That looks like an R8 to me

I'd like this too for my A3 so if you're gonna give it a go then I'll throw a few suggestions in...

- I'd not like to see a lot of Red, keeping the background all grey/black with just the text and icons in red.
- I've got an O2 Orbit 2 and have used the home customizer to get the HTC home plugin on there, is there any clock/icons that can be found or developed in red to match?
- I don't know if this applies to others but I don't like to advertise an Audi logo when I'm not in the car, just seems poncey, so a non branded (just coloured) theme would be ideal for me.

Thanks very much mandt!

I just gave this a whirl and found that when set to 0 you can still see the remnants of the scrollbars (the little lines normally on the 'active' part of the scrollbar). I hoped it would completely remove them.

Still, nice idea and I've dropped my scrollbars down to 2 pixels so they're not taking up space but they still help indicate your position on a page... which you'd lose if they were gone!

Thanks!

You're right it is run by one person, Paresh Chauhan, since April this year. In short, I'd be suspicious too.

In long, he has been online since April and there's no complaints floating around about the site just yet. There is, however, this quote from xda-developers:



Who knows who posted that though? Could be Paresh himself!

I always like to use trusted sources when I spend large amounts of money on stuff so I wouldn't use this site, even with more reports of speedy delivery, 'cause I like the peace of mind when it comes to after-sales. On the other hand, I wouldn't rule this site out if you're desperate, just fire up some email conversation first and use a credit card for payment protection or if you're close ask to collect the item.

Woah, Obviously you have to put effort in if you want an upgrade at a decent price so I was with you on this, until this post!

He didn't make the calls, accident or not. I'm guessing 400 calls of exactly 90 seconds each weren't caused by him rolling onto his phone in his sleep.

I think a re-read of his post is in order, unless you have an explanation for how those calls were his fault.

Edit: OK I just had a quick re-read of his post and he did say "400 calls i made while i was sleeping", which implies he did make the calls in his sleep, but it's obvious he meant "400 calls showing on my bill that couldn't have been me because it was at silly-o'clock in the morning and I was fast asleep!".

Well mobileshop.co.uk sell the Vario III on that tariff for £79.99.

I went into my local store and asked if they could price match, the first guy said they probably could but then the manager overheard and said they can't pricematch online stores. I said "Shame, my cash is burning a hole in my pocket, guess I'll get it online then, thanks.". As I was walking away the manager said he could do it for £100 if I bought insurance for £8 per month. I told him I'd rather get it online, then he explained how I could cancel the insurance before the first payment came out and I'd never actually have to pay the insurance at all. I still didn't want to as I know I wouldn't cancel it - I'm disorganised. Eventually he agreed that he'd do it for £100 without the insurance, which was nice, but I was still hungry for more. So I asked if the price included a headset, he said there was one in the box, I said "Ah, I really wanted a bluetooth one, I think I'll leave it". He promptly threw in a SE bluetooth headset.

Well it was a fun trip to T-Mobile but after all that I decided I didn't want the contract just yet (complications with transferring a number I bought off ebay, T-Mo said it was suspended from the last owner but it was an 0750 number which I think is a new batch so I don't know how it had a previous owner, meh. Plus I don't want the Vario III anyway, just the W&W for when I get a Touch Dual)

Sorry for the unnecessarily long post, hope you get somewhere with them!

I'd love to take advantage of the free unlock but I don't have my kaiser yet, expecting to get one in 1 or 2 weeks, before I get my Touch Dual.

Sniff.

Are you serious?

This is exactly why I never make myself a part of an online community. People use the guise of their "opinion" to blatantly make things up! Out of the ten (very useful items), that Paul posted, only 4 of them are free on Plus. Less. Than. Half. If you didn't join Plus then you'd be paying for those programs!!! If you do join Plus then you get a lot more benefits than just those 4.

I'll repeat it:

Jeez, there's a real lack of appreciation developing around here.

To quote numbers again and hopefully enlighten a few people to your crock of sh*t post (MARKUKCOUK, caps lock key broken?), out of the 15 news items on the front page there is one that promotes his Plus service, and as far as I can see that's the only one that will 'benefit' him (if you could call it that!? That's another issue though). I'm not sure how the M:Metrics post benefits him but I'm guessing he gets a cut for all that advertising, but you know what? They send me cheques, real free money for nothing cheques, so I'm happy with that. Lets cancel one of those out with the S730 "Ask Paul" thread as that's him offering us his time and expertise for free and that leaves us 12 very useful news posts.

Amazing.

I don't know how Modaco will ever survive if Paul doesn't wake up to your reality. /sarcasm

Sigh.

Jeez, there's a real lack of appreciation developing around here.

It's news, it was reported as so and I see no problem with it being independant from previous arguments, er... I mean discussions. We even get an uneeded, hence brief, explanation but there's still people digging up bygones...



I am interested in an answer to DJ's question though, are T not playing ball?



Cheers for the heads-up P.

According to an Engadget post you can find here, they've had it confirmed by HTC that it has no wi-fi. It says:



I trust Paul and Mono more than Engadget however so I'm still on the fence with this. I'm also conscious of the fact that we could be getting the same build as the Japanese whereas the States may be getting a dumbed down version.

Here's hoping!

I'd recommend you try the video every now and again just in case, it doesn't always work first time.

Massaging them out does work but you have to rub it quite hard and I'd be scared to do that on a sexy new T2. :S I've succesfully fixed stuck pixels on LCD monitors using the massage method though, perhaps if the video still doesn't work, and you're brave, you could give it a go!

Were HTC reluctant to do anything? I'd guess they were, I think 1 or 2 stuck pixels on a screen is considered "acceptable". Meh.

@ matt

 unstick.wmv ( 2.06MB ) Number of downloads: 176


Dead pixels are black, stuck pixels are red, green or blue which is good news for you... stuck pixels are a lot easier to fix. I've encoded the attached video for you which you should be able to play full screen in windows media player. Let it run for a minute or 2 to see if it will unstick the pixel.

I hope it works, stuck pixels are very annoying!

I don't think we pay import duty on mobile phones but we do still have to pay VAT (value added tax) at 17.5% on purchases from abroad. So an $800 purchase would be £470 plus shipping.

I think that's how it works anyway. It's even worse for things such as TV's and DVD players, they also levy a 14% import duty. We really do get screwed over.

No worries, somebody may have missed the earlier reference (not me, sadly I've refreshed every 10 minutes since this thread was started! lol) so yours did no harm!

Does anybody know why T-Mobile chooses the uglier (IMO, and I think most others too) silver variant over the HTC one? I'd guess it would be continuity reasons with the rest of the Vario range but I can't see anybody seeing it and thinking "ooh look at that silver, out of date looking pocket PC - must be part of the T-Mobile Vario range. Meh.

I've been out of contract now for over a month, my fingers are getting itchy!

Is it too late to add my name? I missed this before!

Paul (MVP)
mandt
cjgarside
emyllis
Mitman
Snaz
Stuart_f
Waroffice
DoubleVision
Neil5459
GordonTGopher
J273
futuresbright1
mark4130
rav1patel
tonywalk
rameses
influenz
Madeye

Lemme know, thanks Paul

I really don't know what it is but I'll take a guess at DJ Speedo - A Thousand Miles.

It's a dance remix of the Vanessa Carlton song from 2002. Probably completely wrong but it's a start.

Or you could check out DJ Bobo or DJ Quicksilver, just suggesting artists now, hmph.

Sorry I couldn't be more help!

Wes

Hi Palindrome...

You sound like you know a lot more about this than I do (and I'm not sure I really understand the question) but I fancied typing a reply anyway.

In bluetooth settings on the phone, when you add the Holux do you select "serial port" as a usable service?

When you create a new outgoing port, are you selecting COM5 ? If you are, are you ticking the secure connection box?

Would it make any difference anyway? I don't know!

Have you created the tomtom folder (containing currentmap.dat) in my documents on your device?

I'm all out of ideas, sorry!

Wes

That's just about my take on the situation also!

oh and Rooney is a tool

Hi Ben,

1. Go to contacts, select a contact and click edit... the second field down is "select a picture".

2. You'll need to hard reset. See 3.

3. The extended rom isn't on an SD, or mini-SD card actually, it's on the PPC. You'll need a file explorer (get Total Commander), then navigate to "/Extended_ROM/". Copy that line into the address bar without the "'s.

I found all that information on Modaco after maybe 5 mins, maybe you should practice the search function some more! Practice makes perfect!

If you get really stuck then I suppose you could ask here again!

Wes

I've just had a quick look at it and I'm not really sure what the advantage is, I'm more than capable of searching for myself... but that's not what you asked I suppose!

The site looks clean, good use of popular colours atm etc

The menu isn't very 'obvious'. I mean, it's there, it's visible but it doesn't make me want to look at it!

There's a few spelling/grammatical/clerical errors in there... erm, this is one of them, forgotten the others:

The Broadband service provision market has been radically by Talk-Talk’s free Broadband offer

- has been radically what?

It's a little buggy I believe... I selected the mobile phones category then chose O2 as manufacturer, XDA IIs as the model and clicked go. It returned no results but I could click on the 'next' link, what seemed to be an unlimited amount of times (each time it did load a new, blank, page)!

Similarly (ish) I selected computers for the category and it returned 3 results for the 'search-together suggested Computers'... none of which were computers.

I know being critical is easy, but you asked for comments/suggestions and I hope mine will help! I'd want the same if it was one of my sites!

p.s I was a bit confused; the news section isn't actually relevant to the site (is it?) so why is it there??

I would buy the Sony DSC H5:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/New-Sony-CyberShot-D...3QQcmdZViewItem

or

http://www.purelygadgets.co.uk/prodinfo2.p...CFRhXEgodihILqg

Good luck!

They're not a complete ripoff but they do look a litle pricey!

I'd recommend something along the lines of... http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/GeForce-4-Ti4200-ViV...1QQcmdZViewItem
if u use ebay that is.

Secondly, don't you dare pay labour to anyone!!! Installing a new graphics card involves undoing a few screws, inserting the card (as easy as putting a letter through a letterbox) then putting the screws back in. Seriously, so easy!

If you don't use ebay then just shop around using kelkoo etc.

Good luck!


edit: I'll just add that I'd never buy computer related goods from a company with a website that bad!

Hey I wanted to show off too!



I've got a 26" on my bedroom wall too, but nothing is connected to that at the moment... I'm working from home so my PC is on the 40" plasma in my living room! yay!

I'd definitely go with the graphics card option, just get down to your local computer fair and pick up a dirt cheap one with svideo, that'll do the trick. Or get a jkob through the summer and save up for a decent graphics card and a nice big tv/monitor! You know you want too!

Does your graphics card have an s-video socket? Either 4 pin or 7 pin? If it does then you can just get a pc - scart cable (assuming your tv accepts s-video)

I assume your tv doesn't have a vga input? Just asking cos some (including mine) do, and you may not even know!

If neither of those ring true then does your graphics card have dvi output? If so then a DVI component converter would do the trick.

Otherwise try this... http://www.idiots.org.uk/vga_rgb_scart/

I'm all out of ideas now.

You should have a afolder on your storage card called great_britain-map

Don't forget you need a folder on your device: \my documents\tomtom\ (this should contain the currentmap file!

Good luck!