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[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stan.s:
I'm fond of the Belkin retractable cables. I can get them in the checkout aisle at my local Micro Center for less than $5. I keep one in the car for the USB port in it, and at the desktops. Nothing to clip off either, and you can put it in your pocket without any fuss. Works fine with the wall charger-there's nothing to wrap up.

btw: 2 X10's here, neither with a broken USB after 9 months.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CMoney87:
I got a gold plated GigaWare cable from Radio Shack for $30 USD. Transfer/charging speeds are so much better than stock which is why I didn't even bother with the warranty for the crap stock one.

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[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stan.s:
It's not my business how you spend your money, but:

The salesman and store are very happy for your business. The markup on items like this is incredible, something on the order of 300% or more. I've read of 850%. I hope it had a thick rubber coating and the internal cable was electrically shielded with wrapped wire and had a ferrite choke for that money too, never know how much emi radiation is around.

Please tell me technically how much faster a few microns of gold on plated tips on a cable conducts digital signals than a tin or aluminum or copper one over the distance of 2 or 3 feet? Does it oxidize less? maybe, but you won't keep it for 10 or 20 years. This is not to say that there are not cheap wires that don't conduct well, but I don't think the SE OEM one is one of those. How much faster does it charge when connected to the wall socket? USB ports don't count since they often don't push the full 5v at the right milliamp.

If your SD card writes at 9-10mbps and with the SD cache fix reads at 25mbps (that's what my class 10 Lexar card does) and USB 2.0 is rated at 480mbps isn't a cable "rated" 480 overkill?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CMoney87:
The markup wouldn't surprise me but since Im not in the cable wholesale business and couldnt charge my phone buying a 6' gold plated, shielded, heavily rubber coated cable that I guarantee you transfers data and charges my phone WAY faster was well worth my money.

$30 was also a rounded figure after tax.

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[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stan.s:
Please. Since you appear to have a defective or internally torn oem cable, please borrow any one of your friend's cables and make a speed and charge comparison for us, I will happily eat crow, and stand corrected, and spout the benefits of such a cable even to buying one myself. Tell us how much faster than a $5 cable.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CMoney87:
I'm not saying you need to buy one. I needed a new cable. I also needed a longer cable that was more durable and could take the abuse as I have a dog and 2 cats (which if you read my post you would know lead to my cable breaking) and where I charge my phone the cable gets snagged by them all the time. I don't need to do a test to appease you that a higher quality, higher rated cable with superior materials and build quality functions better than the mass manufactured stock POS. Your cable may work fine for you, that's great. Mine was broken and I needed a new and better one and I got one.

I was asked what kind of cable I got so I shared. I assure you it is better. I am not saying that the difference is enough for you to go out and buy one if your's is fine. That is up to you.

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[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stan.s:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=13551815#post13551815

I was bored, I ran some tests on my own cables and two of my cards, including using the USB card reader that came with one of the cards. While my belkin is slightly slower (not even 10%) than the SE OEM cable, the results are such that they may be within the margin of error, since sometimes, the Belkin was faster than the SE OEM. But I don't have a gold plated cable to test.

SO, on the basis of this, I concede and stand corrected, that your cable might be 10% faster than ones that I have, but $5 vs $30, I would rather have the $25 in my pocket but I sincerely doubt that it would be equal to the speed of the card outside the phone. (SD Tools app is not an accurate test and since we're talking about speed for transfers not internal speed anyway.)

As for the animal issue, I have birds. You don't know destruction like a bird can do, and cables are favorite chew toys, they bite right through, even heavy shielded cables. lol :D
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CMoney87:
I used to have a virtual zoo in my house. I have had all kinds of birds from parakeets to cockatiels as well as other animals like mice and hamsters (now thats destruction!), turtles, lizards and frogs.

The cable I have is the best one for me and my circumstances. Had there been a comparable option for less money readily available to me on the day I needed it I would have gladly spent less money. Since there was no other available choice and it offers everything I needed (the performance boost was really just a plus for me!) I am perfectly content with it and do not necessarily feel like it wasn't worth the money beyond the general feeling that all electronics equipment is overpriced.

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[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stan.s:
http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskMark/index-e.html

I added a Sony class 4 card to the comparison. C'mon, put up a wired and unwired test, please, I think it would be interesting.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CMoney87:
It actually does seem like a good idea. My dad actually also has an X10 with nearly the same setup as mine and identical class 10 card and he has a stock cable so maybe I'll do a comparison later. The bigger difference is gonna be in charging times as the transfer is likely more limited by card than cable. Maybe when I have a chance I'll do a timed transfer test and then discharge the phones to similar levels and do a charge comparison. I cant do it now but if I can convince him and Ive got time I'll do it tomorrow.

Maybe I'll start a thread where we can do comparisons of the different cables. I'll send you a PM when Ive got a chance to do it and you can add your comparison of Belkin to stock and I'll do the Gigaware to stock. Since we have different computer setups they wont be directly comparable but we can get an idea by both comparing to stock. I'll PM you with details but my idea is to do a timed transfer of the same file with both cables and do a similar charge test. Time differentials will probably give us a better idea of the real difference than any software testing since we likely have totally different systems. If anyone else has other cable brands they could add to our results and we would have a comparison of all of them. If you wanna start your tests I'll try and do mine tomorrow and we'll start a thread in general. I'll PM you and we can post at the same time so we don't get a crapload of comments between our results.

I just looked at your thread. I think we should do a joint post more targeted at the cables though. This actually does seem like fun.

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[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brandenmckenney:
i have it also, since day one since my device is refurbished
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stan.s:
A FWIW.

Earlier this week, I spoke to AT&T (yeah I know you're on Rogers) regarding my kid's X10a. We were on a short vacation between her college semesters, and I noticed her phone's screen was chipped. She told me the USB was also loose, and it was.

AT&T is replacing her phone, as we have insurance. I got them to drop the $50 chrg since the phone is EOL and only refurb'd.

However, since the phone is less than a year old, they said that the USB problem would come under the regular 1 year warranty, NOT damage issues like water or cracked screens.

Perhaps other carriers have the same policy/interpretation?
[General Questions and Answers] Chris95X8:
I'm running MiniCM6 1.0.0 on my Xperia X8 with Apps2SD working. I have moved many apps from the phone to the SD card. The problem is that the card's size is too small for me. I need a 4GB one. I've seen many threads that some guys had problems when changing SD cards.

If I copy all the files in my current SD card and transfer them to the new one, will I have any problems? My apps will still be there, right?
[General Questions and Answers] dm5530:
You don't say whether the apps on the SD card are in the FAT32 partition or in the SD-EXT partition.

The FAT32 area can be read and copied using a PC.

Should be able to backup the NAND and EXT in recovery. (My phone is a G1 but I've used CM roms for most of the past year. The backups created in recovery are available on the FAT32.)

Always make a good backup in recovery. When you try the transfer to the larger card, you can always go back if something didn't work quite right..
[General Questions and Answers] Chris95X8:
Sorry but I'm not familiar with these concepts, I'm still a noob :p

Can't I just copy the files of my old SD card to my PC and then transfer them to the new SD card?
[General Questions and Answers] jkolner:
How did the change of SD Card go?

Im about to do the same thing and was wondering i its possible to copy all contet from current SD Card to my PC and then copy it to the new SD Card.
[Desire HD General] enemia:
[DEV] IMPROVING DESIRE HD CAMERA'S QUALITY & APP | WISH LIST INSIDE | devs required!

​

Welcome Developers,

We all remember the hugh step xda's developers took when they

managed to bring 'htc desire' the 720p hd video capture to its

features.

Is there any chance history repeat itself and we will be able

to experience some improvment on camera's quality & application?

will it be possible? maybe days will tell...

Wish list:

[CENTER] [B]
[COLOR="DarkGreen"]GREEN[/COLOR] = Solved! | [COLOR="Blue"]BLUE[/COLOR] = Developing status | [COLOR="Red"]RED[/COLOR] = Problems or impossible
[/B] [/CENTER]
- Manual control
- Mp4 extension for video files
- Faster depth detection
- Better image quality
- Getting more fps at video capturing [different setting for each mode]
- Improve the camera's application with more functions and drivers
- Creating a video recording app that can record, zoom and refocus
- Fast video AF, low noise level functions
- Continuous mode
- Night / Low light areas mode
- Improve framerate in low light conditions
- Improve focusing system / algorithm
[COLOR="Red"]- 1080p quality of video capturing [hardware issue, need to test] [/COLOR]
[COLOR="Green"][B]- Improve sound bitrate of capture sound - has been improved in Gingerbread[/B][/COLOR]
- No lags during filming on 720p - [COLOR="Red"]depending on amount of light + speed of memory card[/COLOR]
- Ability to pause the recording of a video
- Ability to put camera on standby status for saving battery life

Camera sensor's frame rates: [thx to burimii, source: http://www.ovt.com/products/sensor.php?id=61#specifications. ]

Features

What users think and suggest:

[gtg465x]

"The Pyramid leaks have new libs and codecs that we can probably get working. If you look in the

Desire HD Gingerbread camera app you'll see that the code for 1080p recording is already there... just need the proper libs, codecs, config."

[SupremeBeaver]

"Everyone try this in a darkish/low light room. Open your camera app, set ISO to 800, set Exposure to -2, then set Contrast to -1 or -2. Record a video and notice how you get about 25-28 fps. This proves that the DHD is capable of recording high fps in low light. We just need an app that adjusts the Exposure and contrast on the fly depending on what conditions are. Doing it manually is not ideal. I think the iPhone does this too because i believe the iPhone has the same optics as the DHD, yet the iPhone records 25 fps in low light where the DHD records 10-15 fps.

Any developer up for the task?"
[Desire HD General] Flussen:
the camera sensor itself can record 1080p video but i doubt that the CPU can handle it
[Desire HD General] enemia:
we can see today a kernal with the range of 1.92 Ghz overclock of the desire hd's cpu.
[Desire HD General] burimii:
DHD uses the OmniVision ov8810 8MP and it can record on 1080p more info for this http://www.ovt.com/products/sensor.php?id=61#specifications.
[Desire HD General] beklan75:
:( I think No, because it is all about the hardware rather than a software issue. Of course one can always change the resolution of the picture to full HD by coding tricks. But this won't be realistic when the original picture is in low resolution. Indeed, the modified picture will be worse.
[Desire HD General] gtg465x:
I was actually looking at this the other day. The Pyramid leaks have new libs and codecs that we can probably get working. If you look in the Desire HD Gingerbread camera app you'll see that the code for 1080p recording is already there... just need the proper libs, codecs, config. Might only be able to get 15 or 20 fps due to CPU limitations, but it would still be cool.
[Desire HD General] _david_94:
Did you create that image just to ask a question??
[Desire HD General] enemia:
yes, hopefully to get some dev's attention ;)
[Desire HD General] gtg465x:
I think that's how everyone should do it from now on. Makes an otherwise useless post kind of interesting.
[Desire HD General] liljom:
will we really get a better quality, or is it about the same as a resized 720p?
[Desire HD General] leppie:
The hardware (the MSM chip) is not capable of encoding at 1080p. No software is gonna make this happen.
[Desire HD General] xinos:
Neither was the Desire capable of recording 720p, however it's doeing it right now. And yes software could make this happen. Video recording is just a speedy way of taking alot of pictures, theres only the problem your hardware must be fast enough to keep encoding frames. This part however gets tricky as the processor is faster then the desire's its still a long shot and won't get us many frames per second.

All in all: If a dev is up to it DO IT XD!
[Desire HD General] LeeDroid:
+1

Sent from my LeeDrOiD loaded HTC Desire HD
[Desire HD General] LeeDroid:
This was Introduced as a feature in FroYo, it was always capable of such things ;)

The fact that we struggle to achieve 30fps @720p should be justification enough for the "its not capable's"

Sent from my LeeDrOiD loaded HTC Desire HD
[Desire HD General] enemia:
lee - overclocking the cpu freq + high iso will be any good for 1080p's fps?
[Desire HD General] _david_94:
I've only ever heard of dual core phones managing to handle 1080p at a decent frame rate.

And anyway, overclocking to 1.9Ghz kills the battery, and makes the phone overheat really quickly. I wouldn't rely on it..

But then, who knows? :) devs have done great stuff on these forums ;)
[Desire HD General] samuel2706:
You troll you
[Desire HD General] Flussen:
the best way to describe it :D

MHz is not all. also the BUS speed is a factor. even if you can clock your CPU at 9001 MHz, the bit rate of the BUS is too low.

you simply can't get the huge amounts of data to the CPU itself. (correct me if I explained it weird :rolleyes: )

you can see this effect by playing some 720p videos in software decoding mode.

Most videos will be laggy and out of sync at 1GHz and you will get the same result at 2GHz. still laggy and out of sync.
[Desire HD General] tolis626:
First off,we could start by patching the camera to save files as mp4.Don't tell me it's not possible,-snq,the legend of the Desire forums,has already done it!Maybe we should contact him? ;)

Anyway,by overclocking the CPU to its limits we could probably get satisfactory framerate.But why bother with that now?I think there are far more pressing issues than just resolution.Smoother video in the dark is perhaps the most pressing one of all.Maybe we should start there? :)
[Desire HD General] Flussen:
FYI: there are 2 CMOS sensors used in the DHD.

1.) OmniVision (mentioned above)

2.) Samsung S5K3H1GX [Link]

also the Samsung sensor is capable of 1080p recording, but it simply won't work because of the MSM chipset.
[Desire HD General] pablo11:
I reckon if you want to thrash your fone to death trying to make it process this kind of info, then thats exaxtly what you will do - kill it very quickly. It's a fone for gods sake - not a PC.
[Desire HD General] green0153:
It's a computer for gods sake with the possibility to phone with it!
[Desire HD General] panyan:
+1 "phones" died a long time ago, now it is a computer with phone capabilities :p
[Desire HD General] enemia:
ok folks, just wanted to close this corner... because of the 'desire' camera upgrade...

thx for all comments, yes and the troll too.

btw - way of saving the vids on mp4 file in stead of 3gp files?
[Desire HD General] mrjonnyrock:
Creating a video recording app that can record, zoom and refocus would be better, in my opinion.

The video recording apps are crap, so even if you get it working how useful would it be?

Recording the cat shredding someone's leg works rather well at 720p i am sure.

Anyway this camera is really not good enough, quality wise, to bother with 1080p. Again, in my opinion :D
[Desire HD General] mrjonnyrock:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1011810
[Desire HD General] marshy73:
+1

720p is more than good enough.

Having a good video recording app is a much better allocation of resources.

Fast video AF, low noise level etc.

BTW, what are some alternative video recording apps available in the market? Paid or free.
[Desire HD General] deconfrost:
I miss how the camera continuously auto focus in 720p with the x10
[Desire HD General] jay96:
爽啊~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
[Desire HD General] pablo11:
Very well said!!
[Desire HD General] enemia:
mrjonnyrock:

i may be mistake, but its just for CM7 RC3\RC4 ...
[Desire HD General] clouds5:
I'd wish devs would rather be working on implementing working bt drivers in our beloved sense roms.

Who needs 10fps 1080p video that probably won't look better that 720p?
[Desire HD General] Arsec:
720p is more than good enough, come on, go back 15 years, we were still recording in les than a megapixel, and that was with the big shoulder cameras
[Desire HD General] LINKSLOVESANDROID:
as much as id love to see this, i rarely use my camera as is so it doesnt bother me
[Desire HD General] leppie:
Just use CM7 :)

FWIW, HTC has fixed a lot of issues with BT in GB though (well when I tested the first leak it did).
[Desire HD General] AndriodLover:
whyyyy!!

The phone can't even record good 720P videos , not alone 1080P. Not the hardware when it comes to 720p but the software. I think dev should clean up 720 recording that would be enough..
[Desire HD General] joshoon:
Agreed, 720p is good enough, they should make the camera app better.

U cant even pause the recording!

And since the stock android 2.3 update the video lags while zooming in and out.
[Desire HD General] festa20:
I'm sure this can be done as trip is doing 1080 for the xperia x10 so we can am sure of it
[Desire HD General] ivolol:
This is in no way [DEV], this is just someone asking for a feature.

Let actual Developers get back to work!
[Desire HD General] DubelBoom:
אחי אחלה יוזמה :)

great!! cant wait for it :) (and SENSE 3.0..)
[Desire HD General] mrjonnyrock:
:o possibly yes. Sry i forget that there are other ROMs out there other than CyanogenMod sometimes :D

In all seriousness, if you download the files and rename then to .xml and view the files you can see what the guy is doing.

Try editing the media_profiles.xml file on you device and see what happens :D

Always backup your files or device before playing....
[Desire HD General] joshoon:
Sense 3.0 will definitely come to Desire HD.

But I think the 1080p recording is a no-go.
[Desire HD General] liljom:
I just went out and recorded a 720p video in a very sunny weather. It's far from being very sharp so why bother 1080p?
[Desire HD General] patriotaus:
If we are just wishing for features, i would +1 for BT drivers that work. I want to use wiimote. (and not to use cyanogen mod)
[Desire HD General] alain57:
it is an idea to increase the video format size, but for what for ?

when i compare the photos and videos i made with the DHD with the one my girlfriend did with her SGS ... well the DHD loose

have a bad 8Mp camera want make better photos that a good 5Mp Camera

for the video it is the same, the 720p videos are a lot worser than the SGS

increasing the size will only make then even more worse :rolleyes: (cause the framerate and the chip will not do it a good way)

So ok, why not but if it is just for pretending adding a function that will be useless ....
[Desire HD General] mrjonnyrock:
yup, the camera in the DHD is crap, and so is the GPS for that matter.

SGS?
[Desire HD General] gtg465x:
You don't know what a crappy GPS is then. I came from a Galaxy S and the DHD does not have a crappy GPS in comparison.
[Desire HD General] joshoon:
The GPS is pretty good in my opinion! never had any problems with it O.o

and the camera isnt too bad either, but could be better.
[Desire HD General] gtg465x:
Got it working. It's actually not bad. I can get about 22 fps pretty consistent outside in sunlight.
[Desire HD General] mrjonnyrock:
i find it very inaccurate. What was the Galaxy S issue?
[Desire HD General] _david_94:
What have got working?
[Desire HD General] ehsan76:
GPS is excellent.

Use FasterFix to set your location and after that use it and I get a GPS fix in less then 10 seconds and with accuracy upto 7m which is excellent.

I placed my iPhone4 and DHD side by side and got a quicker lock on DHD with much better accuracy but of-course we are missing TOMTOM and Garmin Applications here for offline Navigations which is a shame :S

Ehsan
[Desire HD General] DubelBoom:
capy tolled me he is working on the SENSE 3.0.

so, no more versions of RCMix HD 6, next will be 7 :)
[Desire HD General] SupremeBeaver:
You got 1080p working?

But i agree with what some others have mentioned. We need to focus our attention on creating an app/editing HTC's app to allow better framerate in low light conditions.

Everyone try this in a darkish/low light room. Open your camera app, set ISO to 800, set Exposure to -2, then set Contrast to -1 or -2. Record a video and notice how you get about 25-28 fps. This proves that the DHD is capable of recording high fps in low light. We just need an app that adjusts the Exposure and contrast on the fly depending on what conditions are. Doing it manually is not ideal. I think the iPhone does this too because i believe the iPhone has the same optics as the DHD, yet the iPhone records 25 fps in low light where the DHD records 10-15 fps.

Any developer up for the task? This would make the DHD infinitely times more awesome.
[Desire HD General] Dacoco:
What the hell do you want with a 1080p video from this crappy cam? The quality is bad and more resolution does NOT mean better quality.
[Desire HD General] lamebmx:
well i am an inspire user. but here is my 2 cents on this.

ccd/cmos supports 1080i per this thread

cpu is low in the mix since most devices go:

ccd - (ram?) - harware codec chip (msm?) - (ram?) - storage

since my inspire does class 10 properly and data rate is correct our busses can handle the speed. since my proper 1080p camera requires a min of class 6. though i do not know the speed capabilities of the ccd - ram/codec bus.

we are most likely stuck with .3gp due to codec chip. and if this chip does not support 1080 then we are SOL because we would have to do it software, which brings the cpu into the mix.

lastly and most importantly. the focusing systems blow. depth detection is slow. no manual control I can find. when they have even less resources to function they will suck even worse. so your 1080 video will be crystally clear out of focus camera.
[Desire HD General] enemia:
according to all comments, thread subject has been changed.