diff --git a/bin/templates/project/assets/www/index.html b/bin/templates/project/assets/www/index.html
index f5cf6213..fc9dd1d2 100644
--- a/bin/templates/project/assets/www/index.html
+++ b/bin/templates/project/assets/www/index.html
@@ -2,14 +2,14 @@
 <html>
     <head>
         <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
-        <meta name = "format-detection" content = "telephone=no">
+        <meta name = "format-detection" content = "telephone=no"/>
         <meta name="viewport" content="user-scalable=no, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, minimum-scale=1, width=device-width;" />
         <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/index.css" />
         <title>Hello Cordova</title>
     </head>
     <body>
         <div class="app">
-            <h1>Apache Cordova™</h1>
+            <h1>Apache Cordova</h1>
             <div id="deviceready">
                 <p class="status pending blink">Connecting to Device</p>
                 <p class="status complete blink hide">Device is Ready</p>
diff --git a/bin/templates/project/assets/www/js/index.js b/bin/templates/project/assets/www/js/index.js
index f3894b8a..61403310 100644
--- a/bin/templates/project/assets/www/js/index.js
+++ b/bin/templates/project/assets/www/js/index.js
@@ -6,10 +6,15 @@ var app = {
         document.addEventListener('deviceready', this.deviceready, false);
     },
     deviceready: function() {
+        // note that this is an event handler so the scope is that of the event
+        // so we need to call app.report(), and not this.report()
         app.report('deviceready');
     },
-    report: function(id) {
-        document.querySelector('#' + id + ' .pending').classList.add('hide');
-        document.querySelector('#' + id + ' .complete').classList.remove('hide');
+    report: function(id) { 
+        console.log("report:" + id);
+        // hide the .pending <p> and show the .complete <p>
+        document.querySelector('#' + id + ' .pending').className += ' hide';
+        var completeElem = document.querySelector('#' + id + ' .complete');
+        completeElem.className = completeElem.className.split('hide').join('');
     }
 };
