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Welcome to XDA-Developers.com
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Welcome to xda-developers.com
This site is about certain PDA-phones, made by a firm called HTC in Taiwan. Their makers named them 'Wallaby', 'Himalaya', 'Blue Angel', 'Wizard' and 'TyTN', but almost nobody knows them by those names. The mobile provider O2 sells them under the brand-name 'XDA', and that's what we had in our hands first. They're also known as Qtek, MDA, SX-56, Hermes and many, many other names.
Since we develop software for it, we need information, and nobody seemed eager or ready to give us what we needed. So we 'reverse-engineered' the devices, found a lot of information, and shared it with the world. But as our site grew we realised that lots of ordinary users were also suffering from a lack of support. They started using the xda-developers forum to communicate and before long the forum was as much a user forum as it was a developer forum.
We hope that you will enjoy this site and find it as useful as we do. We encourage you to donate or otherwise support this site. Of course absolutely all proceeds from donations will benefit this community.
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24th July 2007, 10:55 PM
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Moderator
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Joined: Jun 2005
Location: Witch Space
Posts: 5,767
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ToFClock - sad news
Ladies and gents,
I have the terribly sad news to report that our colleague and dear friend, ToFClock, passed away on Friday 13th, 2007. This shocking and unexpected news will hit the community, and the many many friends and admirers he has earned in his years with us, extremely hard.
His family are grieving. His sister has written to Buzz and informed him of the terrible news. His mother is of course heart broken.
Feel free to express your condolences here or on Buzzdev. Please be respectful - we will inform his family of our best wishes and regards, and they will be able to read your personal messages to them here.
Watch out for each other guys: this is a very close community and we rely on each other.
A dear friend will be missed.
V
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24th July 2007, 11:38 PM
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A major loss to our community
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tansoftware
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ToFClock was a major asset to our community. His research and work have both dramatically contributed to the PDA industry. I'm so sorry to see the loss of such a valuble member and a brother of our community. I send my warmest and sincere condolences to his family, friends, and loved ones. May he rest in peace.
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24th July 2007, 11:52 PM
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mwang
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Quote:
Originally Posted by vijay555
Ladies and gents,
I have the terribly sad news to report that our colleague and dear friend, ToFClock, passed away on Friday 13th, 2007. This shocking and unexpected news will hit the community, and the many many friends and admirers he has earned in his years with us, extremely hard.
His family are grieving. His sister has written to Buzz and informed him of the terrible news. His mother is of course heart broken.
Feel free to express your condolences here or on Buzzdev. Please be respectful - we will inform his family of our best wishes and regards, and they will be able to read your personal messages to them here.
Watch out for each other guys: this is a very close community and we rely on each other.
A dear friend will be missed.
V
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VJ ,I just got informed from Joanna , very very sad news , can you find out what hapen to him ? I will talk to buzz tonight,thanks,
anyway I am really missing him , didnt see his post and talk to him for a long time.
mwang
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24th July 2007, 11:58 PM
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delude
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I'v never talked to ToFClock or read any of his posts because I am new, but nobody deserves to go through such sadness, so may my wishes be with all the family and friends. From what I've read he seems like an amazing person, who has probably helped many others in his spare time within this community.
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25th July 2007, 12:02 AM
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Midget_1990
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it says on buzzdev: 'Decided to end his life', is it just poor english or an indication that he took his own life?
Whatever happened my condolences go out to his friends and family, i hardly knew him but i had heard good things about both him and his work, im sure he will be missed.
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25th July 2007, 12:14 AM
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vijay555
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Mike - yes, we know a bit about what happened to him. Speak to J, she'll tell you a bit more. Speak to Buzz too... It's hitting him hard.
It's quite sad, at least what little we know, and as delude says, nobody should have to go through such sadness.
Midget, unfortunately the message on Buzzdev is true, and only makes it even harder to understand and to contemplate.
Guys, seriously, not being soft or anything, but don't ever let yourself get too down. There are always people here who will want to help, to give you a hand, guidance, friendship, or whatever. Just know that you can ask....
V
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25th July 2007, 12:51 AM
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joannaex
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I would just like all of us to remember him for the person he was and what he offered to everyone. Please don't spend time on details of how, when what. I know you might be curious, but please think these are hard time for friends and family and lets concentrate on paying our respects to a dear friend who will not be forgotten.
We miss you Tof.
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25th July 2007, 01:10 AM
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dkaye
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I regret that I never had the pleasure of knowing him to the extent as many others within the community.
My deepest condolences to his family and friends.
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25th July 2007, 01:11 AM
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Olipro
Senior Member
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I'm shocked, what sad news. I remember his contributions back from the Himalaya days.
Terribly sad, my condolences go out to his family.
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25th July 2007, 01:24 AM
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uniqueboy
Senior Member
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I am silenced. A link to his posts would be nice.
Without grief there is no blues. Condolences.
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[Don't steal my phone] Another thief protection app
Posted By: orb3000
On 8th February 2010 07:33 PM
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Popol256 has updated his thief protection application.
I've found many software that supposed to help in case your phone get lost or stolen.
Some were expensive, some were free, but none fitted perfectly to what I was really expecting. So I've made my own.
The closest in terms of...
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[APP]Filter Rules for SMS 4.4 (UPDATED 1-Feb)
Posted By: orb3000
On 8th February 2010 06:16 PM
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Mohitsapru updated his SMSrule cab, it's a very helpful tool that allows you to filter your messages, autodelete messages or hide private messages amongst many other things.
The most comprehensive SMS management tool which gives you an option to do what you always wanted to do.
Some of the...
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[App] RGUber v1.1, RGUOrder v1.0
Posted By: orb3000
On 8th February 2010 06:09 PM
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Selyb has provided an update for his application VBScript, VBScript is to process and organize data in RGU/REG files, to remove duplicates, identify faulty entries and move entries to ascending alphabetical order.
Requirements:
Windows Scripting Host (included in most versions of windows)
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[APP] 6.5.X Taskbar Launcher
Posted By: [ElCondor]
On 8th February 2010 03:15 PM
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RAMMANN has made a nice replacement for the 6.5.X notifications.
Instead of getting the notifications when tapping the topbar, a bar will appear in the same style from which you can launch your own apps.
It's a little tool that shows a customizeable launch pad when you hit the taskbar. If...
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Windows Mobile Threaded SMS Skins by Astronaut
Posted By: Noonski
On 8th February 2010 04:13 AM
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In the never ending quest to modify and personalize your Windows Phone, the question arises, how far do you want to go?
User Astronaut believes it shouldn't stop at the layout and graphics of your threaded SMS screen. So he created two skins, that give the SMS view a true overhaul.
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HTC Rome specifications sheet leaked
Posted By: Ather
On 6th February 2010 10:46 AM
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Just got my hands on the HTC Rome spec sheets as you can see below :)
The HTC Rome seems to be featuring a 1Ghz CPU, a 2.8" QVGA touch screen, HSDPA/UMTS and GSM/GPRS/EDGE (quad band) connectivity.
The spec sheets also mention consumer e-mail under applications, we can't spot a...
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Power Radio - FM player with RDS decoding
Posted By: -PiLoT-
On 6th February 2010 12:34 AM
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6Fg8 has created Power Radio, her introduction says everything you'll need to know.
Why PowerRadio?
The built-im FM player - at least on HTC HD - misses many features i'd like to have in a FM radio. PowerRadio delivers many data available via RDS which would otherwise be invisible to the...
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IMGFSFromDump-TURBO with file prefetching and multicore compression
Posted By: orb3000
On 5th February 2010 07:37 PM
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Airxtreme presents an updated multicore-multithreaded compression tool which allows you to compress up to 2x faster on dualcores and 4x faster on quadcores.
Yes, it's actually just as awesome as it sounds, but it's not just that, it also does realtime file prefetching while compressing,...
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[APP][5 Feb 2010] XmlGui 0.0.5 - Tool for editing HTC Xml layout file
Posted By: orb3000
On 5th February 2010 07:32 PM
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Programatix updated his application which you can use to modify the XML layout files used in more recent HTC applications.
The main reason I wrote this small app is to modify the Xml layout files used in more recent HTC applications. HTC however defined different format of Xml layout files....
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Symbian is Officially Open Source
Posted By: egzthunder1
On 5th February 2010 05:51 PM
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Mr_stickz posted a message yesterday that points to a rather interesting turn of events in the mobile community, Symbian is now an Open Source OS! Will this benefit Windows Mobile and Android users in any way? It just might, if enough development efforts (and interest) are put into this.
You...
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