***HTC Magic Thread***

[ElliorR]

I downloaded 4.2.9.1 this morning before I went to work and left it sat there on my sdcard. Normally I'd flash it right away but I wanted to show an iPhone user what a real phone can do. He was mighty impressed with the phone and the ease of updating, i.e no bloody iTunes needed.

The new, darker, music and power thingies widget's look so much nicer.

 

[doublehelix2]

So I got my magic this morning. I have read that the battery needs conditioning before it reaches its peak. Are there any special instructions for this? I read at another forum that it should be topped up and to never let it run down - Is this true?

 

[ElliorR]

I've never done anything special to my battery other than charge it every night as my Magic is my bedside clock/alarm.

 

[mrk]

Just use it as normal after a whole day's charge and charge it up again once it hits 30% ~

 

[V_R]

Anyone else use Beautiful Widgets?

HTC send the dev a C&D order as it looks too much like the hero widget.

http://phandroid.com/2009/12/16/htc-sends-levelup-studio-cd-for-beautiful-widgets/

Now it looks like this...
http://levelupstudio.com/widgets/weather


The new one looks horrid, just as well that i have the last version backed up.....

 

[tonyyeb]

Yes I bought Beautiful Widgets and yes it is now very poor. He even got rid of the 'small' version which I used. Needless to say I left my comments in the comments section. I now use some free ones I found.

 

[ElliorR]

And it's a massive coincidence that HTC are releasing the widgets from their sense ui to the market.

 

[MarcLister]

What app do I need to install to be able to take screenshots of my Magic?

 

[ElliorR]

I use picme

 

[deadite66]

if you haven't got root you can take screenshots with ddms which is part of the sdk.

 

[Tee Hee Johnson]

Gonna do this new update the now...!

My phone had a 'moment' yesterday where it started vibrating like i was getting a call, wee track ball flashing and vibrating. Nothing on creen tho, tried to wake it up to no avail. 1-2 mins later it was still doing it, lol

Dunno if i had got a call and crashed the phone, or it just went into a spasm.

First proper issue i have had with it tho

 

[rmuir]

Gonna do this new update the now...!

My phone had a 'moment' yesterday where it started vibrating like i was getting a call, wee track ball flashing and vibrating. Nothing on creen tho, tried to wake it up to no avail. 1-2 mins later it was still doing it, lol

Dunno if i had got a call and crashed the phone, or it just went into a spasm.

First proper issue i have had with it tho

mine did this EXACT thing yesterday, weird!

updated this morning and its a another step forward. Awesome work.

 

[MarcLister]

I use picme

The developer of picme also did ShootMe which has more downloads and more ratings. So I got that one.

if you haven't got root you can take screenshots with ddms which is part of the sdk.

I have got root. I did see the SDK but I didn't really fancy using that.

 

[mrk]

Yeah "Screenshot" app worked pre-1.6 but it seems with the latest roms Screenshot doesn't work anymore ;p

will try ShootMe :d

 

[V_R]

Droid Explorer takes screenshots if your using it.

 

[mrk]

ShootMe works brilliantly!

Launch app....shake phone...get screenshot of active screen!

 

[MarcLister]

Droid Explorer takes screenshots if your using it.

Ah, will explore that. Downloaded that the other night. Haven't used it yet.

ShootMe works brilliantly!

Launch app....shake phone...get screenshot of active screen!

Well you know me.

 

[ElliorR]

Well you know me.

A box dwelling Gimp who lives in the basement?

 

[MarcLister]

A box dwelling Gimp who lives in the basement?

Oi! I object to the basement resident box dweller!

 

[ElliorR]

It's alright for you, every Christmas I have 2 weeks off (just started) and this is the time of year i do my yearly age test.

You know how to tell the age of a tree you cut it in half and count the rings? well on my 2 week Xmas break I grow a beard/goatee (I work in the food industry where you are either clean shaven or wear a snood so I clean shave) and to tell my age I count the grey hairs. This year it's looking bad, very bad

Oh to keep this on topic I downloaded shootme but when I shake to take a screenshot of my home screen several of the widget icons vanish just at the second the pic is taken. I prefer picme