to work on all those .
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.... and Thunderbolt so far, it's legit on my Rezound and Thunderbolt. Good work.
all I can say is holy crap.
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Think it will work on newts one x rom?
Am I to understand that this should work on all media audio, including that from Pandora, Slacker, Winamp, etc?
Yes
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Is there no way to turn it on/off?
How do I know it's on?
How do I uninstall it, as I don't think I want Beats on all the time?
So Beats on my streamed music? Interesting.
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Wow, if this is legit, this has to be one of the best mods I've seen so far. I'll be flashing it on my Rezound and Droid Charge.
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Is there no way to turn it on/off?
How do I know it's on?
How do I uninstall it, as I don't think I want Beats on all the time?
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Yeah I have the same question.
I was also wondering...does someone have a version of the DSP Manager that was on CM7 that can be used with our ROMs?
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I was also wondering...does someone have a version of the DSP Manager that was on CM7 that can be used with our ROMs?
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Heres a newer one
It's not working for poweramp on rezrom. Newts one x rom has sense 4 so beats works throughout
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No way to unflash unless you re flash the rom. It's always on. no way to turn it off
You don't turn it off or on... It just is
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Is there any real indication that it is on?
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Not really... It flashes it to the file system, open the zip and check it out.
Then compare audio with your stock music player that you know uses it.
It doesn't just flash a bunch of useless files I promise .... Unless you find the beats effect useless... Then I guess it is
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Kickstarter flyer ICS/Jelly bean

So guys since all revolves around the buck, i think that we should start a e.g kickstarter for htc flyer ICS or jelly bean update, if we get a reasonable found htc could make it for us..
I shall send them a email asking what they think about it and how much would they need, kep you updated
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Xxul said:
So guys since al revolves around the buck, i think that we should start a e.g kickstarter for htc flyer ICS or jelly bean update, if we get a reasonable found htc could make it for us..
I shall send them a email asking what they thing about it and how much wouldbthey need, kep you updated
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Seems like a neat idea. Hope you are able to work it out.
Problem would be that they would never say that it's about cost, because they have already said that it is about performance, at least through unofficial channels.....
Best of luck!
I think something in the range of $10 million US would be a good starting point for HTC. Considering they paid $300 million for a glorified equalizer (Beats).
What are we doing exactly? I'm confused
I think the proposal is to pay HTC to support their own device !
I don't think it will work.
It will be funny to see what they say though - cos' they should be ashamed....
Top marks to the OP for taking the game back to HTC ...
Lol I don't think all 250 of us will be able to raise enough money
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Yea...um...Nexus 7 anyone?
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I'll be getting one eventually but in the meantime think its time to just make the most out of what we have with the flyer. Senseless, the best honeycomb rom, and LISBON, the only AOSP ICS Rom we have. Could be worse, we could have Views lol.
Anyway for the time being lets all just give up on Jelly bean and focus on what we have. I've complained more than anyone, but I'm over that, I'm all about helping where ever I can to make sure the flyer experience doesn't suck. And besides, the whole portrait oriented nature of Jelly bean makes me kind of want to pass on it anyway.
I gotta thank Wadegeek for calling me out for being such a crybaby. Honestly the flyer is only as bad as you make it out to be. And updates are over-rated, a perfectly fast working honeycomb is as good as any ics or jellybean rom...well minus support for chrome that is lol.
and its just beyond time to give up on htc. The writing is on the wall, HTC is done making them, done supporting them, and betting their future on the one series. Any future updates will have to come from ourselves.
And seeing how little signatures we got on the petition shows why htc gave up on it. The flyer was a flop. Like the Apple Newton, Nintendo Virtual Boy, Sega Saturn, HD Radio its a flop. but difference is its open source android so we can do something about it.
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Cor-master said:
I'll be getting one eventually but in the meantime think its time to just make the most out of what we have with the flyer. Senseless, the best honeycomb rom, and LISBON, the only AOSP ICS Rom we have. Could be worse, we could have Views lol.
Anyway for the time being lets all just give up on Jelly bean and focus on what we have. I've complained more than anyone, but I'm over that, I'm all about helping where ever I can to make sure the flyer experience doesn't suck. And besides, the whole portrait oriented nature of Jelly bean makes me kind of want to pass on it anyway.
I gotta thank Wadegeek for calling me out for being such a crybaby. Honestly the flyer is only as bad as you make it out to be. And updates are over-rated, a perfectly fast working honeycomb is as good as any ics or jellybean rom...well minus support for chrome that is lol.
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Agree,all we need is a good enough rom that we can use everyday without turning into rage.
Senseless and lisbon is getting close to that. Forget HTC, they already get ride of the flyer.....I doubt whether the flyer team exist now.
Ok people time to grow up a bit. I don't get this endless rage against HTC for "ignoring" the Flyer, I really don't. You guys act like you got burned when HTC didn't update the Flyer to ICS, but last I checked they never promised they would. Nobody ever said "Oh yeah buy a Flyer/View, it'll get ICS." If somebody had told you that I'd get the anger, but I seriously doubt they did. So enough with the *****ing, and saying "HTC should be ashamed" crap, it's pointless and worthless. This is yet another thread that has gotten de-railed with it, so unless you guys have something to add to the kickstart effort take it to your own thread or PM or something.
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Ok people time to grow up a bit. I don't get this endless rage against HTC for "ignoring" the Flyer, I really don't. You guys act like you got burned when HTC didn't update the Flyer to ICS, but last I checked they never promised they would. Nobody ever said "Oh yeah buy a Flyer/View, it'll get ICS." If somebody had told you that I'd get the anger, but I seriously doubt they did. So enough with the *****ing, and saying "HTC should be ashamed" crap, it's pointless and worthless. This is yet another thread that has gotten de-railed with it, so unless you guys have something to add to the kickstart effort take it to your own thread or PM or something.
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"MOMMY WOW, I'M A BIG KID NOW"
on a side note please throw your money at my kickstart, I'm making an ICS Rom for the Nokia 8250.
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mectavo said:
Agree,all we need is a good enough rom that we can use everyday without turning into rage.
Senseless and lisbon is getting close to that. Forget HTC, they already get ride of the flyer.....I doubt whether the flyer team exist now.
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So should we.maby find a badass dev here at xda, pay him a few bills and let him make us a 100% working rom?
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SinisterModz said:
"MOMMY WOW, I'M A BIG KID NOW"
on a side note please throw your money at my kickstart, I'm making an ICS Rom for the Nokia 8250.
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Huh? Trying to make a point or something? I don't get it...
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So should we.maby find a badass dev here at xda, pay him a few bills and let him make us a 100% working rom?
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A lot of these guys have been there and done that, look in one of the DrewGaren threads. What's wrong with being a little patient and letting Chaosz-X do his thing? I mean if anyone around here deserves donations it's him.
I love android for allot of reasons. Roms and tweaking was and is a big one. I had a captivate which I loved but I sold it when my company decided to buy me an iPhone and pay my cell bill. I hate iOS and missed android so when best buy reduced the cost on the flyer I jumped on it. The flyer has been a disappointment flashing wise to me (no fault to the developers here, work much appreciated). On the other hand my flyer has paid for itself multiple times over and is used daily for streaming and it's mhl connection.
What I have learned is that I like htc build quality but that their support sucks and that IMO sense is a way too large, bloated, laggy android skin that makes development more of an issue.
Do I regret buying my flyer, no. Would I buy another htc device, unlikely. Do I expect that I will see versions of ics/jelly bean that work for my use, no. I am ok with that now, but the device fell short of my flashing addiction
sense sucks on the flyer because it's not the full sense you get from a phone, it's a special "sense 1.1 for tablets",and honeycomb is laggy naturally, it's pretty much a throw away os google came up with for a better tablet layout and combine sense with that and it's even worse. But honestly I love sense 3.6 on my vivid, theme support, and multiple homescreen layouts make sense great.
I like my flyer honestly. Getting caught up in the update thing can easily make you hate it but we got some good developers here that are working hard to improve it.
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What I have learned is that I like htc build quality but that their support sucks and that IMO sense is a way too large, bloated, laggy android skin that makes development more of an issue.
Do I regret buying my flyer, no. Would I buy another htc device, unlikely. Do I expect that I will see versions of ics/jelly bean that work for my use, no. I am ok with that now, but the device fell short of my flashing addiction
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+1.
HTC flyer awesome potential - the device IS capable of running ICS. HTC "added value" of HTC sense etc seems to have done a dis-service in terms of future upgrades.
It is ironic that more IOS users can run Chrome than Android. Why ? Cos you need ICS or greater and the HTCs of the world just won't support their products for even 18 - 24 months after release.
18 months is a long time in the tech world, and if I had a tablet that flopped like the Flyer I wouldn't be supporting it either. It's not worth their time or money to get ICS out for it, not when it's perfectly functional as is.
The real question is why did HTC even bother making it. It was more expensive than an ipad, had gingerbread instead of honeycomb, and a single core cpu. And they didnt market it bad, they just didnt market it period. But in hindsight really every android tab that came out at that time failed, mostly due to price. Up until this year the only other android tabs I saw other people have were the nook color and cheap Chinese tablets.
I guess I don't hold it against them for abandoning the Flyer anymore. It is what it is, android came to tablets before it was ready for tablets and failure was inevitable. I'd like to see them try again, maybe a one series tablet with sense 4 and an s pen.
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Btw the chrome thing does piss me off. Google needs to make that **** work with gingerbread and honeycomb at least. Google is quick to abandon previous versions of android but you sure don't see them pushing the manufacturers for updates
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HTC NOT to Crack Down on Sense-based ROMs

UPDATE: Threat level reduced to zero
HTC has clarified saying they support the developer community and will not force them to stop as long as they don't claim to be HTC (via)
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http://rootzwiki.com/news/_/article...ready-to-crack-down-on-sense-based-roms-r1348
"On the ROM front, HTC does not endorse or allow distribution of its ROMs by any third party. If you are aware of any third party sites providing ROMs that HTC should know about, please do let me know - it would be very helpful."
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could this mean the end of Sense ROMs for Rezound?
that's awful. i just wrote to my tech support buddies over at HTC to see if they've heard of this.
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Sounds like they are referring to leaks. Like the global ruu....
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On android police, there was an article about it. The owner of the site was using HTC logos, and the name. They got him for copyright infringement. Though, they did make him remove custom roms as well. This is the last thing HTC needs to do right now. If they try stopping development of custom roms, they are going to piss off their biggest supporters. Why do they keep shooting themselves in the foot? Wonder why Samsung is running away with all the marketshare....
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On android police, there was an article about it. The owner of the site was using HTC logos, and the name. They got him for copyright infringement. Though, they did make him remove custom roms as well. This is the last thing HTC needs to do right now. If they try stopping development of custom roms, they are going to piss off their biggest supporters. Why do they keep shooting themselves in the foot? Wonder why Samsung is running away with all the marketshare....
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And Sammy even hired the maker of cyogenmod.... And gave the community a phone as well...
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Wow! Well i was gonna go get a DNA tomorrow but after reading this i doubt i will ever buy a HTC device again. And the HTC M7 was looking pretty good to me... guess im switching over to Samsung soon!
Why do the companies I'm so loyal to always betray me in the end?
I can't defend HTC for this, as much as I like Sense 4.
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SirSigma said:
Why do the companies I'm so loyal to always betray me in the end?
I can't defend HTC for this, as much as I like Sense 4.
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Exactly how I feel man !
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Well this is the last htc device ill get. The direction the new phones have gone like the DROID dna no sd slot no removable battery and terrible battery life I'm done. Samsung has my money now since they support developers and make awesome devices. Cept the DROID charge was the worst phone ever which makes me hesitate on another samsung. I'll be getting a gs3 or gs4 for my next phone. Sense has some nice thing but it's unfriendly to developers and makes the phone run like crap.
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It would be nice to get XDAs opinion/position on this so we know what should be done
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HTC can even demand the xda handover the domain and close down.. after all they do have stuff on HTC roms. Xda also needs to realize that perhaps open.sourced in the future may only mean open to the phone makers only since in reality HTC does not really use android but really uses a closed fork of android called sense UI. It really is its on operating system that can.just run.google apps. HTC can.change.that to,run only its apps
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Like I said in the off-topic thread, I think there's more to this story than we're getting. And, like JeramyEggs pointed out, they were using HTC trademarks in an unauthorized way, and doing it as a site (not its users). It's hard to even make a comparison between what they were doing and what we do on xda.
HTC probably just feels like an idiot for saying things such as the Rezound cannot run a Sense 4 ROM when it clearly can. Or they could have the heads so far up their own asses that they think people will be porting Sense to phones made by other companies. Sites like the one listed should just move to China where they don't believe in intellectual property rights!
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I think the Government should keep their hands off and let the Market work. HTC needs to reach out to the dev community, however, they also need protect their properties.
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Based on the entirety of the situation, this seems to really be more about the name and trademarks. To the uninformed, it could very easily have looked like an HTC sanctioned website...HTC was in the name, and it was hosting HTC software. They were using HTC logos as well. Legally, HTC had to shutdown that site. Trademark law is very specific. If you don't defend your trademark, you lose it. I have no issue with trademark law because the provisions are fair, and a company's trademark, maybe even more so than their products, are central to their corporate identity. HTC did what they had to do. Maybe you think they should have "let it go" or been lenient, but doing so puts their trademarks at risk, which jeopardizes their company and business model.
I think we got off track here so I will ask my question.
Does anyone think the devs are gonna get their butts kicked by HTC
NilsP said:
I think we got off track here so I will ask my question.
Does anyone think the devs are gonna get their butts kicked by HTC
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No, the main reason they wanted him to take the RUU off the site. Because he had the code names and HTC said that people would see that as a pre released ruu and not post. They went as far as asking him to remove the custom roms because the site name had HTC and he used their trademark logo of the green HTC quietly brilliant.
if htc wanted all work to be removed. XDA would have a C & D letter by now.
there's also a open sense SDK, i dont think if they wanted all custom roms they would have released that kit. IMO
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I think that HTC should not try and **** down after market development die to the fact that it's the only reason they r still around
They provide little to no after purchase support and don't update software very well
It will prolly kill sales of they do AMD only windows phones will be their fallback
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R187J said:
I think that HTC should not try and **** down after market development die to the fact that it's the only reason they r still around
They provide little to no after purchase support and don't update software very well
It will prolly kill sales of they do AMD only windows phones will be their fallback
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I think all phone should be both gsm LTE WiMAX and support every band in the world so you can chose what carrier you want it on.
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So uh, how about HTC cracking down on sense based ROMs?
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