After a lot of Palm and Windows Mobile devices, I have just received my HTS HERO. Without a manual I was up and running within an hour, havig imported my email and calander and contacts via Google. What a treat!
Anyway, still in the process of installing various Apps and getting to learn the device I have difficulties replacing one Windows Mobile application : SPB Wallet. The reason I liked it so much, was that it also syncs to a PC application. That way i had all my web access detas both on my PC and Pocket PC.
Does a similar App exist for Android?
Eternity
I use Splashdata's SplashID which does roughly the same thing. It can also sync with a desktop PC. I've been using it for years on UIQ and then WinMo.
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Great
I will have a look at it. Thanks for the reply!
Eternity
Anyone owns a Mac and the Xperia S?
My experience with the phone (firmware .73) and my Mac (OS X 10.7.3 Lion) is particularly bad:
Unable to perform drag and drop media transfer like previous Android devices.
The Official Mac Bridge is very buggy (Even on latest update ver2.1), will stuck when transferring lots of file, and does not work with lossless music
Unable to perform USB tethering
Don't get me wrong, the phone itself is great, but I just don't understand why it works bad on a Mac.
Please share your experience and possible fix, if any.
pixy132 said:
Don't get me wrong, the phone itself is great, but I just don't understand why it works bad on a Mac.
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I suspect a very high proportion of Mac users would choose an iPhone so the number of S users on OSX would be very small.
I have Mac but only sync one playlist at the time if I click on too many playlist then the phone just hang. No option for back up
Use wifi file explorer pro or swiftp to transfer files over wifi.
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I suspect a very high proportion of Mac users would choose an iPhone so the number of S users on OSX would be very small.
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In fact I switched from iPhone 4 to XS...
I used to have a Huawei phone and a HP TouchPad.
Both works fine on a Mac, just this...
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I have Mac but only sync one playlist at the time if I click on too many playlist then the phone just hang. No option for back up
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I only created one huge playlist (containing about 800 songs).
But it also hang after syncinig half of the playlist.
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In fact I switched from iPhone 4 to XS...
I used to have a Huawei phone and a HP TouchPad.
Both works fine on a Mac, just this...
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I aslo switched from iPhone4 to Xperia S... and have exactly the same problems with copying music using Mac bridge... I even posted on the Sony forum for this and got a reply that asked for more information.. and after i gave it never heard from them again...
I now use double twist and air sync to copy music to my phone.
Mac bridge seems to work ok on other media files just not mp3's.
Really lame on Sony's part.
I'm using bootcamp, just so I can use the XS to it's fullest.
Here here!
I'm on a Mac too.
And yes. Mac Bridge is just too slow...
it's very funny, it's like they gave 0 support to mac users for this... very disappointing.
OK. So apparently Sony DID try to fix some bugs in the Mac Bridge.
Ver. 2.1 (current) added more options on the Mac Bridge, and it seems the playlist problem works better. Although OS X's Image Capture will not read the device, there's now a direct import photo to folder in the latest version of Mac Bridge.
I am still unable put my entire playlist into the phone though, as the Mac Bridge hangs again when it has transferred about 80% of my songs. I also don't seem to find a workable wired solution for drag-drop file transfer.
Finally, was anyone able to perform backup through the Mac Bridge?
I tried two times and every step return "Failed".
Come on Sony... :-(
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OK. So apparently Sony DID try to fix some bugs in the Mac Bridge.
Ver. 2.1 (current) added more options on the Mac Bridge, and it seems the playlist problem works better. Although OS X's Image Capture will not read the device, there's now a direct import photo to folder in the latest version of Mac Bridge.
I am still unable put my entire playlist into the phone though, as the Mac Bridge hangs again when it has transferred about 80% of my songs. I also don't seem to find a workable wired solution for drag-drop file transfer.
Finally, was anyone able to perform backup through the Mac Bridge?
I tried two times and every step return "Failed".
Come on Sony... :-(
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I thought for awhile that Sony Bridge hangs when transferring songs, but it works for me. Give it a little patience
The problem i have though is that when a new song is added to the playlist and Sony Bridge detects it and sync it to the phone, the phone itself doesnt update the playlist but will have the new songs added.
I was able to perform backup through MacBridge but it seems like it uses a lot of the Macs resources when doing this.
Mac users are always eternally complaining about one thing or another.
I work for a hardware and software rental company and we only ever get Mac users calling in with issues.
I don't understand you guys, you buy an inferior platform that struggles to deal with a computing ecosystem that was built around windows.
I hope making the switch from IOS to Android will reveal something to you Apple fan. The simple truth they make very basic devices which only work well if you stay within the jurisdiction of Apple.
Next time get a flipping PC like 98% of the flipping world.
Stop using a minority device and wonder why developers don't spend enough optimizing their kit for this deluded minority.
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Mac users are always eternally complaining about one thing or another.
I work for a hardware and software rental company and we only ever get Mac users calling in with issues.
I don't understand you guys, you buy an inferior platform that struggles to deal with a computing ecosystem that was built around windows.
I hope making the switch from IOS to Android will reveal something to you Apple fan. The simple truth they make very basic devices which only work well if you stay within the jurisdiction of Apple.
Next time get a flipping PC like 98% of the flipping world.
Stop using a minority device and wonder why developers don't spend enough optimizing their kit for this deluded minority.
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Right, just because I complain about *SONY*'s software makes me another mac complain retard, huh?
To be honest, I've been on a Mac for more than a year, with no problem on both hardware and software at all, while I clearly remember my Windows 7 desktop hangs occasionally just for many basic stuff. My last Android device works great with my Mac too, so it's not a Mac problem in any sense.
I don't really want to argue with you about OS (it's pointless) here, but please let me remind you that this is a Mac discussion/support thread, if you have nothing useful to say, just leave, no one force you to reply.
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Right, just because I complain about *SONY*'s software makes me another mac complain retard, huh?
To be honest, I've been on a Mac for more than a year, with no problem on both hardware and software at all, while I clearly remember my Windows 7 desktop hangs occasionally just for many basic stuff. My last Android device works great with my Mac too, so it's not a Mac problem in any sense.
I don't really want to argue with you about OS (it's pointless) here, but please let me remind you that this is a Mac discussion/support thread, if you have nothing useful to say, just leave, no one force you to reply.
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I'd rather have a platform that hangs occasionally than one that throws up issues and doesn't work at all with a lot of stuff. If you haven't had any issues with your Mac, that's probably because you've so far stuck to basic computing.
Like I said, Macs regularly throw up issues connecting to third party hardware and I know because I spend many hours each week dealing with these problems.
There is absolutely nothing you can say to change this opinion.
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I had been using Double Twist with my other Android devices but found that the Sony didn't always show up in the menu, so I started to use Isyncr. It works well enough but some songs for some unknown reason won't make it through. I had to remove some songs from my playlist that were causing this and then it was ok. But Double Twist does not see these playlists now so I have to use the built-in app, Rocket player, or PowerAmp. I just use the stock music app now.
As for file access, I happen to be running Parallels, and therefore I can mount the phone on my mac, and as my Windows Desktop can "see" my Mac disk, it's very easy to access the phone. But I agree, it's stupid to have to do this.
The Sony Bridge was goofy for me - I would see for example a duplicate Music folder and music folder (note the case difference) and one folder was spawning duplicates. Deleted one and the other disappeared too! Who knows was weirdness was happening. So I didn't use it. As for photos, I just copy manually; forget syncing to iPhoto, but that's how I always did it for all my other devices.
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There are some people out there using windows 8 as a base computer even tho its just a preview/evaluation copy..
but HTC sync wasnt connecting when I tried it to just try it..
so basically this is just a thread with a link to the htc site.(if anyone needs or wants it)
I just glimpsed the threads and didnt see anything on it so I was bored and tossed it up.
if its already discussed feel free to delete this. just trying to help.
HTCl Link http://www.htc.com/us/support/htc-evo-3d-sprint/software-updates
This actually installed on my Win8 64....
HTC Sync v3.2.10 for Windows – All Models
I was about to wipe this machine and go back to Linux Mint because I had a nice adb/fb setup there! Guess I get to stay with the WINdoze
Hi-
I've been using Android for a little while, iOS before that, and WM6.x before that. I've really enjoyed Android, but there is one thing I notice on iOS that seems to be missing on Android. Specifically, with iOS, if you connect to a WiFi network that has a proxy/login page (e.g. hotel, commercial space etc) as soon as you attempt to use any app that requires a data connection, it recognizes it isn't connecting to the internet and pops up with login/landing page.
However, my observations on Android seem to be that it just doesn't recognize that happening, so for instance today I was at Lowe's (I had previously saved their public wifi) so my phone connected automatically. I then went into Gmail and I get a 'no available connection' which then meant I needed to launch Chrome which loaded the last page I was one, but since it did it from cache it loaded, which meant I needed to reload it which finally brought me to Lowe's landing page and allowed me to login. Compared to iOS this substantially more cumbersome, and I'd have to imagine it's a lot more complicated for those folks that understand what is going on behind the scenes.
Right now I'm running a de-sensed ICS rom on htc rezound, previously tested with thunderbolt and droid charge (all with stock and custom roms)
Does anyone know of any hacks/mods/applications that will give me more of that seamless functionality in Android?
Thanks!
Anyone?
There are some threads here that may in part bring up an issue with running emulators on Windows 10. I can only describe my difficulties and for whatever reason I like to use BlueStacks. Before I get into that one there is another that I have difficulties using like Droid4X which unlike Bluestacks, Droid4X has been able to try starting up, but then my PC crashes. I havent tried to fix using Droid4, mostly centered on how to get BlueStacks running.
BlueStacks, when I would try to start it would result in a pop up that mentions I can't use it because of Windows 10 Creation aspect runs something called Hyper-V and this is what prevents me. There were a few walk-arounds and Hyper v could be disabled, however, now in order to disable it requires going into the BIOS. This seems like a big hassle if you want to just bounce in for a minute to test an app. If you run it all day it wont matter.
As of yet I cannot find an emulator I can use on Windows 10 without having to go that far to do so. Seems to me that MSN is targeting anything Android in my PC. There are reasons I wonder, why on Earth would the August 14th update be removing the ADB USB Interface, device not recognized took me a while to correct among a few other issues I was calling MSN Tech support very angry with them.
I dont care if MSN doesnt like the fact they have been locked out of my PC, there will be no more updating anything, I told them. I am stuck with this Hyper-V getting in the way of running an emulator on Win 10.
My question is there anyone aware of an Android Emulator that can be used on MSN OS that Im unaware of, and free?