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There is a lot of Upset Tilt/TyTN II Owners out there because of the terrible Video Playback on our devices. Mainly because of the lack of a quality driver for the Qualcomm MS7200 chipset. It started off as a petition on XDA directed at HTC to do something about this (CLICK HERE).

When that didn’t work, members at  XDA started Bounty (CLICK HERE) to “encourage” developers to create a better driver. The Bounty (CLICK HERE) is currently worth over $3,000! That is to the first person who can create a working Driver that improves video performance. There is also development thread that you can find HERE that further discusses the Video Driver Issue.

Now there are a couple of websites up and running that fully illustrate the HTC Video Driver Issue with the Qualcomm MS7200 Chipset. The first is HTCDriver.com. (Here is the XDA Discussion Link) Below is a little more about HTCDriver.com:

This site is about the issues on HTC devices supporting the qualcomm MS7200 chipset. These chipsets are brandnew and supporting many features. But the point is HTC isn’t using them at all. Even worse, don’t bring out any drivers too. The goal of this site is to make HTC clear they make fantastic products on paper, but in reallife much features are outperformed by incompany older models.

After months of complaining HTC still ignores the problems. So on the right side you can click on the problem list to see the problems. All information on this site cannot carry any responsibility from me, but I will only post facts here, so you can figure out yourself if this a case for you as well.

This site is made to give potential buyers of HTC products a realistic idea of how the chipset performs in real life, instead of on paper, off course the decision of buying this product or not is still your own decision!

The second website is by Chainfire, creator of KaiserTweaks. his website will be located at http://www.htcclassaction.org/. Both websites should be very informative and will hopefully raise awareness at the Manufacturing Level that owners of their devices, or software, demand better performance in all aspects of the device, and not to take shortcuts. Chainfire’s website is packed with information about this issue and is worth a stop by. Here is a little from Chainfire’s website:

Welcome

Welcome to HTCClassAction.org. This site is intended to spread awareness about the issues with recent HTC Smartphones and PocketPCs, and gather information for a possible class action lawsuit against HTC. That class action lawsuit will be a last resort though, hopefully we can raise awareness and publicity high enough to convince HTC to solve these issues without a lawsuit. It has however now been over six months since the first affected device was released, and as of yet, HTC has done nothing.

What is this all about?

The latest SmartPhone and PocketPC devices from HTC (High Tech Computing) are supposed to be the most powerful devices on the market. And in theory, they are indeed real powerhouses of mobile technology. There’s a catch though: HTC has neglected to include the necessary drivers needed for the devices to come to their full potential.

What does this mean?

This means our really expensive HTC phones (the TyTN II is about $700) are grossly underperforming. In fact, in many things, these devices operate even slower than HTC’s (and competitors’) two years older models – see this video for a demonstration.

The drivers (small pieces of software that govern your device’s hardware) in question are responsible for all drawing operations. This means absolutely everything having anything to do with putting something on your screen is affected. This includes normal programs, video playback, games, taking pictures, etcetera. If it’s on your screen, it’s affected. This makes the devices feel really slow and unresponsive. For more details about this, see the Drivers in detail page.

There is also a problem with the touchscreen driver, which predates the driver issues mentioned above. This issue comes down to your device slowing down to a crawl whenever you touch the screen. This is really apparent when you are playing a video and use an onscreen slider to adjust the volume, for example. When doing this, the video will as good as halt.

So check out these two great resources for more information about the Video Driver Issue. Thanks to both websites for taking the time, and money to break down the issue for non-developer enthusiasts to better understand the issue.

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