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[Acer Iconia A500] metpolds:
Video Chat ??

Well I've scouted around trying to get some positive news about video chatting on Android Tabs but quite frankly there's nothing very positive coming out.

In January at CES both CEO Jen-Hsun Huang of Nvidia and CEO Benares of Skype made public statements to the effect that both their companies were working together to implement Skype on Tegra Tablets. Mind you that was CES in January, here we are almost July - nothing good yet!

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Tencent QQ is a chinese company which is rumoured to be releasing it's QQ Video chat program for Android Tabs but unfortunately their web site is in chinese and my Mandarin is a little bit rusty.

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CNN Tech and several others at the end of April stated that Google Talk would shortly be available for Tabs and Phones running at least OS 2.3 but people who have actually used it successfully are rather hard to track down (maybe their heads are stuck up their rear facing cameras).

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Android Tablets Net Forum suggests that Fring might be working but can offer no positive experiences.

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On 23rd June Archos unveiled it's cordless "Smart Home Phone" which it claims can video chat with their Gen8 "70" and "101" Tablets.

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All in all it seems a pretty dismal picture considering we are half way through 2011 - Heres hoping that something that works will make an appearance soon. Just so you know that I'm not all smoke and no substance I have tried Tango on my A500 with two contacts, one with an A500 the other with an iPad2. It was pathetic in both cases.
[Acer Iconia A500] Fluffbutt:
Too restrictive thanks to Google Monopoly.
[Acer Iconia A500] zeuslee:
I think what you need is Fuze Meeting. Just search it in app market
[Acer Iconia A500] rorytmeadows:
Nobody uses it.
[Acer Iconia A500] foxmeister:
Easily disproven statement, because I do! ;)

The point is that it is a video chat solution that works with both Honeycomb and desktop OSes. I wouldn't hold my breath now for a fully functioning Skype client on Honeycomb now that it is owned by MS.

Regards,

Dave
[Acer Iconia A500] WereCatf:
Well, he should have said that very few people use it. Atleast around here I know absolutely no one who'd use it, the three most used chat applications/solutions seem to be MSN Messenger, Skype and Facebook chat, with MSN Messenger the most widely-used one. In fact, I don't know anyone who'd have _heard of_ GTalk at all in the first place.

Google has simply failed at marketing it to regular people; referring to Jabber et. al. is not a good marketing tactic as people don't want to hear technical gibberish, they just want to know it's easy and makes chatting fun. In fact, my experience tells me that referring to the aforementioned technical gibberish usually tends to turn the regular people away from products or services.

PS. I'm using the term "regular people" to refer to the "non-technically-adept general populace."
[Acer Iconia A500] foxmeister:
My only use for video conferencing on my tablet is to talk to a very small, select, group of people, and usually only when i'm travelling for work.

In this scenario, it is very easy to ensure that that group of people are aware of GTalk and have the necessary knowledge of how to set it up and use it.

Would I prefer to use Skype Video? Yes, I would, but since I can't because Skype are a bunch of @#%&! and won't release a fully fledged client except to a select group of Verizon customers, I will use something that *is* available, and that is GTalk.

In my opinion, arguing that hardly anyone uses it is a moot point when there aren't any other alternatives!

Regards,

Dave

P.S. Tried Oovoo and it was woefully bad, which is why i don't consider it a viable alternative. YMMV of course!
[Acer Iconia A500] WereCatf:
Indeed. The odd thing is that I have built-in Skype support on my Nokia N900; it's completely integrated, does support audio and video, works like a charm..but then again, it's made by Nokia, not Skype. Either Skype devs are incompetent or they're simply not allowed to do quality-code for anything but Windows.

Too bad that there's no open-source implementation of Skype.
[Acer Iconia A500] foxmeister:
IMO, they have sold Verizon a period of exclusivity on Skype with Video on Android - they did the same when they pulled Skype Lite from the Market, and then made a full VOIP Skype client available for Verizon only for a time.

Regards,

Dave
[Acer Iconia A500] :
Works great though more people should...
[Acer Iconia A500] rorytmeadows:
Well of course that's what I meant beyond the joke, I don't know of anyone in real life that uses it or has ever used it. And for that matter, will ever use it.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] mickliq:
Having finally achieved root today (LOL - 24hrs after I received the device!), I tried to live with Touchwiz. However, one thing that was bothering me was the huge icons...having just come from an Atrix which has a 4" display and slightly higher-res screen, I wanted to use more screen real estate.

So I installed LCD Density.

Problem is, with TW, it's a complete was. The dumb "dots" that are normally at the bottom of the screen just "move up" and waste the extra space you've just won.

Solution - install a launcher such as Go Launcher. Results are that icons are smaller with more screen real estate. Magical!
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] risq:
My G S II with 202 screen density ;)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Guitarfreak26:
doesnt the top bar annoy you? on the notification screen lol
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] risq:
Nah,

What annoys me is why my messaging icon is stock, and the others are themed! I can't seem to find the icon on the interwebs either to manually set it! :mad:
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] mickliq:
202 Density with 5 x 5 grid in Go Launcher makes this device WAY more productive!!!
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] happel92:
Doesn't the phone app annoy you when it doesn't fit the screen?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] UD`:
Wow this is very nice :D Thanks!

I am also coming from the Moto Atrix and the lower res on bigger screen was really bugging me.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] mickliq:
A little, but I don't use the dialer much.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] tomhoward:
LCD Density with the bigger screen make the phone much nicer. Found a way to permanently set it?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] risq:
Get LCD Density changer and set to 202 and save. Then hit menu key, settings and tick "Set as my system density"" - it will now be that every time you boot, so max sure it's a density that works....

or, edit the build.prop directly and change the density figure there. Save, reboot....voila! Both need root.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] nightranger73:
Try changing font to Helvetica S from display settings. It fits better than droid font on higher res
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Sebring5:
pictures do not look good at 200

240 is the correct dpi for HD at this screen resolution.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] nikzDHD:
Was running 190 on my DHD looked better than 240. You need to edit build.prop once rooted for a permanent DPI change.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Broomfundel:
You can permanently chance the density using blade buddy, which it's free in the market.

Does anyone know why people are using 202?

I calculated the options by doing 800 * 240 and 480 * 240, then looking for numbers that left integers when devided by both. So the same number of sub pixels were used to make each pixel. Doing this gave me 200 not 202 as the best.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] nightranger73:
192 (not 182) is another good dpi settings as it give you a 1000x600 equivalent res
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Sebring5:
using 182 and it looks fantastic

Set resolution with Nitrality from the market. Using Go launcher.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] nightranger73:
Here's a well fitted 192 dpi screen with a 6x7 desktop grid and 'helvetica s' font
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] tomhoward:
Thanks broomfundel, blade buddy works a charm to permanently set it.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Nitroz:
This is mine at 192 DPI using launcher pro.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] f1ux:
Is there any way to stop dialer looking screwed up when you change the lcd density?

It makes the keypad smaller and off centre.

Also in the camera app the buttons become misaligned.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] nightranger73:
For the camera it isn't really a big problem and dialer i use go dialer otherwise you need to edit the xml to make it work for multi dpi.

It shouldnt be very diff from sgs so you can take a look at multi dpi dialer thread for sgs
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Raymond77:
Brilliant thread! I've changed mine to 202 and have a 5x5 Go Launcher EX display homescreen now, which makes much more use of the screen size.

A question though, why is it that we take down the density number, and not up? Surely the higher the density then the smaller things on screen would be (as you're effectively pushing more pixels into an inch)?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Loconinja:
Is there a way to mod TouchWiz to work with lower densities? I actually like TouchWiz 4.0, but would like to use a lower density. There is a launcher.xml file in the TWLauncher (TouchWiz) shared_prefs folder, but we need a list of valid settings.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] nightranger73:
It's not quite easy to understand. Since screen dimensions are fixed, changing dpi settings makes the phone think that your screen is bigger than what it really is and that an inch of real space is filled with less pixels
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] aejt:
Have you tried this on the S2? I want to set it permanently, but it seems kind of risky (well, I know that you could still flash to a clean rom again, but wouldn't want to risk having to do that anyway).
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] infinityz:
You've used lcd density? This should be work also with adwlauncher?

I tried lcd density with 200 dpi but the phone (SGS II) wont boot
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] drm111:
You need to be rooted remember.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] infinityz:
Of course :-) The phone is rooted. I've not tried to edit manually the build file, but I had no lucky with lcd density
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] nightranger73:
Use blade buddy for prop editiing. It lets you apply the changes only in ram by reebooting the UI. If it works u can then save to system.

I've managed to boot up to 120 dpi (almost unusable)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] CreativeBR:
Hi,

LCD Density or blade budd needs a rooted device to change the density?

Did you run any GPS app with a changed density launcher?

Thanks,

CreativeBR
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] nightranger73:
Yes

Google Maps and CoPilot Live works well
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] ShaggyDragon:
Unfortunately the dialer, calculator and calendar app doesn't work. Calendar in month mode is missing the bottom line of dates.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] wayneywoo:
What are you using to get a 6x7 grid? GoLauncher EX only has 5x5? :confused:

Thanks

:)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] kersh:
ADW or Launcher pro, I doubt he use other thing.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] nightranger73:
It's Zeam Launcher but you're right 'cos both ADW and LP can handle it
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] nightranger73:
Unfortunately we need modded Apk for multi dpi as for i9000 but I think they'll cone soon enough
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] prosumerhacks:
Helvetica S font?

Can someone with a rooted device share the Helvetica S font as a zip file... I'm looking to port this font over to another device... :rolleyes:

files required are DroidSans.ttf, DroidSans-Bold.ttf... they can be found in the /system/fonts folder........

thanks!
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] nightranger73:
Galaxy use Apk packages for fonts and there's only the related ttf that is changed in display settings while system fonts remain untouched.

BTW you could find all fonts in galaxy S (i9000) themes and apps forum under flip fonts thread... open the apk with any file explorer and extract the relevant ttf file. Then you have to rename it as droidsans.ttf yourself if you want to use it on another device...

Edit:

Extracted the apk for you:

http://www.4shared.com/file/UTRTF0_-/HelvNeueLT.html
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] prosumerhacks:
thank you nightranger73 for the apk and instructions :) used the apk/extracted the font and been using in hd2... looks nice.. :rolleyes:

cheers!
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] bluemint:
+1, at the moment I prefer TouchWiz 4.0, frame pic widgets works great on it. Just hate losing the extra space gained from LCD Density!
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] nightranger73:
If you search the themes and apps forum there's a modded version with a 6x6 grid but it has some glitches and someone posted in a thread how to change the grid layout but I can't remember where and who

Sent from my Galaxy SII

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] nightranger73:
Here it is

http://www.xda-developers.com/android/touchwiz-4-for-the-galaxy-tab/

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] IntenZeD:
What's is stock density?
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] LondonGemini:
240 I think.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] narcoustic:
I've found blade buddy to work better than LCD density, it scales my apps better and it actually permanently changes the settings for when u reboot - unlike LCD density where write to system didn't work and I had to manually change the settings every reboot.

Sent from the baddest phone in the universe!! - SGII using Xda App/Tapatalk ;-)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] nightranger73:
Already said long long ago :p

And BTW you could save it in LCD density using menu option save as my system density

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] metalican:
According to this Wiki site (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_displays_by_pixel_density#Samsung) the pixel density for SGS2 should be 218!
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] mdalacu:
They are wrong because it could not be lower than 240 as Desire HD have (bigger screen size by +0.3'', same resolution)
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] metalican:
Or it could be a typo ;)

If you check all the other phones with a 4.3" screen with 800x480 the density is about 217...
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] nightranger73:
It makes sense... if i9000 with a 4.0" screen was at 240 dpi how could a 4.3" screen with the same resolution have the same dpi too...

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] nobnut:
If the density is supposed to be 217, someone should tell Samsung. They need to edit their own build.prop in that case:

ro.sf.lcd_density=240
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] nightranger73:
LOL found the solution... they added a subpixel to achieve the plus in SAMOLED+ (and that's true) so pixels are greater thus making them believe it's still 240 or maybe they're too lazy to rewrite the touchwiz code :D

I'm actually thinking it could be the last :P

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[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] Techvir:
I use 182 and no touchwiz.

I can fit lot of stuff into the screen now. Two issues but not big - dialer is on one part of the screen . Camera app the letters are a bit off place. However i am ok with these limitations

Before I was on dell streak ( 5" screen ) and the standard was 160 . Really miss that screen.
[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] chemass:
I'm using 182, ADW launcher EX and a 5 X 7 grid.

I much prefer 167 - it used to look great on my HD2, but the camera force closes at anything under 182 when you open any menus or try to switch to the video camera.
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Calmplex2g:
Is there any sense 3.0 roms out there that will work for the nexus one phone?
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shivammcool:
Yeah search RCmixHDv09 port or look under android development and you will find it...i never tested that rom yet though
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Calmplex2g:
any sense 3.0 roms out there...true roms not the sense 2.0 with the new unlock...a real port like the one available for my touch4g
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Shivammcool:
Idts .......try asking some people like abi to take the mytouch 4g and port it to nexus
[Nexus One Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jack_R1:
No, there are none. And MT4G port has its own problems, scaling non-native widgets - a problem which will most probably remain until one of the older devices (Desire HD?) gets Sense 3.0 officially (which will happen, according to HTC).
[HTC Inspire 4G] Printerscape:
I flashed my radio to AT&T's latest one (12.39a.60.19?_26.06.06.30_M).

One of the letters keep changing, every time I restart my phone. The ?.

The first time, it was an "x". Second restart, it was a "u". Now, it's a "p".

o.O

*EDIT*

Just did another restart. It changed back to "u". LOL What is going on?!
[HTC Inspire 4G] UnholyChaosAngel:
From The HTC Desire HD Radio Thread
[HTC Inspire 4G] Namccosh:
have have M I see nether P nor U?? Is there something im missing.
[Nook Color Themes and Apps] SRed13:
What apps are you guys running on your nook when you have it docked?

I tried FlyScreen, thinking it would be a slick looking app to leave running while I have my NC charging on its stand...sadly, doesn't look nearly as nice as I thought it would.

I'm using rooCase's landscape mode case, by the way.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Funkadelick:
I recently flashed JVB (Darky's) I am curious is there a way to find out which modem I am using ? what's the best for bell users ?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] commandozzz:
Go into Settings -> About Phone.

There you should see a tab that says "Baseband Version". That shows you the modem version of your phone (last 3 letters).

I'm not a big expert, so I have no idea which modem you should use. You should try searching a bit for an answer in the development section though, there's plenty of discussion about that type of stuff there, just search around a bit.

Hope that helped!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thebazman:
It should tell you on OP of darkyys thread
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fauz33:
yeah!!!

thats right.....

I think mostly custom ROM will tell which modem that it will use.....
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KefkaticFanatic:
Hi, so I'm having an issue with connecting the internal SD of the Atrix to my computer. I noticed after reflashing a 1.57 sbf and updating to 1.83 that when I connected my Atrix to my computer via USB and selected USB Mass Storage, the SD card I have plugged into my Atrix connects just fine, however the internal SD simply does not connect.

If I go into the SD Card and Phone Storage menu in the settings, I can see that the internal storage simply has not unmounted, and for whatever reason goes back and forth between the proper "total space" and "available space" values (~10 and 9 respectively) and 0.00B for both.

Does anyone know what the deal is? It's getting to be a pain having to transfer everything via dropbox :/
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] VeNuMuS:
The same thing happens to me what's up with that?

Sent from my Chuck Norris powered Steelblurred Atrix
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KefkaticFanatic:
Le bump.

Still have the problem :\

Reboots don't help anything, and I can browse both SDs just fine with astro.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] devize:
I have this problem too. Any way to fix it?
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheBlackCat13:
I am having this problem as well. I don't know specifically when it started, but I need to access it badly because I am running out of space (I need to get me backups offloaded to my computer). Using Alien 4 and Faux 1.9.
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mentax:
ESPRESSO PVT SHIP S-ON

HBOOT-1.02.000

MICROP-0620

TOUCH PANEL-SYNW0101

RADIO-7.15.35.16

Few days before I have mytouch 3g slide with custom rom. I was install it in 2010. I was check htc website and see oficial update for mytouch. I was download this exe file, them connect my phone and start update. Display show me them htc start do firmware update. After reboot mytouch start rebooting again and again. When I see logo them reboot. When I connect to phone from my mac, going to fastboot, first what I try to do - run su. System say "permission denied" :( root are gone :( Now my phone have only fastboot and nothing more... Anybody can help me? 4 day without cell :(

Have any idea how to repair it, and reroot from fastboot?
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jeremey:
Please search before making new thread.
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mentax:
Yeahh, Thank for it, but I cannot run anything. I have only access to ADB. And I cannot do "Now press Shell Root and let it run you should get a success pop up."

As regular user (not root) I not think you can run flash_image doesn't?
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mentax:
Have any idea?
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ekorshus:
When you updated to the stock rom, it wiped your root privileges, & @ the same time wiped out any hope you had for doing the true s-off procedure, @ least from what I've read...

sent from my r00ted, S-off'd 3G slide runnin' CR MOD w/ custom mtd partitions
[myTouch 3G Slide Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] guitarist5122:
Have you tried redownloading the update and reinstalling it?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ElAguila:
Does anybody know how to get the Friendstream widget to work. I installed a 4x5 Rosie mod and I love having the extra real estate. Unfortunately, doing this has caused my Pure Messenger widget to not work correctly. I used it for my facebook feeds. I have tried using the Friendstream widget but it never updates. I deleted my facebook account and reconnected to from the Friendstream config. It says at the bottom that is was updated at so and so time but there is nothing displayed.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AbsolutZeroGI:
Go to accounts and sync. You can refresh the widget but it only ever really updates on the time frame specified (i have mine set to an hour so it actually updates 12 minutes after every hour...6:12, 7:12, etc). I'm pretty sure you can set it for smaller intervals though.

It's a known issue and one the app has has well (you have to manually update in the app for the widget to update).
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] epic999:
Had my Transformer since Tuesday and web browsing was great, I was getting desktop versions of websites.

Today I installed the OTA update build is now - ww_epad-8.2.3.9-20110423. Now I have started to get mobile versions of websites :mad:

I have done some searching on Google and found various bits about putting "about:debug" in browser, then going into settings and changing "UAString". But I cannot find this under the settings / debug tab on the transformer?

Anyone know how to change this or what needs to be done to allow me to access desktop versions of websites again.

Thanks
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] hasodi:
There is an option in the Internet Browser called something like "User String" i think. Change it to desktop or tablet.

1. Internet Browser

2. Settings > Advanced > User Agent String

I did not have my tab with me at the time of writing this.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] epic999:
Easy when you know how...

Thanks a lot, couldn't see it for looking.

Settings / Advanced / User Agent String.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wynand32:
Hmm, interesting. Mine is still going to the full sites...